School is a place to learn, but it is also a place where we build community. Recent school sanctioned events have been seeing increasingly low participation, with the SIAC-organized Spring Fling dance...
According to the UNEP Food Waste Index Report, one billion meals are lost daily to food waste. This is hard to imagine, as when throwing out your leftovers, you don’t think it can tally up. Moreover,...
The temporary ban, justified by concerns surrounding national security and alleged data sharing with foreign entities, prompted deep reflections and critical inquiries. Despite these claims, the app was...
Are you doing this for yourself or for colleges?
Resume building requires the space and time to evaluate who you are as a person–interests, identities, etc. Resume building can be a helpful mirror...
When it comes down to it, there is a straightforward truth. We, The Spectrum Staff, know you donít want to hear us say it; we know you have heard it twenty times before but have a political awareness,...
Why do people break rules? How should these rules be enforced? How should privileges be awarded? Rules that seem simple, such as cleaning up your lunch table, not using the elevator and not leaving campus...
Despite the many hardships that 2020 has posed, this year has simultaneously offered new perspectives about human interaction, societal issues, and personal health. No community has been immune to the...
While the semblance of normalcy that hybrid learning delivers is exciting, the system is complicated and not without flaws. Now a month into the new system, students have passed the initial shock and have...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting states differently, the stay-at-home orders mandated by individual state governors are enacted on a state-by- state basis. These differing responses, closures,...
In the wake of national unrest about race relations on college campuses, discussions of the subject have naturally permeated into high schools, too. Uncomfortable, necessary conversations have graced our...
Posted up in the new English wing lounge, a group of ninth graders, merely ankle-deep in the maelstrom of high school, illustrates the heaviness of a Blake student’s course load; there is evidence of...
You finish the final page of The Things They Carried, put it aside, open up your laptop, and begin reading again. But this time, it’s for chemistry on your digital textbook. With such rapid technological...
