After buying her lunch on a daily basis, sophomore Nancy Zhang said she noticed a disturbing amount of waste in the trash cans. “Every day, I see unopened food or just half-eaten food in the trash as well as tons of plastic waste in the trash,” Zhang said. “I’ve seen full vegetable containers thrown away as well as three-fourths of an entree being thrown away. I’ve basically seen everything...

Originating from the 1980s in Taiwan, bubble tea quickly became a favorite and classic in Asia. It did not take long for its popularity to spread to Japan and Korea in the 1990s and to the Western hemisphere, especially with the influx of Asians in mainstream pop culture. Senior Clizia Martini said she was introduced to bubble tea during a trip to Hong Kong.  “My mum and I went on a trip...

Senior Zendalin Hibbard-Hernandez spends half of every school day assisting in the Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) room for students with disabilities at Carmel Middle School. “Every day, I help middle (school) students with different disabilities,” she said. “The class ranges from high functioning with high social skills (to) high functioning with low social skills but high comprehension...

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