2008 Woodie Awards
When it comes to nighttime debauchery, Daum residents are likely the designated drivers - not the students accumulating PAULAs.
A Daily Iowan analysis of UI police dockets since 2002 - with citations including PAULAs, public intoxications, and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia - revealed Daum and Stanley residents received the fewest number of offenses per student, and Parklawn aggregated the largest.
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Accusing Democrats of favoring unnecessary increases in governmental spending and bureaucracy, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., said the United States needs to rely on individuals and the free market to solve its problems.
"We need to adhere to the principles that made this party great and made this country the greatest country on the face of the Earth," he said.
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Gary Steinke, the executive director of the state Board of Regents' staff, will leave the board on Nov. 1.
The Iowa Association of Private Colleges and Universities announced on Tuesday that Steinke will be named president on Jan. 1, 2008.
Steinke has been a central figure behind the regents in the debate over arming campus police and in coordinating the security report and recommendation presented at the Sept. 18 regents' meeting.
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For Dale Levitski, the best dorm food at the UI was the all-you-can-eat breakfast cereal.
"We got the good stuff [in the Quad Cafeteria]," he said. "[It] was pretty awesome."
Now - 10 years later - the former UI student has swapped the cereal bowls for a white jacket and a chef's knife, and he could become the next "Top Chef" on season three of Bravo's culinary-elimination series.
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Red and white bandanas concealed faces of UI Antiwar Committee members Tuesday morning, revealing only their eyes, as they chalked the First Amendment in front of Jessup Hall, asserting their position against the university's ban on chalking its sidewalks.
"It's friggin' chalk," one member of the group said anonymously, representing the group's desire to be quoted as a collective committee.
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Ross Meyer stands behind the counter at That's Rentertainment, the video store he owns and operates in Iowa City.
The 27-year-old looks more like a rocker than a boss. Bearded, shaggy-haired, and sporting a Fugazi T-shirt, he makes tags for a stack of new releases.
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Only 37 percent of Americans are eligible to donate blood, 66 million people fewer than previously thought, according to a study released earlier this year in Transfusion.
It's just the kind of research that blood-center professionals such as Erin Marzen, the UI DeGowin Blood Center blood-drive coordinator, point to when they talk about the ongoing need for the vital fluid.
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Ten water-quality improvement projects will receive $10 million in funds from the Watershed Improvement Review Board and individual project groups to restore Iowa waterways, beginning in the spring of 2008.
And the Iowa River, labeled by some as one of the most unhealthy in the country, will not be among them.
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Upwards of 12 audience members spoke passionately for and against an ordinance granting a franchise for MidAmerican Energy at the Iowa City City Council meeting Tuesday night. Such an agreement could last up to 25 years.
If city councilors voted in favor of the contract, it would give the organization a 10-year agreement, with the ability to be terminated between eight and nine years later.
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