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On February 17, the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival sizzled with energy at Hy-Vee Hall. The ticket was about thirty-five dollars and the parking was ten in a lot not terribly far away, and then the fun really started. After security one is met with the bustle of a crowd of bacon lovers with garish costumes […]

Passion and truth are key elements of journalism according to the speakers during the Iowa Newspaper Association 2018 conference February 1-2 in Des Moines, Keynote speaker Olson related his experiences working for the CIA in the 1980s and reflected its relevance to today and media. Olson’s experience working with a defecting Soviet general was a […]

ISU’s monthly AfterDark events are fun, diverse, and often feature surprising guests. At this month’s ISU AfterDark, Woody Harrelson made an appearance. His presence at ISU was due to a screening of his latest ambitious project, Lost in London, at the Great Ballroom in the Memorial Union. The film was live-streamed in one take to […]

Moral wounds are a classification of trauma that describe when one suffers from being unable to reconcile certain actions (i.e. war, torture) within their morals. This is common among soldiers as a result of their training and assignments when deployed as well as the dramatic shift between moral requirements that separate war morals from home […]