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By Megan [email protected]
A man wakes up around 5 a.m. to turn on the coffeemaker and get on the Internet. He surfs the web, flips through the channels on the TV, and has his first cup of coffee for the day.
This is the morning routine for 33-year-old Phil Steffensmeier, a life-long citizen of Iowa City who is current-ly unemployed — in large part because, as do 1 percent of the world’s people, he
suffers from bipolar disorder. Mental illness can be hard to diag-
nose, and sometimes as a result, pa-tients initially receive incorrect diag-noses. Local psychiatrist Christopher Okiishi said that over time, methods of diagnosing mental illness have not really changed. The method doctors use is a patient interview detailing her or his life and medical history.
Phil was one person who began
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One in FiveThis is the second in a three-part series featuring three individuals who battle mental illness. The series delves into three mental illnesses — major depression, bipolar 1, and schizophrenia. One in five people suffer from mental illness around the nation.
Monday: Haley LynchToday: Phil SteffensmeierWednesday: Margalea Warner
One In FIve
Coming through the bias
A lifelong Iowa City resident fights the stigma against mental illness.
Phil Steffensmeier sits on his lazy boy in his living room on Monday. Steffensmeier was diagnosed with bipolar I when he was in college. (The Daily Iowan/Callie Mitchell)
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By DanIeL [email protected]
Officials are taking a community-based ap-proach to redesigning attendance areas for the Iowa City School District.
“What I think is im-portant is that we involve people in a solution-based way,” said School Board member Chris Lynch. “The community input has definitely been very influential in the options.”
The district kicked
off the Attendance Area Development process in March, and it is set to cont inue for several years. The p r o c e s s aims to re-design the areas the district ’s s c h o o l s d r a w from. Offi-cials provided an update on the process at a joint meeting on Monday with
representatives from the Iowa City and Johnson County governments.
The first districts offi-cials are examining are cluster one, cluster two, and the secondary cluster. These districts encom-pass all the junior-high schools, City High and West High, and 14 of the 22 elementary schools, in-cluding the new schools.
Planning for these three clusters will be fin-
By BrenT [email protected]
The Iowa Senate passed a bill banning sales of electronic ciga-rettes to minors on Mon-day night as both houses near the close of the leg-islative session.
The amended bill would ban all electronic cigarettes or vapor prod-ucts — including those with nicotine or candy flavors — for anyone un-der 18 years old.
The measure passed 37-12, but Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, was disap-pointed it did not do more in curtailing f u r t h e r questions about the i n c r e a s -ingly prev-alent tech-nology.
The four-term Demo-crat said a ban on vend-ing-machine sales, two-
for-one coupons, and the ability for counties to go beyond state law were all in the bill.
B u t with leg-i s l a t o r s trying to close the session as early as today, the s u p p o r t for those items was not there,
District studies attendance Senate moves on e-cigsIowa City School District officials are focusing on attendance area development to prepare for new schools.
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LynchSchool Board member
A bill passed by the Iowa Senate on Monday night would limit who may and may not obtain electronic cigarettes.
Bolkcomsenator
Johnsonsenator
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Students prepare for finals at the Java House on Monday. The first Java House was established in Prarie Lights in 1994. (The Daily Iowan/Rachael Westergard)
Claire Anderson, 18, Pella, Iowa, was charged April 19 with presence in a bar after hours.Jack Barbash, 19, 934 Rienow, was charged April 18 with possession/supply of alcohol under the legal age.Joseph Baxter, 28, North Liberty, was charged April 19 with public urination.George Bickford, 47, Wellman, Iowa, was charged April 26 with taxi violations.Kyle Blacker, 20, 630 N. Dubuque, was charged April 18 with possession/sup-ply of alcohol under the legal age.Nadjib Bourahla, 20, Mount Vernon, Iowa, was charged Sunday with public intoxication.Samuel Brown, 19, 2260 Abbey Lane, was charged April 18 with possession/supply of alcohol under the legal age.Cody Casanova, 21, North English, Iowa, was charged April 13 with OWI.James Davis, 56, 1317 Franklin St., was charged Sunday with OWI.Patrick Dieleman, 20, 406 S. Gilbert St. Apt. 917, was charged April 19 with possession/supply of alcohol under the legal age.Lauren Foss, 19, 3301 Burge, was charged April 12 with presence in a bar after hours.Jaguar Fresquez, 20, Albuquerque, N.M., was charged Sunday with crim-inal trespass.Ethan Grogan, 18, Morris, Ill., was charged Sunday with possession of marijuana and carrying a concealed dangerous weapon.Matthew Gurule, 22, 36 Jema Court, was charged April 19 with public urination.Ashley Hawkins, 19, Solon, was charged April 12 with presence in a bar after hours.Manuel Hernandez, 19, 2100 S. Scott Blvd. Lot 43, was charged Sun-day with public intoxication.Natalie Hull, 32, Cedar Rapids, was charged April 16 with being a habit-ual offender.
Lisa Imhoff, 19, 732 E. Jefferson St., was charged April 20 with public intoxica-tion and presence in a bar after hours.Garrett Jerkovich, 19, 2332 Burge, was charged April 23 with criminal trespass and public intoxication.Terrance Jones Jr., 21, Maywood, Ill., was charged Sunday with possession of marijuana and carrying a concealed dangerous weapon. Beau Laughridge, 33, Cedar Rapids, was charged April 11 with public intox-ication, possession of a controlled sub-stance, interference with official acts, and possession of drug paraphernalia.Kyle Lavelle, 22, 420 N. Clinton St., was charged April 18 with public intoxication.Amanda Matthews, 19, 3303 Burge, was charged April 25 with PAULA.Benjamin McElroy, 20, 406 S. Gilbert St. Apt. 917, was charged April 19 with presence in a bar after hours.Daniel Mohler, 20, 630 N. Dubuque St., was charged April 18 with possession/supply of alcohol under the legal age.Ashley Montaez, 18, Arlington Heights, Ill., was charged April 25 with PAULA.Thomas Noyce, 20, 929 Iowa Ave. Apt. 15, was charged April 26 with public intoxication and unlawful use of au-thentic driver’s license/ID of another. Michael Parysz, 23, Lawrenceville, N.J., was charged April 25 with public intoxication.Patrick Parysz, 20, 520 S. Dubuque St., was charged April 25 with disorderly conduct and public intoxication.Ashlee Peavler, 26, 1006 Cambria Court, was charged April 25 with sale of an alcoholic beverage to a minor.Bradley Pector, 19, 29 W. Burlington St. Apt. 209, was charged April 26 with fifth-degree theft.Andrew Pfeiffer, 26, Sterling, Ill., was charged April 11 with possessing an open container of alcohol in a vehicle.
