Over 70 dance cards and other items, 1922-1934

Refocus was founded in 1965 as a joint student-faculty-staff project coordinated initially by the Iowa Memorial Union Board Films Area and, later, funded by UI Student Government.

The Refocus collection in the Archives (RG02.0003.026) includes 6.0 lin. ft. of material from 1965 to 1979, mainly correspondence, programs, and sample posters. The collection is not processed but is open for research. We also have two folders, mostly of newspaper clippings, in our student clubs and organizations vertical file (RG01.0015.004). There is no evidence of any Refocus activity after 1979.

The Sigma Lambda Beta Records include administrative documents, meeting notes and agendas from organizational events, newspapers and magazines that featured the fraternity, various documents from affiliated chapters of Sigma Lambda Beta, photographs of members, and artifacts. The majority of these records contain materials pertaining to the greater international organization of Sigma Lambda Beta and documents from affiliated organizations. Documents in the collection pertaining directly to the University of Iowa include original member certificates, news coverage of the University of Iowa chapter, various administrative documents, and photographs from the fraternity's founding in 1986 to 2011.

State University of Iowa alumnus and activist.

SUI freshman history honor student living in Burge Hall in 1962. Photographs of typical dorm life and clippings, as well as course notes and correspondence to a friend during graduate student years and while teaching history at the high school level in Colorado.

Antiwar petitions; many signed in blood. The material is undated but likely from sometime during the 1967-68 academic year, as the addresses of two signers match that year's staff/student directory. Likely during fall 1967 when Dow Chemical was target of protest over manufacture of napalm used in the war in Vietnam.

General records of fraternities and sororities.

BSU Records were actually publications of the group using various titles at different times - Pamoja, Challenger, and New Challenger. These titles are now in the University Serials and Journals Collection (RG01.0009.002).

The chapter was founded in 1962 as a women's military support organization. The collection consists of one scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, photographs, newsletters and other material.

This collection is comprised of materials related to the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Fraternities and Sororities on the University of Iowa campus. This collection is growing to represent our six active Black fraternities and sororities.

This collection consists of film reels of different University of Iowa sports throughout the 1900s. The sports covered in this collection consist of football, basketball, and wrestling, with football making up the majority of the collection. The films cover overviews of many of the sports games, game highlights, and a few of the films highlight students and coaches who were prominent at the University of Iowa.

Noncurrent records of the GLBTAU and a collection of gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender magazines and newsletters, nearly all published in the United States, were transferred to the University of Iowa Archives, October 22, 1996. The records consist of six cartons of correspondence and subject folders, including newsletter issues, photographs, and publications.The records concern homosexuality, bisexuality, gender identity issues, related health and political issues, and social activities, especially pertaining to University of Iowa students. Other GLBT student organizations in Iowa and other Midwestern states are represented, along with the University of Iowa Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Staff and Faculty Association.

The Records of the Scottish Highlanders include correspondence, committee minutes, trip and performance event notes, newsletters, programs, reunion information, photographs and other materials.

The Records of the Bijou Theater span 1972 to the present and consist of three series: Film Titles, Film Festivals and Compilations, and Calendars and Posters. The Film Titles series, the largest series in the collection, includes promotional fliers, press releases, photographs, scheduling information and other data about the respective film and is arranged alphabetically by film title. The Film Festivals and Compilations series includes similar information pertaining to special events featuring multiple titles. The Calendars and Posters series is arranged chronologically by year.