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...

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...