Requirement change ultimately hurts students I was shocked to hear the UI is cutting its rhetoric requirement down to one semester. When I was a freshman, rhetoric was the UI’s crown jewel. Neither...

Wendell Potter looked like a stereotypical insurance man. He wore dark-rimmed glasses, a simple black suit/tie combination, and spoke in a slight Tennessee drawl. There was nothing flashy about his appearance...

We believe that the plan to “merge” the Mathematics Library constitutes the abolishment and dismantling of the Mathematics Library. We believe that the vast majority of UI faculty are opposed to the...

Lack of student voters hurts us all People cast 17 votes at the UI Main Library for Tuesday’s City Council election. If Panchero’s had another free burrito day, more UI students would show up. Steak...

I would like share a road-trip story three Hoosier fans took this Halloween weekend to Iowa City. Traveling across 360 miles of beautiful, corn-lined Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa interstates felt like...

The idea of asking hospital patients to make donations upon their arrival — as UI Hospitals and Clinics officials apparently considered doing — is like a surgeon placing a tip jar in the operating...

Ballot boxes all over the country felt pretty lonely on Tuesday. Sure, they had election workers tending to them and making sure ballots were fully stocked. And, of course, older voters predictably made...

There is no disputing the fact that health-care costs in the United States are excessive and continue to grow at an unsustainable rate. Based upon data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,...

“In Heaven there is no beer/ That’s why we drink it here.” No doubt Iowa Hawkeye football fans have sung along with this tune many a time over the course of this season. It’s a tradition as rich...

The Free Flow of Information Act, a federal shield bill that would protect journalists from having to reveal confidential information, is set to move one step closer to becoming law when it is considered...

As the Public Enemy said in its 1989 classic, students need to “fight the powers that be.” Amid a $24.7 million hole in the UI’s budget, all we’ve heard in the past week from those powers that...

In meeting with the two District B candidates running for Iowa City City Council, we were a bit underwhelmed. Yet, subtleties between incumbent Connie Champion and challenger Mark McCallum have led the...