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Viking Love Stories

Viking Love Stories

Linnea Hietala October 14, 2024

This collection of Viking Love Stories celebrates the magic of finding your perfect match and forging lifelong friendships along the way, admist the rigors of academia and a bustling campus. Three couples...

Photo by Ashlee Seaton

Feeling SAD?

Recorded by Brit Nanthanorath With fall in full swing, and each day’s amount of sunlight slowly decreasing people are at an increased risk for seasonal-related depression, according to the Mayo...

Photo by Sarah Rush

Candles on Tap

By Blake Walker November 12, 2021

Recorded by Danielle Castillo It is no secret to anyone in their 20’s and 30’s that when you are looking for a good outing to mingle with friends and/or co-workers, a bar is the top place to be....

Photo by Trevonte Diggs

Churched and Abused

By Caleb Grizzle November 12, 2021

Recorded By Jayda Allen Mark Driscoll, Ravi Zacharias and John J. Geoghan: three men whose origin stories are remarkably different, yet all share one common attribute, they were known abusers...

GV Turns 125

GV Turns 125

Erick Villar Cordero October 5, 2021

Grand View University rejoices this year as it celebrates its 125th anniversary. GV was founded by members of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1896, and R.R. Vestergaard was named the first president...

Félix Emilio Chapman Piñeiro, Grand View University volleyball athlete.
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The journey of a champion

Diego Leite October 1, 2021

Félix Emilio Chapman Piñeiro, best known as Félix Chapman, is a 6-foot-7 inch tall volleyball player who was born in Cuba in 1996. Growing up in Cuba, Chapman would spend most of his time...

Grand View University Vikings football team celebrating.
Photos by AJ Gill and Cooper Pierce

Show Them the Money

Caleb Grizzle September 30, 2021

College athletes and current high schoolers are now dealing with exponentially large numbers in their recruitment process. Specifically: 1.4 million, 800,000 and 20,000. These numbers represent the dollar...

Summer 2021 : A Preview

Summer 2021 : A Preview

Gunner Cash April 28, 2021

With school winding down, summertime is around the corner, and many people have already started planning how to spend it. Last year, much of the summer was spent in quarantine with many summer activities...

Black-Owned Businesses

Black-Owned Businesses

Megan Marshall March 19, 2021

On July 7, 2020, the Des Moines Black Lives Matter organization joined the nationwide movement to encourage spending at Black-owned businesses. The Black Lives Matter movement designated each Tuesday...

COVID-19 vaccine in researcher hands, female doctor holds syringe and bottle with vaccine for coronavirus cure. Concept of corona virus treatment, injection, shot and clinical trial during pandemic.

COVID-19 Update

Nerma Turan March 11, 2021

Over the last year, Iowans (and the world) have been learning how to live with the coronavirus pandemic. Since early 2020, there have been roughly 337,000 cases and just over 5,400 deaths in the state,...

Bartender's Handshake

Bartender’s Handshake

Caleb Grizzle November 2, 2020

Businesses specializing in bringing people together faced a monumental challenge in March, when a global pandemic hit. Handshakes and close conversation gave way to closed signs and social distancing...

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