Alex Preston, 20, 1136 N. Dubuque St. Apt. 7, was charged April 25 with unlawful use of an authentic driver’s license/ID of another.Rajko Pucar, 21, 115 N. Lucas St., was charged April 25 with keeping a dis-orderly house.Jorge Ramos de Jesus, 18, 635C Mayflower, was charged April 22 with public intoxication.Michael Randolph, 22, 730 Bowery St., was charged April 19 with public urination.Jasmine Rayfield, 25, Chicago, was charged April 20 with public intoxi-cation and obstructing an officer.Corinne Rhode, 20, 625 S. Clinton St. Apt. 2, was charged April 12 with presence in a bar after hours.Rickie Roberts, 35, address un-known, was charged April 18 with criminal trespass. Conner Russell, 20, 311 Ronalds St., was charged April 26 with keeping a disorderly house. Yolanda Sanchez, 19, 803 Stanley, was charged April 20 with presence in a bar after hours. Dana Schmuecker, 18, 1227 Quad, was charged Sunday with PAULA.Max Seifert, 20, 311 Ronalds St., was charged April 26 with keeping a dis-orderly house.Damian Sheerin, 25, Derry, Ireland, was charged April 26 with public intoxication.Anthony Sleiman, 18, N327 Hillcrest, was charged April 22 with public intoxication.Tia Soupene, 19, Anamosa, Iowa, was charged April 26 with PAULA.Alexander Staudt, 20, E240 Currier, was charged April 12 with public intoxication.Andrew Studer, 19, 2242 Quadrangle, was charged April 12 with public intoxi-cation and interference with official acts.Zackery Tobar, 22, address un-known, was charged April 25 with criminal trespass.
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While one study revealed e-books may cause problems with retention, university students, faculty, and staff just can’t get enough.
E-books’ benefits questioned
By lily [email protected]
Having knowledge and informa-tion at the tip of your fingertips at all times may be convenient, but two researchers have found some technology, such as e-books, may cause problems.
When the e-book fad hit college campuses, Jordan and Heather Schugar caught on.
Piqued by their interest in the unique technology, the couple de-cided to take a look at how e-books affected students’ learning and reading comprehension.
After years of research, the re-sults of their study came out ear-lier this month to reveal that the technology may not be as benefi-cial to students as some original-ly had thought.
“We found that the quality of the book is going to affect the compre-hension,” Jordan Schugar, an in-structor at West Chester Universi-ty of Pennsylvania. “These devices [are] bringing to life some complex learning experiences that have been kind of static before.”
The study, using middle-school students, consisted of numerous reading tests based on interactions with the e-books.
Taking into consideration videos, pop-ups, and graphics, the Schugars found that these additions are ei-ther very helpful or detrimental.
Jordan Schugar said the most important outcome of the study is to aid people in learning to under-
stand how to use e-books effectively. “Certainly, these things are con-
venient, and technology always provides motivation for students to participate,” he said. “These e-books make it a little easier to do that, but you have to understand how these are in different environments.”
John Achrazoglou, the chief tech-nology officer in the University of Iowa College of Education, said the development of this technology will improve how it affects students.
“I think you have to look at how it is used,” he said. “Digital text can break down barriers between a lot of learners and the materials they have to learn.”
In order to do this, he said, pro-fessors must first learn how to har-ness the new technology to be the most helpful.
“I think as time goes on, as stu-dents expect more and more to be on their touch devices, and as e-books develop, it’s very import-ant that teachers understand how to use them,” he said. “Things are changing, and as e-books catch up to students and faculty … I think the e-book is going to change the way it is interfacing with students.”
A librarian who works closely with e-books said this process is starting to take hold at the UI.
“There is actually a huge demand for that,” said Karen Fischer, a UI collections analysis librarian. “They are hugely popular. We own tens of thousands of them, and we find a lot of use for those.”
Fischer said although she herself
understands the problems with re-tention that arise from e-books, she has not seen it at the UI. In fact, she said, she has noticed an increase in the number of students taking ad-vantage of the technology, especial-ly in the health sciences.
“E-books are used very heavily because doctors and scientists are just going in to look up a chapter or to cite medical information, and then they get out,” she said. “How patrons use them varies a lot de-pending on their field of study.”
Jordan Schugar said it will be in-teresting to see how the use evolves at the college level.
“It certainly puts more immedi-ate knowledge in the hands of stu-dents,” he said. “It’s almost sort of revolutionary. These things are sort of new, so it’ll take some time for it to trickle down. They’ll become more affordable, more acceptable, more ubiquitous in education.”
e-booksA recent study found that e-books in classrooms may cause problems with reading retention and comprehension.• In 2012, adult trade e-books raked in $1.25 billion.• In 2013, the sales reached $1.3 billion.• Of the total number of adult trade sales, e-books made up 23 percent in 2012.• E-books now account for 27 percent of all adult trade sales.
Source: Digital World Book website
By ADRIAN SAINZ and JEFF AMYAssociated Press
TUPELO, Miss. — Tor-nadoes flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and bent telephone poles into 45-degree angles as they barreled through the South on Monday, killing at least nine people and unleashing severe thun-derstorms, damaging hail, and flash floods.
Tens of thousands of customers were without power in Alabama, Ken-tucky, and Mississippi, and thousands more hunkered down in basements and shelters as the National Weather Service issued watches and warnings for more tornadoes through-out the night in Alabama.
Weather satellites from
space showed tumultuous clouds arcing across much of the South.
The system is the latest onslaught of severe weather a day after a half-mile-wide tornado carved an 80-mile path of destruction through the suburbs of Little Rock, Ark., killing at least 16. Tor-nadoes also killed one per-son each in Oklahoma and Iowa on Sunday.
Emergency officials at-tending a late-night news conference with Mississippi Gov. Gov. Phil Bryant said up to seven people have been reported killed. State Director of Health Protec-tion Jim Craig said officials are working with coroners to confirm the total.
One of those deaths in-volved a woman who was killed when her car either hydroplaned or was blown
off a road during the storm in Verona, south of Tupelo, said Lee County Coroner Carolyn Gillentine Green.
In northern Alabama, the coroner’s office con-firmed two deaths Monday in a twister that caused ex-tensive damage west of the city of Athens, said Lime-stone County Emergency Director Rita White. White said more victims could be trapped in the wreckage of damaged buildings, but rescuers could not reach some areas because of downed power lines.
