Classes without a teacher: Independent studies
By Renato Arteaga, Editor-in-Chief
December 21, 2018
All but two students in the room stare tentatively, awaiting instructions from Mr. Morrison about the current film project they are working on. These two...
Boys outnumber Lane’s STEM classes: Where are the girls?
By Nicole Herzog, Editor-In-Chief
December 21, 2018
The first time Georgia Wolf walked into her first period Aerospace class, she stood amongst a sea of boys, watching the door in anticipation for another...
New Service-Learning Policy Focuses on Quality Civic Service
By Mytam Vo, Art Editor
December 21, 2018
Service learning hours have been a requirement to graduate for many years, but as of next year, students will not be required to complete the mandatory...
By Mytam Vo, Art Editor
October 25, 2018
The fall art show this year showcases scenic embroidery, book-emerging sculptures, delicate relief prints and bright, vivid computer-based creations. From...
To stand or not to stand: Controversy over morning anthem
By Nicole Herzog, Editor-In-Chief
October 19, 2018
Over the course of a Lane student’s high school career, one may become accustomed to a certain routine. Each morning before class, the national anthem...
By Ela Messina, Reporter
A large portion of a teenager’s high school education is focused on college and career readiness. With college, however, comes an independent lifestyle unknown to graduates taking on this new challenge. Now,...
By Maryann Ress, Reporter
Most Lane students remember running home, grabbing the letter out of the mailbox and ripping apart the envelope to be greeted by one word: “Congratulations!” When Lauren Slaber, Div. 074, received...
By Ella Dame
180 days. Meticulously counting how much time she gets to teach, Ms. Wain utilizes part of her summer preparing for her content packed AP Art History course she will be teaching the upcoming year. With...
By Daniela Ciesielski, Managing Editor
The bell rings, signaling the end of fourth period. Abram Kidane shifts his mentality from “high school student” to “high school intern,” and prepares to dive into the second half of his day, where...
Walking from the corner of Addison and Western, students file off CTA buses, coming in from all directions. Drowsiness and exhaustion engulf the school’s campus, as many students commuting from neighborhoods...
By Payton Jarzyna, Reporter
Every December, Lane’s auditorium is filled with hundreds of excited faces waiting to watch the Chorus’s winter concert. The dark stage is illuminated by candles and Christmas lights, while girls and...
By Julia Kuron, Reporter
Students in Ms. Becker’s Honors Geometry and AP Calculus classes are expected to always provide solid justification for their answers. Becker acquired her strong logical reasoning skills through her...
By Larissa Hageman, Reporter
It would seem that any appetizing, reasonably priced fast-food restaurant or frozen yogurt shop would have guaranteed success being only blocks away from Lane, but this isn’t always the case. Over...
By Daniel Ocon
Students from Lane and all over the Chicagoland area gathered Nov. 30 at Hyatt Place O’Hare to attend the International College Options Fair, hosted by International College Options, or ICO. ICO...
By Ben Griffin, Opinions Editor
From turning on the lights to printing a piece of paper, there is no doubt that Lane’s carbon footprint — its contribution of pollution to the environment — comes from many different sources, every...
By Agatha Orlovska and Glory Lozada
The girls basketball team jogs onto the court as the crowd cheers for them before they play against Niles West, which has a D1 bound guard. With bright, white game-day sneakers on their feet and their...
By Bradley Hills, Sports Editor
To build on the failures of a previous season requires hard work, especially when new faces, such as a new coach, come into the picture. For Adin Frost, Div. 150, that is especially the case after the...
By Patricia Abulencia, Sports Editor
A shot goes up but the ball bounces off the rim. A jumble of athletes wrestle for possession and after a few rebounds, the ball finally goes in. Yet one athlete doesn’t run back on defense. She...
By Frank Rodriguez, Editor-in-Chief
Being an athlete at Lane creates a special high school experience: recognition at pep rally, sports banquets and ceremonies, being a lettermen; the list goes on and on. However, not every athlete is...
By Renato Arteaga, Editor-In-Chief
After starting their training in the middle of the summer, most of the Girls Varsity Cross Country runners’ season has come to an end. A significant milestone for these runners was celebrating their...
By Patricia Abulencia, Sports Editor
Each girl had a letter written to them from their parents, to be read prior to their game against DePaul College Prep on Sept. 28. With letters in their hands and excited expressions across their faces,...
By Julia Schuurman, Features Editor
Inside my coat pocket, my thumb clutches the lock on my pepper spray. I hastily walk up the stairs to the Red Line stop and out of the corner of my eye, I see the same man...
“Black Panther,” “Love, Simon,” “The Hate You Give,” “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” and “Crazy Rich Asians.” Since their release, these films have...
By Maggie Nielsen, Editor-in-Chief
When I was 14, my mother and I went to the first women’s march on Jan. 21, 2016. It was the day after Trump was inaugurated, and like many Americans, I was raw and confused...
By Maggie Nielsen, Editor-in-chief
They prey on teenage girls’ insecurities and their desire to fit in, and they manipulate this into a profit. Brandy promotes an exclusive, 90 lb. “aesthetic” for teenage girls to worship, and it works
