A popular sentiment currently surrounding COVID-19 is the desire for life to just get back to normal. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly clear that “pre-pandemic life” will not return anytime...
It is no secret that gifted and talented K-12 programs often ostracize minority students. This process is commonly known as racialized tracking, where students of color are weeded out of accelerated...
Ally Pronina, Opinions Columnist
• August 30, 2020
Treating others how you want to be treated, though taught from an early age, has yet to be learned.
Lizzie Velasquez, a motivational speaker with a genetic disorder, shared a prank a mom made on...
The past few days for many children and young adults was back-to-school week. Across the country I watched friends and family posting their pictures for the first day of school and had a sick feeling...
In case you weren’t aware, we are still in this pandemic. Why does it feel like I am stating the obvious? It’s because this past week some students returning to campus for the fall semester have...
Earlier this month, President Trump admitted in an interview with Fox Business that he was denying funding to the United States Postal Service in order to disrupt mail-in ballots for the November election.
With...
Yet another Black man has been shot by police in broad daylight — 29-year-old Jacob Blake of Kenosha, Wisconsin — and yet again, people are defending police action.
While there are far more...
Iowans all across the state are hurting badly after the record-breaking derecho storm that took place on Aug. 10. As crops are wiped out in gargantuan numbers and thousands of Iowans are just getting...
Ally Pronina, Opinions Columnist
• August 26, 2020
The University of Iowa Housing and Dining Facility issued an apology to students after freshman Ann Gaughan's quarantine experience went viral on social media.
Gaughan told The Daily Iowan there...
“whY Isn’t thE mEdIA cOvErIng thIs?”
It’s something of a joke on Journalist Twitter. There are countless posts asserting a lack of news coverage about various atrocities such as police brutality,...
Signe Nettum, Opinions Columnist
• August 24, 2020
There is no denying it. Because of COVID-19, almost every student’s schedule has changed. Classes shifted online, were canceled, or switched professors, and everything is not the way it was prior....
In American culture, one type of comedy that has become dominant is dark humor. According to Urban Dictionary, an online source for slang terms, they define it as “a form of humor involving a twist...
