Professors take mask mandates into their own hands

Image:  Iowa’s public universities say they can’t require face coverings due to a state Board of Regents policy banning mask mandates. Faculty groups across the state have argued against that policy, thus far in vain, both by appealing to the board itself and by asking campus administrations to assert local control on the matter. Now professors and graduate instructors at the University of Iowa are trying a different tactic: invoking state law, which they say entitles them to require...