According to MTV, spring break is synonymous with excessive alcohol use and risky sexual encounters on warm beaches. But an increasing number of students — including at the University of Iowa — are...

Over the next few years, new graduates across the country will face a different job market and a different climate from that of the past two generations of Americans. Before the financial meltdown, businesses...

I saw a body in the ditch the other day. She was alone, partially wrapped in a tarp. Police waved us on, but I couldn’t peel my eyes away until the sight was well out of view. It was the worst, but...

Holding a backpack filled with books on U.S. culture and history, an English dictionary, and too many stereotypes in my mind, I started my journey from the other part of the world, Pakistan, to explore...

The deadline to petition for University of Iowa Student Government president and vice president passed Monday, and the echoes of political competition failed to ring. For the first time in at least 30...

Health-care reform as we know it would be more accurately described as health-insurance reform. I say this because, for the most part, Americans and politicians in favor of the current legislation have...

YES The Iowa City Housing Authority closed the floodgates. It’s about time. The Housing Authority is no longer accepting applicants for federal housing assistance. The city made a pragmatic choice...

Last week, quite famously now, the Iowa City City Council (yes, that repeat of the word “City” is quite annoying, but what are we going to do, rename the town?) brought back the 21-ordinance from the...

The woman on the table is screaming. I’m gripping her hand with two fingers — I’ve heard that a woman in labor can break your fingers if you give her your whole hand — and holding her knee up...

Councilors are tired of the city’s drinking culture. That much is clear after they resurrected the 21-ordinance last week. But will the 21-ordinance, which top University of Iowa officials support,...

The perception is growing among many Americans that Washington is broken. According to a recent Ipsos/McClatchy Poll, 80 percent of Americans believe that nothing can be accomplished in Washington. It’s...

Let me weigh in here, as I have attempted to do elsewhere, on the recent report from the UI Task Force on Graduate Education. First, it’s biased: The entire exercise is one that has a built-in bias...