The student news site of Iowa City High School

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

4th Avenue Jazz Company performing their story show based The Wave.

Day in the Life: Showchoir Competition

Lindy Rublaitus, A&E Editor February 11, 2019

6:00 am Students stumble onto a cold school bus, carrying their backpacks, blankets, and instruments. Everyone is half asleep, hiding themselves in their coats as they prepare for an hour long bus...

Balancing Act

Balancing Act

For years, graduates of City High School and other schools in the Iowa City Community School District have not been using a weighted grade point average system. In many cases, when these graduates applied...

Three City Speech Groups Make All-State

Three City Speech Groups Make All-State

Carly Weigel, Reporter February 11, 2019

On Saturday, February 2nd, three speech groups from City High made All-State at the speech state competition at Kennedy High in Cedar Rapids. The groups nominated were two 10-minute acting ensembles,...

City Drops the Ball

City Drops the Ball

Lottie Gidal, News and Sports Editor February 11, 2019

In what is normally the most anticipated game of the basketball season, barely a hundred supporters were in the stands Thursday night to cheer on their teams as City prepared to take on West for the second...

BREAKING: Winter Storm Maya to Hit Iowa City with 5 to 8 Inches of Snow

Elena Dreyer and Montserrat Rodke February 11, 2019

At approximately 3 p.m. winter storm Maya will hit Iowa City and expected snow falls are in the five to eight inch range according to the National Weather Service.  Elena Dreyer, Little Hawk weather reporter,...

Ellis Chen 20 and Simon Weiss 20 pose with their trophy.

Chen and Weiss place 5th and 2nd at Ames Debate Tournament

Noah Bullwinkle, Reporter February 8, 2019

Crowded into classrooms at the Des Moines Area Community College, almost 15 debate teams, including those from Dowling Catholic and Cedar Rapids Washington high schools, debated each other for a preliminary...

Isaac Weigel 21 is proving a powerhouse on the boys swim team.

Weigel for the Win

Alison Kenaston and Julianne Berry-Stoelzle February 4, 2019

In a season plagued by injuries, Isaac Weigel ‘21 has managed to remain healthy. Weigel has won almost every individual event he has been put into, constantly working to reach the goals he has set for...

The marchers sport signs with many different sayings.

Protestors in Iowa City Women’s March Push For “Human Rights”

Zoë Miller, Features Editor January 24, 2019

As the winds blew people began to gather. They held colorful signs and chanted. The crowd grew and grew as the time got closer to 11:00. Finally, it was time for the march to begin. On January 19, 2019,...

How the No Foods Rule is Affecting the Library

How the No Foods Rule is Affecting the Library

Julianne Berry-Stoelzle, Reporter January 24, 2019

Crumbs scattered on the library floor, sticky tables, and loud lunchroom noise filling up the space. Before the library implemented its “No-Foods Rule,” these problems kept appearing. “We noticed...

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