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Evie Barnard, staff reporter

This is sophomore Evie Barnard's first year on newspaper staff. She has a passion for journalism and is excited to use her camera to take photos of people other than her friends for once. Evie, she is deathly afraid of spiders and has a chronic online-shopping addiction. In her free time you can find her skateboarding, watching trashy television, or doing art.

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Heather Ramsay sits in her mostly empty office at the beginning of the fall semester 2016 when she started her tenure as fine arts coordinator. Due to AISD budget shortfalls, Ramsay will no longer be working at McCallum for the upcoming 2021-22 school year. While she called McCallum family, she also said she was looking forward to future opportunities. “I feel that the universe opened a door for me that I wasn't sure whether I needed to open,” Ramsay said. “For someone who's in my position and just the way I've always worked, I constantly have my own personal and professional goals--I'm always looking into the future. So losing this position is not a stop in my life. It's just now that this particular door is closed. I've been thinking about all these other things in my life that I have the capabilities of doing and places I want to go and live, and maybe this is the universe providing a doorway so that I can go and do that.”

Q: Why is Fine Arts Academy coordinator job being cut? A: You better sit down for the answer. It’s complicated.

April 14, 2021
In her first parent meeting without the interim tag, Principal Nicole Griffith unveiled a restructuring plan to streamline the administration of the Fine Arts Academy in the face of budget cuts that will eliminate the fine arts coordinator position held by Heather Ramsay since 2016.

Griffith unveils new plan for Fine Arts Academy administration at virtual town hall tonight

March 29, 2021
Borden painted this portrait of Oluwatoyin Salu, a model and Black LIves Matter activist.

For Borden, art provides expression and purpose

March 24, 2021
Among artists featured in Kidd's book is singer, rapper and songwriter Bryson Tiller.

Kidd draws, documents his favorite music artists in his book of profiles, ‘Rap Artists of the 2010s’

March 22, 2021
Martinez says that he enjoys makings films as as student because he can make films that appeal to him, for art's sake and not to make a profit.

Martinez: key to making memorable films is to stay in the moment so you can capture it forever

March 18, 2021

A virtual VASE gallery of MAC state finalists

March 10, 2021
English teacher Nikki Northcutt tapes a flyer to the AISD Southfield building at a teacher rally on Sep. 26, 2020. Caravans of AISD staff organized by Education Austin drove to the district headquarters to protest campus re-openings and raise questions and concerns for the district.

Teachers union writes TEA asking for local autonomy

March 5, 2021
Wearing surgical gloves and using metal tongs, new facilities manager Camille Nix asks math teacher Scott Pass if he wants a glazed doughnut, a chocolate glazed doughnut or both. The sweet Friday treats came courtesy of the Mac administration.

Running McCallum, then and now

January 3, 2021
The Clubhouse (left) hosts a night of live music and an impromptu viewing party of President-elect Joe Biden's acceptance speech on Nov 7.

A clubhouse without walls

December 17, 2020
After 14 years of teaching, 12 in Austin ISD and less than two at Mac, Cassandra Troy is leaving Mac and Texas to move to Colorado, citing health concerns over COVID and the district's response to it.

Ms. Troy leaves McCallum over safety concerns

November 6, 2020
McCallum parent and Allandale resident Nancy Mohn Barnard scans the Top Notch menu.“We ordered online and then me and my family went to the car hop and pressed the call button,” Barnard says. ”We told them we were there and they brought out our order. It all felt very safe and the food was great.”

To fend off COVID impact, restaurant owners rely on their ingenuity, employee loyalty and local customer support

October 15, 2020
A CROSSING BETWEEN WORK AND PLAY: My father works while my sister, Sonya, plays Animal Crossing. My mother has been using the game as bribery to get my sister to do schoolwork. So far it has been working. Photo by Evie Barnard.

[PHOTO] Balancing work and family in COVID-19 times

May 5, 2020
PLAY FIGHTING: My grandpa and my brother are a lot a like, so they get along really well. Sometimes though, they like to start play fighting for no reason. Photo by Lily Brode.

Stay-home order creates chances to bond

April 21, 2020
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