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The student news site of Adlai E. Stevenson High School

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The student news site of Adlai E. Stevenson High School

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The Hidden Cost of Success

The Hidden Cost of Success

Statesman Staff | March 19, 2025

It’s 2:28 a.m. on a Thursday, and the glow of a laptop screen illuminates the stack of crumpled note sheets and half-drunk Celsius cans on your bedside table. You stare blankly at your AP Biology textbook,...

Watered-Down

Watered-Down

Himang Sharma, Staff Reporter | March 11, 2025

Imagine breaking your leg and having someone say, “Oh, I totally get it, I stubbed my toe once.” Or even worse, telling you not to go to the hospital because it is “quirky” or “not that serious.”...

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Trump tariffs: tariff war or fair trade?

Sid Singh, Staff Reporter | March 11, 2025

If you look up the term ‘tariffs’ on Google Trends, a website which shows when and how many times a term has been searched up on Google, you will see there has been a recent spike in Google searches...

Keep On Cruising

Keep On Cruising

Jenny Liang, Staff Reporter | March 10, 2025

You sit at your desk and stare at the notebook in front of you while glaring at your laptop screen. With a sharpened pencil in hand, you spend hours and hours working until the corner of your computer...

Mental Health in the Media

Jenny Liang, Staff Reporter | March 6, 2025

Editor’s Note: The following column contains references to self-harm.  Your favorite television show is dramatized. Shocker! It includes flying dragons, intelligent zombies, and little girls named...

2025’s One True Oscar Ballot

Brayden Caldwell, Opinions Editor | March 1, 2025

On Sunday, March 2nd, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will once again broadcast the Oscars, and, like every other year, the Academy is once again embroiled in controversy. There have been...

The Perfect Prom Dress

The Perfect Prom Dress

Allyson Duan, Business Manager | February 7, 2025

Prom is one of the most anticipated and unforgettable events of high school, the last dance for seniors. An exciting—yet sometimes stressful— part of prom is finding the perfect dress. From costs to...

Goal setting culture

Goal setting culture

Statesman Staff | February 7, 2025

As the final week of the year approaches, many people start preparing for New Year's Eve by making plans with friends and deciding what they’ll wear when the clock strikes midnight. Others prefer to...

Obsession of Olympiads

Obsession of Olympiads

Timothy Bui, Editor-in-Chief | February 3, 2025

Opening a link from the Math Team sponsor, I scrolled down the 20-page Honor Roll list for the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 8, a list containing hundreds of names of middle school students...

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...

Official art for "Squid Game 2"

Squid Game Season 2 Review

Allyson Duan, Business Manager | January 27, 2025

From breaking records to capturing global attention, season 1 of the Netflix original series Squid Game captivated audiences worldwide with its intense and unique storyline. Reaching 68 million views in...

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...

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