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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

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Helping rec nationally

TRAVIS VARNER August 28, 2009

Annually, the UI does everything in its power to improve campus recreation. One organization, the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association, helps the university. Essentially, the association...

Field hockey faces ACC

JORDAN GARRETSON August 28, 2009

Last season, it was exceptionally rare to find back-to-back games that the Iowa field-hockey team wasn’t favored in. But that’s exactly the case this weekend. The ninth-ranked Hawkeyes will open...

Blue Top long, tough course

CLARK CAHILL August 28, 2009

In the last 48 hours, rain has eroded its deep bunkers until they resemble giant ant farms. The next 48 hours will require roughly 500 hours of labor to prepare Blue Top Ridge to host the first-ever Golfweek...

Big Ten Preview: Long way from kitten status

BRENDAN STILES August 28, 2009

Before every season, when prognosticators across the country make their college football predictions, there’s always talk about the sleeper — the team that isn’t picked to win its conference but...

Video: Football Forum – Iowa linebackers

DI SPORTS STAFF August 28, 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...

New Linebacker U

AMIE KIEHN August 28, 2009

Former Michigan football coach Fielding Yost established the linebacker position, but it is Iowa senior Pat Angerer who is making it look good. The All-Big Ten linebacker ranked second in the conference...

Reaction mixed on faculty hiring plan

MARLEEN LINARES August 28, 2009

UI faculty leaders had mixed feelings after hearing about a university plan to hire 100 faculty for new positions over the next five years despite budget cuts. The Task Force on Research and Creative...

Music, free food celebrate diversity

EMILY BUSSE August 28, 2009

A hush fell over the crowd of more than 100 UI students as they stood and turned to face the altar in Old Brick. Suddenly, hip-hop music drowned out the sound of rain on stained glass as UI junior Hai...

Spotlight Iowa City: Concussion leads to a new life

MITCH SMITH August 28, 2009

Jordan Loperena has accomplished what most sports fans only dream about. The UI senior helped set up the SkyCam for the ESPN/ABC broadcast of the Iowa-Penn State game last November, worked camera utility...

Rain can’t stop job fair

MOLLY BURKE August 28, 2009

Despite a still troubled economy, Thursday’s Student Job Fair saw roughly the same number of students and employers as last year. With résumés and class schedules in hand, around 1,400 UI students...

Original 21-law backer recants

MICHELLE BORYCA August 28, 2009

What if the minimum legal drinking age went the way of Prohibition? Morris Chafetz, the psychiatrist who helped construct the 21-law during the Reagan administration, recently called the legislation “the...

After ‘fun,’ dealing with trash

CHRIS CLARK August 28, 2009

At 6 a.m. Thursday, puddles peppered the sidewalks of the Pedestrian Mall where, fewer than four hours earlier, students drifted home after the bars closed like the small streams of rainwater meandering...

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