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Grand View Coaches: Setting the Bar High

December 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Each year, the NAIA measures the overall success of NAIA athletics programs via its 2018-19 Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup rankings. The rankings look at athletic [...]

Code Switching

November 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

“Mom, there’s a white lady on the phone.”  A young black child yells to his mother as Dr. A’ndrea Wilson, a black family counselor, waits on the other end.  [...]

Yo soy yo – I am me

November 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

What is Public Art?

November 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

October 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

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!)

October 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

“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

October 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

“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

October 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

“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

October 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

October 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 [...]
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