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Editorial: Pit Bulls Should Not Be Banned

Jessica Wang, Reporter February 13, 2023

Pit bulls are taken away, euthanized, or locked in a pound on a daily basis in cities that ban pit bulls and enforce breed-specific legislation. One in four of all animals brought into shelters are pit...

Criticism follows Colleen Hoover’s adaptation of It Ends With Us

Leah Wilhelm, Reporter February 6, 2023

Picture a bestselling book about domestic abuse that’s beloved by millions of readers. It starts conversations and opens people’s eyes to the real horrors of abuse.  Now imagine a coloring book based...

Editorial: Global warming affects the Earth everyday

Emma Galvez, Reporter January 31, 2023

Global warming has been in effect since the 1830s. The Earth has been going through temperature change, wildfires, ocean levels rising, and coral reefs dying.  Global warming has been proven "Based on...

Reading Books Are Beneficial

Allyson Lin, Copy Editor January 17, 2023

We are living in a society where kids and teenagers alike are constantly hooked on their devices 24/7, scrolling through Tik Tok or any type of scrolling on social media.  Our youth has been plagued...

Turning Up The Heat

The Pressure of the Third Marking Period, and How to Hit the Ground Running
Mia Caldonetti, Reporter January 17, 2023

Three is a notoriously cursed number within the academic system. The third marking period, the third year, the third level (Standard, Honors, AP), all known as the most difficult in their category. With...

Editorial: School Uniforms Are Not Necessary

Allyson Lin, Copy Editor January 12, 2023

Traditionally and in most private institutions, school uniforms are mandated. School uniforms should not be required for a student to be able to go to school.  School uniforms restrict students’...

Editorial: Teachers Shouldn’t Have To Be Armed With Guns

Editorial: Teachers Shouldn’t Have To Be Armed With Guns

Allyson Lin, Copy Editor January 12, 2023

Recently, a national effort has been made to train and arm teachers and administration to defend themselves and their students against mass shooters.  In the weeks after the Uvalde shooting, lawmakers...

How Current Admission standards are negatively affecting today’s youth

Leah Wilhelm, Reporter January 11, 2023

In the year 1997, 67% of public school students attended a college or university after graduation. In 2021, 74% of students attended, and this was during a pandemic when many students opted for gap years.  Education...

Editorial: Plastic Bottles are Destroying Our Earth

Janet Jenkins, Reporter January 11, 2023

“38 million plastic bottles go to landfill each year in America alone,” stated Aqua Organization. Plastic water bottles are clearly harmful to the environment, and humans are to blame. According to...

Plastic floats around the ocean as fish swim towards it. 12 million tons of plastic gets dumped into the ocean each year. “Not only are plastics polluting our oceans and waterways and killing marine life – it’s in all of us and we can’t escape consuming plastics.” – Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International. (Naja Bertolt Jensen/Unsplash/CC BY- SA 2.0)

Editorial: What Are Microplastics?

Isabella Dimopoulos, Mythili Pai, and Tayen Parke January 11, 2023

Microplastics can be found almost everywhere, but have you ever pondered on the fact that it can be in your daily used products?  The National Geographic Society said microplastics are “tiny plastic...

Gun control saves lives

Molly Ziesenheim, A&E editor January 6, 2023

As of 2020, guns have officially become the leading cause of death in children in America. According to the Gun Violence Archive, 1,664 children ages 0-17 were killed in 2022 and 4,472 were injured. Schools...

Editorial: The Negative Impacts of Homework

Grace Catalone, Reporter April 21, 2022

The importance of having homework everyday for students has been called into question for many decades and homework as we know it could possibly be ending soon. Schools all over the country are...

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