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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

Prof tracks zoonotic bugs

PARKER SMITH August 26, 2009

Blood samples from 483 Mongolian animal workers arrived on the UI campus this month, destined for epidemiology research labs. A rising number zoonotic infections — viruses transmitted between animals...

Spotlight Iowa City: UI senior takes aim at council seat

CHRIS CLARK August 26, 2009

On Thursday, UI senior Jeff Shipley will have one final task before joining his fellow Hawkeyes downtown to forget their first week of classes. He has to turn in a list of peoples’ signatures in support...

UI girds for flu

ZHANRAN ZHAO August 26, 2009

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...

‘Garden Club’ eases book-buying crush

SAMANTHA HONKEN August 25, 2009

For students, buying books means braving lines winding to the back of the stores, toting stacks of texts weighing slightly less than a German shepherd, and shelling out hundreds of dollars. It was more...

More $$ for fighting male violence

JOHN DOETKOTT August 25, 2009

While the Iowa City police step up patrols downtown in hopes of reducing violence in the area, UI graduate student Jerrod Koon says they may be missing the point. Koon, the coordinator of the UI Men’s...

Shambaugh House going green

LAUREN MILLS August 25, 2009

The walls of Shambaugh House, which for years have contained noted authors from around the world and echoed their well-written words, are going green — very green. The plan started with a desire to...

Bars have long road on licenses

REGINA ZILBERMINTS August 25, 2009

Two downtown bars have asked state officials to overturn the Iowa City City Council’s decision to deny their liquor licenses. Lynn Walding, the administrator of the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division,...

UI brings information to developing nations

MARLEEN LINARES August 25, 2009

A pile of hundreds of bubble-wrapped computers lurks in the UI Communications Center waiting to be shipped away. Destination: Africa. For the UI-based Widernet Project, established in 2000, delivering...

Museum’s temp home nearly ready

ERIN PETTIT August 25, 2009

Getting hundreds of pieces of art back on campus is a relief to those affected by the UI Arts Campus flooding during the summer of 2008. “It’s just like seeing old friends or family that you really...

Spotlight Iowa City: Above all, the music

RACHAEL LANDER August 25, 2009

All one needs to do is utter the word “opera” in front of UI music student Chaz’men Williams-Ali for his passion to become immediately visible. Williams-Ali spent most of his life in St. Louis with...

City on alert

DANNY VALENTINE August 24, 2009

Students returning to the Iowa City drinking scene this weekend met an increased force of Iowa City and UI police patrolling downtown bars and the surrounding residential areas. Bar- and house-party attendees...

Mixed bag at Convocation

CHRIS CURTLAND August 24, 2009

Four thousand young Hawklings crammed the Pentacrest lawn on Sunday for a welcoming Convocation to prepare themselves for becoming full-fledged Hawkeyes when fall classes start today. UI President Sally...