Felicia Xiong, Staff Writer
December 6, 2019
“A Body for Every Body”. The phrase, which used to be “The Perfect Body”, is the slogan of popular womenswear company Victoria’s Secret. Ironically, the company has failed to represent “every body”. Victoria’s ...
Delano Lockhart, Staff Writer
December 6, 2019
Walking into the testing room, my palms sweating and slowly losing grip on my No. 2 pencils, I can feel all the practice I’ve done slipping away. All I can feel now is the stress, the pressure to get a 36.
The ACT leave...
Shruti Chada, Staff Writer
November 22, 2019
Scrolling through Instagram feeds never fails to divert boredom, but now it’s buffeted by posts about climate change from child actor Aiden Gallagher from the Netflix show, The Umbrella Academy. In this day and age, celebrities have a degre...
Lucy Tu, Co-Editor-In-Chief
November 22, 2019
In my sophomore year, I joined TASSEL: Teaching and Sharing Skills to Enrich Lives, an organization that focuses on utilizing English education to transform the lives of rural Cambodians.
In the late 1900s, Cambodia suffered through...
November 22, 2019
Most of us are familiar with the restricted page in maroon on our laptops, and although it can be inconvenient at times, it is there to ensure everyone’s safety.
MPS has been filtering Internet content prior to the One-to-One ...
Lucy Tu, Co-Editor-In-Chief
October 29, 2019
I remember all the screaming, my mother said. The screaming, the gunfire, and the sound of feet on pavement. Everyone was trying to get out of Tiananmen Square.
My mother tells me the story as we play a game of mahjong, and h...
Molly Murch, Co-Editor-In-Chief
October 28, 2019
I recall my mother’s conservative upbringing and her subsequent homophobia, and I sigh. “She’s just a product of her time,” some will say. I cannot disagree, and yet, I am left unsatisfied with the response; it offers an...
Sireen Abayazid, Online Editor
October 24, 2019
Christopher Columbus sets foot on the hot sands of the West Indies. He turns to his crew, and they rejoice their arrival in what they believe to be India.
Every second Monday of October since 1937, America has honored the man respo...
Sam Hoops, Staff Writer
October 24, 2019
Imagine a life without the everyday basics such as wheat bread, coffee, and sugar. Twenty-two percent of the United States identifies as Catholic. A majority of our clothing is made from cotton. Without Christopher Columbus, n...
October 24, 2019
High school can be considered by most, the best and worst years of your life. Filled with highs soaring above Mount Everest to lows deeper than the Mariana Trench, it is one of the biggest milestones hit throughout your teenage yea...
Anna Pipinos, Staff Writer
October 1, 2019
Sitting in the car, you silently scroll through Instagram as your family sits beside you. At the dinner table, you watch Netflix instead of paying attention to your siblings’ stories from school. Texting a friend, you send “H...
Nate Hollenbeck, Staff Writer
September 24, 2019
George Washington once said, “If [our] freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.”
In recent years, an increasing number of big tech companies have taken action to...
