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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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You don’t know what you got till you’re 17 again

REBECCA KOONS April 20, 2009

Film Review: 17 Again Zac Efron makes us wonder if maybe everything does happen for a reason. 17 Again is the story of Mike O’Donnell, who misses out on his chance to become a successful basketball...

Bitch Please: Nas or Talib Kweli?

SHAWN GUDE AND NICK FETTY April 20, 2009

Welcome to Bitch Please, the newest offering from The Daily Iowan’s rabble-rousing Arts and Culture staff. Bitch Please is a place where two DI staffers argue about all that is wonderful in the entertainment...

311 review: Decent, though oddly removed

RACHAEL LANDER April 20, 2009

311 played a semi-decent show on April 18 at the Field House. Though the concert wasn’t good enough to warrant day-after talk, it held its own. I’ll be honest — when 311’s Nick Hexum and S.A....

The world’s most unlikely songbird

AMY WILENTZ, LOS ANGELES TIMES April 20, 2009

It is a bad world in which to be an almost-50-year-old virgin, unemployed, with frizzy hair, midriff bulge, and a figure like a spinster teacher from the 1940s. In the international world of televised...

As the world burns

DEAN TREFTZ April 20, 2009

All right, it’s April; where are my tornadoes? As a Midwesterner, I feel like it’s my right to cower in some basement and with a guilty excitement wonder what it must be like in that trailer park...

Campus voting system lacks usability

DI EDITORIAL BOARD April 20, 2009

Voting started early this morning for this year’s UI Student Government election — hopefully. But that’s the same thing they told us last week, when voting was originally slated to begin. But then...

Tennis’ Bierich nails final win against Boilermakers

AMIE KIEHN April 20, 2009

The last home match for Iowa senior Christian Bierich ended exactly how he wanted. All eyes were transfixed on him and Purdue’s Slavko Bijelica with the dual meet between the Hawkeyes and Boilermakers...

Iowa softball sweeps Spartans

JON LINDER April 20, 2009

The two games of Iowa’s double-header with Michigan State on April 18 could not have ended on more contrasting terms. The Hawkeyes (35-11, 7-5) beat the Spartans 8-0 in six innings on the run rule in...

Bruggeman just wants an opportunity to join NFL

RYAN YOUNG April 20, 2009

Playing football as a tyke in the Midwest, the only thing Rob Bruggeman wanted to be growing up was a Hawkeye. He didn’t want to be a Bear, or a Packer, or a Viking. And he certainly didn’t aspire...

Lots of football Hawks banged up, Edds will be ready

SCOTT MILLER April 20, 2009

Before the April 18 spring scrimmage, linebacker A.J. Edds didn’t look like a player recovering from off-season shoulder surgery. Instead of standing on the sidelines like some of his injured defenders,...

Art Museum future murky

CAITLIN LOMBARDO April 20, 2009

When people gathered in the Bijou on April 18, it wasn’t for a matinee movie — it was to discuss the future of the UI Museum of Art. And it’s still cloudy, UI President Sally Mason said. “I wish...

House OKs credit transfers measure

SHAWN GUDE April 20, 2009

Rep. Jeff Kaufmann, R-Wilton, concedes the credit-transfer experiences of students such as UI junior Danni Huss are common. “Everything went great,” said Huss, who graduated from Iowa Central Community...

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