Separately, Limestone Commissioner Bill Latim-er said he received reports of four deaths in the coun-ty from one of his workers. Neither the governor’s of-fice nor state emergency officials could immediately confirm those deaths.
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ished this spring, though the new plan will not be implemented until the be-ginning of the 2015-16 aca-demic year.
One objective of the re-districting is to make ev-ery inch of space count, said board member Tuyet Dorau.
“One of the goals is to uti-lize our space as efficiently
as possible,” she said. “The redistricting is looking at the attendance areas of the ex-isting schools and … making sure that we have redrawn the boundaries so that we have students utilizing the spaces in [our] new schools.”
The new schools — in-cluding three new ele-mentary schools and one new high school — are part of the district’s Facil-ities Master Plan, which outlines various improve-ments to the district for the next 10 years.
The first new school, South Elementary, is set to open in the fall of 2015; it will cost roughly $14 mil-lion. East Elementary will open in 2017 and will cost roughly $14 million. The new North High School will also open in 2017 and will cost roughly $63 mil-lion. North Elementary will open in 2019 and will cost roughly $14 million.
Superintendent Steve Murley said the redistrict-ing would help account for the growing district.
“One of the lessons learned as we’ve gone through building schools is to do a better job uti-lizing community space,” he said. “We’re a growing School District.”
The new schools will help hold some of the overflow at the district’s current buildings. One way this will be done is by using the new schools as transitional facilities for current students.
“We’re actually go-ing to move the entire
school, everything from the students to the staff, out to that East Side school,” he said. “We’ll be able to use the east side elementary school to do that for two years.”
Lynch said it is im-perative that the short-term redistricting goals match the long-term fa-cilities plan.
“I think we need to make sure that all the plans are in sync,” he said. “One of the things we’ll be looking for is looking at how the current
recommendations fit with the long-term plan.”attENdaNcE
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School District Redistrictingthe iowa City School district is redistricting to prepare for the construction of new schools.• South Elementary will open in the fall of 2015.• East Elementary and North High will open in the fall of 2017.• North Elementary will open in the fall of 2019.
Tornadoes rage across South; death toll rises
Hunter Allred attempts to coax out a cat underneath a home along Clayton Avenue in Tupelo, Miss., on Monday. Allred was helping the home’s owner who had returned looking for pets after a severe weather system blew through the South. (Associated Press/Commercial Appeal, Brad Vest)
said Sen. David Johnson, R-Ocheyedan.
Johnson said he especial-
ly was opposed to allowing city and/or counties to im-pose more stringent actions, which would “open a door of unintended consequences.”
The Republican has worked with the bill when it first came over
from the House. He pre-dicted his fellow Repub-licans would not support the bill that Bolkcom wanted. The bill will now return to the Republi-can-controlled House.
Both Johnson and Bolk-
com concurred that the federal government’s an-nouncement last week did not mean Iowa should not act now because the process could take a couple of years.
The Food and Drug Administration classi-
fied e-cigarettes under existing federal law on April 24, which allowed it to propose a host of changes to how the nic-otine-carrying cylinders are regulated.
Those changes include
banning sales to minors and requiring customers to show IDs, requiring health warnings on pack-ages, and requiring man-ufacturers to register with the FDA and report prod-uct and ingredient lists.
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“Ma’am, the helicop-ter is about to leave. Where do you want it to go?” asked the officer.
“It needs to go to Iowa City. She needs to go to the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital now,” I said. And with that, a 4,000-pound bird took our 30-pound daughter to the place that could help her.
Our daughter, Paetra, was born at UI Hospi-tals and Clinics in Sep-tember 2009. Our great-est worry was whether her actual arrival date would conflict with a home football game. We came home shortly af-ter her birth and began celebrating her arrival with family.
“She won’t sit on her own.” At about six months, it was becom-
ing noticeable that she was missing milestones and her head was not growing. Switching to a new pediatrician, we were told that our daughter could be intellectually disabled. We were referred to the Department of Neurol-ogy at the UI Chil-dren’s Hospital, and within days, we had an appointment. We have added to that list doc-tors we see in genetics, ophthalmology, otolar-yngology, orthopedics, pulmonology, rheuma-tology, and endocrinolo-gy. We have done sleep studies and visited the UI Center for Disabil-ities and Development for evaluations.
Paetra’s first heli-copter ride was when she was 2 — she was
having a seizure and was turning blue in her car seat. It is amaz-ing to us that all of this care — at such an incredible, high level of expertise — is right in our backyard. Right here in Iowa City.
“Look, she’s standing.” At this past February checkup, she stood on the scale by herself. Our 4-year-old daughter continues to develop since that first visit with neurology. She has been diagnosed with mi-crocephaly (small head), epilepsy, laryngomala-cia — and those are just a few. We don’t have a syndrome that labels what she has, but we do have a club. The UI Children’s Hospital is our club, and we are so proud to support it with
our own personal gifts, gifts from family and friends through Ladies Football Academy, and we are having it written into our will.
Though we don’t know what Paetra has, we do know who she has. She has a legion of supporters. Every-one who donates to the Children’s Hospital is on her team. Their generosity makes this extraordinary facility feel like home. Phil is the champion for our daughter and for everyone who visits UI Children’s Hospital. Phil gives us wings.
Charlene Sauer, (2000 B.A.)http://www.givetoiowa.
org/lfa/paetra10kChief Life OfficerShell Rock, Iowa
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
Phil Gives You Wings
A lot has been made recently (not to be mired in the passive voice or any-thing, although there are worse things to be mired in) about comments by LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling and Nevada ranch-er Cliven Bundy.
That lot has been made (he said, passively, passive-ly) because the comments of Sterling and Bundy (talk about unfortunate surnames) seemed racist or, at the very least, hard-core bigoted.
(Perhaps that’s soft-core bigoted. I’m never sure where the dividing line between hard-core and soft-core is located. Google maps can’t seem to find it.)
Sterling, famously or infamously, reportedly told his girlfriend (who is appar-ently of Mexican heritage) that she shouldn’t consort with African Americans, at least not at Clippers’ games, and Bundy, who apparently believes the federal gov-ernment is a foreign power, probably from socialist Europe, thinks that African Americans were better off under slavery.
Yeah. In a post-racial society such as post-modern America, those comments drew a lot of contempt and disdain.
Except, of course, Amer-ica is about as post-racial as it is still located near the equator. (As it was, say, 350 million years ago, or so. A million years in geo-logical time is akin to one of our lost minutes. Trust me; human beings lose minutes. Where they go is anybody’s guess. The rings of Saturn, maybe.)
Which is curious to me, because I believe there’s only one race, so you can’t be post-racial any more than you can be racist.
