College Map
College Map
Initially meant to be released in our March print issue, this project is a compilation of responses from North alumni that now attend colleges and universities across the country. Given […]
Chadwick Boseman: Storyteller, trailblazer, man of purpose
Nona Saharan Managing Editor Edward Simon Cruz News Editor Taylor Alphonso Staff Writer If Chadwick Boseman were still alive, he would have been able to relish his status as one […]
New WW-P Hire Anthony Jones Working Towards Equity and Inclusion
Nona Saharan Managing Editor Edward Simon Cruz News Editor Taylor Alphonso Staff Writer For much of his career, Mr. Anthony Jones, WW-P’s new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Coordinator, has focused […]
The Untold Stories of Black History
Nona Saharan Managing Editor Edward Simon Cruz News Editor Taylor Alphonso Staff Writer When Carter G. Woodson first proposed the idea of “Negro History Week” in 1926, the precursor to […]
Reflection on the Georgia Shootings
Hate crimes against Asian-Americans have continued to surge as the community has become increasingly targeted due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Most recently on March 17, was the brutal murder of eight women at three different Atlanta-area massage parlors. Six out of eight victims were Asian women, whose lives were taken away at the hands of a white gunman named Aaron Long.
Takeout Isolation: The Story of How I Made Socially Distancing Myself from Fast Food a Lifestyle
By: Ria Prasad Staff Writer Simply put, it was an unhealthy obsession- literally. I was eating out three times a week, and that too predominantly fast food meals. Marking periods […]
Swimming During the Pandemic
By: Natalie Leung Staff Writer As everything familiar around me began to shut down early March of this year, I was excited to finally have a break from the rigorous training schedule I had endured for the past six months of the winter swim season. Although, as the unexpected months of quarantine slowly trudged on, I felt a desire to […]
Running a half marathon during Covid
By: Aaditya Saharan Staff Writer In 2019, if you were to ask me if I wanted to do another half marathon next year, my answer would 100% be a yes. With all the excitement, anxiety, and a big audience, completing the Princeton half marathon was one of the most rewarding things that I’ve ever done in my life. Now, amid […]
What does COVID mean for the SATs?
By Zohra Ahsan Staff Writer For years, colleges and universities have been using the SATs to test high school students on their range of educational ability. With the current pandemic, the education system has shifted dramatically, with schools all over the country closing, reopening, and trying to find effective ways to keep their students learning, while still maintaining health procedures. […]
College Board eliminates subject tests in efforts to address changing student needs
By Nona Saharan Managing Editor On Tuesday, January 19, the College Board announced the discontinuation of both its optional SAT essay and its SAT subject tests. The board also revealed […]
Mosul: 101 minutes of greatness
Josh Chait Editor-in-Chief Imagine a typical action movie. Now picture that movie set in ISIS-controlled Iraq, a brutal war enduring between the terrorist organization and a small band of Iraqi […]
A Review on Sumi-Ramen
Anusha Bapat Opinion Editor Dhriti Goudar Feature Editor About thirteen minutes away for West Windsor residents and five minutes away for Plainsboro residents resides a new Japanese restaurant, Sumi Ramen. […]
The Highs and Lows of the Fantasy Football Season
By: Ismail Sy Sports Editor Pictured: Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens Quarterback. Credit: AP This fantasy football season has been interesting to say the least. There have been a lot of injuries to top fantasy players such as Saquon Barkley, Joe Mixon, Christian McCaffrey, and Austin Ekeler. There have also been plenty of surprises, such as Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, who […]
The first episode of Attack on Titan’s final season blows up more than just the Internet
By Tanika Mally Arts & Review Editor On December 6th, Attack on Titan: The Final Season’s first episode was released, effectively breaking the internet in the process. The final season […]
The Show Must Go On: How the Thespian Society is Handling COVID-19
By Taylor Alphonso Staff Writer COVID-19 has had a negative effect on all of us, as our entire lives are now almost completely online. But one area that has truly […]
High School North’s Model United Nations During the Pandemic
Zohra Ahsan Staff Writer Model United Nations (MUN), one of North’s most established and prominent clubs, consists of over 70 kids who are passionate about public speaking, international relations, and […]
North’s SAASA Club Trades the Stage and Spotlight for Zoom Calls and Bluelight
By Ria Prasad Staff Writer The South Asian American Student Association, more commonly known as SAASA, is one of High School North’s most populous clubs. Every Memorial Day weekend, 300 students from all different ethnicities come together to put on performances showcasing a year’s worth of effort and practice. For the safety of the staff and students involved, however, the […]
Uptick in Covid cases poses question: What does this mean for the rest of 2021?
