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Diversity reigns in UI’s annual Diwali

Coralville to have co-housingSenior cooperative housing is expected to be up and running in Coralville by the spring of 2016.By RACHEL GREENrachel-green@uiowa.edu

With the concept of co-housing on the minds of many Iowa City and Coralville community members, a co-operative project made specifically for seniors is in the works in Coralville.

A company called Vintage Cooper-atives is in charge of a cooperative campus going up Coralville.

While there are senior cooperatives in other areas of the United States, Josh Cowman, the president of devel-opment of Vintage Cooperatives, said the group is very excited to create a community in Coralville.

“The cooperative concept seems very popular in the area,” he said.

A groundbreaking for the building will begin in 2015, and it is expected to be completed in 2016. The project, which is called Crossing Commons, will be located at the intersection of Kennedy Parkway and Camp Cardi-nal Boulevard.

Cooperative housing is an arrange-ment in which residents of a hous-ing unit own a share of the building, which allows them to live in the hous-ing unit. It is based on membership and allows residents to use all areas of the building.

Iowa City is trying to build a co-housing community, which differs from a cooperative community be-cause it is made up of separate houses

UISG kicks off food driveBy DANIEL VALENTINdaniel-valentin@uiowa.edu

In an attempt to raise awareness about child hunger, University of Io-wa Student Government officials have sparked a new campaign while al-so hoping to establish a presence off campus.

UISG will host its first ever food drive this week. The donations will be col-lected and donated to the Ronald McDonald House

to be given to charity.“This food drive is

more than just an oppor-tunity to lend a helping hand,” UISG Sen. Lauren Freeman said. “This is a chance for us to establish a presence in the commu-nity and show people how much we really care.”

UISG Senator Morgan Brittain said people can donate nonperishable food items, household products, cleaning sup-plies, and even movies for

families to watch.Members of UISG dis-

tributed bags to 1,000 houses in Iowa City on Sunday. UISG officials will pick up the dona-tions Nov. 16.

“We might not receive all of the bags we distrib-uted, but the important thing is that people are donating,” Freeman said.

Volunteers targeted neighborhoods near Mel-

Salvaging our historyBy BEN MARKSbenjamin-marks@uiowa.edu

In 2008, when floodwa-ters rose all over Iowa, many historic buildings were damaged and need-ed to be torn down.

In the wake of the flood recovery and re-building, Iowa Home-land Security historic project specialist Marlys Svendsen said the Uni-versity of Iowa has im-pressed her with its

increased support of his-toric preservation.

“The university has real-ly upgraded the quality of its historic preservation ef-forts in the past few years,” she said. “They weren’t al-ways as supportive of pres-ervation as they are now.”

On Nov. 8 an example of that increased university support came in the form of an all-day symposium on “Sustainability through historic salvage,” which Svendsen participated in.

Liz Christiansen, the director of the UI Office of Sustainability and one of the organizers for the event, said she has been working on making the symposium a reality for the past two years, and she was amazed at how suc-cessful it was.

“More than 100 people registered for an event we thought we’d be lucky to get 40,” she said.

Sampradaya Dance Troupe performs “Navrasa in Ramayan” in the IMU on Nov. 3, 2012. The Indian Student Alliance puts on the event every year to celebrate the Festival of Lights, which was celebrated Nov. 8. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

By ALYSSA GUZMANalyssa-guzman@uiowa.edu

Every year, over the course of five days in October or November, the streets of India light up with firecrackers and lan-terns to celebrate the Festival of Lights.

However, celebrating Diwali at the University of Iowa is slightly different.

Since this past summer, the UI Indian Student Alliance has prepared to host Diwa-li, the traditional Indian Festival of Lights.

UI senior Abhishek Dsouza, the pres-ident of the Indian Student Alliance, said Diwali is referred to as the Festival of Lights because to signify that when there’s light, there’s no darkness.

“The whole point is good versus evil,”

Dsouza said. “At the end, good wins. It has some religious stories about how there’s a demon, and how they kill the demon.”

Traditionally, Diwali follows the re-ligious Hindu calendar and signifies a new year. This year in India, Diwali was celebrated Oct. 23. The UI Indian Stu-

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Gabriel Armento, 20, North Liberty, was charged Sunday with PAULA.Meara Beatty, 25, 1155 Hotz Ave., was charged Sunday with OWI.David Bricks, 57, address un-known, was charged Nov. 7 with public intoxication.Richard Bryant, 22, 1816 Hol-lywood Court, was charged Nov. 7 with public intoxication.Rodney Bryant, 19, 1816 Hol-lywood Court, was charged Nov. 7 with third-degree crim-inal mischief, criminal trespass, and public intoxication.Aliyah Bunn, 20, 1100 Arthur St. Apt. P4, was charged Nov. 8 with domestic assault with injury and interference with official acts.Ian Claeys, 19, 34 Erobi Lane, was charged Nov. 7 with OWI.Zhauntae Clark, 22, 2402 Bar-telt Road Apt. 2A, was charged Nov. 8 with fifth-degree theft.Melody Counce, 44, Washing-ton, Iowa, was charged Nov. 8 with fifth-degree theft.Joseph Domingo, 19, 419 Slater, was charged Nov. 6 with presence in a bar after hours.Devon Duarte, 20, 730 Third Ave., was charged Sunday with public intoxication and inter-ference with official acts caus-ing/intending injury.Jayne Eicher, 46, 413 Court St. Apt. C, was charged Sunday with fifth-degree theft.Matthew Fritz, 19, 221 Iowa Ave., was charged Nov. 8 with PAULA.Olena Grechko, 45, Chica-

go, was charged Nov. 8 with fifth-degree theft.Sergiy Grechko, 49, Chica-go, was charged Nov. 8 with fifth-degree theft.Tyler Hartnett, 19, 2505 Dav-ey St. N.E., was charged Nov. 7 with PAULA.Jeremy Hepker, 29, 637 S. Dodge St. Apt. 7, was charged Oct. 23 with possession of drug paraphernalia and iden-tity theft.Austin Herman, 21, Viola, Illinois, was charged Sunday with OWI.Laura Himschoot, 24, North Liberty, was charged Nov. 8 with OWI.Antonius Hurt, 22, Cedar Rap-ids, was charged Nov. 6 with fifth-degree theft.Samuel Knepper, 20, 503 E. Burlington St. Apt. 5A, was charged Sunday with presence in a bar after hours and PAULA.Austin Marietta, 19, Betten-dorf, was charged Sunday with public intoxication and posses-sion of a controlled substance.Matthew Martin, 23, 715 Iowa Ave., was charged Nov. 6 with OWI.Michael McConaughy, 20, Downers Grove, Illinois, was charged Nov. 7 with public in-toxication, obstructing an of-ficer, PAULA, presence in a bar after hours, and use of anoth-er’s driver’s license/ID to obtain alcohol.Samuel McNamara, 25, 932 E. College St. Apt. 13, was charged Nov. 8 with OWI.Ford Minaghan, 19, 639 S. Lu-

cas St., was charged Nov. 7 with PAULA and public intoxication.Almamy Ndiaye, 26, 1956 Broadway Apt. 1C, was charged Nov. 8 with fifth-degree theft.Melanie O’Meara, 20, 804 Iowa Ave., was charged Sunday with PAULA and presence in a bar after hours.Douglas Oyer, 61, address unknown, was charged Nov. 7 with OWI.Maxwell Peters, 19, Cedar Rapids, was charged Nov. 8 with public intoxication.Michael Pollet, 63, Solon, was charged Nov. 6 with driving with a suspended/canceled license.Brian Read, 45, Cedar Rapids, was charged Nov. 8 with OWI and driving with a suspended/canceled license.Andrew Roberts, 19, 630 N. Dubuque St., was charged Nov. 7 with public intoxication.Jack Rockafellow, 53, 429 Southgate Ave., was charged Sunday with public intoxica-tion.Benjamin Salvador, 18, ad-dress unknown, was charged Sunday with presence in a bar after hours.John Schoeffler, 36, 1131 Third Ave. Apt. A4, was charged Feb. 19 with possession of mar-ijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.Jacob Sims, 24, Solon, was charged Nov. 8 with criminal trespass, interference with official acts, and public in-toxication.Carl Sivels Jr., 18, Washington,

