New vaccination requirements create trouble
Jamie Berman, Staff Reporter
November 6, 2016
In the past year, the state of Illinois began a new requirement for seniors to receive their meningitis vaccine. For Stevenson seniors, the deadline is October 17th to get their shot. School nurses have been contacting students and their parents through letters, emails, Facebook, and Twitter. Home phone...
SMUNC allows new students to explore MUN
Sivakami Ramakrishnan, Staff Reporter
October 12, 2016
As everyone was adjusting to the beginning of the school year, Model United Nations members were getting ready for one of their biggest conference of the year: the Stevenson Model United Nations Conference (SMUNC). The general members of Model United Nations (MUN) are assigned different countries....
Local anti-drug charity with SHS ties passes national law
Yana Bushuyeva, Staff Reporter
October 10, 2016
Walking the halls of Stevenson High School, one wouldn't think to link their peers and environment with that of one commonly associated with drug abuse. However, Stevenson graduates who have overdosed from opioids like heroin and prescription pain pills (morphine, codeine, oxycodone, methadone and Vicodi...
Class of 2016 sets new ACT record
Ashley Mandel, Staff Reporter
October 10, 2016
The American College Testing (ACT) tests the college readiness of a student in reading, mathematics, english and science, and scores are reviewed by most college admissions. The class of 2016 has set a new new record with an average ACT score of 26.9, surpassing the previous record of 26.5 set by the 2013 ...
Streetfest recap
Chloe Meyers, Staff Reporter
October 7, 2016
Stevenson’s annual Spirit Fest went from human foosball and attempts at breaking a world record into Streetfest with dancing and food trucks. This year’s Streetfest was the most successful in years. Streetfest brought in around 2,000 people, which is twice the amount as last year. The event raised...
Illinois not SAT-isfied with PARCC
Aniket Nuthalapati, Staff Reporter
October 7, 2016
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandated that high schools in Illinois administer the SAT as the state-funded college readiness exam starting in 2016-2017. This sudden switch comes after two years of using the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) at the hi...
UChicago urges open discussion
Max Cohn and Emma Ismail
October 7, 2016
The University of Chicago (UChicago) recently sent a letter to the incoming freshman class that reads “our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called “trigger warnings.” UChicago also made it clear within the letter that they “do not condone the creation of intelle...
Class sizes on the rise
Yogin Patel, Staff Reporter
October 7, 2016
Although Stevenson has always been a big school, the addition of the larger-than-average class of 2020 has set a trend for increased enrollment rates. In the last 20 years, there was a peak at 4,573 students in 2005-2006 school year. Until the 2014-2015 school year there was a decreasing number of...
Creativity for character
Grace Westphal, Staff Reporter
October 7, 2016
Students are invited to participate in a poster conteset promoting academic integrity
Altered senior yearbook photos spark controversy
Aman Grover, Managing Editor of Production
May 31, 2016
Joey Hong ’16 grabbed his copy of the yearbook from a teacher’s hands, ran to the nearest table, and began flipping through the pages to look for his picture. He skimmed through the “H’s” multiple times, but to his dismay, his picture was nowhere to be found. Confused, he looked for his las...
New program leads students to college
Annie Wu, Managing Editor of Design
February 19, 2016
Peer tutors, Information and Learning Center tutors, and Freshmen Mentor Program —Stevenson has an array of resources to help the student body. A new addition to these resources is the Stevenson to College (S2C) program under the Stevenson Foundation that is specifically dedicated to providing supplementary...
State chooses SAT, ACT replaced
Emma Ismail, News Editor
February 9, 2016
For the first time in 15 years the Illinois state sponsored college entrance exam will not be the ACT, but instead the SAT. Both exams were created to evaluate college readiness of high school juniors though they are slightly different tests. The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) has decided...
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