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...

Squirt. Squelch. Splat. Orange oozes through Noah Mohamed’s tightening fist, prompting the students huddled around the spectacle to cringe away. Several groans of disgust resound throughout the...

Everyone, at some point in their childhood, has been asked the popular question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" CVHS senior Peter Jackson always knew the answer to this question: a pediatrician. From...

The red wig sat awkwardly on her scalp. It rubbed in all the wrong places. But the brush of hair at the base of her scalp gave her a grace she'd been unable to grasp with cold wind biting her skin. Suddenly,...

It sounds like a choir. The voices reverberate across the room. Harmonious. The voice guiding these vocal warm-ups is meditative, coaxing the relaxation of muscles. Hands raise towards the ceiling. The...

Two days, six orders. Six orders of mixed baked goods glared back from the Flavored by Fatima website - each due in exactly two days and equally time-consuming. Fatima had to somehow manage to make...

Four years ago, Hannah Fernandez graduated from CVHS. Three years later, Michelle Nguyen graduated from CVHS. Both students were Posse finalists. However, the schools they were selected finalists for changed...

Every female student has had days like this. One day you're in the school restroom, and you notice you started your period. You scatter, trying to find anything: a pad, a tampon, even a towel. The dispensers...

CVHS students carry piles of stress, anxiety, and schoolwork as they drag their feet across the dull, grey floor. Days and weeks begin to blend together with no end in sight when suddenly, from the...

CVHS junior Cayla Gottesman never felt right about standing up for the Texas pledge. Everytime she stood, all the injustices, brutality, and inequality that happened in the country she stood on, the...

One calm Saturday dawn, the warm rural Tennessee air breezed through Regan House’s hair, enveloping her in tranquility. However, her life was about to be ignited with chaos- considerably changed with...

*For purposes of anonymity, the interviewee will be referred to as Alice per the interviewee’s request. *This is only one person’s experience, experiences vary from person to person. Eating disorders...