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Iowa Students Return to Mildly Flood-Damaged Campus
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- August 26, 2008
Things are mostly back to normal.
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Ames, Iowa, Installs Rubber Sidewalks
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- August 19, 2008
Kegs delivered to Iowa State bars were ruining sidewalk concrete.
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Hot Tips for a Graduate Degree in Engineering
Education
- March 26, 2008
Most M.E. grad students have an undergrad degree in the same field.
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The Caucus Is Coming, and So Are the Loonies
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- December 5, 2007
John Edwards is trying to distance himself from handwritten fliers posted on the Iowa State University campus.
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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2007
Pakistani students at Stanford protest Musharraf; Iowa State University police may use Pistol Cams; University of Georgia tries to conserve water at the stadium
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Iowa State Gun Policy: Tired of Being Canadian
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 12, 2007
Some schools have responded to the Virginia Tech massacre by adopting the use of text messages as an emergency alert system, but Iowa State University seems to prefer fighting fire with fire. The school's faculty senate recommended to its president and regents that university police officers should be armed, the Iowa State Daily reports.
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A Generation's Defining Moment
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 11, 2007
In an anniversary year that isn't even a multiple of five, colleges (and their newspapers) across the nation commemorate the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon six years ago.
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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- August 27, 2007
Daily roundup from campuses nationwide.
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'We Swear. He's Not a Chaplain'
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- July 31, 2007
In the newest chapter of Iowa State's "Chaplain? Or not a chaplain?" saga, not much progress seems to have been made. While the athletic department had earlier conceded and appointed a "life skills assistant" instead of a "chaplain" for the football team after 130 professors threw a massive hissy fit, the Iowa State Daily reports the same person who would have been named the team's religious counselor now fills the PC-ified position.
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What Did You Expect? I'm Just an Anthropomorphic Squirrel
By Jackie Mantey -
The Paper Trail
- July 25, 2007
Smokey Bear has lasted almost 63 years, yet Kent State University's crime prevention mascot, Simon the Squirrel, may be abandoned after just one year because of budget constraints, reports the Daily Kent Stater.
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You'd Want to Pray Too If You Went 4-8 Last Season
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- June 26, 2007
In response to faculty discontent over a football team chaplain at Iowa State University, the school's athletics council approved a "volunteer life skills assistant" position instead, the Iowa State Daily reports. Critics say that the guidelines would offer a bogus "one size fits all" religious counseling experience and that "life skills volunteer" is really just a superfluously syllabic way of saying "chaplain.
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Iowa Really Doesn't Want You to Drink
By Jackie Mantey and Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- June 22, 2007
Old news: Alcohol is linked to bad decisions. Sort-of-new news: Alcohol is linked to bad decisions over time, the University of Iowa's Daily Iowan reports.
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Iowa State, Home of Meat Science, Confused by Show of Love From PETA
The Paper Trail
- November 9, 2006
Iowa State students have solved the mystery of how their school, which has a famous meat science program, won an honor from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as "vegetarian friendly." Apparently, the Iowa State Daily reports, Iowa State's dining halls serve rice milk.
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