The Weight of School
Maria Buri, Reporter
April 23, 2018
Filed under OPINION
School can weigh heavily on the mind of many students, but what about the literal weight of school, in the backpacks students carry? Between clubs, sports, classes, and homework, the supplies pile up. The average City High student has seven classes a day, which means seven notebooks or binders, a few tex...
Recent Gun Control Protests Divide Students
Maya Djalali, Reporter
April 18, 2018
In this age of social media, something always seems to be happening and something always seems to be going wrong. After the 2016 election and now with the recent protests I see students even more divided. Before social media in the past but we didn’t have the constant flood of news and posts ...
Moving Forward
Emme Perencevich, Reporter
April 17, 2018
Filed under OPINION
Behind every movement there are movers. Emma González is a mover. After witnessing a shooting at her school, she helped organize a student-led protest that shook the nation. She stood, silent, for six minutes and twenty seconds in front of over a million people and spoke out against the gun violence ...
LH Book Reviews: Kafka on the Shore
Theo Prineas, Copy and A&E Editor
April 13, 2018
Filed under OPINION
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Double Standards
Mira Bohannan Kumar, Copy & Opinion Editor
April 11, 2018
In the beginning, terror meant one thing, and one thing only: fear. The word ‘terror’ came into English in what is, when one considers the tortuous and complicated paths etymology often takes, a very direct manner. The word came by way of Old French from the common Latin verb terrere meaning ...
‘Tis Unmanly Grief
Reese Hill, Reporter
April 10, 2018
When I heard the news of the Parkland, Florida shooting last month, I immediately assumed the shooter was male. It didn’t even cross my mind that a female could just as easily have committed that crime. But looking back, I cannot remember a time when a mass shooting was perpetrated by a woman. Kno...
The Australian Solution
Theo Prineas, Copy and A&E Editor
April 10, 2018
Filed under OPINION
Twenty-five years ago, anyone could buy a gun in Australia. Regulations were loose, and there were no lengthy background checks of consequence. Rampant gun violence led to thousands of otherwise avoidable deaths. It all changed when Martin Bryant opened fire in Port Arthur on April 28th, 1996, killing 35 pe...
34 Thoughts You Have When You Get the Flu
Mariam Keita, Reporter
April 10, 2018
Filed under OPINION
I just coughed for 60 seconds straight...is this how I die?
Read more »The Miracle Season- Movie Review
Orson Codd, Reporter
April 9, 2018
Filed under OPINION, Uncategorized
The Miracle Season is a film based on a true story, which happened in Iowa City, about Caroline “Line” Found who tragically died back in 2011. Line was a West High School Volleyball captain and she and the team were undefeated. The film focuses on how her death affected the whole team and what they ha...
Nick Pryor, Guest Writer
April 7, 2018
Filed under OPINION
The aftermath of every shooting is the same. Initial shock leads to conflict over gun legislation, followed by the inevitable politician shutting down the conversation. Then the public silently accepts it and moves on as another story rolls around. But when the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High Sch...
Blockers- Movie Review
Orson Codd, Reporter
April 6, 2018
Filed under OPINION
FilmScene held an free early screening of Universal Pictures’ newest film “Blockers” on Thursday, March 22nd. The film centers around a group of parents on a mission to stop their three daughters from having sex on prom night. The film stars John Cena, Leslie Mann and Ike Barinholtz as the parent...
High School Views from a Freshman and a Senior
Eric Thomas and Rika Yahashiri
April 6, 2018
Filed under OPINION
Eric Thomas Being a senior, I know high school. It’s all I really remember school-wise other than little bits and pieces from my childhood. I made my way up the totem through trial and error. It was a long journey, but I’m finally at the end of my high school years. Compared to freshman ye...
