Guest Opinion | The Doctor Is In: Medical trainees view medicine as activism. Do programs?
September 20, 2020
In the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others, this generation of future physicians is waking up and paying attention to the systems that promote racial inequality, including healthcare. In the middle of a pandemic that is disproportionately affec...
Guest Opinion | A campus shutdown is not the answer
September 16, 2020
After having been on campus for just over three weeks, I have finally found my motivation as a student that has been missing for many, many months. When the university sent us home in March, my academic motivation plummeted. Full online learning from my childhood home was the most difficult and t...
Guest Opinion | Why we continue to protest
September 13, 2020
We are members of the Iowa Freedom Riders, a multi-racial collective of BIPOC individuals, white allies, and other marginalized groups who believe in the Black Lives Matter ideals that have been highlighted throughout the country this summer. When the nation watched George Floyd’s murder on vi...
Guest Opinion | Our democracy is eroding away
September 13, 2020
When lobsters are placed into boiling water, due to their brain structure they cannot feel pain. However, the same cannot be said when Americans witness their current president putting our democracy into hot water – close to boiling – day after day. How much more can Americans endure? Many forme...
The Doctor is In | Be Mindful about the present
September 8, 2020
The current pandemic has taken a toll on everybody’s health: physically, socially, and mentally. For many undergraduates, the thought of the unpredictable future brings with it unwelcome, yet, justifiable, feelings of hopelessness and anxiety. Naturally, our brains react by asking more questions rathe...
Guest Opinion | Iowa Freedom Riders, law enforcement both need to be involved in police department restructure
September 4, 2020
Our community is in the midst of a renewed and needed debate about policing, law enforcement, and the impact it has on underrepresented communities, particularly BIPOC individuals. This debate often focuses on two absolute and polarizing positions. I hear those who say, “There is no such thing...
Guest Opinion | Iowa City still can’t behave during COVID-19
September 3, 2020
When the University of Iowa announced that it would be resuming classes as planned this year, I honestly was not too concerned. I had no doubts in my mind that we had the tools and motivation to make this school year as normal as possible. I put too much faith in my school and my 23,000 class...
Guest Opinion | Vandalism won’t fix police issues
September 1, 2020
Let me start with some context: We are amid one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the state, this country and the world. To bring our infection rate down, we must rally all levels of government, all segments of our community, to work together. We need to have our infectious disease medical exper...
Guest Opinion | The cutting of swim teams is a betrayal to alums
August 30, 2020
Almost a week after I heard the terrible news, I continued to think about my life as an athlete, specifically my time as an Iowa swimmer. The University of Iowa announced the women’s and men’s swimming and diving programs will be eliminated in 2021. Young swimmers will never get to feel this ...
Guest Opinion | We can beat COVID-19 in Iowa City, but we have to do it together
August 25, 2020
Iowa City — and Johnson County — take a deep breath (through your mask). Some 30,000 people came into town over the past two weeks and most are here to stay. Our COVID numbers are spiking. In other words, we have an outbreak. Instead of panicking, let’s think both short- and long-term. Speaking as so...
Guest Opinion | Sports cuts are devastating
August 23, 2020
The news this week of the cancelation of the University of Iowa swimming and diving programs has been devastating. I am not sure your administration truly understands what this means. The swimming and diving budget is just a drop in the bucket compared to football or even basketball. I’m not, ...
Guest Opinion | Like all forms of racism, anti-Semitism is rooted in misinformation and slander
August 6, 2020
The last several weeks have seen an uptick in anti-Semitic social media postings. The ones that have been receiving the most traction have been from Black athletes and celebrities Ice Cube, DeSean Jackson, Stephen Jackson, P.Diddy, and Nick Cannon. The main anti-Semitic conspiracy echoed in their posts have...