THE ‘BRYCE IS WRIGHT’ Fran McCaffery’s newest recruit, Bryce Cartwright, will compete for the Iowa starting point guard job. SPORTS, 10 FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010 Alt-dorm would be first in Big Ten Iowa could become the first Big Ten school to turn private apartments into dorms. By LISA BRAHM [email protected] University of Iowa officials’ plan to place some students on housing contracts off campus would be the first such set-up among Big Ten universities. UI officials told the state Board of Regents Wednesday they have started searching for facilities in the private sec- tor that could house more than 250 trans- fer students this fall. RACHEL JESSEN/THE DAILY IOWAN Peter Logan, the director of communica- Prairie Lutheran cemetery, located in Benton County, is shown on Jan. 11. Iowa’s suicide rate in rural counties peaked in 2008, at 13.55 suicides per 100,000 tions at the University of Michigan, said population. Citizens of rural counties are at a higher risk for attempting suicide because they are less likely than their urban counterparts to seek help for the university’s occupancy level has been their mental-health issues and the prevalence of firearms, among other factors. at 100 percent the last couple of years, but the university has yet to turn to off-campus housing as a result. Suicide up out in the country “Our off-campus housing program is designed to help students make good choices in terms of their Rural Iowa’s suicide numbers have increased significantly since 2000. selection of off-campus Rocklin apartments,” he said. “But By TYLER HARRIS we are not inclined at this VP Student [email protected] Suicide in rural Iowa point to create any off-cam- Services Statistics and facts for pus housing.” Rural Iowa is made up of Mannix Clark, an associate director at small towns, with farmhouses small-town tragedies the University of Minnesota, said that dotting the countryside amid • 50 percent of the state’s population live in rural counties long stretches of corn and soy- school had to place 104 students in a hotel • 1,568 suicides occurred in rural Iowa for six weeks a few years back, but it has beans. counties from 2000 to 2008 never had to find a long-term source for It’s quiet, safe, and simple. • 1,382 suicides occurred in urban But these rural areas have a Iowa counties from 2000 to 2008 alternative housing. problem: Suicide rates are • 13.55: number of suicides for every Tom Rocklin, UI interim vice president alarmingly high, and preven- 100,000 people in rural counties for Student Services said the concept is a tion spending and resources • 11.46: number of suicides for every fresh one, noting they’re “not modeling the 100,000 people in urban counties remain limited. idea on anyone.” Sources: Dale Chell, Iowa Department of Public Health It’s something Jack Larew knows too much about. SEE HOUSING, 3 His son, John Larew of Lone Tree, committed suicide in bouts of depression and prob- 1991. lems in his marriage, his The 34-year old father of two father said. UI officials turn to RACHEL JESSEN/THE DAILY IOWAN enjoyed farming and frequent Jack Larew, a retired farmer, alternative sources of housing Dead foliage is seen near Lone Tree on Nov. 24, 2009. Tough economic times deer hunting, and he had has been dealing with the Transfer students will be placed in off-campus have had an effect on the increase in suicides in rural counties in Iowa, sim- played football for the local death of his son for nearly two housing next year high-school team, the Lions. decades. ilar to the pattern of the farm crisis in the 1980s. • 250 transfer students have applied for housing in “He was a pusher,” said his “You hate to see your son die Rural communities make up ties that officials are seeing the fall. father, sitting in the local BP before you do,” he said. “You • 4,475 freshmen will move into the dorms this fall. store, one of two gas stations in 89 of Iowa’s 99 counties. alarming numbers: can’t prevent everything.” Roughly half of the state’s pop- • From 2000 to 2008, 1,568 • There will be a shortage of 300 beds. the town of just more than • The off-campus housing will provide students 1,000. ulation lives in those counties. Numbers on the rise And it’s in those communi- SEE SUICIDE, 3 with the amenities of a dorm such as Mayflower. But John Larew suffered Source: UI officials Tom Rocklin and Von Stange Distinguished alumnus an underdog’s doctor The College of Medicine graduate returned from East Timor, where he practices, to receive the UI honor. By CLAIRE PERLMAN born,” said happened before Vietnam. when that happened,” Mur- Distinguished you have tiny country try- [email protected] University of Like so many students,he phy said. “But I was old Alumni Awards ing to revolt against 220 Iowa College was against the war. And enough to start thinking million people,” Murphy Dan Murphy says he’s UI Carver College of of Medicine like those other students, for myself a bit and see said. “I knew I could help always had a thing for the Medicine’s other picks for the alumnus he didn’t have to worry that this isn’t right.” underdog. honor: sick people one-on-one any- From setting up field Murphy, 65. about the draft, about hav- Murphy’s ultimately where, but I knew I needed “Even when ing to go to Southeast Asia allegiance to the little guy • Gail McGuinness: Pediatrics clinics for migrant workers • Richard McGee: Biochemistry to be a part of the struggle. I was little, I Dan Murphy and fight people he’d never brought him to East Timor, striking with Cesar Chavez • John Canady: Otolaryngology I had to go for it. And we during the ’70s to joining didn’t like UI Alumnus known. where a tiny population Source: UI Carver College of Medicine won against all odds.” the revolution in East people Then he graduated with was warring for independ- But even after the telling me what to do. And I a medical degree in 1970 ence against Indonesia. He Timor in 1998, Murphy Indonesian military left, shares that defiant spark of don’t like to see underdogs and the government called was harassed, arrested, gunshot wounds. the long-shot. get kicked around.” his number. even beaten, but it didn’t “In 1999, there was Murphy stayed. Over the “I’ve always been stub- Murphy’s defiant spark “I was young — I was 26 stop him from stitching up bloodshed everywhere … SEE MURPHY, 3 DAILY IOWAN TV INDEX WEATHER DAILYIOWAN.COM To watch Daily Iowan TV,’s news updates go online at Arts 5 Opinions 4 Check out an audio slide show that explores rural suicide. dailyiowan.com or tune into UITV. 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