Even as UI Student Government members try to move ahead with their plans to curb students’ binge drinking, background checks show nine of those representatives have received drinking-related tickets.
The...
An increasing number of international students are seeking out the coveted “gold standard” U.S. degree, UI officials say.
The UI has received double the number of international-student applications...
In the courtroom, few can stop state public defender Tyler Johnston when he starts talking too fast.
One exception is the court reporter who is transcribing his every word for the record.
Now, Johnston...
In Yuma, Ariz., the temperature rarely falls below 40 degrees on a typical day in January.
And for Iowa-raised Nathen Baker — a graduating UI senior who will teach fourth grade in the far-southwest...
The Iowa City School Board on Tuesday evening decided to cut back on teacher-librarians and media secretaries and to increase the student-to-teacher ratio.
The board had decided to postpone a vote on...
Despite having to move into an old hardware store after last summer’s flood, students and faculty in the UI School of Art and Art History are using state-of-the-art technology and said they will continue...
With absentee and provisional votes now accounted for, the results of last week’s local-option sales tax election remain the same; Iowa City will implement the measure, Coralville will not.
In Tuesday’s...
When hundreds of thousands of people were losing their jobs each month, UI freshman Tim Riphagen was offered one that contended it could pay him several hundred dollars per week.
All he needed was a...
The effects of last year’s flood are still lingering — with Hancher Auditorium closed, officials at many UI colleges were forced to relocate graduation ceremonies.
“Because Hancher wasn’t available,...
State Board of Regents President David Miles uses Gmail, Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey uses an Avalon account, and Iowa City City Councilor Matt Hayek has his law firm’s address.
Recently, it’s become...
It’s been more than a week since Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter announced his retirement, but UI experts, akin to many others around the country, are still scratching their heads about...
Even with an unknown future in a brutally competitive profession, UI senior David Pinsof is graduating with big goals and big talent that may take him far.
Pinsof is a daydreamer. He relishes daily in...