The yearbook staff took the senior panoramic photo on Jan. 31. The panoramic displays the entire class of 2018, serving as a momento for graduates to look back on. This year, multiple seniors created symbols with their hands in the photos. Yearbook advisor Daniel Reinish said those gestures took awayContinue Reading

The theatre department’s upcoming production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” prompted preliminary controversy due to the way the original film depicted Chinese culture through characters like Mrs. Meers, the main antagonist, and two young Chinese immigrants who Meers turns into her henchmen. “[Mrs. Meers] is portrayed as an Asian woman withContinue Reading

The highly anticipated solo film for the Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther came out on Feb. 15, with Chadwick Boseman playing the title character. Since its release, Black Panther has grossed over $200 million. Marvel Studios produced a solid product with enough attention to detail to impress even the mostContinue Reading

Statesmen Choir held its first-ever singing talent show, Broadway Desserts Cabaret, on Feb. 16. In this unprecedented event, 32 students sang a variety of songs for an audience during a two-hour program. “I opened up Broadway Desserts to everyone,” music teacher and choir director Kelli Pierson said. “I kind ofContinue Reading

Next year, Film Study teacher Pierce Bello will phase out Film Study II, and the course will be condensed into one year. Previously, IB Film was a two year course offered as both a standard level and a higher level course. For the 2018-2019 school year, HL will be reservedContinue Reading

Sophomore Kara-Dove Mutombo experiences the world of fashion by modeling and doing photoshoots in New York. “I was 14 and an agent contacted my mom and invited me to come in and do a photoshoot,” Mutombo said. “I liked it and [I] haven’t stopped since.” Mutombo said she started modelingContinue Reading

Senior and Book Club president Emma Choi made efforts to shift people’s idea of what Book Club can be, which spurred an increase in both popularity and membership of the club. Choi accredited the club’s increase in popularity to her efforts to erase the common stereotype from the club’s surface.Continue Reading

Junior Danielle Brog is currently creating a hand-drawn animated short story in her IB Visual Arts class. This story is her second hand-drawn project, and although she has been working on it at school and at home since the beginning of the school year, Brog said this particular type ofContinue Reading

Play director and theatre teacher Jason Tamborini produced the Heathers school play despite its R rating. The original Heathers is an R rated movie from 1988 about life in high school. The film discusses how relationships work and it tackled adult themes.Tamborini worked with Principal Jeff Litz and used theContinue Reading