While the Iowa Hawkeyes cracked down on the Minnesota Golden Gophers last weekend, the Iowa City police were doing some cracking down of their own.
Officers ticketed more than twice as many underage individuals Nov. 9 through Nov. 11 when compared with any other home football game weekend this year, though officials say the increase wasn't due to an intentional police effort.
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The Indian Student Alliance aimed for a modern and educational view for the UI's 26th-annual Diwali holiday celebration.
Held Nov. 10 in the IMU, "Deep Jalao Dhoom Machao" - or "The Festival of Lights" - recognized the many different histories behind the Hindu holiday.
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DES MOINES - Approximately 9,000 Democrats, often brightly colored to indicate their candidate of choice, poured into Veterans Auditorium to see most of the Democratic presidential field at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Nov. 10.
Yearly, the dinner draws a respectable crowd. Last year's, featuring former President Bill Clinton, more than 3,500 attended.
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Last month, UI freshman Hayley Brendengen branched out to new activities and joined an intramural volleyball team.
This month, it's hot yoga.
The 18-year-old tries to go to the Bikram Yoga class in Coralville approximately two to three times a week to ensure she stays flexible and maintains roots in one of her passions.
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Encouraging kids to walk or bike to school has been a nationwide effort for the past two years, and it's time to take it a step further, education officials say.
Officials of the Safe Routes to School program met in Michigan last week to determine these steps. Safe Routes - in coalition with the U.S. Federal Highway Administration - was created in May 2006 to encourage children and their families to choose alternate, more healthy forms of transportation in the morning.
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Iowa City School District Superintendent Lane Plugge will ask School Board members on Tuesday to approve a plan for a new elementary school.
The exact location of the proposed building has yet to be announced, but Plugge has said the facility will be located in the North Corridor.
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The UI is creating a monetary-incentive program to entice departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to switch classes to Friday.
Under the proposed plan, which is designed to decrease binge drinking on Thursday nights, the UI school will pay departments $20 per student per switched class, officials said.
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Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards spoke out against politicians who accept campaign donations from corporate lobbyists at a fundraising event for Johnson County Democrats Terrence Neuzil and Lonny Pulkrabek on Sunday afternoon.
Neuzil, a county supervisor running for re-election in 2008, said he is supporting Edwards largely because of the sincerity he perceives in the presidential-nomination hopeful.
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Joseph Buckwalter cannot remember how many times he has been ranked in the "Best Doctors in America" database - "quite a few times," he said.
Buckwalter is one of 269 Iowa physicians out of 487 listed this year who received some aspect of medical training - school, residency, or fellowship - at the UI's College of Medicine.
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The house felt the bust after the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission dealt Riverside Casino a pair of fines totaling $30,000.
Commission administrator Jack Ketterer said the amount the organization has fined Iowa casinos has remained the same, but with more casinos in the state, the potential for an increase in total fines has increased. He estimates casinos average between $100,000 and $200,000 a year in fines.
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Nude man draws slew of charges
A nude man allegedly broke into an Iowa Avenue residence Nov. 10, assaulting the occupants, and at one point tried to hold an officer in a head lock, authorities reported.
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