Iowa Students Boost Volunteer Service With 10K Dance Marathon
University of Iowa students lead the 10K push as 800 volunteers joined last year and 700+ have registered this school year. Dance Marathon drew 1,250 volunteers this year, AmeriCorps/VISTA placed 40 volunteers, and Coe College requires five hours of service for graduation.
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Iowa
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Cedar Rapids
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Children’s Hospital of
College and Iowa volunteers host multiple fair events this Thursday
Volunteer fairs run across Iowa campuses with 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the Iowa Memorial Union on Thursday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lower Gage Memorial Union. Volunteer Iowa sponsors a Sunday volunteer-a-thon on Iowa Public Television with organizers citing skill-building and career exploration.
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Coe College
Lower Gage Memorial Union
Iowa
Iowa Public Television
Legislature split on starting budget approach in Iowa
House Speaker Christopher Rants says the focus is the size of the pie for fiscal 2006 with March spent carving up education health care and development. Senate Republicans discuss an 80 cent cigarette tax to cover Medicaid shortfalls starting April 1 while Democrats push for broader budget review before tax hikes.
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Sioux City
Senate
Vilsack
Lamberti
Gronstal
Insurgent Attacks Escalate In Baghdad Amid Hostage News
Iraqi police say a night assault in Al Bu Mustafa left five national guardsmen and 17 police dead as militants attacked a local station. Earlier, two guardsmen were killed and three wounded in a rebel ambush near Baghdad. rockets struck near the airport and a guard building with no reported casualties.
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Muthana Khalid Ali
Iraq
United States
National Assembly
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Syrena
Serena
Italy
Associated Press
Babil
Al-Bu Mustafa
Protests Grow Over Iraqi Election Legitimacy Before Voting
Iraqi protesters mainly Assyrian Christians and Turkomens rally near the Green Zone in Baghdad to demand scrutiny of alleged irregularities in Mosul where tens of thousands could not vote due to ballot shortages. Officials report security fears kept monitors abroad and Mosul’s disrupted balloting drew Sunni, Kurdish and Christian grievances.
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Adel al- Sami
Baghdad
Mosul
Jordan
Iraq
Ghazi al-Yawer
al- Yawer
Instructors Rank Super Bowl Ads Since 1998
Shiv, teaching a graduate advertising class, rates Super Bowl spots by estimated target market reach and objectives divided by cost. Mass brands like Pepsi and Budweiser show strong ROI around 2.4 million per 30 seconds, while some ads miss broad appeal and waste money.
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Shiv
Pepsi
Graduate Marketing Association
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