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Monday Morning Read: Clamping down on panhandling?, Bernie Sanders returning, Iowa offering Islamic psychology class
TODAY'S WEATHER — Partly cloudy, another chance of storms. High 91, low 69.
CLAMPING DOWN ON PANHANDLING? — Cedar Rapids officials are considering clamping down on panhandling under a pedestrian safety ordinance. Signalized medians around the city and key intersections — including these — would be off limits for panhandlers and others. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/pedestrian-safety-rules-would-clamp-down-on-panhandling-in-cedar-rapids/
BERNIE SANDERS RETURNING — The last time Prairie Lights Books hosted Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders he attracted a standing-room-only crowd. 'That was in February 2015 before he was a declared candidate,' Prairie Lights' Jan Weissmiller said. Prairie Lights will host Sanders again Aug. 31 — this time at Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/prairie-lights-to-host-bernie-sanders-aug-31-at-hancher/
IOWA OFFERING ISLAMIC PSYCHOLOGY CLASS — Students across the state, nation and world this fall will have the chance to take a new University of Iowa-based course about Islamic psychology, something new in academics. Introduction to Islamic Psychology is the start of what UI adjunct professor Carrie York Al-Karam hopes will blossom into an Islamic Psychology Institute offering an Islamic psychology certificate. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/university-of-iowa-to-offer-islamic-psychology-class/
FORMER IOWA, IOWA STATE COACH BOB ELLIOTT DIES — Bob Elliott, former University of Iowa football player who was an assistant football coach at Iowa and Iowa State, died of cancer Saturday night while in hospice care in Iowa City. He was 64. Elliott was hired to be the University of Nebraska's safeties coach in February, but relinquished that job in June and became a defensive analyst because of what were termed 'personal reasons.' He was a college coach for 38 years. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/sports/former-iowa-isu-football-coach-bob-elliott-dies/
QUOTABLE — 'What am I doing wrong? Who am I hurting? I can understand if I was drunk or high, but I am not.' Nicole Fessler, Cedar Rapids panhandler, on a proposed ordinance to crack down on panhandling in the city
Nicole Fessler, originally from San Antonio, thanks a motorist after she was given a bag containing bananas, cracker sandwiches, cookies, an energy drink and other items as she sits in the median at the western intersection of Interstate 380 and Blairs Ferry Rd. NE in northeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday, July 6 2017. Fessler, who is homeless and living in a tent, has been in Cedar Rapids for two years. The City of Cedar Rapids is proposing rules to address pedestrian safety at intersections that would, in effect, curb panhandling. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
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