Mass Media Monopolizes News Consumption:
Caroline Avery, Staff Wirter
December 13, 2018
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As memes and click bait continue to stay prevalent in our day to day media consumption, longer and more informative news coverage begins to fall through the cracks. News is taken in like Happy Meals: quickly and with very little nutritional value — or in this case, cognitive value. Yes, Ka...
Success Is Rooted In the Will, Not the Skill: Trinity Students Overvalue Given Talent and Undermine Hard Work
Caroline Avery, Staff Writer
December 13, 2018
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From as early as elementary school, students single out peers who seem to stand out academically: “the smart kids.” These “smart kids” are all praised for supposedly having been blessed with a genius gene, something the rest of us merely missed out on. While there certainly exists a percen...
Smoke and mirrors
May 3, 2018
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In this day and age, few would argue that cigarettes aren’t dangerous. What was once considered a harmless pastime has been proven to cause irreparable damage to users’ health. But ask any teenager about the risks of vapes and Juuls, and they would likely respond with complete unconcern. ...
More than just attendance
March 8, 2018
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When schedules are released over the summer, every sophomore is excited and nervous to discover who their adviser will be for the rest of high school. It is a comfort for students to know that a teacher will be there specifically to support them academically and emotionally for the rest of their time...
Voicing your own opinion
LILY ISRAEL, MANAGING EDITOR
February 6, 2018
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Oprah Winfrey had yet to put the finishing touches on her Golden Globes speech before Americans already penciled her in as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election. We were barely able to comprehend Winfrey’s emphatic words, “I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is...
Reaction without action: Complaining stifles change
Alexandra Lipton, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
December 8, 2017
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Life is a competition. Anything that is quantifiable can be used as a measure of success, from how much sleep one gets to what kind of car one drives. But more than ever before, our generation delights in romanticizing our problems and our losses, which has led us to compete in an entirel...
The journey to feeling comfortable in your own skin
Zoe Myers-Bochner, LAYOUT EDITOR
December 5, 2017
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Picture this year’s homecoming dance: loud music and hundreds of bodies moving in one motion, bobbing up and down as if they don’t have a care in the world. Then, picture me running right into the crowd. To anyone who knew me even last year, this scene would seem unthinkable. My experience at...
Trapped by taps
ALEXANDRA LIPTON, STAFF WRITER
November 3, 2017
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How far would you go to save a dollar? For some, penny pinching can be a gratifying way to afford a Snickers bar at the checkout line at Publix. But when it comes to the government, stinginess can lead to the suffering of a whole population. In April of 2014, the economically plummeting city of Flint...
Your petunias could be smarter than you think
ALEXANDRA LIPTON, STAFF WRITER
November 3, 2017
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It’s second semester, and we all have somehow managed to haul ourselves back to the desolate halls of Trinity Prep in an endless pursuit of intelligence. But what if we, the sleep-deprived Saints, are not the only intelligent beings to grace campus? According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary,...
More mass shootings: what are we doing wrong?
October 31, 2017
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The United States can give out an immeasurable amount of thoughts and prayers. They were in Dallas, where five police officers were gunned down by a vengeful veteran. They were in Orlando, when a self-identified Islamic extremist who pledged allegiance to ISIS walked into an LGBT nightclub an...