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The Little Hawk

The student news site of Iowa City High School

The Little Hawk

The student news site of Iowa City High School

The Little Hawk

Guest Opinion: Primates of the Grasslands

Guest Opinion: Primates of the Grasslands

Olive Jackson, Guest Reporter January 15, 2024

What is a monkey? A tree-swinging, banana-peeling, fifteen-pound mischief maker, right? What is a monkey not? A sixty-pound African grazer, chewing grass and traveling in herds of hundreds. The six humble...

The Referees in the Premier League This Season Are Incompetent

The Referees in the Premier League This Season Are Incompetent

Floris Roorda, Reporter January 8, 2024

Referees and VAR have been an issue in the Premier League this season, and the Premier League needs to do something about it. There have been numerous controversial decisions that most fans and experts...

The Saudi Pro League Has a Detrimental Influence on Soccer

The Saudi Pro League Has a Detrimental Influence on Soccer

Floris Roorda, Reporter December 21, 2023

Recently in soccer there has been a big change: Saudi Arabia is buying up players everywhere to join the Saudi Pro League. At first this started when Al Nassr bought Cristiano Ronaldo for 220 million dollars...

What to Read Over Break: Winter Break Book Recommendations

What to Read Over Break: Winter Break Book Recommendations

Esther Puderbaugh, Website Executive, A&E Editor, and Social Media Co-Editor December 19, 2023

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers is one of my favorite books. Seeing that there was a gap in media about the AIDS epidemic in Chicago, Makkai set out on years of research and...

Little Hawk sports columnists Jack Rogers and Rito Perez

College Football Playoff Predictions

Jack Rogers and Rito Perez December 18, 2023

After the final week of the college football regular season, six teams were all legitimate options to put into the four-team playoff. First off there were two almost automatic choices in Michigan and Washington...

STAFF EDITORIAL: Book Bans Infringe Upon Students Rights

STAFF EDITORIAL: Book Bans Infringe Upon Students’ Rights

Tai Caputo, Opinion Co-Editor December 15, 2023

In the November 7th Iowa elections, the citizens of Iowa City demonstrated their disapproval of the new book-banning regime by defeating three conservative board members who support book banning in a landslide...

Latino First

Latino First

Rosangel Flores-Rubio, Executive Editor December 13, 2023

Across the table sits my grandpa; his skin is brown and his hair peppered. Next to me, my cousin; her tight dark curls are tied back into a ponytail and her eyes are green. A few chairs away my youngest...

Findings from a survey of the student body on the new finals system

New Finals System: Pros and Cons

Isabella Young, Opinion Co-Editor December 11, 2023

Pros: The new finals system provides a scheduled opportunity for students to review their course materials. Students will be able to go over and process things they might not have gotten the first time,...

NCAA Refs Should Get Penalized For Bad Calls

NCAA Refs Should Get Penalized For Bad Calls

Ahmed Basheir, Sports Co-Editor December 8, 2023

Over the past couple of weekends in college football, there have been calls by the officials that were honestly mind-boggling. The worst is happening in Iowa City, but I will get to that in a minute. It...

NFL Trade Deadline Recap

NFL Trade Deadline Recap

Charlie Firmstone, Reporter November 6, 2023

The NFL trade deadline passed at 3pm EST on Tuesday, October 31st. The deadline is a time for contending teams to look to add that final piece for a playoff run. It is also used as a time for teams who...

Juliettes French high school

Alone in America / Seule en Amerique

Juliette Genin, Reporter October 23, 2023

Être seule dans un autre pays n’est pas toujours facile. En août, j'étais dans mon avion à Paris pour aller à Chicago seule. Je ne savais pas ce que le futur allait me réserver, pour mon année...

STAFF EDITORIAL: Whats In a Name?

STAFF EDITORIAL: What’s In a Name?

Isabella Young, Opinion Co-Editor October 12, 2023

A new legislation accompanies the new school year, with controversy surrounding it. Senate File 456 states that if a student wants to use a name that is different from their legal name and gender identity,...

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