Téa Tamburo, Reporter
May 26, 2020 • No Comments
David Ribbens, athletics director, was recognized as a Certified Master Athletics Administrator last week, after 17 years in the Laboratory Schools athletics department. The first certification he received was Certified...
Caroline Hohner, Reporter
May 18, 2020 • No Comments
To virtually connect younger Lab students with older students, the Parents’ Association introduced Lab Kids Connect on April 30. The program will provide face-to-face engagement that younger students may lack during the...
Back at it: Magill will draw on Lab experience during interim year
May 18, 2020
Boosting morale, ensuring Lab’s financial security and searching for a new director are among Dr. Magill’s top priorities for the next year, which he hopes to accomplish using the lessons he learned when he was the Laboratory Schools director from 2003 to 2014.
Teens lead each other to financial independence through new website, podcast
May 17, 2020
A ninth grader has taken up the cause of educating her peers about financial literacy with a website and podcast. Kriti...
Senior mementos, graduation gear distributed with car line for virtual graduation
May 16, 2020
Much like seniors have lined up in early June every year for the annual procession into Rockefeller Chapel for graduation,...
Pandemic roundup: Barack Obama to host commencement speech, door delivery industry changes
May 14, 2020
The Midway is providing periodic updates regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on U-High students, faculty and others...
Colin Leslie, Reporter
The Pritzker Traubert Family Library is in the process of bringing a free e-book and audiobook service through an app called SORA to U-High students so they can have an easy way to access books during the stay-at-home order and future school cl...
May 27, 2020
Zzzz: Student sleep schedules change noticeably due to social distancing, remote learning
May 26, 2020
Social distancing and remote learning have noticeably changed many students’ sleep schedules, as they have no reason to get up as early to go to school....
Your guide to upcoming virtual musical, theatrical performances
May 22, 2020
While the coronavirus pandemic cancelled or indefinitely postponed many in person events, a lot of venues are taking their shows online. Here are some...
Colin Leslie, Reporter
May 20, 2020 • No Comments
On May 14, senior Mary Neal played basketball alone at her friend’s outdoor hoop with the friend’s permission. This was the first time in two months that Mary, a member of the girls basketball team...
Some sports teams will celebrate senior night over Zoom, others postponed plans
May 19, 2020
P.E. department uses applications, YouTube videos to compensate for missing class
May 16, 2020
Legacy of action: Activism today
May 6, 2020
Organizers, protestors and activists today find themselves in a similar position to those in the ’70s: taking to the streets in a time of great tumult.
Legacy of action: The protests at Lab
May 5, 2020
The shooting at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970, was one of many events that left the Lab community shocked, but it also acted as a catalyst, causing students to stand up for ideas that they believed in despite consequences and school closure.
Legacy of action: The Kent State shooting, 50 years later
May 4, 2020
The shooting caused Americans to pay attention to the war and eventually led to U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
Christian Gluth, Sports Editor
May 21, 2020 • No Comments
The masterful combination of in-sync instruments, each playing their own sounds, normally combine to make one delightful composition. A spectator would normally be put in a trance by the long strokes of...
Nicky Edwards-Levin and Abe Callard
May 19, 2020 • No Comments
There's a dated belief that animations are only for small children. These witty and mature Netflix shows demonstrate how false this narrative is. Both shows contain witty, humorous and insightful commentary...
Seinfeld stand-up fails to compete with comedy of classic ‘Seinfeld’
May 15, 2020
There’s TV that makes you laugh so hard you cry, and then there’s TV that makes you smile to yourself...
Epic adventure of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ comes to Netflix
May 15, 2020
Standing on a tall column of rock, Aang awaits his destiny. The skinny, bald, 13-year-old kid with an...
Renaissance history: Magazine board members compile digital 1980s retrospective
May 14, 2020
View the retrospective work below. In 1980 U-High students Calvin Chou, Rishona Zimring, Elizabeth...
Berk Oto, Managing Editor
May 12, 2020
To preserve their freedom and privacy, Americans should be cautious of opting into geotracking features that will increasingly be pushed on them in the coming years.
Adrianna Nehme, Reporter
May 11, 2020
An endless line of people wraps the bookstore. As the author calls out to the next girl who waits patiently, the girl slowly steps forward with her book in hand waiting...
Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
May 11, 2020
Lab, you’re trying to please two masters. Progressive education cannot coexist with a traditional college preparatory curriculum.
Grace Holleb, Reporter
May 26, 2020
Social distancing and remote learning have noticeably changed many students’ sleep schedules, as they have no reason to get up as early to go to school. Although unstructured...
Student performers anxious to audition for spring musical
April 24, 2020
Students from all grade levels and abilities waited anxiously for their turn to audition for the spring musical, the critically acclaimed "Something Rotten."