Samantha Powers, co-editor-in-chief
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Senior Samantha Powers is a third-year staffer on the Shield, and this year she is co-editor-in-chief. She spent her summer at the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute, where she studied and practiced skills in writing, ethics, news judgement, video, audio and other topics. Her favorite journalism movie is “All the President’s Men,” and she can’t wait to watch many more films like it with her lovely co-editors-in-chief. Besides writing, Samantha’s interests include singing in the McCallum Chamber Choir, deriving equations in physics class and buying stationery.
![SINGING FOR SCROOGE: To preface the choir concert, a group of choir members sang Christmas carols in a “Dickens-esque” fashion. Senior chamber choralist, Evelyn Griffin (second from the left), told Macjournalsim that the group stuck to classic Christmas songs. “[We sang] 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas,' some Latin thing, 'Silent Night,' that kind of thing,” Griffin said. “My wardrobe situation was a bit stressful, but I enjoy singing with tenors and basses.” Caption by Lucy Marco.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dsc00040_51737185954_o-900x600.jpg)
![CROWDSOURCING: Arwen Frederiksen (far left) walks down the hallway before school starts to re-familiarize themselves with the campus. “[The hallways] were definitely busier than I expected,” Frederiksen said. After almost a year and a half of virtual learning, Frederiksen expresses how they are simply happy to be around other people once again. “I haven’t seen a bunch of my just school friends in forever,” Frederiksen said. “It was great.” Reporting by Alysa Spiro.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03-Alysa-900x598.jpg)
![Education Austin president Ken Zarifis, shown here speaking during the AISD budget stabilization task force meeting on Nov. 7, 2018, demanded on Wednesday that TEA and Austin ISD offer wholly online classes at least for the first nine weeks of the 2020-2021 school year. “We have heard too much from the commissioner [and] from the governor that would lead us down the wrong path,” Zarifis said. “We believe that they do not have the interests of workers, of students and their families in mind as they make the decisions that seem to be more guided by fiscal realities than human realities.” Photo by Bella Russo.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/46478948361_91ce2d2f96_o-2-900x505.jpg)
