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Extracurricular Groups Respond To COVID-19 Crisis, Plan In Face Of Semester’s Disruption

The current online list of AMCHS’ clubs and organizations includes over 40 distinct entries. Senior Mona Birgisson, dissatisfied with her options of discussion-based clubs, decided instead to create another.  “The discussions were very brief,” Birgisson said. “You just went there at four o’clock, someone presented something for 15 minutes, and […]

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Speak But Listen Too

Typically, conducting and engaging in a conversation is not hard at all. But unfortunately, the same cannot be said about a political conversation. For the last 3 years of my life, I have been a part of speech and debate, an organization focused on teaching individuals how to use their […]

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Social distancing measures cause innovation in obligations, social life

I’m terrible at selfies. Like, so bad. Like, dear-God-I-don’t-actually-look-like-that-do-I, I-might-need-to-destroy-this-entire-phone bad at selfies. I’m the type of person who covers up her webcam with packing tape. But the times, they are a-changing. Needless to say, in light of recent events I’ve had to suck it up and peel off the […]

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The Need for Gender Neutral Language

by Medha Sarin, staff reporter Way back before this whole coronavirus thing, when school was still a regular occurrence and I was still wondering how I’d possibly survive freshman year—before all that, I distinctly remember hearing this question as I walked into class: “Are you guys boyfriend-girlfriend?” This wasn’t directed […]

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It’s Not You, It’s Me

By Saanya Patel, online editor I am a teenager. I am a girl. I am American. I am Indian. I am Gujarati. I am Hindu. I am scared. I am hiding. I am quiet. But most of all I am confused, because I am not genuinely me. There are so […]