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New schedule cues controversy

New schedule cues controversy

Jenny Seo | Sep 5, 2016

Starved, exhausted, dehydrated. When will third period end? With the implementation of the new bell schedule, students have been showing mixed reactions. Students now have a short 10-minute break between...

Temporary holiday re-spotlight dominion of social pyramid

Grace Yang | Jun 7, 2016

“The government officials have decided to make May 6 a temporary holiday in hopes of contributing to booming tourism and domestic activation...”  On April 28, this one sentence from President...

The Flint Water Crisis

TTAdmin | Apr 29, 2016

It was a chilly March evening when LeeAnne Walters woke up to the sound of a blood-curdling scream. Anticipating a burglar, she sprinted upstairs, baseball bat in hand. What she found was not a thief,...

“Comfort women” now deserve their own comfort of mind

Soomin Chun | Feb 5, 2016

For as long as my mother, my grandmother, and I have been alive, Korea has always maintained a rather tense relationship with Japan. One of the biggest causes of the conflict lies in Japan’s reluctance...

Stuff People Say About Censorship

Stuff People Say About Censorship

TTAdmin | Jan 15, 2016

You can’t bring up drugs or alcoholism in a school publication. Even a music review! This is a school, a learning environment. Yes, we understand. We high school students are pure and virginal and...

Age and experience should be out of context when selecting members for sports teams

Age and experience should be out of context when selecting members for sports teams

April Kim | Dec 4, 2015

With the beginning of every season comes the opportunity for students to join a sports team. But the truth of the matter is that those chances are not necessarily given equally: certain practices bring...

Residual effects of gun policy demand social, legal change

Residual effects of gun policy demand social, legal change

TTAdmin | Oct 30, 2015

There are many contradictions in the society we live in today. As highlighted in a recent comment circulated on social media, while women who seek abortion must seek counseling and go through several rigorous...

Stuff Seniors Say During College App Season

Stuff Seniors Say During College App Season

TTAdmin | Oct 30, 2015

Snobby senior (ooh alliteration!): Why is he/she applying to MY school? He/she’s not even qualified! Look at him/her, then look at ME: look at all of MY accomplishments! You see? You see?! Wow really...

Standards of club application process require clean up

Standards of club application process require clean up

Grace Yang | Sep 25, 2015

Just weeks ago, the executives of all clubs finished running through stacks of applications and sent out emails notifying the applicants’ acceptances and rejections. The selection process definitely...

Refugee crisis demands greater action

Refugee crisis demands greater action

April Kim | Sep 25, 2015

The deafening sounds of bombs dropped from helicopters roar in the background as children frantically scream for their mothers. Amid the colorless, shattered buildings, a throng of people reach out their...

Early closure of school due to MERS scare ineffective

Joyce Lee | Sep 7, 2015

Unlike the usual celebration that ends an academic year, SY 2014-2015 dwindled into an anticlimactic fizz when school closed two days earlier than expected. In an effort to prevent the further spread of...

Stuff freshmen and delusional overachievers say

Stuff freshmen and delusional overachievers say

TTAdmin | Sep 7, 2015

I’m going to join six clubs, get executive positions for all of them, play three sports, and get 99% minimum in all my classes and become valedictorian so that I’ll get into HYPS (Harvard, Yale, Princeton,...