Iowa, was charged Sunday with presence in a bar after hours, PAULA, obstructing an officer, public intoxication, and interference with official acts.Daniel Sloan, 27, Lowden, Iowa, was charged Nov. 6 with driving with a revoked license.Cedrick Smith, 29, 1100 Arthur St. Apt. M4, was charged Nov. 8 with driving with a suspended/canceled license and OWI.Dalton Speak, 19, 505 E. Burl-ington St. Apt. 5C, was charged Sunday with presence in a bar after hours and PAULA.Marlee Speak, 19, 804 Iowa Ave., was charged Sunday with presence in a bar after hours and PAULA.Diego Ultreras, 19, 2116 Quadrangle, was charged Nov. 6 with presence in a bar after hours.Jessica Underwood, 35, Coralville, was charged Nov. 7 with OWI.Michael Vennetti, 19, 243 Slat-er, was charged Sunday with presence in a bar after hours.Isaiah Washpun, 20, 1264 Es-ther Court, was charged Sun-day with presence in a bar after hours, public intoxication, and interference with official acts.Robert Wilkerson, 31, 2509 Shamrock Place, was charged Sunday with obstructing an officer and driving with a sus-pended/canceled license.James Willis, 34, 1039 E. Ben-ton St. Apt. 9, was charged Nov. 6 with interference with official acts and assault on police/fire/EMT personnel.

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In the Nov. 7 story “Kid Captain prevails after accident,” the story states that, “After the accident, doctors found the only serious damage was some moderate hearing loss — approximately 30 percent — in one ear.” While Maree did suffer from hearing loss, she also suffered from four skull fractures. One of these fractures was only millimeters from her carotid artery — a major artery that sends blood from the heart to the brain. Maree spent the following week in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The DI regrets the error.

CORRECTION

Man charged with criminal mischief

Authorities have accused a Fair-field man of damaging a car.

Dalton Cook, 20, was charged Nov. 5 with second-degree criminal mischief.

According to online court docu-ments, Cook reportedly entered the impound lot at Big Ten Towing and entered a maroon Jeep Cherokee.

Cook then allegedly proceeded to ram the vehicle at a locked gate

three times and then exited the lot. Authorities have accused Cook

of causing an estimated more than $1,000 worth of damage to the vehicle.

Second-degree criminal mischief is a Class-D felony.

— by Alyssa Guzman

Iowa Public Health monitors Ebola risk

The Iowa Department of Public Health is taking precautions against

a potential but low-risk Ebola threat from an Iowan who recently returned from western Africa.

Thirteen travelers, who went to Sierra Leone, Liberia, or Guinea sometime in the last 21 days, are being closely monitored for symp-toms of Ebola.

Twelve of them have low risk of being exposed to the virus and are therefore allowed to resume daily activities. One traveler had a moder-ate risk and has been quarantined.

According to the Public Health

website, the person was told to stay at home and check her/his temperature frequently under close supervision of at least one public-health official.

All 13 of the travelers have yet to show any symptoms of Ebola. State law prohibits the disclosure of any information that may reveal the identity of any individuals, including the current locations of the 13 Iowans who are being monitored.

— by Mitch McAndrew

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John Cormier smokes a cigarette on Main Street in Westminster, Mass., on Nov. 6. Local officials are contemplating what could be a first: a blanket ban on all forms of tobacco and e-cigarettes, leaving some shop owners fuming. (Associated Press/Elise Amendola)

Mass. Town eyes tobacco ban

By AMY CRAWFORDAssociated Press

W E S T M I N S T E R , Mass. — The cartons of Marlboros, cans of Skoal, and packs of Swisher Sweets are hard to miss stacked near the entrance of Vincent’s Country Store, but maybe not for much longer: All tobacco products could become contraband if local health officials get their way.

This sleepy central Massachusetts town of 7,700 has become an im-probable battleground in America’s tobacco wars. On Wednesday, the Board of Health will hear public

comment on a proposed regulation that could make Westminster the first municipality in the United States to ban sales of all tobacco products within town lines.

“To my knowledge, it would be the first in the nation to enact a total ban,” said Thomas Carr, the director of national pol-icy at the American Lung Association. “We commend the town for doing it.”

Town health agent Eliz-abeth Swedberg said a ban seemed like a sensible solu-tion to a vexing problem.

“The tobacco compa-nies are really promot-ing products to hook

young people,” she said, pointing to 69-cent bub-blegum-flavored cigars, electronic cigarettes, and a new form of dissolvable smokeless tobacco that resembles Tic Tac can-dies. “The board was get-ting frustrated trying to keep up with this.”

Citing a report from the U.S. surgeon gener-al, Swedberg said that if tobacco use continues unabated, 5.6 million American children who are younger than 18 to-day will die premature-ly because of smoking. Change, she said, “has to start somewhere.”

Brian Vincent would

rather it not start with his family-owned grocery on Main Street. Tobacco prod-ucts, he said, make up more than 5 percent of sales.

A quarter of his cus-tomers purchase tobacco, Vincent said, and while they’re there, they often pick up a gallon of milk or one of the fresh-baked maple-candied bacon chocolate chip cookies that are displayed by the check-out aisle.

“It’s going to send busi-ness five minutes this way or five minutes that way — no one’s going to quit,” said Vincent, who admits to enjoying a cigar himself now and then.

rose Avenue as well as near Iowa City West High School.

Brittain said the UISG Community & Outreach

Committee brought about this initiative, and mem-bers of UISG are partici-pating in the food drive.

Freeman said a book drive was hosted last year, and this is the first food drive hosted by the student government.

“It was last year’s book

drive that inspired the cre-ation of the current food drive,” UISG Speaker of the Senate Sam Wampler said.

Wampler said this food drive is necessary because it supports a great cause and will ease the struggles of those deprived of food and

basic supplies. He also said this food drive is a great way to give back to Iowa City af-ter how much the city has done for UI students and the rest of its people.

“My hope is that we can continue to do this every year,” he said. “It’s an all-

around great experience. Soon, no child will have to go to bed hungry.”

Freeman said the suc-cess of this food drive would serve to provide under-standing from the commu-nity and show people that the UISG is there for them.

“I think this experience will help to establish a stronger relationship be-tween the university and the community,” she said. “It would be really great if the community will be able to help us in the future, as we have helped them.”

for the residents, who all have use of shared facili-ties in the neighborhood.

In the Coralville coop-erative housing, there will be standard amenities giv-en in the purchase of all of the residences, includ-ing energy-efficient heat-ing and cooling and large walk-in closets.

“It’s all about the coop-erative lifestyle,” Cowman said. “There will be lots of common areas, there will be raised garden plots, which are senior friendly. The doorways are 3 feet wide to make room for walkers and wheelchairs.”

According to Vintage’s website, when the founder of the company, Jeff Ewing, was a child, his grandfa-ther was paralyzed and had to live alone. Ewing wanted a way for his grand-

father and grandmother to be able to live together in a home-like setting.

Ewing then dedicated himself to creating com-munities and homes with comfortable, home-like liv-ing spaces.

Tyler Cowman, the marketing manager of the Vintage Cooperatives, said the cooperative build-ing would be three sto-ries with an underground parking garage and have 60 units built in it.

Cowman said the group is in the reservation pro-cess, and pricing the mod-els is about a month-and-a-half away.

He also said owners of the units will be able to personal-ize the inside of their homes however they want to.

“They pick their unit, and then personalize the inside of it,” he said. “We wanted to come down here and give Coralville folks the idea that even in this stage of their lives, they can still

handle their own money and live on their own.”

