I woke up on Monday in Haiti when my bunk began to shake. Actually, a few minutes before when the dogs started barking. Just when I was about to shout, “Just shoot the dog,” the tremor began. It was...

Tweet no more. Starting this week, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will block access to social-network sites on workstation computers. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook have become tools...

So we had a big to-do health-insurance-reform summit last week, and just as President Obama wanted, everybody played nicey-nice and all bipartisan and everything, and we wound up with health-care reform. So...

In many ways, the narrative for the upcoming election has already been written. Republicans are going to win, and probably big. A country frustrated by a depressed economy, war weariness, and the apparent...

It’s really a no-brainer: Text-messaging while driving is a bad idea. The effects are well-documented; with texters glancing at their cell phones for an average of six seconds at a time, their car is...

Is climate change not so much of an inconvenient truth after all? For years, we have been subjected to prophets bearing witness to the incontrovertible truth of climate change and global warming. Al Gore...

The following is a version of the open letter sent to Tom Rocklin, University of Iowa vice president for Student Services. Dear Mr. Rocklin: We, as members of the Bijou Theater Board of Directors, have...

For the sake of the economy and for the welfare of generations to come in this state, it is imperative we improve the quality of public higher education. This is no simple task. In University of Iowa Provost...

In the Feb. 20 Iowa City Press-Citizen, James Gardner, the former president of Miami University in Ohio (a public university) is quoted as saying that unless some important changes are made, “We will...

In response to fiscal pressure, the University of Iowa is cutting graduate programs. The question, of course, is which ones to cut. The university answered that question last week: those in the humanities....

Our elected officials may be fighting the wrong battle. In the last 30 years, college tuition and fees have increased more than medical-care costs — and twice the rate of inflation, according to the...

Is the University of Iowa a state university? Avoid a paroxysm of indignation, and think it through for a moment. This school year, tuition and fees made up the majority of the UI’s general-fund revenue...