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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

Elliot: Loving the Drug Putin

BEAU ELLIOT April 8, 2014

This is your brain on the Drug Putin:     Nice, huh? Oh, I know you’ve heard the Drug Putin is a mellowing, relaxing substance that doesn’t harm you at all, that it increases your...

Byrd: The new Washington war machine

MATTHEW BYRD April 8, 2014

Sometimes the news is just so drearily awful that you have to sit back and almost appreciate the pure comedy induced by it. Take this item from Washington, Iowa, where the local police have recently...

Editorial: Allow unions for college athletes

DI EDITORIAL BOARD April 8, 2014

The grandest spectacle in college basketball came to an end Monday night, as the NCAA men’s basketball championship closed with UCon’s 60-54 victory over Kentucky in the title game. The controversy...

Boyce Named to U.S. indoor squad

DI STAFF April 8, 2014

U.S. women’s field hockey indoor coach Denise Zelenak announced her squad for the Pan American Cup, scheduled for April 7-12 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and former Iowa goalkeeper Kelsey Boyce...

Holmes remains special

JORDAN HANSEN April 8, 2014

Sprinting by in a pair of florescent green track spikes, senior Ethan Holmes looks every bit like someone who was born to run track. Tall and lanky with a hurdler’s build, he radiates intensity...

Freshman first baseman gains valuable experience

JACK ROSSI April 8, 2014

Sunday marked the ninth game that freshman Kaitlyn Mullarkey has started at first base this season. When Big Ten play began a few weeks ago, the spot at first base was a little cloudy. Mullarky and fellow...

Point/Counterpoint: Was Monday night’s national championship good or bad for the NCAA?

DI STAFF April 8, 2014

They got it wrong. That the committee of big-cigar smoking masochists who are in charge of seeding the teams that partake in the single best sporting event in the universe had the gall to award an 8-seed...

Hawkeyes squander Peyton’s performance

JACOB SHEYKO April 8, 2014

Facing an Indiana team that had combined for 20 runs in the first two games of a three-game series against the Iowa baseball team, Tyler Peyton took the mound for the Hawkeyes and went toe to toe with...

Hawkeyes fall to Indiana, 5-3

JACOB SHEYKO April 8, 2014

For seven innings, it looked as if the Iowa baseball team was going to avoid a series sweep from Indiana. But as quickly as the Hawkeyes had made work of Indiana in the first seven innings of the game,...

OPEN open to sustainability

REBECCA MORIN April 8, 2014

The University of Iowa’s OPEN Party is focusing on getting the student body more involved in helping the environment. The group, which is the only party now running for the UI Student Government,...

UI celebrates ‘Donate Life’ month

GABRIELLA DUNN April 8, 2014

For the last two years, Daylea Herring has been waiting. The 2½–year-old was born with a liver disease — biliary atresia — a condition in which bile becomes trapped in the liver, leading to...

City, UI join on sustainability

IAN MURPHY April 8, 2014

Iowa City officials and the University of Iowa will partner during the next academic year on several sustainability projects in the Iowa City area. The City Council approved the partnership with the...

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