THE
LITTLE HAWK Vol. 107
Iowa City, IA
Issue 4
May 13, 2024
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West Kauper debates the Constitution By Lily Rantanen On August 30th, West Kauper ‘25 opened her inbox to find an email titled ‘An interesting opportunity for your debate students.’ She was instantly curious. One of only two female-presenting debaters on her team, Kauper was intrigued by the message, which offered a chance to audition for a play called What the Constitution Means to Me. What the Constitution Means to Me is an autobiographical play about the playwright, Heidi Schreck, who grew up traveling around the country to American Legion locations, where she competed in an oratorical contest about the constitution. The play is a (mostly) one-woman show with three characters: Heidi herself, her ‘positive male support,’ and a local debater. As part of the high school constitutional contest, the competitors would debate eachother. The final section of the play mirrors...
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By Lily Rantanen
Environmental Club reintroduces recycling Student volunteers will soon be able to sign up to take out the recycling and earn Silver Cord hours and snacks
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For most of this year, there was no recycling at City High. Now, Environmental Club is bringing it back. In prior years, recycling was run by the special education program. Due to administrative changes and transitions, the teachers who previously ran the recycling program are no longer at City. “On a certain day, [teachers] would put out their recycling,” Ms. Lestina, the sponsor of Environmental Club and AP Environmental teacher at City, explained the process from last year. “And then special education students would walk around with a para, and they would then pick up the bins and dump them into the main, central bin, and then take them out back.” Since there hasn’t been a major group working on recycling since last year, everything thrown in recycling bins around the building has gone directly into the trash, unless teachers have their own individual plans. Now, the Environmental Club has a plan for reintroducing recycling.
STAFF EDITORIAL
RESTRICTING I.V.F. HARMS FAMILIES
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By Tai Caputo and Isabella Young
LH SHOW REVIEW
S1 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians A review on Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ return to screens in television series form By Ramatou Diallo From a book series to movie adaptations to Disney+, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief in 2005, Riordan saw exponential growth moving towards the rest of novel series: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is an eight-episode series that follows the story of how twelve-year old Percy Jackson discovers he’s the son of @instalittlehawk
the Greek God Poseidon, while figuring out his true identity and where he fits into the world. A few years after the publication of The Lightning Thief, 1492 Pictures took the initiative to create movie adaptations of the PJO book series. 1492 Pictures would go on to produce two adaptations for Book 1 and 2 and for both movies, the lead cast consisted of pretty prominent actors during the time including Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson), Alexandra Daddario (Annabeth Chase), and Brandon T. Jackson (Grover Underwood). Because of @thelittlehawk
the casting choices, many fans anticipated for the adaptations to do well, though the fallout of the movies says otherwise. A few controversies include misrepresentation of key characters in the books like Ares and Clarisse that were mentioned quite briefly and in quite a rushed way. Another cause of backlash was while the casted lead actors were extremely talented, they were simply past their age to be playing young demigods, which confused new fans as well as aggravated faithful book readers...
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In June of 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a stunning step backwards in the fight for reproductive rights. Immediately after this, states such as Alabama and Texas began to ban abortion. Abortion laws in Iowa state that if you are fewer than or exactly 21 weeks, 6 days pregnant, you are legally allowed to get an abortion in Iowa. However, if you are past this date, unless you qualify for an exception, you may need to travel out of Iowa to get an abortion. Exceptions are limited, and are granted only in the following cases: when the pregnant person’s life is at risk, there is a serious risk to the pregnant person’s physical health, the fetus.... CONTINUED ON PG 9
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