On Feb. 1st, the Freeman Environmental Youth Council , made up of students motivated to promote sustainability and advocate for environmental education, met with Emile Lauzanna, the Executive Director of Environmental Sustainability, to discuss the feasibility of introducing reusable dishware to AAPS cafeterias. Possible obstacles anticipated by...
PPAM Youth Advocates, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan, is an organization stemming from Planned Parenthood that focuses on empowering youth to fight for abortion rights. The group has students...
Tables holding a variety of pies lined the center of the third floor hallway near the windows. March 14 is celebrated at CHS as Pi Day. The extensive list of activities — from pie judging and pi-related...
Following the Memphis Grizzlies loss to the Denver Nuggets this past week, Grizzlies superstar point guard, Ja Morant, was met with controversy for an incident that occurred on Jan. 29. He posted an Instagram...
As high school students look into the future — college decisions, internships and life changes — CHS counselors Brian Williams and Kelly Maveal urge students to consider the future happening in front...
It is a perfectly unremarkable Monday — classes have ended, the last of the light has just bled out of the sky above campus — but Katie Mayer has found herself huddled in the dark of a basement boiler room with thirty of her peers, in a building they have never before been inside, all of them afraid for their lives. “We were just in a closet,...
When CHS librarian Jeri Schneider sat down to read the book “Diet For A New America” by John Robbins in 1987, she did not expect it to change her life. Schneider had heard about the health benefits...
Nadya Matish spends almost every day thinking about what the world she lives in will look like in thirty years. Since she had access to the internet, Matish has been gathering information about climate...
The past is history; the future is hard to think about; the present is now. Cherished history teacher, Ryan Silvester, started his career at CHS in 2018 with the purest form of optimism. In the middle...
‘Why would anyone not be vegan?’ Seven Steiner asked themself after an eye-opening conversation with their camp counselor about her choice to be vegan and the impact of a non-vegan diet. They talked...
I had never thought about whether or not I would have children until I realized I might not have a choice. As I stood in the middle of the...
The wheels clanked as they rolled over the tracks. I adjusted in my seat, stretching out the sore spots from sleeping in the train seat the night...
When I was in sixth grade in 2016, my grade was the most advanced class my middle school had ever seen. When sixth graders were distributed across...
If you search up “the future of U.S. democracy” on any search engine, it’s hard to find something positive. Most headlines read, “Our...
I don’t know what I’m going to be when I grow up, but I’m not worried about it. I get that question at least twice a week and answer with...
Friday nights, Saturday mornings, afternoons and evenings and entire Sundays spent hunched over a desk. Colored events fitted edge to edge; scattered,...
As I grow up I’ve started to tiptoe around my future. I sip my tea with the expectation that it will burn my tongue, but I never wait for the...
“I really like that [CHS] provides programs. For example, the jazz program. I'm the drummer in the jazz program, and I joined this year. I...
Every summer, the Ann Arbor District Library holds their “Summer Game,” a reading competition to encourage students to read throughout the summer. Students track their reading and earn prizes for their efforts, such as free books. When Dè Barney participated in the Summer Game the summer after their eighth grade year, they received one of these...
Surrounded by melodies and friends, Eleanor Farrell couldn’t believe her eyes. Looming ahead of her was her idol. Standing on a shipwreck, SZA– a popular R&B artist– began to sing. The first...
Trigger Warning: This review discusses eating disorders, self harm, and substance abuse. Please take care of yourself. Adolescence; the shaky period between being big and little. Not yet sure of our...
An album that, in many ways, is the ethos of shoegaze as a genre and culture, "Souvlaki" is true to itself with swirls of gorgeous acoustic guitar, that all mixes into this dream-like atmosphere that’s...
The world referred to in the title of Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, “When You Finish Saving the World,” is claustrophobic. The 2022 film follows a mother and son, Evelyn and Ziggy Katz, as...
March is Women’s History Month; a time to recognize women and all of their great accomplishments. To celebrate, we have interviewed four CHS students on the women that inspire them. Moms, sisters, friends, mentors and others that have made an impact on them. With these four interviews, we take the time to thank all women for all they have done.
