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by Grace Gardner Staff Writer The heat is coming, and with it, less clothing. These days, I find myself hesitating on whether or not to wear my favorite pair of shorts with rips down the front, or my new strapless shirt. I know my peers couldn’t really care less what I wear, but what about the administration? I...

by Kate Didion Staff Writer The fluid shadows of swimmers’ bodies come to life on the bottom of the pool. They dance and sway and wave at me as I swim back and forth. I breathe to one side, then the other side, then back to the first again. I feel the water surrounding me, rushing in my ears and down my body. I...

by Marcela Onate-Trules Staff Writer “Baruch Atah Adonai Elohaniu...”. These are the words that open almost all Jewish prayers. These are the words that have been programmed in my brain to memorize and recite, yet I don’t think I could say what they mean. I know they literally translate to, “Blessed are you...

by Alison Taplin Staff Wrtier It was a dreary and rainy Friday two years ago at WCI when I was delivered a pink slip of paper. It was what I had been waiting for all day. I quickly grabbed my backpack and headed to the front of the school. Even before I turned the corner I could hear the excited chatter of my Gir...

By Breanne Johnson Design Editor There’s something really special about the way we can mold the digital representations of ourselves. We live in a time when we exist in two worlds—the tangible and the pixelated—-and while we have little control over our peers’ perceptions of us in our day to day lives, we ha...

by Ryan Brenes Staff Writer Scroll, read, scroll, read. My mind sizled after moving from the most heart-warming stories to some of the most heart-wrenching I’ve ever seen. One post made me stop and realize that not everybody in high school has a blissful time. “I’ve lost some of my closest friends becau...

Ah, the stereotypical gamer: a person that sits in their mom’s basement playing WOW or COD until two in the morning surrounded by half-eaten Hot Pockets. The real world is very different from a virtual world, although many concerned mothers and politicians are trying to find correlation between video games and vio...

by Grace Gardner Staff Writer   It’s clear how the system works. Work hard and get good grades, and you’ll go to college. Go to college, and you’re looking at a career. With a career comes financial stability and a happy life. We spend hundreds of hours in school, and when we’re not in school we s...

by Scott Dresser Co-Editor-in-Chief   My heroes cheated. They lied— lied to the face of a wide-eyed nine-year old boy. They built themselves up as role models, smashing home runs, dominating races and overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles to take over their sports and inspire millions. But th...

  by Alex Faulkner  Staff Wrtier   Anorexia. Bulimia. Binge eating. Do these sound familiar? These are the three top eating disorders in teens today. This is a sad reflection of today’s standards of what attractive should look like. So many young people are obsessed with body image. ...