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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Big Ten Preview: Badgers have an attitude

AMIE KIEHN August 25, 2009

Football season has yet to commence, but scary summer practice sessions have put the Wisconsin Badgers alarmingly close to a lackluster season. Initially, left tackle Gabe Carimi suffered what most suspected...

Video: Football Forum – Iowa tight ends

DI SPORTS STAFF August 25, 2009

Be sure to visit dailyiowan.com every day throughout the 2009 football season for The Daily Iowan Football Forum, an in-depth discussion among DI and Daily Iowan TV football reporters about the Iowa Hawkeyes. The...

Moeaki hopes for full season

BRENDAN STILES August 25, 2009

In recent years, numerous tight ends have enjoyed success at Iowa. Past players such as Dallas Clark, Scott Chandler, and Brandon Myers were all drafted after playing for Hawkeye head man Kirk Ferentz. Senior...

Spotlight Iowa City: Above all, the music

RACHAEL LANDER August 25, 2009

All one needs to do is utter the word “opera” in front of UI music student Chaz’men Williams-Ali for his passion to become immediately visible. Williams-Ali spent most of his life in St. Louis with...

Museum’s temp home nearly ready

ERIN PETTIT August 25, 2009

Getting hundreds of pieces of art back on campus is a relief to those affected by the UI Arts Campus flooding during the summer of 2008. “It’s just like seeing old friends or family that you really...

UI brings information to developing nations

MARLEEN LINARES August 25, 2009

A pile of hundreds of bubble-wrapped computers lurks in the UI Communications Center waiting to be shipped away. Destination: Africa. For the UI-based Widernet Project, established in 2000, delivering...

Bars have long road on licenses

REGINA ZILBERMINTS August 25, 2009

Two downtown bars have asked state officials to overturn the Iowa City City Council’s decision to deny their liquor licenses. Lynn Walding, the administrator of the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division,...

Shambaugh House going green

LAUREN MILLS August 25, 2009

The walls of Shambaugh House, which for years have contained noted authors from around the world and echoed their well-written words, are going green — very green. The plan started with a desire to...

More $$ for fighting male violence

JOHN DOETKOTT August 25, 2009

While the Iowa City police step up patrols downtown in hopes of reducing violence in the area, UI graduate student Jerrod Koon says they may be missing the point. Koon, the coordinator of the UI Men’s...

‘Garden Club’ eases book-buying crush

SAMANTHA HONKEN August 25, 2009

For students, buying books means braving lines winding to the back of the stores, toting stacks of texts weighing slightly less than a German shepherd, and shelling out hundreds of dollars. It was more...

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