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Student dies in N. Liberty standoff

Downtown IC’s evolutionPark @ 201

Film Scene

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University parking may go up

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The scene of a fatal shooting is shown on Monday at Holiday Mobile Home Park in North Liberty. UI graduate student Taleb Hussein Yousef Salameh died during a standoff with police. (The Daily Iowan/Rachel Jessen)

By Stacey murraystacey-murray@uiowa.edu

People on the University of Iowa campus are likely to see an increase in parking fees this year, and officials say the hike is necessary to keep up with recent campus construction and daily maintenance.

“Parking and transportation are self-supporting enterprises,” said Dave Ricketts, the director of UI Parking and Transportation. “It doesn’t receive state funding, and parking is more expensive to construct than people think.”

Storage permits for students will

The University of Iowa’s parking rates will increase, pending approval from the Board of Regents.

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The Iowa River Landing in Coralville announced that it has added three businesses Monday, a city consultant said.

The Iowa River Landing is a development area in Coralville. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics opened a location there in October 2012.

Coralville city consultant Deanna Trumball said 105 E. Ninth St. would add JoS A. Bank, a 4,000-square-foot store, Scratch Cupcakery, and 30hop’s restaurant with a rooftop patio. She said the timing of the announcements was not surprising because retailers now know where they stand after the busy holiday season.

Clothing store Von Maur will open in the area in June. Trumball believes increased activity for the opening will spur even more interest.

“It really does help, because the more activ-ity you have, the more interest there tends to be,” she said.

— by Brent griffiths

By reBecca morinrebecca-morin@uiowa.edu

A University of Iowa graduate student was killed Sunday evening during a standoff with police that also left three officers wounded.

North Liberty police

responded to reports of a domestic dispute on Hol-iday Lodge Road in the North Lib-erty Hol-iday Mo-bile Home Court. Up-on arriv-ing, police made con-tact with UI student Taleb Hussein Yousef Salameh, 28, and a fe-male victim.

For yet unreported reasons, Salameh shot

three police officers, who returned fire. The offi-cers were transported to UI Hospitals and Clinics for non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Johnson County Sher-iff ’s Office. Salameh died at the scene.

According to records released Monday, Sala-meh applied for a gun permit in March 2010, but UI Dean of Students David Grady recom-mended that the John-son County Sheriff ’s Of-fice deny his application. Since Grady became

dean of students in 2009, Salameh is one of only two students that Grady recommended the Sher-iff ’s Office deny a permit.

“I have serious reser-vations about Mr. Sala-meh’s intention to pur-chase a handgun,” Grady said in a letter to John-son County Sheriff Lon-ny Pulkrabek in 2010. “… I respectfully request that you carefully con-sider this information when evaluating Mr. Sal-ameh’s application for

The Sheriff ’s Office issued Salameh a gun permit in 2010, despite UI officials’ ‘serious’ concerns.

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to dance or not to dance?

By Quentin miSiagquentin-misiag@uiowa.edu

Three prominent projects are underway downtown. Though some completion dates and have shifted and predicted budgets have increased, city officials say one thing is for sure: the face of downtown is chang-ing.

Following completion of the Packing & Provisions Building, 118 E. College St.,

in September and the Nov. 1 opening of the 14-story Park@201 building, 114 S. Dubuque St., approximately $13 million in new downtown investment will be com-plete.

Interest in living and reinvesting in downtown has soared, so much so that of-ficials from Des Moines and Cedar Rapids have attempted to court veteran real-es-

Downtown will see $13 million in construction and renovations.

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Iowa River Landing adds businesses

Park@201 • $10.7 million, 48,002 sq. ft.14-story high-rise under construction on the Ped Mall

Film Scene• 85-seat scene 1 cinema operated by Film-scene, two retail stores, art gallery, rooftop terrace and Modus Engineering. located in the Packing & Provision Building, 118 E. College st.

the chauncey• 20-story high-rise approved by a 6-1 mar-gin in January by City Council at College and Gilbert.

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Construction continues on the 14-story Park@201 building on the Ped Mall Monday. (The Daily Iowan/Callie Mitchell)

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Rebecca Castagno, 37, Coralville, was charged March 7 with public intoxication.Sammie Garner, 23, 2110 Broad-way Apt. E, was charged Monday with possession of marijuana.

Jennifer Lovetinsky, 18, 13 Vid-eo Court, was charged March 7 with possession of marijuana.Nicholas Markland, 20, 404 S. Governor St., was charged Mon-day with OWI.

Baldermar Mendoza, 20, 221 Iowa Ave. No. 1923, was charged Monday with public intoxica-tion.Denaro Smith, 34, 2239 Taylor Drive, was charged March 2 with

violating a domestic abuse pro-tective order.Kelvin Ware, 21, 2430 Musca-tine Ave., was charged Sunday with interference with official acts.

Man charged with willful injury, domestic abuse

A local man has been accused of stabbing his girlfriend in the bicep.

Dakota Washington, 21, was charged Sunday with domestic abuse and willful injury.

Washington and the woman got into an argument on Sunday evening, and he allegedly threw something at her. Washington told her that he should just “stab or slice” her instead, the police complaint said. The wom-an was allegedly stabbed in the bicep with a 4-inch pocketknife.

According to the police complaint, she felt a burning sensation and then saw a gush of blood.

Washington then chased

her out of the house, which caused her to fear for her life. She called 911 and then ran to a neighbor’s house. She was transported to the hospital, where she received 11 stitches.

Domestic abuse is a serious misdemeanor. Willful injury is a Class-D felony.

— by Rebecca Morin

Project Prom continues

City officials are extending their “Project Prom” event following a large number of donations.

According to an Iowa City press release, the program received more than 150 dress donations, and more than 100 gowns still remain. Project Prom is a program to encourage peo-ple who still have gently used

dresses to donate them to give to students for free attending prom this year.

The East Side Recycling Cen-ter’s Environmental Education Center, 2401 Scott Blvd., will be open today from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. for people interested in picking out a dress, as well as on Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon, the release said.

Project Prom is a program coordinated by the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center and community member Mary Palmberg.

— by Jordyn Reiland

Riverside Drive Panchero’s faces alcohol fine

Panchero’s Mexican Grill, 965 S. Riverside Drive, has

been ordered to pay a $500 fine for selling alcohol to a customer under the legal age.

According to an Iowa Alcohol-ic Beverages Division release, on Nov. 17, 2012, restaurant employee Rebecca Castaneda allegedly sold an alcoholic beverage to a customer under the legal drinking age. She was found guilty of the incident on Feb. 27.

This is the first violation of its kind at the local restaurant in a span of two years. Panchero’s was ordered to pay the $500 fine to the alcoholic division by April 10, unless the establish-ment files for an appeal. If the fine is not paid by the given date, the establishment’s liquor license may be suspended for up to 14 days.

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A new rule that passed through an Iowa legisla-tors’ executive committee last week will identify registered voters who may potentially be ineligible to vote.

Initially proposed in August 2012 by Iowa Sec-retary of State Matt Schul-tz, the rule aims to reduce voter fraud by establishing ways to remove voters of “questionable citizenship.” Opponents of the rule say that Schultz uses informa-tion inappropriately.

The controversial rule met resistance from the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been in-volved in action against Schultz since July 2012 for other reasons.

“Our legislative director is busy at the Capitol fight-ing what we feel are vot-er-suppression rules that the secretary of State is trying to implement,” said Veronica Fowler, the com-munications director of the Iowa ACLU.

