I can vividly remember my first pitch meeting as a news reporter for The Daily Iowan the Sunday before my first day of college. I remember being told that the DI is a learning lab, a place where you’re...
Reclining on the downstairs couch of my home, ‘The Sopranos’ rolling across my screen, the stream of thoughts in my head landed on a decision to abandon journalism and pursue law school. Two years...
Over my past four years working at The Daily Iowan, I have learned that more than anything, people want to be understood.
As journalists, that’s our entire goal. Through interviews and observations...
I’ve been behind nearly 200 front pages for The Daily Iowan. I’ve designed hundreds of inside pages and page elements. I’ve written several daily and long-form stories, a lot of them relating to...
Every year in early April, people across the country gather to recognize and participate in the Day of (No) Silence.
On this day, student-led participants take a vow of silence to protest bullying...
Senioritis.
The notorious upperclassman bug that brings about poor grades, bad decisions, and a lack of overall motivation has finally arrived in Iowa City. And despite my best intentions, the “sickness”...
The world will never be completely equal. And maybe it shouldn’t be — let me explain.
Egalitarianism, the idea of equality for all, certainly seems morally right. Or at least “inequality”...
Since the Black Lives Matter, or BLM, movement gained ground in 2020, the discussion of reforms to police practices nationally has gained prominent public attention. There have been many proposals...
Wake up. Go to class. Study. Go to bed. Repeat.
We’re at the point in the semester where nearly everyone has reached burnout with the monotonous schedule of daily life and classes, especially...
Despite being the liberal hub of the state, Iowa City talked me off of that theoretical ledge.
Coming from an incredibly rural town deep in the conservative South, most of my knowledge of what liberalism...
Former relationships were built on meeting through families, friends, sending each other letters, showing up to each other’s front door with flowers, and letting your parents know you’ll have your...
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased by nearly 50 percent. Ocean acidity levels have increased by 30 percent. The combined ice mass of...
