Mental health right now can be very hard to deal with in many ways. A lot of teens often find themselves comparing themselves to others, whether it be someone on social media, someone at school, or just a stranger at the store. Teens now also deal with the added pressure of being enough for friends,...
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‘Ukrainian Help Drive’ Underway at NDA
The drive for Ukraine is a success with so many donations that they are wrapping around the hallway. The drive for Ukraine was started by four girls: Alexandra Schweiner, Gabrielle Ruggles, Milana Volkova and Vladyslava Kylmenko. The girls met at a rally for peace to support Ukraine on February 27, and they reached out to...
New SAT Format: What to Expect
The Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT, is now scheduled to take a turn to digital form by 2024. SATs have been around since 1926 and are used to determine what colleges students can get into. These tests are changing to online because they are said to be less stressful and more relevant to certain subjects....
A Covid Experience: Being Used To it
For two years, COVID-19 has stayed ongoing and detrimental to the health of people, globally speaking. It remains lethal and, up to this day, has a persistent grasp on the lives of people who have been exposed to it. Anchorage’s COVID-19 Case Overview was recently updated January 24th with the help of data from Our...
We Don’t Have a Planet B
Climate Change: it’s like a thing that is there, but doesn’t feel real. Something that everyone talks and is concerned about but won’t actually do something about it. But it is real, it is going to happen and has been happening for a long time. You may not see or feel it, but it exists. Don’t...
The MacArthur AVID program helps coordinate community donations
Monthly donation drives get MacArthur students and staff into the spirit of charity. The Advancement Via Individual Determination, AVID, class has been coordinating monthly donation drives, encouraging charity among students and staff. Each month MacArthur students and staff donate different items, depending on what the donation for the month is. For the month of November,...
Salva Dut: A Long Walk To Success
Across all eighth grade ELA Classes at Bernardo Yorba Middle School, students had the opportunity to read and analyze the novel “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, based on a true story about Salva Dut, a teenage boy living in Southern Sudan. Salva Dut is among one of the 3,800 Sudanese “Lost...
A Serious Conversation: Celebrating Black History Month
In 1926, a public school teacher, “Mr. Woodson,” initiated the first ever “Negro History Week” on February 7th to celebrate and raise awareness of Black history. Fifty years later in 1976, Afro-American professor Albert Broussard turned it into a month-long celebration that is now known as Black History Month. President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History...
High School Editorial: Are you what you Eat?
Editors discuss food choice ethics. Margaret Atwood’s novel “Oryx and Crake” imagines a future where chicken nuggets no longer come from an actual chicken but rather grow in a lab, multiple nuggets stemming from a feeding tube. These nuggets would taste exactly like traditional chicken, without requiring a living animal. However, the concept of chicken-free...
Money Move$: Inflation Affecting High Schoolers
According to the Brookings Institute, inflation over the last twelve months (October 2020 to October 2021) has surged to 6.2 percent. This is, of course, in response to the shortage of product supply and distribution capabilities, forcing prices of consumer goods up. Although it is known that inflation affects the working population, these price increases...