I searched around prior to posting this and made sure I hadn't missed anything obvious, though I have a feeling I am missing something basic.

I'm using this as a sidebar navigation view. I tried making them static cells and pre-populating them, but they were blank that way as well. When I do it this way I can see everything gets called except that. I've tried deleting it and re-adding it.

#import "acxSideBarController.h"

@interface acxSideBarController ()

@end

@implementation acxSideBarController

@synthesize sidebarDelegate = _sidebarDelegate;

- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewStyle)style
{
    self = [super initWithStyle:style];
    if (self) {
        // Custom initialization
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    if ([self.sidebarDelegate respondsToSelector:@selector(lastSelectedIndexPathForSidebarViewController:)]) {
        NSIndexPath *indexPath = 0;
        [self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
    }

    self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor underPageBackgroundColor];

    self.tableView.dataSource = self;
    self.tableView.delegate = self;
}

- (void)viewDidUnload
{
    [super viewDidUnload];

}

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

#pragma mark - Table view data source

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView
{
    return 3;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if(section == 0)
        return 2;
    else if(section == 1)
        return 1;
    else
        return 1;
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"linkCell";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    }

    NSString *name = @"";
    if(indexPath.section == 1)
        name = @"Inbox";
    else if(indexPath.section == 2)
        name = @"Logout";
    else
    {
        if(indexPath.row == 0)
            name = @"Roster";
        else if(indexPath.row == 1)
            name = @"Environmental Variables";
    }


    cell.textLabel.text = name;

    cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor darkTextColor];

    return cell;
}

- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if(section == 0)
        return @"Students";
    else if(section == 1)
        return @"Communication";
    else
        return @" ";
}

#pragma mark - Table view delegate

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if (self.sidebarDelegate)
    {
        [self.sidebarDelegate acxSideBarController:self atIndexPath:indexPath];
    }
}

@end

If it's helpful here's the header file

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@protocol acxSideBarControllerDelegate;

@interface acxSideBarController : UITableViewController

@property (nonatomic, assign) id <acxSideBarControllerDelegate> sidebarDelegate;

@end

@protocol acxSideBarControllerDelegate <NSObject>

- (void)acxSideBarController:(acxSideBarController *)acxSideBarController atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath;

@optional
- (NSIndexPath *)lastSelectedIndexPathForacxSideBarController:(acxSideBarController *)acxSideBarController;

@end