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This is the last issue of the Doane Owl for the 2024-2025 school year. While we are sad we won’t be able to report on all the athletes going to NAIA nationals, or the variety of campus events, news, both local and national, as well as graduation, we want to thank all of you for

Being a college newspaper is hard. There are funding concerns seemingly every year, current attacks from government officials trying to limit student journalism and the fact that we live in a changing digital world often kills student journalism. However, despite that, the Doane Owl and numerous other college newspapers in the Midwest continued the storied

By Timothy Hill (Policy and Values) and Amanda Irions (Communication) Even though the Rev. Dr. Robert L. Polk graduated from Doane in 1952, he continues to influence the Doane community today. Polk’s first application to Doane was rejected because administrators believed, wrongly, that White Doane students would refuse a Black roommate. With his Doane degree

Olivia Prauner, Guest Writer I’ve been in private schools my entire life, and while they’re often seen as “prestigious,” private school teachers struggle more than their public counterparts. In high school, I began to notice the number of teachers leaving to work for public schools, which paid more. Private school teachers are severely underpaid. The

By the time you are reading this, you should have caught all of our April Fools stories. First off, thank you for having a little bit of fun with the Owl staff and please email us if you haven’t already about the prize you can win! We like to think that these stories are fairly