Schultz was not avail-able for comment Monday evening.

The rule in question would allow workers at the Secretary of State’s Office to compare voting records against the Department of Transportation and other databases, Johnson Coun-ty Auditor Travis Weipert said.

Weipert said if officials find somebody who they don’t believe is a citizen,

they will contact that per-son directly to verify her or his citizenship. If the voter doesn’t respond in time, the secretary of State will send a notice to the coun-ty auditor, who is then re-sponsible for stopping that individual from voting, if he or she should try.

The bipartisan com-mittee was one vote shy of blocking the rule. Rep. Dave Jacoby, D-Coralville, who sits on the committee and voted against the rule, called the move a “political switcheroo.”

“Their goal is to frus-trate people so certain pop-ulations don’t show up or are afraid to vote,” he said. “They’re definitely trying to screen out Latino, Afri-can American, and to some extent the elderly vote.”

One political expert said these accusations have no grounds.

“Why somebody would be ‘afraid’ if they’re eligi-ble to vote is never really explained,” said Tim Ha-gle, an associate professor of political science at the UI.

It’s a question that res-onates with Republicans, who contend the rule would help crack down on cases of voter fraud, the likes of which has occurred as recently as last week; an unidentified individu-al voted last week in Linn County only for the real voter to show up later and find her vote had been cast by an imposter.

Sen. Mark Chelgren, R-Ottumwa, said he com-mended the secretary of

State for going through the process in a Constitutional way.

“As a member of the committee, it’s my job to make sure that rules do not go outside of the law or the intent of the law,” Chel-gren said. “And the intent of the law is that nonciti-zens can’t vote in the state. This rule in no way allows the secretary of State to purge votes from the list, it only informs them.”

Despite these recent concerns, Fowler said she’s certain that voter fraud in Iowa and nationwide are “solutions in search of a problem.”

“The number of fraud cases in Iowa are less than 1 percent of the vote cast,” she said. “The tradeoff is that you’ll intimidate new citizen voters.”

The particular data-base that the secretary of State would use is called the SAVE system. It was originally intended to help determine citizen’s eligibil-

ity for certain government benefits.

The use of the SAVE database is considered in-appropriate by some, how-ever.

“I think the secretary of State has overstepped his authority and crossed the line by using the SAVE system,” Sen. Pam Jochum, D-Dubuque, said. “It wasn’t designed to determine vot-er registration,”

Jochum said Schultz has gone beyond his executive authority, calling this is a legislative issue.

But across the aisle, the story is very different.

“This actually encourag-es them to vote long term,” Chelgren said. “I think it’s more intimidating to go to a voting place, and suddenly be stopped by somebody who tells you you’re not allowed to vote. That would be a lot more of a negative for the voter than a simple letter in the mail clarifying the rules for them.”

Debated voter-ID rule passes

Kristen East will enter her junior year at the Uni-versity of Iowa next year, taking on a role t y p i c a l l y left for se-niors: edi-tor-in-chief of The Daily Iowan.

“I’ve al-ways wanted to be the ed-itor-in-chief of a collegiate newspaper someday,” she said. “Now that I’ve had the opportunity to work with all the sections [of the paper], I’m able to facili-tate that.”

East’s age puts her in a unique position in the eyes of Daily Iowan Publisher Bill Casey.

“She’s young,” he said. “[East] is only the second sophomore going into ju-nior year to be editor in the

38 years I’ve worked here.”Alex Ginsberg, the act-

ing chairman of Student Publishing Inc. — the gov-erning body that oversees the DI’s operations — said East impressed the board with her interview.

“Even being a soph-omore, the way she an-swered the questions and her experience makes her best for the job,” he said. “She’s young, and passion-ate. She’ll be able to figure it out.”

The 20-year-old from Ar-lington Heights, Ill., says her experience has helped prepare her for the posi-tion.

East attended Rolling Meadows High School, where she wrote for and edited for the school’s stu-dent newspaper The Pacer.

“I really liked the sense of community [at The Pac-er],” she said. “I want to have that same sense here, putting names to faces and getting to know everyone.”

East worked as a met-ro reporter for the DI her freshman year, covering the University of Iowa Student Government and the Iowa City City Council. She also covered UI Dance Marathon 18, reporting and posting stories each hour during the 24-hour charity event.

She became a Daily Io-wan Scholar in the spring of 2012, providing her $4,500 in tuition a year for the rest of her time at the UI.

East is currently a Met-ro editor alongside Jordyn Reiland. The two became editors last May.

During her time as edi-tor-in-chief, East hopes to improve the visual aspects of the paper, increase the visibility of the DI website, and aim for better commu-nication among the staff.

“I think she’ll bring a more authoritarian style leadership, which will help the newsroom feel more

like real life,” Ginsberg said.

Current DI Editor Em-ily Busse thinks East will be up to the job, and en-couraged her to keep ev-ery aspect of the paper in mind.

“Coming straight from metro, [East] will have to be sure to think about the paper as the sum of ma-ny parts,” she said. “You have to invest equally and spend time with each sec-tion to put out the paper.”

As for whether East thinks she’s ready?

“My age is a concern for a lot of people, but I have enough knowledge work-ing in the newsroom, and have resources available to help me [as editor in chief],” she said.

And Casey thinks East will be ready by the time she takes the helm.

“Anybody who becomes editor here isn’t ever quite ready,” he said. “But she will be by fall.”

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People vote at the Main Library on Nov. 6, 2012. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

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By Michelle KiMhae-deun-kim@uiowa.edu

Journalism faculty at the University of Iowa de-veloped a strategic plan in 2007 to increase the focus on health communications, and the recent hiring of a new assistant professor will contribute to the plan.

Rachel Young, a contrib-uting editor for Cricket Magazine Group in C h i c a -go, was recently hired as an as-s i s t a n t professor in the UI School of Journalism and Mass Com-munication. She will start in August.

“I think that Iowa is a perfect set for me, [both] professionally and person-ally,” Young said.

Young, who has visited Iowa City before, thinks the area can become a suitable place for her to bring her family. She has two children.

Young, who is getting a master’s in public health at the University of Mis-souri, said the UI has car-ried a deep history with health-communication

studies.. Journalism school offi-

cials said health commu-nication is becoming pop-ular, and it is a growing discipline in the College of Public Health and the jour-nalism school.

“The feedback we are re-ceiving back from patients is very positive and encour-aging,” UI spokesman Tom Moore said.

Faculty members in the journalism school were en-thusiastic about Young’s hiring.

“She was obviously high-ly intelligent and already very accomplished,” said David Perlmutter, the di-rector of the school.

Perlmutter said the program would become an important source for the world, and journalism officials look forward to Young’s involvement.

Perlmatter said Young will teach and do research, which satisfied the school’s hiring profile.

UI journalism Professor Julie Andsager said health communication helps peo-ple who do not know how to make the best choices about health.

“[Health communica-tion] provides clear and useful information so they can make better choices

about what they eat, what types of checkups they need to have …” she said.

One of Andsager’s ex-periments focuses on how people interpret risk-relat-ed contents. The other re-search focuses on how rural newspapers, which are re-liable sources to those who live far off, cover nutrition.

Young’s goal is to im-prove health outcomes that best serve the needs of the community, and she hopes to share her research.

“I’m most looking for-ward to collaborating with other scholars at Iowa to make a significant differ-ence and improve health outcomes through commu-nication research,” she said.

