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Graphic shows students’ options during a pep rally period. While many choose to attend the rally in the gym, others go to the cafeteria or, per new administration rules, teacher pods. Photo by Dave Winter. Graphic by Nate Williams
Once roaring, now boring
Adele Seeboth, staff reporter • January 8, 2025

This year the McCallum hallways and environment have been majorly lacking in school spirit. In past years spirit dress-up days had tons of participation, bringing in lots...

CHEER THE KNIGHT AWAY: Junior Julia Ross, freshman Bell Morton, and sophomore Marlowe Walsh cheer at the McCallum cheer team’s first-ever showoff at Cheer Station last Saturday. 
Caption by Elizabeth Nation.
From the football field to the UIL stage
Magnolia Mass, staff reporter • January 17, 2025

After her first year coaching the cheerleading program at McCallum, head coach Sydney Shriever decided to make a major change to the program: to enter the UIL state cheerleading...

Junior Aanyia Thornton passes the ball during the Knights varsity playoff game against Hendrickson.
Leader and libero
December 29, 2024
Actor Jimmy Stewart, the star of black-and-white classics like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life though colorizing Bedford Falls would be worse than it becoming Pottersville. Photo accessed on the JM L Flickr account. Reposted here under the terms of a creative commons license.
Computer adds color to movies
Michelle Banks, staff reporter • January 2, 2025

In Hollywood’s attempt to capture a younger audience, some movie and television firms have decided to add a dazzling array of rainbow shades to classic black-and-white films....

In modern telecommunications, the use of satellites to bounce signals to receiving dishes all over the world is an inexpensive way to send sion signals over a great distance.
What’s a satellite?
November 14, 2024
Shiloh Hendrickse performs at the McCallum orchestra fall recital. Photo courtesy of Hendrickse.
Following a family legacy
Priya Thoppil, news editor • January 16, 2025

When freshman Shiloh Hendrickse watched her older sister, junior Imogen Hendrickse, pick up the violin, and later her other sister, Cosette, do the same, it was only natural...

Motwani has made her move to the Sunshine state but continues her passion of creating leaders.
Leading from afar
December 27, 2024
Noack poses with varsity volleyball player and junior Isa Urbina, who honored Noack on Teacher Appreciation Knight. Photo by Mercury Estabrook.
Creating a lasting impact
December 26, 2024
Adidas, New Balances, Tigers, Reebok, Pumas. Which one will come out on top?
Some of these shoes knock our socks off
Sofia Saucedo and Sophia Manos January 2, 2025

Sneakers are all anyone’s talking about these days. Everyone wants to know what the next top trending kicks will be, who will have which pair, and how soon until this micro...

The cheer team performs for an audience of family and friends during showcase last Saturday in preparation for UIL competition in Fort Worth this Friday. 

Sophomore Lainey Butler said the team has been perfecting its routine for months for the competition. 

We have been learning a routine since September from a coach at cheer station and we have been practicing it over and over, multiple times through the months," Butler said. 

Caption by Josie Mullan.
Cheer’s new frontier: UIL competition
Carson Duncan, Shila Gill, Josie Linton, Sophia Manos, Maggie Mass, Josie Mullan, Elizabeth Nation, Piper Norfolk, Mira Patel, and Priya Thoppil January 14, 2025

The cheer team performed a showcase last Saturday for friends and family at Cheer Station Gym to preview what they have been working on for their upcoming UIL competition....

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At the Texas Tribune Festival this September, three Deans of journalism schools in universities around the U.S. sat down to discuss how their schools are addressing current issues in journalism, and how they are training future journalists. Rachel Davis Mersey serves as Interim Provost at the University of Texas at Austin and Chair of the School of Journalism and Media and is an expert on the influence of digital media on community-building and understanding the information needs of different audiences. Graciela Mochkofsky is Dean of the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, authoring seven nonfiction books. Jelani Cobb is Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, a staff writer at The New Yorker and received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS “Frontline” film “Whose Vote Counts?” In their discussion, Mersey, Mochkofsky and Cobb focused on three salient issues in journalism: the safety of student journalists, the role of social media in journalism and the relevance of journalism in today’s society. Video by Mira Patel.
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