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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

The Daily Iowan

Dine on a Dime: Ramen Tacos

DI ARTS STAFF September 30, 2009

This week’s recipe, and the second installment of the RAMEN MARATHON, is a true East meets West dish (East meets Southwest, to be more accurate). But, before we get to the recipe, why don’t we grab...

Hardly reality television

PATRICK BIGSBY September 30, 2009

Shirtless, inebriated, toothless men take note: You are being profiled. “COPS,” Fox’s long-running police reality series, is a constant parade of moronic hillbillies running afoul of the law and...

Book Review: Year of the Flood

BEN EVANS September 30, 2009

Imagine a world in which a murderous virus has destroyed almost every shred of human life. Now, picture that there is nothing to eat but strange, foreign animals with names that seem to come straight out...

Book Review: A Deep Dark Secret

TOMMY MORGAN JR. September 30, 2009

What do people do when they’re trapped in a bad situation with only one option to get out? Hope the book ends soon. That’s not the answer Kimberla Lawson Roby’s protagonist looks for in A Deep Dark...

Guest Opinion: Obama channeling Cheney on detainee policy

BENJAMIN WITTES - GUEST OPINION September 30, 2009

President Obama’s decision not to go to Congress for help in establishing reasonable standards for the continued detention of Guantánamo detainees is a failure of leadership in the project of putting...

My acute awareness

MICHAEL DAVIS September 30, 2009

My friends were littering the new house with empty beer cans. They were creating a decorative pyramid of the past night’s frivolity and debauchery. As a newly unleashed sophomore in the world of renter...

The ongoing controversy of John Deng

DI EDITORIAL STAFF September 30, 2009

In the weeks following the July 24 death of John Deng, many have raised issues regarding the legitimacy of the shooting and whether it was warranted. The Iowa Attorney General’s Office released its final...

Red Spartan Hill Raiders clinch playoff berth

IAN MARTIN September 30, 2009

With two touchdowns, another long catch from freshman Ryan O’Donnell, and the late emergence of freshman Ryan McKean, the Red Spartan Hill Raiders defeated the Iowa Pharm Team, 33-20, at the Hawkeye...

Men’s golf ties for 4th

DI SPORTS STAFF September 30, 2009

The Iowa men’s golf team shot the best round of the day in the Virginia Commonwealth Shootout to finish in a fourth-place tie on Tuesday. The Hawkeyes shot 5 over to finish with a total of 881 (17 over)...

Men’s tennis player from around the world

JAKE KRZECZOWSKI September 30, 2009

Canadian Tom Mroziewicz first picked up a tennis racket when he was 5 years old, in Bandung, Indonesia. The sophomore on the Iowa tennis team learned how to hit the ball from his father, Wojtek, a semipro...

Three Big Ten squads play road openers this week

BRENDAN STILES September 30, 2009

Three Big Ten teams — Penn State, Michigan, and Wisconsin — have had the luxury thus far of playing all of their games at home. And who can blame them? Beaver Stadium, the Big House, and Camp Randall...

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