University of Iowa Confessions Facebook Page Raises a Few Eyebrows: Iowa City Daily News Links, March 26

Every day I serenade my lover with the Daily Links, accompanied by a lute. @UniversityofIowaConfessions.

On to the Links

Josh O'Leary has a nice feature on a Iraqi war veteran who is a member of the Riverside Theatre acting company who is trying to find summer homes for his canine companions, who formerly served as bomb sniffers. In other news, Logan Black is the most interesting man in the world.

University of Iowa students have found a whole new way to overshare, explore their sexuality, make stuff up, and wallow in narcissism. Tara Bannow of the Iowa City Press-Citizen has the story of the unaffiliated-to-the University of Iowa Facebook Confessions Page.

In contrast,  Adam B. Sullivan of the Press-Citizen has the wholesome story of the Notre Dame band visiting Regina.

Notre Dame is in town for the NCAA Tournament, and the University of Iowa (Iowa City) ranks high for women's host attendance. (Hawkeyesports)

A celebration has been planned to honor the namesake of Uptown Bill's Coffee Shop. (the Gazette)

Jason Noble has quotes from the Iowa Senate floor on the Medicaid debate. (Des Moines Register)

The Iowa House passes tougher ID theft law, but allows exceptions for minors using fake IDs. (Des Moines Register)

Who has the best burgers in Iowa? Somehow none are in Iowa City. (Press-Citizen)

Congrats to these City High students on their art awards. (Press-Citizen)

Businesses and local governments continue to disagree on property tax reform. (Des Moines Register)

Gov. Terry Branstad said that regents nominees should not face political litmus tests. (Des Moines Register)

Rep. Steve King says he is leaning toward a run at the U.S. Senate. (Des Moines Register)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

University of Iowa Confessions allows students to anonymously post their deepest secrets, the vast majority of which, it turns out, are sexual conquests. In the little more than two months the page has been active, it has garnered more than 6,000 “likes” and about 200 posts. Such confession pages have cropped up during the first months of 2013, prompting some college and university administrators to sort out their options for having them taken down.

Scans of confessions pages of other universities turn up complaints about messy roommates and tough classes, but nearly every post on UI’s page documents the explicit details of hook-ups with strangers. In fact, a few commentators even scolded a contributor for complaining about being called racist for disliking President Obama, saying that he or she was posting on the wrong page.

“Why is this on iowa (sic) confessions?” wondered Katie Bougher, a UI student from Indianola.

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