(Yeah, I know; nobody but my friend Jason [who is from Harlem, not that it matters, really] and some scientists believe that.)
Anyway, according to an
Elgin Baylor lawsuit (that’s the great Elgin Baylor, by the way, an extraordinarily great star for the Los Ange-les Lakers, and I say that as a Celtics’ fan), Sterling used to bring his girlfriends into the Clippers’ locker room so the women could watch the naked black players shower after the games.
Can we say plantation here?
Yeah, I think we can. (And Baylor himself described the Clippers as a plantation. Just saying.)
And that’s not to put anything on the players; it’s all on Sterling. And his pre-dilection for 20-something girlfriends. One wonders what his wife thinks, given that Sterling looks as if he’s a couple hundred years old.
I don’t want to say Ster-ling looks like a toad, be-cause I don’t want to insult the toads of America.
Or the toads of the world, for that matter.
Although, if you truly wanted to protest Ster-ling’s comments, you could toss a cream pie in his face. It would make your point, it wouldn’t hurt (much) physically, and it would improve his looks.
I don’t know what you do about Bundy, except to point out that he has spent a whole lot of his life looking at the south end of a bunch of north-bound cows.
And note that there is Neanderthal DNA in many humans. Nowhere is it more expressed than in the comments of Bundy and Sterling.
Not to put down Nean-derthals or anything. But they’re only around these days in our DNA. Interest-ingly enough, sub-Saharan Africans don’t seem to have any of that DNA. Just saying.
And yes, I know, it’s all the rage (which used to mean something else, back in the days of danc-ing with PEDs) these days to say we don’t need any more affirmative action. African Amercians are doing just fine, thank-you very much, and whites are being hurt because of affirmative action.
So what we need is more negative nonaction.
Bundy and Sterling applaud you.
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The Iowa Senate, in a move that could be gauged as courageous only by the dread-fully low standards of Iowa’s (or for that
matter, America’s) politics, passed a bill that decriminalized cannabis oil for use in the treat-ment of epilepsy.
Reading the quotes from state legislators ex-plaining their decision could be compiled as a primer for why people hate politicians. Jeff Dan-ielson, D-Cedar Falls, who eventually voted to support the legislation, said it was a “very hard vote for him.” Sen. Nancy Boettger, R-Harlan, expressed concerned for children with epilepsy who could be helped by the drug but was wor-ried that the law could lead to the horrible crime of giving pot to teenagers.
First of all, voting for this bill should not have been difficult in any way, shape, or form. Not when 81 percent of Iowans support the legaliza-tion of medical marijuana in all circumstances. To say otherwise is to engage in an exercise of self-flattery that is odious even by the standards of politicians.
However, we believe that the whole practice of the legalization of medical marijuana is moot when the fact remains that the only acceptable and practical attitude that governments should take toward marijuana is complete legalization for both recreational and medicinal use.
While the case for marijuana legalization has been hashed out so many times by annoying un-dergraduates to the point of cliché, it does not mean the rationale is any less compelling. While the claim that marijuana has no adverse health effects is certainly suspect (in fact, a recent study published by the American Heart Associa-tion shows that marijuana use may be linked to heart problems), marijuana has been shown to be less detrimental than alcohol and is certainly less addictive than heroin, cocaine, alcohol, nic-otine, and even caffeine.
However, more convincing than the somewhat unclear nature of marijuana’s health effects
has been the egregious damage that the War on Drugs has inflicted on the body politic of Ameri-can society: the skyrocketing costs of fighting an unwinnable war on drug kingpins, amounting to around $40 billion a year, the country’s mount-ing incarceration rate driven by drug arrests on nonviolent offenders (there are now more peo-ple in U.S. prisons than in Stalin’s gulags), or the destruction of the socio-political stability of Latin American countries whose criminals have used the riches made off U.S. drug demands to poison their countries’ infrastructure through political corruption.
Not to mention the degradation of the Amer-ican legal system, whose enforcement of unen-forceable laws has only led to a corrupt, bifurcat-ed system of justice that, naturally considering the history of American racial politics, locks up black and Latino drug offenders at a higher rate than their white counterparts. This legal messis especially true in Iowa, where the 8-1 black to white incarceration disparity is the highest in the country.
At every level, the prohibition of marijuana that sits at the center of Drug War policy has simply debased every aspect of American politi-cal and legal culture. And yet Iowa senators are lamenting how hard it is for them to vote on an extremely mild liberalization of the state’s drug laws. If these senators actually wanted to do make a difficult decision, they would ultimately legalize recreational marijuana despite its un-popularity (55 percent of Iowans oppose this) and do the moral thing of ending the madness of prohibition.
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New pot laws not enough
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Lyness for country attorney
On June 3, I will vote for Janet Lyness for Johnson County county attorney.
Why? Because Janet Lyness knows
that the county attorney cannot pick and choose which laws to enforce and which ones to ignore.
She knows that if people want the laws changed, they must petition their legislators to change the laws. The legislators have the power to change the law, not the county attorney.
Janet Lyness will not turn her back on the laws she doesn’t like. She took an oath to uphold all the laws. She can’t and she won’t prosecute only the laws she
likes. She will make an informed, educated, experienced decision about whether a prosecution should go forward based on the facts and the law as set forth by the state Legislature. She has the good judgment and professional-ism to decide whether charges are appropriate.
I trust her judgment. If the charges are appropriate, Janet
Lyness has no choice but to move forward. If you don’t like the law, tell the people in Des Moines to change it. Otherwise, let the county attorney do her job. And your vote on June 3 will allow Janet Lyness to continue to do the exceptional work she has done for all of us.
Pat HarneyJohnson County Supervisor
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Local mobile food vendors present their case
By Kaitlin [email protected]
From traditional hot dogs to fresh-ly prepared burritos, mobile vending is a popular trend that lacks the space in downtown Iowa City to match its growth.
Community members were given the opportunity to express their concerns about mobile vending Monday night at a forum that followed the screening of the film Food Truck Wars.
The event was held by the Mobile Vending Association of Iowa City in order to address the worries of local business owners and the Iowa City City Council. Some of these issues include the compe-tition, congestion, safety, and space avail-ability associated with mobile vending.
In addition, the association sought to promote and expand local vending in a way that will enhance downtown with-out compromising it.
“We want to show people that mo-bile vending is an incredible asset to the community,” Local Burrito founder Kyle Sieck said.
The film uncovers a story of how food trucks improved a California town’s economic and community vitality as a whole. The association chose this film to show people the positive effect mo-bile vending can have on Iowa City.
