The University of Iowa Task Force on Graduate Education faced a daunting task. Its charge was to evaluate around 100 graduate programs offered by the university, in an enormous range of disciplines, in...

Everybody knows by now that University of Iowa and Iowa City officials are in the midst of a battle to muzzle the city’s staggeringly high rate of binge drinking. Their weapon of choice is the contentious...

A Penn State study, according to the BBC, has found that women prefer men with monotone voices — that is, voices that don’t vary much in pitch. The BBC, by the way, used Clint Eastwood and George...

Let’s start with the fact that the 21-ordinance is obviously going to be voted down. An initiative by a student group has already been started. Only 2,500 signatures are needed to get a public vote....

YES At one point or another, we have all been in a class where our instructor has decided to share her or his political beliefs. As a conservative, I am all too familiar with the gripes from my ideological...

In 1970, millions of people all across the country participated in events attempting to raise awareness about the environment. That first Earth Day birthed the modern-day environmental movement. It is...

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill I first read this quote as a high-school student. But it took awhile for me to understand it until I personally...

The University of Iowa College of Law is moving in a bold, new direction with its new health-reform class this fall. Not only is the class especially pertinent given the length and complexity of the...

“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.” —Martin Luther King Jr. The recent announcement that...

Of the many controversies associated with the City Council’s recent decision to enact a 21-only ordinance in Iowa City, none has been greater than questions about the new ordinance’s effect on UI student...

YES During the Bush years, liberals parroted this line of leftist historian Howard Zinn: “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” Under this mantra, liberals took any chance they could to protest...

Nationwide, and here at the University of Iowa, members of the class of 2010 applied to Teach for America in record numbers — more than 46,000 applicants for this fall’s incoming class of teacher-corps...