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TexasTowelie

(116,554 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 08:06 AM Feb 2017

Iowa House speaker rips university over cuts to scholarships

A day after the University of Iowa began notifying 2,440 students they won’t get scholarship money they expected this fall because of state budget cuts, Iowa House Speaker Linda Upmeyer slammed the move Thursday as “politics at its worst.”

She suggested the university tap into the $2 billion its foundation collected in a fundraising campaign, instead.

“It’s very disappointing that the University of Iowa is choosing to play politics with scholarships and the lives of parents and students,” Upmeyer, R-Clear Lake, said in a statement.

On Wednesday, university President Bruce Harreld told lawmakers his institution is cutting several non-merit and non-need-based scholarship programs in response to an $8 million takeback in state appropriations in the current budget year.

Read more: http://qctimes.com/news/local/government-and-politics/iowa-house-speaker-rips-university-over-cuts/article_ec53d49b-f786-536c-abbd-833d27e37edb.html

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Iowa House speaker rips university over cuts to scholarships (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
Fornicate you Upmeyer 47of74 Mar 2017 #1
 

47of74

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1. Fornicate you Upmeyer
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 11:29 PM
Mar 2017

You're the ones that pushed these goddamn cuts through and now you're blaming the schools for what you did. Fornicate you.

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