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An eye on healthAiming at women’s heart disease

Youngnew faculty member

By RaNa Moustafa rana-moustafa@uiowa.edu

If it wasn’t for a vis-it to the dentist about a little toothache, Jen-nifer Long would not have had her blood pressure tested nor would she have known she had a serious heart problem.

“I didn’t really see a physician unless I was very sick,” said Long, an employee of the Univer-sity of Iowa Heart and Vascluar Center. “I tru-ly believe that if I had not had a tooth issue … I would have been a lot worse off with heart dis-ease.”

Milena Gebska, a UI clinical assistant profes-sor of cardiologiy, said because women fail to recognize heart disease symptoms, the Cardi-ology Department has established a heart-dis-ease-prevention pro-gram aimed at women set to launch in July.

With cardiovascular disease being the No. 1 killer of women in the United States, every major university in the country has a women’s heart center except for the UI Hospitals & Clin-ics.

According to the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Prevention, one in every four deaths in the nation in 2012 was due to heart disease. Heart disease and stroke ac-counted for 32 percent of all female deaths, and approximately 12 wom-en died each day from heart disease or stroke in Iowa in 2012.

Gebska said the se-verity of the disease compared with other leading diseases in the country is unrecognized.

“According to our sta-tistics, heart disease greatly outweighs can-cer risk,” she said. “This is a very important is-sue to us here at the University of Iowa.”

Julie Andsager, a UI journalism professor who has studied health information in the me-dia, said breast cancer research foundations have been successful in focusing women’s atten-tion on breast cancer as a primary health con-cern.

“Heart disease kills far more women than breast cancer,” she said. “Which is not to dimin-ish the very real effects that cancer has but to

point out that an orga-nized, active group can make a large difference in news media cover-age.”

Gebska said the CDC has seen an increase in younger women with heart disease.

“Women are more in-dependent now; they have much more respon-sibilities, they are under more stress, and they need to work harder to earn the same amount of money,” she said. “They don’t have time to take care of themselves; they are busy moms and they’re busy taking care of everything else just to keep the household together.”

The prevention pro-gram will aim to help women carry out a healthier lifestyle by of-fering a text messaging communication service allowing outpatient fol-low-ups. Gebska said patients who sign up will be able to text mes-sage back and forth with a UI cardiologist on a daily basis.

“We could … see whether just through a simple measure of knowing that someone is there caring for them, wanting them to get bet-ter, live healthier, and longer, whether that would change their life-style,” she said.

Additionally, pa-tients will have the option to sign up for a six-month package plan that will include cardiovascular risk assessments, dietary consultation, smoking cessation, physical ca-pacity assessments, as well as personal exer-cise programs, educa-tional seminars by phy-sicians, and culinary classes with food sam-pling. This package plan will cost $200.

“We feel that patients who pay for their ser-vices are much more motivated, as compared with those who enroll for free,” Gebska said.

The package plan will create a comfortable en-vironment for patients to work on improving their health with peo-ple who share common goals, she said..

“Going to a private group has a tremendous advantage,” she said. “They are not exposed to the public gyms, where there are many athletic women and men intimi-dating them.”

Andsager said edu-cating women on how to live healthily is im-portant, but it is vital to inform them on how to recognize heart disease symptoms.

“I hope that Iowans will become more in-formed about women’s distinct symptoms of heart attacks and other cardiac health issues so that we are more likely to recognize women’s heart problems when we see the symptoms,” she said. “That alone can save lives.”

Long said having sup-portive physicians at the Heart and Vascular Center has encouraged her to give a 100 per-cent effort to improving her health.

“I don’t want to be some sickly old person who can’t enjoy life after I’m finished working,” she said. “I have worked too hard in my life not to be able to enjoy my re-tirement.”

UI Heart and Vascular Center works to prevent heart disease in Iowa women.

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editorial

Sometimes, on late-night cable, there’s this “Star Trek” episode in which Republicans and Democrats join together to save the planet, and everyone lives happily ever after.

Yeah, I know. Science fiction is great, isn’t it?

Wasn’t that genre invented by H.G. Wells? And he was a socialist, right?

Well, yeah, according to William Hyde in the April 1956 edition of the Jour-nal of the History of Ideas, published by the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania Press. The socialist part, is more or less correct.

Apparently, though, while Wells’ War of the Worlds is quite famous, science fiction was invented not by Wells (with The Time Machine [1895] or The War of the Worlds [1898]) but by the Sumerians with the Epic of Gilgamesh, circa BCE 2000 (or 2150, give or take a Sumerian, a unit of measure we no longer use).

(Yes, Martha, I actually do know that Sumerians were people, not units of measurement. Gimme a break; I’m not a Republi-can.)

And yes, that would be H.G. Wells, not Vernon Wells, a pretty-much bro-ken-down outfielder for the LA Angels who makes more money per year than you or I will ever make in our lifetimes. That should probably be “you and I,” but who quar-rels about conjunctions these days?

For that matter, these days, who knows the difference between a conjunction and, say, an intersection?

(Don’t raise your hand; I can’t see you.)

Actually, I can’t see much these days; broken glasses will do that to you. But my vision is still clear, even though the world pretty much looks like Van Gogh’s Starry Night (play another “Star-

ry Night” Joni Mitchell says on stage and laughs), and that vision says that Democrats and Repub-licans getting together, saving the world, then singing “Kumbaya” is pretty much science fiction.

Take last weekend. While in this corner of the universe we were riveted by the Hawkeye men hoopsters nailing down their 20th victory (a feat that felt exactly like science fiction in the glory days of the Lickliter Era), Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was busy demonstrating that the GOP won all the elections in 2012.

(Remember 2012? Me, neither.)

As Greg Sargent of the Washington Post points out, Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012 (no wonder we don’t remem-ber that year), said on Fox News that his budget would kill off Obamacare.

Wait a minute. Who won?

But, as Sargent notes, Ryan’s budget would maintain the Obamacare’s $700 billion in Medicare savings.

So let’s get this straight. You’re going to ax the plan, but you’re somehow going to keep the savings that the plan entails. Did somebody say science fiction?

I thought so.Ryan’s budget would

also, he claims, erase the deficit in around 10 years, which would mean the sort of spending cuts that have made Britain’s economy hum and purr. (And if you believe that last bit, you really have to cut down on your intake of science fiction.)

(No, seriously.)Speaking of which,

sometimes, on late-night cable, there’s this “Star Trek” episode in which Republicans and Demo-crats join together to save the planet, and everyone lives happily ever after.

Yeah, I know. Science fiction is great, isn’t it?

Such as this:“The joyful will stoop

with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake; I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion.” Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion, from the Epic of Gilgamesh.

In�U.S.,�science�fiction�rules

With tuition and the cost of living rising rapidly across the nation and the na-tional student-loan debt totaling just

under $1 trillion, according to the Federal Re-serve, it is becoming increasingly important for students to understand how to manage their expenses.

The Project on Student Debt found that in 2011, 56 percent of University of Iowa students graduated with debt. Of that group, the aver-age debt was around $27,000.

The UI Office of Student Financial Aid is taking measures to help address rising stu-dent-loan debt. This week, it initiated the UI Financial Aid Literacy Services, supported by a grant from a UI Student Success Proposal.

Sara Harrington, the Financial Aid Literacy Services director, said the program employs two graduate assistants from the College of Education to speak with students who have concerns regarding how to handle loans, finan-cial aid, personal budgets, and other monetary issues.

