Hoping for Hyperloop
Rachel Liang, Reporter
January 14, 2019
Filed under Commentary, Digital Display, Local News, Opinion
A few summers ago in China, my family rode on a high speed railway from Chengdu, Sichuan that reached the nearest mega city, Chongqing (190 miles) in about 50 minutes. The same trip took my father 9 hours by an antiquated train 30 years ago. Mirroring the change my father experienced in China, St. Louis...
Climate Change: IPCC Report
Moriah Lotsoff, Reporter
January 13, 2019
Filed under Commentary, Opinion
On October 8, 2018, a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out that basically told everyone that the world as we know it is ending. The goal of the environmental report was to evaluate the difference between a 1.5 degree Celsius and a 2 degree Celsius warming of the e...
STAFF ED: Gender Neutral
January 10, 2019
Filed under Commentary, Digital Display, Staff Ed
In May of 2017 we asked for the inclusion of public gender-neutral bathrooms at CHS through the Globe staff editorial. With the Trump Administration threatening to change the definition of gender, we are reminded of the daily discrimination experienced by the LGBTQ+ community, and we are calling on...
Pro/Con: GPA Disabled
January 7, 2019
Filed under Commentary, Pro/Con
About midway through the first semester of the 2018-19 school year, CHS students in all grade levels discovered their PowerSchool GPA calculator had been disabled--permanently. This is the first time something like this has happened, and the decision by the counseling department sparked controversy am...
Love, the Globe
Disha Chatterjee, Reporter
December 20, 2018
Filed under Commentary, Love, the Globe
Love. The four-letter word that sparks an idea of a passionate flame in my mind, blazing brightly with an ardent fervor. I never pictured in my mind that love could be as simple as the smile growing on my weary face as I walked into my house, greeted by the sound of excited barking. I’ve been...
Quiet
Ashley Chung, Opinion Section Editor
December 3, 2018
Filed under Commentary, Opinion
There are a lot of things I dislike. Of the many things, I strongly dislike graded discussions. In a graded discussion, students are essentially graded on how well they can insert themselves into a conversation and how well they can repeat another classmate’s words. Graded discussions are...
Where in the World?
Luka Bassnett, Reporter
November 17, 2018
Filed under Commentary, Opinion
The high school experience is designed to prepare students for the future. High school students are educated in core subjects like mathematics and history, and are required to take classes of particular importance, like American Government and Personal Finance. Strikingly absent is education in geograph...
STAFF ED: A Better Way to Do Homework
November 13, 2018
Filed under Digital Display, Staff Ed
"Oh, you´re taking Honors Physics? You´re going to cry every night.” "If you take four AP classes, you can say goodbye to your mental health." These are just a few of the things Clayton students hear as they start the school year, talking about the amount of homework they will get each night. Homework...
Pro/Con: Cut Policy
November 9, 2018
Filed under Commentary, Digital Display, Pro/Con
Clayton has strong athletic participation in its student body, due to its unique no-cut policy where everyone gets a chance to play. Recent changes to the athletic policy initiated by the Captains' Council, though, has brought the nature of the no-cut policy into question. Read as the Globe covers ...
Love, the Globe
Yiyun Xu, Reporter
November 3, 2018
Filed under Commentary, Love, the Globe
What is music? Music, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody or harmony. When people come across the term “music”, most of them think of singers like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber, and songs like Lucid Dreams and Better Now....
Affirmative Action
November 1, 2018
Filed under Commentary, Digital Display, Opinion
“Most Americans don’t want race to be part of your application to college. They don’t want the police to use race as a profiling tool to prevent crime. They don’t want prosecutors to use race in the makeup of a jury. Your race and your ethnicity should not be used to help or harm you in your...
Big Changes to AP World History
Zachary Fisher, Page Editor
October 30, 2018
Filed under Commentary, Digital Display, Opinion
Almost every high schooler in recent years has had their fair share of interactions with the College Board. With the Board controlling almost every major standardized test, including everything from the PSAT to AP Tests, it’s hard to not have at least taken one test that they’ve created. Many students...
