Climate Strikers One Year Later
Jesse Hausknecht-Brown, Feature Editor
April 4, 2020
Sitting in class, Alex Howle ‘23, Massimo Biggers ‘23, and Ian Martinez ’23 carefully watched the clock, waiting for the time to come. Walking out of South East Junior High for the first time was scary. Teachers and students' heads turned as the then-eighth graders stood outdoors, signs in hand, ...
Second Hand Fashion as a Way of Limiting Waste
Sophia Wagner and Haileigh Steffen
March 23, 2020
Every year, $400 billion worth of clothing fills landfills, where it can sit for more than one-hundred and fifty years. Not to mention the production of clothing emits around 1.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year. Is there a better option to wasteful fast fashion? Mary Cate Pugh ‘23, Fait...
AP Research Project Explores the Possible Future of Compost at City High
Haileigh Steffen, Art Editor
March 22, 2020
Lizzie Ayers '20 is a City High AP Capstone student who studied what would happen if there were compost bins in the City High lunchroom. Ayers completed a week of research which included sorting and weighing trash. The second week she put out compost bins in the lunchrooms then compared the amou...
How COVID-19 is Affecting the College Recruitment Process
Julianne Berry-Stoelzle, Sports Editor
March 19, 2020
Since the discovery of COVID-19 in December of 2019, the virus outbreak has been deemed both a pandemic by the World Health Organization and a national emergency by President Trump. COVID-19 has led to the use of extreme measures, including the lockdown of multiple countries. With the closure of scho...
Coronavirus Update: University of Iowa Moves Classes Online and City High Changes Lunchroom Rules
Jesse Hausknecht-Brown, Feature's Editor
March 11, 2020
The University of Iowa announced that they will move to online classes, starting March 23 and through at least April 3, due to concerns about the Coronavirus, or COVID-19. This will follow their spring break, which starts on March 16. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization announced tha...
City High Mock Trial Makes History with Multiple Teams Qualifying for State
Julianne Berry-Stoelzle, Sports Editor
March 10, 2020
Cheers erupted from the City High mock trial team as the results of the regional tournament were announced. Lots of hugging and laughter ensued, as three of the four City High teams qualified for the state tournament. “The moment that they said our team name and we heard that we were going to state,...
Walking on Sunshine
Jesse Hausknecht-Brown, Feature Editor
March 5, 2020
Reconnecting with your soul. That’s how Amanda Hardy, a psychologist who works at Healing Passages Birth & Wellness Center in Des Moines, describes what it is like to spend time in nature. This is in reference to the biophilia hypothesis stating that “humans possess an innate tendency to seek conn...
Race in the Classroom
Jesse Hausknecht-Brown, Feature Editor
March 3, 2020
Teachers and students often feel as though conversations about race can be difficult to navigate in a classroom environment. However, these discussions can influence students’ views of race and racial issues. “I think there's always room for conversation about any topic—especially race. With h...
City High Girls Basketball Defeats Prairie and Advances to the State Semifinals
Natalie Green, Photo Editor
March 2, 2020
Photo Editor
Natalie Green is a junior this year, despite her lack of intelligence and social skills she managed to become the Photo Editor.