The Provost’s Office gave a $119,989 grant to the Financial-Aid Office in order to begin the program, which will primarily cover the sala-ries and benefits of the two graduate students hired to run the program.

“Often, students enroll at the UI without a plan in place to pay for their educational ex-penses. Our goal is to help students understand how to budget and plan for their futures,” Har-rington said in an email to The Daily Iowan.

The graduate students will also run work-shops that encourage students to apply early for financial aid. Although only available to un-dergraduate students right now, after the two-year pilot is complete, the program will be open to all students.

The Daily Iowan Editorial Board feels that this program will strongly benefit students at the UI.

Students can email the Financial-Aid Office to set up an appointment with either one of the

graduate assistants to discuss these issues. Both of the advising students took a course

on financial literacy in the fall 2012 semester, equipping them with the information neces-sary to handle general questions and concerns.

Harrington said that if students have ques-tions about more complicated issues, such as the loss of a supporting parents’ income, that would be directed toward one of the profession-al financial-aid counselors in the Financial-Aid Office.

The graduate assistants were necessary, Harrington said, to speak with students for relatively longer periods (half an hour to an hour). Current financial-aid counselors, she said, have numerous clients to see every day and can’t spend vast amounts of time on any given individual. The Financial Aid Literacy Services help provide that extra time.

In addition to alleviating pressure on finan-cial-aid counselors, providing valuable experi-ence to graduate assistants, and helping stu-dents learn about the complex financial-aid process, this is also a brilliant use of funding.

While this program pays the graduate assis-tants, it can also help save massive amounts of money for students seeking help through edu-cation on money management and applying for financial aid. The effect goes far beyond paying for a research project that may or may not have real-world implications. The Financial Aid Lit-eracy Services has the potential to benefit ev-ery single person involved in the program for several years, and any undergraduate student is eligible to see one of the graduate assistants.

The Financial Aid Literacy Services was an excellent choice to receive the additional funding thanks to how wide reaching the pro-gram’s effect can potentially be and because it addresses a pertinent issue that affects college students on a daily basis.

Your turn.��Will the new financial-aid program benefit students?

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letterS to tHe editorThank you for the editorial

today, March 11.“To opt for an inferior program

for any reason, politics or igno-rance, would be a disservice to Iowa” — amen.

Please have your reporters investigate whether/if and/or how much stock Gov. Terry Branstad owns in various health-insurance companies.

How could the man have been the president of a medical college without meeting some of the doctors who stand up for Medicare and Medicaid?

A man with several government pay and retirement incomes has no concept of issues confronting the working poor and the retired poor and the unemployed. God, help us all. The governor does not represent the average Iowan, the

multitude of poor Iowans, or even the financially well off who have any heart and soul.

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the chauncey sausage making is nasty

A free press is indeed neces-sary for a free people. And Iowa City is fortunate to have a least four presses that feature local politics. Skaaren Cossé and Zach Tilly in the Feb. 20-March 6 Little Village reveal the Chauncey Matrix Tricks.

To decide among the three alternative [proposals], the councils planned to develop a “de-cision matrix.” The preliminary

matrix included five criteria to be considered, weighed by relative importance and scored for each proposal.

The breakdown of the proposed matrix can be found on the City Council website under the Jan. 8 work session.

However, when the council was ready to make its final decision, one council member alleges that his fellow councilors chose not to use the decision matrix and to move ahead without it.

The five city councilors who preferred the Chauncey plan were able to approve that project with little debate and without presenting a concrete rationale or side-by-side comparison.

Even some who were heavily involved with the process were left scratching their heads about

how this decision was made.This abject lack of transparen-

cy in the council’s decision-mak-ing process has rightly angered opponents of the Chauncey, who feel that the city did not properly consider public concerns about the project or follow through on its promise to consider issues of cost and environmental impact, among others. This dissatisfac-tion is compounded by the city’s history with development projects led by Iowa City super-developer Marc Moen.

At the time of this writing, none of the city councilors who supported the Chauncey had responded to our request for comment.

Cossé and Tilly conclude that things change, skylines change, neighborhoods change,

it happens. The potential utility and beauty of the Chauncey is certainly debatable, the nature of Marc Moen’s impact and influence in Iowa City is debatable, too — the inadequacy of the city’s decision-making process is not.

Hopefully, they conclude, Iowa City will continue to enjoy devel-opment opportunities like the one at College and Gilbert, but the City Council must justify its future decisions with greater transpar-ency and a greater concern for public opinion.

By ignoring its own deci-sion process the council reeks of the Third World corruption politics that the Chauncey itself represents. The only part of the world still welcoming skyscrapers is the Third World.

The fact that there was “little

debate, concrete rationale or side-by-side comparison, left some councilors scratching their heads as to the outcome of rewarding the Moen Group’s plan,” is a sign of the five councilors’ predisposi-tion toward the Chauncey.

Moen is beside the point for now. It is the behavior of the council members that is in ques-tion because of their duplicitous behavior.

Now the citizens of the College Green Park neighborhood and the real-estate taxpayers of Iowa City may find themselves burdened aesthetically with a 20-story glass and chrome gargantuan blocking out the Sun and casting its long shadow into the taxpayers’ pock-etbooks for decades.

mary gravitt Iowa�City�resident

With nearly 60 percent of University of Iowa stu-dents graduating with debt, the UI Office of Stu-dent Financial Aid has launched a financial-aid literacy program to help students understand the complexities of paying for college.

The Financial-Aid Of-fice began advertising last week for its new literacy program. Students can sign up for an appoint-ment to speak with an expert on any questions they may have about their loans, the FAFSA, pay-ment plans, and anything else related to financial aid.

“Paying for college is a concern [the] UI Office of Student Financial Aid staff hears on a daily ba-sis from students and par-ents,” Sara Harrington, an assistant director of UI Financial Aid, wrote in an email. “Often, stu-dents enroll at UI without a plan in place to pay for their educational expens-es. Our goal is to help stu-dents understand how to budget and plan for their futures.”

The Financial-Aid Of-fice received a nearly $120,000 grant from the Provost’s Office of the to begin the program. The grant will primarily cover the salaries and benefits of the two graduate stu-dents who were hired to run it.

“We’ve been able to sort of go through all the sort of facets of financial aid,” said Sarah Lobb, one of two graduate students hired for the program.

Funding for this program began in September, and Lobb and colleague Nate Bauer spent most of the previous semester educat-ing themselves on the many

aspects of financial aid. “All of my previous ex-

perience has come from being on the other side of the table and having to borrow student loans,” Bauer said.

Bauer said he took out loans while he was an undergraduate, so he can see how the program will help students. While Lobb didn’t take out loans as an undergraduate student, she said she could relate based on other financial experiences.

“I can relate to the feel-ing of not knowing what things mean,” she said. “I can understand the ner-vousness and the anxiety around the money.”

The UI Student Gov-ernment also offers a program to help students manage money, but UISG President Nic Pottebaum said the programs are very different.

“I really see the Fi-nancial-Aid Office doing something a little more proactive,” he said. “[It] provides resources and support to navigate the waters of student finan-cial aid.”

Pottebaum said the UISG Student Credit and Money Management pro-gram provides a broad-er scope of information about budgeting not only to pay back loans but also to manage money in ev-eryday life.

Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of FinAid and FastWeb, said finan-cial-aid literacy programs are becoming more com-mon among universities because when students better understand their financial aid, schools tend to have lower default rates.

