Chaplain plan at ISU spurs debate over faith on football team
The Gazette notes ISU coach Gene Chizik seeks a full-time chaplain funded by private groups to advise Cyclones players. Faculty oppose citing church state concerns, while advocates say a trained clergyman could support athletes alongside tutors and counselors. ISU Athletics Council must decide with guardrails to protect beliefs.
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Period management explodes popular birth control debates
An essay notes how modern contraception like Seasonique and Lybrel promise to suppress or eliminate periods, sparking concerns about natural biology, fertility, and identity. It contrasts historic pregnancies with today’s extended fertile life, warns of mood, weight, and skin changes, and questions cultural shifts toward synthetic hormones.
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Discipline could solve lagging U S education
Recent reports from the U S Department of Education reveal that U S students lag in reading math and science compared with many industrialized nations. About 40 percent of entering college freshmen require remedial education before college work. News reports also note increasingly frequent and violent assaults in schools. More money may be part of the.
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Letters on Iraq policy and education reforms
A reader criticizes antiwar liberal views over Saddam Hussein’s removal while defending the war’s outcomes and arguing for disciplined schools and broader factual education. The letter questions ethanol subsidies, land set-asides, and environmental protections, urging clear information for graduates and noting pesticide regulations.
Presidential hopefuls release health care plans
A retired nurse urges all presidential hopefuls to publish national health care plans by August 1. The piece notes 46 million uninsured Americans and cites Barack Obama and John Edwards as having released plans, urging other candidates to reveal theirs.
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Iowa
Ethanol debate in letter to editor weighs energy value and ethics
In reply to a May 5 letter arguing that ethanol is a waste of money, resources the writer supports the view that ethanol has lower BTUs than gasoline yet notes global hunger, acknowledges initial net energy loss but cites biofuel byproducts and future gains from switchgrass ethanol, and argues for more processing plants and possibly more coal use.
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