Student body observes Ash Wednesday

Alina Kushner, Reporter

February 26, 2020

The Convent & Stuart Hall community observed Ash Wednesday with an assembly at the Pine Octavia campus at which students received ashes on their foreheads and wrote an intention for the Lenten Season.   Ash Wednesday is a Christian holiday representing sacrifice and reflection marking the be...

Teenagers can choose to donate, but don’t

Gabriella Vulakh, Editor-in-Chief

December 19, 2019

Depending on socio-economic class, teenagers are often the population with the most expendable income, as they are not providing for their families or supporting themselves through school and other extracurricular activities, yet many teenagers do not set aside allowance or job money for charities.�...

C-ing Clearly: It’s time to stand up

Cece Giarman, Editor-in-Chief

April 3, 2019

A series of photos of high schoolers at a house party went viral earlier this month. The pictures show a group of students around pull-out tables as they extend their arms in the Nazi salute and stand in front of a swastika formed out of what appears to be beer-filled, red Solo cups. Understandab...

Interfaith club encourages a variety of religions

Adele Bonomi, Senior Reporter

October 23, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE The interfaith club met during lunch today to discuss different faiths and ways to raise their voices in the school community. “At our predominantly Catholic school, other religions need a way to express themselves,” sophomore and co-leader of the Interfaith Club, Charlotte Ehrlich said...

The Broad View: 12.12.16-12.16.16

Thomasina Akamine, Photographer

December 19, 2016

Profiling a hot button issue

Liana Lum, Editor-in-Chief

October 1, 2015

Looking at images of Texas high school freshman Ahmed Mohamed's homemade clock, it is plausible his teacher misunderstood its function and mistook it for a bomb. But, what’s troubling is even after the clock was confirmed as harmless, the Muslim was still arrested, interrogated and suspended from school...

Teens have religious values, if not ‘religion’

December 12, 2014

The perception that today’s teenagers are increasingly distancing themselves from religion, spirituality and the values that they profess, and that teens’ religious knowledge is shallower than past generations’, is an unjust falsification that Religious values are still important to today’s...

Organized religion is the new counterculture

February 11, 2010

Jovel Queirolo Managing Editor The pews smell like stale floral perfume and a hardware store every Sunday. A sleepy warbling organ and a only a few enthusiastic voices back up a whining cantor singing “A-lle-lu-i-ah” as Father Mark takes his time settling the Gospel on its stand. Parishioners stand, b...