UI Fraternity and Sorority Members Still Are Arrested More Frequently than Peers: Iowa City Daily News Links, Nov. 12

Brrrrrrr....

On to the Links!

Gadzooks! Iowa City and Coralville may be working together to make the Iowa River more attractive and available to the public as part of two grants received by the two cities, writes Mitchell Schmidt of the Iowa City Press-Citizen.

Josh O'Leary of the Press-Citizen reports that fraternities and sororities at the University of Iowa have higher arrest rates than their non-Greek peers.

The Iowa Organic Conference will be held for the first time in Iowa City at the Iowa Memorial Union on Nov. 18 and 19. (The Gazette)

Finally, at long last, a vote is coming on urban chickens in Iowa City. (KCRG)

Keno Davis, son of longtime Hawkeye coach Tom Davis, brings his Central Michigan Chippewas men's basketball team to Iowa City tonight. (Quad City Times)

There, among others he will meet Zach McCabe, who is adjusting well to his role on the perimeter.

Pagliai's Pizza celebrates their 50th year making pizza tomorrow. (Daily Iowan)

A University of Iowa student badly injured himself in a fall from the climbing wall in the University of Iowa recreation area. The climbing wall ahs since been closed (KCRG)

An incident report to the University Police ties accused athletics official Peter Gray of exchanging tickets for sex, although it's unclear if these allegations are true. UI Officials say they aren't sure how the documents about the investigation were leaked to the Press-Citizen (the Daily Iowan). And congratulations University of Iowa, your sex scandal has landed on Deadspin.

Here's an interesting article about a possible change to parole board decisions for high risk offenders. (Press Citizen via Associated Press)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

Fraternity and sorority members at the University of Iowa find themselves in legal trouble more often than other students, and though their citation and arrest rates improved during the 2011-12 academic year, they remain well above average at UI.

Last school year, 9.9 percent of UI’s fraternity members and 6.7 percent of sorority members were cited or arrested by police at least once, according to data provided by the Office of the Dean of Students dating to 2009. By comparison, the citation and arrest rate was 7.9 percent for all male undergraduates and 4.4 percent for female undergraduates last academic year.

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