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Inspections Reveal Problems with Iowa’s Flood-Control Levees But Maintenance Lags

By Katelynn McCollough | August 10, 2013

Broad federal requirements are allowing many levees to fall through the cracks in maintenance and leave the reliability of others unknown, an IowaWatch investigation revealed. Levees that are inspected generally rate low, but repairs aren’t always made.

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Problems getting satisfaction in sexual harassment, assault instances at the University of Iowa

Many women reporting sexual assault or harassment at the University of Iowa say they’ve felt helpless going through the university’s system for resolving the complaints. Their stories, in The Daily Iowan.

Source: The Daily Iowan (Iowa City)

How Title IX sexual harassment remedies pin no-contact enforcement on women who filed complaint

Women winning negotiated no-contact orders in college sexual harassment complaints still end up forfeiting opportunities when the alleged perpetrator shows up in the same room, the Grinnell College student newspaper reports.

Source: The Scarlet & Black (Grinnell)

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