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Speech and debate members discuss recent competitions after personal successes. As a whole, the speech and debate team has a successful season. (Submitted Photo: Anushka Pandey)

Carmel Debate to decide new leadership

Siri Surapaneni April 14, 2023

Carmel Debate will decide on next year's officers as the year comes to an end. Members are continuing to practice and improve their skills during off-season. Joseph McMillan, speech and debate sponsor,...

Speech and debate team pose after with their trophies after placing first in the State competitions.

Speech and debate team to shift focus after State competition

Siri Surapaneni February 13, 2023

The debate team placed first in their State competition, wrapping up their season. Their next competition will not be until June when they compete in Nationals. According to Anushka Pandey, co-president...

Becca Howard, CHS Democrats vice-president and sophomore opens a meeting of the Carmel Democrats club to discuss political current events. Howard said she thinks schools should encourage students to be involved in their community more than they presently do to promote a more educated future generation of voters.

With political polarization increasing, students, teachers work to combat biases, improve governmental education

Maddie Misterka February 7, 2023

In Indiana, all high school students are required to participate in a government or civics class in order to graduate. According to social studies teacher Mickey O’Toole, this requirement is one of...

The speech and debate team pose after their Districts competition. Sponsor Joseph McMillan said the competition went well as Carmel placed first. (Submitted Photo: Anushka Pandey)

Debate team prepares for state competition on Feb. 3

Siri Surapaneni January 24, 2023

The speech and debate team is preparing for the state competition on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4 at Marion University. Participating members will meet at the school around noon on Feb. 3 and around 6:30 a.m. on...

President and senior Anushka Pandey (center) starts off the recent speech and debate meeting on Oct. 11 by telling members to sign up for the upcoming meets. Pandey gave details about the meet on Oct. 15 at Kokomo and explained the guidelines for the women’s empowerment meet.

Speech and debate team prepares for women’s empowerment meet on Oct. 29

Siri Surapaneni October 17, 2022

Speech and Debate will participate in a women’s empowerment meet on Oct. 29 at Westfield High School. The specific time members will meet at CHS is yet to be decided. Due to the theme of the meet, only...

Speech and debate team prepares for mock tournaments

Siri Surapaneni September 26, 2022

The speech and debate team plan to have a mock tournament for new members on the week of Oct. 3 for new members after school. The first debate tournament for new members is scheduled on Oct. 8 at Ben Davis...

SROs plan greater involvement in education, communication with students

Maddie Misterka September 14, 2022

The CHS School Resource Officers (SROs) look forward to the 2022-2023 school year with intentions to get involved in classrooms, meet more students and form a board of students to voice concerns and suggestions...

With increased crime rates, true-crime coverage,  students, teachers examine effect serial killers, violence in  media have on societal perceptions of criminals, criminal justice

With increased crime rates, true-crime coverage, students, teachers examine effect serial killers, violence in media have on societal perceptions of criminals, criminal justice

Jillian Moore and Raghav Sriram November 12, 2021

After Private investigators announced a new potential culprit for the crimes committed by the Zodiac Killer, junior Paige Walker said she noticed an increase in true crime coverage across newspapers, TV...

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