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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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O'Donnell: Ageism: the detriment of placating quantity over quality

O’Donnell: Ageism: the detriment of placating quantity over quality

August 23, 2016

A.J.K. O’Donnell [email protected] The air was thin, sterile of any indications resembling a living presence. In the hallway, walls were peeling cream coated paint, while the carpet pleaded to...

Elliot: Life in the Rio world and E. coli

Elliot: Life in the Rio world and E. coli

August 23, 2016

Beau Elliot [email protected] My weather site (one of them, anyway), in all of its sonority, tells me the current conditions are heavy thunderstorm with mist. Um, hmm. Sounds as if Donald Trump...

In this Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016 frame from surveillance video released by Brazil Police, swimmers from the United States Olympic team appear with Ryan Lochte, right, at a gas station during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A top Brazil police official said the swimmers damaged property at the gas station. (Brazil Police via AP)

Medithi: Going for gold in double standards

August 22, 2016

By Vivian Medithi [email protected] If you type “Rio Olympics” into your search engine of choice, one of the first auto-complete suggestions will include “disaster.” From the ever-increasing...

Brown: Giving birth to a nation’s accusation

Brown: Giving birth to a nation’s accusation

August 22, 2016

By Marcus Brown [email protected] The film The Birth of a Nation, which chronicles the slave uprising led by Nat Turner in 1831, broke records after the rights were purchased by Fox Searchlight...

Grissel: Is fidelity more important than pragmatism?

Grissel: Is fidelity more important than pragmatism?

August 4, 2016

By Hanna Grissel [email protected] Whom do you vote for when both sides of the binary system are seemingly equally corrupt? Is a third-party vote any more reasonable? Is fidelity more important...

Medithi: First Amendment doesn’t protect slurs

Medithi: First Amendment doesn’t protect slurs

August 4, 2016

By Vivian Medithi [email protected] Most people have an understandably love-hate relationship with the First Amendment. We love the right to say whatever we want, but it can be obnoxious at best...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Briar Woods High School, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Brown: Trump crosses one line too many with attack on Khan

August 3, 2016

By Marcus Brown [email protected] It would appear as though the novelty of Donald Trump’s candidacy has finally shown signs of disintegration. Trump’s ongoing public feud with the family of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks to an assistant as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on Sunday, July 31, 2016. (Gali Tibbon, Pool via AP)

Prall: Deal with Israel carries many risks

August 3, 2016

By Jacob Prall [email protected] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had a thorny relationship with the Obama administration. They don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things — from the...

Point/Counter point: Should there be campus-carry?

Point/Counter point: Should there be campus-carry?

August 2, 2016

In Texas, a law that went into effect on Monday will allow students 21 years old or older with permits to legally carry, to carry firearms on public campus and in classrooms. The introduction of the law...

Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump talks during the Family Leadership Summit at Stephens Auditorium in Ames on Saturday, July 18, 2015. Each candidate had 20 to 25 minute to speak on stage. (The Daily Iowan/Jai Yeon Lee)

Elliot: When we think there’ll be later

August 2, 2016

By Beau Elliot [email protected] The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. Well, it was a pretty amusing movie some years ago, which might have been before Benjamin Franklin invented electricity. And...

In this photo taken July 1, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Denver. Gun control, immigration and money to combat the Zika virus top the congressional agenda as lawmakers sprint toward the political conventions this month and a seven-week summer recess.  (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Thompson: Stop the gun-violence blanket statements, Trump

July 31, 2016

By Helaina Thompson [email protected] Last month, the Democratic and Republican 2016 National Conventions addressed recent instances of gun violence — from Sandy Hook Elementary to Baton Rouge...

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SAN DIEGO (Aug. 26, 2013) Hospitalman Julio Gonzalez, assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), takes a blood donor's blood pressure during the "Blood Drive…And a Movie" event at the Naval Base San Diego base theater. NMCSD works in association with the Armed Services Blood Program to replenish stocks of blood for deployed service members. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Bryan Jackson/Released)

Don’t judge a book by its cover

July 28, 2016

By Marcus Brown [email protected] On Tuesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made steps to continue the trend set December 2015 when it comes to restrictions placed upon prospective male blood...