It seems as if almost everything now requires at least some level of financial cost, most of it being our own school clubs. Clubs fill a weird but necessary role for the average DV student: the majority...

Dear reader, I have to be honest — this doesn’t really feel like the end. For months now, I’ve been building up the idea of the end of senior year in my head. An emotional culmination of four...

I used AI to write this article. That’s a lie, of course – a hook, as the English teachers would say – but how would you teachers prove me wrong? Would you copy-paste the article into GPTZero...

With graduation season and college commitments in full swing, pages for incoming college freshmen are becoming a frequent sight on social media. These class accounts are often found on Instagram as @NameOfCollegeClassOf2030....

A caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. A bud transforms into a flower. A baby transforms into an adult. But, how many of them actually thrive once they reach that stage? Butterflies get stomped, flowers...

Now that I am so close to adulthood, I think I’ve experienced the full range of parenting styles. My own parents have changed the way they approached raising my sisters and me about a million times,...

Community college is a joke. Or at least that is what many people want you to believe it is. It is perpetuated as a place where all the “rejects” go who couldn't get into their dream colleges, a place...

Dear Reader, As spring begins and the college application process comes to a close, I suddenly find myself in the same shoes that so many seniors before me have stood in: not knowing at all what my...

Dougherty’s existing tardy policy is stricter than it needs to be, and it’s not as effective as it’s supposed to be. Currently, students get detention after 10 tardies for the entire school year...

Neurons that fire together, wire together. Every single time we engage ourselves in negative thinking, our brains strengthen the neural pathways associated with those thoughts. The more we think negatively,...

Protests, by definition, are meant to create tension, disrupt and push against systems of authority and the government. They are created to challenge people in power, draw attention to injustice and make...