Earlier this year, Michael Gartner relinquished his polarizing three-year-long tenure as president of the state Board of Regents. It was just the latest chapter in a life that has taken him from a young boy answering phones at the Des Moines Register to a high-power journalism career, followed by public service and the purchase of a minor-league baseball team. Throughout, he has left his mark on the minds of many: sometimes positively, sometimes negatively, but always memorably. (6) comments
Around 30 protesters gathered Wednesday morning in front of the Johnson County Courthouse before the pre-trial hearing of UI student leader Vernon Jackson.
Their charge: Jackson's recent arrest for public intoxication and disorderly conduct was racially motivated.
A six-month battle over censorship and sexism came to a head Wednesday night, after two history-department senators in the UI Graduate Student Senate alleged that their opposition to a bar crawl last fall resulted in a backlash from male senators.
Caroline Campbell and Karissa Haugeberg wrote a letter to the editor of The Daily Iowan in October 2007 with fellow graduate student Christy Clark to express their disapproval of a Graduate Student Senate bar crawl. Both say they received negative feedback from male senators after the letter's publication.
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Sarah Prineas was ecstatic when publisher HarperCollins picked up her children's fantasy trilogy, but even more excited when the publisher made The Magic Thief one of its lead titles, pushing its release date up an entire year.
Prineas, the UI Honors Program scholarship coordinator, spoke in a presentation about book publishing Wednesday as a part of the Honors Arts Program. Her book The Magic Thief will be in stores June 3.
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Several antiviolence activists converged on the Iowa City Public Library on Wednesday afternoon to come up with a plan to stop the recent spate of violence against women in the area.
Kristie Doser, the executive director of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program, said the goal of the meeting was to look at actions to take as a community in light of the more than 30 attacks since September 2006.
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Nearly $270,000 allocated to the state last month will allow modifications to Iowa's Sex Offender Registry, which officials are also working toward making compliant with a federal law.
Despite receiving a $269,450 grant through the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act - which went into effect in 2006 - Steven Conlon, assistant director with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said the state's registry still fails to follow certain requirements.
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Measles may sound outdated, like polio or smallpox, but a recent outbreak in the United States prompts another look.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 64 cases between Jan. 1 and April 25. At least eight more cases appeared in the last week.
"This isn't a mild childhood disease," said Patricia Quinlisk, medical director of the Iowa Department of Public Health.
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UI graduates Brian Triplett and Denny Clark, both 23, are going on an expedition this summer. Beginning May 20 along the Maine coast, the pair will trek across the nation and help strangers they meet along the way.
"We're doing random acts of kindness to people who don't really need it and might have a distorted perception about it," Clark said.
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In the Wednesday article "Ex-UISG hopeful arrested again," the *DI* inaccurately reported that former UISG presidential-hopeful Vernon Jackson was charged with fourth-degree theft and failing to appear in court on another charge on April 30. He was actually arrested on those charges April 28. (0) comments
Woman pleads not guilty in alleged attack
An Iowa City woman accused of attacking her boyfriend with a knife pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to five charges.
Police arrested Dameka Bryant, 33, after she allegedly chased her boyfriend around an apartment with a 10-inch chef's knife when he attempted to leave. A witness reported that he yelled at Bryant to stop when she lunged at him, throwing rocks and yelling "I'm gonna kill you."
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