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Senior Maren Werner shows her body modifications to the camera, a bird tattoo and a septum piercing. (Credit to Maren Werner)

Majority of CVHS seniors surveyed want or approve of body modifications

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief April 24, 2023

In a survey of 48 CVHS seniors, 16.7% stated that they have permanent tattoos, and 61.7% of those who did not have tattoos wanted one in the future. This correlates with a noticeable trend in Generation...

A stack of the multiple books which are often read in English class in front of blue curtains.

New CVHS bill mandating no thought be put into literary analysis is met with no criticism

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief April 1, 2023

As a result of the CVHS Student Uprising of 2025, many new and innovative policies have been instated, yet none have changed the social climate of CVHS’s English classes more than the “Blue Curtains”...

A student clicks away on Discord at school, one of the most popular messaging apps among teenagers.

Op-Ed: “Modern” cyber-safety is seriously outdated

By Brooke Bushong and Danielle Yampuler March 10, 2023

In elementary school, my computer lab teacher’s name was Ms. Slutz. That isn’t the most important detail, nor is it entirely relevant to any point I’m about to make, but it’s important to me that...

My cousin stands behind me as I attend the Texas Renaissance Festival for, most likely, the first time. My dad records us.

Personal Column: Please, grant me serenity

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief February 17, 2023

There comes a time every year when stores and games and rides bloom out of the ground, all encapsulated in a little bubble of fantasy and escapism. As summer turns to autumn and the leaves begin to fall...

Lishan Bartlett-Will (right) and Baayan Badarna (left) pose at a soccer game.

Lishan Bartlett-Will and Baayan Badarna lead CVHS’s first-ever girls’ soccer season as a part of UIL

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief January 27, 2023

Senior Lishan Bartlett-Will and junior Baayan Badarna have been playing soccer for over half of their lives. They can barely recall their first games, lost to the mowed green grass fields of time. What...

Conservative youth are much more common than they are portrayed to be.

Op-Ed: What draws American youth to the nation’s right-wing?

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief December 13, 2022

On September 17, I threw on clothing off-trend enough to make a Christian mom from Conroe proud, pinned and pulled back any trace of artificial pink in my hair, and changed my phone’s The Owl House wallpaper...

The promotional poster for The Owl Houses season 3, which features its main characters in adventurous poses.

“The Owl House” guides viewers through beautiful themes and representation in “Thanks to Them”

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief November 14, 2022

This review will contain tons of spoilers for “The Owl House” season 3, some spoilers for “She-Ra: Princesses of Power” and even a few spoilers for “Avatar: Legend of Korra.”   The...

QB Nguyen-Hoang in an aquarium amongst his fellow fishy friends.

QB Nguyen-Hoang makes a splash with his aquariums

By Nicki Anahita and Danielle Yampuler October 20, 2022

        The glistening freshwater casts a familiar light across the floor. QB Nguyen-Hoang examines the water’s effervescent dance along the glass, almost as if it’s...

The new 2022 r/Place final canvas.

A brief tour of r/Place 2022

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief April 19, 2022

About five years ago, now internet legend Josh Wardle (creator of Wordle), presented hundreds of Reddit users with a particularly peculiar subreddit—one that took form, not as a forum of text posts,...

Matthew Manders poses stoically in his suit on the set of The Batman.

Meet lead actor in next Batman movie- CVHS junior Matthew Manders

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief March 31, 2022

When Warner Brothers announced the controversial casting for the new Batman movie all the way back in 2019, many doubted the skills of the actor the studio had chosen to play the movie’s titular character....

My friend Chloe and I waiting for a Mitski concert to begin.

Personal Column: It’s about tempo

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief March 9, 2022

I was five years old at my first concert. Stone Sour, a five-person heavy metal band, was the main act, but just getting to them took sitting through five opening bands. An excessive amount of openers...

This story touches upon Americas long and complicated history with ableism.

Op-Ed: America is ableist

By Danielle Yampuler, Co-Editor in Chief February 22, 2022

Every other week, Pin Oak Middle School would section kids off into a variety of classrooms and shove surface-level messages of glorified kindness and vague acceptance down their throats. Whether it was...

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