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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

Women’s basketball set for Big Ten opener

EVELYN LAU December 4, 2009

Youth has carried the Iowa women’s basketball team thus far in the season. Playing short-handed because of injuries to three starters, the Hawkeyes (5-3) will try to get back to winning when they start...

Iowa hosts Prairie View A&M on Saturday

SCOTT MILLER December 4, 2009

Through the Iowa men’s basketball team’s first five games, the squad’s poor shooting was widely linked to its worst start in 80 years. The Hawkeyes only shot above 34 percent in two of those games,...

Top-ranked wrestlers face No. 2 Iowa State

J.T. BUGOS December 4, 2009

Iowa head wrestling coach Tom Brands spoke to his team before practice on Wednesday, emphasizing that the Hawkeyes would need a sense of urgency this weekend when they travel to Ames to face the second-ranked...

Number of UI alcohol crimes rise

DI STAFF December 4, 2009

Alcohol-related crimes at the UI are up, according to a state Board of Regents report released Thursday. The report is for the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, and since the quarter that ended June...

2 alums donate for Ponseti work

DI STAFF December 4, 2009

UI alumni Bob Whitmore and Molly Osterhaus Whitmore gave a $1 million donation to continue the work of UI Professor Emeritus Ignacio Ponseti worldwide. Bob Whitmore graduated from the UI in 1986, earning...

UI on watch for ghostwriters

LAUREN MILLS December 4, 2009

Some medical research is haunted by a specter — a ghostwriter. Ghostwriters are hired to write works that are published under another name — such as in the legions of celebrity autobiographies on...

Regina busing still up in air

HOLLY HINES December 4, 2009

North Liberty resident Sharon Romans might have to pull her kids out of private schooling next year if the Iowa City School District cuts its busing service for students at the Regina Catholic Education...

Spotlight Iowa City: Digging the jig

BRI LaPELUSA December 4, 2009

If jumping up and down in a black unitard, plastic silver mask, and thick leather shoes in excruciating summer heat for 16 hours isn’t the definition of passion, the word is indefinable. While most...

Furlough to create backlog

REGINA ZILBERMINTS December 4, 2009

The Johnson County court staff braced for the first of 10 furlough days today, but they didn’t do much to prepare. Because they couldn’t. All they could do is wait to see how big the backlog of paperwork...

New UI club roils water

JORDAN FRIES December 4, 2009

Officials from the UI Competition with Private Enterprise Committee failed to make a decision Thursday regarding a complaint filed by the Iowa City Eels swim club against the UI’s new Iowa Flyers club. UI...

3 Senate hopefuls focus on economy

MITCHELL SCHMIDT December 4, 2009

Three Democratic candidates running against Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, agreed on Thursday night: the economic crisis will continue to be a major issue throughout the 2010 campaign race. The hopefuls...

Mason received bonus in 2008

EMILY BUSSE December 4, 2009

The same month that regents denied UI President Sally Mason a pay increase last year, in part because of the university’s mishandling of an alleged on-campus sexual assault, she received a $50,000 bonus. The...

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