Beat Iowa Party in Des Moines Tonight (Thursday)

Didn't see this posted. It's being put on by the ISU Alumni Association.

Beat Iowa Party

Thursday, Sept. 13
5:30 - 8 p.m.
People's Court
216 Court Ave. (3rd floor)
Downtown Des Moines

Join us for a great chance to win prizes, receive fun giveaways, and take advantage of drink specials. A cash bar is available, as well as food items for purchase.

We will be giving away two tickets to the ISU Homecoming football game and tailgate Oct. 20.

Show your ISU Alumni Association membership card and get in FREE; nonmembers will be charged $3 admission. You must show your card to receive the free admission.

Here is what your membership card looks like (either this full-size card or the smaller keyring membership card will be accepted):

http://www.isualum.org/documents/ISU...rship_Card.jpg
If you are a member of the Alumni Association and do not have a membership card, please call the Alumni Association at (877) 478-2586 and ask to have your name added to the member list for the event.

Any other questions? Call (877) ISU-ALUM (478-2586).

Sponsored by:

http://www.isualum.org/documents/Bea...y_Sponsors.jpg

People are actually members of the alumni association?

Try over 50,000 of us. No excuse not to be. The only BigXII school with more is Texas.

Well, the university gets money from the state, federal govt.(?) and tuition. I dont think they're stuggling for cash.

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Originally Posted by ripvdub

Well, the university gets money from the state, federal govt.(?) and tuition. I dont think they're stuggling for cash.

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Are you kidding me? ISU faculty salaries may be competitive, but just barely. There are all kinds of construction projects in the works that need funded.

$100/year for the Alumni Association is not too much. You get the cool calendar with pictures of campus and discounts at a lot of places. I know that 20%? discount at T-Galaxy and the UBS comes in handy.

The discounts in clothing alone are reason enough to become a member.

CBS also offers the discount - 15% if I remember correctly... (Not many people used it while I worked there...)

Dunno what other discounts you guys get, but I have no problem paying for my Student Alumni card in discounts (then again, I live in Ames and we only pay $15 for ours... plus we get a T-shirt)

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Originally Posted by ripvdub

Well, the university gets money from the state, federal govt.(?) and tuition. I dont think they're stuggling for cash.

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Actually, about half of ISU's money comes from private/corporate support. :no:

ISU has almost 200,000 living alums, 50,000 of which are members of the Alumni Association. That means 1-in-4 have joined the Alumni Association, that's pretty significant.

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Originally Posted by cstrunk

Actually, about half of ISU's money comes from private/corporate support. :no:

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Yeah. Unfortunately, though, it pretty much has to be that way. College would cost at least twice as much as it already does for students if that wasn't the case..

:confused: