Story by Morgan Sun
Feature Editor
Illustration by Sunny (Sunhye) Choi
Staff Illustrator
The premature sexualization of tween girls
The hypersexualization of young girls online is the death of the tween era.
Problems with Paralympic press and pigeonholing profiles
The Paralympics, a paragon of equity and inclusivity, have a glaring disparity within its perimeter.
SPUSD misses opportunity with historic arts education bill, but there is still time to make it right
Prop 28 funds must supplement, not supplant.
Am I the walking dead?
A personal memoir about death and its pitfalls and privileges.
The perils of performative marginality
A commitment must be made to understanding and addressing systemic inequalities; not just when it is convenient or beneficial for individual advancement, but as a genuine effort with no terms and conditions.
Best of the worst: Nikki Haley gains “success”
Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley now takes the stand against Trump in the ongoing Republican primaries.
Oscillating between two worlds and two families
Story by Clementine Evans
Writers Guild of America: End the Strike
A union of writers went on strike on May 2. However, striking might not be their best option.
A look back at the healing power of June
Despite racking up criticism, symbols of intersectionality still allude to a better world.
Misogyny that manipulated witch hunts still persists today
Story by Clementine Evans Staff Writer Illustration by Isole Kim Staff Illustrator Women have been viewed as the subservient gender for centuries as a result of theurgic, religious, and patriarchal stereotypes. The fear and paranoia from the misogynistic society of the 15th–17th centuries drove the witch hunts, which ultimately led to a woman versus woman […]
Letters of recommendation: The Hunger Games of college admissions
Story by Jayden Tran Staff Writer Illustration by Ellie Nakamura Graphic Designer Required by a majority of prestigious universities during the application process, letters of recommendation have risen to prominence in the holistic evaluation of students. Teacher testimonials have proliferated in the overall application with studies showing that emotional quotient has become as significant for college acceptances […]
The U.S. must change it’s approach to minimum wage
Story by Benjamin Regan Contributor Illustration by Martin Walsh Illustrator Since the introduction of a federal minimum wage in 1938 through the Fair Labor Standard Act, a time when businesses would exploit their workers with less than $1 (in today’s dollars) hourly wages, politicians have quarreled over what the appropriate minimum wage should be. The graph of […]
Letter to the editor: SPUSD’s unflinching refusal to address racial disparity in summer school
Story by John Srebalus Contributor Illustration by Ethan Lyons Illustrator The South Pasadena Unified School District is hiding from an inconvenient truth: There is structural racism in the South Pasadena Educational Foundation’s summer school program with which the District contracts. As far as I can tell, the two organizations are just fine with this fact. They’re not […]
An exploration of Yubo culture
Story by Amber Chen Online managing editor Illustration by Martin Walsh Illustrator Yubo, a social networking application, markets itself as “a space where anyone can belong,” that it’s their “mission to socially inspire and enable a new generation to find out about the world and themselves.” On its website are a plethora of other generic indicators […]
The Ukraine Problem
Story by Michael Mayemura Staff Writer Illustration by Martin Walsh Staff Illustrator From the dawn of the Cold War into the modern era, Russia and the U.S. have been entrenched in a perpetual arms race to outperform and contain the other. In turn, countless American media outlets have painted Russia as a threat to democracy and the […]