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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The University Counseling Services office is seen in the Old Capital Mall on Monday, February 17, 2020.

From Your Campus Mental Health Providers | Things to remember as 2020 draws to a close

December 8, 2020

As 2020 comes to a close, your University of Iowa campus mental health providers want to thank you for persevering this semester, given the COVID pandemic, racialized violence, and political tensions...

Letter to the Editor | It's time to step up

Letter to the Editor | It’s time to step up

December 7, 2020

The Center for Disease Control’s moratorium on evictions will stop this month, pandemic related unemployment support times out this month, and food assistance is running out, all while temperatures...

Woman holds birth control pills, man holds condom.

The Doctor is In | Reproductive health is student health: Know your options

December 2, 2020

About 45 percent of pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended, with the highest rates among 18-24-year-old women, according to a 2016 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Given this...

Photo Illustration by Kate Heston

Guest Opinion | Online proctoring is garbage

November 30, 2020

Gone are the days of the typical turn-your-caps-backward, phones-in-the-tub in-person testing. Now, instead of TAs pacing the aisles, we may have finally gotten the Big Brother we were promised. If...

Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management Brent Gage speaks during the Senate Faculty meeting on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.

Guest opinion | Faculty request transparency and sustainability for TIAA farmland investments

November 16, 2020

Increasing public recognition of racialized state violence has prompted a firestorm of protest in the U.S. and across the world and calls for anti-racist curricula and pedagogies to be mainstreamed...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in as the Supreme Court associate justice by Justice Clarence Thomas as her husband Jesse Barrett and President Donald Trump look on during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 26, 2020.

Guest Opinion | Originalism and Justice Amy Coney Barrett

November 10, 2020

Since 2017, when then-professor Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, many rightly assumed her to be President Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee....

A bouquet of roses is seen at Beno's Flowers and Gifts on February 12, 2019.

Guest Opinion | The Doctor is in: Living to die better

November 10, 2020

We are taught in medicine how to treat illness, find cures, and prevent morbidity and mortality. One lesson school forgot to teach us is that we all die. In western culture, it’s not common to talk...

Members of the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students gather outside the IMU to object against the university's plan to offer in-person classes amid a pandemic on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Inside the IMU, UI administrators hold a press conference discussing plans for the upcoming semester.

Guest Opinion | COGS statement regarding the 2020 election

November 2, 2020

From the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students, to our campus community: COGS strives to be an organization that represents the interests and voices of all graduate student workers in the University...

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are seen on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.

Guest Opinion | Iowa hospitals are experiencing the worst chapter of the pandemic so far

November 2, 2020

Fellow Iowans, We are again in danger of losing control of this pandemic in Iowa. Our COVID-19 positivity rates skyrocketed twice before, but this is the first time we have seen rates this high...

The Hawk the Vote website is seen on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020.

Guest Opinion | 2020 is hard – voting doesn’t have to be

October 26, 2020

This year has certainly been challenging, in more ways than we can count. Hawk the Vote – the University of Iowa’s nonpartisan student-led initiative to get students registered, educated and turned...

Rendered Illustration of Coronavirus SASRS-CoV-2 vaccine (which is scheduled to become available in 2021). Syringe and several filled vials on bright shiny floor.

Guest Opinion | COVID-19 Vaccine Could be Weeks Away

October 25, 2020

The new coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) was discovered last December in China and has since infected over 42 million people and caused over 1.2 million deaths worldwide. In Iowa, there have been...

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 at the Des Moines International Airport. Thousands of people showed up to hear President Trump speak about his campaign and support Iowa republicans for the upcoming election.

Guest Opinion | Federal guidance on race in education is going backwards

October 21, 2020

On Sept. 22, President Trump issued an “Executive Order on combating race and sex stereotyping,” targeting workplace training programs that address white privilege, sexual harassment, and structural...