“I’ve had a lot of expe-riences [which] suggest that students really don’t understand what they’re getting into when they’re

borrowing money,” he said. “The primary way in which it affects a college is if students over-borrow, they’re more likely to de-fault. Financial literacy is a pretty basic skill that students need.”

Kantrowitz even ar-gued financial-aid liter-acy should be taught on the high-school level, and some UI students agree.

“It’s not something you’re taught before you come to college,” UI junior Elizabeth Carrasquillo said. “I think especially senior year when every-one is thinking about where to go to school, they should teach it then [be-cause] college is on every-one’s mind.”

UI senior Chris Cheney, who had to manage his financial aid on his own while at the UI, said a program like this would have made his experience smoother.

“I think it would’ve been helpful because I ended up taking out too little of loans, which was problematic, but at the same time, you don’t want to take out more than you need because you have to pay interest on it,” he said. “Maybe if I was more educated, it wouldn’t have been as hard as I made it out to be.”

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Financial-Aid Literacy ProgramStudents may make appoint-ments to speak with the graduate students running the new program for a variety of reasons. • The FAFSA• Plans for paying back loans• Deciding how much money to take out in loans

Source: Nate Bauer and Sarah Lobb,

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UI officials launch financial aid helpOfficials seek to aid students with new financial literacy program.

By CAssidy RiLeycassidy-riley@uiowa.edu

Driving is proving to be increasingly dangerous for teens across the nation and here at home.

The Governor’s Highway Safety Association reported on Feb. 26 that the number of teenage-driver fatalities rose drastically in the be-ginning of 2012.

“The No. 1 cause of death among teens 16 to 19 is driving a car,” said Daniel McGehee, the director of the Human Factors and Vehicle Safety Research Division of the University of Iowa’s Pubic Policy Cen-ter. “It’s the most dangerous thing you do at that age.”

In the first six months of 2012 in the United States, there were 240 driver deaths among teenagers. In com-parison, the first six months of 2011 had 202 deaths.

Iowa is not exempt from the spike.

“In the last year, Iowa al-so saw what the nation saw — that there was a slight increase in teen deaths,” said Patrick Hoye, the bu-reau chief of the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau.

Officials believe there are many factors that have led to the increase in fatal-ities, one of which is the strengthened economy.

“As the economy has re-covered, more people are on the road,” McGehee said. “When the employment rate is lower, they don’t work as much and don’t drive as much.”

Jonathan Adkins, the deputy executive director of the Governor’s Highway Safety Association, agreed.

“When the economy gets better, teens tend to drive more,” he said.

Another issue officials

are looking at is Iowa’s graduated license program.

“We have one of the least up-to-date graduat-ed-license programs in the country,” McGehee said.

Legislators, though, seem split on whether the pro-gram should be changed.

“I think we seriously need to revise the current graduated-license pro-gram,” said Rep. Dave Jaco-by, D-Coralville. “We need to make sure young people have enough training and that training is monitored.”

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Red Oak, is not focused on the license program.

“I feel pretty comfortable with the way they are now,” she said.

Ernst and Jacoby agree, however, that distracted driving is an issue that needs to be looked into, but it is hard to define.

“I think it is we just need to better define or wrap our arms around what distract-ed driving is,” Ernst said.

Jacoby said regulating distractions is difficult but believes education can help.

Traffic-safety officials, though, believe that dis-tracted driving is another

factor that plays a role in the number of teen-driver fatalities.

“We are seeing that as one of the leading causes,” Hoye said. “There will have to be a push from the Iowa Legislature to restrict the use of those devices.”

Officials lack concrete da-ta, but they place blame on electronic devices. McGe-hee said the smart phone is becoming an ever-present part of society, and for rural Iowa, he believes the elec-tronic devices play an even bigger role in distractions.

“One of the problems ru-ral Iowa has is that teens typically have longer com-mutes,” McGehee said.

Normally, there is a dif-ference between rural and urban accidents.

“If you’re rural, crashes tend to be much more fa-tal,” he said. “When you’re in an urban area, you tend to crash more, but [they] are less fatal.”

Officials hope to improve laws and highway safety, but they insist that drivers have to be safe as well.

“At the end of the day, a lot of it still rests with the driver,” Hoye said.

Cars parked in the Hawk Lot are shown on April 19, 2012. The Governor’s Highway Safety Association reported that the number of teenage-driv-er fatalities rose drastically in the beginning of 2012. (The Daily Iowan/Jessica Payne)

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• I once ate a block of dry ramen noodles just to see if I

could. I can. SCIENCE.• I’m an avid bodybuild-

er. The one I’m working on right now is almost done

(just needs a right arm and a neck).

• I like to belt out Beyoncé songs in the shower. Some

people find it disconcerting — because I usually shower at

the gym.• I have two cats and love

them very much, but they are very needy creatures. Still, I put up with them because

they’re so soft and fun to touch. They’re kind of like little furry versions of my

girlfriend but without the all the loyalty issues.

• I define “stress” as the desire to beat someone to death with her or his own dismembered leg — but

being legally or physically restrained from doing so. You could say that I carry a lot of

“stress.”• I became a Big Brother

about a year ago. I’ve been watching you the last six

months of that. Yes, you. The one reading this. Don’t bother looking around to try to find me. I’m everywhere. Every-

where.• I’ll feel bad if I ever meet

a true telepath, because all they’d hear around me would be, “TACOS TACOS TACOS.”

• I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but I do like putting

cowbells on people.

Andrew R. Juhl thanks Matt G, Matt L, Zach, Erik, Mycah, Becca, Jayne, LTD,

and Brian for all of their help and patience in the past.

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increase $18 from $315 to $333. Standard and cashiered ramps, such as the IMU ramp and the Main Library lot will increase by 10 cents per hour, with the daily maxi-mum increasing from $17 to $18. There are several other increases pending as well.

The state Board of Re-gents will decide whether to pass the fee increase at its meeting in Ames on Wednesday.

The proposed increase would fund the mainte-nance of structures, along with paying operators in parking ramps. The UI earned roughly $16.7 million from parking in fiscal 2012, and officials estimate the UI will earn roughly $16.8 million in fiscal 2013 and $17.7 mil-lion in fiscal 2014.

Roughly $460,000 of this budget comes from fees each year. Officials say that as the UI in-creases efforts to police parking violations, the number of incidents de-creases.

Among the construc-tion projects that will benefit from the increase is the demolition of hos-pital ramp 2 at the UI Hospitals & Clinics, which will be replaced by a 650-space underground parking garage. Officials estimate this project to be completed in 2015. Ad-ditionally, the UI has al-so covered roughly 1,400 parking spaces with LED lighting to replace older lighting.

The UI Parking and Transportation Com-mittee reapproved the proposed increases this past year. The committee, composed of students, faulty, and staff, devised a five-year plan to in-crease rates in order to aid the budget. Fines will remain at their current levels.

This increase will be the third in the five-year set. The increases will go into effect on different dates depending on the location, varying from July 1 to August 1.

“The department brought that to us, and we agreed in comparing

fines with the Big Ten universities and other Io-wa universities,” said Ray Haas, a member of the UI Parking and Transporta-tion Committee.

The UI purchases parking passes from Io-wa City to resell to stu-dents for a reduced cost. When the city increases the price of those passes, the university must also increase its reduced cost in order to keep the two prices comparable.

Iowa City raised its university semester bus passes from $80 to $100 this year after more than a decade-long sta-ble rate.

