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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

The Daily Iowan

The Clothing Closet, a resourceful place for students to find professional attire, is pictured on Oct. 19, 2020. The Clothing Closet is adjusting its normal routine due to COVID-19 with shorter hours, masks and social distancing, and appointments that must be made 24 hours in advance.

University of Iowa Clothing Closet reopens

Grace Hamilton, News Reporter October 19, 2020

The Clothing Closet — a student organization that provides professional clothing to college students at no cost — re-opened on Monday for the first time since the abrupt end to on-campus activities...

Gym goers on the way and leaving the UI Campus Recreation and Wellness Center on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020.

Fit to Go program helps University of Iowa students, groups get back on their feet

Caitlin Crome, News Reporter October 18, 2020

Since the beginning of the pandemic, fitness has become harder to achieve while staying safe and respecting others' space. The University of Iowa canceled most group fitness classes in order to limit...

University of Iowa Lecturer of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mary Kosloski, and her son, Felix, pose for a portrait at the Pentacrest on Oct. 16.

Professors, TAs balance teaching and parenting in a pandemic

Eleanor Hildebrandt, News Reporter October 18, 2020

Many teaching assistants and professors returned to campus this fall tasked with juggling teaching their classes and parenting and parenting at home during the pandemic. University of Iowa Earth...

Communications Studies Professor and Department Chair Kembrew McLeod dances in a viral TikTok video that has garnered over 730,000 likes, showing the professor challenging University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld to a dance battle. President Harreld has yet to comment on or accept the dance battle from Professor McLeod.

UI professor’s dance challenge to Harreld goes viral

Natalie Dunlap, News Reporter October 15, 2020

Engaging with students through pre-recorded lectures is no easy task, but when University of Iowa Professor of Communications Kembrew McLeod challenged UI President Bruce Harreld to a dance off, he...

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University of Iowa professors, students adjust to new formats of online testing

Brian Grace, News Reporter October 15, 2020

As University of Iowa students and professors reach the halfway point in the semester when students normally pile into lecture halls for in-person midterm exams, both have had to adapt to new methods...

The corn monument sits on the Pentacrest lawn on Monday, Oct. 15, 2019. The monument has been a yearly tradition that is believed to have been started in 1919.

Corn monument contest brings homecoming tradition online

Morgan Ungs, News Reporter October 14, 2020

In a typical year, the giant monument made out of corn cobs at the University of Iowa is a spectacle to see during homecoming.  This year, the week looked different than previous iterations as...

The English-Philosophy Building is seen on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020.

Change UIowa Committee formed to ensure diversity demands are met

Ainsley Dunkin, News Reporter October 13, 2020

The organizers of a petition calling on the University of Iowa English department to diversify its staff have created the Change UIowa English Committee to make sure their demands are met and implemented. After...

Christine Petersen poses for a portrait. (Contributed)

University of Iowa Public Health Experts say repeat cases of COVID-19 are a possibility

Mary Hartel, News Reporter October 13, 2020

When University of Iowa sophomore Grace Clesle tested positive for COVID-19 at the start of the school year, her symptoms included one-day fever, cold-like symptoms, fatigue, and an insatiable hunger. A...

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UI spent hundreds of thousands to upgrade Zoom, other online learning software

Sabine Martin, News Reporter October 13, 2020

The shift to primarily online courses has added extra expenses for the University of Iowa, as it works to upgrade software and provide online-learning tools for students tuning in from home. In...

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Acknowledging the homelands of tribal nations where the University of Iowa resides

Natalie Dunlap, News Reporter October 11, 2020

Many professors chose to read an acknowledgment of land and sovereignty aloud at the start of the fall semester, or inserted it into their syllabus, with names of the tribal nations that were originally...

Emily Manders holds up a University of Iowa Environmental Coalition sign in the University of Iowa Office of Sustainability and the Environment at Jessup Hall, Iowa City, IA on Wednesday Oct. 7, 2020. Manders, co-president of the UI Environmental Coalition, believes the Climate Change Clock ignores lower income communities and people of color who have already seen or felt the impact of climate change.

UI environmental groups react to Climate Change Clock

Sabine Martin, News Reporter October 8, 2020

University of Iowa and state environmental groups say that 2020 and beyond must be a decade of action before Iowa’s climate-change clock runs out. A public art piece in Manhattan, New York, echoes...

University of Iowa associate professor from the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, Eric Tate, speaks during the tenth annual Iowa Climate Statement over Zoom and Facebook Live on Oct. 7.

Climate activists react with skepticism to annual climate statement

Clinton Garlock, News Reporter October 7, 2020

The University of Iowa’s Center for Global and Environmental Research’s annual Iowa Climate Statement, a briefing signed by 230 climate scientists and educators on the current state of climate...

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