The University of Iowa requested on Feb. 28 that the state Board of Regents permit an increase in residence hall living and dining-hall meal-plan rates. The increase would be 2 percent for all but one...
Mental-health education needs more grip to pull through the Iowa Legislature. Numerous bills have been proposed, amended, and voted on in the Iowa Senate and Iowa House, but execution and implementation...
The Enneagram is a specific system of personality tests designed to help you learn more about yourself. The system is simple; it’s based on a 9-type wheel.Everyone can find a little bit of themselves...
“Parasocial interaction” is a term sociologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl coined in 1956 to explain the psychological experience between an individual and a celebrity or a well-known person with...
Suicide ranked as the 10th leading cause of death in the United States across all ages in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — creating a decrease in the overall life-expectancy...
A proposed bill to impose the death penalty in Iowa is now eligible for debate in the Iowa Senate. The bill, Senate File 296, would recommend capital punishment for “murder in the first-degree offenses...
Few things are as cringeworthy to me as hearing about or seeing an anti-Semitic act. Growing up in a Jewish household, I was always taught to defend myself whenever I faced any microaggressions or anti-Semitic...
Before I started writing the 20 Out of 20 series, I made a list of 20 possible candidates I thought could or would make a run for president. Jay Inslee wasn’t one of them.
The Washington governor and...
The University of California on Feb. 28 firmly decided not to renew its subscription with Elsevier — the largest scholarly publisher in the world, disseminating scientific, technical, and medical information...
It’s fair to say that no matter how hard you try as a high-school senior, you will never be “college ready.” There are so many things you can’t anticipate, and the push to get you “college ready”...
On Feb. 26, the Iowa Senate passed a bill that would allow Iowa schools to have the option of employing a librarian and a school nurse. The language of the current legislation suggests that schools in...
