The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Pay attention to France, Iowa

MATTHEW WILLIAMS June 29, 2012

Just across the Atlantic, economic hell has been breaking loose in Europe. The economic hell that I'm referring to is the numerous European countries whose economies are hanging by a thread. Although...

Occupy Iowa City still pushing forward in 2012

GUEST COLUMN June 29, 2012

Occupy Iowa City start in early September 2011, when a few friends told the police that no, they would not leave the park. About four days later, the tents started to go up — and they kept going, all...

Is Branstad’s felon voting application unfair?

DI EDITORIAL STAFF June 28, 2012

No Compared with most of the other nations of the world, America has a very forgiving society. We as a nation have made it possible for criminals to receive a second chance after serving time for the...

Sandusky packed like a pill

JACOB LANCASTER June 28, 2012

I'm sorry to inform you that Jerry Sandusky's possible 424 year sentence will be one served like the pills that could have came for his "histrionic personality disorder" — tightly contained,...

What the Supreme Court got right in its Montana ruling

GUEST COLUMN June 28, 2012

Amid the flap over what was supposedly wrong the U.S. Supreme Court's decision yesterday to throw out Montana's 100-year-old campaign-spending limits, can we take a moment to consider what was right about...

Downtown cinema is a step in the right direction

DI EDITORIAL BOARD June 27, 2012

For the University of Iowa students who prefer drinking as their No. 1 activity, downtown Iowa City offers more than enough places to fulfill that desire. From Summit to Sports Column to Airliner to Union,...

Government spends too much on military

KATIE KUNTZ June 27, 2012

On June 20, the greatest nation in the world successfully launched an Atlas 5 rocket to shuttle a spy satellite into space — which is totally awesome. More awesome yet was that the launch marked the...

Cutting funding not the way to cut abortions

DI EDITORIAL STAFF June 26, 2012

Last week, 41 Iowa Republicans led by Dawn Pettengill, R-Mount Auburn, signed a petition delivered to the Iowa Department of Human Services. The petition demands that Human Services change its rules on...

Being Mitt Romney

BEAU ELLIOT June 26, 2012

So I decided I wanted to run for the Office of Being Mitt Romney. I'm not all that talented or smart, so it seemed like the perfect choice. It would be so much fun to be the Office of Being Mitt Romney....

Court hampers Romney’s plea to Hispanics

GUEST COLUMN June 26, 2012

Mitt Romney wants to improve his troubled standing among Latino voters while saying as little as possible about immigration. Events keep working against him. The Supreme Court's ruling Monday on Arizona's...

Here’s to you, Ms. Klein

BENJAMIN EVANS June 25, 2012

If any of you were alive in the past week (and by alive, I mean watched television) then you know about the bus monitor — the one in upstate New York who took a verbal beating from a school bus full...

Privacy: Old concerns echo

GUEST COLUMN June 25, 2012

Just how much should we worry about privacy? Nearly daily incidents demand that we as a society redraw the line between our private lives and our public personas. The "public" is that part of...

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