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Jessika Whiteside assists her Block 5 Introduction to Literature students with an assignment on Nov. 17. Whiteside has always been someone to give a helping hand, and for freshmen leaping into their second quarter at CHS, this is a life saver. I think they [freshmen] are still adjusting to the workload of highschool, Whiteside said. But for the most part, theyre adjusting and figuring it out.
Jessika Whiteside Brings New Books to the Freshmen of CHS
CHS literature teacher, Jessika Whiteside, is thrilled to keep traditions and embrace new additions to her Intro to Literature curriculum as the year progresses.
Gabe Deedler and Payton Sly November 22, 2023

From teaching freshman literature in Romulus to teaching Introduction to Literature at CHS, Jessika Whiteside has a wide knowledge of ninth grade English education. This year, she continues to make the best of it by showing classic books in a new light. “We’re about a third of the way through ‘The House on Mango Street,’” Whiteside said....

A Colorful Addition to CHS’s Exterior
A Colorful Addition to CHS’s Exterior
November 21, 2023

It started as a competition but ended up being one of Felix McKenna’s biggest projects at CHS. McKenna worked for months on the mural that is now displayed outside CHS. At the beginning of his junior...

Qu forumettes meet in the third-floor hallway to sell baked goods for food gatherers. After the success of the bake sale last year, the forum knew they wanted to do the same thing this year. It was so much fun to sell the pastries, Janaki Nallamothu said. I hope we get to do it again
Qu Forum Bake Sale
November 15, 2023

The smells of baked goods wafted through the third-floor hallway. Oreos dipped in chocolate, brownies and decorated cupcakes were just some of the options available, as students were excitedly lining up...

AP Precalc Comes with Controversy
AP Precalc Comes with Controversy
November 13, 2023

Pre Calc has always been a challenging class: but this year that difficulty has been elevated. Students and teachers alike have been struggling to keep up with the new curriculum which has been standardized...

Tickets for CETs production of Museum went on sale on November 8. Students have always enjoyed buying tickets to support their peers who are a part of theater. “I love selling tickets,” Hannah Rubenstein said. “it is nice to see everyone support CET.”
Tickets For The Museum: CET's Next Big Show
November 9, 2023

Anticipation is rising as the show dates for CET’s production of Museum are nearing. The hard work from everyone in the CET program is paying off, and student tickets went on sale this past Wednesday,...

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Balancing Act
Balancing Act
Piper Cooke 3 days ago

In the bustling world of teenage life, demands of school, work and social life often collide. For Jasper Forgey, time management has become second nature as he regularly navigates an intense schedule. Forgey got his first job at 14 years old as a dishwasher at the Ypsilanti Food Co-op where he stayed for about one year. In the last two weeks, Forgey...

Ellen Stone passionately reads a poem to attendees of the journal Public School Poetrys CHS event. Stone co-founded the journal with four other public-school-educated poets and teachers in part to highlight the restriction in the public school poetry curriculum. “I think students should be taught everything,” Stone said. “They should be taught that poetry has this broad reach. Its not narrow, and its not rarefied. Its real and every-day.”
Public School Poetry
Molly Hamalainen November 27, 2023

Ornate tablecloths and plates full of pizza encouraged attendees of Public School Poetry’s reading event to connect and eat before settling in for a night of poetry. Read by the new journal’s aptly...

Managing Mental Health with Becky Brent
Managing Mental Health with Becky Brent
Kate Groves and Jake Williams November 14, 2023

The excitement that comes with the start of the school year can lead to students signing up for too many clubs and extracurricular activities, and before they know it, they have way too much work to do...

Crafting an Art Portfolio: Eva Beals
Crafting an Art Portfolio: Eva Beals
Bridgette Kelly November 9, 2023

Eva Beals has always been encouraged to cultivate a creative and artistic mind. With both of her parents being artists, her earliest memories are filled with tools and supplies. “I can't even remember...

Growing Hope: Julius Buzzard
Growing Hope: Julius Buzzard
Lucia Page Sander November 7, 2023

Julius Buzzard grows a new crop each year. Not to sell, but for the pure joy of cultivation. This year, he grew flax for the first time in hopes of sending it to a fiber artist who will make clothing out...

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The new Dunkin location at 201 E. Liberty is located on the site that previously housed the Clover Leaf restaurant.
Revitalizing Downtown: The Positive Impact of National Chains
Jonathan Carter 8 minutes ago

The Downtown landscape has undoubtedly changed, between the pandemic, rising rent costs, increasing labor costs, shortage of labor and inflation....

CET rehearses Museum during tech week. In the other half of the double exposed photo, a COVID-19 test reads positive.
Lights, Camera, COVID-19
Hannah L. Rubenstein 1 day ago

It was the day before opening night: the energy was high and everyone was excited to perform in front of an audience– except me. I attended...

[Blair Hall, Princeton University] by [Billy Wilson] is licensed under [CC-BY].
The Hype Around Ivy League Universities
Luca Hinesman 3 days ago

Yale, Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, Columbia and Dartmouth; the eight Ivy League colleges started out as NCAA Division 1 athletics...

The Importance of Forum Connection
The Importance of Forum Connection
Anthony Wang 3 days ago

I vividly remember my first day at Community High School. I wasn’t prepared for high school, and two years of quarantine made every interaction...

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Humans of Community: Emmy Chung
Humans of Community: Emmy Chung
Emma Goblirsch

“I play soccer for a club called the Michigan Hawks, based in Livonia. Our club is female led and it's all girls. I believe that's pretty cool...

Humans of Community: Ellie Fox
Humans of Community: Ellie Fox
Janaki Nallamothu

“I enjoy multiple different styles of dance. So tap, for example, you're making a lot of sound. It all has to be really precise because if...

Humans of Community: Aja Bullard
Humans of Community: Aja Bullard
Piper Cooke

“I’ve always loved beauty and cosmetology — I started doing my nails at the beginning of this summer, and they make me happy because I...

Humans of Community: Ryan Grant
Humans of Community: Ryan Grant
Kyrie Garwood

“I have no thoughts. I’m just a sound mind — oh actually, I do think about Brad Pitt every day. I don’t know I like Brad Pitt, he’s...


Voir Dire by Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist
Voir Dire by Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist
Jake Williams

Rapper Earl Sweatshirt and Producer The Alchemist have been collaborating for a little over a decade now and with collabs like “E. Coli” and “Wind in My Sails” — both of which are two of their best songs — a full album was almost inevitable. AL has been teasing a collab album with Earl since 2019, saying that their album was already out...

Transported Back to the 70s

You'll feel alive and transported back to the 1970s with these songs. They will make you moved to the point of tears by the somber songs and force you to dance by the songs' abundance of emotions.

 Photo by Povar211 is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
100 Gecs is Changing The Musical Landscape (Whether You Like It or Not)

Since their debut in 2019, 100 Gecs have been seen as the pinnacle of irony and peak meme culture. Their brand has always been to repurpose the scraps of dead sub-genres generally deemed as “corny.”...

Alchemical Review
"Alchemical" Review

Dove Cameron is set to release her debut album on Dec. 1. The Disney star has released multiple singles in the past few years but “Alchemical Vol. 1” will be her first full album.  Cameron teased...

Teezo Touchdowns ‘How Do You Sleep At Night?’ is Frustratingly Mediocre
Teezo Touchdowns ‘How Do You Sleep At Night?’ is Frustratingly Mediocre

Teezo Touchdown is one of the most exciting names in the music industry at the moment. His impressive features over the last couple years make him someone you can’t stop listening to and his bizarre...


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