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Five to Survive

Malini Pillai and Matthew Mcgowan | April 6, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic confining Stevenson students to E-Learning, statistics have shown a massive regression in students’ quality of work and academic growth. After several meetings with Illinois...

Stevenson SuperStore Catalog: 2021 Edition

Katie Lee | April 6, 2021

Introduction + Product Overview: Hello, prospective customer! Welcome to the Stevenson SuperStore, where we sell everything from chapstick to branded face shields. “Stick to the pencils and textbooks,”...

Cameras Off, Brains On

Sophia Ismail | April 6, 2021

It’s Tuesday at 10:30 am and Kate Meyers ’23 is eating her third bag of chips in the hour as music blares in the background. Her laptop is open to Zoom, but her camera and microphone are off. Most...

Accidentally Prompted

Sailaja Nallacheruvu and Victoria Feng | April 6, 2021

Though Generation Z is known to be very good with technology, teenage hackers have taken that stereotype to an even higher level in recent months. While other adolescents have attempted to hack into social...

Cravings for Coffee

Dwija Ramesh and Natalie King | April 6, 2021

Jenny Adams ’21 wakes up at 8:16 and hurriedly walks the 3 steps from her bed to her desk with her stomach growling. During a regular school year, she would visit Jazzman’s for all of her snack needs,...

First-Hand Fatigue

Ojasvi Saxena | April 2, 2021

On Saturday, I got back home after driving one and a half hours to my SAT Subject Test center. I was more tired than usual, but brushed that off to taking the exams. Sunday morning, I woke up with...

A roll a day keeps the doctor away

Sabrina Xue | March 31, 2021

Allison Wilson ’22 yawns as she wakes up from her 37-minute nap and leaves her sixth-period Zoom call. She sighs in relief and debates what to eat during her 15-minute break. Her parents remind her to...

Cheated But Defeated

Vaasu Kakuturu | March 31, 2021

While other students in his class stay up to frantically refresh their IRC page for updated grades as the clock strikes midnight, Ned Chetting ’21 is asleep in his bed. Confident in the answers he had...

School Structures in Students’ Homes

Surya Sethi | March 31, 2021

On January 8, Stevenson High School announced its plan for enforcing school rules in students’ homes. While in a remote learning setting, faculty members feel it is important for students to abide by...

Crash Course in Communication: Email Etiquette for Teachers

Helen Oriatti-Burns | March 31, 2021

COVID Catch-Up

Mackenzie Wren | March 31, 2021

When Darwin Daze ‘21 woke from his four year coma, the first thing he reportedly mentioned was that he was pumped to get out and throw himself a waking up party. “And yet, I woke up to a worldwide...

(Don’t) Sound the Alarm

Kelly Liu | March 31, 2021

Since March 2020, there have been no false fire alarms at Stevenson, a great deal of improvement from previous years. Stevenson’s efforts have been recognized by Niche, a site that ranks high schools...