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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

Point/Counterpoint: Should Brett Favre play for the Vikings in 2009?

DI SPORTS STAFF May 12, 2009

Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing about Brett Favre? I certainly am. Two words to Favre: STAY RETIRED. Why? Because I can’t get my daily fix of ESPN anymore. It refuses to stop beating this...

Dance Marathon runs Chicago again

SCOTT RAYNOR May 12, 2009

It will be another nine months before Dance Marathon takes over the UI campus again, but more than 200 UI students are training to raise money for the program. For the second-consecutive year, participants...

Summer changes Iowa City police patrols

REGINA ZILBERMINTS May 12, 2009

The traditional increase in crime that comes with warmer weather may be offset in Iowa City as students leave campus after finals, authorities said. Iowa City police generally receive fewer calls for...

Graduating actor chases career, despite economy

MARY HARRINGTON May 12, 2009

Even with an unknown future in a brutally competitive profession, UI senior David Pinsof is graduating with big goals and big talent that may take him far. Pinsof is a daydreamer. He relishes daily in...

Who will replace Souter? Locals weigh in

SHAWN GUDE May 12, 2009

It’s been more than a week since Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter announced his retirement, but UI experts, akin to many others around the country, are still scratching their heads about...

Who’s got mail? Officials and their policies

TESSA McLEAN May 12, 2009

State Board of Regents President David Miles uses Gmail, Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey uses an Avalon account, and Iowa City City Councilor Matt Hayek has his law firm’s address. Recently, it’s become...

UI forced to shift sites of many graduations

JENNIFER DELGADO May 12, 2009

The effects of last year’s flood are still lingering — with Hancher Auditorium closed, officials at many UI colleges were forced to relocate graduation ceremonies. “Because Hancher wasn’t available,...

E-mail scam hits UI students

XIN FENG May 12, 2009

When hundreds of thousands of people were losing their jobs each month, UI freshman Tim Riphagen was offered one that contended it could pay him several hundred dollars per week. All he needed was a...

Hicks to swim for New Zealand

EVELYN LAU May 12, 2009

Verity Hicks won’t spend her summer working a job or internship. Instead, she’ll be in Serbia, representing her country, New Zealand. The sophomore AquaHawk will compete in the World University Games,...

Greene nabs DI Male Athlete of the Year award

SCOTT MILLER May 12, 2009

What’s left to say about Shonn Greene? By now, everyone knows about his rise from obscurity to domination of Big Ten defenses. Everyone knows the way he treats his teammates and acts off the field....

Hawkeye sports in the time of economic cholera

ZACH SMITH May 12, 2009

The Iowa athletics department has distinguished itself in more ways than one this year. For the first time in 18 years, the Hawkeye football team beat a squad ranked in the AP top five when it downed Penn...

King of the skewer

BRIAN DAU May 12, 2009

Weapons of mass destruction come in small packages in Chuck Palahniuk’s Pygmy. Pygmy is a 13-year-old foreign-exchange student placed in the Midwest, with the caveat that he is secretly a terrorist...

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