Sieck said this type of vending en-courages more shopping in businesses, supports entrepreneurs, assists local food production, and generates reve-nue for Iowa City in taxes and permits.
The biggest obstacle local mobile vendors face is limited access to pub-lic property for vending downtown. The current ordinance allows only six food carts on the Pedestrian Mall, and these permits are reviewed only once every three years — meaning any other mo-bile vendors who want to sell their food in the area are out of luck.
Rockne Cole, a member of the Mobile Vending Association of Iowa City, said there are some out-of-date ideas about mobile vending’s potential.
Cole said the industry as a whole has taken off in the last five to 10 years as a way to promote all types of ethnic and organic food and to bring food di-versity to the culinary scene.
“If mobile vending is done right, it can promote a culture of entrepreneurship and ethnic foods,” he said. “These are es-sential to the downtown environment.”
According to the National Restaurant
Association, there is an increasing de-mand, particularly among people ages 18 to 44, for freshly prepared, restau-rant-quality food that can be obtained quickly at a low cost. The report also states that consumer interest in visiting a food truck has “increased significantly.”
Sieck said a key element to good vend-ing locations is foot traffic, which is why the Pedestrian Mall is a prime spot for mo-bile vendors. He said he wants to expand mobile vending through additional per-mits to the Pedestrian Mall, city streets, and city-owned parking lots.
“Mobile vending supports a dynamic street life,” Sieck said. “It brings food to places and times of the day where food isn't available.”
City officials recently denied local food vendor Anthony Browne’s permit applica-tion. Browne, the owner of Hillery’s Bar-becue, said he hopes residents will gain an understanding of mobile vending and how it benefits modern communities.
“Mobile vending creates a modern and vibrant ambiance,” he said. “It adds an entertainment character to otherwise bland streetscapes.”
The food truck for La Michoacana sits next to the restaurant on Sunday. La Michoacana now solely serves from its location in Iowa City. (The Daily Iowan/Rachael Westergard)
One local group is working to expand mobile vending through a film screening.
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increasingly apparent signs
that Robin might need a therapist• “Holy buckets of pudding,
Batman.”• “Holy tears of a clown,
Batman.”• “Holy ominous rain clouds that never seem to let me be,
Batman.”• “Holy repressed memories
of witnessing my parents’ death, Batman.”
• “Holy seriously, Batman, do you ever cry deep into
the night, only to finally fall asleep out of exhaustion on your salt-stained pillows?”
• “Holy wingless angels who cry never-ending streams of
blood, Batman.”• “Holy cow, have you ever noticed how much Barbara
Gordon looks like my mother, Batman?”
• “Holy … holy hell, Batman. Why are we even here? I mean, does what we do in
Gotham even make a lick of difference? I … I’m just not sure that it does. I need a
stiff drink, Bruce.”• “Holy put a sock in it,
Bruce. What do you care if people know you’re Batman?
Bruce Wayne is Batman. BRUCE WAYNE is BAT-
MAN. Ha. Now it’s out there. Just try getting it back.”
• “Holy crap, Batman. I’m going back to bed. Wake me up when something — any-thing — matters. ALFRED.?
Where’s my Scotch.?”
andrew R. Juhl thanks Brian Tanner
for the material in today’s Ledge.
the ledgeThis column reflects the opinion of the author and not the DI Editorial Board, the Publisher, Student Publica-tions Inc., or the University of Iowa.
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after Rice, Wheat or Corn
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hair17 WIth 57-Across,
a die-hard’s statement
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21 TV’s “___ Edition”
22 In a mischievous manner
25 Smucker’s container
26 President pro ___
27 Hit that proves 17-/57-Across
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6 Sean Connery, for one
7 Mauna Kea emission
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words12 Skip, like the
H’s in “’enry ’iggins”
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Assembly participant, for short
22 Baselessly off-base?
23 Capital of Morocco
24 The Arctic, for one
25 Pedometer wearer, maybe
28 Roxie in “Chicago,” e.g.
29 1/24 of un jour30 Shakespeare
character who says “I have set my life upon a cast”
34 Certain sorority woman
35 Setting for Scheherazade
38 Personify40 Suspect, in
police lingo42 Certain
bacteria-fighting drug
46 Pleasingly plump
47 Strand, in a way
48 Aperture setting
49 Yellowish hue
50 Shake hands with, say
54 ETs pilot them
55 Pro ___ distribution
56 Big wheel in the cheese world?
58 Online chuckle
59 Pester
60 Test for future Ph.D.’s
61 Moldavia, e.g.: Abbr.
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with a different diagnosis than he has today.
At age 15, he was initial-ly diagnosed with major depressive disorder, a con-dition, he says now, that left him suicidal. The diag-nosis stuck throughout his teenage years. But when he began studying at Luther College, things changed.
“I started feel-ing very weird — very weird,” he said. Phil believed his moods were changing se-verely and thought it may be a sign of depression, but at the same time, he knew he was not depressed and didn’t under-stand what was hap-pening.
When Phil went to his academic adviser, the ad-viser was unsure what to do to help. He left his dorm room and headed home to Iowa City to his parents’ house, where things got worse.
“When I was home, that’s when I had my first full-blown manic episode, and that required hos-pitalization,” he said. “I was awake for a week straight.”
When he ex-perienced that first manic ep-isode, he said, his behavior was “inexpli-cable.” His illness even prompted him to break into City High.
“All I wanted to do was go ex-ercise,” he said. “I thought it was a public building, and therefore, it ought to be open to the public. It did not occur to me that it [was] a Sunday morning and I, a former student, had no right to be there whatsoever. At the time, it just totally made sense to me.”
He has been struggling with trying to identify what his actions should be classified as. He doesn’t believe they are illog-ical, but they are irrational.
“There’s an u n d e r l y i n g logic to every-thing I do,” he said. “The problem is that logic is flawed. I take things that are not truths, and I accept them as truths.”
M e d i c a t i n g Phil’s illness has not been easy; he’s been through approximately 40 different psychiatric medications. Although he fully follows his medica-tions, he still hasn’t found a panacea: something that negates the mood swings entirely.
“The medication is not just a ‘cure-all,’ ” he said.
Phil has experienced a number of side effects with medications — weight gains, trem-ors and shakes, anxiety, extreme sedation, dry mouth and eyes, impo-tence under one drug, stomach dis-comfort, with-drawal if not taken on time, mania, elevat-ed risk of sei-zures, and even extreme sensitivity to grapefruit.
Jess Fiedorowicz, a University of Iowa associ-ate professor of psychiatry whose specialty is bipo-lar disorder, said trying to find the right medicine for patients is often a tri-al-and-error process. He said doctors are working to combat this in a variety of ways.
