University Festival Is Suspended After Riot
Iowa State University officials are suspending the school’s annual festival for one year after this spring’s event turned riotous, the university’s president said in Des Moines.
Gregory Geoffroy said two task forces would study what caused the riot and how to ensure it would not recur, but the results would not be ready in time for spring 2005.
The student-organized festival, known as Veishea, erupted in violence on April 18, when rioters threw rocks and bottles, smashed windows, set fires in trash bins and toppled street lights. Police arrested 38 people.
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