Cowman said the co-operative housing will not only help seniors but also other people in the Coralville area.

“It opens up the housing for younger couples in the area,” he said. “We know se-niors took good care of their homes, so they will be able to sell well on the market.”

Josh Cowman also said the cooperative housing can benefit the local economy.

“It opens up the door to do volunteer work,” he said. “It also offers em-ployment opportunities.”

Iowa City resident Harry Olmstead said he was in-terested in what the coop-erative housing has to offer.

“It becomes [a good thing] when you’re in your own home and are with like-minded folk,” he said. “I’m disabled, and having a facility that is handi-cap-accessible is import-ant to me.”

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dent Alliance celebrated the festival in Nov. because of scheduling conflicts.

The Indian Student Alli-ance made an effort to in-corporate people from all around Iowa in its version of the festival.

“We have performances from Des Moines, Ames, Cedar Rapids, and all around,” said UI senior

Eesha Patel, a member of the Diwali organization.

Patel said in past years, the UI Diwali celebration has received huge turnouts of more than 700 people. According to the Interna-tional Student and Scholar Statistics, 343 students at the UI are from India.

This year, however, the celebration of Diwali has spread to other areas, and Dsouza said this is the first time there are other Diwali competitions in the area. He said he expected

the turnout to be closer to 650 as a result.

Patel said while the numbers weren’t official, she guessed there was a significantly lower turnout because of the addition-al Diwali events hosted throughout the weekend.

Because of this, officials did everything they could to spread the word about the event.

“[It was] the first time we fo-cused a lot on students,” Dsou-za said. “We went all out.”

The Indian Student Al-

liance handed out more than 1,000 fliers and pro-moted as much as possible on social-media sites such as Facebook.

UI sophomore Sharmista Venkat, a committee mem-ber, primarily focused on marketing for the event.

“The marketing for this event was very well-done,” Venkat said. “People [have asked] us about this event, and [we hope for them to be] more culturally awakened.”

UI sophomore Ryan Wirth, who attended the

event, said he decided to go because he attended events put on by the Indian Stu-dent Alliance in the past and really enjoyed them.

Wirth said he believes that the UI hosting cultural events such as Diwali is a “good thing that we do that.”

UI sophomore Yashila Permeswaran, who also attended the event, said, “I really like the feel of all this stuff; it’s fun to get a feel of everything. The food is really, really good.”

In addition to the

food, Permeswaran also said she was expecting cool performances and good music.

Dsouza said this event was a great way to know about different types of cultures that were show-cased through tradition-al Indian food, dances, and songs.

“India has different types of cultures, not just one,” Dsouza said. “India is very diverse. In one plat-form, you get at least five to nine different cultures.”

DIWALICONTINUED FROM FRONT

CO-HOUSINGCONTINUED FROM FRONT

FOOD DRIVECONTINUED FROM FRONT

SALVAGECONTINUED FROM FRONT

When historic buildings are damaged and federal recovery departments, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency are in-volved, they are required to mitigate the loss of the his-toric buildings to the best of their ability.

To do so, they reach out to local organizations such as Friends of Historic Preservation to coordinate what is called architectur-al historic preservation.

“When a building has to be demolished for one reason or another, such as building the new art building,” said Alicia Trim-ble, executive director of Friends of Historic Pres-

ervation, “there are a lot of materials that are com-pletely reusable, and often better than modern mate-rials that can then be used to restore old construction or build new construction.”

Trimble said to build a new art building, the old graduate painting studio, housed in an old Mediterra-nean-style former fraternity house, was torn down.

However the studio, of historic value, had many el-ements to it such as its terra cotta roof tiles, which were completely reusable.

To reduce the loss of the historic structure then, a construction team removed the tiles from the building and transported them to the Salvage Barn, 2401 Scott Blvd. S.E., where they were cleaned up and made ready for resale or used in the con-

struction of the art building.Historic preservation

doesn’t only deal with re-moving materials before demolition however, it also involves restoring buildings that might be demolished, such as the Englert Theater a few years ago.

It’s this way, Trimble said, which historic preservation not only helps to keep his-tory from being destroyed, it also helps to reduce a build-ing’s environmental impact.

“It’s kind of the green al-ternative to new buildings,” she said. “If your building was built before 1930, it will almost always have a better energy-star rating than anything that can be built today. In addition, an incredible amount of the material in landfills is from building demolition.”

This is especially import-

ant in Iowa City, Svendsen said, because Iowa City has more National Regis-tered Historic Districts per capita than any other city in Iowa its size.

Svendsen also said his-

toric preservation is a tool to make communities more livable.

“Some of the neighbor-hoods that people discarded mentally in 1990 are now some of the most prized

neighborhoods in a commu-nity to live in, to shop in, to have their children attend school in,” she said. “It helps to stabilize an environment that could definitely have gone the other way.”

OpiniOnsCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

— FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

COLUMN

People love it when bad things happen. It is not because we as a society like to see people in pain or others in suffering, but rather that we flock to it because it gives us something to talk about. We glorify the tragic and heartbreaking via news outlets, the film indus-try, and novels. It seems harmless enough, but that might change soon-er than we think.

On Oct. 2, 1985, Mi-chelle “Missy” Avila was murdered. The perpe-trators were the least likely suspects, her two closest friends. Of these two friends, the better known is Karen Sever-son, who was released from prison on Dec. 9, 2011. She has mostly kept a low profile, liv-ing a simple life as a telemarketer. Recently, though, she has pro-moted a book of hers, a memoir titled My Life, I lived It, which incorpo-rates the murder if Mi-chelle Avila, Severson’s trial, and her life after the event.

Needless to say, this action is not going unno-ticed, nor is it proceeding without any obstacles.

The Avila family are doing everything in their power to stop Severson from profiting from the book. They are even go-ing as far as to try bring back the “Son of Sam” law to California. The law prevents convicted felons from making a profit from selling the tale and details of their crime. The thing is, this law was struck down in the state in 2002, citing it as a violation of the First Amendment.

And here we have the age-old conflict of social

and moral ethics facing off against the constitu-tional doctrines of our nation.

Most of the time, I discuss (argue) with my roommate about these types of topics. My con-tribution to the conver-sation was my disgust of the issue and how unapologetic Severson seemed, stating that it was a matter of finan-cial support. My room-mate, being the true political-science major, brought up a good point.

“Yeah, it sucks, but there’s not a lot you can do. It’s just like when Hollywood makes a mov-ie about the Zodiac Kill-er or Ted Bundy.”

Like most of the time, he’s right. While it may be tasteless for killers to write a memoir on their actions/crimes, there is no difference from any other best seller or blockbuster. And yes, while we do have the “Son of Sam” law, it is still seen as controver-sial for its apparent de-nial of free speech.

I do not hold Severson in high regard. In fact, I think she is despicable for resurrecting a fami-ly’s pain, 29 years after she cut the wound. How-ever, I feel that we must protect a citizen’s right of freedom of speech.

There are certain peo-ple, such as Ku Klux Klan members, whom we just wish we could force to stop talking. But like it or not, they are Ameri-can citizens, and as such they are entitled to ex-press their opinions. We can criticize them until we get blue in the face, but we can’t force them to be silent.

On this matter, Irene Avila said, “Tell [Sever-son] to go to hell. I’m her worst nightmare.”

I recommend keeping an eye on what Severson and the Avila family are doing. The outcome of these events could prove to be significant in the grand scheme of things.

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Osgerby is studying abroad at City Universi-ty, London.

Millions of British tax-payers have received let-ters this week breaking down how their money has been spent by the government in what has been called “a revolution in transparency.”

According to the letters, 24.5 percent of the spend-ing has been categorized as “Welfare.” Another highlight was the smallest expense, which was the UK’s contribution to the European Union budget.

There is only one other economically developed country in the world that provides this information to its taxpayers: Australia.

