The UI Black Student Union plans to boycott one downtown bar because of pictures they deemed offensive on the establishment's website.
Brothers Bar & Grill, 125 S. Dubuque St., posted photos in a gallery dated Oct. 26 and 27, the weekend before Halloween. One picture shows three bar patrons wearing Chicago Bull jerseys, two of them in blackface. A second picture depicts another man, also in blackface, wearing a ruffled, white satin shirt and a wide-brimmed zebra hat.
"What makes this such an insult is that they have a dress code that is blatantly anti-black," said Vernon Jackson, the group's president, echoing a letter addressed to the "Owner and Management" of the bar.
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After five years as director of the UI Hospitals and Clinics, Donna Katen-Bahensky will be chief executive officer of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison starting Feb. 4, 2008.
Katen-Bahensky has headed the UIHC since 2002, after serving as the chief operating officer at Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals and Clinics.
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Around a dozen Iowa City homeless people plus around 40 others gathered at the Iowa City Public Library to discuss ups and downs of local efforts to bring the homeless out of various unfortunate situations.
In a panel discussion, six officials in the Johnson County area initially focused on the fact that the homeless will not survive without the support of family members and full use of the community's resources.
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David Miles has been elected president of the state Board of Regents, a move expected to assuage those at the UI concerned with Michael Gartner's management style during the first, failed search for a new UI president.
On Wednesday, the regents selected the current president pro tem to the position in a telephone meeting. His term will last from Jan. 1, 2008 to April 30, 2008, when Gartner's term would have ended.
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It's not uncommon for juveniles to be sent through the adult justice system, local officials attest - though a new report claims this trend may be detrimental.
The report, compiled by a panel appointed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, took a look at nine different studies concerning juvenile offenders before recommending against tougher transfer policies for youths.
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The Coralville Public Library reopened Wednesday after an $8 million renovation.
Well, sort of.
The "right on schedule" phase one of library renovations were officially completed, and it reopened after being closed for two weeks. But the entire transformation of the library will not be completed until phase two is finished in five to six months.
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Philip Gordon says the problems in Iraq originate from the language used in "the war on terror."
"It's a substantive fight versus a rhetorical fight," said the senior fellow for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution said. "The war on terror: What does that mean? We need a new phrase."
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Martin Davidson, the head of the British Council, will speak to the UI students, faculty, and staff today about cultural relations in a time of war, with a focus on the Middle East.
His lecture will be the first open discussion about the nature of public diplomacy from the council.
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UI Student Government President Barrett Anderson plans to display evaluation results next to course descriptions on ISIS to allow students greater ease in selecting classes and teachers.
Though the UISG official is unsure whether the measure will pass, he feels it's important "to be as forthright as possible" in order to provide students with a thorough understanding of class material and instruction.
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Transportation - specifically the likelihood of a possible regional or countywide service - was a main point of discussion at Wednesday night's Johnson County Council of Governments Urbanized Area Policy Board meeting.
Minutes after a report on Des Moines' Regional Transit and Ames' CyRide and a letter to be sent to Iowa's Department of Transportation was approved by the council, two community members spoke on the need for a countywide transit system.
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Students aren't the only ones with a heavy work load; professors are also doing a fair amount of research.
According to an index compiled by Academic Analytics in The Chronicle of Higher Education, some departments at the UI are leading the pack in faculty scholarly productivity.
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