Zero waste living and America’s overconsumption problem
Eileen Lincoln, Staff Writer
January 14, 2020
Each year, the average American creates around one million pounds of trash; the equivalent of filling over 63,000 garbage trucks everyday. Unfortunately, all of this waste can not just disappear either, and usually gets sent to one of the 1,908 landfills throughout the United States. While it is diff...
Your Personality Might Determine Your Academic Success
Sameeha Khan, Staff Writer
January 14, 2020
Personality often determines learning style, and with a diversity of personality, it is almost impossible to formulate a curriculum that fits every student, and every personality. The current education system today, however, is very similar to that of the education system in the 1900s. In the U.S, schoo...
Animal Cruelty in the Beauty Industry
Eileen Lincoln, Staff Writer
December 13, 2019
A few years ago, one of the most popular beauty brands in the world was exposed in a scandal for the mislabelling of their cosmetics: Loreal Paris marketed themselves as a 100% vegan, cruelty-free brand despite manufacturing products in China, where animal testing is required. However, while the brand receiv...
The Effect of Fast Fashion on Human Rights and the Environment
Eileen Lincoln, Staff Writer
October 31, 2019
Imagine walking into a mall on Black Friday. Hundreds are crowding the entrances of stores, trying to get ahold of the numerous deals and sales. Some of the most popular clothing brands in the world: H&M, Forever 21, Zara - have over 30% off discounts. While thousands try on and purchase man...
What’s with the Stuffed Animals?
Zoe Siamon, Staff Writer
September 16, 2019
Why do so many students suddenly have stuffed animals? Why are they covered in little pieces of tape? Is it for a class? If you are a student at Oakton, it is likely that you’ve found yourself asking one of these questions this past week. As it turns out, the explanation is fairly simple. Anatomy ...
Colleges Reforming the System
Payton Wozny, Editorial Board
September 15, 2019
As the college application process grows increasingly more important and stressful for juniors and seniors, many students are stressing over SAT or ACT scores. In the United States, standardized testing plays a major role in determining students' capabilities and an even bigger role in determin...
Screens Before Sleep
Caroline Kearns
June 9, 2019
With all of the time I spend being on my phone, I was completely unaware of the affects it has on my overall health and happiness. Recent studies are showing a dangerous continuing trend of insufficient sleep across children and young adults- the culprit? Screens. According to data from the American Acade...
What does movie violence portray to today’s youth?
Thu Pham
June 5, 2019
For someone who grew up in Vietnam, I basically was raised with the notion that violent movies are ruinous to your mental health and will make you a bad person. And growing up, I believed that. At face value, it makes sense that there should be a correlation between indulging inappropriate films and turning...
The Truth Behind Genetic Modification
Tal Saadia
June 5, 2019
Humans have been altering foods to their liking ever since the Prehistoric Era. Crops have been cross-bred with other plant species to create a more desirable product to satisfy ever-evolving tastes and desires. The culture of alteration changed forever when scientists Cohen and Boyer were the first ...
This is the sixth extinction
Wendy Gao, Editorial Board
May 12, 2019
This past Monday, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released their global assessment on the current ecological state. In their report, the committee of scientists revealed the obvious - humans are, indeed, killing the Earth. Their stateme...
Is Stress Stressing You Out?
Payton Wozny, Editorial Board
May 12, 2019
Many people are constantly looking for ways to manage their stress. Although stress affects us in many obvious ways, like causing procrastination, it actually has major effects on our physical health, so it’s critical to avoid stressors and manage unavoidable ones. With finals season swinging into ful...
How too much screen time affects your health
Aubrey Harrell, Editorial Board
May 6, 2019
There are warnings everywhere about the dangers of technology. Starting in elementary school it’s preached to us through guidance counselors health classes that technology can be a dangerous tool used to bully and a field day for suspicious strangers to deceive impressional youths, but perhaps less discus...
