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COMMENTARY: How To Hit College Campuses With All The Right Moves

It’s time for the annuaul graduation parties and the inevitable advice business.

This columnist, a 38-year-old who went to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1987 with an early generation home computer and got through four years without a cell phone (or email) may not be the right person to dispense advice to kids on how [...]


Videos: Young Voters Turn Out for Joe Biden

Delaware Sen. Joe Biden pleased many fans at an event on the University of Iowa campus on Tuesday evening, but perhaps none more so than Alex Denison, a high school student from Burlington, Iowa. He drove with his mother (an Obama supporter) over 70 miles to see his political hero.

Denison was being crowned homecoming king [...]


Videos: Iowa College Republican Answers the Conservative Calling

Ben Johnson is looking for a reflection of his ideals in Republican leaders.  He wants someone who will mirror his conservative philosophy to be the next president.

Johnson, a double-major in psychology and physics at the University of Iowa, exuberantly leads more than 7000 Iowa college Republicans as the state chairman of the Iowa Federation of [...]


Romney’s Iowa Campus Chairs Announced

Sixteen young adults have been named by the Romney for President campaign as leaders of a grassroots campaigns on Iowa's college campuses.
The announcement is the first since March when the formation of the the first chapter of “Iowa Students for Romney” was announced at the University of Northern Iowa. It also comes nearly six weeks [...]