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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

Erling Haaland Deserves the 2023 Ballon dOr

Erling Haaland Deserves the 2023 Ballon d’Or

Josh Borger Germann, Reporter September 20, 2023

The most prestigious individual football award, the Ballon d’Or, is now less than a month away from being awarded on October 16th. There's no doubt that one month from now either Lionel Messi or Erling...

Halle’s Black Girl Anthem: Angel

Halle’s Black Girl Anthem: Angel

Helena Echa, Reporter September 20, 2023

From her YouTube cover days to movie stardom, Halle Bailey has come a long way and has now debuted as a solo singer with her song, Angel. Halle started her music career by making song covers with her older...

Our 2023 MTV VMAs Best Dressed

Our 2023 MTV VMAs Best Dressed

Wisdom Konu and Sadie Bodzin September 15, 2023

On September 12, the VMAs, put on by MTV, were held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Multiple celebrities attended the show and before some hit the stage, they left their mark on the VMAs...

To Park or Not to Park

To Park or Not to Park

Catalina Armstrong, Reporter September 8, 2023

In 2022, City High updated the parking lots to give students more space for parking. Parking lots were extended in the upper lot by the newly renovated arena and Hoover Elementary, which provided extra...

Goals Should Be Impossible

Goals Should Be Impossible

Tai Caputo, Opinion Co-Editor September 7, 2023

The clock strikes 10 p.m. and the girl in the room next door is still practicing Wieniawski. The cabin walls are so thin that I can hear every note. This is her last of seven intense hours today of violin...

Empty spaces haunt the bookshelves in my English classroom.

Haunted Bookshelf

Tai Caputo, Opinion Co-Editor and Website Copy Editor June 6, 2023

One afternoon, walking into my English classroom, I see that books have been removed from their shelves and placed on the counter. At first, I assume the change is temporary and the books will soon be...

Several Iowa bills have been passed in recent months banning books with explicit sexual content, racial themes, and LGBTQ+ characters.

STAFF EDITORIAL: Book Banning Is Bad for Education

Tai Caputo, Opinion Co-Editor May 19, 2023

Two bomb threats at Northwest Junior High School on March 23rd and 24th accompanied the demand for the removal of a book called This Book is Gay from the school’s library. This heinous menace of violence...

Classes Should Involve More Collaboration

Classes Should Involve More Collaboration

Isabella Young, Opinion Co-Editor May 11, 2023

Everyone has gone through classes they have struggled with. It’s a part of life. Unfortunately, most people are left to struggle alone, unable or unwilling to ask for help. This problem is easily overlooked,...

The Sexualization of Women on Social Media

The Sexualization of Women on Social Media

Sadie Bodzin, Culture Co-Editor May 5, 2023

In the era of social media, with TikTok present on millions of young girls' phones, the hypersexualization and exploitation of young women on social media is now more prevalent than ever before. The hypersexualization...

Students hold signs advocating for climate education legislation outside the US Capital.

Constituents Versus Conscience

Matisse Arnone, Reporter May 3, 2023

For most residents of Iowa City, it comes as somewhat of a shock to learn that the widely disliked Republican Congresswoman Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks claims to be a champion for renewable...

Art by Diego Loria-Eivins

How to Procrastinate Productively

Diego Loria-Eivins, News Editor April 27, 2023

From the standardized testing bubbles you’ve been filling in since elementary to that class you completely forgot you have a final for, the end of the trimester can get very stressful for students. Here...

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