Homestead High School's student newspaper

The Epitaph

Homestead High School's student newspaper

The Epitaph

Homestead High School's student newspaper

The Epitaph

The Garlick Press: Natural disaster prevention is better than procrastination

By Kira Garlick September 20, 2017

The storm has already broken and now all of us are left to clean up the damage. Hurricane Harvey in Houston, and the small but mighty Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys have hit with lasting impacts. Hurricane...

 “[The EU is trying to turn Europe] into a continent with a mixed population and mixed culture,” Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said in response to the Sept. 6 ruling ordering all EU nations to adhere to their migrant quotas, according to ABC News. Photo courtesy of Reuters

The Ripple Effect: Refugees are not the death of your culture

By Aishwarya Jayadeep September 18, 2017

T he Silicon Valley is a bubble of diversity. It’s a point I never refute when someone brings it up in a debate about culture and immigration. After all, this is the place where I can walk down...

The Denome’s Advocate: Hillary Clinton can shut up now

By Thomas Denome September 18, 2017

W ithout having read her new book, I can already assure you that Hillary Clinton is wrong about why she lost last year’s presidential election. 2016 was a historically bad year for candidates of...

The Hart of the Matter: White women must be held accountable for racism

The Hart of the Matter: White women must be held accountable for racism

By Lily Hartenstein September 13, 2017

F rom the spike in hate crimes following the election to the bloody rally in Charlottesville, the United States is facing a severe internal threat in the form of white supremacy. The blame largely...

The Denome’s Advocate: A spark of hope – and uncertainty – in the Senate

By Thomas Denome September 8, 2017

When historians write books about Trump’s presidency and America during the tenure of number 45, various themes of Trump’s time in office will be mentioned throughout. Distrust. Fear. Abnormality....

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The Epitaph’s last Bar-On Brief

By Shauli Bar-On, Columnist May 31, 2017

So this is it. This is Bar-On Brief #63, the last column I will write for The Epitaph. This is also the last day I am a student at Homestead High School. We seniors have been in our own bubble...

Photo by Shauli Bar-On

The Bar-On Brief: Ben Stern — resisting injustice

By Shauli Bar-On, Columnist May 25, 2017

I’ve heard several Holocaust speakers over the years. But seeing a documentary video in a packed field house this week, then hearing Ben Stern, the survivor himself, was unlike any other talk I attended...

The news has been clogged up with exaggerated stories of how Trump is defunding the EPA.

The Garlick Press: Trump polluting the news

By Kira Garlick May 25, 2017

It seems like the news has centered around President Trump’s recent policies, some of which concern the environment. This is leaving many conservationists, including me, wondering what exactly is going...

The Denome’s Advocate: Congress

By Thomas Denome May 25, 2017

One of the oldest and most popular political jokes, which I already knew as an eight-year-old, is as follows. If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress? Congress. Of course,...

Summer internships are generally less lucrative than part-time jobs.

Demanding summer internships is a mistake

By Aishwarya Jayadeep May 21, 2017

This summer, many students will be going into summer internships, which are great opportunities to gain experience in an interesting field of work, to see if a certain profession is right for them, or...

Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey since late April for not taking down pages that questioned the motives of the Turkish government. Photo courtesy of turkeyblocks.org.

The Ripple Effect: Information is a right (column)

By Aishwarya Jayadeep May 21, 2017

UNESCO tells us that information is a human right. This is a fact you may not have known about if you’d been stripped of that right — a quick, searchable fact that’s backed up by several sources...

The Bar-On Brief: Put an end to weekday proms

The Bar-On Brief: Put an end to weekday proms

By Shauli Bar-On, Columnist May 18, 2017

How long is your pre-prom preparation? How long does it take you to shower, dress up, sit through your hair and makeup appointments, take way too many group photos and eat a fancy dinner? What will...

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