Sex has no place in sports
Benji Wilton, sports editor
February 26, 2019
Filed under Columns
It’s an easy sell: sculpted supermodels posing in exotic locations wearing little to no clothing, right at the fingertips of anyone willing to fork over a few dollars. Every year, Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition brings in about 7 percent of revenue for the renowned publication, according to F...
In defense of the Oxford comma
Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor
February 25, 2019
Filed under Columns
It shows up in elementary school classrooms, in books, and on the reading and English sections of the ACT. Among the publications that dislike it are The New York Times, Time Magazine, and The Kirkwood Call. The Oxford comma is a hotly disputed topic in the world of journalism and writing. But the truth ...
The price to protest
February 8, 2019
Filed under Columns, Opinions, Staff Editorials
With fists in the air and heads held high, students at KHS and across the country left their classrooms at 10:00 a.m. to honor the 17 students who died at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting March 14, 2018. Some people came with posters. Some people came with prepared speeches. Some came wi...
Complicit consumerism
Logan Crews, editor-in-chief
February 4, 2019
I’ve heard a million times that I’m lucky. I’m lucky I was born in 2000 to the Crews family in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. I’m lucky I came out as queer and transgender to open arms and only slight awkwardness. I’m lucky I don’t have to shield myself from violent discrimination. I...
Seasons of giving
Catherine Butler, opinions writer
January 17, 2019
Filed under Columns
People wait to take strings of twinkling lights down from their front porches, and leftovers from a family potluck sit in the fridge. Frost still coats the window panes, and many children still suck on candy canes. Though it’s January and the holidays have ended, reminders of the giving seas...
Coiled in beauty standards
Genevieve Francois and Kiden-Aloyse Smith
January 17, 2019
Filed under Columns
We remember in preschool being told by other kids we were ugly because our lips were too big and brown and our hair was weird. From then on we tried everything to make our hair look as “white” as possible. We used to ask our moms over and over why we couldn’t just have straight hair. Whatever wa...
My resolution revelation
Amara Harper, features writer
December 14, 2018
Filed under Columns
Every New Year’s Day, after the exhaustion from the night before begins wearing off, some people grab a piece of paper and write down their goals for the year. Quickly, I as well as others decide this year will be the year we follow through with them. However, without fail, many goals slip away arou...
Call me Hwijung
Daniel Kim, sports editor
December 12, 2018
Filed under Columns
Call me Hwijung. No, actually, don’t. Call me Daniel. You can also call me DKim, The Asian Sensation, The Big Asian, The Asian One, Wang, Oriental, Ching Chong, etcetera. Call me whatever you want. If the nickname makes you laugh, then go for it. But don’t call me by my actual given name, Hwijun...
Call Ed: A pledge for protection
December 7, 2018
Filed under Columns, Opinions, Staff Editorials
Their deaths were never supposed to happen. Tim Piazza, Pennsylvania State University, sophomore, died February 2017 after being forced to consume 18 drinks within 90 minutes to complete a fraternity hazing ritual. While intoxicated, he fell down a of flight of stairs head first, knocking him unconsciou...
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