Jeff Gardiner Wins PCA’s Double Goal Coach Award
October 25, 2015: I join arms with my teammates, hopping gingerly up and down, belting out our traditional team cheer “Rumble Tigers Rumble.” The Lick-Wilmerding […]
Category: FEATURES
Youth Art Exchange – Howth Street Block Party
On Saturday March 24th, the Youth Art Exchange hosted its annual Howth Street Block Party. Youth Art Exchange is a non-profit run out of Lick-Wilmerding […]
The Responsibility of News Outlets to Inform Teens
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, typically teen-targeted media sources have turned to discussing more sophisticated, politically relevant issues. Some news sources have […]
Protests at Middlebury College Further the Debate on Free Speech
When I asked my mom, a Bay Area native, to tell me the first thing that came to her mind when she heard the words […]
Field Trip to Angel Island: Witnessing the Hardships of Immigration
On Sunday March 19th, a group of 14 students from Dr. Catherine Fung’s Ethnic Studies Through Literature class and Eileen O’Kane’s Immigration History class took a field […]
The Future of Journalism
The New York Times saw their 2016 profits drop nine million dollars adjusted for operating costs, a decline of almost 20%. The Wall Street Journal […]
Understanding the Effects of Race on Bay Area High Schools
Though San Francisco is a largely progressive city, it certainly is not exempt from the racial issues plaguing contemporary America. These problems are especially apparent […]
Michelle Obama: a Lawyer, an Activist, First Lady, and Now…
Michelle Obama, born Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, had a modest upbringing, growing up in Chicago’s working-class Southside. Her father was a pump operator for the city’s […]
Nothing More Critical Than Being a Critical Thinker
Looking down at all the supplies that I had hoarded for my art project, my elementary school teacher disapprovingly wagged her finger at me and […]
Intentional Bias Against Blacks in Drug Convictions
By 2008, 1 in 9 African Americans aged 35 and under were in prison. According to the ACLU, in 2011 roughly 85% of the […]