Anusha Bapat Opinion Editor Ria Prasad Staff Writer After flattening the curve significantly towards the end of the summer, New Jersey is once again witnessing a drastic uptick in the number of COVID-19 cases with about 5,032 new positive ones each day. Cases in New Jersey have been fluctuating since March 13th, but over the months we saw a steady […]
Portrait of An Artist: Inside the Brain of North’s Stella Li
By Tanika Mally Arts & Review Editor Senior Stella Li grew up with art as a constant presence throughout her life. Her relationship with it initially began as a “monkey-see-monkey-do” […]
Why a time of division means putting others first this second lockdown
By Natalie Leung Staff Writer It is evident that we are in the midst of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the U.S. daily cases have topped over 221,000, the second highest number since the pandemic began. Although the initial lockdown was successful in flattening the curve, that effect did not last […]
WW-P Offers Free Meals For All Students in the District
By Anusha Bapat Opinion Editor Kids are at home 24/7. This time it’s no longer a saying to describe our device-dependent generation but is also now our harsh reality. I, as a student, can definitely relate to this, considering I’m confined in my room for almost the entire day. Now more than ever, students rely on their parents for meals […]
The Formation and Success of the Premier Lacrosse League
By Jack Carter Staff Writer In a sport that has become seen as one for the elite, upper-class, the Premier Lacrosse League has reversed the narrative and created an innovative, […]
SATIRE: Preparing for the series finale (or not) of Trump’s real-life reality show
By Edward Simon Cruz News Editor Television shows have always depicted heightened versions of real life. But when the television show became real life, the concepts of fiction and reality […]
The End of a New Beginning: Trailblazer Political Comedy Show Patriot Act Announces Cancellation
By Ria Prasad Staff Writer August 18th, 2020 marked the end of an era. As Patriot Act host Hasan Minhaj announced the cancellation of his Netflix comedy series, fans all […]
7 Remarkable NBA Facts You Didn’t Know
By: Aadi Saharan Staff Writer As a basketball fan, I think I speak for everyone when I say that we love to learn more about the NBA and its players. […]
Among Us: The Game That Saved Quarantine
By Aaditya Saharan Staff Writer Covid-19 has prompted a heavy reliance on technology — for both work and entertainment. During this time, the value of gaming has risen drastically, with […]
Sports starting during the pandemic
By: Kieran Sattiraju Assistant News Editor I still remember the day the world stopped. The sports seasons came to a screeching halt, and the pillars of our society seemed to collapse. The world was shocked to witness the cancellation of the NBA season, March Madness, and suspension of the 2020 MLB season. I remember the months leading up to the […]
Advocating for racial equality: HSN’s Shades Club during the pandemic
Jack Carter Staff Writer One of High School North’s newest and most socially impactful groups is the HSN Shades Club. The group was founded this past spring, as ongoing protests about police brutality and calls for racial equality saw a major uptick in media coverage with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. As a branch of the Black […]
Bob Woodward: A hero or a villain?
