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The Wildcat Tribune

The official student news site of Dougherty Valley High School.

The Wildcat Tribune

The official student news site of Dougherty Valley High School.

The Wildcat Tribune

Plastic straw bans need to bend

Plastic straw bans need to bend

Sheyda Ladjevardi, Photography Editor September 27, 2018

With the rise of plastic pollution in the Earth’s atmosphere and water sources, environmentalists are taking steps to ban plastic straws within major cities in the United States.  While banning plastic...

Destigmatizing DV mental illness

Riya Bindlish, Features Editor May 15, 2018

The hallways look a lot different now — at least to me. I see something that I didn’t see before. It prowls around, consuming us, slowly, and attacking us at our weakest moments. Yes, there’s...

Ask Amanda: Crushes, college & confusion

Amanda Su, Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2018

Everyone, Thanks to everyone who submitted questions this issue! Since April is the month right before college decisions, prom and graduation, it’s understandable that everyone is going through...

You’re missing out on the deal

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2018

Dear Reader, All this talk of a “polarized” and “divided” nation is misleading: if all politics is just a negotiation of sympathies, and it is, we’re only divided because this is the first...

Why we no longer empathize with the news

Sraavya Sambara, Editor-in-Chief May 11, 2018

We watch, we purse our lips. And apart from the occasional eyebrow raise and sympathetic look, we don’t move. We scroll past, and the moment is lost in an avalanche of information it is up to us to filter...

Viewpoint: School dances breed coercion

Miguel Dickenson, Assistant Opinions and Sports Editor March 30, 2018

Prom is just around the corner, and pretty soon prom asks will begin to inundate your Instagram feed. Generally, school dances such as prom allow wishful (and very hormonal), teenagers to go on a “date”...

You’re missing out on the liberal bias

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief March 8, 2018

Dear Reader, Reality has a stupidity bias. To be perfectly clear, bias is the enemy of objectivity, objectivity is truth and truth is good journalism. So here we sit in the midst of failure, all...

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