Before I left campus last spring, reports of a growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa had begun to spring up on my Twitter feed.  A few months later, my nightmare-inducing friend Ebola was back in the...

As reported in The Daily Iowan on Wednesday, Congress has proposed — with bipartisan approval — new penalties for U.S. colleges and universities that do not take appropriate steps to handle issues...

Do you love music? Are you a die-hard fan of any certain performer, or band? Well, I have some advice for you: Don’t be tempted by all the hype and allure of music festivals like Lollapalooza and...

We’ve been graced by — or lucked out on receiving — a relatively cool summer, but the hot air and smog of disgusting state politics has made things feel plenty stuffy. We’ve seen worthless...

What is your favorite food? Whether you said waffles at dinner, chocolate ice cream in the morning, or your annoying neighbor’s kidneys at midnight, consider this: a world in which all food is 100...

This is the last column I’ll write for The Daily Iowan (insert melodramatic crocodile tears here), and it seems fitting that I go out with a great big jamboree about social science, the sorry state...

Joni Ernst, the Republican Senate candidate for the seat of retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has yet again provided her Democratic opponents with more rhetorical fodder to fill enough television advertisements...

Iowa’s infamous ranking as the No. 1 party school has dropped. The Princeton Review’s survey — perhaps the only service you’ll remember the company for unless you’re shelling...

So I see that the University of Iowa, that august institution (it even has a month named after it) is no longer the No. 1 party school in the nation. (Much gnashing of teeth.) So this fall, when you...

Extreme weather in Iowa during the summertime appears to be on the rise. We often start with torrential rainfalls and conclude with severe dry spells, both of which devastate crops and livestock. Given...

The word “diversity” and the entire college industry were made for each other. No other duo can match the scathing passion of their relationship — not Tom Cruise and running in every movie,...

As more innocent lives are thrown into the meat grinder that is the Israel-Palestine conflict, I notice that there are almost as many bad arguments used against pro-Palestinian people (such as me) as there...