2008 Woodie Awards
UI President Sally Mason said she was "not happy" with the Hawkeye student-athletes' misconduct this past year, but she was proud of the way the university handled each situation.
Mason discussed student-athlete behavior during the state Board of Regents' meeting in Iowa City on Tuesday while updating the regents on recent university accomplishments and issues.
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At first, he thought it was a fire drill.
University of Northern Iowa senior Derek LaMaack had just stepped into his dorm room Tuesday night to grab his backpack when the intercom clicked on.
Grabbing his keys and heading for the Dancer Hall stairwell, the 24-year-old soon realized the true nature of the announcement.
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If John Irving were a deity - and within the literary realm, he's close - he'd sit atop Stratton Mountain near his home in Vermont and wrestle bears, pausing only to bestow advice to eager young writers, run off prescriptions for a repressed America, and perhaps ski with his children. His words might seem harsh, his reputation immense, but one thing's certain: you listen.
"Unlike a politician, it's a mistake for a writer to try to be everybody's friend. You're not," Irving told The Daily Iowan. "You don't make good friends that way. You're good friends to your friends, but your enemies stick it to you, so you stick them back. That's all. You keep doing it."
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Though the state Board of Regents gave permission to UI Hospitals and Clinics officials to continue planning on a $700million to $850 million project, many regents expressed concern about its location.
The regents voted unanimously, with three regents absent, at the board's meeting in Iowa City on Tuesday. However, some regents were concerned about too little focus on accessibility and convenience for patients as well constructing an expansion in an already congested area.
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The Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area had 3,400 fewer non-farm jobs in January 2008 than in December 2007, the Iowa Workforce Department announced Tuesday.
But in a mixed bag of news, the agency also reported there are 2,200 more non-farm jobs in the area than in January of last year.
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The Iowa City City Council considered tweaking its proposed ordinance against aggressive panhandling to ensure Dance Marathon's late-night fundraising continued unhindered.
The council then voted to continue discussion at a later date. Still in its earliest stage, the proposed ordinance will be voted on twice more.
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With tuition costs rising as colleges and universities nationwide struggle for funding, UI provost finalist Camilla Persson Benbow said those institutions need to rethink how they market higher education. (0) comments
Complaints concerning the recent UI Student Government election fell into late-night deliberation after a Student Elections Board hearing Tuesday.
The three complaints filed against the recently elected VIP Party came from Joseph Thomas, who advised the Dream Team on the election board's campaign code.
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Sparks flew among members of the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday during a discussion about the fiscal 2009 budget.
In a 3-2 vote, the supervisors voted to approve the $75.8 million budget, despite hesitations and a mistake made during the final public hearing about the budget last week.
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Two UI Student Government leaders announced at Tuesday's meeting that they would soon be terminated from their positions, but President Barrett Anderson said both were results of big misunderstandings.
Student-organization liaison Michael Charles announced that he believed his termination from the student government would take place next week. Charles said his eventual firing would come without a discussion with Anderson or Vice President Carole Peterson.
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What started as a community-service project in Baltimore has spread throughout the nation and has made a stop at an Iowa City restaurant - Oasis.
The completely student-run organization, America Eats for Israel, encourages food establishments throughout the country to donate 10 percent of their gross revenue to the group that then uses the funds to help impoverished Israelis.
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