On Jan. 22, the New York Times published an article by Maia Szalavitz titled, "I Don’t Mind if You Say You Have ‘a Little OCD'”. Szalavitz, a journalist who specializes in drug addiction, made the...
Stella Dale, Social Media and Opinions Editor February 10, 2023
Recently elected Republican congressman George Santos is a 34-year old Queens-born liar. Representing New York’s third congressional district. Like a real New Yorker, Santos has glorified his life, which...
A few months ago, after the death of 22 year old Iranian Mahsa Amini—who was killed under the custody of the Iranian morality police due to not wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf worn by Muslim...
Stella Dale, Social Media and Opinions Editor February 3, 2023
You would think that gyms on January 1st would convince people to get memberships for their sales. That isn’t the case for Equinox, because they have a policy where they don’t let people join on January...
“What colleges are you applying to?”
“Are you thinking about where you want to go yet?”
“Have you started working on your list yet?”
“That's a very smart school.” or “That’ll...
It’s football season, and with the kickoff of the 2022 World Cup comes a kickoff of criticism of the event and the organizers, specifically the choice of the location being in Qatar.
The complaints...
On Oct. 20, Mayor Eric Adams announced that Diwali will be a public school holiday in New York City starting next year. The day after I heard the news, I received a box of dresses from my grandmother in...
It goes wherever you go. It curses the halls of New Trier. You go to the scrounge and it’s there. The stairwells. The lunchrooms, especially. This monster isn’t COVID or some odor that follows you...
Stella Dale, Social Media and Opinions Editor November 4, 2022
It’s no secret that fan favorite rapper Kanye West is always in the headlines, whether for his ongoing relationship with Taylor Swift or ex-wife’s ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson hate remarks.
And last...
I’m not sure what I expected my senior year to look like. What I certainly didn’t expect was to be catcalled on the first day of school, in the halls of New Trier.
I won’t go into detail about...
I hop on Instagram. and click on my friend’s stories and see a picture of someone at a baseball game. Nice.
I click another one and this time it’s a political infographic with overwhelming...
What hour would you consider to be acceptable for eating lunch? 11:00 AM, for a nice brunch, maybe. Noon sounds perfectly reasonable. Most of us would laugh at the notion of eating lunch at 10:20 in the...
