Peter Anders, Opinions Contributor
• March 10, 2021
Ever since the COVID-19 outbreak began in March 2020, the administration at the University of Iowa has had a mixed track record of how they have responded to the unusual series of events that have...
Josie Taylor, Opinions Contributor
• March 10, 2021
Despite relatively low case numbers and vaccinations, the University of Iowa needs to make sure its in-person graduation celebration is still COVID-19 safe.
The UI announced that it’s planning...
Iowans should rejoice because President Joe Biden and the Democrats are coming to the rescue.
On Saturday, the Senate approved Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. The package includes...
Our lawmakers are facilitating housing discrimination if SF 252 passes through the Iowa Legislature. Current ordinances on the books in Iowa City, Des Moines, and Marion prevent landlords from denying...
I didn’t fully understand what the Stonewall riots were until I was 19 years old. I’d been slowly coming out of the closet for about 6 months before I attended the University of Iowa theatre department’s...
Instead of demonstrating a nuanced understanding of the mental health landscape, Iowa lawmakers chose to maintain Drug War-era criminalization of “psychedelic” compounds, which is policy deeply...
Abortions are crucial to reproductive health care, and pregnant people should have the privacy to look into alternative options without being targeted. Access to safe and legal abortions is a right...
I started writing my undergraduate thesis paper for my lab less than a foot from my bed in my parents’ new house.
Beforehand, my thesis adviser and I talked about how we were going to work on...
Republican lawmakers in the Iowa House seem intent on repeating a modern-day version of the red scare. House File 222 would remove the funding from all schools, including community colleges and public...
Iowa Sen. Jim Carlin wants to single out and identify college professors because of their political leanings.
Or at least, that is what I can contrive from Senate File 292. It would order Iowa’s...
Evan Mantler, Opinions Contributor
• March 3, 2021
Iowa officials are serving up a steaming plate of hypocrisy. At the start of the pandemic, restaurant employees and other food service workers were considered essential, but these once-necessary workers...
It seems like Iowa Republicans’ default explanation for legislation micromanaging higher education is to protect free speech.
But there hasn’t been a First Amendment issue on the University...
