{"id":1369,"date":"2012-02-22T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2012-12-05T22:11:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T04:11:19","slug":"nu-high-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/nu-high-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"NU High to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/wcfcourier.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/6\/e5\/6e54f472-c986-11de-9923-001cc4c002e0\/6e54f472-c986-11de-9923-001cc4c002e0.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Image: Waterloo Courier)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Its official name is &#8220;Malcolm Price Laboratory School&#8221; or &#8220;Price Lab.&#8221; But when it comes to sports, we know it as &#8220;NU High&#8221; (for Northern University). Its connection to UNI wasn&#8217;t that much of a concern or thought \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>UNI wants to close the school effective at the end of this school year, a result of severe budget issues. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/uni-to-close-price-lab-july-1-pending-regents-approval\/\">Des Moines Register<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/news\/local\/uni-faculty-told-price-lab-school-to-close-july\/article_c3ab0768-5da4-11e1-b5be-0019bb2963f4.html\">Waterloo Courier<\/a> are both on it. Closing requires approval from the Board of Regents and Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>After a fire in the <del>late<\/del> early &#8217;90s, NU High got a really, really nice gym. Home football games in the UNI-Dome gave visiting teams the chance to experience a playoff atmosphere even if it would never happen for them.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s not exactly like a public small school closing, the effects will be much the same.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT 12\/5\/12: Corrected time frame of fire (1993).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image: Waterloo Courier) Its official name is &#8220;Malcolm Price Laboratory School&#8221; or &#8220;Price Lab.&#8221; But when it comes to sports, we know it as &#8220;NU High&#8221; (for Northern University). Its connection to UNI wasn&#8217;t that much of a concern or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/nu-high-to-close\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}