When I was in the sixth grade, a guy in my class hit me in the face with a dodge ball. In turn, I hit him in the face with a rock (that’s right, Mrs. Roberts, he knew it, I knew it, it wasn’t...

Public-health experts have sounded the alarm on obesity for decades and with good reason. In 1962, 13 percent of American adults were considered obese. By 2010, that number had risen to 35.7 percent. The...

OK, I admit it. Like so many Americans, I got tired — fatigued, even — of hearing about Vladimir Putin and the Russian land grab in Crimea and what the coming new Cold War might mean to humankind,...

Few issues are as immediately divisive in our politics as “Voter ID,” a perennial Republican proposal to mandate that citizens show photo identification to confirm their identities before voting....

Some good news for Iowa students returning from spring break came in the form of a ruling issued by Judge Douglas Russell last week that declared many exploitative practices by Iowa City landlords to be...

University of Iowa President Sally Mason released a statement via email on March 21 informing the community of an upcoming effort to make the university run more efficiently. During this effort — deemed...

Last week, the Chicago Tribune published an article about the immeasurable movement of blacks from inner-city Chicago to Iowa City (“Iowa City provides fresh start for some urban dwellers,”...

The four-year graduation rate at the University of Iowa has crept up to 51.1 percent for the class that entered the UI in 2009, according to a report from the state Board of Regents presented at the regents’...

Historically, activism has had a significant role in shaping public policy. There’s greatness in numbers, even more when students mobilize themselves. We’ve seen this recently with columns...

I’ll never forget the day after I got my driver’s permit. I started to pull out of the parking lot after baseball practice and, as I did, I lightly bumped the curb of the median between the...

The secret surveillance programs revealed last year by Edward Snowden brought a firestorm of domestic and international scorn to the American spy agencies, namely the NSA, because of their sweeping and...

When I was 12 years old, I signed a chastity agreement along with my Catholic-school classmates after seeing a public speaker who regretted losing his virginity at a young age and had decided to become...