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For my summer reading assignment this year, I read the The Bonesetters Daughter by Amy Tan. We had no additional assignments with the reading, except for annotating the text.
It's time to write off annotation.
Lanie Sepehri, staff reporter • October 25, 2021

There is one thing about me that everyone knows, and if they don’t, it doesn’t take long to figure out. I love reading. As soon as I learned to read, I was...

Custodian Kenneth Sterling collects trash from students during lunch. Sterling along with other members of the custodial staff have been a group primarily affected by the Devious Lick trend at McCallum. The vandalism occurring leads to more work for a staff already overworked from additional cleaning measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The vandalism is really not good at all. It makes my job harder. People keep stealing soap dispensers... weve been locking the restrooms, that helps. Beyond that theres not much we can do. I would like the tagging and vandalism to stop.
It's time to demand an end to Devious Licks
October 20, 2021
Senate Bill 3 needs to be overturned. School history lessons need to acknowledge history that isn’t whitewashed, and teachers and staff need to be able to do their jobs.
SB 3 is re-whiting history
October 10, 2021
Festival goers gather during Austin City Limits in 2017. This pre-COVID look at the event shows larger crowd gatherings of people to enjoy the festival.
Austin City Limits should be called off
October 1, 2021
The McCallum student section at the 2021 Taco Shack Bowl game. Capacity was not restricted, and while the stadium policy required masks, not everyone wore them.
Allowing full capacity at AISD events is wrong
September 30, 2021
Sports
‘Connoisseur’ Werkenthin emerges as team leader
Andrew aims for collegiate future in the sand

Andrew aims for collegiate future in the sand

October 26, 2021

TMR punches ticket to State

TMR punches ticket to State

October 25, 2021

Skating through struggles

Skating through struggles

October 24, 2021

Tennis team captures bi-district title

Tennis team captures bi-district title

October 19, 2021

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Welcome to Levin’s Library

Welcome to Levin’s Library

September 16, 2021

Flavor Profiles: JewBoy Subshop

Flavor Profiles: JewBoy Subshop

September 1, 2021

Thinking inside the box

Thinking inside the box

August 30, 2021

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People
Sophomore Meghan Tomko talks with her teammates at a recent practice. Most of her teammates live near the ice rink in Dallas but Tomko refuses to let the commute impede her from playing competitive hockey.
Skating through struggles
Francie Wilhelm, staff reporter • October 24, 2021

Meghan Tomko is fearless, or at least that’s what her family and friends say. After spending nearly half her life in the fast-paced, male-dominated world of ice hockey,...

Junior Nico Martinez rehearses with the other marching band saxophonists on Sept. 16. Martinez believes the overall talent of the band pushes him to work hard. “Everyone is so good, and there’s so much interest in band,” he said.
Martinez marches to Mac Band
October 23, 2021
Volunteers from Braden Roeders Boy Scout troop help to build a bench for the English courtyard.
Roeder stands up to sit down
October 21, 2021
PINK AND PROUD: Linking pinkies and shouting loudly, junior Maya Cidale sings the school song with her fellow classmates. Cidale is a transfer student, so this was her first pep rally at Mac, and she loved the spirit of the event. “It was so cool to see everyone dressed in pink,” Cidale said. “It showed support for breast cancer research, but it was also kind of a unifying factor as a student body.” Cidale enjoyed the high energy atmosphere, despite the heat of the afternoon event. “It was really hot outside and everyone was so sweaty,” Cidale said. “But no one really cared because we were all having fun and the student leadership was so good about keeping us all engaged.” Caption by Alice Scott.
When setting a Pink Week fundraising record is secondary
October 17, 2021
Entertainment
Junior Nico Martinez rehearses with the other marching band saxophonists on Sept. 16. Martinez believes the overall talent of the band pushes him to work hard. “Everyone is so good, and there’s so much interest in band,” he said.
Martinez marches to Mac Band
Amaya Collier and Ingrid Smith • October 23, 2021

Junior Nico Martinez has moved around his whole life, but he’s never experienced anything like American high school marching band. Until recently, he could only imagine...

