YES Under no circumstance, would I ever support legislation that threatens to make pariahs of individuals for something beyond their control — whether it is ethnicity, creed, or HIV status. And it is...

No matter the decision, Iowa's ethnic-discrimination case will succeed in bringing to light a very important and seldom-discussed issue: that bias still exists, whether conscious or subconscious. Judge...

No A proposal in the Iowa Legislature to increase the minimum wage from the national rate of $7.25 an hour to $10 an hour over three years is dangerous and should not be allowed in a fledgling economy. As...

One weekend my friends and I made plans to hike a volcano. We asked our tico parents — our guardians while studying abroad here in Costa Rica — how long it would take to walk to the top and got...

Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon— they're all highly counterproductive. As students, we're quite experienced in the ways of procrastination, and social networking has, undoubtedly, made the situation...

Sometimes a theory is so ingrained in conventional thought that it becomes impossible to exterminate. Much like zombies, these theories manage to persist despite having been bludgeoned to death by decades...

After an eternal string of Republican "debates," we are left with a serial adulterer (former House Speaker Newt Gingrich), an individual who has a racist past (Rep. Ron Paul), a severely religious...

Blue emergency phones may appear to be an effective way to prevent and report crimes on college campuses, but other schools have found they prove to be costly, obsolete, and abused by the public. Running...

Your story "Locals applaud student-loan changes" (DI, Feb. 7) omits important information about private education loans. Sallie Mae advises families to use a "1-2-3 approach" to...

Why stop online piracy when you can protect children from Internet porn? A better question: Why only limit the free flow of information when you can do that plus track everyone who uses the Internet? From...

This is not about Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum, or — the cosmos save us — Newt Gingrich. So little in this world is, if you think about it. Back in 1998 — which was a quaint time before Facebook,...

On Saturday, a momentous event in our school's history will occur. University-employed undergraduates will meet with University of Iowa Student Government leaders to discuss how to give a voice to student...