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While several members of the University of Iowa community remain dislocated because of this summer’s record flooding, the fate of Jackson Pollock’s famous 1943 painting, “Mural,” still hangs in limbo. The painting, which had been residing in the University of Iowa Museum of Art building since it opened its doors in 1969, was given to the UI by Peggy Guggenheim in 1951.

Recent findings from an independent report chronicling UI’s response to an alleged sexual assault on campus involving two Hawkeye football players focused the brunt of criticism on the two men.

Yet another sex-related impropriety has surfaced at the University of Iowa. However the most recent one does not involve a student-athlete, rather a tenured political science professor.

Ten months after the state Board of Regents filed a lawsuit against the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS) at the University of Iowa last July, a judge found the regents and the UI had bargained in bad faith prior to the lawsuit.

“The presiding judge called the UI’s actions `a reckless disregard for contract law,’” [...]

The University of Iowa’s Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS) has called upon the Iowa Board of Regents to drop its lawsuit against them and honor their contract. “The Regents chose to disregard the contract they had agreed to in March and filed a lawsuit against COGS July 17 to free them from their contractual [...]

After a 40-year prohibition on guns, the Iowa Board of Regents approved a measure that would require sworn police officers at Iowa’s public universities to carry firearms. The measure was part of a campus security plan that had been in the works for over a year and gained momentum after the Virginia Tech shooting rampage. [...]