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"That has a lot of symbolic value for a university that has emphasized the arts in the way that The University of Iowa has. It's part of the identity of the university."

John Beldon Scott, professor of art history in the School of Art and Art History, on the flooding of the school’s newest building, Art Building West (USA Today, July 16).

“The more women run for such high office, then the more normal it becomes.”

Tracy Osborn, assistant professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, commenting on the potential for presidential candidates to choose women as their running mates (The Guardian, July 13).

“I used to joke to Bosnian friends that if only he had been given some sort of a literary award, maybe he would not have decided to go into politics.”

Christopher Merrill, director of the UI International Writing Program and former resident of Bosnia, speaking about Radovan Karadzic, a poet and the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs who is now charged with genocide (WBUR, July 22).