President Barack Obama appeared in Iowa City on Wednesday, April 25th to speak at the University of Iowa Field House about the effects of increasing student loan interest rates and how doubling those rates could affect current and future college students in their quest for affordable education. KRUI News Reporters spoke with University of Iowa students about how doubling the interest rates of student loans would affect them and how they needed nation 21 bad credit and cash loans help.

Listen to responses from various students here: [audio: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35667540/OBAMA1st.mp3]

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By KRUI News Reporters Stephanie Nelson and Emily Woodbury

Tulane University political science professor Sally Kenney held a lecture on February 29th to discuss women in the judiciary system as part of the Policy Matters class series sponsored by the UI History Department and Public Policy Center.

Kenney discussed her forthcoming book, Gender and Justice: Why Women Judges Really Matter with KRUI News Reporters Stephanie Nelson and Emily Woodbury and where Iowa stands in the national representation of women in the judiciary.

Listen to the interview here:

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