Iowa's Timothy Barrett has dedicated his life to the art and science of paper, preserving techniques that go back millennia and saving treasured documents in the process.

The University of Iowa Alumni Association's S.T.A.T. (Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow) Ambassadors, will host the Nearly Naked Mile at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 24.

During Iowa's 2010 election season, the three justices of the state's Supreme Court were noticeably quiet as conservative groups outraged by their decision legalizing gay marriage angrily and emotionally argued for their removal. Todd Pettys, a professor of the law at the University of Iowa, said that silence wasn't unusual. Judges and justices have historically been reluctant to engage in the...