Extracurricular activities used to be take it-or-leave it affairs, but now UI freshmen are expected to participate in at least one.
The UI Student Success Team has adopted a program — for the second...
As an 10-year-old, Brian Quijada had a nightly family ritual: dinner and a telenovela.
The program of choice was “La Mentira” — “The Lie” — a Mexican soap opera about a man trying to uncover...
With a name tag on her shirt and a smile on her face, Paula Dayton, donor recruitment coordinator for the UI Hospitals and Clinics, sought volunteers for their blood.
And in fewer than two hours on Wednesday,...
Roughly 45 percent fewer UI students have taken out private loans for this academic year than the number who did last year, officials estimate.
Though official statistics are pending, several factors...
Those applying to competitive M.F.A writing programs, such as the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, can now turn to a group of professional poets and writers for assistance.
Two Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates...
While city officials try to curb underage drinking by holding the bars accountable, the bars themselves don’t necessarily have to suffer.
In the past, some Iowa City establishments dodged liquor-license...
One local business will no longer deliver pizzas to the city’s Southeast Side after two of its employees were recently robbed at gunpoint.
The decision came after a third armed robbery on Monday night,...
Hoping to enforce underage drinking laws, Iowa City City Councilors sought a clear way to hold bars accountable.
That’s why they approved an ordinance that hinges bars’ liquor-license renewal on their...
The UI will soon have a new trash-management system in its academic buildings: Faculty members will have to centralize their garbage disposing, and custodial staff will empty central bins once a month....
UI lecturer Irina Kostina paces back and forth, firing off sentences for students to conjugate, encouraging them as they struggle with a language they began learning just a week ago.
Last semester, she...
Six candidates for the Sept. 8 School Board election presented potential solutions to various issues of concern in the district, including the district’s strained budget and the closing of Roosevelt...
The life of a graduate student and a musician do not often intersect. One requires hours holed up in the library, the other involves playing shows. One involves teaching classes, the other entertaining...
