What It Means to Pass Away During COVID-19 As a Buddhist
By Hilary Nguyen, News Editor
May 18, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the nation, the number of deaths continues to increase. Generally, one’s death is followed by a funeral. However, due to social distancing, many are not able to hold funerals, let alone be near their loved ones who have passed. As a Buddhist, Erica is concern...
Supporting sick family members from afar
By Ema Wilson, Staff Writer
April 27, 2020
My heart skipped a beat as I sat down to see my mother in tears and my father with a serious expression. I quietly edged forward to ask what was wrong but my brain was already spelling out the possibility of what had happened. Finally she looked up to me and said the words that I dreaded to hear: “You ...
Coronavirus Di-seizes Senior Year
By Hilary Nguyen, News Editor
April 17, 2020
When news of a novel coronavirus began to make its way out of Wuhan, China, worry started to spread around the globe. Initially, there were not that many cases reported in China and many took it as a small matter that would only happen in China. However, the number of cases started to pile up and so...
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...
My orbit: what COVID-19 means for an immunocompromised household
By Gabi Rodriguez, Features/ Sports Editor
April 16, 2020
Cesar Rodriguez was one of the first people sent home from work not long after the first COVID-19 cases began to infiltrate Harris County. Not only has he worked at the MD Anderson Cancer Center for the past 20 years, but he is now one of their cancer patients. As the pandemic of the century takes f...
Online Schooling: A Comparison Between the 3 School Levels
By Shaun Wood, Arts & Entertainment/ Opinion Editor
April 15, 2020
In history books, there are whole chapters devoted to instances where pandemics have swept the globe, like the Black Plague in the Dark Ages, or the Spanish Flu in 1912. Now in 2020, these tragedies have jumped off the page and into our lives, and now we have transferred from in class books to online...
COVID-19 Front Line Soldier
By Katherine Linares, Managing Editor
April 15, 2020
Cynthia Linares has to prepare herself mentally every day, setting her fear aside to help the injured. She fears going to work every day, she fears coming home in the scrubs she has worked in all day, fearing that they might have a strand of COVID-19 on them. This is the fear that Cynthia Linares, my s...
Being on the supply chain for essential businesses during the COVID-19 crisis
By Esha Sharma, Staff Writer
April 14, 2020
“COVID-19”, “Coronavirus”, “Miss Rona”, and the infamous “Chinese virus” courtesy of Donald J. Trump. On December 8, 2019, the first patient in China developed symptoms of COVID-19 in Wuhan and by Dec 31 they informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about multiple “pneumon...
Teacher of the Year Joshua Garcia- inspiring a lineage of teachers and students
By Gabi Rodriguez, Features/ Sports Editor
March 6, 2020
If you’ve ever heard spirited cheers wafting down the hallway- or seen cans exploding into a chemical madness on your snapchat story- it probably came from Mr. Garcia’s room. The Pre-AP/AP Chemistry teacher likes to keep his classes well-spirited while transmitting a critical understanding of the...
Spikeball: The Sport That Took Carnegie by Storm
By Jonathon Morales, Staff Writer
March 5, 2020
Spikeball, the sport that people can’t seem to shake. If you look outside in the courtyard during lunch, you see students, but more specifically, students engaging in good old fun. That good old fun is Round Net. In its beginning years it already seems to be its prime years, since its popularity had...
Poetry Club Members Enter Slam Poetry Competitions
By Shaun Wood, Arts & Entertainment/ Opinion Editor
March 3, 2020
“When people call me quiet or shy I get annoyed/Not because what they’re saying is wrong,/But because what they are saying is right.” This excerpt is from “Tongue”, a poem written by Kechi Mbah. In her poem, she writes about overcoming her shyness and breaking out of her shell. She found ...
How to survive the 30-Hour-Famine
By Donovan Snell, Staff Writer
February 17, 2020
On February 21, Carnegie will be hosting it’s 8th annual 30 hour famine. Hosted by NHS, the nation honors society, and sponsored by World Vision: an organization that provides humanitarian aid to children and communities throughout the world. The famine has been one of the longest lasting events a...