This fall, the orange spray paint that read “Jews Not Welcome” on Whitman’s school sign might be long gone, but the hate that first wrote it won’t be. Jewish people have endured over two millennia...

At 7:30 a.m., I make my way into Whitman, waving goodbye to my mom as she pulls out of the carpool lane. My routine every day is the same. I greet my friends, go over last-minute preparations for whatever...

In 2021, Whitman became the first school in the county to introduce a series of interwoven social justice courses, including LGBTQ+ Studies and African-American Studies, Introduction to Social Justice,...

We’ve all seen it — students lingering in bathroom stalls during class, the smells of cheap artificial flavoring and nicotine filling the air. Since the early 2000s, when the “safe” alternative...

Video games have been around since the early ’70s when classic games like Pong and Pac-Man dominated the market. 50 years later, technological advancements in storytelling, gameplay and graphics have...

After finishing my homework and zipping up my backpack, I run to the kitchen, grab my favorite game day snack —chips and a glass of iced tea — and queue up for the Dallas Cowboys game. For years, lounging...

As the Friday night lights beam onto the football field, the routine to aid the football players begins: filling water bottles, carrying equipment and creating graphics for social media. Hype music blares...

As my annual team banquet draws near, my pre-celebration preparation process begins: blowing out my hair, applying makeup and finally, putting on the dress. As I slip into the bright blue fabric, I ask...

After four enthralling seasons, fans can now say farewell to the fictional Roy family from the award-winning satirical drama “Succession.” Since the show’s initial release in 2018, viewers became...

It’s not surprising that in the past decade, streaming services have dominated the music industry. From Spotify to Soundcloud, music is more available now than ever before. Unfortunately, that hasn’t...

Arriving five years after 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Sony’s newest animated Spider-Man film “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” swings onto screens with the same confidence...

At 11 years old, I sat at my synagogue’s annual Rosh Hashanah service, my eyes floating through the room, focused on anything but the bema. My feet swung impatiently beneath me as my fingers traced the...