“One direction is trying to better classify these conditions,” he said. “If we
can identify subtypes … and clearly defined sub-groups, we can develop better treatment.”
In battling his mental illness, Phil has become a large contributor to the National Alliance on Mental Illness of John-son County. He serves on the organization’s board,
and he surpassed $1,000 in fundraising for the group’s annual walk, which took place April 26.
One piece of hope for those who suffer from bi-polar disorder is increas-
ing their d a i l y routines and self-disci-pline. Fiedorowicz said social-rhythm therapy, which encourages just that, has proved to work in the prevention of episodes.
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aged to find a unique way that helped him with those struggles — his dog, Mikey.
“Things were a lot eas-ier when I had a dog,” he said. “ I t
was some- thing to get up for in the morning. It gave me a set time I had to come home to feed him dinner, and it allowed me time for myself to eat din-ner.”
Mikey passed away at the end of last year. That was hard for Phil, because Mikey, a bichon-poodle
mix, helped to keep him on a schedule.
This summer, Phil plans to adopt a dog from an an-imal shelter.
Although he is unem-ployed, he has held a dozen or so jobs. He’s worked for a debt-collection agency, a vacuum-cleaner repair shop, hardware stores, a gas station, a concrete factory, and a moving com-pany. In college, he did
lights and sound for the Theater Depart-
ment.But because of
the perfection-ism, guilt, and d e p r e s s i o n his illness has caused, he was unable to keep a job for long. He has been on dis-
ability for five years, but he
hopes for this to change soon.“I’ve been looking
at jobs at Goodwill,” he said. “I would really like to get involved with that organization. I believe strongly in their mission. They do an exceptional job of employing disabled people. I haven’t given up on working, [and] I don’t think I’ll ever give up on working.”
In terms of schooling, Phil is about halfway
done with five differ-ent degrees: biology,
chemistry, eco-nomics, finance, and accounting. He spent two years at the University of Iowa, a year and a half at Kirkwood C o m m u n i t y College, and
two and a half years at Luther
College, in Dec-orah, Iowa.He has more than
enough credits to grad-uate, but he was never able to finish a degree.
“I went into school with three different majors,” he said. “I’ve added a couple of majors since then. In retrospect, that was prob-ably hypomanic. No one told me you can’t do that.”
At Luther College, in 1999, Phil met Shawn Gumm, who is now one of his close
friends. Shawn, now a UI student studying inter-
national business, said that after not finishing his de-gree at Luther, he took time off to travel, and with more knowledge of what he want-ed to do, decid-ed to attend the UI. “It became
clear that some-thing was going on
with [Phil],” he said. “I don’t think I really
articulated what it was as his friend until some-time later.”
Gumm now meets with him for dinner, drinks, or good conversation at least once a week. Gumm also plays Scrabble with Phil — a game Phil’s won countless times.
“I try to play against him,” Gumm said. “He’s
quite the Scrabble champion.”
Although Phil thinks society has a long way to go in being accepting of mental ill-nesses, he is thankful to live in Iowa City, where, he said, the
care needed for mental illness is
up to par. “Johnson Coun-
ty has the resources, the commitment, and a
general caring; that’s re-ally not available in other places in this state,” he said.
A 2013 Iowa Depart-ment of Public Health Mental Health and Dis-abilities report stated that 89 of Iowa’s 99 counties suffer a health manpow-er shortage, or as Okiishi says, “federally under-served,” in terms of psy-
chiatrists. Because mental health is funded at the county level, where you live can truly affect the care you receive.
“You can move literal-ly two blocks away, and you’re in a different coun-ty, and now your services are completely different,” he said.
Phil, like many others who battle mental illness, works every day to break down the stigmas associ-ated with it. He wants peo-ple to see him as a person, not an illness.
“The biggest thing I want people to know is that they don’t have to be afraid of me,” he said. “Just because I have a mental illness doesn’t mean that I’m going to hurt anybody. It just means that I have trouble with everyday life.”
In five years, Phil said, he will still contribute on the local National Alliance on Mental Illness board, and he hopes that he will have a job.
“I know I don’t have a job, and I don’t get all of the things done that a lot of people do, but I’m real-ly trying to make a posi-tive impact,” he said. “So that’s how I see myself in
five years — still spread-ing the word, still trying to erase that stigma, and just soldiering on.”
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Phil Steffensmeier sorts his medication into two rows signifying morning and night on monday. this ritual is one of many to help Steffensmeier remember to take his medication several times a day. (the daily iowan/Callie mitchell)
Phil Steffensmeier and friend tawnya Knupp play Scrabble in Knupp’s home on April 17. Steffensmeier is good at word puzzles and completes some every day. (the daily iowan/Callie mitchell)
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newest group of guys this spring that makes you think they will be OK?
Dolphin: I definite-ly think they will be OK. Alston has been in the system for four years; he just needs to get out there and play now. We know he can play. We know he can hit. You know, his back-up Laron Taylor showed me something on [April 26], too. Reggie Spearman played a lot last year. He’s built like Christian Kirk-sey. He plays a little bit like Christian Kirksey. He’s going to be that much better. That experience last year is going to be in-valuable for him.
What will really help the linebackers this year is that front four. It’s salty. It’s been in place for a year or two. When you think about Carl Davis, he looks as good as any player on the field right now. He’s poised to have an All-Big Ten season.
DI: We know about all the higher-profile posi-tion battles. Anything go-ing under the radar this spring?
Dolphin: The major concern right now after
[April 26] is who the place-kicker is going to be. Who is going to be the one who steps up and kicks that clutch 3-point score at the end of the game? Who is going to make that kick deep in the forth quarter or in certain tough weath-er conditions? Mike Mey-er is a big loss, no doubt about it, a record-setter.
DI: Year Three of the offense under Greg Da-vis coming up. What are you looking to see out of his unit come fall?
Dolphin: I expect to see a lot more. I ex-pect a lot of 20-plus-yard plays. You know, there is a reason they redshirted three guys in particular, [Derrick] Mitchell, [Andre] Har-ris, and [Derrick] Willies last year. They wanted to give them a season of seasoning to learn Greg Davis’ system. Willies has big-time written all over him, especially when you throw those guys in the mix with Kevonte [Martin-Man-ley], Tevaun Smith, and Damond Powell.
Whether it’s the third year or the first year, you still have to have the per-sonnel to employ the of-fense, and frankly, Iowa hasn’t had all the bullets in the chamber it needed for that passing game. I
think they are there now. DI: We will wrap things
up with this, Gary. Make a case for Iowa winning the Western Division this year, and if the Hawkeyes were to struggle, what would be the reason?
