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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

Bitch Please: Gertrude Stein

DI ARTS STAFF June 16, 2009

My first experience with Gertrude Stein was reading Three Lives for a lit class last fall. I didn’t make it very far before I wanted to hurl myself, or better yet the book, through the Cambus window....

CD Reviews: Incubus, George Harrison, Birth Rites, Dead Larry

DI ARTS STAFF June 16, 2009

Memories of Sweet Tunes Incubus: Monuments and Memories It’s been three years since the alternative rockers in Incubus have released an album. OK, so the band’s latest, Monuments and Memories, is...

Spinal Tap earns 110 percent

ERIC ANDERSEN June 16, 2009

Spinal Tap: Back From the Dead In 1984, director Rob Reiner unleashed the film This is Spinal Tap, setting the standard for all parody films and becoming one of the most revered comedies of all time....

SXSW star Deer Tick to play in IC

ERIC SUNDERMANN June 16, 2009

It all started when Deer Tick’s lead singer, John McCauley, got bit. “I somehow managed to go 19 years of my life without being bit [by a deer tick],” he said. “But one day, I was out in Bloomington,...

North Side receives ample attention from city

NIALLE SYLVAN - GUEST OPINION June 16, 2009

I am one of the business owners in the North Side neighborhood, and I was quite pleased that your paper covered our interest in working with the city to improve and promote our neighborhood (“North Side...

Throwing the vote in Iran

BEAU ELLIOT June 16, 2009

What if they threw an election and everybody came? Well, nearly everybody — 85 percent, according to some reports. And what if, when the government announced the results, millions and millions of people...

Requiring employee survey would help to set concrete goals for UI

DI EDITORIAL BOARD June 16, 2009

In a university of this stature, it’s important that all educators on campus share common goals. In order for our university to move forward, administrators and faculty and staff members alike must work...

After flood, camp-going high-school football players resurge

TRAVIS VARNER June 16, 2009

Aspiring high-school football players are in Iowa City this week trying to improve their skills under the guidance of college and high-school coaches at the annual Hawkeye football camp. The players,...

In Prime Time opener Gatens leads big turnaround

ROBBIE LEHMAN June 16, 2009

Incoming Iowa junior Devon Archie wasted no time producing in his first appearance as a Hawkeye in Monday’s Prime Time League opener, but his L.L. Pelling/Iowa City Ready Mix team failed to hold a halftime...

2 Hawkeyes-to-be jostle in Prime Time

JAKE KRZECZOWSKI June 16, 2009

The Prime Time League got off to a fast start on Monday in North Liberty as two incoming Iowa freshmen took to the pace quickly inside the new gym of the North Liberty Community Center. Cully Payne of...

Iowa near top in high-school graduation rate

SCOTT RAYNOR June 16, 2009

Around 80 percent of all Iowa high school students graduated on time in 2006 — 11 percent more than the national average, according to a study by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. And...

Kirkwood data breach drives security concern

ABE TEKIPPE June 16, 2009

In light of last week’s potential security breach at a Kirkwood office in Iowa City, UI officials said students’ and faculty’s personal information is secure on the university’s servers. At the...

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