Athlete of the Issue: Emma Godwin
By Anahi Mosquera and Daniela Ciesielski
September 10, 2018
Photo by Photo Courtesy of Cain Camacho/Pogi Studios
Trying a new tradition: Homecoming moved to Saturday
By Maggie Nielsen, Editor-In-Chief
September 10, 2018
This year’s homecoming football game will be played on Saturday, Sep. 22 at 12 p.m.
Photo by Maggie Nielsen
Debaters win Urban Debate National Championship in D.C.
By Dominika Chruszcz, Editor-In-Chief
June 7, 2018
Ariana Collazo and Ousaf Moqeet holding the championship trophy. The pair had been debating for over three hours on April 22. The Urban Debate National Championship was held April 20-22 at George Washington University, where Collazo and Moqeet debated long hours from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Photos courtesy of Chicago Debate League)
By Frank Rodriguez, Editor in-chief
September 7, 2018
Amid all the schedule swapping on social media prior to the school year, one thing can be certain about the majority of Lane students: No one wants to...
By Marilyn Muncy, Reporter
June 14, 2018
As participants filtered into the guitar room during the No-Coffee Coffeehouse event on May 24, a warm environment was created when different acts were...
By Renato Arteaga, Assistant Editor
June 14, 2018
For Lane X-Machina, attending the Robotics World Championship in Detroit, Michigan became a chance to compete with the best teams across the nation. The...
By Maggie Nielsen, Assistant Editor
June 14, 2018
On a spring morning, a small group of students stood on the front lawn, held signs and chatted with each other as a helicopter buzzed from far above the...
By Eunice Alpasan, Managing Editor
May 29, 2018
The Local School Council (LSC) approved the 2018-2019 school year budget during a special May LSC meeting on May 3. Lane’s total budget for the next...
By Evelyn Huzenis and Agatha Orlovska
Football players from both Lane and Al Raby were warming up for their Friday night game on Sept. 14th. Lane’s cheerleaders, marching band, flag corps, dance team and fans were all present, ready to cheer...
By Patricia Abulencia and Maggie Nielsen
Late in the afternoon on Aug. 25, the sun began to set on the field and the stadium lights flickered on. The stands were filled with fans from both teams, who buzzed with excitement eager to watch Lane...
By Brenda Ocampo, Reporter
The gym was filled with pink: pink shirts, pink flowers and pink balloons. Lane hosted the first Dig Pink game to help fundraise for breast cancer which was held on May 2 against Lincoln Park. Sophia...
By Frank Rodriguez, Assistant Editor
Coming off of a semifinal win in a tight game against Taft on May 18, Varsity Girls Softball faced Whitney Young in a back and forth city championship matchup on May 22. The game was scoreless for...
By Khalem Caldwell, Reporter
Valeria Villanueva, in elementary school at the time, offered to help her teacher clean her classroom. Among the scattered papers villanueva picked up off floor, she realized that there were fliers for...
By Ben Griffin, Reporter
Many athletes dream of taking it to the next level, but the process is not as natural as it seems. The process of being recruited is long, and often very stressful. Whether it’s Division 1 (D1), Division...
By Nicole Herzog and Frank Rodriguez
It was a cloudy, dreary evening on Aug. 9 when a myriad of students, teachers, parents, family members and friends gathered around the Lane parking lot for a candlelight vigil and balloon release in memory...
By Eunice Alpasan, Managing Editor
When he was 15 years old, computer science teacher Mr. Solin got his first tattoo on his waist in hopes to conceal it from his parents. He successfully kept it hidden for eight months until his shirt came...
By Celina Duda, Reporter
As a high school student, it might be hard to imagine what life would be like after graduation when SAT and AP testing is over. But for many recent Lane alumni, navigating the collegiate world and becoming...
By Ana Meija, Reporter
As she looked tirelessly and hopelessly down the seemingly never-ending hallway full of students looking just as lost as her, and among others that walked on without a care in the world, Tifani Panek resigned...
By Angelika Mazurek, Reporter
According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, a valedictorian is the student usually having the highest rank in a graduating class who delivers the valedictory address at the commencement exercises. For senior...
By Nick Udell, Assistant Editor
Imagine an art gallery where the paintings and sculptures react as you walk by. Imagine observing art that changes as you look at it, like moving sculptures or walls of light. Here at Lane, the Art and...
By Simone Brenner, A&E Editor
I remember sitting at my kitchen table staring at brochures filled with happy pictures of students circled in quads and smiling with books as I researched colleges at the...
By Simone Brenner, A&E Editor
It is so easy to get caught up in your own life and your own problems. We live in a world where we’re submerged in our Facebook profiles, Snapchatting friends and texting...
By Lara Sonuga, Editor-in-Chief
It’s so unsettling to realize that someone you once felt overwhelming admiration for is capable of something so unforgivable. We, as a society, find celebrities quite...
By Julia Schuurman, Reporter
There’s something different in the air now. It seems as if disaster after catastrophe after tragedy have been ravaging the country leaving little time to take a breath in...
By Benjamin Griffin, Reporter
When people refer to the “dangerous world” that we live in, they usually say that because of the person sitting in the Oval Office. With a divided country, and many federal...
