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 […]
Category: FEATURES
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 […]
Phoebe Gloeckner: Former Lick Student and Author of the Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, a fusion of a graphic novel and part non-graphic, non-genred writing by Phoebe […]
Vinge: A Sustainable City at the Intersection of Urban and Natural
Henning-Larsen Architects, a leading Danish design firm, is currently designing Denmark’s largest urban development project to date, Vinge City. Located north of Copenhagen, this city […]
LWHS Student Body Organizes and Leads Schoolwide Walkout
During the afternoon of November 10th, Suzanne Shimek – Lick-Wilmerding English teacher – sent out an email to her senior students with a subject that […]
Everytable Amends Financial Model to Serve Low Income Neighborhoods
Everytable is a new restaurant chain founded in LA with a mission to bring healthy food to both a affluent and poorer neighborhoods. Their current focus […]
Ecstasy: A Tool to Fight Mental Illness?
Ecstasy, Molly, Window, Adam. All of these names describe the same substance, the Schedule 1 restricted chemical compound Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA. A relatively common and […]
Eleanor Burke: the Walk-Entrepeneur
Eleanor Burke looks down at her wrist to see a low pixel screen flashing blue lights. In the midst of one of her many walks, […]
Beloved Muscian Dead from Tragic Addiction
“The Purple One” was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park complex on Thursday, April 21. Since the 1970’s, the musician Prince has […]
Loans Foundations – At Lick and Globally
For decades, economists have asked how to end poverty? Microloans can have a huge impact. Microloans supply impoverished communities with capital that they would not […]
