If Black Lives Really Matter, the Justice System Must Change
Kayla Reyes, Print Editor-in-Chief
June 25, 2020
In the middle of the night on March 13, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, an emergency medical technician, lay in her bed. As she slept, three plainclothes police officers carried out a no-knock search warrant, barging into Taylor’s home as part of a drug investigation. Believing the officers were intruders, Ta...
Volunteering During a Pandemic
Faith Beckmann, Staff Reporter
May 12, 2020
To be honest, when my mom first asked me if I would be interested in helping out with packing food bags with Calvary Church (the church I’ve been going to since birth), I was kind of confused. Weren’t we supposed to be social distancing? This cannot be sanitary. The more I thought about it, howeve...
Don’t Equate Emotions
Zoe Michals, Staff Reporter
May 4, 2020
Everybody has their own personal struggles and flaws; that’s the human condition. Not everybody feels as though they can express the emotions associated with those struggles and flaws; that’s human nature. People excuse themselves from their true emotions for a plethora of ridiculous reasons, and one ...
Bullet Journals and Why Anyone Can Use Them
Morgan Kromer, Staff Reporter
April 29, 2020
We all have habits: good ones we want to keep, and bad ones we want to eliminate. For pretty much forever, people have been trying to fix themselves, and of course, I of all people don’t fall short of that human imperfection, because we must all do something for the betterment of ourselves. And wh...
College Board Con
Kayla Reyes, Print Editor-in-Chief
April 27, 2020
In early November, I sat in Ms. Fay’s classroom as she gave the class a casual reminder for us to sign up for our AP exams. A few days later, I noticed my peers carefully checking over their forms and counting their money, making sure everything was in perfect order for the tests they wouldn’t b...
Just The Essentials
Morgan Kromer, Staff Reporter
April 27, 2020
The hardest and maybe weirdest day of my job at Dierbergs Markets was not Thanksgiving or Christmas, or simply a day I was in a bad mood. In fact, I was in a fine mood. March 13 of this year we had more sales than Thanksgiving or Christmas. It was a difficult day to work for anyone. It was one of the f...
Aesthetics Confine Creativity
Faith Beckmann, Staff Reporter
April 20, 2020
With just one quick search for the word “aesthetic” on YouTube, Instagram, or Pinterest, millions of posts and images pop up of nicely decorated rooms, stylish outfits, and photoshoots done by young influencers. However, after scrolling through these photos for a while a person can’t help but notic...
A Life Worth Living
Faith Beckmann, Staff Reporter
April 18, 2020
I’m just going to be very blunt about this: I have a fear of death. There’s no need to make it all flowery and profound because death itself is a very plain and straightforward concept. Like many people, it’s something that has consumed my thoughts ever since I first learned what it meant. It all b...
The Fallacy of the Friendzone
Zoe Michals, Staff Reporter
April 10, 2020
Receiving a text message has the effect on people of a euphoric release of dopamine. Which makes it even more disheartening to open a message and have “Ur such a b****, I thought u cared about me. Why would u lead me on like that?” glowing across the screen. And just for a moment your heart breaks....
Standardized stress
Sam Chen, Staff reporter
April 2, 2020
Validity: the extent to which a test’s measures or predicts what it is supposed to. Standardized tests determine how most of our life will go: whether we get into college, how much money we can get and how much we have to pay to go, and the like. They place a single number on what we’ve achieved...
Tribulation with Toilets and Tangents
Ty Nedungadi, Staff Reporter
March 16, 2020
I like to think that I clean myself and my messes nicely after I'm done using the toilet, but apparently not everyone is like this. Ever since I witnessed a severely disgusting event at the Mexico Road 7-11 bathroom, I've given up hope in humanity. I would rather hold in my number 2 for twelve hours...
Analyzing the Errors of Our Ancestors
Faith Jacoby, Staff Reporter
March 13, 2020
Patriotic Americans tend to put our founding fathers on some type of pedestal. We view the men that brought our nation to life as demigods sent from heaven. From a young age, we are taught that the ‘good guys’ in history (the history we are made aware of, that is) could do no wrong- tha...
Grace Bahru, Staff Reporter
May 17, 2020
While being stuck at home can be an extremely difficult task, many people have found many different outlets to pass the time. For some that consists of working out, reading,...
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