Iowa City News

From time to time it's hard to keep up with the plethora of projects you might have going on at any given time as a college student as busy as I am. Unfortunately this has kept me away from keeping the Iowa City Owl updated with all the latest events and news for Iowa City.

At long last, the University of Iowa Student Government campaign season has begun, and we know who our candidates are. Each campaign looks to be running on their own unique messages, and we'll analyze each of them so that you can get an idea of who you should vote for.

• "L" - Ryan Kopf & Gary Ohrt - The L campaign seems to be the most complete, issue-oriented campaigns we have in this election.

The Cedar Rapids Marriott Hotel and Conference Center will hold the 12th annual ProCon, a professional development conference designed for a wide range of business professionals. This one day regional event, held May 12 from 7:00 to 5:30, features two tracks, focusing on leadership and project management, welcoming engineers, project managers, human resource and technical professionals, and business leaders from across industries.

ProCon's “Growing Global Leaders” theme will include seminars on the topics of Coaching, Mentoring, and High Performance Teams by Debra Salz from Prevention Services & Strategies, and Project Risk Management and Lean Project Management by Jamie Northrup from Triple Constraint, Inc.

For more information and to register, go to http://procon2009.org.

The University of Iowa is seeking to give students more alternatives to drinking on Friday and Saturday nights with it's Late Night At Iowa Program, which has a total of $50,000 to give away to alcohol-free late night events.

Late Night, a partnership between the office of the Provost and the office of the Vice President of Student Services, offers student organizations a piece of a $50,000 pie to be used to organize events to be held after 10pm on Friday and Saturday nights. The goal is to reduce drinking at the University and encourage students to attend alcohol-free events.

Late Night at Iowa is one of many ways the University is trying to encourage students to try alternatives to drinking on their weekends.