Maddie is a senior at La Salle. She plays on the varsity soccer team and loves to read and write. She also likes to travel, hang out with friends and family, listen to music, and spend time with her dog, Stella.
As February nears its end, The Falconer asked five students of color to reflect on Black History Month and what it means to them.
Here are their responses.
In the pre-pandemic era, senior Joshly Huitzil-Interian always skipped out on the cafeteria during lunchtime.
While groups of students flooded the lunchroom, grabbing seats at long wooden tables, filling...
Despite two ACL tears, countless hours of training, and many early mornings in the gym, senior Addi Wedin has never considered giving up on basketball.
Though some student athletes end up burning...
Since 1976 when former President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month, February has been a time to celebrate and honor the contributions of Black Americans in politics, art, activism,...
Throughout the last year, educators have managed unprecedented challenges.
Having switched abruptly to online instruction last spring and continuing into the new school year, they have worked to adjust...
After a digital conclusion to the 2019-20 academic year and almost a whole semester of distance learning this school year, Interim Principal Ms. Alanna O’Brien and President Mr. Andrew Kuffner announced...
For senior Joshly Huitzil-Interian, the pandemic has brought an intermixing of her home life with her school life.
Huitzil-Interian said that while doing online classes at home, she also manages other...
For students at La Salle, COVID-19 has brought various changes and challenges, whether it be coping with the difficulties of digital learning, spending more time with family, or isolation from friends...
In recent years, La Salle has taken several strides towards improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at the school.
These advances include professional development around equity issues for all faculty...
"Our number one priority is that people are happy and healthy," Ms. Coughran said. "If you’re not emotionally in it, there’s no way that you’re going to be successful academically.”
Democrat Joe Biden won the presidential election, and incumbent President Donald Trump lost.
This is just a simple fact. It’s not an opinion, it’s not debatable, and it’s not a fraudulent result.
And...
An unconventional year has brought with it an unconventional presidential election, as Americans still await voting results in several critical states, crossing fingers, biting nails, and scanning news...
While the majority of the student body is not of voting age, La Salle students from freshmen to seniors have been thinking, talking, listening, and reading about the upcoming presidential election and...
Ms. Kiah Johnson Mounsey, who graduated from La Salle in 1999 and who was recently hired for the brand new Director of Equity and Inclusion position, didn’t talk about race much when she was younger.
No...
Senior Noa Taylor plays soccer for both La Salle and his club team Eastside Timbers. However, recently many practices have been cancelled or restructured due to COVID-19.
As students took part in the massive movement protesting racial injustice and police brutality that unfolded throughout the summer, and as these events and topics continue to swell as a point of dialogue...
The sights and sounds of Portland's summer were seen across the country: people crowding the streets in various areas of the city each evening, brandishing cardboard posters on sidewalk corners or marching...
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd last week, peaceful protests, civil unrest, police brutality, and looting have erupted throughout the nation.
La Salle students are among those taking part...
On Wednesday, May 6, four La Salle seniors got a surprise visit to their house from President and Principal Mr. Andrew Kuffner.
When Mr. Kuffner showed up at their door, these four seniors found out...
Senior Lindsay Drango spent two years on the sidelines due to injuries, but that didn’t stop her from pursuing her athletic dreams and committing to Whitman College in eastern Washington to play basketball...
With classes now being conducted entirely online, many students at La Salle are finding themselves with more time on their hands than usual. Without school and extracurricular activities to occupy the...
Every spring, a wave hits seniors in high schools all around the country. When second semester rolls around, seniors can see the light at the end of the tunnel as each day brings them closer to graduation,...
Today’s episode of Thinking Pants was recorded remotely as a result of the coronavirus. To lighten the mood, hosts Liam Rinehart and James Kelley discuss things to do while stuck at home in quarantine....
The coronavirus pandemic has shifted the lives of everyone in the La Salle community in many ways. During this unprecedented time, many aspects of high school life have been upturned — school, sports,...
When Principal and President Mr. Andrew Kuffner announced on Thursday, March 12 that La Salle would take preventive measures against the coronavirus by closing campus and switching to digital learning,...
It was on the day of the girls varsity basketball team’s semifinal game that they learned that what they had been working for all season — a consecutive state title — had been taken away from them,...
The Falconer is excited to introduce its first podcast — a series called “Thinking Pants” hosted by guest contributors Liam Rinehart and James Kelley, who are both seniors.
During their time...
This article includes explicit language and content that might be upsetting to some readers.
We’ve all seen it — tents lining the sidewalks, garbage bags and shopping carts on street corners, and...
Updated on May 19, 2020.
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 was just a typical night for senior Emily Niebergall. A junior at the time, she received an incoming FaceTime call from her mother, Katie Niebergall....
On Friday, Feb. 14 and Saturday, Feb. 15, the girls and boys swim teams competed for district titles at the NWOC District meet at Parkrose High School. Both teams finished in first place, with freshman...
Tensions between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been growing since September — and never have those tensions been better represented than at Trump’s State of the Union address...
Surrounding an appositive phrase, coming before and after a nonessential clause, and placed before the conjunction in a compound sentence — these are all grammatically correct placements of commas.
However,...
“Our future > your fortune,” read a sign held by junior Isa Sale at a climate change inaction protest in downtown Portland in September 2019.
Sale’s sign was one among hundreds of others in...
With 2019 drawing to its conclusion, we’ve come to the end of another decade. It was an era defined by pop cultural trends like the ice bucket challenge, Pokémon Go, and fidget spinners. We’ve made...
Spurred by the now notorious whistleblower complaint filed in August and declassified in September, President Donald Trump’s impeachment process is now nearing its conclusion, with the House of Representatives...
Some high schoolers around the nation are advocating for the elimination of in-class presentations. They argue that students with anxiety disorders should not be forced to do anything that could potentially...
From Wednesday, Nov. 20 to Sunday, Nov. 24, nine members of The Falconer staff traveled with journalism adviser Mr. Miles Kane to Washington, D.C. for this fall’s National High School Journalism Convention.
On...
In 2016, the La Salle boys soccer team lost in the semifinals in penalty kicks against Wilsonville, which advanced to earn second place in state.
In 2017, the Falcons lost in penalty kicks in the semifinals...
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