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The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

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The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White

Junior Lucia Kaiser

May 23, 2020

Junior Lucia Kaiser is in her first year of photography at Whitman, but she has been taking pictures all her life. Kaiser’s favorite time to shoot is when she is traveling — she always brings a camera...

Sophomore Andrea Michel

May 23, 2020

Sophomore Andrea Michel doesn’t have a specific style of photography but loves taking pictures of people on the street. With photography, Michel said she is able to capture unique moments of everyday...

Senior Max Freedman

May 23, 2020

For senior Max Freedman’s AP Digital Art concentration, he wants to focus on the surreal aspects of nature, specifically enunciating colors and details in nature that you don’t always see, he said. A...

Senior Sophia Kotschoubey

May 23, 2020

Senior Sophia Kotschoubey has been involved with art since she was young, exploring painting, drawing, sculpting and recently, making collages. Kotschoubey usually starts a collage by finding a picture...

Senior Georgie Hammond

May 23, 2020

Senior Georgie Hammond enrolled in ceramics her freshman year just to get her art credit, but she ended up really enjoying the class. Her ceramics teacher, Wendy Kleiner, recommended Hammond continue taking...

Physical changes

May 12, 2020

There’s a lot that people don’t tell you about getting pregnant. It makes sense, considering there’s hardly any conversation around teen pregnancy in Bethesda at all. Even after my pregnancy, I still...

Keeping things hidden

May 12, 2020

I think the most difficult decision I had to make in all of this was hiding it from my mother. She doesn’t believe in abortions. My family has already been through a lot because of me, and I couldn’t...

The beginning process

May 12, 2020

My decision was immediate. I knew that I needed to get an abortion. It wasn’t a difficult decision at first. As the decision stewed and the date I had scheduled the abortion became closer, I began to...

Ectopic pregnancies

May 12, 2020

At first, I thought that this meant that I wasn’t pregnant. Who wouldn’t think that? I mean, there was no baby. Meaning no pregnancy, right? Well, that wasn’t the case. They brought in a trained...

Making a decision

May 12, 2020

You have to carefully decide between a medical abortion and a surgical abortion. A surgical would only take about 10 minutes for the actual procedure, but they legally need to keep you in the medical center...

After the abortion

May 12, 2020

I’ve gone through a lot of things this year that were beyond my control. Losing my virginity wasn’t my choice, but losing my child was. It’s a decision that I’m going to carry for the rest of my...

Dear Casey

May 12, 2020

  Unconditional love didn't exist in my mind until Monday because I had never felt that kind of love. It's a love that is full, a love that feels like it's enough to fill entire galaxies. The...

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