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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

Mercy Hospital Iowa City is seen on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023.

Mercy IC officially a UI asset after months-long saga

Alejandro Rojas, News Editor โ€ข November 14, 2023

After a months-long process with enough plot twists to keep those following the case on the edge of their seat, the future of health care access and coverage in Iowa City will be unified under one...

Moira Weitz and Allie Kubik, Certified Nurse Midwives and owners of Rooted in Love Midwifery help Megan Swanson deliver her first baby in her home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Weitz has been a practicing midwife for 19 years.

Midwives treat the growing maternal health desert in Iowa

Emily Nyberg, Visuals Editor โ€ข November 8, 2023

After several hours in the Swanson family home, Midwife Moira Weitz crouched at the edge of the bed in the main bedroom. Weitz was advising soon-to-be father James Swanson on how to catch his baby...

Field of courage: Liam Doxseeโ€™s life with SCID

Field of courage: Liam Doxseeโ€™s life with SCID

Grace Smith, Photojournalist โ€ข October 31, 2023

Liam Doxsee pumps his legs as fast as he can next to his best friends. Theyโ€™re sitting on the colorful swings of a large backyard playset while Liamโ€™s dogs run by in the wet grass. The 9-year-oldโ€™s...

Iowa City Community School District students clean up Kinnick Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. The cleanup operation at Kinnick is a partnership between the Iowa City Athletics Booster Club and the University of Iowa, where students clean Kinnick Stadium after gameday for athletic booster club funding. Part of the operation includes sweeping trash into the aisles of Kinnick.

Clean up on aisle Kinnick: the messy outcome after game day

Isabelle Foland, News Reporter โ€ข October 24, 2023

Bright and early on Sunday mornings during football season, Kinnick Stadium is filled with the rumble of garbage trucks, aluminum cans clinking against each other, and the scrape of hundreds of shovels...

Fans pass through the ticket gate before Crossover at Kinnick, a womenโ€™s exhibition basketball game between Iowa and DePaul, at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. The Hawkeyes enter the 2023-24 season after advancing to the NCAA Championship for the first time in program history last year and winning a program-best 31 games in a single season in the 2022-23 season.

Iowa womenโ€™s basketball makes history at Crossover at Kinnick

Cooper Worth, Pregame reporter โ€ข October 15, 2023

History was made in Kinnick Stadium on Sunday afternoon as 55,646 fans watched the Iowa womenโ€™s basketball team beat DePaul, 94-72, in the first-ever "Crossover at Kinnick" โ€” the highest attended...

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark signs autographs during a welcome home event for the Iowa womenโ€™s basketball teamโ€™s NCAA national championship runner-up finish outside of Hyatt Regency Hotel in Coralville on Monday, April 3, 2023. The Hawkeyes were welcomed home by hundreds of fans following a loss to LSU in the title game.

โ€˜Makes the young ones believeโ€™: Iowa womenโ€™s basketball guard Caitlin Clarkโ€™s immeasurable impact on womenโ€™s sports

Kenna Roering, Sports Editor โ€ข October 10, 2023

The 2023 national runner-up Iowa womenโ€™s basketball team canโ€™t go anywhere without getting recognized. The title game featuring Iowaโ€™s Caitlin Clark and Louisiana State Universityโ€™s...

Herky acknowledges the camera and rides away from Kinnick stadium after a football game between Iowa and Western Michigan at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Herky celebrated his 75th birthday during halftime.

Hereโ€™s to Herky: A look back on Herky the Hawkโ€™s 75 years as a beloved mascot

Marandah Mangra-Dutcher, Managing Editor, Enterprise and Design โ€ข October 3, 2023

After a live black bear and multiple Great Danes failed to serve as an enduring symbols of the Hawkeyes, the University of Iowa found a school mascot who has withstood the test of time: Herky the Hawk. The...

University of Iowa alum Gina Whitty poses for a photo in Iowa City on Sept. 25.

UI alumni and students face impending student loan payments

Grace Katzer, Politics Reporter โ€ข September 27, 2023

Over a decade after graduating from the University of Iowa and The Savannah College of Art and Design, North Liberty resident Gina Whitty carries over $100,000 in student loan debt โ€” over double the...

Lexie Olgren, 28, and her daughter, Isabelle, 4, water a plant they bought together at the Olgren family home in Ankeny, Iowa, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. In the fall of 2022, Iowaโ€™s only inpatient eating disorder clinic closed at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Olgren was a patient when she was 26 years old, and said the program is crucial to helping those with eating disorders and is upset about its closing. Olgren said she still struggles with disordered eating daily. She said it sucks that her daughters have to watch her go through that.

Closure of UI inpatient eating disorder program leaves gap in care for Iowans

Jami Martin-Trainor, Managing Digital Editor โ€ข September 19, 2023

Content Warning: This article discusses eating disorders, associated behaviors, and a reference to self-harm. April Bannister was actively receiving treatment from the University of Iowaโ€™s inpatient...

Abi Scheppmann makes a drink at Starbucks in Iowa City on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023.

Serving coffee in a collective: A look into Iowaโ€™s first unionized Starbucks

Natalie Dunlap, Assistant Digital Editor โ€ข September 12, 2023

Young workers in Iowa City successfully voted to unionize, putting Iowa on the map in the nationwide movement of collective organizing across Starbucks locations. The Clinton Street Starbucks near the...

Illustration by Bri Brown.

All in on Iowa: A look into the student-athlete gambling investigation

Cooper Worth, Pregame Reporter โ€ข September 6, 2023

What charges are current, former UI students facing? Basketball Out of the eight individuals charged, former guard Ahron Ulis and student manager Evan Schuster of the basketball team are accused...