Daily Iowan
Stories from the current online edition of Daily Iowan.
- Contractors rush to get Mayflower operational
Mayflower residents will have to endure ongoing construction on the first floor and sparse facilities this fall, the price of getting their home up and running by Aug. 15.
Originally, the UI didn't intend to have the facility available for the fall semester, but the inconveniences of not being abl...
- Erosion reduces capacity at Coralville Reservoir
The Coralville Reservoir's capacity is shrinking.
Since the dam that created the Reservoir was completed in 1958, approximately 11 percent of the storage basin's capacity has been lost to silt, said Ron Fournier, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- Iowa City officials lobby for money in DC
Despite the U.S. Senate's decision Wednesday to delay the federal disaster-relief bill that that would include funding for flood aid, Iowa City officials remained optimistic about their meetings with Iowa's congressional representatives in Washington, D.C.
- Overall UI grant income up
The UI announced that it netted $386.2 million in grants and contracts, an increase of more than 2 percent over last year. Though the total barely edged out inflation, UI officials were excited about the figure thanks to an increasingly competitive grant distribution process.
"It has been an incred...
- Lopes praised in farewell ceremony
Food and beverages sat untouched at a ceremony Wednesday as faculty and friends chose not to step out of line to meet with Lola Lopes, the UI's interim executive vice president and provost for the past year.
People expressed their fond farewells and appreciation for Lopes, who will be replaced by W...
- Salmonella scare increases business for local tomato growers
On Wednesday evening, the line for tomatoes reached well beyond Carrie Wall's booth at the Farmer's Market, and it didn't die down for an hour.
Wall's family has been in the tomato business for more than 20 years, owning a farm called Ineichen Tomatoes, but this summer, tomato vendors can tell tha...
- Custom textbooks beneficial at UI, trouble elsewhere
Custom books at the UI help to ease students' financial worries, but other universities have been accused of using customization with ulterior motives.
Custom books are created by the professor, department, or the publisher to exclude unnecessary data or include other information. The publisher st...
- Metro Briefs
Trial dates set in Hillcrest case
The trial dates for former Iowa football players Cedric Everson and Abe Satterfield have been set for Nov. 3.
The two ex-Hawkeyes were charged with second-degree sexual abuse after a woman alleged she was raped in Hillcrest in October 2007. Satterfield was also c...
- Police Blotter
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The Traveler
Stories from the current online edition of The Traveler.
SILC Director Leyah Bergman-Lanier said one of the wonderful things about Fayetteville is its willingness to embrace diversity.
RIAA requests file-sharing info from UA
UA administrators recently received a formal request from the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group that represents intellectual property and First Amendment rights of the U.S. recording industry, asking that the UA cooperate in addressing illegal file-sharing activities.
Green neighborhood offers 'community' feel
The UA Community Design Center has developed a new vision of neighborhood for the Washington County chapter of Habitat for Humanity: no sidewalks, no curbs, no gutters and no flooding, even after torrential rain, according to a press release.
Porchscapes: An Affordable LEED-Neighborhood Development...
UA graduate student goes after U.S. Senate seat against Rep. Boozman
UA graduate student Abel Tomlinson will appear on the ballot this November against incumbent Rep. John Boozman.?
Boozman and Tomlinson both met with students last week after each hosted separate and overlapping discussions on sustainability.
Boozman currently has a 10 percent rating by the League ...
New RSO focuses on helping the Delta
Students and faculty can help retain the heritage of the Arkansas Delta and rebuild its future through a new Registered Student Organization, said Krista Jones, president of the Advocates for the Arkansas Delta.
The mission statement for AAD is that it's a student-based, nonprofit organization dedi...
P.R.I.D.E. celebrates Day of Silence with dance
Walter Lang and his partner moved across the dance floor with all eyes on them. Around them, gay and straight couples stood chatting and dancing, as well.
Lang was one of many UA students and members of the UA organization P.R.I.D.E (People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality) celebrati...
Missouri State gets rematch with Diamond Hogs
The Missouri State Bears are hoping not to start and end the month of April with losses to the Razorbacks.
On April 1, the Bears lost a heartbreaker at home to the Hogs in extra innings, 7-6 after a Ben Tschepikow sacrifice fly won the game in the 10th inning.
