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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

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Bruce Harreld talks with reporters in The Daily Iowan conference room about his upcoming term as the next president of the University of Iowa. Upon his acceptance, Harreld had an approval rating of three percent. (The Daily Iowan/Brooklynn Kascel)

Community gears up for Harreld town hall

Savannah Guyer, [email protected] February 23, 2016

University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld’s first town hall has many drawing their breath in anticipation of questioning the new president. Harreld will hold a the meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. today...

Climate Narrative Project seeks to turn activism into art

Climate Narrative Project seeks to turn activism into art

Katelyn Weisbrod, [email protected] February 23, 2016

Students who major in chemistry, geographic information sciences, and women, gender, and sexuality studies often don’t collaborate on projects. However, a campus group is seeking to turn climate activism...

Regents' website bid raises eyebrows

Regents’ website bid raises eyebrows

KayLynn Harris, [email protected] February 23, 2016

  Community members at some Iowa Board of Regents universities believe the board could allow university communities to play a bigger role in contractual services. In January, the Iowa Board...

Students walk down the T. Anne Cleary Walkway in-between classes on December 2, 2015 at the university of Iowa. (File photo/The Daily Iowan)

Regents leave community cold

KayLynn Harris, [email protected] February 19, 2016

A record number of community members attended the latest state Board of Regents public transparency hearing, although most believed it was just another way for their voices to be ignored. Thursday,...

UI to offer Cuban study trip

UI to offer Cuban study trip

Cindy Garcia, [email protected] February 19, 2016

White-sand beaches. Cigars. Rum. Oh, and business and economics too. The 2016 University of Iowa Winterim lineup will now include a new destination for students interested in studying entrepreneurship...

A sprinkler sits in a field outside of Iowa City on April 16. Some in agriculture say the falling price of farmland is merely the product of an economic cycle. (The Daily Iowan/John Theulen)

UI student photo exhibit fights ‘ag-gag’ laws

Macey Spensley, [email protected] February 19, 2016

A photographer in Iowa City has spent three years traveling to more than 100 farms in the Midwest to highlight the unfairness of laws in the agricultural industry. Kai Plews, a third-year photography...

UI Housing to face serious crunch next year

UI Housing to face serious crunch next year

Kaylyn Kluck, [email protected] February 19, 2016

  University of Iowa students hoping to live on-campus again next year may not be able to. Von Stange, senior director of Housing and Dining, said there would not be room to fit all the students...

The University of Iowa Campus looking west from Old Capitol and the Pentacrest.

Guest opinion: Remembering what public universities are about

February 19, 2016

University of Iowa students, faculty, staff and alumni, and for that matter the citizens of Iowa generally, have been treated in recent months to vague and insubstantial comments by newly appointed President...

UI to welcome Mandela fellows

UI to welcome Mandela fellows

Madeline Murphy Smith, [email protected] February 18, 2016

  The University of Iowa has been selected to host 25 young and empowering African leaders this summer in collaboration with the U.S State Department’s Mandela Washington Fellowship. The Mandela...

Recyclables are separated at the College of Public Health building on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)

Recyclemania underway at UI

Katelyn Weisbrod, [email protected] February 18, 2016

  A nationwide competition is encouraging people to recycle more and waste less. The University of Iowa has several sustainability targets in place to be achieved by 2020, one of which is to...

Alexandra Janezic helps set up new exhibit, Social (In)Justice, in the Iowa Memorial Union Black Box Theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016.  Funding for the exhibit was provided by Deborah and Rod Zeitler for the semester to promote social injustice. The exhibit will display offensive and racist imagery through May 16. (The Daily Iowan/McCall Radavich)

‘Social (In)Justice’ art gallery to open at IMU

Justus Flair, [email protected] @justus_flair February 18, 2016

Faded, seemingly tarnished bronze, the foot-and-a-half tall man stands with feet apart, the blunt ends of nails protruding from his wide chest, arms, and back, a few dotting the tops of his legs. One empty...

Fusing the media atoms: UI students mix media in 'GRIT' performance bred from struggle

Fusing the media atoms: UI students mix media in ‘GRIT’ performance bred from struggle

Isaac Hamlet, [email protected] February 18, 2016

Art forms regularly collide in small ways. Films demand actors practice their craft while featuring costumes produced over hours of laborious design. Comics display vivid splashes of art peppered with...