The heightened atmosphere is palpable. Students are bracing for the first hard hit, their knees buckling. This is not the picture of Pat Angerer about to demolish an opposing running back. This week’s...

One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Every year, the administration discusses the UI’s binge-drinking problem, recycling the same failed...

Regent Robert Downer can only speculate about a proposed UI building name change. That’s not good. In what’s sure to be a controversial state Board of Regents meeting on Thursday — amid the arguments...

This just in: BBC Radio reports that Dallas police have issued approximately 40 citations to people for not speaking English. Yeah, I know — I didn’t realize anyone in Dallas spoke English, either. We’re...

We, the UI Law Students for Reproductive Justice, object to your inclusion of the advertising supplement in the Oct. 20 edition of The Daily Iowan. Much of the information in the ad was alarmingly inaccurate....

A UI flag will no longer be flying in the Windy City. Budget cuts have largely forced the university to close its Chicago Center in November. As a top institution, the UI fights for each and every student...

A global battle rages on — and I’m not talking about Afghanistan. This is a battle of economics. The financial crisis has prompted economists and politicians to call for increased regulation, while...

It was 3 a.m., and someone was trying to kick down our front door. My wife and I were terrified. We feared for our children who were sleeping in the next room. She called the police, and I went downstairs...

On Tuesday, UI Senior Vice President for Finance Doug True told Faculty Senate members the university is considering using leftover stimulus funds to close the university’s $24.7 million budget gap....

After more than a decade of talking without walking, officials will finally take the first step in answering Iowa City North Siders’ call for a new fire station. But one question still looms: Is it...

UI officials have decided to charge a fee to the public for any use of the UI Field House. Monetary equity between students and public is the justification. Personally, I can afford a fee. But, unlike...

Unless you’ve been spending a lot of time in caves lately, you know that the state and country are suffering financial difficulties. The most worrisome development is that 150 fewer of my fellow graduate...