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The rebellion against the ban on bump stocks

By Sahil Venkatesan April 25, 2019

A utomatic firearms have been banned in the US since the 1934 National Firearms Act — however a simple modification, a bump stock, can transform a semi-automatic firearm into a fully automatic firearm....

The Impatient Patient: Mental health days are just as valid

By Renee Wang April 3, 2019

H ow does the most universally hated phrase by parents — "I don't want to go to school today" — come to be? It starts off when you are funneled from back-to-back extracurriculars, SAT prep and 2...

Running is a healthy alternative to mitigate academic stress.  Infographic by Melody Chen.

The Melodic Line: Running as an antidote to academic stress

By Melody Chen March 22, 2019

The minute I arrive home from school, I rush upstairs, change into my running clothes, snatch my sneakers and head outdoors. The air buzzes with undiminished energy. The sun bobs up and down, mimicking...

The Ripple Effect: Hatred vs. an oath of office

By Aishwarya Jayadeep March 20, 2019

Last Friday, attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand resulted in the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s recent history. Now, there are a variety of ways world leaders can respond and...

Must we read this?

By Andrea Sun March 7, 2019

When I was handed “Julius Caesar” my sophomore year, I groaned, dreading the sight of another Shakespeare book. I could not fathom why we had to read old English because people certainly do not use...

The Impatient Patient: When “sparking joy” is but a sparking trend

By Renee Wang March 7, 2019

"I love your cashmere sweater. You got a good price.” After all, only 90 percent of Mongolia’s surface is facing deforestation due to the breeding of cashmere goats. “Your blouse has the most...

No to performance-based pay for teachers

By Patrick Yu and Yukari Zapata March 6, 2019

Teachers already deal with a considerable amount of stress. The barrage of work, from grading students’ papers, to managing the classroom setting, to meticulously planning lessons, is enough for any...

Club application process poses bias

Club application process poses bias

By Eden Pollitt and Claire Torii February 28, 2019

As a group of us -- mostly underclassmen who bothered to showed up -- shuffled into the field house, we sat in the middle of the gym floor and were given a rubric from which we were expected to score each...

Social media, not so social

By Hana Baig February 1, 2019

A few years ago, I had my smartphone stolen. Never mind the story of how — the consequences are what affected me. I had fallen sick the same day, and I had no phone. No social media, no method of...

Although the primaries are almost a year away, candidates are already beginning to emerge. From left: Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, John Delaney and Julián Castro.

2020 vision

By Kate Gabrielson January 31, 2019

Kamala Harris: Sen. Kamala Harris of California officially entered the presidential race recently, and, as a relatively young biracial woman, aligns with the diverse female majority of the Democratic...

The Impatient Patient: Give me your poor, tired, English-speakers only

By Renee Wang January 30, 2019

"Something to think about…” former graduate studies biostatistics director at Duke University Megan Neely wrote in an email to first- and second-year students. Neely’s email condemned Chinese...

The Melodic Line: Bullet journaling, marshmallows and the reality of finishing what you’ve started

By Melody Chen January 27, 2019

  You recently purchased a dotted journal after discovering a cool organizing trend on Instagram — bullet journaling. Prior to the purchase, you swiped through snapshots of Faber-Castell...

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