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Center for Intellectual Freedom advisory council passes bylaws after disagreements
DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa Capitol Bureau) – The advisory council for the University of Iowa’s new Center for Intellectual Freedom voted 10-7 Tuesday to approve bylaws, including how to select the permanent director.
Republican legislators established the center to combat what they felt was too much liberal ideology on university campuses. The center aims to create college classes that promote what legislators consider intellectual diversity.
Interim director Luciano de Castro created the advisory council’s bylaws, which included who would decide the next director. The group would have consisted mainly of scholars from high research universities.
But Iowa’s Board of Regents felt that too many of those scholars would come from outside Iowa.
“The hiring of the permanent director is on the top of the list. So having a faculty balance at this point and as we’re moving forward, I think, is really important,” said Christine Hensley of the Iowa Board of Regents.
The center’s council considered those concerns at Tuesday’s meeting, but not without disagreement between members.
“Most of the academic side of you folks being willing to serve on there, which we truly appreciate, are from a different state and just not known by Iowans,” said Robert Cramer of the Iowa Board of Regents.
Thomas Gallanis, a professor at George Mason University, disagreed.
“This center is under Iowa control because it reports to the Board of Regents. The Board of Regents is the governing body. The Advisory Council is not a governing body,” Gallanis said.
The council now needs the Board of Regents to sign off on the bylaws before the process can get underway to choose a leader for the center.
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TAMA COUNTY, Iowa — A pair of power outages left more than 700 people without power in Tama County Friday afternoon.
Alliant Energy says the larger outage, just north of Garwin, was caused by a semi-truck striking one of their power poles. That outages impacted 690 customers as of 5 p.m. Friday.
The smaller outage impacted roughly 36 people in Tama. The outage was caused by equipment needing repairs.
Alliant says crews are on site and working to fix both outages.
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) – The Iowa Great Lakes community is remembering Leo “Butch” Parks, a longtime lakes-area businessman and founder of Parks Marina.
He died Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the age of 81.
Parks established the marina on East Lake Okoboji in 1983, growing it from a small fishing boat operation into a business with marinas, sales, service, rentals, storage, and popular destinations like the Barefoot Bar.
Parks and his wife, Debbie, also owned Okoboji Boat Works for 23 years.
Funeral services are set for Friday, Jan. 16, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Spirit Lake. It will be followed by a celebration of life at Snapper’s restaurant in Okoboji that evening.
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