The IMU provided a quiet environment for the few students scattered throughout on Sunday, three of whom agreed theunion could use some more excitement.
“It seems dormant,” said UI sophomore Mark Schwenker.
Doug...
Towed about four weeks after returning for her senior year, Stephanie Boyle has a message for UI students with cars: Make sure you know Iowa City’s new parking rules.
She didn’t. And what she got...
As one of only a small number of blacks when he arrived at the UI in 1976, Michael Freeman was in culture shock.
But Freeman said he was given his first piece of advice at Orientation when one of only...
Observant Jews in Iowa City are trying to make sure they don’t have to choose between practicing their religion and exercising their right to vote.
Local Jewish leaders said they support the letter...
Snowball was basically a celebrity on Sunday afternoon. To the tune of “Ice, Ice Baby” he landed his second blue ribbon of the day.
Approximately 250 dogs and their owners took over the Johnson County...
For Mark Isham, cartooning is not just mindless doodling — it is his way of keeping a journal. The UI adjunct lecturer has kept a daily comic of his life, drawing one a day, since Jan. 17, 2007.
“It’s...
Instead of turning people’s homes into rubble, Iowa City may begin moving flood-damaged houses to a different location.
The city began demolishing houses last week, but transferring homes may prove...
The living turned into the dead at the fourth-annual Iowa City Zombie walk this past weekend.
Mobs of people dressed as zombies paraded down Iowa City streets from Happy Hollow Park to the Deadwood to...
Nathan Hellwig, a teacher at City High and a Civil War re-enactor, doesn’t usually bring his students along on living history gigs. On Sunday, however, he made an exception for Thomas Panther, a sophomore...
The Iowa Supreme Court granted a new trial to a Coralville man convicted of shaking his infant child and causing shaken-baby syndrome.
Edwin Paredes was convicted in 2006 of child endangerment resulting...
The U.S. House passed a bill on Thursday that could dramatically speed up the way students apply for federal financial aid.
Officials said they hope the bill will simplify the application process, a yearly...
A Mexican man in his early 40s sat focused at the end of a long table, stumbling over his pronunciation of “fireworks.” Not far away, a woman studied for the U.S. citizenship test, easily answering...
