The Fourth Block of Freedom
Trey Williams, Op/Ed Editor
February 13, 2020
Academic lab is universally loved by students. It’s the only period of the day where all students are given almost complete freedom with their time. People can study, meet with teachers, or go to the Colt Cafe and take time to relax. Despite love from students, not everybody in the building appre...
Saint Louis Wing Company Review
Logan Potts, Sports/News Editor
December 19, 2019
When people hear chicken wings, they usually think about the big chain Buffalo Wild Wings. It’s time for people to stop thinking about the crappy quality wings that come from a dirty national chain. As someone who’s favorite food of all time is a plump, bone-in chicken wing with spicy buffalo sauce, ...
St. Louis Ferris Wheel
Sydney Stahlschmidt, Copy Editor
December 13, 2019
When most people think about St. Louis things such as the Arch, Cardinals baseball, or Blues hockey come to mind. The city recently turned the previous Union Station, which used to be one of the largest train stations in the world, into a modern hangout for people of all ages. While the Union Station aim...
2010’s – Best Decade Yet?
Taylor Stern, Staff Reporter
December 13, 2019
For Gen-Z’s, this decade was our childhood, and now we’ve reached the end. This brings me to a question: How do the last ten years stack up against the childhoods lived by millennial's, Gen-X, and baby boomers?
The Abortion Issue
Eva Deniszczuk, Staff Reporter
November 13, 2019
As America begins to shift away from being an entirely nonsecular nation, citizens and law-makers alike still struggle with removing its context from our modern day laws. Hotly debated by most everybody, it seems there’s very little middle ground to meet on, in the issue of abortion. And for all reason...
Giving Kids a Platform
Alex Maisenhelder, Online Managing Editor
November 7, 2019
The social and political climate is far more polarizing and in ways confusing for the current generation than it was for one’s past. The heavy implementation and prominence of social media, in particular, has had a far greater impact on life than anyone could have predicted. The spontaneity that data can...
On Self Driving Cars
Eva Deniszczuk, Staff Writer
September 27, 2019
For all driving folk, at one point or another, we all wished that our cars took us to places we wanted to go automatically. It’s understandable, humans are lazy by nature, and the route that involves the least work on our part is usually the route that we take. Unless of course, we are crazy over-ac...
Media and Real Life Violence
Wesley Henshaw, Editor-in-Chief
September 27, 2019
The country saw two shootings within hours of each other in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas on Aug. 3, 2019. Sadly, these two tragedies mark only two more tiny blips on the constantly expanding list of mass shootings that have occurred in the past year. However, due to the severity of this instance we h...
BROCKHAMPTON Chills Out on GINGER
Trey Williams, Op/Ed Editor
September 6, 2019
BROCKHAMPTON just released their 5th studio album GINGER. BROCKHAMPTON is a hip-hop “boy-band” formed in 2015. The group had a meteoric rise to fame in 2017 with the release of their SATURATION trilogy, completed in just under six months. Critics praised the trilogy for the chemistry of the seven...
Avalon: as good as it sounds?
Gabby Abowitz and Taylor Stern, Features editor/Art director and staff writer
September 6, 2019
Located in the Delmar Loop, Avalon Exchange is a popular resale shop that’s been open since 1988. In addition to the St. Louis storefront, Avalon also holds a presence in Cleveland, Orlando, Pittsburgh, and Savannah. Although classified as a resale shop rather than a traditional thrift store, the s...
Is Parkway Racist ?
Jay Bowen, Staff Writer
May 11, 2019
There has been a lot of debates and events recently in our school involving the word Racism. Is Parkway racist ? In my words I honestly don’t believe my school is racist. We have a lot of safe places in our school. Social media isn’t one for everybody. People can be cruel and very dramatic online. People...
82 Days Off: What’s the Cost?
Trey Williams, Staff Writer
May 10, 2019
There are 82 days of summer vacation, then school comes along just to end it. The annual problem for the administration is finding a good way to spend it, as well as the rest of the break days distributed throughout the year. Among students, it is common to look forward to and enjoy summer vacation....
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