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Some College Student Renters Must Battle Unfair Charges, Rigged Damage Deposit Requirements

By Alex Parrott | July 30, 2015

ONE OF TWO STORIES: Hundreds of college students who rent private apartments while attending Iowa’s three public universities routinely are being taken advantage of by landlords who unfairly withhold security deposits that might be owed back to the students.

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Documents Reveal Improper Charges Dumped On Iowa City Student Renters

By Makayla Tendall | July 30, 2015

ONE OF TWO STORIES: Iowa City student renters have been nickeled and dimed for several years, losing security deposits and facing fees for automatic cleaning charges and damages to public spaces over which they have no control. Documents in an Iowa City court case reveal the charges.

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Investigative Reporting in Iowa

Problems getting satisfaction in sexual harassment, assault instances at the University of Iowa

Many women reporting sexual assault or harassment at the University of Iowa say they’ve felt helpless going through the university’s system for resolving the complaints. Their stories, in The Daily Iowan.

Source: The Daily Iowan (Iowa City)

How Title IX sexual harassment remedies pin no-contact enforcement on women who filed complaint

Women winning negotiated no-contact orders in college sexual harassment complaints still end up forfeiting opportunities when the alleged perpetrator shows up in the same room, the Grinnell College student newspaper reports.

Source: The Scarlet & Black (Grinnell)

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