College Bombs: Is College Really Worth It?
For generations of Americans, the word “college” was more or less a synonym for success. We had only to go. We had only to graduate. And if we did, according to parents, high-school guidance...
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Lush-lips or plump pain?
In today’s society, we model our ideals of beauty off of what we see on MTV and the cover of People magazine. Young, impressionable girls crave to look just like Ariana Grande by mirroring...
Face-Off: Are we too politically correct?
Are We Too Politically Correct? Face Off Debate between Aditi Katwala and Annika Layfatis Graphic Credit: Valeria Vesco Spoken Mind over a Held Tongue By Aditi Katwala Position: We as a society are too...
Mulan Fancast: Disney’s newest live action princess
Mulan. The 1998 Disney movie portraying the story of a Chinese woman who enters the army disguised as a man in order to take the place of her father is back. Disney recently bought a script for...
Girls water polo continues hot streak during bid for perfection
The girls varsity water polo team has gotten off to one of the best starts in Conant history with a record of 18-0, including 7-0 in the MSL West division. Although their season isn’t complete, they’ve continued...
Conant holds its fifth Health and Safety Fair
The fifth annual Conant Health and Safety Fair took place during lunch periods in the atrium on Friday, April 10. The fair involved participation from dozens of groups and organizations, all committed to improving the...
PARCC debuts at Conant and schools across Illinois
Boiling it Down: On Tuesday, March 6, and then again a few weeks later, Conant freshmen and other select students took a new standardized test called PARCC, or Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College...
South Asian Students Association plans to bring awareness to Conant community
A new organization known as the South Asian Students Association (SASA) has been started by freshmen Nikita Lakshminarayan and Deepika Ramchandani. The purpose of this club is to provide awareness of the different South Asian ethnologies...
Furious 7 hits the mark!
Fast and Furious. The movie franchise that went from street racing to Mission Impossible on steroids and somehow ended up making seven films totaling about $2 billion worldwide. But the thing about these movies...
The slipper fits for Disney’s Cinderella
It is no secret that in 65 years a story can warp and turn in many different directions (as displayed in Roger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella or Anna Kendrick’s Cinderella of Into the Woods), but Disney’s...
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