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Apr
2005
• The Chiropractic Learning Resource Center (CLRC) planned for construction on the Palmer College of Chiropractic campus will now include state-of-the-art outpatient clinic facilities, college officials have announced. Groundbreaking for the CLRC, to be located on the east side of Brady Street, will take place later this year with an anticipated completion date of 2007. The new building is the centerpiece of the college's $35-million capital campaign, which has raised nearly $26 million in gifts and pledges and is now in its completion phase. Preliminary plans call for the facility to include more than 40,000 square feet of space, which will be used to house: community outpatient clinic facilities; clinical learning resources for students; radiology services; rehabilitation services; and a visitor center. College officials expect to complete the campaign by the end of 2006. As part of total contributions to the campaign thus far, Palmer College has received $5.2 million in federal funding, of which $3.9 million has been designated for the CLRC.
• Students from the Davenport Community School District and North Scott schools are pooling their talents and efforts to complete a new home to help celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Student Built Home Program. The students work several hours a day on the home and earn credit hours through Scott Community College, which also supplies the instructor for the course. As in years past, it is expected this home will be featured in the Spring Parade of Homes. All five previous homes involved in the program have been sold, and all have received high marks from their owners. The Student Built Homes program is unique not only for the commitment it requires from the students, but also for the involvement of four different high schools from two separate school systems.
• May 1 through 7 of this year has been designated as Vietnam Veterans Recognition Week in America. To celebrate, the Iowa House of Representatives will pass a bipartisan resolution to honor Vietnam veterans, as well as host them for a day of activities. Veterans from across the state are invited to attend the festivities, which will be held on April 18. It is believed that this will be the first resolution ever passed in the Iowa House to honor Vietnam veterans. The resolution is being co-sponsored by Representative Jeff Kaufmann, R-Wilton, and Representative Brian Quirk, D-New Hampton.
• Beginning April 14, all lighters will be prohibited from the sterile areas of airports and onboard aircraft. This action is in response to a provision in the Intelligence Reform & Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 17, 2004. This will broaden the current ban on torch lighters and those lighters with refillable fluid reservoirs. Bic-type lighters and lighters with absorbed fluid that are currently allowed through the checkpoint will be stopped after April 14. When lighters are discovered at the checkpoint, customers will be given the option to either take the lighters out of the sterile area or have the Transportation Security Administration dispose of the lighters. The Department of Transportation classifies lighters as hazardous materials and prohibits them from being packed in checked baggage; this is not a change in policy. Customers will be allowed to continue to carry paper matches into the sterile area. Further information is available at (http://www.tsa.gov).
• Bill Gluba, Democratic candidate for Congress, has announced that he raised more than $50,000 for his campaign in a recent 50-day period. Last year, he raised $522,643, more than all of Iowa's Democratic House challengers combined. Gluba is a candidate for Congress in Iowa's First District who ran against Jim Nussle in the 2004 general election.
• The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), part of the Department of Education, has published a feasibility study on the renewal of the postsecondary education statistic that would lead to the creation of a "database of millions of students records." Under the NCES proposal, all public and private universities and colleges would be required to submit their student data for the NCES database. Each student's unit record contains 40 personal items - including the student's Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, date of birth, gender, race, and permanent address. The feasibility study proposed that "individual identifiable data would remain within the permanent storage system" and have "new records added every year." Congress will likely consider the recommendations of the NCES feasibility study during debates about the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. For more information, look at NCES's Feasibility of a Student Unit Record System Within the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System at (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005160) or look at (http://www.epic.org).
• On Saturday, April 9, Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities broke ground for a home for Roxie Grady and her family. A large portion of the funding for this home is being provided by the Davenport Christ United Methodist Church Men's Group. Additional sponsorship monies include a grant from the Scott County Housing Council, the Federal Home Loan Bank, and Thrivent Financial. For more information about Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities, look at (http://www.habitatqc.org).
• Students from the Davenport Community School District and North Scott schools are pooling their talents and efforts to complete a new home to help celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Student Built Home Program. The students work several hours a day on the home and earn credit hours through Scott Community College, which also supplies the instructor for the course. As in years past, it is expected this home will be featured in the Spring Parade of Homes. All five previous homes involved in the program have been sold, and all have received high marks from their owners. The Student Built Homes program is unique not only for the commitment it requires from the students, but also for the involvement of four different high schools from two separate school systems.
• May 1 through 7 of this year has been designated as Vietnam Veterans Recognition Week in America. To celebrate, the Iowa House of Representatives will pass a bipartisan resolution to honor Vietnam veterans, as well as host them for a day of activities. Veterans from across the state are invited to attend the festivities, which will be held on April 18. It is believed that this will be the first resolution ever passed in the Iowa House to honor Vietnam veterans. The resolution is being co-sponsored by Representative Jeff Kaufmann, R-Wilton, and Representative Brian Quirk, D-New Hampton.
• Beginning April 14, all lighters will be prohibited from the sterile areas of airports and onboard aircraft. This action is in response to a provision in the Intelligence Reform & Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 17, 2004. This will broaden the current ban on torch lighters and those lighters with refillable fluid reservoirs. Bic-type lighters and lighters with absorbed fluid that are currently allowed through the checkpoint will be stopped after April 14. When lighters are discovered at the checkpoint, customers will be given the option to either take the lighters out of the sterile area or have the Transportation Security Administration dispose of the lighters. The Department of Transportation classifies lighters as hazardous materials and prohibits them from being packed in checked baggage; this is not a change in policy. Customers will be allowed to continue to carry paper matches into the sterile area. Further information is available at (http://www.tsa.gov).
• Bill Gluba, Democratic candidate for Congress, has announced that he raised more than $50,000 for his campaign in a recent 50-day period. Last year, he raised $522,643, more than all of Iowa's Democratic House challengers combined. Gluba is a candidate for Congress in Iowa's First District who ran against Jim Nussle in the 2004 general election.
• The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), part of the Department of Education, has published a feasibility study on the renewal of the postsecondary education statistic that would lead to the creation of a "database of millions of students records." Under the NCES proposal, all public and private universities and colleges would be required to submit their student data for the NCES database. Each student's unit record contains 40 personal items - including the student's Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, date of birth, gender, race, and permanent address. The feasibility study proposed that "individual identifiable data would remain within the permanent storage system" and have "new records added every year." Congress will likely consider the recommendations of the NCES feasibility study during debates about the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. For more information, look at NCES's Feasibility of a Student Unit Record System Within the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System at (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005160) or look at (http://www.epic.org).
• On Saturday, April 9, Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities broke ground for a home for Roxie Grady and her family. A large portion of the funding for this home is being provided by the Davenport Christ United Methodist Church Men's Group. Additional sponsorship monies include a grant from the Scott County Housing Council, the Federal Home Loan Bank, and Thrivent Financial. For more information about Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities, look at (http://www.habitatqc.org).
