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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

Wars over words

WILL MATTESSICH April 21, 2011

“F*CK YOU, REPUBLICANS.” That’s how UI Professor Ellen Lewin responded to a mass e-mail from the UI College Republicans about their annual “Conservative Coming Out Week.” Her response to the...

Court funding necessary to protect freedom

GUEST OPINION April 21, 2011

Imagine that a business has three equal partners: one partner (the legislature) raises money, one partner (the governor) conducts business, and the third equal partner (the court system) makes sure that...

Decriminalize prostitution to protect sex workers

DI EDITORIAL BOARD April 20, 2011

On April 14, police charged four women in Coralville with prostitution. The women, ranging in ages from 18 to 27, admitted to placing online ads in order to meet men in their hotel room for sex. There...

Party school no longer

CHRIS STEINKE April 20, 2011

As your designated bro columnist at The Daily Iowan, I am here to offer the bro perspective on all things bro. This week: The 2011 Playboy Party School Rankings. For the first time in three years, the...

Courts must be independent of majority whim

GUEST OPINION April 20, 2011

I am proud to be an attorney who appears in federal and state courts in most states in the Midwest. Because of my experience trying cases, I will discuss why it is necessary to have independent judges. Sometimes...

The need for friendly sex shops in Iowa City

GUEST OPINION April 19, 2011

I moved to Iowa City thinking that it was open minded and progressive. I’m involved in the gay community, I attend, and sing in the choir of, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Iowa City. I am proud...

Our bright, paper-less future

DI EDITORIAL BOARD April 19, 2011

Iowa businesses are doing away with paper and jumping headlong into the digital age. Many eastern Iowa fixtures, including the Eastern Iowa Airport, are transitioning to a paper-free records system. However,...

Tax & tacks

BEAU ELLIOT April 19, 2011

Monday was, as most of us know, Tax Day, and most Americans are today probably still grumbling about their taxes being far too high. (We’ll note that they are not grumbling about having three extra...

City shouldn’t ban irreplaceable Melrose vendors

DI EDITORIAL BOARD April 18, 2011

The environmental symbiosis once enjoyed by tailgaters and Melrose Avenue homeowners has been irrevocably disturbed by a new memo on behalf of the Melrose Avenue Neighborhood Association that suggests,...

Parking mopeds in purgatory

EMILY INMAN April 18, 2011

At Van Allen Hall, vehicles overwhelmingly crowd the available parking. Mopeds are piled upon one another, falling to the side like dominoes at the slightest movement. Many of these vehicles don’t have...

Prohibitionist delusions of downtown grandeur

GUEST OPINION April 18, 2011

I was under the impression that panhandling in downtown Iowa City had been self-righteously curtailed, but yesterday, I saw that poor impoverished ragamuffin Marc Moen sitting wistfully in front of City...

Lecture committee’s funding should shift in accordance with gov’t proposal

DI EDITORIAL BOARD April 15, 2011

Breadbasket or gas station? Iowa’s mythic role as the former would intimate that our job is to provide food for the country’s population, not to power the country’s vehicles. And while biofuels...