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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

The Daily Iowan

Guest Opinion | Top 10 ways tenure benefits students and all Iowans

Guest Opinion | Top 10 ways tenure benefits students and all Iowans

January 28, 2021

Many things, large and small, have changed over the last four years. World leaders have come and gone. Important books have been written. Our planet has experienced a pandemic. We have both retired. But...

Brother’s Bar and Grill is seen on Thursday Oct. 8, 2020, the first weekend of bars reopening. Governor Kim Reynolds released a proclamation last Friday allowing bars to reopen in Johnson and Story counties on Monday, Oct. 5. Many bar-goers were out without masks on and there was little social distancing in lines.

Guest Opinion | The Doctor is In: Brain Biology Behind an Alcohol-Induced Blackout

January 26, 2021

Have you or your friends ever gone out drinking and woke up the next morning to a half-eaten pizza you don’t remember ordering? If so, you’re not alone. As Barnet et al. found in a 2014 study,...

The Riverside Theatre is seen on Sunday, April 26, 2020.

Guest Opinion | An open letter on Riverside Theatre’s future

January 25, 2021

The board of directors and staff of Riverside Theatre are happy to announce that we have found a new permanent home in the historic Crescent Building on the Ped Mall of downtown Iowa City.  The new...

Guest Opinion | Marijuana prohibition has failed Iowa

Guest Opinion | Marijuana prohibition has failed Iowa

January 25, 2021

Marijuana prohibition has been a costly failure and is ending across America because it’s caused far more harm than good. It has broken up too many families, upended too many livelihoods, thrown...

Fighters ride in pickup trucks as forces loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed government clash with Huthi rebel fighters around the strategic government-held "Mas Camp" military base, in the al-Jadaan area about 50 kilometers northwest of Marib in central Yemen, on November 22, 2020.

Guest Opinion | Silence is Complacency: 5 reasons why Iowa students must oppose the war on Yemen

January 23, 2021

In addition to Jan. 25  being the first day of classes for Hawkeyes this year, thousands around the world will be taking a stand to say No to the utterly devastating War on Yemen. Over 300 organizations...

The U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017.

Guest Opinion | No, professor Muller, not all Electoral College objections are the same

January 7, 2021

On the morning of Jan. 6, hours before assorted right-wingers seized the U.S. Capitol by force, Iowa College of Law Professor Derek T. Muller published a New York Times op-ed titled "Democrats Have...

Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA, University of Iowa vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine, speaks to attendees during "State of the Enterprise: Strengths, Challenges, and the Path Forward" at the Medical Education and Research Facility on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. Jackson provided an overview of UI health care research.

Guest Opinion | Brooks Jackson: Progress in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19

December 30, 2020

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has come at a steep cost in terms of infections and lives lost, there has been tremendous progress in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of this new lethal virus. In...

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...

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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...

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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...