March 18, 2024
Jaya Alenghat, City Life EditorMarch 18, 2024
Light Dohrn, Assistant EditorMarch 8, 2024
Haley Maharry, ReporterMarch 6, 2024
Audrey Park and Sahana UnniMarch 5, 2024
Zara Siddique, Light Dohrn, and Milo Platz-WalkerMarch 5, 2024
Skye Freeman, Audience Engagement ManagerMarch 4, 2024
Neha Dhawan, Reporter
Katie Sasamoto-Kurisu, Audrey Park, and Sahana Unni
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Dear readers, Over the course of this year, the Midway has strived for consistently high-quality journalism and well-rounded reporting. We are pleased to see how the Midway has developed and diversified coverage over...
Skye Freeman, Audience Engagement Manager
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The sun lit up Judd C116 as a flowing line of students made their way around food-covered tables, picking up dish samples while lively music played in the background. For the hour-long ArtsFest lunch period on Feb. 28, the...
- Lab parent educates students about growing resilience at all-school assembly March 4, 2024
- Multiple thefts reported this month February 16, 2024
- Changes in AT Chemistry empower students, contribute to welcoming classroom environment February 12, 2024
- Asian Students’ Association commemorates diversity of the Asian American experience in first assembly February 12, 2024
- Program of studies features new classes, grading explanations February 9, 2024
- Betsy Noel, equal opportunities director and Title IX coordinator, accepts UChicago position February 6, 2024
- Administrator selected as new middle school principal February 5, 2024
Tinson Xu, Reporter
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*Mr. Hartigan talking* It’s 12:50 p.m. in David Hartigan’s fifth period Advanced Pre-Calculus and Calculus A class. Students are settling into their seats and some...
Headphones serve as form of expression, beyond practicality
March 8, 2024
Through the hallways of U-High, headphones are everywhere: on heads, desks and shoulders, and in bags,...
Audio: For U-High students, computers represent responsibility, independence
March 8, 2024
[Nat Sound: Typing] Voice-over: Computers. For U-High students, computers mean a lot, with many...
Audio: Lab lifers reflect, give advice
March 7, 2024
Hallway natural sounds It’s a bustling Wednesday in a U-High hallway, as students frantically...
Audrey Park, Editor-in-Chief
March 18, 2024 • No Comments
The boys swimming and diving team’s season ended Feb. 17 at the IHSA Sectional at Chicago, where the team placed fourth. Co-captain Austin Kim said he is proud of how the season went. In particular,...
Haley Maharry, Reporter
March 14, 2024 • No Comments
After multiple team members were injured, the girls basketball team ended its season on Feb. 10 at the first game of playoffs, losing 36-37 to Dyett High School. Before losing members to injuries, the...
Boys basketball ends season at regional semifinals
March 7, 2024
Gallery: Winter sports in review
March 5, 2024
Despite winless season, squash team closes season with personal victories
March 4, 2024
Fencing ends after successful season
February 29, 2024
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Light Dohrn, Assistant Editor
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When asked to name the most epic fictional world ever created, the answers that you would get from most fantasy connoisseurs are fairly predictable. The epic, lush expanse of Middle-earth in “The Lord...
Ari Novak, Reporter
March 6, 2024 • No Comments
Intro Nat Sound: Sympathy For The Devil Rehearsal VO #1: “It’s a busy Thursday afternoon at School of Rock Chicago West in the East Village neighborhood where children ages 4 to adults are taking...
Audio: BookTok reignites passion for reading
March 5, 2024
Natural sound: Tiktok sounds from BookTok videos From recommendations, reactions and strong...
ArtsFest activities reflect students spirit, creativity
February 29, 2024
After the Art in the Dark exhibition on Feb. 27, the U-High community gathered for a traditional...
Lucy Shirrell, Reporter
March 18, 2024
When faced with the common headache, menstrual cramps, or other aches and pains, the quick solution for most people is to take an over-the-counter painkiller, but if this...
Mira Reddy, Reporter
March 14, 2024
Makeup is a part of the everyday routine for many people, but research done on what’s put into makeup is uncovering many microplastics contained primarily in low-cost drugstore...
Ari Novak, Reporter
March 12, 2024
Released on Feb. 2 to an anticipating (albeit niche) crowd, Apple has begun selling its new Vision Pro Headset, a $3,500 gadget that loops around the user’s head designed...
March 18, 2024
Jaya Alenghat, City Life EditorMarch 18, 2024
Light Dohrn, Assistant EditorMarch 8, 2024
Haley Maharry, ReporterMarch 6, 2024
Audrey Park and Sahana UnniMarch 5, 2024
Zara Siddique, Light Dohrn, and Milo Platz-WalkerMarch 5, 2024
Skye Freeman, Audience Engagement ManagerMarch 4, 2024
Neha Dhawan, ReporterFebruary 29, 2024
Taariq Ahmed, Chloe Alexander, and Skye FreemanFebruary 29, 2024
Jaya Alenghat, City Life Editor
Edward Park, Assistant Editor
March 4, 2024 • No Comments
Alex Lickerman, a Lab parent and a primary care doctor at ImagineMD, spoke to students about the importance of growing resilience and shared his four methods students can take to develop inner strength at the Wellness Assembly...
Sahana Unni, Editor-in-Chief
February 16, 2024 • No Comments
Throughout the hallways and outside of classrooms, backpacks can often be seen lined up on the floor, their owners nowhere in sight. However, in the past few weeks, several students have returned from classes to find the...
Changes in AT Chemistry empower students, contribute to welcoming classroom environment
February 12, 2024
Update February 13 6:21 p.m.: This story has been updated to correct that in the AT Chemistry class in 2015, not every student...
February 12, 2024
With the theme of “Exploring the Diversity of the Asian American Experience Through a Contemporary Lens,” the Asian Students’...
Program of studies features new classes, grading explanations
February 9, 2024
The 2024-25 Program of Studies features new grading purpose statements and new course offerings in six departments. Grading...
Betsy Noel, equal opportunities director and Title IX coordinator, accepts UChicago position
February 6, 2024
Betsy Noel, Lab’s equal opportunity services director and Title IX coordinator, has accepted the position of director of...
Zara Siddique, Sports & Leisure Editor
February 23, 2024
Light Dohrn, Assistant Editor
February 23, 2024
When faced with the common headache, menstrual cramps, or other aches and pains, the quick solution for most people is to take an over-the-counter painkiller, but if this...
Makeup is a part of the everyday routine for many people, but research done on what’s put into makeup is uncovering many microplastics contained primarily in low-cost drugstore...
Released on Feb. 2 to an anticipating (albeit niche) crowd, Apple has begun selling its new Vision Pro Headset, a $3,500 gadget that loops around the user’s head designed...
The boys swimming and diving team’s season ended Feb. 17 at the IHSA Sectional at Chicago, where the team placed fourth. Co-captain Austin Kim said he is proud of how the season went. In particular,...
Editor’s note: Students spoke to the Midway on the condition of anonymity due to age restrictions for the products mentioned. Both students...
“And you give really meaningful assignments.” Lower school art teacher Allison Beaulieu reads this final sentence once, then again, smiling to herself. She folds up the letter from one of her...
It's a warm and bright Tuesday afternoon in Sunny Gymnasium, while Meghan Janda’s 7th period P.E. class is actively engaged in an energetic volleyball match, high-fiving...
Walking through the bright red door and descending down narrow stairs into the cozy nook covered ceiling to floor in books, customers of 57th...