Post By Isabella Maldonado and Nina Tinney
Photos by Isabella Maldonado
The Kilgore forum’s Jones School fundraiser came to a smashing finish on Tuesday, March 21. After collecting donations throughout last month, searching for the three highest donors, CHS staff members Brett Kilgore and Robert Morgan and student Malcolm London received high-velocity shaving cream and paper plate “pies” to the face.
Students and staff alike covered up with trash bags and ear plugs with varying degrees of effectiveness, but the pies were more inclined to stick to the faces they were thrown at. (“It’s like… thick,” lamented Morgan. “Can I have a towel?”) As a small crowd cheered and looked on from the CHS front lawn, the pie-ers celebrated their victory.
“I’ve just pied Malcolm London in the face and I’ve never been happier in my whole life,” said Claire Lewis, who took the top donation spot. “I feel like I really just defeated him today… he’s really a nice guy, though, so I feel kind of bad, actually.”
The Kilgore forum’s pie-throwing was part of the inter-forum push to fundraise for the Jones School Historical Marker. It joins a slew of bake sales, pull-up competitions, and other efforts to raise the $10,000 that would help preserve Jones School’s legacy.
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Photos by Addi Hinesman
When CHS librarian Jeri Schneider sat down to read the book “Diet For A New America” by John Robbins in 1987, she did not expect it to change her life. Schneider had heard about the health benefits of eating more plant-based and had gone vegetarian on and off through her young adult life. But it wasn’t until she read about the suffering and intelligence of these animals, that she went completely vegan.
“I don't even think I finished the book after I read that section,” Schneider said. “It was just like a mind shift that happened. It really gripped my heart and I knew I didn’t want to be a part of it anymore.”
Overnight, Schneider became vegan. Reading the book completely changed her perspective. Although information about the environmental impact of animal agriculture is emerging even more nowadays, Schneider believes that the information has always been there, just more hidden.
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Post by Anjali Kakarla and Ailish Kilbride
Graphic by Ryan Thomas-Palmer
On a gloomy Monday morning, Marcy McCormick’s FOS 2 class was abuzz with excitement. The group made their way across downtown Ann Arbor to be the University of Michigan’s Natural History Museum. This trip, which took place yesterday, Mar. 22, gave students the opportunity to engage with real specimens and artifacts, many of which align with the content they have learned in their FOS class.
“We have this incredible resource just less than a half mile away from us that has all of these artifacts that we've been studying all year long in FOS 2,” McCormick said.
CHS students have been taking this trip for at least six years now, and McCormick believes that it’s important for students to see their classwork has real life applications.
“I learned a lot about a lot of early mammals and I learned about human interaction with the landscapes,” said Charlie Fox, a student in McCormick’s FOS 2 class.
This experience brought to life the concepts many students have only read about in textbooks. Seeing these objects in person helped students better understand the scale and complexity of the natural world.
“I had a conversation with two students afterwards, and they said it was really cool that we went to the museum after studying because they could see all of the real life examples and artifacts of the stuff that we learned in the textbook,” McCormick said. “They can see that there's actual research going on with this information, and can see the value of it.”
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This morning, March 22, a conversation about drug and alcohol addiction took place in the Advanced Health and Public Health Policy class taught by Becky Brent. Guest speakers David Seaman and Kayla Harding came to CHS to share their personal experiences involving alcohol and drug use as well as their takes on various issues such as the stigma surrounding harm reduction services, the effects of human connection on recovering drug addicts, and how to help a friend who’s struggling with substance abuse.
“[By coming and talking to schools] I hope that people see substance use disorder from a different perspective.” Harding said. “I hope they understand that substance use disorder doesn’t discriminate.”
Harding and Seaman travele all across Southeast Michigan to visit high schools and talk about substance abuse. They feel that schools could play a big role in helping students who are struggling with substance abuse.
“I think being able to having a non-punitive approach [towards students] helps them access resources,” Seaman said. “Having peer support available and encouraging peer support [is crucial].”
Post by Vedha Kakarla, Bridgette Kelly, Fina Kutcher
Photo by Bridgette Kelly
