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Equal opportunity is necessary in America’s classrooms

Molly Eagan, Editor May 15, 2025

I have always known I’ve wanted to be a teacher. Even in the fourth grade “Dress for Success” parade, I wore my best teacher outfit and brought math equations for everyone to solve. I am majoring...

Diet culture pushes exhausting lifestyle onto teens

Diet culture pushes exhausting lifestyle onto teens

Michelle Boukanov, Staff Editor May 14, 2025

As I scroll through social media each day, I’m exposed to hundreds of different videos and posts. Most of the time when I go on Instagram or TikTok, I do it to laugh and entertain myself, but sometimes...

Accountability starts with getting to school on time

Miles Anderson, Staff Writer May 13, 2025

Each day at 7:50am, the late bell rings in half empty classrooms as students line up on main street to scan in. Many students arrive as first period is in session, putting themselves at a disadvantage,...

Transgender Americans Are Under Attack

Tess Groen, Staff Writer May 13, 2025

100 days into the Trump administration, and things have already gone from bad to worse. ICE raids, health department scandals and completely unnecessary trade wars; while the news is focused on Trump’s...

Collaboration over competition

London Bruton, Staff Writer May 13, 2025

The place where I feel the most insecure is in a room full of desks with students clicking away on keyboards as I try to type even faster. I feel the competition build as I try to write a longer paragraph...

What to know before applying to college

Michelle Boukanov, Staff Editor May 13, 2025

Summer came and went, and suddenly I realized I was starting my senior year, and I had done nothing to prepare for college applications. No letters of recommendation, no decided major, no research done...

COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, FEBRUARY 25, 2025-A student waits outside the gender neutral bathroom. One of the stalls is out of order.

Wilde Lake’s problematic gender neutral bathrooms

Tess Groen, Writer February 26, 2025

Wilde Lake has a bathroom problem. For a school of over 1000 students, we have 40 gendered stalls, but only two gender neutral. Three, if you count the nurse’s bathroom. There simply aren’t enough...

Our trans friends need our support during Trump presidency

Tess Groen, Staff Writer February 26, 2025

When America elected Donald Trump into office, they elected an out-and-proud transphobe. With his election, the transgender community is panicking, and rightfully so. Trump’s public and consistent...

School fights fueled by student indifference

Liz Cho, Editor February 26, 2025

Ding! My phone rings with yet another video of a school fight. Too often, a fight breaks out in the hallways of Wilde Lake High School. Even if I don’t watch the fight, I always know it happened because...

COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, FEBRUARY 14, 2025 - The Wilde Lake village center
offers students places to eat and socialize.
Students could sit down and eat during
lunch time in the village center with an
open campus.

Let seniors eat lunch at Wilde Lake village center

Miles Anderson, Staff Writer February 25, 2025

The Wilde Lake village center bustles with familiar shops and restaurants for people to visit. Unfortunately, the students of Wilde Lake are confined to a cramped lunch period in the cafeteria, unable...

Colleen Hoover’s books have dominated the New York Times bestseller
list, according to the Wall Street Journal despite writing problematic
stories surrounding abuse and unhealthy relationships.

Colleen Hoover misleads young readers by romanticizing abuse

Caroline Sorensen, Web Editor, Photo Editor, Multimedia Editor February 25, 2025

Author Colleen Hoover continuously fails to take romance, domestic violence, and drug use seriously, leaving her impressionable teenage audience with an unhealthy understanding of love. Hoover has written...

COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, FEBRUARY 3, 2025 - My closet is full to the brim with clothes I never wear. The hangers have little to no space to move, yet I keep my unworn clothing anyway.

Undressing fast fashion: Stop buying trendy clothes you don’t need

Michelle Boukanov, Staff Editor February 25, 2025

My closet is filled to the brim with sweaters that push the door open. My t-shirt closet is so compact that the hangers no longer slide on the rack. Even with this, the ten items in my online shopping...

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