New CHS Water Fountains
Recently Carrboro High School has installed several new water fountains. These are seen as a more environmentally friendly version of a water fountain as it encourages refilling water bottles by making it much easier. They feature a counter displaying how many disposable water bottles worth of water it has dispensed. Every day, over 60 million […]
The Unknown Pressures Behind Social Media
Chandler King is a 12-year-old gymnastics phenom in the making. She trains 36 hours weekly and moved from Michigan to Texas in order to train at the gym owned by Simone Biles’s family, the World Champions Centre. Her incredible strength and skill level has earned her a following of 168 thousand followers on Instagram and […]
The Damaging Nature of “Edgy” Jokes
Anxiety and depression are issues that plague today’s teenagers more than in any other recent generation. According to the Child Mind Institute, 31.9% of students meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder, and 14.3% of teenagers are affected by depression and bipolar disorder. Modern teenagers have taken to a new type of joking as a […]
To Be Read (And Watched): Just Mercy Challenges the Broken Justice System in America
The prison system and mass incarceration in the United States has received a lot of criticism from many people across the world and within the country. Just Mercy is the non-fiction account of Bryan Stevenson’s life as a lawyer, working to help those most in need in prisons, such as the wrongly condemned. Stevenson founded […]
Tips to Living a More Sustainable Lifestyle
In this social media-driven, technology-powered age, it is growing increasingly more difficult to practice sustainability. New products are constantly being thrown our way, making us feel that we always need, not only the best thing but the newest. In order to avoid this, I put some tips together in order to help navigate this issue […]
Winter Sports in Review
Carrboro athletics has finished the 2019‐2020 winter sports season. See below for more information on each team’s season. Men’s basketball finished the season 16‐11 overall and 9‐3 in the conference. The team was led by seniors Jared Porter, who scored his 1000th point this season, and TK Paisant and helped by a number of underclassmen […]
Debunking Internet Hysteria Surrounding “World War III”
This article is co-written by Ike Bryant and Kaya Hencke. In early January, United States forces assassinated Iranian military official Qassim Suleimani during a drone airstrike near the Baghdad Airport in Iraq. The airstrike and subsequent retaliation was the manifestation of culminating tensions between the U.S. and Iranian governments. Intervention in Iran escalated in 1953 […]
Biden Claims the “Super” on Super Tuesday
March 3rd marked an important day for the 2020 Democratic primaries, where 14 states and one American territory voted for who they want their party to nominate. This day, known as “Super Tuesday”, holds the most primary elections out of any of the days in the year. Leading up to Super Tuesday, Bernie Sanders was […]
Student Spotlight: Fred Larsen
What instruments do you play? Which is/are your favorite? I play primarily trombone. Recently I have done Jazz, and like modern-style stuff, and I have gotten away from classical. So I auditioned at Berklee for Jazz performance, and that’s what I got into. What do you like about performing? So when you have a show […]
The Misconceptions Surrounding “3D Printed Death”
As many students at Carrboro know, having access to firearms poses some serious implications. Communities across the world are familiar with the tragic effects of firearms in the hands of wicked individuals. Many are uncomfortable with the prospect of 3D printed guns, yet the worry involved has been taken out of proportion. 3D printed guns […]