Anna Garibashvily, Saruul-Erdene Jagdagdorj, Staff Writers
April 20, 2020
What can be recycled
Products made of paper, glass, steel, aluminum, cardboard and certain plastics are recyclable. Plastic products made from rigid plastic, like milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles, can be recycled. All con...
Judy Feng, Baeyoung Yoo, Features Editor, Staff Writer
April 20, 2020
Earth Day was founded after an accumulation of high-profile pollution incidents, such as the Santa Barbara oil spill, led to increased public concern about the environment in the late 1960s. On April 22, 1970, Sen. Gaylord Ne...
Maya Fridman, Rachel Cha, Features Editor, Staff Writer
April 20, 2020
A bonfire, started with just newspaper and dead twigs, roars within an hour and the work begins. On a typical day at Somme Prairie Nature Preserve, some volunteers cut woody invasive species as others grab the scraps of wood ...
Lucy Cho, Sarah Boeke, Features Editor, Opinions Editor
December 13, 2019
After creating a meme for an assignment in her Advanced Placement United States History class, junior Annie Welch decided to make her own meme account on Instagram to post history-related memes.
“I think [memes are] really ...
Caitlyn Lofland, Samrah Abbasi, Features Editor, Editor-at-Large
December 13, 2019
After using social media for many years as a way to talk with friends, senior Emma Chassman recently created an Instagram account for her fashion interest.
“I decided to make a fashion account because I wanted to inspire o...
Haley Sandlow and Eli Traub, Opinions Editor and Page Editor
November 8, 2019
A high school student was pushed up against a locker. He was punched *in the arm. He was slapped on the side of his head. Decades ago, he was one of many victims of physical bullying. Yet today, the landscape of bullying has ...
Maya Fridman, Features Editor
September 27, 2019
In 1973, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case was passed allowing a woman the right to legally have an abortion until the point in which a fetus would be able to survive outside the womb.
According to Dr. Carolyn Mills, obstetrician...
Judy Feng, Features Editor
September 27, 2019
Walking into her 6-7A Advanced Placement European History class on the first day of school, sophomore Alicia Amsel was not expecting to be handed a four-hour-long reading assignment.
Amsel, who took World Civilizations freshman...
September 27, 2019
This issue, Torch writers explored articles spanning the last 42 years. Similarities and differences between then and now were discovered.
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