Dear Reader, Every year, Editors-in-Chief are offered the opportunity to have their own column to write about “something.” This year, my co-Editor-in-Chief, Armaan Rashid, is likely going to write...

Dear Reader, Your F.O.M.O. is justified. “Experts” might have you believe that your Fear of Missing Out, also known as “the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling … that your peers are...

Nationwide, over 100 cities and counties have adopted a policy commonly referred to as “ban the box”—preventing employers from tossing applicants solely based on a criminal past. Momentum for this...

When I was in the fifth grade, I read an absurd book called “The Kid Who Ran For President”. It was about a young, charismatic boy named Judson Mood who took on the political establishment — the...

“Weird time in my life,” observed a classmate through an Instagram caption. Couldn’t agree more. This overbearingly simplistic, casual statement strikes me as the epitome of the teenage existence....

Human natural selection: what it’s like to be held back by your own neurochemistry Natural selection. Darwin’s theory of evolution. When learning of these phenomena in Biology class, we envision cheetahs...

In middle school, I often wondered why many teachers required me to take handwritten notes while other students received printed notes. I complained about the extra time it took to produce handwritten...

I was told that DV doesn’t recycle in my first week here. After jokingly berating a friend for chucking a stack of papers into the trash, she laughed, then gave me kind of a weird look, like she was...

I was a freshman at the time, probably only five feet tall, shrinking under the weight of my thousand-pound backpack, and I was — and still am — very fearful of confrontations with teachers. But...

If you’re a senior who’s still powering through the last stretch of the school year with grades at a record high and your brain burning with the fire of intellect and the hunger for knowledge, then...

During the 2015-2016 school year, a new homework policy was implemented, limiting the amount of homework students could be given on school nights, weekends and breaks. Weighted classes, however, were excepted...