Immediately, I won-dered what my tax break-down would look like in back in the States. Nat-urally, the most would go toward the military, right?

In 2011, President Obama promised that Americans would be able to see a Federal Taxpayer Receipt, which was implemented that year and is still in use. The April 2014 report states 24.79 percent is used for “National De-fense,” with 10.16 per-cent of taxpayer dollars going directly into “on-

going operations, equip-ment, and supplies.”

The largest category was actually the ever-so-broad “Health Care” with 25.19 percent.

“Community, Area, and Regional Development” and “Response to Nat-ural Disasters” came in last and second-to-last, respectively. Both catego-ries used under 1 percent of taxpayer dollars.

This free information is vital for Americans con-cerned where government prioritizes its spending. These are great steps to-wards more transparency, but citizens must seek the receipt themselves.

The UK’s method of

sending letters with tax breakdown seems more justifiable to be called transparency. It implies the government is willing to release this information to its taxpaying citizens.

It shows the govern-ment actually wants to put in the effort to give this information to those its supposed to serve.

However, the UK ini-tiative has already seen criticism by the Trades Union Congress (which represents the majority of trade unions in England and Wales) calling it “par-ty political propaganda masquerading as neutral information.”

Categories such as “Wel-

fare,” “Health,” or “Educa-tion” are inherently broad and loaded — they can easily be manipulated by propaganda to assert re-forms by politicians. On the other hand, these are first steps in getting rele-vant information into tax-payers’ hands. I wouldn’t be surprised to see label revisions or sub-catego-rization as soon as next year’s breakdown.

The bottom line is both the U.S. and UK govern-ments should have done this decades, even cen-turies, ago, and at least it’s beginning now. Every taxpayer deserves the right to see where her or his money is spent.

Paul Osgerbypaul-osgerby@uiowa.edu

Transparency in budgets

Voters have given Republicans a congressional power play.

What should they do with it? GOP must change strategy

Ever since the Repub-licans had control of the House, they have been in a sticky situation with Presi-dent Obama. On one hand, they had enough repre-sentation in Washington in which conservative ac-tivists could demand ac-tion. On the other hand, with Harry Reid running the Senate, it was virtual-ly impossible to even get their bills up for a vote. The result was that their legislative actions became largely symbolic (more than 40 votes on repealing the Affordable Healthcare Act …). Some would argue they enjoyed the percep-tion of being powerless and blaming the president for anything that came up.

With an approval rating in the low 40s, Obama is not popular. In many ways, this is how the Republi-cans had such success this election cycle. However, af-ter this midterm election, the GOP must change its strategy.

There are too many Republicans in Congress for their message to be simply opposing the pres-ident. As Rand Paul put it, the GOP brand “sucks.” For far too long, it has been only anti-Obama and nothing else.

It is no surprise that when House Speaker John Boehner met with Obama shortly after the Republican victory, he emphasized the many

bills that the House had passed. Most of these were related to jobs and the economy, a topic Americans consistently rate at the top of their priority list.

The Republicans will need to put as many bills as possible in front of the president. If the bills are somewhat bipartisan, they can frame Obama as being uncooperative if he vetoes them. Charles Krauthammer recom-mended in the Columbus Dispatch that the rate should be “a bill a week for the first 10 weeks.” I agree with this recom-mendation.

The focus should be on actions that harbor sig-nificant Democratic sup-port. For example, the Keystone XL pipeline is a no-brainer. A substan-tial number of Democrats support it, and it will be difficult for the president to attack. Large symbolic actions such as repealing Obamacare, on the other hand, will be unproduc-tive and will only hurt their new image.

The worst thing Obama can do at this point is to pursue executive action on illegal immigration. The result would essen-tially be a declaration of war against Republi-cans; Boehner described is as “poisoning the well.” In any case, it would lead to a very un-productive two years.

To many in Washington,

politics is all about the next election. There is no doubt whether both Re-publican and Democratic leaders have 2016 on their minds. If the Republicans can succeed in highlight-ing their vision for Amer-ica and painting Obama and the Democrats as the party of “no,” they will have a much greater chance of exciting voters come 2016.

Michael Korobov

Don’t burn bridges

With the GOP taking the Senate majority and gaining full control of Congress what the next two years will look like is cause for speculation. It is no secret that President Obama has had a rocky re-lationship with Congress riddled with gridlock and blatant opposition when the GOP controlled the House beginning in 2010. The results of the recent midterm elections give the GOP full control over Congress, and this could result in a legislative knife fight for the next two years.

Republicans already have their eyes on gut-ting Obamacare, which won’t happen without a fight, and Obama has suggested he will make moves on the issue of il-legal immigration.

Just because the GOP has the majority does

not mean the president is defenseless, but nei-ther side should want to see the relationship get to the point of excessive vetoes and strong-arm executive orders.

The GOP is now in a position to turn around its public perception of poor bipartisanship and change the course of itsre-lationship with the Pres-ident. The checks and balances that form the framework of the Consti-tution were put in place as safeguards against tyr-anny. However, we have seen these checks and balances become political weapons used to polar-ized agendas.

The functioning of the governing body as a whole can be seen as a three- legged race with the GOP now effectively in the position to drag Obama to the finish line with their majority.

However, more could be done if both sides remain cordial and work in har-mony. There’s no telling how long the GOP will be able to hold its majority, and burning bridges while the Republicans are on top could prove to be disas-trous if the circumstanc-es change in the future. The public eye will be on the GOP, and its actions moving forward have the potential to either forge a bridge of bipartisanship or further divide the parties.

Marcus Brown

By GRACE PATERASgrace-pateras@uiowa.edu

Researchers at the Uni-versity of Iowa have cre-ated a new way of testing struggling students, aim-ing to understand compre-hension when it comes to learning in junior high.

“By the time students are in middle school, if they’re not reading well, it can be a critical time for students,” said Caro-lyn Brown, a cofounder of Foundations in Learning. “If they don’t catch on by high school, then they’re really lost.”

The tests, called Iowa Assessment of Skills and Knowledge for Automat-ic Word Recognition and Decoding, have been de-signed to help young stu-dents with their reading capabilities.

The test was developed by a collaboration of UI professors and Founda-tions in Learning officials.

According to its website, Foundations in Learning is an Iowa City organi-zation designed to create intervention solutions for students that are scientifi-cally based.

“A lot of students have deficits in educational skills that are hard to figure out,” Brown said. “They might have the foundational reading skills, but they don’t use them in a way that allows them to read well for com-prehension.”

The first tests in the pro-gram started last week, and they will continue this week. A group of 60 ju-nior-high students in Ce-dar Rapids were the first to be evaluated, and the test is designed to spread to more schools.

The main goal of the tests is to allow teachers to easily see the status of their students’ learn-ing so they can focus on what their students aren’t grasping.

Computer-ized testing is unique in that it can evalu-ate students much faster than a paper-and-pencil test can, said UI Associate Professor Bob McMurray, a designer of the test.

By having a fast-paced testing program in use, teachers can benefit from the process.

“Students can do the as-sessment, and the comput-er can automatically give the teacher a report with

graphics and statistics to target innovation,” Mc-Murray said. “It will give instant feedback to the teachers and help them focus on instructions on

skills their students might be missing.”

McMurray and collabo-rators have been working together intensely since August to get the program going. The grant for the project to begin was ap-proved in August.

The way the program is designed will tell teachers more than just

what the students are lacking, it will show exactly how individual students learn best.

“Many other programs try to identify problem ar-

eas for students,” Brown said. “What’s different about what we’re doing is we’re trying to find how they learn, not just what they’ve learned.”

If the first trial goes well, creators plan on ap-plying for a larger grant

for the program. Then, it can spread to more schools and benefit more students.

Iowa City School Dis-trict officials said they would evaluate benefits of

the program to decide if it’s necessary for junior-high schools in the community.

