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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The University of Iowa temporarily suspended a promotion saying it would raffle off free tuition to five students who bought season tickets to football games because of legal concerns.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Season tickets for Iowa football games can cost as much as $175. The temporary suspension of the promotion comes after the &lt;i&gt;Des Moines Register&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;raised questions about the initiative's legality. From the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Register:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;David Werning, spokesman for the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, said Wednesday that the promotion raised \"a lot of issues.\" Werning said the university has a license to hold gambling contests as a \"social and charitable\" organization. However, it must abide by laws regulating raffles, he said.\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The winners were to only receive two semesters (Fall 2014 and Spring 2015) worth of tuition at the in-state rate (about $8,000) and the prize did not include an estimated $9,600 worth of room and board or the cost of books.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More&lt;/strong&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;In wide-open Big Ten West, Iowa has&amp;nbsp;reasons for optimism&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The school also offered a one away-game viewing party inside the press box at Kinnick Stadium, up to $500 in books for one student, and $1,000 Hy-Vee gift cards for four students in efforts to get more students to attend games.\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I have suspended the promotion temporarily as we determine how to make sure that this promotion is in complete compliance,\" Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said via The &lt;em&gt;Des Moines Register&lt;/em&gt;. \"In the end, our goal is to do everything possible to make sure that the student experience at Hawkeye football games is as fun and exciting as possible.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em &gt;- Scooby Axson&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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