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The student news site of Clayton High School.

The Globe
The student news site of Clayton High School.

The Globe
Alex Slen

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief

Alex Slen is a senior at CHS and is in his third year on the Globe staff. He is on the varsity cross country team, The Vice President of Competition for DECA, a STUCO member, the president of the Jewish Student Union, and the vice-chairman of State Senator Brian Williams' Youth Advisory Board.

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Image of Editor-in-Chief Alex Slen. Slen examines what it means to be educated.

Editor’s Letter: Alex Slen

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
May 8, 2023
Image of the front entrance of Clayton High School in Clayton, Missouri.

Reflections After 12 Years in the American Education System

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
May 8, 2023
Image of the Missouri Capital Building in Jefferson City, Missouri.

“Children are Slipping Through the Cracks”

Alex Slen and Ivy Slen
January 24, 2023
Podcast Editor Sofia Mutis (center) interviewing Editor-in-Chief Alex Slen.

The Globe Podcast: A School Upon a Hill?

Sofia Mutis and Alex Slen
November 28, 2022
Carroll Lenhoff-Bell, Director of Learning Support at Clayton High School, working with student.

A School Upon a Hill?

Alex Slen, Ivy Reed, JiaLi Deck, and Ivy Slen
November 17, 2022
After moving around different colleges, she began working at Loyola University Chicago. What happened next is, as Johnson described, a typical St. Louis story. “ I moved to Chicago and then after I had a child, I moved back to raise my family here.”

Katy-Jane Johnson

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
September 1, 2022
Photo by Lily Kleinhenz

Mail Fraud: Sweeps Clayton

Ivy Reed, Alex Slen, and Owen Auston-Babcock
May 20, 2022
A Republic If We Can Keep It

A Republic If We Can Keep It

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
May 16, 2022

The Death of Nuance

Alex Cohen, Charlie Meyers, Ivy Slen, Lily Kleinhenz, JiaLi Deck, Alex Slen, Ella Cuneo, Victoria Fan, Ana Mitreva, Isabella Bamnolker, Sonali Dayal, Seraphina Corbo, Caleb Park, and Sophia Lu
May 16, 2022
Image captured by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research during the collapse of Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe at 50

Alex Slen and Ivy Reed
April 12, 2022
Landscape photo of the St. Louis Arch up against the sky.

Fentanyl in St. Louis

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
March 7, 2022
Missouri Sen. Brian Williams, D-University City (photo courtesy of Missouri Senate Communications).

State Senator Brian Williams: A Profile

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
February 3, 2022
Image of the Supreme Court Building courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

The Supreme Court Must Protect the Future of Public Education

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
January 31, 2022
President Biden Speaking Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Image Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Biden Must Push for Electoral College Loopholes to be Patched to Save Democracy

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
January 30, 2022
Picture of the Delmar Loop during the festive winter season

Is the Loop Trolley Back?

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
December 22, 2021
A Shaw Park rally decried a new Biden administration workplace rule

Shaw Park Rally Rejects Workplace COVID Regulation

Owen Auston-Babcock, Shane LaGesse, JiaLi Deck, Sophia Lu, Samantha Anne McDonough, and Alex Slen
October 7, 2021
Photo credit: Eric Haynes under Creative Commons license

Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
September 23, 2021
Image of Gamestop, one of the companies who stock shot up as a result of Wallstreet bets and Robinhood.

Wall Street Bets and Robinhood Explained

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
May 14, 2021
St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones speaks at a forum on The Color of Money: Race, Wealth, and Communities on the Front Lines of Economic Justice with New America on October 3, 2017.

New Mayor In Town

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
May 14, 2021
The Politics of Economic Inequality

The Politics of Economic Inequality

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
May 6, 2021
The 14th Amendment Explained

The 14th Amendment Explained

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
May 6, 2021
Washington DC at Night

The United States Senate Explained

Alex Slen, Editor-in-Chief
October 23, 2020
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