Let’s go in reverse order. A.) If Iowa strug-
gles, it would be be-cause the passing game didn’t develop like they thought it would. B.) If Iowa doesn’t get it done defensively, I think it will be because the sec-ondary needs more time to grow up. I’m very op-timistic on both fronts,
though.As for why Iowa can
win the Big Ten West-ern Division. I just think it’s a wide-open division. Obviously, you have Ne-braska, which is good, and Wisconsin is always good, but there is no dom-inant team in the West.
Michigan State won the Rose Bowl but it plays a lot like Iowa. It plays the game with tough defense and solid special teams’ play. I just think it’s a very balanced, wide-open division, and Iowa has as good a shot to win it as anybody.
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cifically Radtke — who got out of a bases-load-ed jam during the first game of the double-head-er. “They could have cleared the bases on him … he bore down and did a great job, just like every-body else this weekend.”
When the sweep con-cluded, Iowa’s relief staff had combined for 16 in-nings, 7 hits, 1 earned run, and 19 strikeouts.
“Our bullpen couldn’t find it early in the sea-son,” Peyton said. “We were all over the place. But with this week, their showing their true poten-tial, that’s a huge upside
for our late-season and postseason run.”
The struggles of the bullpen aren’t that far in the rearview mirror, though. Just over two weeks ago, the relief pitchers gave up 11 runs in the final three innings, eventually blowing a 10-run lead to Northwest-ern. A little less than a week after that, the bull-pen gave up 2 runs in the ninth inning as Iowa lost to the Western Illinois, which at the time had a 10-19 record.
However, the bullpen’s performance against South Dakota State has seemingly washed away any memories of the ear-lier struggles. And the timing could not have been any better.
With Peyton and Mathews out for an un-known amount of time, Heller will have to piece together a pitching ro-tation for the near fu-ture, which includes a game today against Mil-waukee.
“A mature team, when something bad happens, Calvin goes down, Tyler Peyton can’t go, all these things are snowballing,” Heller said. “[Some peo-ple would] give yourself an excuse to play poorly. It doesn’t matter; it’s just the next guy up.
“They’re all good play-ers. We’ve been talking about this since the fall. When somebody goes down, then the next good player goes in, and he gets the job done.”
But there is a connec-tion nonetheless. Both situations take hold in places where people — because of their lack of understanding or refus-al to do so — spew non-sense about things (sex-ual orientation or race) other humans don’t nec-essarily ever choose to possess.
Collins battled the distinct and deep-root-ed homophobic culture in sport for 30-some- odd years, and Afri-can-Americans, clear-ly, are still forced to respond when someone
as cruel as Sterling con-jures up the type of lan-guage we’ve all heard on the tape.
What Collins’ an-nouncement and subse-quent success with the Nets this season showed us all is that American professional leagues are ready to leave acts like Sterling’s behind. But what Sterling’s actions proved was that we’re not as close to making prejudices extinct as we should be.
How the league re-sponded to Collins could not have been better. But how it reacts and moves forward after the Sterling debacle will be something newly named Commissioner Adam
Silver could be remem-bered for. This is the first legitimate crisis he’ll deal with as com-missioner of the league, but it may be the most important he’ll face.
Silver apparently has the full backing of the other owners to dish out an appropriate pun-ishment. And after the league’s investigation is complete, we’ll know how far it’s willing to go to rid itself of such racist and reprehensi-ble actions.
As has been echoed by many over the past few days, there isn’t any room for Sterling in the NBA. And there may not be a team or group of leaders (Doc Riv-
ers, Chris Paul) better equipped to combat the betrayal of their boss.
Clearly, there is room for more like Collins, which is why the Clip-pers owner’s state-ments shouldn’t over-shadow the significant amount of progress the league has made be-cause of his efforts.
Sterling deserves ev-ery bit of the public scrutiny and backlash he’ll receive from the NBA. But we should all recognize April 29 as a day Collins helped us all inch closer to com-plete acceptance. Ster-ling shouldn’t be able to mask or diminish the magnitude of his accom-plishments.
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iowa linebacker derrick mitchell reacts to Bo Bower missing a potential interception during the Spring game in Kinnick Stadium on Saturday. the offense won, 46-31. (the daily iowan/tessa Hursh)
Brewers outlast Cardinals
ST. LOUIS — Khris Davis overcame strik-ing out four times ear-ly in the game and came through with a run-scoring triple in the 12th inning to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.
Davis drove in Jona-than Lucroy, who dou-bled off Seth Maness (0-2) to start the inning. Mark Reynolds then drove in Davis with a sacrifice fly. Davis, who finished 1 for 6, struck out in the second, fifth, sixth and 10th innings.
Zach Duke (2-0) picked up the win with two innings of scoreless relief, and Francisco Rodriguez recorded his 12th save in as many opportunities by getting
Jhonny Peralta to fly out with two on to end the game.
Milwaukee, which leads the majors with 19 wins, has won four of five and eight of 10 overall. The Brewers also improved to 10-1 on the road, despite be-ing without outfielder Ryan Braun (strained intercostal muscle) and shortstop Jean Segura (bruised cheek). Both were listed as day to day.
Allen Craig and Matt Holliday hit solo hom-ers in the sixth inning off Brewers starter Yo-vani Gallardo to give St. Louis a 3-0 lead.
Holliday, who leads the team with 16 RBIs, also drove in Matt Carpenter with a first-inning single for St. Louis, which has lost four of six.
The Brewers lost 14 of 19 to St. Louis last sea-
son and dropped three of the first four before Monday’s victory.
St. Louis starter Mi-chael Wacha gave up three runs and eight hits over 6 1-3 innings. He struck out nine.
Gallardo, who is 1-11 lifetime against St. Lou-is, gave up three runs and seven hits over six innings.
Milwaukee tied the game with three runs in the seventh. After Lyle Overbay and Scooter Gennett had RBI sin-gles, Aramis Ramirez was hit by a pitch from reliever Pat Neshek with the bases loaded and two outs. Ramirez left the game in the bot-tom of the inning with an elbow contusion. He, like Braun and Segura, is listed as day to day.
— Associated Press
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By Joshua [email protected]
The Daily Iowan sat down with the ‘Voice of the Hawkeyes’ Gary Dolphin to talk about this year’s Spring Game.
The Daily Iowan: Gary, you have been around the team a lot this spring. Anything jump out to you during the Spring Game on April 26?