“Most of [the reason for the increase] is because we haven’t had a rate in-crease in 16 years,” said Chris O’Brien, the direc-tor of transportation ser-vices in Iowa City.

Despite these increas-es, parking at the UI dif-fers from its regent and conference counterparts.

Iowa State Universi-ty earned $3.7 million in revenue from parking during fiscal 2012, and the University of North-ern Iowa earned $1.2 mil-lion during the previous fiscal year.

Severity of fees varies among Big Ten schools as well. The UI has a $200 fine for parking in a handicap zone with-out a permit, while the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln charges $150. Institutions such as the University of Illinois and Ohio State carry heftier fines, with the same cita-tion costing $250 at each school.

One UI student said although she does not think the increase makes a huge difference she said she wants to know what the extra money will go towards before she de-

cides whether the fee in-crease is appropriate.

“I don’t think it’s nec-essarily that big of a deal,” freshman Marina Phillips said. “The ex-tra might be worth it if it got an extra bus route out [to the Hawk Lot] sooner.”

The rates will contin-ue to increase for an ad-ditional two fiscal years until the five-year plan is completed.

“Demand from stu-dents is down, and park-ing demand is down, but just owning a car on cam-pus is more expensive,” Ricketts said.

the gun permit.”In the letter, Grady cit-

ed previous criminal con-victions including an as-sault on another student that occurred out-of-state and that Salameh was visiting a counselor and psychiatrist as rea-sons that the Sheriff ’s Office should delay his handgun application un-til at least 2011. Accord-ing to the Gazette, the Sheriff ’s Office issued Salameh a gun permit in February 2010, despite Grady’s concerns.

UI officials disclose in-formation to the Johnson County Sheriff ’s Office

when a student applies for a gun permit. The practice is currently suspended, following a recent Des Moines Regis-ter investigation into the practice.

UI spokesman Tom Moore said recommenda-tions to hold an applica-tion are usually based on the potential for harm to the applicant self or to others.

Records indicate Sal-ameh had prior run-ins with the law. He was charged on Sept. 11, 2010, with public intoxi-cation and assault caus-ing injury.

According to an on the Global Illumination Council website, Sala-meh is a “lifelong” Iowa City resident. He earned

an undergraduate degree from the UI in 2009 and continued as a graduate student. He was enrolled full-time at the UI this semester in mechanical engineering.

He was a UI teaching assistant for Mechani-cal Systems Design and Fluid Mechanics during the spring of 2012 and a teaching assistant for Thermal Dynamics in the fall of 2012.

According to UI web-sites, Salameh was ac-tively involved with his department, including research, presentations, and contributions to a publication with Albert Ratner, an associate pro-fessor of engineering. He is also listed as a mem-ber of one of the UI’s

men’s soccer clubs as well as a 2007 Hawkeye Motorsports group.

According to an Asso-ciated Press interview with doctoral student Mohsen Ghamari, Sal-ameh was doing “a very good job” with his teach-ing assistant position, was always on time, and “adored” his daughter.

Ghamari shared an of-fice with Salameh, and although he said Sal-ameh quit school for a semester after suffering from depression, he de-scribed his colleague as smart and friendly.

“As far as I know, he was a fine guy,” Ghamari told the Associated Press. “I’m shocked.”

According to his Glob-al Illumination Council

profile, Salameh was al-so interested in garden-ing, quantum mechanics, and spirituality.

“I am Taleb. I was born in Iowa City, Iowa,” he wrote on his profile page. “I have lived here my en-tire life. I am currently finishing my master’s in mechanical engineer-ing. I have a beautiful 7-month-old daughter. I’ll leave it at that for now.”

tate developer Marc Moen to their cities.

“I think every city is very interested in its down-town’s being vital,” Moen said. “I think it’s a national trend, and it’s sustainable.”

Today, Moen’s commit-ment is evident in both the redevelopment of the Packing & Provisions and the construction of two glass towers: the 14-sto-ry Park@201 building, 114 S. Dubuque St. and the 20-story high-rise, the Chauncey, slated to be built at the intersec-tion of College and Gilbert

Streets. A starting date is pending, but the duration will be approximately 24 months plus six months for commercial space build outs.

The Iowa Coalition Against the Shadow, a group spearheaded by Io-wa City residents Jon Fog-arty and Rockne Cole, has met to discuss ways to stop the development.

“Iowa City is known for space, and we’re crowding it too much,” Iowa City res-ident Dana Thomann told the DI in a Jan. 29 article. “This building should be built to not have a shadow.”

Park@201 — set for a Nov. 1 completion — is expected to join the downtown landscape two

months after the Pack-ing & Provision Building opens in September. Com-bined, the two buildings will make for an estimated $13 million in investment; among their features in-clude the 85-seat Scene 1 cinema operated by Film-Scene,

Moen said although definitive plans for the Chauncey are still in nego-tiations with the city and Park@201 remains under construction, a number of inquiries regarding their office and residential units have recently sprouted.

“That 24-hour nature [downtown] is a big com-ponent of why it’s been so successful,” he said.

As Park@201 remains

on time and on budget, plans for the Packing & Provision have transi-tioned from a basic con-cept to a complete historic preservation, after being purchased by Moen in 2011. Despite climbing above the original $1 mil-lion budget by $300,000, Moen said, small details such as the reinstallation of original windows and cornice make the project worthwhile.

“I thought that if some-body didn’t come in and restore that building, [it] was going to decline be-yond repair and would have to come down,” Moen said. “Architecturally, the building is turning out even better than I had

hoped. So, although we’re well over budget, I am happy because we have accomplished the goals we set out to accomplish.”

Nancy Bird, the Down-town District executive director, said although the community at large debates the character of large-scale developments like the Moen Group’s, growth is a balancing act.

“Denser development provides a lower carbon footprint per capita, is cen-trally concentrated, pro-vides a mix of uses to allow people to live and work in a localized setting, and re-duces sprawl,” she wrote in an email.

City officials believe the success of Moen’s projects

have and will continue to push other developers, business owners, and prop-erty managers to reinvest in downtown.

Geoff Fruin, assistant to the Iowa City city manager said high-quality develop-ments, a new wave of pub-lic policies, and a strong relationship with the Iowa City Downtown District are the components that will push downtown for-ward.

“The reality is that all successful downtowns are different, and they have to find their niche,” he said. “There’s no cookie-cutter approach to building a suc-cessful downtown.”

Ibukunoluwa Majekodunmi works in the booth in the Main Library lot on Monday. Standard lots and ramps will likely increase by 10 cents per hour. (The Daily Iowan/ Callie Mitchell)

Ten records for three-straight years

After Iowa Athlet-ics Director Gary Barta mercifully ended Lick-lighter’s tortuous tenure and hired McCaffery in March 2010, he pro-claimed his new coach would “take a group of student-athletes and re-energize them, reen-ergize all of us.”

He was right. To put things in per-

spective, while Lickliter’s brand of ball saw his team’s top the 70-point mark a whopping seven times in Big Ten play in three years, this season’s squad equaled that mark with five games left on the conference schedule.

I’ll be the first to say I haven’t always been on the McCaffery bandwag-on. I was probably more

skeptical than anyone when it came to the hir-ing.

