Back in September, I was looking through old photos and I found the one. The picture was only about two years old. I was wearing a bright white leotard with a white platter tutu. The picture is a snapshot...
On May 2, 2019, Beyond Meat, a plant-based food company, went public with their meat-free burgers and sausages. “Eat what you love,” they said. What a fun tagline, hope-inducing and thrilling. Yet...
In a disturbing recent video, reportedly from early March, that has been circulating across the North Shore, a member of the New Trier varsity boys lacrosse team is seen on his hands and knees with a White...
Every year on Earth Day, my classes would take a few minutes to discuss eco-friendly alternatives we could make to help the planet. I remember my teachers suggesting shorter showers, using metal straws,...
On April 4, the Kansas Jayhawks defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels by a score of 72-69 to win the men’s basketball national championship. Although Kansas was the sixth-straight 1-seed to win March...
Just a couple of weeks ago, Christine Posnock, along with other congregants of Congregation Beth El in Colleyville, Texas, tuned in to her weekly Saturday morning service on Zoom. About halfway into the...
On March 4 the New Trier News published an Op-Ed by Said Aydin taking issue with our English curriculum saying it omitted “classes dedicated to providing a global perspective in an otherwise Western-oriented...
In the most recent Program of Studies book, the English program is described as, “a four-year sequence that encourages students to become actively-engaged, thinking persons in a complex, dynamic world.”
Now,...
As I’m sure the vast majority of our readers know, “Wordle” has swept through the school over the past two weeks. Wordle is a browser-based word guessing game that has taken the nation by storm recently,...
Don’t Look Up, written and directed by Adam McKay, is about two astronomers who try to convince the world that an extinction-level comet is headed towards Earth. But more than that, Don’t Look Up is...
Parking at New Trier is scarce and definitionally classist. A vast majority of students and many teachers cannot land a parking spot near New Trier; the parking predicament needs a permanent and urgent...
Pulitzer-prize-winning “Maus” by Art Speigelman, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, is being pulled from library shelves and taken off required reading lists for its inappropriate language and provocative,...