Alyssa Pak, Features Editor
May 3, 2019
“If you’re back here only taking pictures, you gon’ have to take your a– back home ‘cause the only thing you’re taking is your clothes off.” If I told you that some guy said this to me, I’d hope that you’d be...
Molly George, News Editor
May 3, 2019
The content of several English classes has become controversial with the recent issue over including authors with assault allegations in class curriculums.
American Studies classes didn’t teach the work of Sherman Alexie this...
Millie Winter, Sports Editor
May 3, 2019
On Jan. 2, Lifetime Television released the six episode series, “Surviving R. Kelly,” a documentary on the sexual assault allegations against American singer-songwriter R. Kelly.
The first two episodes introduce Robert Sylvester...
May 3, 2019
1. The student may speak to any adviser, teacher, administrator, or other staff member about the incident
2. This staff member will then report the concern to the appropriate adviser chair
3. The student will then have a...
Alex Rubinstein, Staff Reporter
May 3, 2019
New Trier offers two Kinetic Wellness classes – Fit Female and Yoga/Self-Defense – that incorporate self- defense into the curriculum to give students tools in order to prevent sexual assault.
Fit Female emphasizes the importance...
Hannah Sussman, Staff reporter
May 3, 2019
In late January, senior adviseries watched “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary focusing on the sexual assault epidemic within college campuses. After watching the film many male students were shocked at the scope of sexual...
Claudia Levens, Co-Editor
May 3, 2019
Note: Most of the identities of the people involved in this article have been kept anonymous. This is something that the New Trier News tries to avoid, since we are aware that it complicates the perception of credibility. How...
May 3, 2019
Darcie Kim, Features Editor
May 3, 2019
“Toxic masculinity is a narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by violence, sex, status and aggression. It’s the cultural ideal of manliness, where strength is everything while emotions are a weakness; where sex and brutality are yardsticks by which men are measured, while supposedly “feminine” traits—which can range from emotional vulnerability to simply not being hypersexual—are the means by which your status as “man” can be taken away” (tolerance.org)
Ezra Wallach, Opinions Editor
May 3, 2019
For the entirety of our childhood, we boys have subconsciously been taught that masculinity consisted of strength, toughness, apathy, and confidence among other things. In the past few years though, the concept of toxic masculinity...
May 3, 2019
Emma Mansour, Staff Reporter
May 3, 2019
For the past 46 years, Roe v. Wade has guaranteed women the right to an abortion, but the current makeup of the Supreme Court may put this precedent at risk.
In October 2018, justice Brett Kavanaugh was appointed to the supreme...