Four homes of the UI cultural centers sit tucked in a tree-lined side street away from the rush of Grand Avenue traffic. Screen doors snap shut as students wander in and out of the houses that are meant...
The attorney for a Coralville woman accused of killing her 2-year-old son in 2008 asked a Buchanan County judge on Wednesday to take uncommon measures to determine whether a jury can be impartial.
Andrea...
Maryam Deravi told an audience of roughly 40 she worried for her family in Iran because of the controversial presidential elections.
“It’s stressful,” she said. “I want everyone to know what’s...
Students have long pursued minors during their college careers, but now, many are tacking one of the UI’s 18 certificate programs onto their résumés.
The university has added several certificates...
Onstage, Forrest Heusinkveld raps like a professional MC while keeping the beat for Iowa City band the Uniphonics. In his spare time, the UI percussion- and jazz-studies major devotes his attention to...
UI officials are drafting a letter in President Sally Mason’s name asking the Anheuser-Busch corporation to reconsider using black and gold colors in its “Fan Can” promotion.
The future of the popular...
After five years of active duty in the Army and four days into his second year at the UI, Drew Mangler is unsure how he will pay his rent.
Mangler, like roughly 60 other UI students, applied for financial...
The Taste of Iowa City brought varying tastes, walks of life, and weather patterns to downtown Wednesday. But the mid-afternoon downpour didn’t deter event organizer and Bo-James owner Leah Cohen from...
For UI students, “swine flu” are two words heard as commonly as “plagiarism” and “finals” this first week of class.
That’s because they’re required to be in every class syllabus.
“If...
At the end of an hour, Frank Warren had at least a dozen students on their feet sharing, what else but, their secrets.
One young man spoke about his mother’s death, then turned and promptly left.
“I...
PostSecret doesn’t advertise. Aside from appearing in an All-American Rejects video, Dirty Little Secret in 2005, the project doesn’t get much play in mainstream media.
Still, nearly a quarter billion...
The UI has received more than 200 applications for its vacant vice president for strategic communications position, one of four administrative spots officials are still trying to fill.
The position, created...
