Service trips prove to be mutually beneficial
Anoushka Mallik, Staff Writer
January 12, 2019
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According to the Homeless World Cup Foundation, 50 percent of the Mexican population live below the poverty line. Fifteen thousand to 30,000 Mexicans live on the streets alone. I believe this problem is one that needs to be fixed. Along with this, we need to fix our attitude towards poverty. I believe that...
Dispute over affirmative action overshadows admissions issues
Taeyeon Kim, News Editor
January 5, 2019
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In a world where students who attend competitive colleges have huge advantages in employment, the issue of admissions policies has become highly controversial. Colleges’ race-based affirmative action policies are being called into question. Affirmative action is rooted in an attempt to promote diversity ...
SWS does not strive for political diversity in applications
Ben Haber, Contributing Writer
January 4, 2019
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Recently, the hypocrisy of SWS culture has been made very evident to me, and it is necessary that the students of the high school are made aware of it as well. This is my first year in SWS, and over the last few months, I have gotten to know the teachers and most of the students. Within SWS, there is ...
Kanye’s music trumps his politics
Harry Gordon, Contributing Writer
November 29, 2018
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Kanye West has, for the last year or two, been very vocal in his support for president Donald Trump. It started when during a concert of his “Saint Pablo” tour, he told the crowd that had he voted, he would have voted for Trump. He then continued to meet with Trump, wear “Make America Great Agai...
Nike Kaepernick ad sparks political controversy
Tree Demb, Multimedia Editor
November 8, 2018
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“I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world.” - Jackie Robinson Buried in the madness of the 49er’s comically bad 2016 season, as the national anthem rang through the stadium, Colin Kaepernick began to stay seated on the benc...
Kavanaugh hearings divide parties further
Jordan Watts, Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 6, 2018
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The latest political discord in a long line of disputes divided along partisan lines has been over Trump’s nomination for an associate justice position on the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, which subseq...
Peeps on the street: Do you think the Red Sox will win the World Series this year?
Oliver Fox, Zoe Tseng, Jeremy Suh, and Nina Rogers
October 16, 2018
POTS: What are the most difficult conversations to have?
Amanda Kravitz, Staff Writer
June 23, 2018
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POTS: What is the kindest thing you have ever witnessed?
Yiming Fu, Staff Writer
June 22, 2018
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Editorial: Miscategorization obscures the benefits of certain drugs
Rachel Vin, Opinions Editor
June 9, 2018
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How many of your peers are on psychiatric drugs? Ritalin, Prozac, Ativan: there are many different drugs, and far more adolescents taking them. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 7.5 percent of youth were on psychostimulant medication as of 2014, and those numbers are rising...
POTS: When do you feel most proud or lucky to be a BHS student?
Milena Kitterman, Staff Writer
June 8, 2018
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Mental disorders diagnosed and medicated too often
Afik Zaarur, Contributing Writer
June 7, 2018
Filed under Opinions
If you live in America there is a high chance you know someone who suffers from depression; one in five people in America have severe depression. It was hardly like this 20 years ago, when only one in every 184 people were clinically depressed. During the last few years there has been an increase in the numb...
