OPINION: While Donations to Rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral May Be Well-Intentioned, the Money Could Be Put to Better Use

Marie Preuss, News Editor

May 6, 2019

The whole world looked on in shock as Notre Dame, the iconic 856-year-old cathedral in Paris, was engulfed by flames on April 15. The video of the cathedral’s spire collapsing into the fire was both horrifying and mesmerizing to watch. People wept as they worried that the important cultural and hist...

EDITORIAL: Anti-Vaxxer Movement Poses a Serious Danger

March 3, 2019

Vaccines have been a crucial instrument in disease prevention for hundreds of years. Life threatening diseases including polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), rubella (German measles), mumps, tetanus, rotavirus and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) are all currently preventable d...

OPINION: Rise of Global Anti-Semitism Demands a Global Unified Response

Jacob Pasternack, Editor-In-Chief

February 25, 2019

Hate takes many shapes and forms. In our hotly contentious sociopolitical atmosphere, racism and homophobia have taken center stage. Quietly, however, another older type of hate has been growing in the background and has only recently been brought to the forefront in American society. In a twitter barrag...

EDITORIAL: Should Celebrities Be Speaking Out on Issues?

February 22, 2019

In 2019 the world is far more connected than ever before. Under the Trump administration, America has become increasingly divided on matters of social, political, and moral importance. The left has retreated further left, and the right has retreated further right.   As news stations on both sides of the i...

OPINION: Looming Government Shutdown Will Have Little Immediate Impact on Average Citizen

Jacob Pasternack, Editor-In-Chief

December 18, 2018

Government shutdown. This premise is used as a weapon by politicians to scare opposition into cooperation, and both parties are evidently terrified by it. This time, the Trump Administration has threatened a government shutdown to get funding “necessary to build the border wall,” as Chuck Schumer,...

EDITORIAL: #MeToo Movement Not Doing Enough to Safeguard Teen Victims

November 14, 2018

In October 2017, an online movement developed after numerous allegations came to light about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassing and assaulting women. Thousands of celebrities and women took to the internet to proclaim their support for the victims that came forward. This support blos...

EDITORIAL: Vote “Yes” on School Property Tax Referendum

November 5, 2018

Election Day, November 6th, is tomorrow, and many issues that have accumulated since the last election cycle are now ready to be voted upon.   A major issue that will be voted on is a school referendum influenced by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act.  The tragic mass shoo...

OPINION: Trump’s Move to Legally Define “Gender” Makes Sense in Regards to Title IX Cases

Jacob Pasternack, Editor-In-Chief

November 2, 2018

The Trump Administration, over the last two years, has been controversial, to say the least. And, to continue the trend, the Trump Administration is considering making a move that has many members of the LGBT community worried. According to the New York Times, the Trump Administration is considering...

COMMENTARY: When Unqualified Students Are Pushed into Taking Advanced Placement Classes, All AP Students Suffer

Jacob Pasternack, Editor-In-Chief

March 1, 2018

Let’s just get this out of the way now: many AP classes at Olympic Heights aren’t what we’ve been led to believe. Decreased rigor, increased class sizes, and constant test reform has led to this reality in a cyclical pattern. Yet, every cycle must have a beginning, and this cycle begins with human...

COMMENTARY: Labeling Legitimate Media Outlets as “Fake News” Is Dangerously Ignorant

Jacob Pasternack, Editor-In-Chief

January 22, 2018

MSM. The utterance of those three letters in consecutive order causes unbridled gesticulations and irrepressible accusations among the detractors of mainstream media. Such senseless blithering about the fallacy behind popular news networks is consistently countered by proponents of the reliability...

COMMENTARY: Want To Make America Great? Try Listening to One Another

Jacob Pasternack, Editor-In-Chief

December 7, 2017

The degradation of American politics is upon us. The once great institution established by some of the brightest political minds in history has devolved into a petty brawl of ad hominem attacks perpetuated by both the leaders of our political parties and the members within them. Our political environment...

TORCH EDITORIAL: President Gives White Supremacist/Neo-Nazi Groups Validation and Cover by Not Labeling Them Domestic Terrorists

Marie Preuss

August 31, 2017

Over the past few weeks, the country has been in a frenzy over a white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, Aug. 12, that turned violent. Tiki torch-wielding people also marched through the University of Virginia campus on the preceding Friday. The...