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Statesman

The student news site of Adlai E. Stevenson High School

Statesman

The student news site of Adlai E. Stevenson High School

Statesman

Senior Slowdown

Senior Slowdown

Saanvi Adusumalli and Sona Surya | February 3, 2025

Isabelle Li ’25 comes home after a long day at school, her backpack thudding as she places it down and flops on the couch scrolling through college commitment posts. She knows she has homework and extracurricular...

S-Factor Takes the Stage

Oliver Arora and Hannah Diab | February 3, 2025

Taking place on Friday Jan. 31 from 6-9 p.m., 16 students competed in S-Factor, an annual singing competition run by Stevenson’s KIVA Club. S-Factor is a school event loosely based on the reality television...

The Legitimacy of High School Research

The Legitimacy of High School Research

Timothy Bui, Editor-in-Chief | January 27, 2025

Four years ago, overhearing your sister musing about a distinguished student who participated in research and got admitted to numerous colleges, you marvel at the idea of research, regarding it as a highly...

Trump’s 2nd Inauguration

Trump’s 2nd Inauguration

Saatvik Kailash and Rajan Sukhatme | January 27, 2025

On January 20, 2025, 47th President Donald Trump was sworn in to serve his second term inside the Capitol Rotunda. Within the first day of his presidency, he signed over 25 executive orders, including...

Aidan Bardic '25 stands next to the varsity Boys Basketball team for a picture. Bardic hit the historic 1000-point milestone, only the 7th boys player in Stevenson's history to do so.

Bardic Hits Historic Milestone in Rivalry Game

Ansh Aggarwal and Harikesh Prasad | January 27, 2025

Legacy is often told by the winners. Standing at the free throw line, in the middle of the third quarter, Aiden Bardic ’25 bounces the ball once, before flicking his wrist and letting the ball go...

Consortium Kicks Off 2025

Oliver Arora and Hannah Diab | January 23, 2025

  Stevenson’s high school music students collaborated with their feeder middle school counterparts to perform their annual Consortium concerts the week of January 13. Three concerts took place...

Stevenson SAGA Dance 2025 at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire IL, United States of America on January 17, Jan 2025

SAGA Dance

Saatvik Kailash and Rajan Sukhatme | January 22, 2025

The Sexuality and Gender Alliance Club (SAGA) hosted its annual dance on Friday, January 17. Members of SAGA’s executive board and sponsor Jane Caballero worked collaboratively with other schools to...

The Girls Stevenson varsity bowling team celebrates with each other following a strike. The team made sure to keep a high morale throughout the match, encouraging each other after every bowl.

Stevenson Girls Bowling Competes Against Vernon Hills

Eleanor McInnis and Alexander Xie | January 17, 2025

On Tuesday,  Jan. 14, the Stevenson girls’ bowling team attended a tournament and lost against Vernon Hills with a final pinfall of 2,078 to 2,595. Despite their loss, the Patriots kept their spirits...

Technology Teaching Teachers

Technology Teaching Teachers

Netra Wuppalapati, Staff Reporter | January 4, 2025

Looking at your teacher’s guided notes sheets, you see an awfully familiar font and style of writing that isn’t your teacher’s normal font choice. You think long and hard about where you have seen...

Danger in the Rise of Echo Chambers

Danger in the Rise of Echo Chambers

Veronica Jia and Priya Thakkar | December 29, 2024

As Ellen Meng ’26 opens TikTok after hours of Zoom classes, she scrolls through video after video of the trending opinion of the government’s incompetence in handling the pandemic. As her fingers continue...

Fantasy Madness

Fantasy Madness

Harikesh Prasad and Sanjar Salomov | December 27, 2024

Throwing his phone down with the ESPN Fantasy app open, Liam Zakrzewski ’27 leaps off of the sofa, narrowly escaping a weekly punishment—a milk mile—after beating his friend in the close matchup....

Technology and Art

Technology and Art

Devika Pillai, Staff Reporter | December 22, 2024

Once, during a photo contest when only AI-generated photos were allowed to be submitted, a man named Miles Astray submitted his photo of a flamingo with seemingly no head and claimed it as AI-generated...

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