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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

UI VP: Research accusation overblown

EMILY MELVOLD April 24, 2009

A UI professor is under investigation by a weekly medical journal for a possible conflict of interest stemming from a research article. The work — an article by UI psychiatry Professor Robert Robinson...

UI wants new Hancher site

TESSA McLEAN April 24, 2009

UI officials will seek approval to relocate the Hancher/Voxman/Clapp complex at the Board of Regents meeting next week. According to the meeting agenda, officials have outlined seven reasons for replacing...

Faces of the UI: Student plans to run for Sudanese Parliament

ASHLEY HAUGO April 24, 2009

Like many other college students, Ladu Boyo is contemplating taking out a loan next year. But this money wouldn’t be put toward books or additional semester hours. It would help fund his campaign for...

Group uses balancing act to raise African water awareness

REGINA ZILBERMINTS April 24, 2009

People craned their heads Thursday to watch several UI women carrying buckets of water on their heads across campus. Men accompanied them carrying yellow signs saying, “If you were in Africa, you would...

Obama touts alt-energy in Iowa visit

SHAWN GUDE April 23, 2009

Speaking amid steel columns, a gentle, ever-present whirring sound, and fluorescent factory lights, President Obama implored the country to back his ambitious energy plan in a Newton wind-energy plant...

Mike Currie elected UISG president

MICHELE DANNO April 23, 2009

After accusations of cheating, backstabbing, name calling, and voting delays, Go Party was victorious in what UI Student Government President-elect Mike Currie called “the longest, hardest-fought campaign”...

Speaker: Porn misuses women

SHANE ERSLAND April 23, 2009

While a pornographic-video producer described a scene from his movie, nervous laughter from various UI students filled the darkened auditorium of the Becker Communication Studies Building. Robert Jensen...

Freshman seminar numbers to rise

ANNA LOTHSON April 23, 2009

Seeing the secret life of a surgeon, learning intricacies of a courtroom, crunching a university budget, or picking at the brain of an engineer — they all have one thing in common. Each will be the...

Students show off vegetable garden

MARY HARRINGTON April 23, 2009

From a small plot of West Campus land, a new university garden will provide fresh crops for IMU diners. The new student-run garden will grow vegetables for volunteer gardeners and on-campus eaters alike,...

Magistrate distribution questioned

ZHI XIONG April 23, 2009

Johnson County could gain two magistrates if the state court administrator has his way. “He just doesn’t have that authority,” said Judge Warren Bush, who is suing State Court Administrator David...

School district cuts library positions

REGINA ZILBERMINTS April 23, 2009

Iowa City School District officials recently announced they will reduce several library positions — a move one librarian called a “big mistake.” At Shimek and Hills Elementary Schools — the two...

Officials work to keep schools safe

CLARK CAHILL April 23, 2009

While it’s not possible to stop every random act of violence, local officials say, prevention at high schools has become much more advanced. Monday marked the 10-year anniversary of the Columbine High...