Editorial | No justice, no peace: Iowans must support the Black Lives Matter movement
DI Editorial Board
May 30, 2020
Iowa’s northern neighbor is the current epicenter of a centuries-long infliction of violence and oppression against Black Americans. On Memorial Day, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man was killed after repeating, “I can’t breathe” as a white police officer knelt on his neck. Floyd h...
Letter to the Editor: mapping diversity of autism key to understanding
May 26, 2020
As the Iowa principal investigator for SPARK, UI associate professor of psychiatry, and board member of the Autism Society of Iowa, I have had a front row seat to the community response as we have conducted this study of autism in Iowa over the past three years. Thousands of Iowans have joined hundreds of tho...
Guest Opinion: Take time to celebrate your University of Iowa graduation, 2020 Hawkeyes
May 15, 2020
Dear Seniors, The last time I saw any of you, it was March — not even Saint Patrick’s Day. In a lot of ways, it seems like a whole different world. I know this semester has been strange for you. It’s been strange for me, too. I’ve missed interacting with you. I can’t imagine how it m...
Opinion: Tiger King misses the opportunity to bring awareness to animal abuse
Angela Stansbery, Opinions Columnist
May 14, 2020
At the beginning of the series it briefly discusses animal abuse and what each person in the documentary thinks of it. One major consensus though is that those who have cats don’t believe they are the ones abusing them. The show doesn’t dive into opinions, rather letting each person state their...
Opinion: The value and person behind the writing
Ally Pronina, Opinions Columnist
May 14, 2020
“I can’t imagine why any news person would want to talk to somebody who can only talk through a machine. How boring.” This is a quote from Melody, a character with cerebral palsy, in one of my favorite books, *Out of my Mind* by Sharon Draper. I’m not a news reporter. I don’t like using...
Opinion: We should all be in search of new hobbies
Signe Nettum, Opinions Columnist
May 13, 2020
Like any Generation Z, or Millennial — I was born in 2000, so I branch that weird gap between the two — I am glued to either my smartphone, laptop, or gaming controller. Yes, I will proclaim to the stereotype that I am connected to electronics. I even listen to audiobooks or read from my kindl...
Opinion: Let’s play ball
Jason O'Day, Opinions Columnist
May 13, 2020
High school athletics are a crucial thread in the social fabric that binds our state, and our country, together as a whole. They are even more important than professional sports because young adults glean life lessons that could never be found in a classroom. There is an irreplaceable bond among...
Senior Column: A senior reflects on time learning rugby, and how it is more than just a sport
Naomi Hofferber, Arts Reporter
May 12, 2020
Junior year, I couldn’t get out of bed in the morning. Seasonal depression had hit me hard, and I felt like I had hit a plateau — in my work with The Daily Iowan that I loved so much, in school, even in my personal life. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was looking for an outlet for my ...
Senior Column: DI taught me I can do anything
Pete Ruden, Pregame Editor
May 12, 2020
I remember being scared in first grade. One afternoon, I walked in on my mom looking up information on stuttering on the website for the Stuttering Foundation of America. I had just started stuttering for the first time. I was scared. I didn’t know what it meant. I didn’t know what to do...
Senior Column: It’s true: I survived college without becoming a liberal
Marina Jaimes, Opinions Columnist
May 12, 2020
Reflecting on my last piece for The Daily Iowan, one thing in particular comes to mind about the graduating class of 2020: our college years were dominated by national politics. From the moment we walked onto campus as freshmen, we were asked if we were registered to vote and for whom we planne...
Senior Column: Being uprooted leads to new beginnings
Andy Mitchell, Digital Producer
May 12, 2020
Four years ago, I spent my last days in a dying high school with a constant dull pang in my stomach, constantly overwhelming the elation that comes with graduation. My class had less than 100 students and my whole school had around 300. For a lot of K-12 Catholic schools, a low triple-digit stude...
Senior Column: For the love of the written word
Charles Peckman, News Writer
May 12, 2020
When I graduated from high school in 2016, I bore a striking resemblance to Bill Hader’s character, Fear, from the animated movie Inside Out. The similarity was physical — I am 6-feet tall and weighed a mean 110 pounds at the time — but I embodied the character’s internal struggles as w...