Word: iowa
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...petition calls the Ames Daily Tribune of Iowa "ethically reprehensible" and "a threat against all student newspapers in this country" for attempting to limit the advertising of the Iowa State Daily...
...Florida native and graduate of the University of Dubuque in Iowa, D'Alessandro has been working to reduce educational disparity at schools within Florida school districts since...
...with practice, we could beat the test. We also knew that the fees were unreasonable, and it was unfair-the more erudite of us even used the term monopoly. But as mere high school students, our voices just weren't heard. It took another test-maker, ACT Inc. of Iowa City, to finally cry out against ETS's vice-like grip on educational testing...
Matthew P. Garofalo, a first-year at the University of Iowa, is found dead in his fraternity house. A pledge to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Garofalo dies after inhaling his own vomit following a night of drinking activities. His blood alcohol level was 0.188. Following Garofalo's death, a four-month alcohol ban was imposed by the University on Greek organizations, and the campus chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha was suspended, said The Chronicle of Higher Education in Sept...
...have to grant a certain credit to novelist Jane Smiley for the unapologetic boldness with which she appropriated the story of King Lear for her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, resettling his mythical Britannic majesty and his fractious daughters on a modern Iowa farm. You also have to admire the nerve with which she attached pop-psych subtexts to her rearrangement, the daring with which she turned the whole works into a feminist tract...