Earlier this year, I was watching a group of six year old boys play ice hockey, because my hockey practice ended about half an hour earlier, but there was a sale at Macy’s, which meant that it would take at least another one or two hours before my mom picked me up and took...
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In case you didn’t realize, the Two Weeks of Horror – otherwise known as the two weeks spanning AP testing – began May 6 and will end May 17. Some students, like Isaac Xia ’14, are loading up on the APs. Xia is taking eight AP exams as a junior, and Catherine Liu ’13...
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My desk at home is situated so it is right next to a large window overlooking my yard. Consequently, when I do my homework, I often relax to the sounds of nature filling my ears, that is, until the buzz of an incoming text or the ping of a Facebook notification interrupts me. As...
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Let’s make a pact: if we settle down and have kids, we’ll all be Tiger Moms. I mean, think about it. I don’t know about you, but when I visited Harvard, Yale, and MIT, there were a LOT of Asians. And, we all know who raises those over-achieving Asian students: Tiger Moms. If you...
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We have the ability to watch our peers’ personal lives with the click of a mouse, and we don’t like it. We have the ability to see what that girl – the girl in the back of our E block Chemistry room, the girl at the water fountain, the girl working out at...
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Friday night, April 5th, students gathered in the auditorium to watch the annual CCHS hypnotist show, sponsored by the class of 2015. Every year in the beginning of spring, a hypnotist comes to CCHS and entertains the audience by making fellow students do humorous things under hypnosis. About twenty kids were selected to participate,...
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(Co-written by Monica Chen’14 and Anagha Chandra’14) “The assembly was good and the more casual nature was helpful.” -Eliza Henry ’14 “We should treat this graffiti incident in the strongest possible way” -Larissa Vrablik ’16 “It was interesting to hear the opinions of the panel members and to hear about this incident...
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I began writing this as an opinion piece a few weeks ago in response to some things I observed in my personal life. However, this article has become unfortunately timely in light of recent events. On Monday, March 11, a student wrote out a racial slur, in fruit snacks, on a table in the...
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As I came into school on Friday, March 8th, many were grumbling about the decision to keep school open despite the many closings in the area and the ongoing snow storm. Many individuals witnessed – and even were involved in – car accidents. A number of cars were stuck in snow banks, and several...
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In the past, our school has performed several controversial winter musicals, such as The Producers and A Little Night Music. We have displayed sex scenes, cross-dressing, and even swastikas to entertain the audience. Compared to past years, this winter’s musical A Chorus Line is tame. But this year, as a preventative measure to avoid conflict...
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