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The La Salle Falconer

The student news site of La Salle Catholic College Preparatory.

The La Salle Falconer

The student news site of La Salle Catholic College Preparatory.

The La Salle Falconer

In controlled experiments, major LLMs (Large Language Models) demonstrated consistent willingness to violate ethical constraints when those constraints conflicted with assigned objectives.

We Taught AI To Win at All Costs. Now It’s Shown It’s Willing To Blackmail Its Way to Success.

Clover Martin, Editor November 5, 2025

In June 2025, researchers at Anthropic — a major AI frontrunner and the developer of Claude — released the results of a stress test on 16 leading AI models from developers across the board.  They...

In this ever-growing age of AI, we need the antidote of creative writing more than ever.

Creative Writing: We Need It Now

Rune Puha, Staff Reporter October 29, 2025

Every story starts somewhere — but at La Salle, that ‘somewhere’ disappeared when the Creative Writing class did. Last taught almost a decade ago, the class, which offered a structured creative...

The exterior of De La Salle Blackfeet, located smack-dab in the middle of Browning, Montana.

The Blackfeet Immersion: One of My Life’s Most Meaningful Experiences

Kieran Crist-Kenworthy, Assistant Editor October 22, 2025

Since I was little, I always wanted to take the Amtrak Empire Builder, the train line that runs across the Rockies from Portland. However, when nine other La Salle students and I piled onto it, heading...

For today’s students, every moment is a race. This isn’t a personal issue: it’s a systemic pressure that has rewired our brains to equate slowness with failure and silence with threat.

Why Slowing Down Is a Radical Act in School

Clover Martin, Editor October 15, 2025

I am notoriously bad at walking slowly. Rarely do I stroll through the school halls at a leisurely rhythm; it’s far more common to see me dashing from classroom to classroom, teacher to teacher, to...

An island paradise turned out to be the perfect laboratory for watching cognition go off the rails and a captivating case study for the human mind’s complex relationship with boredom.

Boredom: The Tool We, and Monkeys, Abuse Too Often

Clover Martin, Assistant Editor October 1, 2025

On Jicarón Island, 30 miles off the coast of Panama, researchers from the Max Planck Institute captured footage of something many of us wouldn’t bat an eye at: an adolescent monkey carrying an infant...

We can’t let the people continue to be disconnected and locked out of the “people’s government.”

Democracy Shouldn’t Just Be Once Every Two Years

Kieran Crist-Kenworthy, Assistant Editor September 24, 2025

Popular trust in the government — belief in the United States’ foundational institutions and values — has plummeted to historic lows. Lethargy and despair pervade the popular consciousness.  It’s...

When navigating life feels difficult, look to others around you, but most importantly, to yourself.

Letters to My Younger Self: Things I Wish I Had Known as an Underclassman

Tabitha Obuchowski, Assistant Editor September 17, 2025

Updated Sept. 19, 2025 I am an athlete, an actor, a musician, a student, a writer, a club participant, and so much more.  When I began my high school career, I had the intention of following in...

Rest is a natural part of the human condition, but for students, rest is seen as laziness.

Not Lazy, Just Exhausted: What the Grades Don’t Show

Rune Puha, Staff Reporter September 17, 2025

The American academic system is designed like a machine that forces students to act like cogs without questioning what happens to the students who get worn down by the constant use and strain. I feel...

Inside the perimeter of the Burdoin Fire, along the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge, a sign thanking fire crews stands in an ash-strewn forest.

With Wildfires Spiraling Out of Control, Major Cities May Be Next

Emmett Strackany, Staff Reporter September 10, 2025

When thinking of wildfires, what comes to mind?  Some may picture large blazes isolated in the depths of the California desert or smoke-producing fires emerging but quickly being extinguished down...

Music makes me feel ways words can’t express, and finding a song that matches the way I feel is very comforting.

Blast to the Past: Revisiting Memories With the Sound of Music

Julianne Rast, Staff Reporter June 4, 2025

Music is a lifeline that weaves our memories, emotions, and every aspect of life together. The highs and the lows of life can be softly comforted by music.  Music itself creates a symphony within the...

The Boston Dynamics laboratory has already made a humanoid robot which, when paired with artificial intelligence, has the ability to do many tasks that humans would otherwise do.

AI and Why We Should Reject It

Chase Connor, Staff Reporter May 28, 2025

The Industrial Revolution brought about sweeping changes in the way humans work. Cars went from being built piece-by-piece over many days, to being built on an assembly line in a matter of hours. Textiles...

Teachers shape our futures, often in ways we don’t realize until years later.

Teachers Do It All. It’s Time We Noticed

Rita Tran, Assistant Editor May 7, 2025

Throughout our education, who were the adults many of us saw the most, other than our parents? Who were the people that taught us life-long skills from our ABCs to our addition and subtraction? Our...

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