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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

54 Hawkeyes named Academic All-Big Ten

DI STAFF March 31, 2011

Fifty-four Iowa student-athletes have been named to the 2011 Big Ten Winter Academic All-Conference team. The conference office recognized a total of 524 winter sports athletes in the Big Ten. To be eligible...

Keppler finding success as reliever for Iowa baseball

MATT COZZI March 31, 2011

Throughout the Iowa baseball season, there have been times when head coach Jack Dahm has forgot to pencil in Phil Keppler’s name under the “available pitchers” column on the lineup card. Although...

Baseball botches ballgame against South Dakota State

SETH ROBERTS March 31, 2011

One word was on the mind of every Iowa baseball player after a 10-5 loss to South Dakota State on Wednesday. Unacceptable. Iowa (9-13) shot itself in the foot with four errors in the game, including...

Kachine The Machine

JON FRANK March 31, 2011

To describe senior guard Kachine Alexander’s career in basketball as successful would be like describing Hamlet as a yarn about some prince. In the basement of Alexander’s mother’s home in Iowa...

Post-rhabdo hospitalization, Prater is ready to go

JORDAN GARRETSON March 31, 2011

People keep asking Shaun Prater the same question. What did he and 12 other Iowa football players do differently to wind up in the hospital with rhabdomyolysis in January? He still doesn’t have an...

Spotlight: Freshman becomes youngest personal trainer at rec center

NICK SZAFRANSKI March 31, 2011

“Gym rat” — a phrase used to describe a person who spends umpteen hours a week lifting weights in a gym with a goal in mind. But what do you call someone who spends a majority of his time in the...

With technology, study abroad more connected to home

EMILY HOERNER March 31, 2011

When Sheila McNeill studied in Spain 36 years ago, her parents had no way of knowing how the riots in Madrid were affecting her. But in the era of the Internet, she can now instantly find out how her...

Concussion-education bill passes Senate, House

MICHELLE MCCONNAUGHEY March 31, 2011

West High sophomore Xavier May said he hated sitting out two weeks of the last football season because he had suffered a concussion. “I wanted to get back in the game and play, but my dad forced me...

Iowa Supreme Court to hear local material-witness case

ALLIE WRIGHT March 31, 2011

The Iowa Supreme Court announced it will hear a case relating to an alleged material witness in an Iowa City murder trial. Justin Marshall, 20, was held in jail for months after police said he witnessed...

Local chefs, bartenders compete in ‘Top Chef’ competition

LUKE VOELZ March 31, 2011

Hicham Chehouan was expecting to put on a show. When the Downtown Association of Iowa City asked his restaurant, Crêpes de Luxe, 309 E. College St., to participate in the city’s first Top Chef competition,...

Police review board member on paid leave after disorderly house citation

HAYLEY BRUCE March 31, 2011

An Iowa City Police Citizen’s Review Board member and community liaison has been placed on administrative leave after allegedly hosting a party that turned into a fight, though she still retains her...

Students may soon get credit for rape defense class

HAYLEY BRUCE March 31, 2011

Alison Stephan struck a red foam pad with an unforgiving fist. “No,” the UI freshman screamed, hitting the angry Sharpie-drawn face between the eyes. Stephan was one of nine women who participated...

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