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Students leave their trash and leftovers around in the cafeteria leaving the custodians to pick up everything. It is necessary that Highlanders strive to keep the cafeteria clean and pick up after themselves.
Decay of discipline
Hamna Humanyou and Kaelyn MacKay February 3, 2025

Trash littered tables, missing soap dispensers, vulgar words painted across bathroom stalls and swearing...

Organizers used handheld artificial candles for the vigil. In addition, they set up portraits of the late skaters, including skaters Franco Aparicio, Brielle Breyer, Cory Haynos, Eddie Zhou and their coach, former Soviet skater and international skating champion Inna Volyanskaya.
McLean community mourns D.C. plane crash victims
Alan Tang, Hamna Humanyou, Caroline Su and Aaron Stark February 3, 2025

McLean sophomore and figure skater Ella Stevens practiced with victims Franco Aparicio, Brielle Breyer,...

Canceled Check-In -- Student and parent access to the gradebook have been closed to prevent technical difficulties as administrators and teachers finalize quarter grades. Typically, this is done around a week before the quarter ends, but due to parent input, that closure was postponed until Jan. 28.
StudentVUE shutdown
Katherine Chen, Reporter • January 31, 2025

McLean’s StudentVUE portal (SIS), an application and website which allows students and parents to view...

Junior Zehra Moldru Mutlu and junior Fariha Hamidi.
Paths of perseverance
Paghunda Ali, Reporter • January 31, 2025

Zehra Moldri Mutlu - Last year, junior Zehra Moldri Mutlu moved from Kazakhstan to the United States for the promise of a better education. While Mutlu had to leave her home and everyone she knew behind,...

Junior Mia Mortman practices singing Ho Sparse Tante Lagrime by Francesco Morlacchi. She recently performed at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
Do-Re-Mia
Clara Marcott, News Editor • January 30, 2025

Passing by a practice room during lunch or Highlander Time, a few clear, eloquent notes can be heard echoing through the hallway: the voice of junior Mia Mortman. Mortman initially discovered her love...

Because of TikTok's speculated connection to the Chinese Communist Party, the app's future in the United States is under duress. However, other social media apps that also pose a threat to the security and well-being of Americans are free from scrutiny.
TikTok raises privacy concerns but should not be banned
Andrew Lohman, Online Editor-in-Chief • January 29, 2025

TikTok has become more than just a source of entertainment—it is a platform for creativity, connection, and self-expression, especially among young people. With growing calls for the app’s ban, it...

Climate change spreads its effects across the country
Climate change spreads its effects across the country
Maria Saucedo Rozo and JJ Steeg January 29, 2025

During the twentieth century, we have seen an exponential increase in climate change, irreversibly impacting Earth’s environment. At McLean High School, the concept of climate change might seem bigger...

Senior Max Mullen drives to the basket as he evades the Hornets' swarming defense.
Highlanders handle hornets
Brendan Wallace, Reporter • February 14, 2025
Fast break for fundraising
February 10, 2025
A&E
Missing You, released on Jan. 1, is an unfulfilling, disappointing adaptation of Harlen Coben's 2014 novel.
I’m (not) Missing You
Ela Patel-Euler, Online Opinions Editor • January 29, 2025
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Fashion Frenzy Episode 3: Andy Velasquez Interview
Fashion Frenzy Episode 3: Andy Velasquez Interview
Gabriela Herrera, A&E Editor • January 27, 2025

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WX9loSrfOh9tHzmNfOjm9?si=3aa88be1f7fb43cf

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