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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

Graduate employee union fights back against budget cuts

EMILY BUSSE October 21, 2009

The UI graduate-student union is gearing up to fight any potential layoffs of more teaching and research assistants, noting that 150 TA positions have already been cut this year. As the UI draws up plans...

Four libraries to close

LAUREN MILLS October 20, 2009

A few quiet havens for the studious will be lost this school year as the UI closes the doors to four branch libraries. In an effort to cut roughly $1 million from the library budget and adapt to changing...

UI receives $5 million endowment from ACT

CHRIS CURTLAND October 20, 2009

The UI will be better able to support underrepresented graduate students as soon as next semester, thanks to Monday’s announcement that ACT Inc. is donating $5 million to the cause. The Iowa City-based...

UI researchers help confirm H1N1 in pig

SAM LANE October 20, 2009

Porky the Pig enthusiasts need not worry. Experts are assuring the public that pork is still not unsafe to eat after the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with the help of UI researchers, confirmed on Monday...

Locals address health care

KEVIN HOFFMAN October 20, 2009

A top UI Health Care official, along with state legislators, called for reform to the country’s health-care system Monday. Settled in the UI Main Library for an hour and a half, UI and state government...

Iowa City city councilors look to greener community

NICOLE KARLIS October 20, 2009

The future of Iowa City soil will soon be in full bloom with the help of a local organization — and the Iowa City city councilors are diggin’ it. ECO-Iowa City, a grant-funded local initiative, impressed...

Spotlight Iowa City: Law prof advised International Criminal Court

SCOTT RAYNOR October 20, 2009

Mark Osiel is the person who international lawyers go to when they need to legally connect the “big fish” in mass atrocities to the “small fry” who carry out their orders. The UI law professor...

Director of UI Admissions blogging big time

JORDAN FRIES October 20, 2009

Increased enrollment in community colleges is an impending side effect of the current economic climate, UI Admissions Director Michael Barron told New York Times readers on Monday. The question is one...

Female reports assault in Slater bathroom

MARLEEN LINARES October 19, 2009

An unknown male assaulted a woman in a Slater Hall men’s restroom during the early hours of Oct. 15, police have reported. According to UI police reports, the woman went into the men’s restroom on...

UI to remember Hancher

LAUREN MILLS October 19, 2009

The west bank of the Iowa River may one day reverberate with the sounds of the Marching Hawkeyes or the lines of an outdoor play. When the flood ravaged Hancher-Voxman-Clapp complex is eventually torn...

16 apply for supervisor seat

SCOTT RAYNOR October 19, 2009

Former UI Student Government President Maison Bleam would be the first student to serve on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors if selected. Bleam is one of 16 candidates to apply for the vacant supervisor’s...

UI alumnus draws attention toward hunger

MITCHELL SCHMIDT October 19, 2009

In the barren lands of Ethiopia, Roger Thurow saw the extremes of human nature — from greatness to savagery. Thurow’s experiences of more than five years in Africa inspired the Wall Street Journal...