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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 tepidly tries Twitter

TYLER LYON June 9, 2009

UI officials have set up numerous accounts on Twitter, but they don’t know how many people are following the novel social networking site. Updating with the 140-character-limited messages could just...

UI implements credit-card parking

CHRIS CURTLAND June 8, 2009

The UI Parking and Transportation Department recently began accepting debit and credit cards, potentially streamlining payment at the university’s 12 parking facilities with cashiers. Parking-lot patrons...

Contraceptive sponge back on shelves

AMY MATTSON June 8, 2009

The sponge is back — but the once-popular contraceptive is unlikely to regain its former glory. After a nearly 11-year absence and several on-again, off-again production struggles, the Today Sponge...

Local abortion clinic security upped

KATIE SIMS June 8, 2009

A temporary security guard patrolled outside the Emma Goldman Clinic last week in the wake of the killing of a prominent abortion provider. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered the U.S. Marshals Service...

Top headlines during our publishing hiatus

DI STAFF June 8, 2009

Cedric Everson, a former Hawkeye football player charged with sexual abuse, has his trial pushed back again, this time to Nov. 2. Everson, 19, is accused of participating in the reported rape of a former...

Universities join forces against violence

TESSA McLEAN May 15, 2009

The UI, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa will join together at UNI for a conference today on preventing and taking a stand against violence against women. The three regent universities...