One thing I’ve noticed in my 12 years of public schooling is our constant focus on whatever comes next. It began my very first year of schooling - preschool. The entire focus of the preschool program...
Iryna Lyapandra from Ukraine spent the year with the Gebard family as an exchange student. For the past semester she worked on the newspaper staff. She left for Ukraine May 18, and hopes to start college...
Kate Lichter, Online Editor-in-chief
• May 17, 2016
Finding a large yellow tarp washed up alongside the river wasn’t a normal sight for me when I was running on the Sycamore Trail a few weeks ago. A wave of confusion hit me first - as to how on Earth...
It’s never something you want to hear. You don’t even think it will happen until it does. It’s never easy dealing with a family member being diagnosed with cancer, especially when they’re really...
As a second generation refugee, I have heard about it all. War, corruption, prejudice, and fear. I've seen tears fall for the fallen, the tombstones of the people I never got to know. In the same vein,...
