Authorities are searching for a man who reportedly sexually assaulted a female UI student in Mayflower early Sunday morning.
According to a joint e-mail from University Housing and UI police, an unidentified...
When UI junior Sara Hershner planned her spring break vacation to Puerto Vallarta last November, she hadn’t heard much about Mexico’s drug wars.
But a heightened rate of crime and violence has led...
With an orange kanga — a cotton cloth symbolizing womanhood in many African communities — wrapped around her body, Grace Gathua performed a piece combining singing, dancing, and drum-beating, kicking...
As stocks plummet and unemployment rates jump, businesses across the country are posting losses.
But there’s no business like show business.
Movie theaters are seeing a counterintuitive trend: As the...
Iowa City School District officials have made their first cuts in an effort to reduce expenses by $6 million over the next two years, Superintendent Lane Plugge said.
Included in the district’s initial...
A proposed program through the UI School of Social Work may make students more culturally diverse — a valuable skill in an expanding global environment, program proponents say.
The Critical Cultural...
Chilling rain on March 7 didn’t slow the hundreds of runners at Hubbard Park — all of them nearly naked.
The UI’s first Nearly Naked Mile, sponsored by Students Today Alumni Tomorrow, encouraged...
Housing more than 2 million books, the size of the UI Main Library is around that of Boston Public Library and the New York Public Library — only it’s bigger.
Built in 1951, the UI Main Library easily...
Kristin Langhammer is not really a death investigator. Travis Wilkening is not a real expert witness. And Alex Whitt is not a real lawyer. But every night, these UI students practice playing their courtroom...
One day a year, women take off work and receive gifts from their employers and flowers from their families and friends.
Not in Iowa, but in Anna Lipnik’s home country, Ukraine, the nation annually celebrates...
When its health-care costs skyrocketed by 90 percent three years ago, the New Pioneer Co-op switched insurance companies.
Although the company — which provides health-care benefits for roughly 144 employees...
Even for Doug True, the UI senior vice president for Finance, budget crunching is no walk in the park.
“I’d like to think that by now, I’ve seen everything,” he said.
But he said he has never...
