University of Iowa

Questions: • Before the Spring Semester, where you aware that the university had an equestrian team? o Question…

forced to sanitize acts or risk being shut out of a lucrative market. One comic Flanagan discusses brings the house down, only to be rejected by most schools when his routine crosses too many racial boundaries. “We’re a very forward-thinking school,” an Iowa student says. “That thing about the ‘sassy black friend’? That wouldn’t work for us.” “We don’t want to sponsor an event that would offend anyone,” says a student activities planner from Western…

University students who insist on censorship by a college administration when a topic, issue or idea causes them emotional distress, effectively denies all who participate in the academic setting the basic right of freedom of speech in a venue that should be open to free exchanges of ideas. To take away topics that give them emotional stress, students have come up with a solution to the issue, trigger warnings. According to Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind,…

study done by Ana A. Gomes, José Tavares, and Maria Helena P. de Azevedo, showing that there are strong links between not enough sleep and “lower academic performance of university students” as well as problems with “other aspects of daytime functioning impairment.” (___). In addition, a performed study at Iowa State University showed that the average GPA of people who slept for 6 hours or less was 0.5 points lower than those who slept 9 hours or more (__). These examples simply touch on the…

don’t determine a students full potential of entering college. Steven Syverson points out that before the 1900s, colleges had individual exams to gain admissions. The individual examinations became a problem; therefore, a group of 12 colleges and universities from the…

graduation rate was 57 percent for males and 62 percent for females. 2. Support material: On the other hand, only 33 percent actually graduated in 4-years and received their bachelor 's degree. B. Here in Cal State University San Bernardino our overall graduation rate was 52 percent in 2009 and 2 percent for our transfer-out rate. Based on the office of institutional research I’ve found statistics that students pursuing a Bachelor 's degree only 9 percent…

Umpqua Community College, Santa Monica College, Oikos University, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Northern Illinois University, Virginia Tech, University of Arizona’s College of Nursing, Uni­versity of Iowa, colleges since 1984 that were grounds for mass shootings. Harper Mercer, John Zawahri, L. Goh, Amy Bishop, Steven Kazmierczak, Robert S. Flores, Gang Lu, students and faculty that opened fire at those colleges. Mass shootings on college campuses are not fictional events, they are…

Aristotle’s three rhetorical appeals are ethos, pathos, and logos. When authors are writing an argumentative article or paper, they usually use all three appeals to create a successful argument. Christine B. Whelan uses all three appeals strongly in very different ways in her argument. Of course, she uses more of one appeal then she does the others. In the article “Helping First-Year Students Help Themselves”, Whelan uses many strategies to accurately incorporate ways to establish one’s…

sport and have a love and passion for it. If athletes are in a sport during college, they give up so much, they don't get to live a normal college life, as they are always traveling during the season to play the sport. Usually if a student goes to a university, athletes only play one sport and play that sport year round with tons of practices day in and day out. “The average time I spend in the gym is close to four hours probably.” Unlike high school sports, athletes may also have to travel…

constitution, then why can’t students use this amendment at universities across this great country? Freedom of speech is important to college campuses because the purpose of college is to break past the boundaries of where education stands today. It’s a place where students achieve higher education and where students can find other students with the common interests to form groups and recruit more students into those groups. At the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, a student named Chris…