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New Trier News

The student news site of New Trier High School

New Trier News

The student news site of New Trier High School

New Trier News

Recentering the conversation on Earth Day

Lula Fox, News Editor
April 22, 2022

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,...

Like any other March Madness, there were upsets and shocks

March Madness was full of shocks and surprises

Joey Murray, Sports Editor
March 31, 2022

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...

Letter to the Editor

Sam Fellman
March 10, 2022

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...

Letter to the Editor

Ed Zwirner
March 8, 2022

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...

The New Trier curriculum has been shaped by the same Western books for decades, but we are seeing a needed stride toward diversity

Canonical curriculum lacks global perspective

Said Aydin, Managing Editor
March 8, 2022

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,...

Wordle has become so popular that The New York Times bought the game. Its still not worth my time

Words can’t describe how much I hate Wordle

Charles Foster, Features Editor
March 2, 2022

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,...

Cast of Dont Look Up (Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and more) pose in promotional photo.

Don’t watch ‘Don’t Look Up’

Erik Jaman, Features Editor
March 2, 2022

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...

New Trier Essex Road next to parking lot

New Trier’s parking predicament

Erik Jaman, Features Editor
March 2, 2022

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...

Across the nation, demands are being made for the removal of  contentious books from libraries and reading lists

Nationwide book bans fail literature’s greatest benefactors: children

Lucas Eisen, Opinions Editor
February 24, 2022

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,...

Letter to the Editor

February 15, 2022

In middle school, one of my favorite pastimes was coming home from school on Thursdays and getting to read the police blotters. Most of what I read were traffic violations and petty theft. Occasionally...

Depiction of a grotesque, horrendous public display of affection (PDA) viewed in New Triers very halls between two significant others

Hey, Trevs, get a room!

Lucas Eisen, Opinions Editor
February 4, 2022

As I trudge up the stairs, burrito and Clif Bar in hand, I arrive at the platform of the stairwell in the back of the cafeteria that serves as the midpoint between the 2nd and 3rd floor. Upon my summiting...

Conversation hearts are one of the most popular candies that are associated with Valentines Day

Give me a break, Hallmark

Casey Bertocchi, Managing Editor
February 4, 2022

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, which means that we’ve already started to see stores filled with heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, teddy bears, and candy hearts. If you’re single, Valentine’s...

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