March 28, 2024

Critics up in arms over college shooting club hire

INDIANOLA — An Iowa college is receiving pushback for its plan to hire a full-time coach for its shooting sports club. A petition for a weapons-free Simpson College garnered more than 130 signatures by Wednesday morning. It calls on the college’s board of trustees to reverse a decision to hire a coach and to stop letting students store firearms in a locked safe on campus. A 1997 graduate, Rebecca Bentzinger, started the petition Jan. 27 after learning about the proposal to hire a coach.