After the initial buzz of having a dude from Philly nicknamed “White Magic” taking over, the thoughts of missing out on former Iowa assis-tants Keno Davis and Bruce Pearl made my stomach churn. The thought of the program making the same mis-take twice consumed me. I remembered the Siena magic, but I hadn’t for-gotten the 29-win season and Sweet 16 appear-ance Lickliter had made just a year before bolting Butler for the Black and Gold.

Something that Mc-Caffery said during his introductory press con-ference did stick with me, though.

When asked about oth-er offers he had received, the new head coach as-sured fans that he had made it clear from min-

ute one that he wanted to be their coach.

In the end, it didn’t matter if the Lick-liter move was smart (it wasn’t). Iowa is still paying the former coach $800,000 for his spectac-ular 38-57 record in Iowa City.

But sometimes you have to go all in because, in reality, by telling the Iowa faithful to be patient while the program was in a free fall, the school was bluffing anyway.

When I first arrived on campus some time ago, I would read the sports section of this paper from cover to cover, but I skipped over anything to do with basketball.

Now I’m begging our editor for any chance to write about hoops. I want on this bandwagon if there is still room. Call me a fair-weather fan. That’s fine with me. I’ve suffered through this storm long enough.

pionships. A victory over Miami in the ACC title game will only seal the deal for the Dukies.

— by Jalyn Souchek

Georgetown

With the NCAA Tourna-ment nearly upon us, the discussion of who deserves a No. 1 seed is beginning. Georgetown deserves one of them. After its con-vincing victory over No. 17 Syracuse on March 9, the Hoyas earned a share of the regular-season Big East title, along with Lou-isville and Marquette. The conference has proven to be a strong one through-out recent years after sending two teams, Louis-ville and Syracuse, to the Elite Eight last year.

Georgetown finished the regular season with an im-pressive 24-5 record, 14-4 mark in the Big East. The Hoyas ended the regular season winning 12 of their final 13 games, including victories over Notre Dame, Louisville, Marquette, and Syracuse — twice. Their RPI and Basketball Power Index are good for ninth and 17th in the country, respectively. They are al-so 4-2 against top-25 RPI teams, compared with Louisville’s 3-3 record.

The Hoyas are led by sophomore Otto Porter, who is averaging 16.4 points per game along with 7.5 rebounds. Porter has emerged in the sec-ond half of the season as a candidate for the John R. Wooden Award, which is given to the nation’s best player.

The Hoyas are ranked No. 5 in the nation, just be-hind Louisville. However, a shakeup may be in the works following the Big East Tournament, which will begin today. It seems likely that the winner of that tournament will earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Look for Por-ter and the Hoyas to prove that they deserve one of them.

— by Scott Albanese

Indiana

With all five starters coming back from the school’s first Sweet 16 team in a decade, Indiana came into this season with lofty expectations. The Hoosiers have lived up to their No. 1 preseason ranking.

The spotlight has been on Indiana throughout the year, and it has delivered.

Indiana only dropped four games in the nation’s toughest conference. Three of those losses came to Illi-nois, Ohio State, and Min-nesota. All of those teams were ranked in the top 10

at some point during this season. The only other loss came at home against now No. 22 ranked Wisconsin Badgers.

While the Hoosiers ha-ven’t had any bad losses this year, they’ve had a plethora of impressive wins. The squad has six wins against teams that finished in the top ten of the season’s final top 25 rankings.

The Hoosiers are third in the country in points per game by averaging 80.8 PPG and sixth in the country with a field goal percentage of 48.8 percent. Indiana head coach Tom Crean is orchestrating one of the most efficient of-fenses in the country. To go along with that, his squad is fifth in the RPI rank-ings with the 10th hardest schedule in the country.

Indiana has made a strong case thus far to be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. A strong showing in Chicago this weekend will all but se-cure a No. 1 seed for the Hoosiers. Look for this team to make a deep tour-nament run.

— by Dominick White

Gonzaga

People may question Gonzaga’s credibility of being the No. 1 team in the land right now, but there’s no doubt whether the Zags are deserving of

a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Gonzaga is one of three teams in the country to go undefeated in confer-ence. However, the other two teams, Norfolk State and Memphis, come from leagues [the MEAC and C-USA respectively] with weaker competition than the West Coast Confer-ence, which features four teams with 20-plus wins. The MEAC and C-USA on the other hand, have four 20-win teams combined.

The Bulldogs won the games they were sup-posed to win, unlike In-diana, which lost three

games as the nation’s top team.

Zags’ two losses were to two top-15 teams at the time [Illinois and Butler]. The Butler loss came on a freak buzz-er-beater play, the other loss was to a team that won the Maui Invitation-al. For the rest of their season, the Bulldogs have won their games by an average margin of 17.4 points per game, third to only Florida and Indiana.

Gonzaga isn’t exactly new on the national land-scape, either, so don’t buy into the “mid-majors

don’t deserve high seeds” hype. Mark Few has built a program that has become a bit of a dynas-ty since 1999. His teams have won 11 of the last 12 West Coast Confer-ence regular-season ti-tles and appeared in the NCAA Tournament every year since he’s been the coach. This program is anything but a mid-ma-jor nowadays.

Kelly Olynyk and crew well deserve a No. 1 seed this year. Don’t be sur-prised if they finish the year with the No. 1 next to their name, too.

— by Kevin Glueck

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The Big Ten coaches and media announced their picks for all-conference honors on Monday, in addition to other awards, and three Hawkeyes were honored.

Devyn Marble was selected to third-team All-Big Ten by the coaches and was an honorable-mention choice by the media. The junior led the Black and Gold in scoring

with 14.1 points per game in the regular season and finished the regular season averaging 17.6 points per game over his final eight games.

Aaron White was named to third-team All-Big Ten by the media and received honor-able-mention accolades from the coaches. White was sec-ond on the team in scoring with 13.6 points per game. He led the Hawkeyes with 6.2 rebounds and 1.1 steals.

Eric May was Iowa’s recip-ient of the Big Ten Sports-

manship Award. The senior posted 4.9 points per game this season, and he averaged 6.4 points per game in his last seven contests. He also returned to the starting lineup against Illinois on March 5, his first start since last season.

Michigan’s Trey Burke was chosen as the Big Ten Player of the Year, and Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan was named the conference Coach of the Year.

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nesota, Wisconsin, Il-linois, and Iowa State are the most favorable accomplishments on the Hawkeyes’ résumé.

DI: What on the Hawkeyes’ tournament résumé hurts them the most?

Palm: All of those wins listed above were at home, and Iowa has a bad record against better teams. They also possess a bad road record (2-8) and are plagued with bad losses to Nebraska, Pur-due, and Virginia Tech. It also won’t help that they have the worst noncon-

ference schedule (308th in NCAA) the selection committee will see.

DI: Six of Iowa’s con-ference losses each came by 4 points or fewer, and the team was without Devyn Marble for the Michigan State defeat back in January. Will the tournament commit-tee take factors such as these into consideration on Selection Sunday?

Palm: For the close losses the committee doesn’t care how you lost, a loss is a loss. In the end, the tournament committee won’t ignore the loss or assume Io-wa would have won the game. With Marble’s in-jury, there won’t be much consideration either.

DI: Outside of winning the Big Ten Tournament,

what do the Hawkeyes have to do in Chicago to position themselves for a tournament bid on Selec-tion Sunday?

Palm: Nothing short of winning the champi-onship will guarantee anything. Getting to the finals after beating the best possible opponents will give them a chance at an at-large bid, but that would depend on what other teams around the country do as well.

DI: When the field of 68 is announced, do you expect the Hawkeyes to make the cut?

