Mentioning Iowa State University on this campus is usually met with a jumble of hisses, moans, and often a self-deprecating jab concerning football. But with the recent selection of a new and innovative...

It started with crowds surrounding a golden bull. On Sept. 17, protesters marched into parks and roadways near Wall Street, the seat of power in America's financial sector, to fill the area in a movement...

During this week and next, the University of Iowa community will see organizers from the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS), the union for employed graduate students, meeting with graduate assistants...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...