According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 1 in 5 women and 1 in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college. In addition, 21 percent of TGQN (transgender, genderqueer, nonconforming)...
On Friday, the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, ended in disaster. Republican leadership pulled their bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA),...
I started my undergrad career as a journalism major. I didn’t get very far before learning that the vocation wasn’t for me. But I gained a much greater appreciation for what journalism is and what...
A couple of weeks ago, Iowa state senator Mark Chelgren introduced a bill that would mandate Iowa’s state universities to ensure the proportion of professors registered with each of the major parties...
Editor’s note: The Northern Iowa Student Government election commission found the campaign of Jamal White and Tristan Bernhard, who won this year’s election, guilty of violating election rules regarding...
Day: 'No place' for collective bargaining in public sector
Now that things have relatively calmed down after Governor Terry Branstad has signed into Iowa law the infamous collective bargaining reform...
Milo Yiannopoulos finally had to pay the piper when statements he made on multiple occasions in support of young boys and adult males engaging in romantic relationships. The British professional provocateur...
“The liberal media” is a hot topic in the United States. The issue of a biased media has become one of the largest in the nation. A Gallup poll from November 2016 showed 52 percent of Americans thought...
During the last election cycle, throughout the primary and the general election, I spoke to many people while working for campaigns and while covering election stories for the Northern Iowan. When I would...
Grace McNamara, Social Media/Marketing Assistant for Student Wellness Services
• Feb 23, 2017
Many people in today’s world believe that thinner is better. Society tends to bombard us with messages that say — thinner is healthier, thinner is more beautiful, and thinner people are happier.
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Students win elections once or twice, rarely three times. Student groups, on the other hand, can win elections a lot more. Francis Underwood put it best, “Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts...
In the past two years, Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) has gone through a tumultuous period of establishing visibility to students and re-establishing their credibility to those students who work...