“ [Of f i c ia ls will need to] see the re-search on the program to see if it is valid and reli-able,” said Becky Furlong, an assistant superinten-dent in the School District. “With that information, we’d see what we think would be most helpful.”

Other evaluations of the program, as with all educational programs in the district, include whether the test aligns with curriculum and stu-dent-achievement scores to see what the students’ needs are.

District officials said if the program doesn’t spread to Iowa City, there are still other in-tervention programs for students who struggle with reading.

“Reading is such a foun-dational skill for academ-ic success,” Furlong said. “There’s always a need to find what is the best way to provide instruction.”

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UI aids in creating reading test for junior-high studentsUI professors have helped design new ways of assessing young learners so teachers can identify areas of where students are struggling.

'What’s different about what we’re doing is we’re trying to find how they learn, not just what they’ve learned.'

— Carolyn Brown, cofounder of Foundations in Learning

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FIRST QUARTER9:13, IOWA: Weisman, 1-yard run (Koehn kick)5:38, MINN: Maye, 9-yard run (Santoso kick)

SECOND QUARTER12:59, MINN: Jones, 44-yard pass from Leidner (Santoso kick)6:49, MINN: M. Williams, 9-yard pass from Leidner (Santoso kick)3:51, MINN: Cobb, 6-yard run (Santoso kick)0:31, MINN: M. Williams, 4-yard pass from Leidner (Santoso kick)

THIRD QUARTER9:13, MINN: M. Williams, 3-yard pass from Leidner (Santoso kick)

FOURTH QUARTER11:34, MINN: R. Williams, 1-yard run (Santoso kick)6:28, MINN: Santoso, 35-yard field goal0:14, IOWA: Stone, 24-yard pass from Beathard (Koehn kick)

IOWA 7 0 0 7 14

RUSHINGIowa: Wadley, 9-68; Weisman, 14-21-1; Parker, 1-8; Plewa, 1-1; Rudock, 3-minus-3; Beathard, 2-minus-11Minnesota: Leidner, 11-77; Cobb, 16-74-1; Maye, 10-66-1; Edwards, 8-35; R. Williams, 5-23-1; Streveler, 5-18; Kirkwood, 1-3; Banham, 2-minus-2; TEAM, 1-minus-3

PASSINGIowa: Rudock, 10-19-89-0-1; Beathard, 3-7-32-1Minnesota: Leidner, 10-13-138-4; Rhoda, 0-1

RECEIVINGIowa: Bullock, 4-41; Smith, 3-38; Stone, 2-33-1; Martin-Manley, 1-6; Duzey, 1-2; Plewa, 1-2; Wadley, 1-minus-1Minnesota: M. Williams, 5-46-3; Thomas, 2-11; Jones, 1-44-1; Fruechte, 1-24; Maye, 1-13

SLIDE SHOW

BREAKDOWN

MINNESOTA 51, IOWA 14

BOX SCORE

INDIVIDUAL STATS

KEY

IOWA MINNESOTA

FIRST DOWNS

RUSHING YARDS

PASSING YARDS

THIRD-DOWN CONVERSION %

PENALTY YARDS

AVG. GAIN PER PLAY

COMP-ATT-INT

TIME OF POSSESSION

13

121

84

38

1-15

3.7

13-26-1

23:18

23

291

138

67

2-17

5.9

10-14-0

36:42

MINNESOTA 51, IOWA 14

MINNESOTA 7 28 7 9 51

BY THE NUMBERS

4 20

9:08 4

consecutive touchdown drives by Minnesota in the

second quarter.

total yards of offense by Iowa in the second

and third quarters.

total time of possession for the Hawkeyes in

the second half.

days until Iowa’s basketball season begins.

QUOTED

PRIME PLAYS IOWA GAME BALLIOWA FANS IN ATTENDANCE

INDIANA GAME BALLMITCH LEIDNER

There weren’t many prime plays for Iowa, but both times the Hawkeyes actually scored were pretty significant. Mark Weisman’s 1-yard run in the first quarter was his 30th career rushing touchdown, making him just the third Hawkeye to ever rush for that many. Andrew Stone’s 24-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter was his first career touchdown reception.

As for Minnesota, there were numerous prime plays, but we chose to go with Maxx Williams’ magnificent 25-yard toe-drag catch. Leidner looked like he may have overthrew Williams, but the tight end got his paws on the ball while allowing his left toe to slide across the grass. Four plays later, the Gophers scored and went up, 21-7.

Kudos to all you guys. That was one ugly football game, and for you guys to weather the cold and watch that “performance” — even if you left after the second quarter, which we’re hoping you did — is a testament to your fandom. We present you guys with this week’s game ball.

Minnesota’s signal-caller had a field day against Iowa’s defense. Leidner completed 77 percent of his passes for 138 yards and 4 touchdowns. He also ran for another 77 yards on 11 carries. Leidner entered the game having thrown only 6 touchdown passes all season.

‘We got out-played and out-coached in all three phases. Credit goes to Minnesota. They were clearly the aggressors today, and we were the acceptors, and it’s just a bad combination.’

— IOWA HEAD COACH KIRK FERENTZ

‘In the first series of the game, they hit three or four third downs, but then we buckled down and got after it. The biggest thing was that, offensively, we really played well and were firing on all cylinders. Our offensive coach put a good game plan together, and Mitch keeps getting better and better.’

— MINNESOTA HEAD COACH JERRY KILL

Go to dailyiowan.com for more photos and coverage from this weekend’s game.

GAME RECAP

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‘It’s a team loss. They executed and they won. It’s as simple as that. They wanted it more than we did and it showed.’

— Louis Trinca-Pasat, defensive tackle

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MINNESOTA 51, IOWA 14

IOWA GAME BALLIOWA FANS IN ATTENDANCE

INDIANA GAME BALLMITCH LEIDNER

Kudos to all you guys. That was one ugly football game, and for you guys to weather the cold and watch that “performance” — even if you left after the second quarter, which we’re hoping you did — is a testament to your fandom. We present you guys with this week’s game ball.

Minnesota’s signal-caller had a field day against Iowa’s defense. Leidner completed 77 percent of his passes for 138 yards and 4 touchdowns. He also ran for another 77 yards on 11 carries. Leidner entered the game having thrown only 6 touchdown passes all season.

THUMBS UP LOOK AHEAD

THUMBS DOWN

Offense on opening drive: Iowa drove 76 yards on 12 plays in a little fewer than six minutes to open the game. Mark Weisman scored from a yard out to give the Hawkeyes a 7-0 lead. It was the third-straight game in which Iowa scored on its opening drive.

Iowa will travel to Champaign, Illinois, next week for its final road game of the regular season. The Hawkeyes will square off with the Fighting Illini, who are 4-5 overall, just 1-4 in Big Ten play. Illinois was idle last week but lost horribly its last time out, 55-14, to Ohio State.Run Defense: Iowa, for the third time in four games, showed an

inability to stop the run. Minnesota had nine ball carriers rush for 291 yards on 59 attempts — and that includes three carries that combined for minus-5 yards. The Gophers also scored three times on the ground and mercilessly beat the Hawkeye defense with a zone-read rushing attack.

