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The news site of Evanston Township High School's student newspaper

The Evanstonian

Opinion

Student voices deserve priority at school board meetings

Student voices deserve priority at school board meetings

Rena Newman, Guest Opinion Writer November 20, 2015

Our school board doesn’t want to hear student voice — not even when students are speaking out about racial injustice in Evanston. The board’s begrudging attitude towards hearing public comments is...

The Pledge of Allegiance serves no real purpose

The Pledge of Allegiance serves no real purpose

Jane Mather-Glass, Opinion Editor November 20, 2015

Stay seated. The Pledge of Allegiance doesn’t mean anything to most students and shouldn’t be mandated in Illinois schools. At the age of five, we learned the 31 words of the pledge...

Female-fronted groups’ success proving gender equality in music

Female-fronted groups’ success proving gender equality in music

Annie Keenan, Opinion Editor November 20, 2015

Who run the world? Girls. For the first time since the mid-’90s, all-female bands have risen to the top of the charts. As boy bands have mainly dominated the music industry, it’s refreshing and empowering...

Paleo diet is half-baked and unrealistic

Paleo diet is half-baked and unrealistic

Gabby Smith, Opinion Columnist November 20, 2015

Me Gabby. Me love junk food. Me hate vegetables. Followers of this “caveman” paleo diet should be extinct because its approach to eating is unrealistic. The paleo diet only includes foods that would...

Technology and Teens: A guilt-free coexistence

Technology and Teens: A guilt-free coexistence

Annabel Paulsen, Online Writer November 12, 2015

Humans and technology coexist. We’ve watched the metamorphosis of Macintosh laptops from blue and white, pseudo-modern bricks into sleek slivers of machinery. Cell phones are now hardly recognizable...

Culture vs Costume

Annabel Paulsen, Online Writer October 31, 2015

I love Halloween. I love Halloween, I love walking into a store and directly into a skeleton decoration, I love finding obscure cemeteries that are projecting horror movies on weeknights, and I love...

Put an end to inconsiderate costumes

Put an end to inconsiderate costumes

October 30, 2015

Don’t be surprised if someone comes to your door dressed as a school-shooting victim. Pop culture and politically inspired offensive Halloween costumes shed a bad light on the seemingly harmless holiday....

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Freshman PE classes don’t need gender separation

Jane Mather-Glass, Opinion Editor October 30, 2015

Mix it up. Freshman PE classes should be co-ed just like they are for every other grade. The gender separation of freshmen physical education classes doesn’t really have much of a reason, and...

Defunding Planned Parenthood is problematic

Defunding Planned Parenthood is problematic

Annie Keenan, Opinion Editor October 30, 2015

It’s more than pro-life. One’s opposition to abortion should not affect another’s accessibility to judgment-free healthcare. The current movement in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood is motivated...

Let students evaluate teachers

Let students evaluate teachers

Eli Baum, Opinion Editor October 30, 2015

Student evaluation of teachers should be a part of the school’s teacher evaluation process. Under the current teacher evaluation system, which ETHS adopted in 2013, teachers are evaluated only...

AP classes overshadow other options

AP classes overshadow other options

Jane Mather-Glass, Opinion Editor October 5, 2015

Don’t feel pressured into AP. Students shouldn’t feel so inclined to take harder classes that they forget about all their other options. Going to ETHS is a unique experience because students...

The pedestal problem: Be careful when choosing role models

The pedestal problem: Be careful when choosing role models

Eli Baum, Opinion Editor October 5, 2015

Celebrities may be talented at their profession, but that doesn’t make them good role models. Several recent news stories have involved actions taken by both athletes and entertainment figures that...

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