Yo soy yo – I am me
Spanish. Hispanic. Latino. Latina. Latinx. These words are labels. But what do these labels mean? What’s the difference? Can’t I use them interchangeably? Why is this [...]
Grand View
What is Public Art?
It’s impossible to walk around downtown Des Moines without encountering public art. Public art refers to the art that is in public view whether it is in private property or [...]
Scammed: The struggle for visa sponsorship
Imagine leaving a different country with no knowledge of the place you are going to other than the location you are headed to and the school you are attending. Now imagine [...]
Review: Put on a Happy Face (Spoiler Alert!)
“Joker” was a good but not great movie. The film doesn’t open with the DC logo, but instead it opens with the logo of Warner Brothers. From that alone, I knew that the [...]
#VikingForLife
“We made a total mess. We threw flour at each other, but it just felt perfect. It felt like home,” said Emily Andrews, a junior at Grand View University. Andrews was [...]
New Hire with High Hopes
“If you would’ve asked me last semester (to disclose her disabilities), I would’ve told you to bunk off,” Dana Drew, social work major at Grand View said. This year, [...]
So long, Social Club
Go to the Des Moines Social Club’s website, and you will find the following note: “For more than 10 years the Des Moines Social Club has served this community’s [...]
Graduating the Minority
Graduation: it’s presumably the best, most anticipated, day of a college student’s life. As graduates anxiously wait to cross the stage, few black students will have the [...]
Review: Lolli & Pops
“Gummy Bears!” yelled my 4-year-old cousin Evelyn Hosack as she runs up to a woman offering Gummy Bear samples to mall-goers and children with starry eyes. The woman is [...]
Does Vaping Kill?
In school, most kids are taught that cigarettes are bad. This lesson makes sense, considering there are more than 480,000 cigarette-related deaths a year, according to the [...]
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