The pandemic has left a long trail of destruction. For the arts industry, peoples’ livelihoods were no exception: closed theaters, canceled festivals, and a long economic shadowed many entertainers....
Born in Hawaii and raised in Spring Valley, California, “Lagi” as Tausaga’s friends and teammates call her, may not have been prepared to comprehend what living in Iowa City was going to be like...
Tausaga completed her pre-meet lifting routine on March 12 of last year, and her throwing uniform rested on her hotel bed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ready to be worn the next day at the 2020 NCAA Indoor...
After spending nearly six months away from team facilities, Tausaga and her teammates were together again in Iowa City beginning last August. But without any indoor eligibility remaining, Tausaga was,...
Iowa’s infrastructure ranks among some of the worst in the nation, and funding that could help change that is being held up in Congress.
President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan...
I had never given much thought about why I love to write or why I became a journalist. It was simply an unnarrated decision, a path I walked down without a purpose. But the past four years at The Daily...
I’ve always been uncomfortable touting my own accomplishments.
But for The Daily Iowan team, I’ll cheer until my voice is hoarse.
And that team atmosphere is what I’ve cherished, and how...
Eighteen days after the remainder of the 2020 season was abruptly canceled, Tausaga and other track athletes around the country received a piece of positive news.
The NCAA granted all spring sport athletes...
As a student of varying marginalized identities, including Afro-Latina, Muslim, and a first-generation U.S. citizen and university student, Zahra Aalabdulrasul always struggled to find a comfortable...
Emily Manders began her college career as a sports and recreation major. After she joined the University of Iowa Environmental Coalition, however, she realized sustainability was her true passion.
From...
When Mekhia Hillgren realized she would only have one “normal” semester of college, she contemplated changing her graduation plans.
Hillgren came to the University of Iowa in fall 2019, fresh...
To gear up for the Iowa caucuses, Hawk the Vote held a mock caucus in January 2020 with 300 participants packed in a room. At the time, the organizers didn’t know how drastically their student engagement...