GAME RECAP

SCHEDULEAug. 30, vs. Northern Iowa (W, 31-23)Sept. 6, vs. Ball State (W, 17-13)Sept. 13, vs. Iowa State (L, 20-17)Sept. 20, @ Pittsburgh (W, 24-20)Sept. 27, @ Purdue (W, 24-10)Oct. 11, vs. Indiana (W, 45-29)Oct. 18, @ Maryland (L, 38-31)Nov. 1, vs. Northwestern (W, 48-7)Nov. 8, @ Minnesota (L, 51-14)Nov. 15, @ IllinoisNov. 22, vs. WisconsinNov. 28, vs. Nebraska

5(1) With 0:31 seconds left in the second quarter, Minnesota defensive back Cedric Thompson forces a fumble from Iowa running back Akrum Wadley in TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 8. The ball was recovered by Minnesota linebacker De’Vondre Campbell, and it led to a 45-yard field goal attempt from Ryan Santoso, who missed to make the halftime score 35-7. (2) Minnesota running back Berkley Edwards, linebacker De’Niro Laster, and defensive back Jalen Myrick run over to the Iowa sideline to reclaim the Floyd of Rosedale after their team’s dominating 51-14 performance over the Hawkeyes. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh) (3) Minnesota fans celebrate and point at running back KJ Maye after he scores a 9-yard touchdown to give the Gophers’ their first score of the game. (The Daily Iowan/Rachael Westergard) (4) Minnesota tight end Maxx Wil-liams catches a 9-yard pass from quarterback Mitch Leidner on second and goal to score Minnesota’s third touchdown of the game in the second quarter. Williams scored 3 touchdowns. (5) Iowa quarterback Jake Rudock is sacked by Minnesota defensive end Steven Richardson for a loss of 3 yards, then fumbles the ball. The ball was recovered by Gopher linebacker Jack Lynn on the Iowa 22-yard line. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)

• Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar, “The Relativ-istic Three-Body Bound State in a 3D Formulation,” Mohammadreza Hadizadeh, 1:30 p.m., 301 Van Allen• Colloquium, “The Death of Stars Like the Sun (what we know and don’t know)”, Lee Anne Wilson, 3:30 p.m. 301 Van Allen• Biology Graduate Student Seminar, Michael Molumby & Joshua Thompson, 4 p.m., 101 Biology Building East• “Educating Postwar Builders,” Anna Andrzejewski, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5:30 p.m., 116 Art Building West• State of Research Address, Vice President Daniel

Reed, 5:30 p.m., 240 Art Building West• Currier Centennial Fireside Chat, 7:30 p.m., Currier Hall Multipurpose Room• Neher Voice Studio, 7:30 p.m., University Capitol Center Recital Hall• “Live from Prairie Lights,” John D’Agata, Nonfiction Writing Program anthology reading, 8 p.m., Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque

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Daily Break

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Home improvement will help your produc-tivity and your state of mind. Making a move or just rearranging your place to suit upcoming projects will help. Altering your living arrange-ments can help you cut costs. Don’t let your current professional posi-tion get you down.TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Help colleagues, and you will build a strong alliance that will help you advance in your chosen field. Being a participant will lead to opportunities and greater expertise. Sign up for courses that will help hone your skills.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The larger activities going on at your home or workplace will help you see the pros and cons of your personal situ-ation. Look at your alternatives, and consider experiences and financial costs in order to make a practical domestic decision.CANCER (June 21-July 22): Strive for perfection, and stay within your budget. Set limitations that will ensure you head down a practical path. A long-term partnership will add to your stability. Love is highlighted, and simple pleasures will be your ticket to a solid future.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Listen carefully, but don’t share your thoughts or feelings. Do your own thing, and make a point to learn something that will help you advance. Taking a course or practicing and honing a skill you want to develop will bring the highest rewards.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Emotions may flare up if you haven’t dis-cussed your plans with someone affected by what you do. Your practi-cal outlook will win out in the end if you are honest. A partnership with a friend, lover, or relative will lead to a prosperous future.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sign up for a short trip or a course that will explore concepts or information that can help you advance. Don’t let someone at home dictate what you can and cannot do. Jealousy is apparent; it must not be allowed to disrupt your plans.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Evaluate your financial, emotional, and domestic situations, and you will come up with a solution that is in-novative, cost effective, and stabilizing. Make a commitment to follow through with your plans, and don’t look back.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Help others, but make sure you get what you want in return. If you spell out your agenda, a partnership will develop that will bring continuous benefits to everyone concerned. Honesty will be a must to make this coalition work.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t mix business with pleasure. Focus on what’s at stake, and take a route that ensures your success. It’s OK to be different and to pave the path for those less innovative. Don’t let last-minute changes get in your way.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Put discipline into play, and you will be able to make the changes necessary to ensure your safety and your progress. Not everyone will be happy with your plans, so be discreet and diplomatic regarding your every move.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Open the door to friends, relatives, and peers. Share your thoughts, and you will discover you are not alone. Plans that can lead to a prosperous venture should be discussed. Home improvements can be put into play.

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A partial list of things I should

probably tell every prospective

girlfriend

• My 401k is a burlap sack of old cheeses that I’m

hoping will at some point grow some kind of medically

useful, patentable mold.• When it comes time for us to argue, I hope you know that I have no problems

taking complete responsibil-ity for my utter inability to

make mistakes.• Sometimes, I’ll come

around the corner, and my cat will be on the bed, in

her favorite spot, where she usually is, and it’ll scare me half-to-death. That’s

just the Navy SEAL train-ing at work, babe.

• I assume all instances of the phrase “I’m counting on you” are veiled threats, and

I will not negotiate with terrorists.

• If you can’t handle me at my worst, then that makes

two of us. I’ll get the Scotch.• There are times I love, and other times I hate,

wearing flip-flops.• Over the coming holidays,

please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I’m not going to be going anywhere

dangerous; I’m just a narcissist.• I only watch porn that passes the Bechdel test.

Andrew R. Juhl wonders if any of this knowledge will be useful at the

Old Capitol Brew Works Pub Quiz, 8-10 p.m. today.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible — cowards and fools. — Russell Baker

By KYLE MANNKyle-mann@uiowa.edu

The Iowa volleyball team won its fourth match in a row with a four-set vic-tory over No. 12 Purdue on Nov. 8.

The upset was the most impressive of the streak, as well as the crown jewel of the 2014 season thus far.

Purdue entered the night highly ranked, 19-6 overall, 9-4 in the Big Ten, and the Hawkeyes flat-out looked like the better team.

It began with a strong set one, in which the Hawkeyes hit .440 and had five players with 2 or more kills, including 4 and 3 by Lauren Brobst and Ales-sandra Dietz, respectively, who both had a flawless hitting percentage.

The Hawkeyes won the opening set, 25-16, and followed that with a more closely contested 25-23 vic-tory in the second. When the Boilermakers stole the third set and forced a fourth, oddly enough, the Hawks had them right where they wanted them.

Curiously, for such a relatively young team, in-cluding the Nov. 8 victory, coach Bond Shymansky’s squad is now 7-1 in match-es that go to four sets or more.

The final set was tight out of the gate, but again the Hawkeyes took control of the set and cruised to victory. Four Brobst kills and 3 more by Taylin Alm and Julianne Blomberg

powered the team to a 25-19 win.

“We’ve been on a run, and it’s a great feeling to be able to show that against one of the top teams in the nation,” Dietz said. “That’s something we’ve been talking about and waiting for, and it’s nice to capitalize on it.”

Iowa had a strong con-tributing five for the en-tire night, and the diver-sified attack was crucial to pulling the upset.

Dietz finished with 5 kills, Blomberg and Alm had 8, and Jess Janota was second with 9. The night, however, belonged to Brobst. She has had many impressive nights, but perhaps none more than this: The sopho-more had 22 kills on a .472 hitting percentage.

“The offensive direc-tion was really sharp,” Shymansky said. “Brobst was unbeliev-

able tonight. I’m really proud of what she’s do-ing.”

He’s also proud of what his team is doing. With the weekend up-set, Iowa now moves to 13-12 overall and has its first four-match winning streak since 1994 in Big Ten play. Their five con-ference wins this season is the most since 2009.

As the numbers and achievements are start-ing to provide hard evi-dence that the program is heading upwards, the players notice it, too.

“It really feels good to see our team come out and compete as we did, but not only to win but to feel like we were actually beating them,” Blomberg said.

