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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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FILE - A member of Veterans for Peace local Chapter #161 holds a sign for the VFP organization at the Pentacrest on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. (The Daily Iowan/Courtney Hawkins, file)

Laursen: We aren’t the good guys anymore

Lucee Laursen, [email protected] September 6, 2017

Every Friday, the 161st chapter of a group called Veterans for Peace has a peace vigil on the Pentacrest. Although the event takes place almost every week, it may catch someone’s eye a little more this...

Undated photo from North Korean News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visiting a Korean People's Army unit, in an undisclosed location, North Korea. Photo released August 2017. (Balkis Press/Abaca Press/TNS)

History warns us about North Korean conflict

September 6, 2017

Editor's Note: This article has been removed after the DI discovered sourcing and attribution issues during a routine review process.

Smith: Wonder Woman is back

Smith: Wonder Woman is back

Wylliam Smith, [email protected] September 5, 2017

Wonder Woman has come back to theaters. As if the first run on the big screen wasn’t already utterly wonderful, the marvelous super heroine has come back to select IMAX theaters as the movie also gets...

A stack of newspapers blow in the wind on a football in Iowa City on Sep. 10, 2016. The Hawkeyes defeated the Iowa State Cyclones, 42-3 for their second win of the season. (The Daily Iowan/Brooklynn Kascel)

Shanahan: Inform yourself to inform others

September 5, 2017

Julia Shanahan [email protected] Reading the news when I wake up in the morning is automatic for me, being that I’m a journalism student and that it was always a topic of conversation in...

Lung Hui Chen pushes Manuel Terrazas in a wheelbarrow across flooded streets as local residents clear out damaged homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, in the Millwood subdivision of Fort Bend County, Texas, on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Elliot: Hard rains in the wind

Beau Elliot, [email protected] September 5, 2017

Picture this: Our Great Leader, standing on the edge of a disaster, praises those gathered for being a great crowd. Kind of like a rookie comedian at his first open mic. But no, you don’t have to picture...

Photo illustration by Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan

Sorensen: Technology does not cause social isolation on campus

August 31, 2017

By Ronnie Sorensen [email protected] Technology has had a major effect in our world whether we like it or not. Larger phones, more powerful computer systems, growing video-game consoles, and...

OxyContin, in 80 mg pills, in a 2013 file image. A new study suggests many people have unused painkillers in the weeks after their procedures. (Liz O. Baylen/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Coltrain: The dangers of glorifying Xanax

Travis Coltrain, [email protected] August 30, 2017

Rap culture has been around for decades with constant evolution and change backing its tracks. The Internet opened the doors for this change, and with the creation of music streaming, those doors were...

Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio walks through a crowd of protestors in Rancho Bernardo, California, before he addressed a standing-room only group of Conservative Voters for Good Government, on Tuesday, August 9, 2010. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Kumar: Pardoning Arpaio is disrespectful to U.S. judicial system

Michelle Kumar, [email protected] August 30, 2017

President Trump is obviously in the headlines a lot, and frankly, I’ve just learned to ignore most of it. This past weekend, however, there was a headline that caught my eye: His pardon of former...

A student takes a condom from a basket provided by a Resident Assistant in Slater Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.  Some Resident Assistants provide condoms for students in the dorms. (Hayley Anderson/The Daily Iowan)

Shanahan: Students should be taking proper STI precautions

August 29, 2017

Julia Shanahan [email protected] Since Planned Parenthood of the Heartland closed one-third of its Iowa clinics last June, fears of rising STD/STI rates have taken root across the state. This...

Pope: Anti-abortion doesn’t mean anti-women’s health

Pope: Anti-abortion doesn’t mean anti-women’s health

Mars Thera Pope, [email protected] August 29, 2017

On Aug. 26, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) were inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame under protest by an advocacy group, Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa. The women’s inductions...

Barry Schreier, Director of University Counseling Service, sits inside his office at Westlawn on Wednesday, July 5, 2017. Shreier obtained the directorial position two years ago following a move from Princeton, NJ. UCS will be moving to the Old Capitol Mall on (insert date), allowing for ease of access for students who live on the East side of campus. (Ben Smith/The Daily Iowan)

Valladares: Freedom with anxiety

August 29, 2017

Jacqueline Valladares [email protected] As students have now completed the first week of classes, I currently bite my nails in worry. Essays upon presentations upon more essays plague...

President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd during an event in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (Madeleine Neal/The Daily Iowan)

Elliot: Our statue, ’tis of thee, singing up some old history

August 29, 2017

By Beau Elliot [email protected] Our Great Leader has declared disgraced (and deservedly so) former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to actually be a great patriot. Then he pardoned the poor, afflicted...