The University of Iowa is a great school for many reasons, but it has a special notoriety for the wide availability of alcohol and, more recently, the rise in the number of house parties as well as an...

What does a square sound like? Is what the 4-year-old (youngest) daughter of a friend of mine asked her. I’m a failure as a mother, she told me. But, of course, she was joking about herself, the way...

The Pentagon estimates that nearly 19,000 women were victims of sexual assault in the armed forces last year. Despite there being just over 3,000 reported cases, military officials know that the issue...

At the beginning of the fall semester, the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership sent out an email trying to gather students who may be interested in starting a new sorority comprising lesbian,...

University of Iowa President Sally Mason told The Daily Iowan Tuesday that she doesn’t “understand the obsessive attention” being paid by some concerned parties to the university’s...

Every election year, voters question the influence of their vote. Voting is encouraged, because it is among the best and most influential ways to participate in a democracy. However, the Republican-nomination...

I care very little about the Republican National Convention — in fact, I don’t care at all. Nothing of significance gets done, and the conventions have become ceremonial more than anything else. But...

A man was charged last week for stealing a phone at Union Bar in January and posting several naked pictures of a woman that he found on the phone to the woman’s Facebook wall in an attempt to blackmail...

President Obama returned to the Hawkeye State on Tuesday to stump in Ames. Unfortunately, but expectedly, absent from the president’s remarks were a discussion of his tax plan and its potential effects...

There’s an organization on campus devoted to bringing quality entertainment to the University of Iowa and Iowa City communities: SCOPE. On Sept. 6, it will be bringing Grammy award winning artist...

Government exploits the pretext of public safety to gain power and ultimately make a mockery of freedom. Even when government interference appears to be a valid option for combating community problems,...

Yes The federal government provides financial aid to approximately half of all college students in the nation. So, of course, there is nothing wrong with making sure its money is being used correctly....