Written by Klaire Tan and Katie Russell
Published in the April 17, 2015 issue
Midnight came and passed, and the list of slam poem per- formances to watch grew no shorter. “OCD” by Neal Hilborn, “Spelling Father” by Marshall Davis Jones and of course, perfor- mances by her favorite...
By Erica Watkins
Walking through the hallways alone, I look at my phone and scroll through a Twitter feed I checked ten minutes ago. I would rather look like I have something to do on my phone, than look a passing stranger in the eyes. Being alone has become uncomfortable. My hallway strategy to avoid...
Written by Erica Watkins
Cancer sucks, and cancer is stupid. Despite the fact that I wouldn’t wish cancer upon anyone, having a sister who had cancer has proved to me that cancer teaches us much more about life than it does about death. Living with a family member who has experienced cancer has...
Q: Tell us how it began.
Crystal Trevillion: Toward the end of 2012, I was in pain a lot. It would be like continuous pain, and I would take pain medicine. It’d go away for a little bit, but over time, it got worse, and I started getting a headache, which became a migraine and lasted forever. So I...
Written by Nico Poux
First of all, it's impossible to generalize cancer. Not only are the types of cancer and their treatments extremely diverse and completely different, but everyone's experience with cancer is completely different. That being said, I'm going to try to do the impossible.
You've got...
Written by Arjun Sahdev
Santa’s round belly, joyous, booming laugh and fluffy beard easily make him the most magical being to kids everywhere. So magical that, for awhile, people believe he is real. But there comes a time in everyone’s life where they begin to realize Jolly Saint Nick is just a...
Written by Justin Wenig
Get off your couch and join a local gym! Make a resolution to run a little bit more every day, and if you’re feeling audacious, pick up some weights.
Instead of spending all day on Youtube spend time on Vice. It is a video site that talks about world issues. No more useless...
Written by Danielle Yacobson
Every year, on January 1st, I have this fantastic idea that I’ll keep a daily journal. Pulling out a fresh notebook, I enthusiastically detail my winter break Netflix binging while shamelessly finishing off holiday leftovers. But, inevitably, my motivation starts to...
Written by Shawna Chen and Hayley Krolik
It was 1971 in California. Independent Studies teacher Ken Plough and his friends sat around the television watching the ping pong ball lottery system for the Vietnam draft. A ping pong ball was randomly fetched out of the deep glass jar, to determine the order...
Written by Ryeri Lim
I know someone whose best friend is her mom––and not in the unfortunate way of Norman Bates. The two confide in each other about everything going on in their lives and genuinely enjoy each other’s company. When faced with such a loving parent-child relationship, I feel equally...
Let’s face it: stress hits most people at some point or another. Students pride themselves on their ability to stay up late studying, to keep up with social networking and to attend events during crunch time. Drowned in activity, they forget to come up for air and end up tumbling into anxiety and despair.
Stress...
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ying and cheating in a classroom environment are behaviors often viewed as characteristic of a class’s worst-performing students: those who are irresponsible and inattentive and just trying to get by. But interestingly, a survey conducted by The Oracle demonstrated that the average cheater at Gunn...
