HISD Adopts New Grading Guidelines as Schools Close
By Vivian Huynh, Staff Writer
May 13, 2020
While COVID-19 puts enormous stress on families and students, HISD has taken steps to alleviate the weight by implementing more lenient grading guidelines. Ever since March 13, HISD announced that schools were to be closed for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year, affecting education and gr...
Virtual Dinner: Minecraft Style
By Vivian Huynh, Staff Writer
April 28, 2020
As students adjust to quarantine, they devise new ways to keep in touch, stay creative, and enjoy themselves as they usually wouldn’t in their hectic lives. While many try online challenges, such as the fitness challenge and the virtual 5K Race, others look to simple ones like virtual dinners and b...
When Masks are Nowhere to be Found
By Vivian Huynh, Staff Writer
April 16, 2020
My aunt, Duyen Tran, is a salesperson at High Fashion Fabrics and since March 23, the business has shut down because of COVID-19. WIth no money coming in, she forms ways to help her family. Since before the pandemic emerged, sales have been solely for the purpose of sewing clothes. But now, the...
CVHS seniors vote for the first time- but young voter turnout in TX down 20% from 2016
By Vivian Huynh and Sharon Vera
March 5, 2020
On March 3, CVHS seniors were able to vote for the first time on Super Tuesday, during the primary season of presidential elections. However, young voter turnout (ages 18 to 24) was disappointingly low across the county, Texas, and the nation. According to the Harvard Institute of Politics, ...
History Within History; Teachers and Students Provide Feedback to the AP World History Course
By Vivian Huynh and Esha Sharma
February 27, 2020
World History AP (WHAP) is a rigorous college-level course that sophomores endure to prove their knowledge of world history through analytical reading and writing. Yet, students question the effectiveness of WHAP due to the multiple hours they put into their WHAP studies per week. Over an average sc...
Monica Balakrishnan- Junior Olympic Fencer
By Vivian Huynh, Staff Writer
November 15, 2019
Sophomore Monica Balakrishnan rose early in the morning on February 15, 2019 to get ready for her fencing competition. When she found out that she met the requirements to get into this competition, she was delighted. However this was not just any normal fencing competition, this was the Junior Olympics. ...
Behind the Lens of a Student Photographer’s Passion
By Vivian Huynh, Staff Writer
October 7, 2019
While most CVHS students were engaging in internships, hanging out with friends, or vacationing with their parents over the summer, CVHS sophomore Humza Hanif was working angles at a fashion show, he spotted intense-looking models and knew he needed a shot of them. With his mindset on capturing the mo...