Hundreds of students and community members flocked to the Pentacrest to observe a nearly total solar eclipse on Monday. The UI Department of Physics and Astronomy set up three telescopes behind a booth of polarized eclipse glasses but soon ran out of the special glasses. Long lines formed behind the telescopes, where viewers could see.
Yahir Jimenez and other student protestors held a pro-Palestine demonstration on the University of Iowa campus on Thursday. The protest demanded more support for Palestinian students during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and for University administrators to be held accountable for providing resources to Israel. Dozens of students assembled outside Jessup Hall, where they chanted and.
Iowa City resident Vincent Shoppa organized a demonstration against pollution in a creek in Iowa City on Sunday. Shoppa was motivated to take action after he and his friends Izzy Kippes and Elizabeth Jorgensen received unsatisfactory answers to their request for change at City Hall. Frustrated by their inaction, Vincent gathered his friends to stage.
Looking out the windows of the Senior Center, Rob Dietrich sees an empty lot surrounded by a chain link fence and full of gravel, chunks of concrete, and weeds. Something Dietrich also sees while looking at the lot on 21 S. Linn St. that others may not, is an opportunity to construct a community gathering.
During an extreme heat advisory on Sunday, thousands of University of Iowa first-year and transfer students sweated black and gold outside of the Pentacrest for convocation. The UI expedited the convocation and “I” photo, as the event was scheduled to last 50 minutes but only took about 20 minutes to complete. UI Vice President for.