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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

Officials reach agreement on flu vaccines

DI STAFF September 24, 2009

UI officials confirmed an agreement was reached with two unions who asked them to halt a mandatory flu vaccination program. The UI Hospitals and Clinics will continue with the program and start vaccinating...

More UI students in ‘crisis’

SCOTT RAYNOR September 24, 2009

More UI students are turning to the Crisis Center this year. Approximately 320 UI students received groceries from the Johnson County Crisis Center in fiscal 2009, a 33 percent increase over last year....

Campus Wi-Fi to expand

ERIN PHILLIPS September 24, 2009

When Ugur Akgun told his students to log online and Tweet questions during his lecture last week, he was disappointed to discover Van Allen Hall didn’t have wireless. Frustrated, the assistant research...

UI mulls green options for arts

LAUREN MILLS September 24, 2009

Amid talk of parking lots and walking distance, another factor in the debate over where to build the Hancher/Voxman/Clapp complex lies underground in the tunnels and pipes branching from the UI Power Plant...

Game of catch floods part of Mayflower

NICK PEDLEY September 24, 2009

A recent game of catch in the Mayflower Residence Hall ended in the building’s evacuation as ankle-deep water partially flooded two floors. Josh Nikolovski, a freshman living on Mayflower’s third...

UIHC gives back in Jamaica

SAM LANE September 23, 2009

Doctors and nurses from the UI Children’s Hospital went to Jamaica last week — but it was hardly a vacation. Physicians including Stacy McConkey, a UI clinical associate professor of pediatrics,...

Supervisor Larry Meyers dies at 58

SCOTT RAYNOR September 23, 2009

Larry Meyers, the Johnson County supervisor known for his work to preserve the area’s northern quarter, died Tuesday. He was 58. Meyers learned he had cancer just after serving his first year on the...