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IOWA 119, ST. AMBROSE 57Volleyball takes fourth in a row against Purdue

Iowa’s Alessandra Dietz blocks the ball against Purdue’s Danielle Cuttino on Nov. 8 in Carver-Hawkeye. The Hawkeyes beat the No. 12 Boilermakers, 3-2. (The Daily Iowan/Courtney Hawkins)

Hawkeyes fly past beesBy KYLE MANNkyle-mann@uiowa.edu

Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder answered the sea-son’s first question — who will start this year for the Hawkeyes — when the starting lineups were an-nounced, and they weren’t quite what Hawkeye fans expected.

Bluder started Sam Log-ic, Bethany Doolittle, Ally Disterhoft, Kali Peschel, and freshman Whitney Jennings. Senior Melissa Dixon, a returning starter recovering from an injury, came off of the bench.

The Iowa’s women’s basketball team hosted St. Ambrose on Sunday, beating the Bees, 119-57, in an exhibition.

With that, Dixon has come off the bench for more games than she did all of last season, in which she started 36 of the 36 games played.

Logic scored 5 points in the game’s first 35 sec-onds, and that largely set the tempo for the first half. Iowa came flying out of the gate and led 30-14 midway through the first half.

Dixon thrived in her role as the first option off the bench, as she sank three of her first four 3-point at-tempts and led the team with 16 first half points.

“I did that sophomore year and got used to it then,” she said. “But I’m just coming back and get-ting back in the flow of things, getting going up-and-down.”

Disterhoft contributed 13 points, and Doolittle had 11 and led with 7 re-bounds. Iowa led at the half, 64-30.

Freshman Chase Coley also had an impressive first half, with 8 points, 7 rebounds, and 2 blocks in her first career game. Six of her 8 points came from the free-throw line.

Out of the intermission, it was Doolittle’s turn to take over. In under the first seven minutes of the half, she quickly rose to 21 points and 11 rebounds. Her dominance down low made it essentially impos-sible for the St. Ambrose defense to expand out to defend the Hawkeyes’ perimeter attack.

“We worked a lot on ex-ecution and working to-gether as a team for the first time,” Doolittle said. “Kind of getting that work in today and get-ting the freshmen play-ing with everybody else, it worked well today.”

Bluder’s offense moved liked clockwork as a result, and the Hawkeyes put on a show all afternoon long.

Contributions came from all over the floor, with several players get-ting playing time and taking advantageof it.

Freshman Carly Mohns received time with the regular rota-tion and played well throughout the game. She showed an ability to compete physically and displayed good hustle,

finishing with 8 points and 9 rebounds in only 11 minutes.

Coley complemented that with 11 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks, and 1 steal in on-ly 14 minutes.

“I thought our fresh-men did really well for their first time out,” Bluder sad. “When you think that two of them accounted for 21 of our rebounds, that’s nice. Carly and Chase both had 6 offensive rebounds along with Beth, so that was really nice to see.”

Doolittle finished the night as the leading scor-er with 21, while Dixon’s tally was 19. Disterhoft also ended with 18.

The Hawkeyes collec-tively shot 50 percent from the 3-point arc and also had 28 assists on 41 total field goals. Holding the Bees to 57 points on 31.3-percent shooting and outrebounding them 58-33, Iowa looked about as good as it needed to in the exhibition game.

“We told them to ig-nore the scoreboard, and I thought we did a nice job of keeping our focus and keeping our intensity the entire time,” Bluder said. “It’s not always easy to do, but I thought we did get better at executing. We were able to run our stuff and work on it.”

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“We just weren’t com-municating as well as we should have,” Alston said. “Sometimes we only had one person on the field talking, and we can’t do that.

“We have to have every-body talking, all 11 guys. It’s a lot of information go-ing around especially with this team with shifts and treys and motions we have to make sure we’re all on the same page.”

Iowa clearly wasn’t. It partially could be a matter of communication, but it al-so could be the inexperience of the linebackers.

Take Bo Bower for exam-ple. On Maye’s touchdown run, the redshirt freshman saw a Minnesota blocker coming at him as the play

was run to the Gopher side-line. What Bower should have done was aggressively take on the blocker, but he attacked softly and Maye scampered 9 yards into the end zone.

Give the Gophers credit — they executed the play very well, but had Bower taken on the blocker ag-gressively and forced him inside, he would have had more defenders to tackle the runner. The play can be chalked up to a bit of inex-perience and a bit of unwill-ingness to sacrifice his body.

Both of those reasons can be expanded to the whole team. Iowa has clearly faced this type of offense be-fore and failed to make any sort of successful adjust-ment against their north-ern neighbors.

Even more, strong safety John Lowdermilk, who also had his troubles in run sup-

port, called the defense’s performance “soft.”

It absolutely was, and Hawkeye head coach Kirk Ferentz quickly let mem-bers of the media know fol-lowing the loss. He said Io-wa wasn’t the aggressor but rather “the acceptor.”

“Basically, they just shoved it down our throats,”

Ferentz said. “I’m not sure we quit, but they just shoved it down our throats, and we couldn’t do any-thing about it, and that’s not a good feeling.”

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well, but not great, against Northern Iowa, did just enough to get by Ball State, gave the game away to Io-wa State, came back to beat Pittsburgh, played poorly against a truly bad Purdue team, exploded offensively over Indiana, lost a rough one to Maryland, played damn-near perfectly against Northwestern, and then laid an egg this past weekend against Minnesota.

You’ll be hard-pressed to find any team in the country that’s played nine different games this year, yet that’s exactly what Iowa has done. The erratic play has given fans fits and caused stress

among the players.“One week, we’re all the

way on the top. The next week, you never know,” middle linebacker Quinton Alston said. “We need to find that consistency, and we need to find it now.”

There are a lot of different issues at play, of course. Some are bigger than others, but perhaps the biggest of them all is the coaches don’t seem to know what, exactly, they want this team’s identity to be — especially offensively.

In the preseason, the of-fense had the potential to be one of Ferentz’s most talent-ed. He finally had a fleet of healthy running backs, an explosive group of receivers, an experienced quarter-back, and an offensive line that was, arguably, one of the nation’s best on paper.

What they’ve shown, though, is that the bulk of these players aren’t built for the offense they’re try-ing to execute. Recall that it’s only Greg Davis’s third season. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that most of these guys were re-cruited to carry out former offensive coordinator Ken O’Keefe’s playbook.

The game plans each week lack coherence. They’re spo-radic and, at times, unbeliev-able — both of the good and bad variety. The most-recent outing just so happened to be Iowa’s worst of the season.

When the game officially ended and Minnesota play-ers ran to grab the Floyd of Rosedale trophy, Iowa players quickly shuffled into the vis-iting locker room. No words were spoken. Complete si-

lence. It remained that way the whole ride home.

The players chosen to talk about the loss did so with despondent tones and glossy eyes, some on the verge of tears. They talked about needing to practice harder, to execute more efficiently, to simply play better football.

We hear that every week, though, so perhaps it’s no surprise that we never know what to expect next.

And, in a way, neither does the team.

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Sister, sister highlights basketball exhibition

By RYAN RODRIGUEZ ryan-rodriguez@uiowa.edu

Before Sunday’s show-down with St. Ambrose even had a chance to get off the ground, the feel around the Iowa women’s basketball team was more charged than one may ex-pect for a Sunday after-noon exhibition in early November.

Sure, the game offered fans their first look at a much-anticipated 2014 Iowa squad; however, the real cause for anticipation ran thicker than water for one particular Hawkeye.

For Iowa senior Sam Logic, the matchup with Fighting Bees meant being on the court against her sister, St. Ambrose guard Brette Logic, for just the second time in her life.

“Very few people get the opportunity to play against a family member, and while I’m not thrilled with it right now, I’m sure five or 10 years down the road, it’s something that will be special for both of

us,” Sam Logic said. The game, predictably,

turned into a blowout for Iowa. And while Logic was happy to get the first W of the year, embarrass-ing her sister was the last thing on her mind.