Gary Dolphin: I don’t think Coach Fer-entz or Davis want-ed to tip their hand too much to the spies in the stands about what’s coming this fall in conjunction to an im-proved passing game. Defensively, I thought
the new linebackers gave a very good ac-count of themselves; they are certainly deep in that position even though they don’t have a lot of starts.
The secondary gave a really good account of itself, too. I thought the offense owned the game early, but the defense came on. We know what the defen-sive line can do. I’m re-ally excited about Carl Davis; I think he’s go-ing to have a knockout senior year.
DI: Iowa will have to replace more than 1,000 career tackles at linebacker. What have you seen from Iowa’s
One year ago today, Brook-lyn Nets’ center Jason Collins
became the first openly gay athlete in a major American team sport. His bravery and courage inspired the likes of Michael Sam, Derrick Gordon and surely thousands of others to step out in spite of societal ignorance.
And last week, his decision to wear that “first” label right-fully earned him a spot on Time magazine’s 100 most influential
people list.The first an-
niversary of the announce-ment comes at a strange time, con-sidering the NBA is in the middle of a battle against the alleged racial-ly charged comments Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling made to
his girlfriend. As Collins cele-brates a year free of fear and hiding his true self, Sterling’s hateful remarks cast a shadow over the progress Collins has spearheaded during the last calendar year.
The two spheres being con-nected are clearly very differ-ent; there’s no doubting that.
Remember barrier-buster CollinsThe anniversary of Jason Collins’ barrier-breaking announcement serves as hope NBA players and the league’s community can overcome vile acts of bigotry and hate.
By JacoB [email protected]
Iowa baseball coach Rick Heller has options. When an Iowa starting pitcher has seen his last batter, He can turn to an abundance of arms in the bullpen. A lack of arms isn’t the problem.
The problem this season has been the bullpen’s consistency. But over this past weekend against South Da-kota State, during the Hawkeyes’ first three-game series sweep of the season, the Hawkeyes finally got the dominant relief pitching they so desperately need.
“I thought they did a great job,” Hell-
er said. “It was very impressive, and it was much better than earlier in the month. I thought they’ve really im-proved throughout the course of April.”
With two starting pitchers — Cal-vin Mathews and Tyler Peyton — out with injuries, the bullpen will be tested during the next couple weeks.
But if the series against South Dako-ta State is any sign, Iowa’s bullpen may be shaping up.
In three games, Iowa’s relief pitchers saw an abundance of action. On April 25, after Mathews was pulled, three re-lievers filled in for 7.2 innings, allowing just 2 hits and striking out 15 batters.
On the April 26 first game of a dou-ble-header, Tyler Radt-ke provid-ed two innings and didn’t allow a hit or a run. In the second game, Hawkeye re-lief pitchers Andrew Hedrick and Jake Reinhardt combined for 6.1 innings pitched, giving up 1 earned run.
“That was huge,” starting pitcher Sa-sha Kuebel said about the bullpen, spe-
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Softball seeks to leather some necks
The Iowa softball team is hoping for clear skies today as it prepares to take Pearl Field against the Leathernecks of Western Illinois.
The game marks the beginning of the Hawkeyes’ final home stand of the year, and they will try to ride the momentum from a series victory over Indiana in Bloomington this past weekend.
The Hawks are only 4-7 at Pearl Field this season, but they hope to use their hot bats to improve upon that mark. The team has hit 7 home runs in the last four games.
Four of those shots have come from senior Brianna Luna and junior Megan Blank. In those four games, Luna hit .455 (5-for-11) with 3 RBIs from the leadoff spot. Blank, the team’s leading hitter, was 3-for-6 with 4 walks and 3 RBIs.
The Leathernecks will likely face senior pitcher Kayla Massey. She is only 9-14 this season, but she has gone the distance in 21 of her 24 starts and has thrown three shutouts this season.
In the circle for Western Illinois will likely be junior Kayla Kirkpatrick. In only 84 innings pitched, the opposition has 118 hits and is batting .328 against Kirkpatrick, so the Hawkeyes may have some opportunities to stay hot.
Weather permitting, the Hawkeyes are expected the start under the lights at 7 p.m.
— By kyle Mann
SCOREBOARD
nBaMiami 109, Charlotte 98Atlanta 107, Indiana 97San Antonio 93, Dallas 89
MlBChicago, Cincinnati (PPD)Oakland 4, Texas 0Chicago White Sox 7, Tampa Bay 3 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 12Colorado 8, Arizona 5LA Angels 6, Cleveland 3 San Diego 6, San Francisco 4
nhlPittsburgh 4, Columbus 3Minnesota 5, Colorado 2Los Angeles 4, San Jose 1
soccerArsenal 3, Newcastle 0
WHAT TO WATCH
nBa PlayoffsGame 5: Washington vs. Chicago, 7 p.m., TNTGame 5: Memphis vs. Oklahoma City, 8 p.m., NBATVGame 5: Golden State vs. Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m., TNT
nhl PlayoffsGame 6: New York vs. Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN
In the arms race, ’pen steps up
Iowa pitcher Tyler Radtke walks to the dugout during the eighth inning of the third game of a series against Indiana at Banks Field on April 7. Indiana won, 5-3. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)
Dolphin optimistic about Hawks
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As Iowa prepares for its final stretch of regular-season games, its success could be dependent on the bullpen.
Gary Dolphin, the ‘Voice of the Hawkeyes,’ will enter his 19th season in the Kinnick Stadium booth.
Ferentz names 12 to leadership group
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Iowa player Brianna Luna takes off from second base at Pearl Field on April 2 against Drake. Drake won, 5-3. (The Daily Iowan/Valerie Burke)
By ryan [email protected]
Iowa vs. MilwaukeeWhen: 6 p.m. today
Location: Banks Field
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Iowa football head coach Kirk Ferentz announced Monday that 12 players have been named to the University of Iowa football program’s 2014 Leadership Group.
The group will help formulate team policies and play a part in team decisions. This year’s group comprises five seniors, three juniors, two sopho-mores, and two redshirt freshmen.
Seniors Quinton Alston, Carl Davis, Brandon Scherff, Louis Trinca-Pasat, and Mark Weisman are expected to lead the group. Juniors include offensive lineman Austin Blythe, defensive back Jor-dan Lomax, and quarterback Jake Rudock. Backup quarterback C.J. Beathard and offensive lineman Ryan Ward are the sophomores represented, with redshirt fresh-man Josey Jewell and Sean Welsh rounding out this year’s group.
— by Joshua Bolander
Iowa linebacker Quinton Alston hits running back Damon Bullock during the Spring Game in Kinnick Stadium on April 26. The offense won, 46-31. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)
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