Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, IA
5 hours ago by Kelli Shaffner - The Daily Iowan
In Iowa City, a few businessmen tower above the rest, owning more, generating greater wealth, and cutting a larger swath in the area's economic development.
This is nothing new.
But when an area's downtown economy is so dominated by the few, what effect - or repercussions - does this pose?
Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, IA
20 hours ago by Regina Zilbermints - The Daily Iowan
Iowa City police said Thursday they are almost certain former UI music Professor Mark Weiger killed himself while sitting in his car inside his closed garage.
Johnson County medical examiner performed the autopsy on Weiger Thursday afternoon.
By the time officers found him inside his car in his garage Wednesday afternoon, it was obvious he had been dead "awhile," Iowa City police Sgt. Troy Kelsay said.
By that point, he was beyond resuscitation, Kelsay said.
Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, IA
1 day ago by Olivia Moran - The Daily Iowan
A former UI graduate student filed a federal lawsuit late last week against a UI professor, claiming he repeatedly sexually harassed her in 2006 and 2007.
She contends that while she took classes and worked as a teaching assistant, Mark Weiger, an oboe professor in the UI School of Music, made inappropriate and derogatory sexual comments to her on a daily basis.
After a university investigation, Weiger allegedly admitted to participating in the conversations and activities, also saying he inappropriately touched another student in front of a class, Iowa City attorney Alison Werner Smith wrote in the suit.
The Lantern, Ohio State, OH
1 day ago by Catrina Otonoga
Catrina Otonoga/The Lantern
Two men protest the passage of Proposition 8 outside City Hall Saturday. The measure outlaws gay marriage in California.
While most Columbusites were snug in their homes as the first signs of winter began to show Saturday, hundreds of gay rights protesters gathered on the steps and sidewalk of Columbus City Hall to join in a nationwide protest against the passage of Proposition 8 in California
The Collegian, Hillsdale College, MI
4 days ago by Elizabeth Ryan
When junior Lauren Cameron returns from a day of volunteering at Hillsdale Community hospital, friends pack into her room to hear stories about her experiences - watching doctors induce labor, viewing sexually transmitted diseases and learning about the duties of a gynecologist.
The Lantern, Ohio State, OH
4 days ago by Ashley McGinnis, Medical Center Communications
Dr. E. Antonio Chiocca of The Ohio State University Medical Center has received a $5.5 million dollar grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health to develop a more potent oncolytic virus as a treatment of brain cancer
The Lantern, Ohio State, OH
5 days ago by Amy Hoover
Sara Ferne/The Lantern
Circuit City customers will have to find an alternative place to shop soon. Since filing bankruptcy in November, the company will be closing three of their Columbus-area locations in upcoming months.
Circuit City is closing three Columbus area stores and announced Monday that it filed for bankruptcy protection.
The electronic supplier based in Richmond, Va. for the last 60 years announced the closing of 155 stores nationwide because of slumping sales
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