Standing in the wake of devastation (Part 3)
Kelly Wei, Editor-in-Chief
April 8, 2019
Filed under Enterprise, In-Depth, News
CHS senior Farris Ali does not pray five times a day, as is traditionally custom, but he does visit the Irving Islamic Center every Friday and strives to pray at least once or twice daily. He practices Ramadan, but doesn’t adhere to the belief that drinking or sex before marriage is wrong. “My par...
Standing in the wake of devastation (Part 2)
Kelly Wei, Editor-in-Chief
April 4, 2019
Filed under Enterprise, In-Depth, News
As an internationally-renown mosque, the VRIC is led by some of the country’s most influential Islamic speakers, such as imams Issa and Omar Suleiman, who collectively boast a social media following of over 1.5 million and regularly travel the country to speak at events. In fact, Suleiman, who was unav...
Standing in the wake of devastation (Part 1)
Kelly Wei, Editor-in-Chief
April 2, 2019
Filed under Enterprise, In-Depth, News, Showcase
Fifty are dead. Fifty more wounded. On March 16, a pair of mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand suffered what might have once been considered unimaginable, but is now rapidly becoming the new norm. In the wake of the Christchurch shootings, perpetuated by Australian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-...
Climate Change
Akansha Singh, Staff Writer
March 19, 2019
Filed under Enterprise, In-Depth, News, Showcase
Hellish fires and hurricanes have swept both headlines and the coasts of the United States in the past year, destroying property and displacing hundreds. The generation of teenagers who walk the halls of high schools will face the brunt of climate change, being the y...
Despite the name, micro schools have big aspirations
Neha Desaraju, Staff Writer
March 8, 2019
Filed under Enterprise, News
IRVING - The white tiles are familiar, as are the painted green walls. A large poster of smiling children hangs in the small lobby. The halls are narrow and just as unassuming as the outside of the building. The students take off their shoes before they enter the classrooms. The Humanist Academy was only opened two ...
Feminism as a living entity
Pramika Kadari, Copy Editor
February 16, 2019
Filed under Enterprise, In-Depth, News, Showcase
DALLAS - Clutching a sign featuring a photo of Christine Blasey Ford, and beside it the words: “Of course I believe her, the same thing happened to me”, Dallas resident Amy Bennett stomped through the city for the 2019 Dallas Women’s March. “I just want to make sure for my...
Pervasive violence damaging Generation Z culture
Pramika Kadari, Copy Editor
January 11, 2019
Filed under Enterprise, In-Depth, News
It seems like everyday, the world is hit with another act of violence. News channels greet viewers with tragedies regularly - someone has killed themselves, someone has brutally murdered another, someone has shot up a school or a movie theater. To older generations, this scale of viol...
Two worlds are colliding: Future of social media resting in palms of today’s youth
Andrés Bear, Staff Writer
November 3, 2018
Filed under Enterprise, News
There is one key factor that separates Generation Z - an age label generally agreed to apply to those born between 1994 and 2000 - from previous generations. Advanced technology has been in the lives of Gen Z individuals since the day they were born. The Information Age describes and explains t...
Divided We Fall
Nolan Sanders, Staff Writer
October 24, 2018
Filed under Enterprise, In-Depth, Showcase
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Nation-wide reaction to gun violence
Amelia Vanyo, Editor-in-Chief
April 9, 2018
Filed under Enterprise, Multimedia, News
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Quantity or quality? The effects of padding college applications
Pramika Kadari, Staff Writer
March 3, 2018
Filed under Enterprise, News
At Coppell High School, more than 60 different clubs are available for students - everything from Science Olympiad to Bollywood Dance. Amidst all the choices, CHS associate principal Melissa Arnold thinks students may feel pressured to take part in an excessive number of activities, including thos...
Cutthroat race to university
Tanya Raghu, Enterprise Editor
February 27, 2018
Filed under Enterprise, In-Depth, News, Showcase
For five months, the college application process has been on Coppell High School senior Maya Garg’s mind. It was initially the daunting process of inputting personal information, writing a personal essay and supplements, and submitting financial aid documents for more than 20 schools, now, it was the...
