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...university professors conveyed its position in a letter sent to Division I university presidents, chancellors, and athletic directors. The document encouraged them to end intercollegiate play with the 18 schools that were barred from hosting championship tournaments in an August NCAA ruling. That same decision labeled University of Iowa (UI) and University of Wisconsin (UW) “model institutions” for following a policy of not scheduling games against teams with Native American “nicknames, imagery, or mascots.” “We are targeting all non-Native American schools that have Native American...
After a grueling and public selection process, Lan Samantha Chang, Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, has been selected to direct the University of Iowa (UI) Writers’ Workshop, beginning in January 2006. A graduate of the program, Chang is the first female as well as the first Asian-American director of the Workshop...
Under the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Workshop was the first creative writing degree program in the U.S. and will have been in existence for 70 years...
...become aware of myself as a midwesterner in the process of applying for the job and the Workshop and [the UI] community are very open and accepting like many artistic communities, so one of my basic feelings is coming home as a midwesterner...
Sloan, who also appeared in "The Ruling Class" and "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," adds that Eva is not afraid of using any and everyone to get what she wants. "I think that's the point of the play--we're all using one another so we can't point the finger at anyone. I don't think that's anyone's life motto. But everyone has bad things about them, and hopefully everyone has good things about them too," she says...