Today, the World Health Initiative, a University of Iowa student organization, will host a blood drive in support of World AIDS Day. Those looking to donate blood (particularly all you O-positives out...

Walking across the Pentacrest this past Monday, I came upon two female students handing out fliers and encouraging people to attend a blood drive for World AIDS Day. My stomach dropped, but I said nothing....

So it's December (Yeah, I know; the calendar says it's still November. Ignore the calendar; it's running slow.), and gloom and doom are stalking around Hawkeye Nation, numbing imaginations and quieting...

There are eight urban school districts in Iowa — Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque, Iowa City, Sioux City, and Waterloo. These districts represent one-fourth of the total students,...

YES Our agriculture-subsidy programs are a mess. Too often they aggrandize Big Ag rather than protect small farmers from the vagaries of the weather. The programs bankroll energy-intensive livestock...

"If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested." With that, many of us became libertarians — at least as it pertained to invasive and improper airport screening. Public ire over the...

The co-chairmen of the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (the "deficit commission") have sparked a heated debate about how best to address the federal deficit. While...

"The whites wouldn't like it …" First, it occurs to me that if this were my guiding principle, I wouldn't write or say half the things I do. Those are the words that were offered up, in 1949,...

YES It seems petty, but the Tigerhawk logo is important. The University of Iowa has a vested interest in regulating the use of its logo. It is important for the university to be able to control its reputation,...

Pedro Jones is 20 years old and facing murder charges in the death of his girlfriend's son. According to New York State Police, Jones was baby-sitting the 17-month-old boy in August when he allegedly beat...

Iowa Republican lawmakers must be afflicted with either amnesia or post-election hubris. Those appear to be the only two explanations for their refusal to commit to meeting the state Board of Regents'...

Call them the earmark crusaders. Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., took a voice vote earlier this week backing a two-year earmark moratorium. Two Democrats, Sens. Claire McCaskill and...