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Jan
30
2011
InDepth: Crime in St. Louis
St. Louis, for the past five years, has continually sustained its place among the top five most dangerous cities in the U.S. as according to the CQ Press. But what exactly do those numbers mean? “Nobody really knows how they did it,” Philippa Barrett, Chief Misdemeanor Officer at the office of the St. Louis Circuit [...]
Nov
23
2010
Education and the Age of Technology
In the lower level of the Administration Building, past many desks and behind a locked door, is a room full of magic. It is not the pulling rabbits out of hats or waving wands type of magic – rather, it is magical in the sense that, to most, its powers are completely bewildering. To the [...]
Oct
27
2010
Something Wiccan this Way Comes
It may come as a surprise but, unawares to many people, a community of people in St. Louis has created a community wherein they are free to follow alternative religious paths. One of these local organizations is Yarrow Coven, a St. Louis Wicca coven with fifteen members and even more who participate in seasonal festivals [...]
Sep
29
2010
Facebook: The invasion into everyday life
Socializing. Late night procrastination. Homework. Facebook isn’t just for posting YouTube videos on friends’ walls and commenting on photos from last weekend anymore. It’s the place where CHS students post all kinds of information about themselves and manage aspects of their busy, event-filled lives. In more recent years, Facebook has become more and more enmeshed [...]
Aug
18
2010
77 days of summer
Summer is a time for relaxation and is a perfect opportunity for CHS students to get away from the ‘Clayton Bubble’ to explore, learn, and have a great time while traveling. Whether they traveled to Fulton, MO to horseback ride or to India to study water levels of contamination, CHS students certainly had very exciting [...]
May
14
2010
InDepth: On a Mission
In the span of two years, one child’s life has been changed for the better—forever. Yorlene Reyes, of Uracco, Honduras, recently underwent a 10-hour surgery that corrected her deformed spine due to severe scoliosis and kyphosis. Surgeons at St. Louis Children’s Hospital removed five vertebrae and inserted steel rods to hold her up. “When doctors [...]
Mar
28
2010
Young volunteers gain understanding, joy
Most CHS students have walked past the homeless who are in need of basic essentials. Others watch news programs and develop a desire to travel and help in third world countries. Numerous teenagers at CHS choose to volunteer their time at organizations in the St. Louis area or abroad. “Volunteering gives teenagers a chance to [...]
Senior Governance Adviser Carl Anderson was in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He lived in Port-au-Prince since Jan. 2007 and was evacuated to Washington D.C. with his family on Jan. 13. He was at home in the kitchen when the quake struck, but nobody was hurt. “I noticed really violent shaking which kept going on [...]
Feb
24
2010
Health care providers bring much-needed assistance to injury-stricken earthquake victims
Placing a crying child under anesthesia with crowds of sobbing, injured people sprawled around a makeshift hospital is not the ideal circumstance a doctor hopes for during surgery. But, desperate times call for desperate measures, and the mass of injured people suffering from the effects of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti certainly qualified as [...]
Jan
27
2010
Let’s go hounds! A look into post-war CHS
It’s easy to ignore the past, especially when interesting revelations are easily obscured in a barrage of uninteresting facts. CHS has changed a great deal in the last 50 years, and alumnae Harriet Spilker (’54), Barbara Kohm (’56), and Robert Diamond (’47) witnessed many of these changes firsthand as they attended Clayton High School and [...]