NCAA graduation rates slowly rise in D-1
Each spring, graduation and commencement ceremonies are held by colleges and universities throughout the United States.
And each spring, thousands upon thousands of students take "the walk" and receive their diplomas.
Included in that group of graduating students are the student-athletes, who, alt...
A year of changes on 'The Hill' comes to a close
It's safe to say that it's been a year of change in Hog Heaven.
In the fall, Jeff Long was chosen as the UA's new athletic director following the retirement of Frank Broyles.
In October, John Pelphrey began his first season as Arkansas head basketball coach.
Lady'Back tennis squad heads to nationals
The No. 15 Arkansas Lady'Back tennis team was selected to face No. 46 Wake Forest Friday in the first round of the NCAA Championship.
Arkansas had hopes of hosting for the first time in school history, but the team wasn't too down after watching the ESPNEWS selection show Tuesday, Arkansas head coa...
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The News Record
Stories from the current online edition of The News Record.
- Researcher links lead to violence
After studying the effects of childhood lead exposure for nearly 30 years, a University of Cincinnati researcher has found a positive correlation to violent criminal behavior and a deterioration of brain cells.
"We started the study in 1979 and recruited women who were pregnant or living in areas o...
- Harvard revamps "flawed" design
With the rise of obesity and diabetes in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created a new food pyramid in 2005, but the Harvard School of Public Health has issued their own Healthy Eating Pyramid as an alternative to a "flawed" design.
In the United States, 34 percent of adults o...
- Peer-review accreditation process to begin
Assessments completed, drafts written, and now, this summer, members of the University of Cincinnati's accreditation self-study steering committee will begin assembling their final report.
Accreditation is voluntary, but required in order for colleges and universities to receive federal financial a...
- Hookahs: alternative to alcohol
There is something about smoking a water pipe college students find appealing - perhaps it's the bubbles.
A recent study conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University reported that of the 700 students surveyed, more than 40 percent reported having used a water pipe in the previous year.
- Cyberwars come to UC
Students at the College of Applied Science are learning to hack into computer systems at the University of Cincinnati for the sake of Homeland security.
Two groups of students participated in "Cyber Warfare Games," on Thursday, June 12, with one group trying to hack into a hypothetical computer sys...
- Top 5 UC sports moments of '07 - '08
The 2007-08 school year was an up and down year for the University of Cincinnati athletics. The football and baseball teams finished historic campaigns, while other programs struggled for consistency. With that in mind, here are the top-five newsworthy moments from the 2007-08 athletic year.
- UC close to several concert venues
Imagine this: it's the middle of the week, you and your buddies are bored, but all the normal ideas for fun sound mind-numbing. The movie theater doesn't have any good showings, the clubs don't open for another couple hours and Newport on the Levee is too expensive.
- Summer Entertainment Guide
SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
This list will help keep your summer rockin' before buckling down at UC.
CONCERTS
June 19 Demon Hunter-Bogarts, $18
June 23 Mindless Self Indulgence-Bogarts, $23
June 25 Jagermeister Tour: Hatebreed-Bogarts, $28
July 2 Modest Mouse-Bogarts, $35
July 5 311 and S...
- Column: Coitus with Caryl
Welcome new and returning students. My name is Caryl Adams and I am the new sex columnist for The News Record. In addition to writing, I am a fifth-year student in Health Promotion and Education, emphasizing in Community Health. In addition, I am a peer educator in the University of Cincinnati Welln...
- Column: Sex in CINcity
As every quarter draws to an end - especially spring quarter - I find myself desperately longing for the delicious nothingness I'll be doing as soon as the schoolwork is finally over. Hopefully, we'll all soon have time to lie around doing heaps of nothing.
The Daily Free Press
Stories from the current online edition of The Daily Free Press.
- Tuition soars, and the Student Union stays silent
If there ever were a time for Boston University students to take to the streets, it is now. There is no degree that can be earned at this business-like institution that is worth $50,000 a year.
Unfortunately, the elected students who are charged with representing our voice are sitting quietly on th...
- Quality control must match cost increases
Seventeen-year-olds are not given many legal rights: They cannot vote, drink alcohol, run for elected office or serve on a jury. Why, then, is it that American youth, most often at the excitable and impressionable age of 17, apply for acceptance at colleges that in total cost us more than a mortgage...
