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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

Marching Band Prepares for New Season

Marching Band Prepares for New Season

Jonathan House, Reporter August 29, 2014

The 2014 marching band season is underway, and students are preparing for the new season. This years theme is “Behind the Mask” and will feature the themes from Batman, Zorro, and The Incredibles. “I...

City High Cafe Reopens in the Commons

City High Cafe Reopens in the Commons

Joe Britton, Reporter August 28, 2014

The empty study space of the commons will again be filled with the sweet smells of coffee and treats. The City High Cafe reopened this morning. Selling coffees, teas and baked goods isn't the cafe's...

The school will be located at the intersection of Dubuque St. and North Liberty road in North Liberty.

45 Million Dollar Liberty High School Plan Approved

Olivia Parrott, Copy Editor August 28, 2014

The $45,538,000 plan for the 250,000 square foot new school was approved on August 26th. Construction will begin in 2017, the school will open in 2019, but it will not be fully completed until 2021....

LIVE STREAM:  Congressional Debate To Be Held At City High

LIVE STREAM: Congressional Debate To Be Held At City High

Sarah Smith and Claire Noack August 27, 2014

Dave Loebsack, (D-Iowa City) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, (R-Ottumwa) will debate issues at Opstad Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Wednesday August 28th. The Live Stream of the PBS broadcast will begin here...

City High Hosts Get Moving For Healthy Kids 5k

City High Hosts Get Moving For Healthy Kids 5k

Olivia Parrott and Riley Lewers August 27, 2014

As a rainy morning became a sunny mid morning dozens of runners gathered at City High’s Raffensperger track for the sixth annual Get Moving for Healthy Kids event on Sunday to run for the common goal...

Diviners Auditions Take Place

Ailsa Burke, Reporter August 26, 2014

This year, City High’s fall play will be The Diviners. Auditions for the show will be held this Tuesday and Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 in Troy Peters’ room, in the upper music wing. The play will...

English 10 Honors Students Present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Britta Bergstrom, Reporter June 4, 2014

Bustling with students, the Little Theatre was filled on May ninth. Students were rushing to put their costumes on, practicing their lines at the last minute, and grabbing their props. Then, they were...

School District says “Auf Wiedersehen” to German Classes

Jonas Geerdes, Arts and Entertainment Editor June 3, 2014

Learning and speaking the language of his forefathers, Max Fritton ‘16, is able to experience his ancestor’s German culture firsthand at City High. Studying the language since junior high, its been...

Orchestra Program to Take a Hit

Sarah Smith and Nova Meurice June 3, 2014

The ICCSD proposed budget cuts of $440,000 to the elementary orchestra program, unveiled on April 8th, triggered an upset in the orchestra community at City High. “I think that we need to re-organize...

Class Sizes Increase in the 2014-2015 School Year

Claire Noack, News Editor June 3, 2014

With the overwhelming majority of the ICCSD’s annual budget going towards salaries of staff, when the District’s budget cuts were announced on April eighth it was clear that some cuts to staffing would...

Bryan from the ICPL talks to The Little Hawk about summer library opportunities

Library Offers Summer Opportunities

Joe Weideman, Reporter June 3, 2014

While Chilean revolutionaries are destroying debt owed by college students, the Iowa City Public Library is taking up the trend and getting rid of students' debt. The library's summer reading program allows...

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