April is Alcohol Awareness Month. So how do we define responsible drinking? Most people know that alcohol abuse costs us all a great deal. An estimated $191 billion each year is lost in productivity,...

YES It doesn’t take much looking around to see the effects of overcrowding in the dorm system. Estimates say that between 100 and 160 students — at the current enrollment rates — are left without...

Responsibility starts with information. That’s why we support the university’s new freshman Orientation alcohol presentation, which will bring two of the most important stakeholders — students and...

Stop what you’re doing. Take a second to take a deep breath and collect your thoughts. It’s now up to you to save the world. The U.S. Senate has just conscripted your talent and your intellect...

I have always believed that in politics — as in life — once you are on a roll, you keep rolling. President Obama and the Democrats will be both governing and running for election, and that poses an...

Good actions shouldn’t be reprimanded. That’s why we support the University of Iowa’s new “Good Samaritan” proposal, or Responsible Action Protocol. The measure would add certain protections...

In this week’s “Glee” episode (yes, I promise this is going somewhere) choir instructor Will Schuester tries to rally his female students into feeling more empowered. They blow him off, with one...

Modern parents have more challenges and responsibilities because of sensationalized media channels. In the 1980s, when I was growing up, there was only one popular children’s show, “Sesame Street,”...

YES As a white male from a comfortable, middle-class background, it would be easy for me to dismiss attempts to aid minority students from disadvantaged backgrounds. It’s the “pull yourself up by...

It was a bit ironic, really. Last week, we saw antigovernment Tea Partiers rally in a public space local government created: the Pedestrian Mall. The observation isn’t meant to broadly impugn Tea Party...

Two years ago, a new Jewish, pro-Israel organization, J Street, was introduced. J Street claims a two-part mission: “first, to advocate for urgent American diplomatic leadership to achieve a two-state...

The University of Iowa’s public-relations machine wasted no time last week trumpeting the high rankings graduate programs received from U.S. News & World Report. But while the rankings again reinforced...