By Ben Schuff benjamin-schuff@uiowa.edu For the third time this year, the Iowa men’s basketball team has won two consecutive games. Iowa (7-5) picked up right where they left off on Dec. 17, beating Central Arkansas 105-64 Monday night in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The Hawkeyes never trailed the Bears (5-5), jumping out to an early 24-5 lead. [...]

Basabe getting on track — gotta be the shoes?
By Jordan Garretson jordan-garretson@uiowa.edu Melsahn Basabe is recently playing a lot more like the freshman who burst onto the scene last year in the Big Ten. The Iowa sophomore forward struggled for most of November, averaging 6.4 points and four rebounds a game. But in five games this December, those marks have climbed to 12.8 [...]
UPDATED: UI medical school dean Rothman leaving for Johns Hopkins
UPDATED: 3:17 p.m. By Sam Lane Paul Rothman, the dean of the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine, was appointed Monday to a similar position at Johns Hopkins University, according to a release. Rothman has served as the dean of the medical school at the UI since 2008. He will take over as dean of [...]

Morgan Johnson wins conference award after dominant performance
Iowa women’s basketball player Morgan Johnson was named the Big Ten’s Player of the Week on Monday, two days after the junior center posted a dominating performance against Bradley. Johnson’s 37 points were a career-high; she scored 23 of them in the second half, on 8-of-9 shooting. She also set new career-bests in field goals [...]

UI charging $150 for j-school director’s emails about Bloom
The University of Iowa wants $150 to retrieve emails journalism school director David Perlmutter send and received in regard to Professor Stephen Bloom’s controversial Atlantic article from earlier this month. That represents almost $60/hour for three hours of work, more than the $30/hour the university usually charges to produce records requests. UI public records custodian [...]

