A UI College Republicans-planned Capture the Flag game centered on the issue of illegal immigration will not be held.
University Democrats President-Elect Atul Nakhasi said UI College Republican Chairman Greg Baker called him at roughly 9 p.m. on Tuesday to tell him that the event, scheduled for Thursday in City Park, had been canceled.
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Former President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to deliver this year's distinguished lecture at 7 p.m. today at Carver-Hawkeye Arena amid a controversy surrounding his most recent publication, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
The UI community anticipated his arrival Tuesday, reflecting on his latest book and the university's security measures in case of protests.
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More than 400 colorful messages of hate, hope, and healing billowed in the soft breeze on the Pentacrest Tuesday afternoon as part of the Clothesline Project, co-sponsored by the Rape Victim Advocacy Program and the UI College of Public Health.
A black boom box played sound effects for the display, including a gong every nine seconds indicating that a woman in the United States was being battered and a whistle every two minutes symbolizing the occurrence of rape.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note raging against religion and rich kids.
A chilling picture emerged Tuesday of Cho Seung-Hui - a 23-year-old senior majoring in English - a day after the bloodbath that left 33 people dead, including Cho, who killed himself as police closed in.
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The first day UI freshman Erin Tuken showed symptoms of conjunctivitis, commonly referred to as "pink eye," she described it as something that made her eyes itchy and red.
But as the days went on, she experienced green and white eye pus and mass amounts of discharge that kept her eyelids glued shut.
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In this do-it-yourself age, one service that could become widely available is self-administered Pap-smear kits - but some local officials question the safety and effectiveness of the take-home method.
Researchers from VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam have found that an estimated 28 percent of women in the Netherlands did not respond to or chose not to participate in cervical screenings.
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Feeling an increasing strain on space, the Iowa City School District elementary-school staff members are shuffling classes and employing portable classrooms to brace themselves for the 2007-08 academic year, when they expect an influx in enrollment across the district. (0) comments
Carbon emissions in the world are inflating rapidly, with the United States and Iowa rising to the top.
In a report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group released Tuesday, titled "Carbon Boom," researchers detailed the growth of carbon emissions in the United States from 1990, when the Environmental Protection Agency last audited greenhouse gases.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Monica Goodling, once Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' White House liaison, would be granted immunity from prosecution and forced to testify under a plan being considered by a House panel probing the firings of federal prosecutors.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said Tuesday that Goodling, who has refused to testify, has much to contribute to the investigation.
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GRINNELL - The body found in a swimming pool at the Grinnell Country Club is a college student missing since last fall, police said Tuesday.
The body of Paul Shuman-Moore was discovered Monday when a worker pulled off the pool's cover to begin preparing it for summer, police said.
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CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) - The Iowa River is ranked third on a list of the most endangered rivers in the nation, according to a report released Tuesday.
The advocacy group, American River, released the report, which cited toxins, nitrates, and untreated sewage as the reasons for the pollution that put the Iowa River on the list. It's the first time an Iowa river was included on the list.
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LONDON - The Virginia Tech shootings sparked criticism of U.S. gun-control laws around the world Tuesday. Editorials lashed out at the availability of weapons, and the leader of Australia - one of America's closest allies - declared that America's gun culture was costing lives.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry said the government hoped Monday's shootings, allegedly carried out by a 23-year-old South Korean native, would not "stir up racial prejudice or confrontation."
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