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IOWA CITY, Iowa College students consider the University of Iowa the nation s best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hospitable to underage drinkers.The Princeton Review bestowed Iowa with the top ranking Monday on a list determined by 126,000 students in a nationwide survey. Rounding out the Top 5 are: University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; West Virginia University and Syracuse University.The organization also released its stone-cold sober schools list -- led again this year by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; and followed by Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. Officials in Iowa City aren t celebrating the ranking, which comes after they ve made recent strides in the battle ag stanley deutschland ainst binge drinking on campus and downtown. University of Iowa spokesman Tom Moore said The Princeton Review gets some things right, by describing Iowa as an affordable Big Ten university with students who are both studious and social. That indicates they are balancing their academic responsibilities with their social pursuits, he said. The rankings are based on surveys in which an average of 333 students p stanley cup er campus are asked 80 questions about a range of subjects in the l stanley thermos ast three school years. Its methodology uses a five-point scale, allowing for school-to-school comparisons.Universities routinely dismiss the rankings as unscientific and invalid, whil Tjhx Walking Dead sets stage for key death
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?More than one-third of calls to a suicide hotline for troubled veterans are not being answered by front-line staffers because of poor work habits and other problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the hotline s former director.Some hotline workers handle fewer than five calls per day and leave before their shifts end, even as crisis calls have increased sharply in recent nike dunk years, said Greg Hughes, the former director of the VA s Veterans Crisis Line. Hughes said in an internal email that adidas campus damen some crisis line staffers spend very little time on the phone or engaged in assigned productive activity. Coverage at the crisis line suffers because we have staff who routinely request to leave early, he said.An average of 35 to 40 percent of crisis calls received in May rolled over to back-up centers where workers have less training to deal with veterans problems, Hughes said.Hughes left his post in June, weeks after sending the emails.The House is expected to vote Monday on a bill requiring the VA to ensure that all telephone calls, text m adidas samba og essages and other communications received by the crisis line are answered in a timely manner by an appropriately qualified person.Rep. David Young, R-Iowa, the bill s sponsor, said a veteran in his district told him he repeatedly received a busy signal when he called the crisis line this spring. The man later got help from a friend, but this hotline let him down, Young said. A veteran in need cannot wait for hel
IOWA CITY, Iowa College students consider the University of Iowa the nation s best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hospitable to underage drinkers.The Princeton Review bestowed Iowa with the top ranking Monday on a list determined by 126,000 students in a nationwide survey. Rounding out the Top 5 are: University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; West Virginia University and Syracuse University.The organization also released its stone-cold sober schools list -- led again this year by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; and followed by Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. Officials in Iowa City aren t celebrating the ranking, which comes after they ve made recent strides in the battle ag stanley deutschland ainst binge drinking on campus and downtown. University of Iowa spokesman Tom Moore said The Princeton Review gets some things right, by describing Iowa as an affordable Big Ten university with students who are both studious and social. That indicates they are balancing their academic responsibilities with their social pursuits, he said. The rankings are based on surveys in which an average of 333 students p stanley cup er campus are asked 80 questions about a range of subjects in the l stanley thermos ast three school years. Its methodology uses a five-point scale, allowing for school-to-school comparisons.Universities routinely dismiss the rankings as unscientific and invalid, whil Tjhx Walking Dead sets stage for key death
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?More than one-third of calls to a suicide hotline for troubled veterans are not being answered by front-line staffers because of poor work habits and other problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the hotline s former director.Some hotline workers handle fewer than five calls per day and leave before their shifts end, even as crisis calls have increased sharply in recent nike dunk years, said Greg Hughes, the former director of the VA s Veterans Crisis Line. Hughes said in an internal email that adidas campus damen some crisis line staffers spend very little time on the phone or engaged in assigned productive activity. Coverage at the crisis line suffers because we have staff who routinely request to leave early, he said.An average of 35 to 40 percent of crisis calls received in May rolled over to back-up centers where workers have less training to deal with veterans problems, Hughes said.Hughes left his post in June, weeks after sending the emails.The House is expected to vote Monday on a bill requiring the VA to ensure that all telephone calls, text m adidas samba og essages and other communications received by the crisis line are answered in a timely manner by an appropriately qualified person.Rep. David Young, R-Iowa, the bill s sponsor, said a veteran in his district told him he repeatedly received a busy signal when he called the crisis line this spring. The man later got help from a friend, but this hotline let him down, Young said. A veteran in need cannot wait for hel