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Year on Zoom Left Profound Challenges as a New Student

Bri Juszczyk, Executive Opinion Editor May 20, 2021

I am no stranger to being the new kid at school. I have moved a total of five times between second grade and now, my junior year of high school. Before I moved to Arlington Heights in October of this year,...

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SUMMER BRIGHTENS AS CAMPS OPEN

Maeve Molina, Executive Features Editor May 19, 2021

Since I was in 7th grade, every summer, I would take a bus filled with kids from my age all the way down to six-year-olds to Camp MacLean in Burlington, Wis. The stuffy coach bus filled with the sounds...

SPEND EACH DAY LIKE ITS YOUR LAST KNIGHT

SPEND EACH DAY LIKE IT’S YOUR LAST KNIGHT

Genevieve Karutz April 14, 2021

Well, the time was finally here. With my new Vera Bradley backpack draped over my shoulders, I felt anxious at the thought of my first day at Prospect. I had documented my first-day fears in a colorful...

PROSPECTOR POLITICAL PUBLISH WEEK #27: THE NEED FOR A YOUNGER CONGRESS

PROSPECTOR POLITICAL PUBLISH WEEK #27: THE NEED FOR A YOUNGER CONGRESS

Brendan Burke, Associate Editor-in-Chief September 17, 2020

The 116th Congress is the title for the current federal legislative body of the American government. Starting on Jan. 3, 2019, the 116th Congress resembled a very historic time in American politics. Not...

Bird Box viewing doesn't require blindfold

Bird Box viewing doesn't require blindfold

January 24, 2019

By Grace Baldino, online editor If you were presented with corpses of other mangled human bodies, and had been forced to stare in horror as they commited suicide in some of the most gruesome ways,...

Opinion: Gillette’s new ad isn’t brave; it’s bad advertising

Opinion: Gillette’s new ad isn’t brave; it’s bad advertising

January 24, 2019

By Anthony Romanelli, Executive Opinion Editor When Gillette unveiled its new “The Best Men Can Be” ad campaign on Jan. 14 to address sexual misconduct and bullying among men, the response was predictably...

The Truth behind senior year

The Truth behind senior year

September 20, 2018

By Amanda Stickels, editor-in-chief Going into senior year, I was so excited — not necessarily because of the capital “S,” Senior year, but because that meant the worst of it was over. Junior...

The Debator Season two episode one: Hurricane talk

The Debator Season two episode one: Hurricane talk

September 17, 2018

By  Anthony Romanelli, executive opinion editor, and Ayse Eldes, Editor-in-Chief https://soundcloud.com/user-718785034/debator

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'I Wear The Black Hat' required reading

February 6, 2018

By Erin Schultz, associate editor-in-chief Sitting in an otherwise silent classroom, my friend and I were whispering while we were supposed to be reading. As my teacher patrolled the aisles between our...

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The Debator: Africa and the American classroom

December 8, 2017

by Ayse Eldes and Anthony Romanelli This week opinion editor Anthony Romanelli and I sat down to talk about African perception in the American classroom. Our conversation stems from personal experience...

The Debator: Week 1

The Debator: Week 1

November 9, 2017

By Ayse Eldes and Anthony Romanelli, copy editor and opinion editor  This week, I sat down with fellow Debate team member and Prospect opinion editor junior Anthony Romanelli for our first edition...

What journalists get wrong about journalism

What journalists get wrong about journalism

November 7, 2017

By Erin Schultz, associate editor-in-chief  From every middle school newspaper club to every Journalism 501 class, the first rule any student learns is that journalists must be Switzerland. Bias,...

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