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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Saying goodbye, au revoir, tschüss to NATO

When he visits Strasbourg, France, this week to participate in festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, President Obama should deliver a valedictory address announcing...

Dry days ahead for downtown?

DI EDITORIAL BOARD April 2, 2009

A bar without alcohol may sound like an oxymoron, but if UI officials and community leaders have their way, dry bars may become a reality. In an attempt to curb binge drinking among college students, UI...

(Limited) open-mindedness

NATE WHITNEY April 2, 2009

Andrew Klavan likes to goad people into trying new things. Whether via sarcasm or serious argument (you be the judge), he just wants you to try to be objective. Even if he sometimes isn’t (really, who...

Rendezvous with inertia and inadequacy

“This generation,” Franklin D. Roosevelt said about his contemporaries, “has a rendezvous with destiny.” Our generation — at least, its leaders, judging by the likely results of this week’s...

Tough but fair: Obama’s response to automakers

President Obama this week delivered a believable, sharp and necessary ultimatum to U.S. automakers. “We cannot make the survival of our auto industry dependent on an unending flow of taxpayer dollars,”...

Hawkeyehoneys.com a sad site

NICHOLAS KELLY April 1, 2009

I admit I am aware of Internet Rule No. 34: “If it exists, there is porn of it.” I am also aware that it this rule is absolutely true (and if you don’t believe, go ahead and Google Image Search...

Let the first lady be, biceps, triceps, and all

I’m having a hard time forming an opinion about first lady Michelle Obama, mostly because there are already so many out there, and they’re almost uniformly inane. There’s the constant clucking about...

Bail faster

BEAU ELLIOT March 31, 2009

How do you say “Chrysler” in Italian? I don’t know, either, but it appears as though we’re going to get the chance to find out pretty soon. Now, I don’t really know that for sure, because I...

Obama, Notre Dame, and commencement season

TIM RUTTEN, LOS ANGELES TIMES March 31, 2009

These days, protests over college commencement speakers herald spring’s arrival as surely as longer days and greening leaves. The most interesting of this season’s controversies involves President...

Four-letter therapy for hard times

DI EDITORIAL BOARD March 31, 2009

As the economy continues to go deeper and deeper into the shitter, many Americans are finding themselves looser with their lips. A recent poll on MSNBC revealed that almost 40 percent of the respondents...

A week on the road: gator road-kill and shuttle launches

EMILEIGH BARNES March 30, 2009

In Mississippi, we call this time of year spring, for which thesaurus.com offers these related words: bud time, flowering, prime, and springtide. Excellent. Better yet, in Florida, where I spent my spring...

Relax, administrators: It’s just a food fight

KATIE GADIENT March 30, 2009

There is something strange in the sloppy joes being served at Dubuque Senior High School. A senior prank involving the saucy loose-meat sandwiches and a food fight in the school’s cafeteria resulted...