Beginning in the fall of the 2011-2012 school year, the College Board will begin a rollout of major revisions to many Advanced Placement (AP) course curriculums and exams. One of the major goals of the...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Optimism and pessimism run a fine line in a decade’s retrospection. Did we enjoy ourselves? Did we hurt the world? Have we advanced or digressed? To cover 10 years is in itself a daunting task,...