I always love a healthy dose of competition. However, my competitive personality often leads to an unhealthy situation when it creates unnecessary stress. In a school of over 4,500 students who compete...

When visitors arrive at Carmel High School this year, they will provide their driver’s licenses to begin a background check for criminal history. They will then be given a sticker name badge with the...

When the Titanic sank in the year 1912, word of all the wreckage did not surface until citizens picked up their newspaper the next morning. At 10:45p.m. on May 1, 50 minutes before the president even addressed...

By Adele Zhou <[email protected]> What makes good music? It’s the golden question, isn’t it? It’s the question the starving artist is asking as she waits tables in the underground New...

By Tony Tan <[email protected]> “Justice has been done,” President Barack Obama declared in a speech late into the night of May 1, 2011. Obama was referring to the death of Osama Bin Laden,...

By Dhruti Patel <[email protected]> Recently, the Federal Aviation Administration, or the FAA, has fired three air traffic controllers for falling asleep more than twice on the job. This has...

HiLite Staff Starting next year, the school will be testing a new grading policy in which grades are solely a measure of how well a student knows the material, instead of taking miscellaneous behavioral...

By Melinda Song <[email protected]> Recently, as this school district looks to scheduling for future years, two buzz words have been tossed around in this debate: year-round schooling. As students...

By Darlene Pham <[email protected]> One of the first and foremost rights the American people have is the right to free speech. People have the right to voice their opinion without oppression and...

By Caroline Zhang <[email protected]> Save the whales: There certainly have been many attempts to do so. Last year the United States led negotiations with Japan, Norway and Iceland to gradually...