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INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa college is sticking with its decision to hire a full-time coach for its shooting sports club, despite opposition from alumni and other supporters who say guns have no place on a liberal arts campus.
Simpson College President Jay Simmons told the Des Moines Register (http://dmreg.co/20mdWkf ) in an email that the school's board of trustees considered two dueling petitions about the student club's future at its regular winter meeting Friday.
Simmons said the board will still hire a full-time coach and that an offer for the position will likely be made to a candidate this week.
An online petition favoring a "weapons-free Simpson" opposed a $10,000 grant the club accepted from the National Shooting Sports Foundation in 2012. The petition asked the trustees to not hire a coach and to stop allowing firearms to be stored on campus.
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This story has been updated to correct the president's last name to Simmons, not Simpson. Changes have been carried over in US--Shooting Club-Iowa School.
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