Fish No. 59: Delegating
Fish No. 59: "Delegating"
October 22, 2021
Fish No. 58: Tool
Fish No. 58: "Tool"
October 15, 2021
A commemorative statue of Happy Days central character Arthur Fonzarelli can be found in downtown Milwaukee Image from March 2016 accessed on the Flickr account of photographer John W. Iwanski. Reposted here with permission under a creative commons license.
Grandstand: NFT-WFL’s cousin?
October 14, 2021
Photo Galleries
Senior members of the LBJ Fire Academy line up to put out the propane fire at their first live fire skill day of the school year. Each person in the line has a specialized job, first in line holds the nozzle of the hose, the second and third are backup and the fourth person is the hose wrangler, making sure they have enough hose left to turn. “We just had to learn every single job, and that was stressful,” senior and LBJ Fire Academy member Michael Valentino said. “Every person has their job and they have to do it, and if you don’t do it it’s gonna go bad.” Caption by Kennedy Weatherby.
Class of '22 is on fire (figuratively)
Josie Bradsby, Lydia Reedy, and Kennedy Weatherby • October 19, 2021

The members of LBJ Fire Academy participated in a fire demonstration on Sept. 25 that required them to put into practice all of the skills learned in the course. The event...

PINK AND PROUD: Linking pinkies and shouting loudly, junior Maya Cidale sings the school song with her fellow classmates. Cidale is a transfer student, so this was her first pep rally at Mac, and she loved the spirit of the event. “It was so cool to see everyone dressed in pink,” Cidale said. “It showed support for breast cancer research, but it was also kind of a unifying factor as a student body.” Cidale enjoyed the high energy atmosphere, despite the heat of the afternoon event. “It was really hot outside and everyone was so sweaty,” Cidale said. “But no one really cared because we were all having fun and the student leadership was so good about keeping us all engaged.” Caption by Alice Scott.
When setting a Pink Week fundraising record is secondary
October 17, 2021
SPELLING IS FUN: Sophomore Naomi Jordan teaches her Sign Language Club how to finger spell last Wednesday. Naomi started the club in order to teach more people how to speak sign language. People  are curious when they see me signing to my translator, Naomi said. Theyre always interested in my language. 
Where all the signs are encouraging
October 12, 2021
A group of abortion rights activists raise their signs as they gather and listen to the speakers at the women’s rally on Saturday at the Texas Capitol. Some cheer to agree with the proclamations made. “I wanted to show my support for organizations [at the rally] who are working to overturn Senate Bill 8,” junior Edith Holmsten said. “It is important for me to go to rallies because it is a way for me, as someone who can not vote yet, to show my support for issues that I care about. I learned about many different organizations that worked on women’s rights who had tables set up at the march.”
Women's rally delivers an unmistakable message: repeal Senate Bill 8, vote its creators out of office
October 5, 2021
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Recent Stories
‘Connoisseur’ Werkenthin emerges as team leader
‘Connoisseur’ Werkenthin emerges as team leader

Thomas Melina Raab, sports editor
October 26, 2021

Head coach Amy Brodbeck calls senior Grace Werkenthin the “connoisseur” of the volleyball team. As a veteran senior on a young team, Werkenthin's experience has allowed her to blossom into a captain and a leader in her final season of high school volleyball. The road to Werkenthin's senior season wasn’t easy. Just like many other sports, COVID hit the volleyball program hard. Normally,...

Andrew aims for collegiate future in the sand
Andrew aims for collegiate future in the sand

Elena Ulack, staff reporter
October 26, 2021

Sophomore Gella Andrew was 13 years old when she began beach volleyball, a sport that has since become a passion. “My friends were doing it, and I was like, ‘I should try it out!’ Then I really fell in love with it and now it’s just gone uphill from there.” Last year, making varsity in McCallum volleyball as a freshman was an exciting experience for Andrew. The love for her teammates...

TMR punches ticket to State
TMR punches ticket to State

Grace Nugent, co-editor in chief
October 25, 2021

Thomas Melina Raab did not think he was going to qualify for the state cross country meet today at Kate Barr Ross Park in Huntsville. After the outcome of the race, however, he can happily say that he thought wrong. By finishing 12th with a time of 16:27.39, Melina Raab qualified for the cross-country state championship meet. Despite the achievement, he said he expected more from himself. “I...

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