Freshmen receive used iPads
Incoming freshmen rejoice when they receive their brand new school-issued iPad every August. However, the incoming Class of 2020 received the Class of 2016’s used iPads. When the Class of 2016 turned in their...
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Conant football 2016: New year, new team, new attitude
On a humid Friday in August, a storm was brewing on the farthest practice field behind the football stadium. Against a dark sky, the Cougars stood alone in their white varsity practice jerseys. The...
New format, same magic in Harry Potter continuation
The latest installation in J.K. Rowling’s ever-growing franchise, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” was released on July 31, to the delight of millions of fans and the confusion of millions of people who...
Summer reading: One option or many?
Eat. Relax. Sleep. Repeat. This is the daily routine of countless Conant High School students during their summer break, which is a time when students should be having fun. However, many of them still...
Best and worst back to school reads
Once the school year starts, it can be harder than ever to find time to curl up and read something that isn’t a history textbook. That being said, the last thing you want to...
Upperclassmen talk freshman year horror stories and what they’ve learned
As Conant welcomes the new freshman class of 2020, upperclassmen can’t help but reminisce over their first year of high school- all the challenges they’ve faced and how they overcame them. The strange new...
New law would secure needed rights for student journalists
Image credit: Melania Toczko “Watergate started with two local reporters,” Josh Singer said in “Glamour” magazine’s March 2016 issue. The words from the screenwriter of 2016’s Best Picture-winning movie “Spotlight,” which revolves around a...
Are mandatory P.E. classes helping or harming CHS students?
Dhvanii Raval is a co-author to this piece. As a frustrated CHS P.E. teacher looks into the swarm of students, only two or three look as if they’ve completed two rigorous rounds of a...
The Class of 2016: Life is a bathroom and you’re at the end of the roll
You know, a lot of seniors have been talking about how your high school experience taught you the power of friendship and all, but I didn’t need school to teach me that. I just needed...
The Class of 2016: Our new responsibility
I grew up in a small conservative town for the majority of my life. So conservative that in 2008, when someone in my neighborhood had the audacity to post an “Obama” sign in their...
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