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My face on professional pickleball player Tao Thongvanhs face. (Edited by John Nguyen, Photo credits to The Daily Sentinel)

Review: Is pickleball overrated????

By John Nguyen, Staff Writer March 6, 2024

Pop! If you go to a local park nowadays,  you’ll most likely see 64-year-old retirees swinging around a plastic racket and hitting a small plastic ball across the court. Pickleball is an uprising...

The Bluebook application is where students will take their digital SATs. The application offers 4 SAT practice tests and 1 PSAT practice test. (Photo courtesy of AP Guru)

SAT format changes to digital in March

By John Nguyen, Staff Writer February 20, 2024

At the start of the new year, the College Board announced that the SAT, a standardized test for high schoolers would be changing its format from pencil and paper to digital with the upcoming spring season...

Ive grown to become more confident with short hair as seen in this photo.

Personal Column: Facing change

By John Nguyen, Staff Writer February 4, 2024

“Just a little off the top please." I’d repeat this same grueling phrase every two months to my barber. But back then, getting haircuts felt exciting, now I can’t even look in the mirror after...

Our grill at Hongdae 33 filled with different proteins including the Classic Cajun Jumbo Shrimp and the Black Angus LA-Galbi.

Hongdae 33: Chinatown’s new best Korean BBQ spot?!

By John Nguyen, Staff Writer January 21, 2024

From birthdays to graduations to anniversaries, Korean Barbeque (BBQ) brings people together around a hot grill to enjoy juicy morsels of protein for any occasion. Like roasting a marshmallow over an open...

Mrs. Williamss office is neatly organized and is the home of her favorite doll.

Tiffany Williams unwraps a new chapter as CVHS’ new Wrap-Around Specialist

By John Nguyen, Staff Writer December 3, 2023

Everyone is scared of change, but for CVHS’ new Wrap Around Specialist Tiffany Williams, change came naturally. When she entered the Carnegie building, Williams welcomed her new workplace with open arms....

Ivy League admission rates have dropped in the 2022-2023 school year.

College acceptance rates decline for the class of 2023

By John Nguyen and Ella Pham April 24, 2023

2022-2023 saw a year of one of the lowest college acceptance rates ever. Although Ivy League schools are known to be highly competitive, the eight universities (Brown, Colombia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard,...

Simu Liu presented as the male lead in the movie adaptation of One True Loves.

Op-Ed: Dear Hollywood, please stop casting the same Asian males

By John Nguyen and Natalia Nguyen March 10, 2023

Two weeks ago, Buzzfeed released the trailer for their movie adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s "One True Loves." Fans of Reid were excited to see the 2016 novel come to the big screen. However, what...

Asian Americans protested around the country following the rise of hate crimes.

AAPI hate crimes in a post-COVID America

By John Nguyen and Ella Pham February 17, 2023

A Bloomington bus, the same one she always took. Getting up from her seat, she waited anxiously for the doors of the transit bus to open. However, Billie R. Davis met her before her departure. On...

My friends and I taking a picture at the Bad-Bunny themed I-Fest photo booth.

Personal Column: Not just the lazy generation

By John Nguyen, Staff Writer January 27, 2023

Meet Generation Z. The lazy generation. The selfish generation. The always-have-something-to-say generation. The generation that only knows how to scroll on their phones and demand everything while doing...

John Nguyen wearing a traditional Vietnamese áo dài next to his grandmother on Lunar New Year.

Op-Ed: “Whitewashed”: What makes someone Vietnamese enough?

By John Nguyen and Ella Pham December 13, 2022

Piercing. Their glares held like daggers to our skin, prominent in the way they looked at us as if spotting two outliers. It drove our hatred for family reunions like these. How they’d engulf themselves...

Harbors wall does the same job as Vipers. However, Vipers wall decays the enemy making them extremely low, preventing players from peeking out, whereas Harbors wall only slows the enemy.

Mad because bad?: Valorant video game review

By John Nguyen, Staff Writer November 14, 2022

You want to play, let's play. You’re on the battlefield, 5 v 5, when suddenly smoke, walls, flashes and mollies clutter your entry to the site. Unsure what to do, you communicate with your team to rotate...

Savitzs take on a Love Potion Vest, one of the many pieces that shes crocheted this past year.

Senior Abby Savitz Crochets for Change

By John Nguyen and Natalia Nguyen October 20, 2022

Everywhere Abby Savitz went, the news about the Ukraine crisis of March 2022 followed her. Sitting with her family at the dinner table, Savitz couldn’t stop thinking of the Ukraine crisis. Savitz felt...

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