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...

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...

Let’s take a plunge down memory alley to the days that many children seem to dread. When I used to come home and complain to my mom that the kids at school were being mean to me, she’d say that it...

I am greatly concerned about the University of Iowa administration’s deliberations to effectively shut down the UI Center for Human Rights. This backward-looking move would negatively affect the university,...