Letter to the Editor: To Truly Be an Inclusive School, La Salle Needs to Do Better
June 5, 2020
Letters to the editor, which can be sent to [email protected], are published at the discretion of the student editors. To the editor, My name is Mia Ly, and I am a graduating senior at La Salle. I haven’t spoken up much during my time at La Salle, but it’s about time I do. I’ve internali...
Mi Cultura Is Not Your Fashion
Alexa Ramirez-Hernandez, Staff Reporter
June 3, 2020
As most of you know by now, there is a trending app that many teens use called TikTok. TikTok is a social media platform where people have the chance to share many different forms of creative content. Recently, a video was uploaded to the app by a group of five teenage girls and the Chicana/Hispani...
Sexual Assault Is a Real Issue That Deserves Our Attention
Avery Eldon, Staff Reporter
June 3, 2020
This story contains content that could be upsetting to some readers. Every 73 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted, becoming a victim of unwanted sexual touching, attempted, or completed rape. You never know if or when you will be next. While only living sixteen years in this world...
Zodiac Signs: Are They Actually True?
Gretchen Shea, Staff Reporter
May 13, 2020
Astrology has been a part of the human race for thousands of years. We have used the stars for farming, traveling, telling time, and now, predicting the future. There are hundreds of social media accounts, hashtags, and posts about zodiac signs on nearly all forms of social media, but how much of it i...
We Are Not Ready for Adulthood—That’s Why We Need Home-Ec
Fia Cooper, Staff Reporter
May 13, 2020
At the start of the 20th century, home economics classes were introduced to schools. However, starting in the 1960s, the skills taught in these classes were deemed unlikely to lead to employment, and as a result, funding for these programs started to diminish. Home economic classes would prepare students...
COVID-19 Has Already Caused Enough Stress. AP Exams Shouldn’t Make It Worse.
Mandy Sisul, Assistant Editor
May 6, 2020
Being at home during the COVID-19 outbreak is already stressful enough for us high school students. Almost every weekday, we are asked to complete assignments digitally in order to finish the semester from home. While we are completing and turning in DLD work, we are not learning the same way t...
Editorial: This Is Not a “Coronacation” — Quarantine Is Not Over Yet
April 29, 2020
Quarantine is not a celebration. It is not a chance to hang out with your friends. It is not a break from your classes. It is not a “coronacation.” We are not even close to the finish line at the end of quarantine. Yet despite the warnings, people are still continuing to hang out with others from...
Why We Shouldn’t Be Using Zoom
Andrew Clair, Staff Reporter
April 29, 2020
As most of us know by now, Zoom, created by billionaire Eric Yuan, is an online communications platform that went from being nearly unheard of by some to becoming the default application for videoconferencing in the wake of the COVID-19 calamity. The now-burgeoning pandemic happened quickly, and no one could h...
The Little Things Matter: Why We Shouldn’t Take Anything for Granted
Dakota Canzano, Editor
April 22, 2020
What are the moments you simply take for granted? Is it school? Seeing your friends or teachers? Getting to spend time with the ones you love? I believe at some point in our lives, we have all underestimated the value of time because we often think the world is in the palm of our hands, and that w...
First Comes the Love, Then Comes the Marriage?
Kiran Vogt, Staff Reporter
April 22, 2020
More often than not, many young girls grow up dreaming of their perfect wedding and ideal husband. We grow up watching rom-coms and seeing “perfect” couples and happy endings. In reality, about 200 divorces happen during the roughly two hour runtime of a romantic comedy. Throughout my life, I could never see myself getting marri...
Not the End I Had Imagined: How COVID-19 Took Away My Senior Year
Kalei Carter, Staff Reporter
April 15, 2020
I think it’s safe to say that no one saw this coming. Who knew that on March 12 at 7:45 a.m., I would be entering La Salle for the last time? I have always been a planner. I have a schedule, and I like to stick to it. Ever since sixth grade, I knew where I was going to high school, college, and wha...
What It’s Like Being an Essential Worker During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Mallory Middendorff, Assistant Editor
April 15, 2020
On Monday, March 23, when Governor Kate Brown issued the ‘stay at home’ order, my initial concern was the amount of time we would be away from school. What I didn’t think about was how this might affect my part-time job as a server at a retirement home, where I’m considered an essential worker....
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