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How to: Speak Up for Yourself

If each year’s new additions to the Merriam-Webster dictionary — such as “pumpkin spice” and “oat milk” –  tell us...
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How to: Speak Up for Yourself
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How to: Embrace your Identity

A person’s “identity” is a blend of many factors – some factors that are a matter of chance or choice...
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How to: Embrace your Identity
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How to: Avoid Car Accidents

The excitement of receiving a license and being granted the ability to now drive yourself anywhere is hard to beat....
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How to: Avoid Car Accidents
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How to: Shop Responsibly

Finding your own style while trying to be environmentally friendly can be frustrating. With the rise of fast fashion and...
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How to: Shop Responsibly
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How to: Find Good Music

Although music is considered to be a “universal language,” the most universal aspect of music is that it has no...
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How to: Find Good Music
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How to: Relax without Screens

Instead of turning to their phones as a way to de-stress, creative hobbies – even simple ones – can provide...
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How to: Relax without Screens
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How to: Be Happy

Happiness is defined by the Webster dictionary as “a state of well-being and contentment.” In truth, happiness comes in different...
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How to: Be Happy
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How to: Entertain Children

If you're here from the QR code on the physical release, scroll down! The loud, ear-piercing tears of a snot-nosed...
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How to: Entertain Children
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Girls battle the GIANTS tonight

The Maine West Warriors girl's varsity basketball team will be hosting Highland Park on Dec. 2, matching up against the...
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Girls battle the GIANTS tonight
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Watch your Step Towards Recruitment

The publication of bad decisions deeply affects college bound athletes. When you cannot see the people watching you do something,...
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Watch your Step Towards Recruitment
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Insurrection in the Making
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Insurrection in the Making

     A pandemic, a summer of racial reckoning and violence, an economic recession, and the fiercest election year in...
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The Effect of Covid-19 on Movie Theaters
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The Effect of Covid-19 on Movie Theaters

     The movie industry is one of the many fields that has been deeply affected by the COVID-19 virus....
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Fall Festivities: Social Distanced
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Fall Festivities: Social Distanced

     Every teenager in the world has had an itch to enjoy the company of someone other than those...
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From Online to In-Person
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From Online to In-Person

     Although the state of Illinois has averaged almost 10,000 new COVID-19 cases a day for the past three...
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Dear Maine West Teachers… A Letter of Thanks
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Dear Maine West Teachers… A Letter of Thanks

  Dear Maine West Teachers,   It isn't often that we students stop and look beyond our own worlds. We...
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A New Generation of Superheroes
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A New Generation of Superheroes

     The past two decades have been unquestionably erratic. The world has seen an increase in destructive natural disasters,...
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A Season Like No Other
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A Season Like No Other

     Big Ten football has made its comeback! Seven games kicked off the 2020 college football season at the...
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Getting past the obstacles
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Getting past the obstacles

     Many of us vividly remember March 13, 2020 as the day when everything fell apart. As people started...
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Hybrid gives students a newfound sense of flexibility
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Hybrid gives students a newfound sense of flexibility

     When students departed school on March 13, they didn’t anticipate that in-person classes wouldn’t resume school-wide until Nov....
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Health and Well-Being Improvements
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Health and Well-Being Improvements

  Written by Monisa Yusra and Lena Perry
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A Zoom Call a Day Does Not Keep the Procrastination Away
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A Zoom Call a Day Does Not Keep the Procrastination Away

     Picture this: you’re sitting in a Zoom meeting for your math class at 9:40 a.m. as your teacher...
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What the Frack?
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What the Frack?

     Fracking: a term heard in economics, environmentalism, and now on the debate stage of the 2020 election. Also...
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Hate crime and one town’s healing takes center stage in this weekend’s fall play
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Hate crime and one town’s healing takes center stage in this weekend’s fall play

     Following the reaction of the town of Laramie, Wyoming, after the murder of university student Matthew Shephard, Maine...
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Fashion Fever
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Fashion Fever

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Girls golf dominates conference
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Girls golf dominates conference

     With seniors Katie Benziger and Jane Rothweiler finishing conference with the best two scores, the varsity girls golf...
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Tackling Trump: Where the President Went Wrong
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Tackling Trump: Where the President Went Wrong

     On Dec. 31, 2019, the Chinese government confirmed that it was treating dozens of people in Wuhan suffering...
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Girls race for regionals
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Girls race for regionals

     After placing fourth overall at the conference meet on Oct. 17, the girls cross country team was ready...
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Freshman takes sectional title in unconventional tennis season
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Freshman takes sectional title in unconventional tennis season

     Including a sectional championship for freshman Lilliam Dockal, the varsity girls tennis team placed fourth overall at sectionals. ...
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Three Striding to Sectionals
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Three Striding to Sectionals

     With three runners continuing on to sectionals on Oct. 31, the varsity boys cross country showed their post-season...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Future of the Supreme Court
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Future of the Supreme Court

     When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, notorious defender of gender equality, died last month, her death threw...
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