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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

Should the IMU permit alcohol sales at concerts?

DI EDITORIAL STAFF October 5, 2011

Yes The University of Iowa seems to be perpetually stuck between a keg and a hard place. To assert that the university students' primary extracurricular aim is getting heavily inebriated in the IMU...

America needs farmers, not agricultural subsidies

ADAM B SULLIVAN October 5, 2011

The Hawkeye football team is the state's de facto professional sports team. It makes sense for the players to don "ANF" (America Needs Farmers) patches to show moral support for the state's quintessential...

Confessions of a Brother Jed-head

GUEST OPINION October 5, 2011

Brother Jed was here last week. You probably heard him preaching on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway. In case you didn't, here's the gist: All have sinned, all deserve damnation — repent in Jesus' name, and...

Prosecutor’s mishap should yield consequences

DI EDITORIAL BOARD October 4, 2011

One simple slip-up led to a mistrial, valuable time and resources wasted, which may total more $50,000 in real costs. The taxpayer-paid Johnson County prosecutor's blunder necessitates much scrutiny...

How strife imitates the Red Sox

BEAU ELLIOT October 4, 2011

Yes, yes, I know — none of you care a whit about the Red Sox, except that it was enormously entertaining to watch a exorbitantly paid baseball club melt down into utter ignominy. It's always fun to...

UIHC advertisement ‘sickening’

GUEST OPINION October 4, 2011

The recent ad sponsored by the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics both appalled and sickened me. It depicts a shirtless young woman looking over her shoulder at the camera. She doesn't have the...

Should downtown renter’s insurance be mandatory?

DI EDITORIAL STAFF October 3, 2011

Yes Because renters are seriously failing with an average of only 30 percent insured, downtown property owners should mandate renter's insurance. In a place such as downtown, where there are countless...

Live or die election for Democrats

MATT HEINZE October 3, 2011

If the Democratic Party wishes to remain a viable entity in Iowa politics, this November's election becomes a very real endgame scenario. Eastern Iowa plays host to a special election for the newly vacated...

Big, scary economy stats have been seen before

GUEST OPINION October 3, 2011

I was recently a bit put off while reading a column written by Dean Treftz in the Sept. 26 edition of The Daily Iowan. It seems that he found a few scary numbers and decided to write a column voicing...

Out-of-state students bring funds, diversity

DI EDITORIAL BOARD September 30, 2011

Iowa natives starts to get nervous when the University of Iowa administration announces it will increase its nonresidential population. Some fear it will limit local access to higher education. Others...

A mistrial in pursuit of justice

SAMUEL CLEARY September 30, 2011

A mistrial was granted Tuesday in the trial of Charles William Curtis Thompson involving the slaying of John Versypt. In the presentation of a video containing a police interview with Thompson, Johnson...

UDems/UI Republicans Showdown: UDem’s a no-show

CHRIS STEINKE September 30, 2011

What was supposed to go in this section was the University of Iowa Democrats' take on state appropriations to the UI. Unfortunately for all of us, the Democrats never responded to the prompt, even after...

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