“It’s kind of an emotion-al roller coaster of what you want to do,” Logic said. “Obviously, you’re excited to be out here with your team for the first time, but at the same time, you don’t really want to beat your sister like that.”

The pair had squared off in a Game Time League matchup before; however, Sunday marked the first time the sisters met in an official college game.

They played together for two years for their high school is Racine, Wiscon-sin, and while the elder Logic has faced off against her younger sister in countless driveway pickup games, seeing her on the court in Carver-Hawkeye was surreal.

Nearly 40 of their fam-ily members made the

journey from Wisconsin to watch the sisters square off at Carver.

“I know for me person-ally, this is the biggest game I’ll ever play in my life,” Brette Logic said. “She’s the best point guard that I’ve ever had to guard, so it’s great ex-perience for me on top of everything else.”

St. Ambrose also holds beachfront property in the heart of another member of the Black and Gold: head coach Lisa Bluder.

Bluder, now entering her 31th year of coaching, began her career for the Fighting Bees, spending six years in Davenport helping to build the pro-gram into a small-college powerhouse.

Nearly a decade later, basketball has given Blud-er the chance to compete every year for an NCAA championship and coach some of the best talent the country has to offer.

“After the introductions are through, you look at it just like any other game,”

Bluder said. “You just go on with business as usual and kind of forget about who your opponent is.”

Still, the coach with the most victories in Iowa program history hasn’t forgotten the place that jump-started her career.

“Everybody knows how proud I am of St. Ambrose and the start it afforded

me,” Bluder said. “We love the program, we still love the school and wish noth-ing but the best for [head coach Krista Van Hauen and the Bees.”

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Iowa guard Samantha Logic blocks St. Ambrose guard (and younger sister) Brette Logic during the Iowa-St. Ambrose game in Carv-er-Hawkeye on Sunday. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)

Iowa’s win over St. Ambrose saw senior Sam Logic square off against her sister on the floor.

However, the Hawks were not able to “take” as much as they wanted, and the Badgers lim-ited Iowa to just six shots in the game and shut down Iowa’s pre-mier offensive threats — senior Cloe Lacasse and sophomore Bri Toelle for long stretches of the first period.

It was obvious that the Hawkeyes were missing senior first-team All-Big Ten selection Melanie Pickert, a solid defender who also has a knack for scoring when the team needs it most.

“With Mel out, we took a big hit on our offense with Emily Scott having to slip back to [Pickert’s] position and what a job she did,” DiIanni said. “She hadn’t played defender this year at all, but Wisconsin is the

best attacking team in the conference, and you saw that today.”

With Scott and several other players in different positions, Iowa played with the bits and pieces that it had left. Even worse, the

luck the Hawkeyes enjoyed through the first two rounds of the tournament ran out.

Iowa still has a slim chance to grab a spot in the NCAA Tournament, but no one is counting on it as something ensured.

“The heart of these girls is phenomenal and I think all of them — they just wanted to play, and they want to win,” assistant coach Erica Demers said. “We had a great run, and

I’m so proud of them, and I thought they battled back tough against them.”

Iowa players tackle a Minnesota ball carrier in TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 8. The Hawkeyes lost to the Gophers, 51-14. (The Daily Iowan/Rachael Westergard)

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‘The heart of these girls is phenomenal and I think all of them — they just wanted to play and they want to win. We had a great run and

I’m so proud of them and I thought they battled back tough against them.’

— Erica Demers, assistant coach

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MINNEAPOLIS — The man in charge is blam-ing himself because that’s where all of this starts. But even that doesn’t begin to answer all the questions.

Kirk Ferentz sat at the postgame press conference wearing a black hoodie

with a Tigerhawk logo on the left side. He looked pissed off. His words screamed frustration, but they were candid, and ku-dos to him for that. Hones-ty is the first step in recov-ery after your team’s been stripped of its dignity.

“We’ll find out,” he said, answering a question about whether his team has the mental toughness to bounce back from a 51-14 humiliation. “That’s the thing about the season; you play 12 games, you find out a lot as it goes.”

But what have we really

found out? Nine games in-to the season, and I find it really hard to answer that question.

Nine games is more than long enough for a col-lege-football team to estab-lish an identity, yet Iowa seems to be the one team in the country without one. The Hawkeyes’ style of play has provided some clues, but without any le-gitimate consistency, it’s hard to truly say what kind of team we’re dealing with.

The Hawkeyes played

By JORDAN HANSENjordan-hansen@uiowa.edu

WEST LAFAYETTE, In-diana — Sometimes fate is a cruel mistress. Iowa has suffered numerous bouts of injury and bad luck over the season.

In its 1-0 double-over-time Big Ten champion-ship loss to Wisconsin on Sunday, the Hawkeyes dealt with both as the Badgers netted a corner kick in the 104th minute.

“It’s tough to lose that way, but it’s really how we scored that way in the semifinals — Cloe floats a ball off the line, and it hap-

pens to just find that right way,” Hawkeye coach Dave DiIanni said. “I’m just re-ally proud of them, and my only disappointment is that we wanted to spend one more week together.”

Wisconsin’s goal was the lone score in a game that was almost entirely defensive game that fea-tured junior goalkeeper Hannah Clark once again shining for Iowa. She re-peatedly fended off shots from a trigger-happy Wis-consin team that racked up 23 shots with 8 on goal in the first half.

She held Wisconsin scoreless until the end

of the first overtime, but an apparent arm injury forced her out and senior Kiley Beck in.

Beck let a rebound ball after a corner slip by her, and the game ended as the ball made its way into the back of net.

“We knew we had to sac-rifice some things just be-cause all the injuries and everything,” senior Cloe Lacasse said. “We pushed and concentrated on the middle and the outside; and they pushed us on the outside, you have to give and take.”

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Hawkeye soccer’s magical run finally endsWISCONSIN 1, IOWA 0

An oft-injured Hawkeye squad falls, 1-0, in double overtime to Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship game.

Iowa goalkeeper Kiley Beck comes up short in an attempt to block a corner kick by Wisconsin midfielder Kinley McNicoll at the Boil-ermaker Soccer Complex during the Big Ten championship game on Sunday. McNicoll scored the only goal during the game, and the Badgers defeated the Hawkeyes in double overtime, 1-0. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)

Minnesota running back David Cobb dives past Iowa defensive linemen Louis Trinca-Pasat and Drew Ott and safety Jordan Lomax for a first down in TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 8. Cobb had 16 carries for 74 yards. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)

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The Iowa defense gave up nearly 300 yards on the ground in its Nov. 8 loss to Minnesota.

By DANNY PAYNEdaniel-payne-1@uiowa.edu

MINNEAPOLIS — Carl Davis, Louis Trin-ca-Pasat, and Quinton Alston stood in the bowels of TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 8, trying to stomach a 51-14 beatdown they just took from Minnesota.

The senior leaders on Iowa’s defense looked so-ber, as though they had just been embarrassed for all 36:42 of their time on the field.

Because, well, that’s ex-actly what happened.

“It’s embarrassing,” Davis said. “… To have the scoreboard look like that — close to 300 yards rushing — it’s very unacceptable.”

No one knew why Iowa came out so flat and al-lowed the Gophers to rush for 291 yards. They said the team had a good week of practice. Davis felt there was enough energy before the game.

That didn’t carry over.Minnesota running back

KJ Maye ran jet sweeps on the Hawkeyes all day and made the Iowa outside

linebackers and safeties playing the alley look sil-ly, rushing 10 times for 66 yards and a touchdown.

Star running back Da-vid Cobb and quarterback Mitch Leidner lit up the Hawkeyes on zone reads, carrying the ball a com-bined 27 times for 152 yards and a touchdown.

It wasn’t that Leidner is a burner, either. He was similar to Maryland’s C.J. Brown, who rushed 21 times against Iowa for a net of 99 yards on Oct. 18.

We’re nine games into the season, and most coaches and players don’t have a clue what Iowa’s identity is.

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