Téa Tamburo, Editor-in-Chief
May 12, 2022 • No Comments
Seventeen U-High juniors will advance to the national level of the National History Day contest, the most students to advance from one high school in Illinois this year. This is the tenth consecutive year U-High students...
Joaquin Figueroa, Reporter
May 9, 2022 • 1 Comment
Before she came to Lab, junior Ilana Sancristobal went to middle school in Texas. There she took German as her world language because it was typically what students took if they already knew Spanish. The vast majority of...
Middle, high school to start later in 2023-24
May 9, 2022
School for middle and high school students will begin at 8:30 a.m. starting in the 2023-24 school year, Laboratory Schools...
May 6, 2022
Senior Peter Stern pulls into a gas station on his way to school to refill his car. He drives past a sign displaying gas...
Student Council officers answer questions for next year
May 5, 2022
After a week of campaigning, a day of voting and hours of anticipation, the student body elected a new student government...
Issues arise at Social Justice Week workshops
May 4, 2022
Despite reminders from teachers and workshop leaders, U-High community norms for sensitive discussions were violated several...
As the Midway sees it… During Social Justice Week, each workshop begins with a cursory reminder of the U-High community norms, a list of 12 discussion standards which include...
More than 4 million people are trying to leave Ukraine and are being welcomed into other countries. Meanwhile in another part of the world, people from South America and the...
In a recent tweet, Russian violinist Galiya Zharova expressed disappointment at being barred from the 2022 Sibelius International Violin Competition after months of intense...
On May 13, the girls soccer team won the IHSA 1A Regional Championship, beating Morgan Park Academy 8-0. As the team celebrates its achievement and moves into the postseason, its success is in part due...
Deep breath in. Senior Tenzin Karma, who practices Buddhism, meditates in a quiet room, early in the morning. Over the course of the pandemic,...
The bride and groom stand at the altar, friends and family gazing at them, when a red car screeches up. A man jumps out and whisks away the bride-to-be, leaving the groom stunned and mortified. It is a...
Settling in Hyde Park poses many challenges for refugees, and in a church in Hyde Park, among other places, they utilize tutoring, ESL programs and other forms of aid. Much...
The negative health effects of tanning came to the forefront of public concern in the 1980s, as studies were published correlating the use of indoor tanning beds with higher...
It’s 7 p.m. on a Friday night and a man working the closing shift starts locking up. Upstairs in a backroom, behind boxes of comics, shelves...