Palm: No, I do not ex-pect them to do enough at the Big Ten Tourna-ment to warrant an at-large selection into the NCAA Tournament.

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Jerry Palm is the resident NCAA basketball bracketologist for CBSSports.com, and he has made pre-dictions for the NCAA Tournament since 1994. He is the creator of Col-legeRPI.com and has quickly become one of the more trusted names in pre-dicting the NCAA field.

The Daily Iowan caught up with Palm to hear his thoughts on the Iowa men’s basketball team’s NCAA Tour-nament hopes.

DI: Iowa has 20 wins and went 9-9 in the best conference in America. Why, then, are the Hawkeyes current-

ly on the wrong side of the NCAA Tournament bubble?

Palm: Because teams are judged on their en-tire seasons, not just conference play. The Hawkeyes have 20 wins and went 9-9 in the Big Ten, but just playing in the best conference in the country does not go into the selec-tion committee’s considerations. You have to have the impressive wins also.

DI: What on the Hawkeyes’ tour-nament résumé is favoring them the

When Fran McCaffery became Di-vision I basketball’s youngest head coach in 1985, I doubt the Phila-delphia native thought his 28-year coaching career would include four postseason tournament appearances.

I cannot imagine McCaffery, known in his playing days as “White Magic,” thought things would get any better after watching Kenny Hasbrouck drop 30 for his Siena squad in a 21-point win over Vanderbilt in the 2008 tour-nament. That win amounted to the second-largest margin of victory for a No. 13 seed over a No. 4 seed since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. That upset was especially impressive as McCaffery’s team was picked to finish last in the MAAC just a couple years earlier in the coach’s first season.

While McCaffery was busy reeling off three-straight NCAA tournament appearances, the Hawkeyes were suf-fering through the infamous “Lick-liter years.” They hadn’t been rele-vant since winning the 2006 Big Ten Tournament.

A revolving door of player transfers, an apathetic fan base, and a coach whose game plan seemed to focus on single-handedly curing insomnia in eastern Iowa crippled a once-proud program. The talent on the floor was abysmal, to say the least. Lickliter’s teams failed to improve on their Big

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PalmNCAA basketball bracketologist

By tom closthomas-clos@uiowa.edu

Cold water on Iowa hopes

By Josh Bolanderjoshua-bolander@uiowa.edu

Magic returns to Iowa

Which teams will be given No. 1 seeds in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament? Four staffers debate.

Point/counterPoint

Q&a

dukeDuke is 18-0 with a complete line-

up. The Blue Devils have been miss-ing one of their senior leaders in for-ward Ryan Kelly.

With Kelly back to full health and senior shooting guard Seth Curry starting to come into his own, Duke is on pace to a No. 1 seed come Selec-tion Sunday.

The Blue Devils are doing every-thing right, with an offense that is seemingly unstoppable, and it couldn’t come at a better time. Kelly’s return from his 13-game injury has helped put Coach K’s squad back on the top, averaging 20 points a game since his return.

All four of Duke’s losses came when Kelly wasn’t in the lineup. The squad has since reclaimed two of those when they met up with NC State and Miami for a second time.

The third-ranked Blue Devils blew the Tar Heels out of the water with a 69-53 victory on March 9.

All that without mentioning possi-ble Player of the Year candidate se-nior forward Mason Plumlee, who has put this team on his back this season while averaging 17.2 points a game and 10.3 rebounds. He has posted 17 double-doubles.

The trio not only led the Blue Dev-ils to a No. 2 ranking in the country, but a berth in the conference cham-

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All in the feet for Hawkeye Ramos

Iowa guard Anthony Clemmons dives for a loose ball against Minnesota in Carver-Hawkeye on Feb. 17. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley)

men’s basketball calendaropening round of Big ten tournament: Thursdayround 2: Fridayround 3: Saturdaychampionship Game: March 17

iowa vs. northwesternWhere: United Center, Chicago When: 8 p.m. ThursdayWhere to Watch: eSPN2

ncaa tournament selection showWhen: 5 p.m., March 17Where to watch: CBS

By cody GoodWincody-goodwin@uiowa.edu

The scene needed no words. Ohio State’s Logan Stieber bounced up on his toes and flexed his muscles in excitement. The Ohio State contingent came un-hinged at the sight of Stie-ber’s 3-1 overtime victory to clinch a Big Ten champion-ship at 133-pounds.

Tony Ramos wasn’t look-ing, even though he was a few short feet away. He picked himself up, head hung in disappointment, shook hands with Stieber, and scampered off the mat and down into the tunnel of Assembly Hall. One of his season-long goals — beat-ing Stieber, the defending 133-pound NCAA champion — remains just that: an un-achieved goal.

“I let him get in too deep,” Ramos said. “I was fighting, went for the bear hug, tried to go in for the last resort and throw him. It didn’t work.”

Iowa’s 133-pounder wait-ed for that matchup since Jan. 4, when the Buckeyes visited Carver-Hawkeye Arena. At that time, Stie-ber sat out of the dual with what seemed to be an undis-closed injury from Decem-ber’s Grapple at the Garden.

The time finally came on Sunday afternoon, and Ramos proved to the wres-tling world that he has, in fact, bridged the distance between the two. It took an extra period, and a bear-hug of a takedown, for Stie-ber to close out an intense battle.

“Every match [against Ra-mos] has been tough,” Stie-ber said. “They’re all differ-ent, but they’re really tough. And they’re fun.”

Stieber’s words ring true. The Monroeville, Ohio, prod-uct’s first match with Ramos was a lopsided 7-0 victory. Ramos came closer in their next bout, but Stieber still won, 5-2. The NCAA semifi-nals were their third match of the 2011-12 season, and Stieber came away with a 4-2 win.

Ramos has slowly im-proved with each match, and it showed during Sun-day’s Big Ten title bout. His inability to get out from bottom was silenced when

Ramos took little time to score a 1-point escape in the second period. The Hawkeye junior also did a better job riding Stieber, holding him down for nearly 30 seconds before the Buckeye scored the equalizer.

The difference this time, perhaps, was Ramos’s in-ability to score while on his feet. This was a struggle for Ramos even in his semifinal match against Wisconsin’s Tyler Graff. Ramos scored off of a reshot to win that one, 3-1. That carried over to his finals match, where he didn’t seem to fully com-mit to the legs for a full-on shot.

“Ramos has to be going

to Stieber,” Iowa head wres-tling coach Tom Brands said. “Stieber got to us twice. We’ve got to get to those guys. He’s shown he can do that. We know he can do that. He’s shown it.”

Ramos, though seemingly down on low spirits while being interviewed after the match, remains positive, and he looks forward to a potential rematch in Des Moines just two weeks away. More will be at stake that time around, though.

Should the two meet up again, it will likely be for an NCAA championship.

“I get closer every time,” Ramos said. Now, I’ve got two weeks to get it right.”

Iowa 133-pounder Tony Ramos stares down Ohio State’s Logan Stieber before their Big Ten championship final at Assembly Hall in Champaign, Ill., on Sunday. Stieber won by decision in overtime, 3-1. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)

Top seeds?

Tony Ramos needs be more explosive on his feet in order to beat Ohio State’s Logan Stieber.

The Daily Iowan spoke with CBS Sports bracketologist Jerry Palm about Iowa basketball’s hopes of making the NCAA Tournament.

Fran McCaffery’s predecessors left much to be desired in Hawkeye basketball country.

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