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The Little Hawk

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The Little Hawk

Adrianna Coiner plays "Six Metamorphoses After Ovid Mov 4" by Benjamin Britt on the alto saxophone.

Amplifying Impact: The MIC Brings Change Through Sound

Hattie Conover and Ruby Schulz February 17, 2025

The microphone shrieks during the sound check as an audience of family and friends shuffles around their chairs, anticipating the MIC Drop, the first student-led non-profit Music Impacts Community event....

David Mayes-Butler secures a phone in the main office for the day after a student was caught with their phone out in class.

Phone Confiscations Down After Two Weeks of New Cell Phone Policy

Hattie Conover and Ruby Schulz February 17, 2025

Chairs shuffle as students filter into Dr. Ayers's 3rd-period AP Lang class; they silence their phones and then slide them into pre-assigned pockets. Dr. Ayers was ahead of the game and enacted his ban...

Interested in learning more about City High's Student Senate? Meeting recaps are published weekly.

Student Senate Recap: Prom to Be Held at the IMU

Martha Willard, Copy Editor February 5, 2025

The Student Senate meeting on Tuesday, February 4th, began with a discussion about the Carnival and the prize baskets, which are donated by businesses. It then moved on to a conversation about senior movie...

Orchestra Director, Megan Stucky-Swanson addresses the audience before the Philharmonic Orchestra performs their final piece.

City Orchestras Hold Annual Mid-Winter Concert

Estelle Hartz, A&E Editor February 3, 2025

The City High orchestras performed for friends, City High staff, and family on Tuesday night. The three orchestras have been preparing for their mid-winter concert for nearly three months, improving their...

Disconnected: ICCSD Implements Strict Phone Ban

Disconnected: ICCSD Implements Strict Phone Ban

Kate Meis, Executive Editor & News Co-Editor January 31, 2025

After a November 2024 vote by the Iowa City Community School Board ruling that cellphone use during class time would be banned, the approved policy went into effect district-wide on January 21, 2025. Under...

Student Senate President Nicholas Tran '25 goes over the Google Form students filled out for the Adopt a Yearbook program.

Student Senate Recap: Carnival on Hold and Student Senate to Donate Yearbooks

Martha Willard, Copy Editor January 28, 2025

Planning for the Winter Carnival continued with discussions about the prize baskets for the raffle. Currently, there aren’t enough of them donated from local businesses. Due to limited baskets, the carnival...

Alma Bhandary-Narayanan ‘26 poses with donations from the food drive.

Student Senate Completes Record-Breaking Hunger Drive

Ethan Lalumiere, Assistant News Editor January 24, 2025

Toe Collins ‘26 arrived at the North Dodge HyVee on Saturday, ready to collect goods from shoppers. Other volunteers from Student Senate joined him, and just a few blocks away, more Student Senate members...

Emma Plumb ‘26 and Cameron Echols ‘26 unveil “The Book of Memories” at the beginning of the show

Dancing into Show Choir Season

Yomi Hemley, Feature Co-Editor January 17, 2025

  The auditorium stage is filled with students who are out of breath. Meeting twice a week for three hours, 4th Ave works tirelessly to practice, clean, and perfect their show. After learning their...

Toe Collins ‘26, Lily Rantanen '26, Coach Drew Gartner, Ethan Lalumiere ’25, and Kaj Larsen ‘25 hold their runner up and state champion plaques.

Debate Team Wins State in Policy

Martha Willard, Copy Editor January 15, 2025

On January 10th, City High’s debate team traveled to DMACC in Ankeny to compete in the state debate tournament. They returned as state champions of policy debate. Toe Collins ‘26 and Lily Rantanen...

TikTok Faces Ban

TikTok Faces Ban

Ethan Lalumiere and Claire Hartwig January 14, 2025

The TikTok app could be in danger in more ways than one. The imminent ban comes on January 19th, which would result in the app not being downloadable in the United States, and it would no longer be able...

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