Lauren Dain, Caroline Jacobs, Jessica Seghal, Sydney Ter Molen, and Sophia Weglarz
November 8, 2019
A study published this past March claims Evanston hasn’t experienced gentrification, though some residents think otherwise. Four former and current Evanston residents and active community members weigh in on the changes th...
Lauren Dain, Jessica Seghal, and Sydney Ter Molen
September 27, 2019
ETHS has a spirit problem; student attendance and involvement in school-sponsored events has been decreasing. This has caused the administration to reevaluate what spirit events are worth planning and offering for students to at...
September 27, 2019
Caroline Jacobs and Sydney Ter Molen
August 26, 2019
As students undertake various forms of activism, there are barriers that exclude certain groups of people from joining these movements. Trends concerning race, socioeconomic status, and physical capability are evident when loo...
Lauren Dain, Assistant In-Depth Editor
August 26, 2019
High schoolers across the nation have begun a modern student activism movement. Through activist events, students are creating change on local and national levels for topics such as gun violence, women’s rights and school pol...
Sophia Weglarz and Aldric Martinez-Olson
August 26, 2019
Between organizing school-wide walkouts and facilitating change-driven conversations, Evanston’s youth activists have found time to break the mold of activism as we know it.
Youth involvement in activism is not new, es...
Lauren Dain and Sydney Ter Molen
April 26, 2019
In hopes of creating future success for all Evanston youth, the Evanston Cradle to Career Initiative is attempting to dismantle certain educational policies that put students of color and students from low-income families at a disadvantage. ...
Lauren Dain and Ella Kanter
March 23, 2019
ETHS English teacher Anita Bucio, who identifies as Indian American, graduated from New Trier High School in 1998 where she experienced racial prejudices. Bucio has not been back to New Trier since her graduation, even though...
Ben Baker-Katz, In-Depth Editor
March 22, 2019
The mandatory, five-hour-long test in the early morning is a familiar narrative to most high schoolers. Standardized testing has become ingrained in the public education system. Both New Trier and Evanston use tracking, but most...
