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Friday, October 9, 2026
Free lunch is a great solution to many of the challenges students in need face, providing the safety of food; however, with all of the benefits that free lunch offers come drawbacks. The amount of waste generated by the extra food, such as the carrots, cheese sticks, apples and sunflower […]
We all remember the feeling of carrying a tacky, pumpkin-shaped bucket filled to the brim with sweets – head dizzy with sugar, teeth aching and pulsing from the night’s indulgences – and scrambling door to door with our friends, snatching any sliver of candy offered to us. Our last Halloween […]
With the return of in person school for the 2021-22 school year, in person extracurriculars and school events have come with it. The beginning of school means the Back To School Dance was upon us. As a senior, I was excited to go to the Back To School Dance, or […]
Over the past year, I’ve realized that much of my life before quarantine was spent neglecting my life. As I grew up and ascended the (rusted) rungs of a suburban American high school, I survived only by constantly being in motion. Every morning, I hurriedly departed from my small, shared […]
On March 9, families of students with 35 or more marked truancies were sent a letter from the school district. The letter states “your child has been marked truant from one or more classes at least thirty five times during the dates September 14th, 2020 – March 1st, 2021” and […]
It is a known fact that our technology has been improving since the late 1900s. Of course, we would expect our high-end technology to be embedded in our daily lives, and that big change has started to become implemented; for example, we’ve got robot arms instead of people at assembly […]
The pandemic has forced schools to close, businesses to shut down and sports seasons to be cancelled. But some sports such as swimming have been able to survive and even thrive despite stay at home orders and social distancing protocols. For Bearcats, swim season officially started on January 19, with […]
There is a crisis in Myanmar. For the past 50 years prior to 2015, the military party of Myanmar was in power in the form of a dictatorship. In the most recent election in November 2020, Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, won 396 out of […]
Burger King, a well known fast food restaurant, was slammed for a sexist tweet on International Women’s Day. Burger King’s UK Twitter tweeted, “Women belong in the kitchen.” It sparked an outcry as critics accused the brand of using a sexist trope as clickbait and many people were offended by […]
On March 3, the governor of Texas, Greg Abott, decided to lift the mask mandate in his state. Governors in Mississippi, Iowa, Montana and North Dakota have also all made the decision to lift their state mask mandates, a decision that could potentially kill thousands. Governor Abott decided to reopen […]