Upstream News

Carnegie staff and students voice opinion on open carry law

September 28, 2021 • 10 Comments

On September 1st, Governor Greg Abbott’s open carry law went into effect across Texas. The law allows individuals 21 years and older to carry handguns in public places without a license or training....

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District and state COVID-protection plans remain unchanged while HISD’s COVID cases increase by more than 100% in last week

September 28, 2021

A week after August 23rd when HISD opened schools for the 2021-22 school year, the district reported...

Recent survey reveals teachers lag behind student desire to identify gender pronouns

September 28, 2021

In an Upstream News survey with 120 participating CVHS students, 90.8% of students believed it to be important to ask for others’ pronouns and 22% of students reported using non-traditional pronouns--but only 3.3% of students reported all of their teachers inquiring about their pronouns in the first week of school.

First-gen students at CVHS receive college application tips from counselors

September 28, 2021

With college deadlines around the corner, seniors, especially first-generation students, are scrambling...

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Features

One student’s year-long battle against cancer

By Kaitlyn Garza and Julian Namerow

October 24, 2021 • 12 Comments

With a blazing 103-degree fever and stomach cramps that turned his abdomen rock-solid, CVHS senior Austin Gordon was sent home from the ER once again with what the doctors claimed to be the common cold...

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Senior Noah Mohamed to CVHS students: Grip your food with force

October 24, 2021

Squirt. Squelch. Splat. Orange oozes through Noah Mohamed’s tightening fist, prompting the students...

Afghan refugee Sadaf Amiri’s journey from home to Houston

October 24, 2021

It was like a hostage situation. If you couldn’t pay up, then your family would be killed. “You...

Senior Peter Jackson gets his first surgical practice and news appearance in Moscow

October 24, 2021

Everyone, at some point in their childhood, has been asked the popular question, "What do you want to...

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Arts & Entertainment

You Season 3 highlights how social media can affect “you”

By Jahrel Noble, Entertainment Editor

November 8, 2021 • 2 Comments

WARNING: Minor Spoilers for You Seasons 1, 2, and 3 I, and many other people, feel they’ve been ‘stalked’ on social media. You know, at 1 AM when that random person from English class likes your...

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