By: Anusha Bapat Opinion Editor Natalie Leung Staff Writer Associate editor of the Washington Post, investigative journalist, and a writer of thirteen top-selling novels: does this description sound familiar? Let’s rephrase it a little. Bob Woodward, the same journalist of the Washington Post who broke Watergate, released tapes exposing Donald J. Trump’s admission of knowledge regarding the severity of the […]
Small Step Loans Launches Mid-Covid
Natalie Leung Staff Writer For all interested in combining finance and community service, Small Step Loans, a new club in West Windsor-Plainsboro launched this past August, is a perfect opportunity to get involved in giving back to those struggling around the world. Small Step Loans is a student-led organization that involves microfinancing, a form of banking service provided to unemployed […]
A Deep Dive Into North’s Gay-Straight Alliance: Quarantine Edition
Aaditya Saharan Staff Writer COVID-19 has drastically impacted the way that High School North is conducting school this year. Students log on to Zoom from their computers every day. In-school teachers are greeted with near-empty classrooms every morning. And club officers have struggled to keep their groups active from their houses. Indeed, the pandemic has impacted the operation of the […]
The Art of Mask Buying During The Pandemic
By: Anusha Bapat Op-ed Editor The girl clothed in a graphic tee styled with her perfect set of baggy, black cargo pants stands patiently near the stop sign. She’s wearing a mask screaming “VOTE” in big, bold, cream white letters extending all the way from the top of the mask to the bottom of it. Her confident pose, her expression, […]
Sweet Sixteens During Bitter Times
By: Tanika Mally Arts & Review Editor Just last year if you were to ask me how I would celebrate my sweet sixteen, I probably would have responded by describing the typically lavish or extravagant celebration, most likely a large party with lots of people in attendance. Now, in the midst of a pandemic and after a highly tense and […]
College applications in the pandemic
By: Josh Chait Editor-in-Chief It is completely safe to say that my expectations about applying to college were shattered by the pandemic. I never expected, when I first began my Junior year of high school, that I would be unable to visit any college campuses. I never expected that the closest I would get to meeting a college representative would […]
3 Questions as we Head into the NBA Offseason
Ismail Sy Sports Editor The NBA offseason has begun! With the draft concluding on Wednesday night, the offseason fun can now begin. This is a shorter offseason compared to years past, due to the late end to the NBA season that was affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. That does not mean that there will not be some big moves […]
Alex Trebek: Sage, fighter, inspiration
By: Edward Simon Cruz News Editor I’ve never met Alex Trebek, but after all those years seeing him on my TV, the news of his death struck me as if […]
MLB Award Races
By: Jack Carter Staff Writer As the MLB season winds down and the playoffs are quickly getting underway, teams are gearing up either for an intense and highly contested postseason or entering a time of deep reflection, wondering what exactly went wrong. While this period in baseball can look drastically different for each team, there’s one thing teams on either […]
The Boys: Where Evil Superheroes Make Good Television
By: Josh Chait Editor-in-Chief With the raging success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the burgeoning prominence of the DC Comics films, superheroes have become an enormous yet predictable aspect […]
Knights of the Round Table: Redefining Homecoming
Homecoming Court 2020-2021 (left to right, top to bottom) Parinita Nautiyal, Makenna Katz, Ishaan Pandya, Caleb Birnbaum, Caroline Corriveau, Micheal Wu, Rishad Hasan, Sonia Balakrishnan, Anastasia Elfar, Max Lasky, William Dory, Olivia Solis, Asquith Clarke II, Nana Acheampong, Sophie Pirrera Each year, homecoming week culminates with the crowning of a king and queen. However this tradition has become outmoded and […]
From Bed to Desk: A Day in the Life of a Virtual Student
By Imogen Lubin Editor-in-Chief I didn’t expect to like virtual school as much as I do. In fact, I struggled with choosing my 2020 learning model. I feared online school […]
No More Mid-Day Pancakes: A Day in the Life of a Hybrid Student
By Natalie Leung Staff Writer No More Mid-Day Pancakes At exactly 6:30 a.m., I hear the excruciating sound of my alarm clock, signaling the ever so dreaded time of the day; when I have to get ready for school. Something about it is still quite unsettling, as it’s been almost half a year since I’ve done so. Nevertheless, the morning […]
How Undecided Voters Can Learn From Gen Z
By: Ria Prasad As November 3rd approaches, undecided voters are left with a few days to make their choice. In a “normal” election year the stakes would not be as high as a global pandemic, the replacement of a Supreme Court justice, and ending institutional systemic racism, among other pressing issues. In a “normal” election year, the static demographic of […]
Examining the Narrative of Race Education in WW-P
Nona Saharan Managing Editor Edward Simon Cruz News Editor Taylor Alphonso Staff Writer “In middle school, Team 7D had a debate about whether racism was still alive in America. The […]
