The state Board of Regents voted unanimously on Wednesday to freeze tuition for some students at Iowa’s three public universities — undergraduates paying the in-state rate will not see their tuitions...

An estimated 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the United States, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and there are 50,000 new cases each year. With one...

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a whimper, a growl, and a yippy bark. Doubtless many residents of Iowa City were elated to discover that the oft-maligned ban against dogs on the Pedestrian...

On Tuesday, Iowa City city councilors voted to approve the second consideration for altering the current city ordinances regarding taxis after a unanimous vote to approve the ordinance changes last week....

A report released by the state Board of Regents shows a decrease in the number of University of Iowa students arrested for alcohol-related offenses as compared with the same time period last year. A...

The Iowa City Public Library now has Kindles for rent. This is great. By slowly trying to adapt to the new technology available, the Public Library is encouraging more people to read. Two of the Kindles...

Is the Center for the Human Rights needed to protect the ivory tower from the tower of power? Given this merry season, it is a bit unkind to say anything about the persona of anyone that someone does...

On Wednesday, student groups and faculty members at the University of Iowa will hold a protest on the Pentacrest to encourage university administration to allow the Center for Human Rights to remain open....

What with the approaching “fiscal cliff,” the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (which apparently is Joe Haldeman’s Forever War come to life, so to speak), finals (luckily this week, the DI...

Excerpted with permission from the original article on the Christian Science Monitor website, Nov. 30. The recent news that iconic novelist Philip Roth has stopped writing fiction knocked me back half...

University of Iowa President Sally Mason told the Press-Citizen last week that had the information not been leaked to the media, she would not have informed the public about the circumstances surrounding...

In the words of the health-science teacher in the movie Mean Girls, “If you have sex, you will get pregnant and die.” Well, unless you’re a character in Twilight whose hardest decision...