A friendly softball game in Iowa City’s Happy Hollow Park on Sunday capped off a weekend of events through the Iowa City Feminist Reunion celebrating the impact Iowa City women had on local and national culture and institutions during the mid-sixties and into the eighties.
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Hans Breder, distinguished artist and educator, dies aged 81
Hans Breder, pioneering media artist and educator, died unexpectedly on Sunday in Iowa City. He was 81.
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UI professor receives death threats over article on classical art
In an era when alt-right groups have co-opted the images of white, classical statues, a University of Iowa classics professor published articles about classical art undermining those achromatic images that have led to death threats and virulent online commentary.
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New Iowa City coworking space, MERGE, hosts an open house Thursday
MERGE Innovation Space, an expansion of the IC CoLab, is hosting an open house and ribbon cutting to celebrate its grand opening starting at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in its Ped Mall location. Protostudios, a rapid prototyping facility located within MERGE, and its counterpart on the University of Iowa medical campus, the Translational Research Incubator (TRI), will also be celebrating their kickoff.
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Iowa City area works to cut back on pesticides
Iowa City’s efforts to cut back on spraying pesticides on public lands and school grounds have been recognized by Good Neighbor Iowa, a statewide project through the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy and Environmental Education that promotes pesticide-free lawn maintenance.
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Author, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Denis Johnson passes away
Author and former University of Iowa Writers Workshop alum and faculty member Denis Johnson passed away Wednesday at the age of 67.
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Feeding the meter in downtown Iowa City: There’s an app for that
For those who don’t enjoy carrying around their weight in spare change or interrupting lunch to sprint to an almost-expired meter, Iowa City has a new app that will allow people to use a phone, tablet or any other electronic device to pay for parking.
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From Auschwitz to Iowa City: Michael Bornstein at the IMU
Michael Bornstein IMU Main Lounge — Wednesday, March 29 at 7 p.m. Long reluctant to share his story of surviving the Holocaust as a young child, Michael Bornstein has broken an over-70-year silence and is returning to Iowa City, where he graduated from the university over half a century ago. He will give a lecture, […]
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Letter to the editor: Response to Hancher — ‘Cash is king’
I was picking up passengers at the Cedar Rapids airport. While I was waiting for their flight to land, I read a copy of your magazine, Little Village. On page six in Letters to the Editor, Steven Vosatka asked why Hancher Auditorium does not accept cash. [Aaron Hill, the Hancher food service supervisor,] offered this response: “Student employees did not have prior cash handling experience and some were struggling with the required training.”
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Second annual fundraiser for UI student veterans takes place Saturday
Sponsors from around the Iowa City area are coming together Saturday, March 4 for an evening to support University of Iowa student veterans at the Iowa City VFW Post 3949 (609 Hollywood Blvd #2). This is the fundraiser’s second year. In proper Heartland fashion, the evening will kick off at 5 p.m. with a dinner […]
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Open Letter: COGS has its say to the Board of Regents and UI Administration
Members of University of Iowa graduate student union, the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS), rejected the Iowa Board of Regent’s Feb. 21 offer, which the group called “unreasonable and immoral” in a post on the COGS website from Tuesday, Feb. 28. The regent’s offer provided for a 1.1 percent raise and removed every other […]
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University of Iowa reverses course, decides to reinstate scholarships
The University of Iowa reinstated legacy scholarships for current students and students entering in Fall 2017, according to a Wednesday news release. The university had previously decided to cut the scholarships, affecting about 3,000 students, following a decision by the Iowa Legislature to take back $20.8 million from the Board of Regents — including $9.2 […]
