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“For someone who has been in education all her life, I couldn’t ask for a better environment. It’s pretty hard not to be optimistic.”

Sally Mason, incoming University of Iowa president, talking about the high priority Iowans place on education (The [Cedar Rapids] Gazette, June 27).

“Some of the people who are in the investment business say they find it relaxing to come home and do this.”

Joyce Berg, associate professor of accounting in the Tippie College of Business, speaking about the appeal of the Iowa Electronic Markets, real-money futures markets in which contract payoffs depend on economic and political events such as elections (Chicago Sun-Times, June 14).

“We have this clinical evidence exercise that can reduce pain, but we have yet to determine how much is beneficial and how much only exacerbates the pain.”

Kathleen Sluka, professor of physical therapy in the Carver College of Medicine, commenting on the need for more research on the benefits of exercise for pain reduction (The Miami Herald, June 12).

“Responding to your body’s need to urinate or defecate is a basic human right, or even one step below that, it’s a basic animal right.”

Christopher Cooper, associate professor of urology in the Carver College of Medicine, saying that factors such as teacher permission, cleanliness of facilities, and bullies pose challenges to elementary-school students in maintaining regular visits to the lavatory (USA Today, June 3).

“Because there are so many other ways besides writing to communicate these days, students are not getting the same amount of writing practice as they did in the past.”

Mary Trachsel, associate professor and chair of rhetoric in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, commenting on a study indicating that communication skills could be permanently damaged from the increase in text messaging (High Plains Journal, June 1).