- On the move
For the most part, the walls of The Daily Free Press are almost as empty as they were in the 1980s when the editors moved there from Cummington Street.
- Sobering truths
When students in a College of Communication advertising class told The Daily Free Press more than two weeks ago that their professors let them drink beer in the classroom, the first thing we did was confirm all the facts of the incident that led to the dean canceling the Thursday sessions of the cla...
- Reporting the facts
For the past week, the front page of The Daily Free Press has been dominated by continuing coverage of the Boston University Police Department's lack of cooperation in providing details about a collision in which a BUPD officer struck a student with his car on Commonwealth Avenue.
- Stealing our comfort
On Oct. 1, a Boston University men's hockey player had his laptop, iPod and speakers totaling about $1,500 stolen from his room on Bay State Road. The residents of the brownstone said a faulty door was to blame for letting unknown thieves into their homes.
- The sense in security
With submachine guns pointed at her face, Star Simpson became the center of a short-lived media frenzy that thrived on the public's sense of security. Police forces were swift, and for a few minutes, the bomb scare seemed legitimate at Logan International Airport.
- A changing Free Press
Thirty-seven years ago, the first issue of The Daily Free Press was printed the day after Boston University's deans canceled final exams and Commencement following the Kent State riots.
- Lucchino urges graduates to 'be bold,' act generously
Bright skies and an upbeat message from Red Sox President Larry Lucchino greeted the Class of 2008 at Boston University's main commencement ceremony on Nickerson Field Sunday afternoon.
Lucchino mixed wisdom and wit, urging graduates to fight injustice and act boldly, and also crediting graduates w...
- Professor, surgery chief dies after boating accident
May 28 - Erwin Hirsch, widely known chief of trauma surgery at the Boston Medical Center and professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, died Friday after a boating accident in Maine. He was 72.
Hirsch was one of two men on board a blue dinghy that capsized in 48 degree water in Rockport...
KY Kernel
Stories from the current online edition of KY Kernel.
- Demolition continues for CentrePointe block
Demolition of the remaining buildings on the downtown block where CentrePointe is planned to be built began, last night.
Bulldozers worked to tear down the Rite Aid Pharmacy building while crowds of people gathered to watch and cars drove by honking, fists waving out the window.
- Designers develop alternatives for block
The UK College of Design hosted a discussion and presentation on alternative design strategies for Lexington's proposed CentrePointe development Monday, featuring ideas brainstormed by UK students.
Three teams of four UK architectural design students gathered to create alternative concepts for Cent...
- News Briefs
While the world looks to China for the upcoming Olympic Games, Kentucky can explore its connections to the country Sunday night when Citizen Kentucky/Citizen China: Hope for a New Century airs on KET1.
The program, airing at 10:30 p.m., is a result of a two-year exploration of the connections betwe...
- Students go green for Amazing Race
Nathaniel Edwards was tired, hungry and smiling. As he asked his peers about the "life-cycle" of different materials, he and his teammate, Gabby Gude, matched recycled items with their source during a checkpoint on campus yesterday.
They were racing.
Edwards, Gude and 14 other middle school stud...
- Accent fall with flowers and feathers
Just yesterday I returned from a little (and my very first - I know, can you believe it?) trip to THE New York City, and am only too excited to impart the knowledge I gained there to you, my fellow fashion mavens.
Because the summer is coming to an end (in the fashion world, that is - the fall line...
- Kernel Editorial: As buildings fall, accept potential with new design
The bulldozers arrived, the buildings fell and with them went the last hopes for an appeal to stop the demolition of the CentrePointe block.
We knew it was coming - the razing was unanimously approved at the end of June, The Dame and Busters officially closed nearly a month ago- but still we held t...
- Beshear wrong to think coal can be mined "environmentally"
Late last week, Gov. Steve Beshear had an announcement to make: he wants Kentucky to become the "energy capital of the world." In theory, I guess that doesn't sound like too bad of a deal. A challenge? Yes. But a problem? No. That is, until Beshear said how he was going to do it.
- Letter to the Editor: Goodnight, and Good luck UK Professors
I'm leaning against Obama because he's Muslim, I'm leaning toward McCain because he believes in the right of Czechoslovakia to still exist, and I'm ending my friendship with two UK professors after reading a Lexington Herald-Leader commentary, "Fair to point out lack of ideological diversity at UK.
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