2008 Woodie Awards
UPDATED - 10/02/07 - 2:39 P.M.
Gary Steinke will be leaving his post as Executive Director of the Iowa Board of Regents before the end of the year.
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Former UI Director of Public Safety William Fuhrmeister, who served from 1986 to 1995, can only recall one instance during his career when arming the university police force was an issue.
And it wasn't following the Gang Lu shooting spree in 1991, when the UI physics doctoral student killed five on the UI campus.
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The political playground that is Iowa has been relatively empty the past two weeks.
Presidential-nomination contenders spent much more of their time outside the state, hugging the coasts and pumping last-minute contributors before the third fundraising quarter ended.
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Sam Cochran, the director of the UI Counseling Service, said the lack of counselors at the university worried him even before the Virginia Tech shootings.
The UI has 11 employed counselors, nearly half the number recommended by the International Association of Counseling Services.
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UI students will see a mandatory $215 increase in student activity fees in the fall 2009 semester, when the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center is set to open - a number far higher than what other Iowa public university students' pay.
Iowa State University students only pay an annual fee of $37 to use the school's recreational facilities, and the University of Northern Iowa requires it students to pay approximately $9.
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The ratio of suspended black students to the number of enrolled black students is higher in Iowa than in any other state, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Black students make up 5 percent of the enrolled population in Iowa's public schools, yet they account for 22 percent of the students who get suspended.
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For all the talk of "comprehensive security policies" and preventative measures, the state Board of Regents' staff members seem focused on the details of arming university police.
"This policy is a policy we'll have to write, because there's never been a policy before," said Regents' Executive Director Gary Steinke, who is charged with developing the regulations Iowa public-university police will follow if they carry guns.
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Almost three decades after humans were first inflicted with AIDS, the global community has not yet been able to contain, much less eradicate, the widespread problem.
And some - including the UI's director of African Studies Program, Edward Miner - argue that in those three decades, the issue has fallen out of the public's eye.
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With several unapproved cough suppressants on the market for children, the Food and Drug Administration will begin restricting companies from making and selling such products in the upcoming months.
On Sept. 28, the FDA announced it would take action against companies marketing unapproved medicines containing the narcotic hydrocodone.
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Hoping to develop land previously occupied by St. Patrick's Church, Big Ten Rentals proposed a new apartment building on the intersection of Linn and Court Streets.
The Iowa City Planning and Zoning Commission is considering the proposal, which appears to be aimed at UI students, several zoning commissioners said.
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