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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1996
Page
4
Iowa Board of Regents member Marvin Pomerantz calls for public and legislative scrutiny of faculty productivity across Iowa's three state universities. He argues time in the classroom should be a criterion among others, challenging the stereotype of professors as primarily researchers.
The National Center for Responsible Gaming will study problem gambling and profiles of problem gamblers at the University of Missouri at Kansas City with seed money from Boyd's Gaming Corp. Industry sponsorship raises questions about objectivity while noting prior research from Johns Hopkins and VA centers showing gambling can be treated.
Larry R. Johnson of Cedar Rapids, director of American Family Association of Town, argues that legalizing homosexual marriages in Hawaii will force other states to grant legal and financial benefits. He cites alleged studies and a 1993 Equal Rights march to claim an agenda for multiple-partner unions and critiques the perceived decline of heterosexual marriage.
Dean Warner of Cedar Rapids argues against raising speed limits beyond 65 mph on interstates and two lane roads. He cites collision risks, personal experiences, and notes Iowa’s already low car insurance premiums could rise with higher speeds.
Clement H. Lynch argues against a Republican tax cut policy tying deficits to losing income for government. He cites Jim Nussle, Bob Dole, and policy shifts as harming the poor, sick, children, and elderly. The piece criticizes strategy and calls for voters to decide in November.
A Marion reader urges teaching thinking skills over computing, citing a supermarket checkout error where the clerk failed to count back correct change. The writer argues brains outperform machines, then raises graveyard theft concerns and asks others to contact M.A. White at Box 331, Marion 52302, or Mary Anne White, Marion, to discuss solutions.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette invites public letters and guest columns addressing public business topics. Submissions must include writer’s full name, street address, and daytime phone number. anonymity is not allowed. Not all columns can be printed. material is subject to editing and will not be returned to senders.
Ellen Tatum laments removal of trees and sod from a Riverside Park to erect a metal tree on a cement block. She asserts Cedar Rapids has set a unique example, claiming no other city will desecrate its riverside park similarly.
Letter from Carol Farris laments Pat Morgan’s untimely death at the Johnson Avenue Hy-Vee standoff and calls for reevaluation of police procedures to prevent further young lives lost in Lawrence/IA area.
A shopper recounts saving a child from the escalator at a local mall last week. The incident prompts a warning to parents to keep young children from playing near escalators unattended.
The speaker asks what planet the two politicians come from who propose arrests for teen sexual activity and smoking while failing to curb drugs, prostitution, and crime. They urge enforcement of existing laws and criticise lawmakers for creating new ones and lenient treatment of offenders.
Dennis Ohlert Jeanette Anderson Recky Crotser of Decorah question the Legislature's fixation on genitals amid debates on teen sex legalization and changing divorce and recognition laws while noting two unrelated topics, speed limits and self-directed assisted death, entering the discourse.
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