Newspapers serve as a watchdog and an overseer to expose corruption, fraud and issues that are imperative for the public to know. The Northern Iowan is starting a new series of watchdog investigative stories with the intent of spreading transparency at the university.

However, to start the series, you, the public, must come forward. Inspired by the Des Moines Register’s Reader’s Watchdog series, the NI wants to encourage UNI students, staff, faculty, alumna and administrators to come to it with issues of injustice they are facing or have heard about.

Think you were unfairly arrested or that perpetrators on campus weren’t arrested for a crime? Contact the NI. Do you think unfair regulations are placed on faculty but not on the administration? Let the NI hear your voice. Was your student organization’s request deferred by student government and you don’t understand why? Give the NI a call.

Together, the public and the NI can work to find answers and make UNI a more transparent and solid institution. Call or email me, Linh Ta, at 319-273-6826 or at [email protected] with your issues.