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CITY FROM IOWA: For the first time in nearly a decade, administrators at the University of Iowa announced on Monday that they were canceling classes all Wednesday and in parts of Tuesday and Thursday due to extremely cold weather, and forecasters project temperatures in the city of Iowa campus to reach 30 degrees below zero.
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Kirkwood Community College also preemptively eliminated all classes at all of their locations from 5 pm Tuesday until 10 a.m. Thursday, when the polar vortex takes over the region.
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The University Iowa State is also canceling 5 pm classes Tuesday until noon Thursday. Similarly, at Coe College, classes will be canceled beginning at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday until 8 a.m. Thursday,
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The University Northern Iowa was the last to decide, and announced that due to cold weather there would be no classes on campus starting at 5 pm, Tuesday through noon, on Thursday. Further. On Wednesday, the UNI campus will be put into reduced operations; only the essential personnel must inform, with the courses taught by the electronic learning process as scheduled.
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Some districts K-12 students on Monday alerted parents that their children will stay at home for at least part of the three-day Arctic outbreak, including the Iowa City Community School District, which after a late start on Monday canceled classes until Thursday.
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In addition, Cedar Rapids Community Schools, Linn-Mar Schools and Marion Independent Schools have announced that they will close the school on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and plan to evaluate Thursday. The College Community School District canceled the school for Tuesday and Wednesday, and these closings include the ECC and all practices and activities.
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Due to In the inclement weather, Clear Creek Amana schools announced that there will be no classes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with all buildings closed. The Solon Community Schools announced that they will be closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with BASP and all activities canceled. The school districts of Mount Vernon and Lisbon also decided that schools will not open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Xavier Catholic School District closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with the cold preventing the basketball games scheduled for boys and girls and the mass and rosary on Tuesday
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The cancellation of the user interface marks the first time that it eliminates classes for a full day since December 2009, when a storm of snow hit the state, dropping a couple of feet of snow in some parts, according to the National Weather Service.
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The officials did not know when was the last time that the UI canceled the classes only for cold temperatures, that Wednesday is projected in Iowa City to reach a maximum of 16 below zero and a minimum of minus 30. The mercury will begin its decline Tuesday, with temperatures going down to negative 20s. And it will only increase slightly on Thursday, when forecasters project a maximum of 1 next.
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In a message to the UI campus on Monday afternoon, the Vice President of Student Life, Melissa Shivers, emphasized that the start of Tuesday's closure should not only affect night classes but also nonacademic events, and urged the organizers of those groups relevant to communicate the cancellations.
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"We recommend strongly to all organizers of nonacademic events that cancel, given the extreme weather, "he wrote. "In all cases, we urge students, faculty and staff to use good judgment and avoid serious risks during these extreme weather conditions."
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When canceling classes, the UI followed its "extreme climate protocol", which included keeping open and operating essential services, such as UI hospitals and clinics, dental clinics, the Department of Public Safety, UI Housing and Dining, State Hygiene Laboratory and management operation facilities.
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"Se expects the staff of these units to make all reasonable efforts to inform the work ", in accordance with the UI policy. "Administrative functions on campus continue to the extent that faculty, staff, and administrators can travel and do business on campus."
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