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Iowa, Nice!

Minnesota Nice blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, March 11, 2008 - 11:17pm; tagged: academia, anti-war, college, demonstrations, Karl Rove, protests.

Although I'll never understand how enough force could gather behind the idea of inviting Karl Rove – recently named "The Worst Person Ever" – to the University of Iowa's college graduation, I'm glad to see not everyone was pleased about it.


Some were upset at the protesters, and while I concur that it was disruptive, as one post articulated, If you pay a clown 40 grand, you should expect to see a circus.

Also, maybe I'm the only one, but I had NO IDEA that colleges pay this much for speakers. Forty-thousand dollars? I'm pretty sure the most we've ever gotten for a college speaking gig is, oh maybe $300. Can someone pull some strings, please?

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