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The Hawk Talk

Teens and Caffeine: The Growing Concerns and Hidden Dangers

Maddy Lehman, Features Editor January 14, 2025

One of the world’s most popular psychoactive substances is a part of many student’s everyday lives: caffeine. Caffeine has become necessary for many students, often relied on just to function normally....

Overcoming comparison in our online/digital copy-paste culture

Sarah Littlejohn, Lifestyle Editor January 14, 2025

Who among you is truly unique online? High schoolers everywhere wake up each morning to a world defined by what they see online. According to Pew Research Center, 97% of these teens claim to use the internet...

Simple and Sustainable: Why Basic Clothing is Taking Over Fashion

Lillie Plowgian, Entertainment Editor January 14, 2025

Teenagers are often at the forefront of new fashion trends. Recently, instead of bold colors and branded clothing, many students are pivoting to basic clothing. Basic clothing is often neutral colored...

Holiday Season Encourages Consumer Culture

Eli Hendon, Staff Writer January 14, 2025

With the holiday season beginning to ramp up in earnest, it often seems that the true meaning of many of the holidays being celebrated have been lost—replaced with exhortations by major companies to...

A Spoonful of Vienna

Rachel Brown, Editor-in-Chief January 14, 2025

The food alternative for cuddling up on the couch and watching movies all day is soup. Across cultures, religions and traditions, soup goes beyond maintaining warmth during the fall and winter months....

Hot yoga: Is it worth the sweat?

Rachel Brown, Editor-in-Chief October 31, 2024

Have you ever been a little chilly while stretching? The century-long spiritual practice of yoga has been recently transformed into a more intense workout – hot yoga. There are still aspects of meditation...

Romanticizing school 101

Aditi Chandra, Opinion Editor October 31, 2024

Books pile on top of one another, papers crinkle and pens run dry. Students' tired eyes struggle to stay glued open as they read through endless pages of homework. This feeling of academic fatigue slowly...

Becoming an academic weapon: Why we should all use to-do lists

Eva Santos, Designer October 31, 2024

Let’s face it, a student’s mind is a chaotic place to be. Floating around in your brain is a jumble of thoughts, worries, insecurities, and new subjects you are somehow supposed to master by the end...

Is BookTok bad for readers?

Jaiden Rossman, Staff Writer October 31, 2024

The social media platform TiKTok has been a staple of life for teens for the past several years, leaving very few areas of life untouched. One of the areas TiKTok irrevocably changes is reading. With the...

Diet vs. regular soda: Preferences of high school students

Kathleen Morrow, Features Editor October 31, 2024

“Ew, this is not diet,” Samantha Stemp (’25) said. The seemingly unassuming debate of diet vs. regular soda has grown to be hefty and even controversial among high school students in recent years....

Starting mental health wellness

Lauren Kostakis and Caroline Berry March 8, 2024

Teen mental health has been a topic of discussion for decades but has only become so widely discussed in recent years. The struggle to balance academic, personal, work and activity related stress has caused...

Fashion’s everlasting role in social movements

Emma Defot, Staff Writer June 2, 2023

The late 20th century is known for its various distinct styles of fashion, spanning across decades of trends. High waisted trousers, denim jackets and bright colors are staples of iconic ‘80s fashion,...

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