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Editorial: Teens Don’t Believe Schools Can Respond to Mental Health Needs and Emergencies

Jenna Reiber, Copy Editor • May 3, 2021

Since students have been coming back to in-person schools, mental health has been more important for teens than ever before. According to a poll conducted by Navigate360, 53% of teens are more concerned...

Editorial Explainer: What is Fast Fashion?

Ashlyn Weidman, Editor-in-Chief • March 23, 2021

https://youtu.be/38TXJyWtEFQ We all have heard of the phrase “Fast Fashion,” but do we really know what this phrase truly entails? We live in a society where trends change day by day. Pinterest,...

Editorial: Palm Oil causing deforestation in rainforests

By Abbey Rogers • March 10, 2021

Palm oil plantations cover more than 27 million hectares. To put this in perspective, New York City is 78 thousand hectares. All this land cleared is pushing orangutans, Borneo elephants, and Sumatran...

Editorial: DTSD Should Not Return To In-Person Classes

Benji Keeler • March 3, 2021

There are 834,048 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania as of Friday, January 29. There is currently an active outbreak of COVID-19 in Dauphin County. Cases are on the rise. DTSD decided to reopen...

Climate Change is Real

Allyson Lin, Reporter • February 1, 2021

In Greenland and Antarctica, NASA has proven that Greenland has lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016. Antarctica had lost about 127 billion tons per year during the...

Changing an Anti-masker’s Mind

Emily Donegan, Reporter • January 25, 2021

TheBroadcaster · Editorial: Changing an Anti-masker’s MindAlthough we used to only associate face masks with the healthcare field, it has become a key factor in stopping the spread of the CoronaVirus....

Wear A Mask

Allyson Lin, Reporter • January 14, 2021

People are getting tired of the pandemic. Even when the vaccine is available for everyone, we still must continue wearing our masks. Currently, there are a total of over 21,588,382 COVID-19 cases and...

Editorial: Progressivism Wins Elections

Talon Smith, Editor-in-Chief • November 24, 2020

One of the big issues concerning the nomination of the democratic party’s presidential candidate this past year was whether the candidates were too progressive to appeal to a majority of voters in the...

Columbus Day should be Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Ella Yurick, Reporter • November 8, 2020

Imagine having a National Holiday honoring the person who brought diseases, enslaved, tortured, and is responsible for the deaths of 12 to 15 million people. Although it seems crazily inhumane, all of...

Virtual learning is not beneficial to students

Emily Donegan, Reporter • October 30, 2020

Melina Mousoupetros, a guidance counselor at Hershey High School (HHS), reports that approximately 20% of students are taking part in complete virtual learning. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic this...

Marijuana should be legal in Pennsylvania

Jenna Reiber , Reporter • October 30, 2020

The legalization of adult-use (21 and older) marijuana would give Pennsylvania about $580 million from tax revenue. Legalizing marijuana would open up more jobs, create an increase in the economy, and...

The New 88 Minute Classes Makes Learning Harder

Ava Sheppard, Reporter • October 29, 2020

Covid-19 has taken a toll on students around the world by drastically altering the learning environment. In a normal school year, without a global pandemic, Hershey High School students attended seven,...