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Man Argues He Was Not Hired by Iowa City School District Due to His Whiteness and His Maleness: Iowa City Daily News Links, June 7
ALSO: Say farewell to gnats, say hello to mosquitoes; there may be more casinos in Iowa's future; and the area has more tools to prepare for floods.
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On to the Links
A man claims that he was not hired by the Iowa City School District because he is white, a man, and a former University of Iowa football player. Or those were the reasons he thought he should be hired, I'm sort of confused. (Iowa City Press-Citizen)
The gnats have of course been terrible this year. But don't worry, they'll soon leave and be replaced by their bigger scarier counterparts. (Press-Citizen)
Congrats to Iowa City West High School girls soccer team on advancing to state semifinals. (KCRG)
Tara Bannow of the Press-Citizen writes that the area has more tools for fighting floods than previously and they were put to the test by this year's flooding.
A state study on gambling could mean more casinos in the future. (Des Moines Register)
Daily Links Excerpt of the Day
Lopos, 61, now lives in Connecticut. He filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission late last year, alleging the school district violated the Civil Rights Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
“I’m one of the biggest advocates of feminists and one of the biggest advocates of not being a gender-biased person, but you have a lot of misguided feminists in that district that think they’re untouchable. Any time anyone questions them, they just can’t handle it,” Lopos said. “ ... The thing they can’t handle is a former Iowa football player who says, ‘I’m smarter than you.’ ”
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District administrators declined to discuss Lopos’ allegations but denied that their hiring processes are discriminatory.
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