Forty-five minutes into the state Board of Regents’ meeting on Thursday, UI students could feel the sting of financial defeat. In an almost preordained, anticlimactic manner, the $100 surcharge passed,...

When winter rolls in each year, there is always a list of things it brings with it. Car accidents, wet socks, frozen noses, hot chocolate, and the music of Bing Crosby all come to mind. But there’s...

Whether I’m dining with Rotarians in Washington, Iowa, or dining with Cabinet secretaries in Washington, D.C., everyone has a story of unintended pregnancy and how it changed a life. The story may be...

All I want for Christmas is a j-o-b! Students graduating this December will graduate into the worst job market in recent memory. Youth already tenuously in the job market are feeling increasingly insecure...

It pleases me to no end that the University of Iowa has continued to live up to its mission statement and is once again offering a course in Austrian economics (06E:169:SCA). I urge every student to enroll...

There has been much discourse in lieu of the Daily Iowan’s startling report on increasing binge drinking rates in Iowa City, and UI officials are continuing to explore measures to curb the university’s...

People around the world participate in the political process in a variety of ways. Some vote in elections. Others stage protests or contact their legislator. Still others opt for the more extreme approach...

This week’s screening at the Bijou Theatre is Antichrist, a highly controversial film by director Lars von Trier. It made its début last Friday, and yours truly was in attendance. At the one-hour mark...

In response to Patrick Hitchon’s guest opinion in the Nov. 19 Daily Iowan, walls are necessary and useful. In fact, we all have walls around our home, our institutions, and commercial entities. They...

YES Solon resident Lori Cardella has the right to run for the Johnson County Board of Supervisors seat left open by the death of Larry Meyers. The Johnson County Republicans’ nomination of Cardella...

So a major winter storm is coming, public radio warns me in that grave, sonorous manner that public radio adopts because, let’s face it, these are grave, sonorous times. I need new boots, I tell public...

For years, the Republican Party was the party of morals and fiscal responsibility, themes that rang true with many Americans. Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush both promised to shrink the federal government...