The Student News Site of University of Chicago Laboratory High School

U-High Midway
The Student News Site of University of Chicago Laboratory High School

U-High Midway
The Student News Site of University of Chicago Laboratory High School

U-High Midway
Leland Culver

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor

Leland Culver is assistant managing editor for online in 2019-20. He joined beginning journalism as a junior in 2018-19, and he served briefly as an assistant editor.

Awards:

2020 Illinois Journalism Education Association: First place, website (lead role)

2020 Illinois Journalism Education Association: Third place, social media, Facebook

2020 Illinois Journalism Education Association: Honorable mention, serious commentary, Zero-waste should be an affordable lifestyle

2020 Illinois Journalism Education Association: Honorable mention, alternative storytelling (with Olivia Griffin, Willow Young), 95.10 p12 Take time during break to rest, recharge

2020 Illinois Journalism Education Association: Honorable mention, best photo gallery or photo slideshow (with Peter Pu, Maria Shaughnessy): March 2, 2020: Art, music, fun abound at Art in the Dark

2019 Illinois Journalism Education Association: Second place, single-story package (with Priyanka Shrijay, Grace Zhang, Jacob Posner, Berk Oto, Risa Cohen)

All content by Leland Culver
Traditionally, SET receives and distributes submission forms in a colorful box located in the Sherry Lansing Theater. This year, the entire process and subsequent production will be conducted remotely.

[Photo] SET seeks student submissions for virtual production

Peter Pu, News Editor
November 20, 2020
A progressive education can not coexist with a traditional college preparatory experience, writes former Assistant Managing Editor Leland Culver.

Progressive education belongs at U-High

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
May 11, 2020
With more people forced to stay at home, many students connect with their friends through video games.

[Photo] Students turn to video games to connect with friends

Nikhil Patel, Editor-In-Chief
May 3, 2020
Associate Director leaving Lab for Chicago company

Associate Director leaving Lab for Chicago company

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
April 26, 2020
The extended family of Miriam Bloom gathers over Zoom to celebrate her cousin's Bar Mitzvah on April 3, performing the Shabbat service before the Bar Mitzvah. The ceremony was planned to happen April 4 in California, but was moved to Zoom when the stay-at-home order for COVID-19 was instituted.

Zooming in: Families celebrate religious holidays remotely

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
April 26, 2020
Obama's commencement speech and changes to the food delivery industry are covered in May 14's roundup.

Pandemic Roundup: Virtual game, students use social media to promote causes

Leland Culver and Berk Oto
April 17, 2020
Students pile plates with food from the potluck-style Blacksgiving spread Nov. 21 in Judd C116. Many clubs had similar events planned for the spring, which now have to be reworked to take place remotely.

Clubs, academic teams work to connect, maintain community remotely

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
April 16, 2020
Apps like "Netflix Party," a google chrome extension that allows Netflix users to synchronize their screens an provides live chat, have become integral to students' staying connected to each other during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Photo] Together apart: students stay connected despite social distancing

Caroline Hohner, Reporter
April 7, 2020
COVID-TV, a site started by ninth graders Lauren Tapper and Kia Dutta, is meant to be a place for teenagers to connect and share stories during the stay-at-home order.

Ninth-graders establish support blog for teens to share stories

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
April 4, 2020
Above, a draft of the Diversity Action Plan from Nov. 2019. The latest draft has been sent to the University of Chicago for approval.

[Photo] Diversity Advisory Committee drafts action plan

Adrianna Nehme, Reporter
March 9, 2020
Here are some recommended reads for spring break

Here are some recommended reads for spring break

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
March 8, 2020
The Bluest Eye, a longstanding component of the English 2 curriculum, used to be paired in English 1 with Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." The latter has been dropped so as to avoid creating a pattern of books about the exploitation of young girls of color.

[Photo] Curricula evolve in response to calls for diversity

Amanda Cassel, Managing Editor
March 8, 2020
Junior Addison Goolsbee poses in robotics coach Darren Fuller's room with We Byte's robot that the team designed and built for the state competition Feb. 21. Addison was one of the robotics team members who attended the competition.

[Photo] Robotics Team places third in state competition

Grace Holleb, Reporter
March 2, 2020
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[Photo] Tryouts for spring musical will be held March 3-6

Anathea Carrigan, Reporter
February 28, 2020
Zero-waste should be an affordable lifestyle

Zero-waste should be an affordable lifestyle

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
February 18, 2020
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[Photo] Winter Semi-Formal to say farewell to decade

Grace Holleb, Reporter
February 3, 2020
Bundled up, the students of Stephanie Mitzenmacher's fifth grade class stroll excitedly down 59th Street, carrying bags of many-colored paper chains. The class connected a chain between Blaine Hall and Earl Shapiro Hall, working with their kindergarten buddies in Delores Rita and Deb Del Campo’s class.

Fifth graders, kindergartners connect ESH and Blaine with paper chain

Tea Tamburo and Leland Culver
January 26, 2020
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[Photo] New courses to be introduced for new school year

Clare O'Connor, Reporter
January 22, 2020

Give “Cats” a try

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
January 13, 2020
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[Photo] Special schedule to end fall semester

Ethan Swinger, Reporter
January 9, 2020
Daniel Bobo-Jones to be reinstated at U-High

Daniel Bobo-Jones to be reinstated at U-High

Amanda Cassel, Leland Culver, and Mira Costello
December 20, 2019
Photo: Freshmen advisories make gingerbread houses

Photo: Freshmen advisories make gingerbread houses

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
December 16, 2019
PASSING THE TORCH. Smiling through the cold afternoon, Former Illinois representative Barbara Flynn Currie poses in front of her home in Hyde Park. Ms. Currie encourages students to get involved in issues they care about however they can, even if it's just writing their representatives.

Alumna, political veteran encourages teens to lead the way

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
December 11, 2019
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[Photo] Quick Q: Students reflect on relationships, support during Thanksgiving season

Audrey Matzke and Gretchen Matzke
November 28, 2019
Two brother lions cuddle up under shelter from the rain in the "Great Cats" area. The lions were all born at the zoo

Zoos are fun, informative, often overlooked

Leland Culver, Berk Oto, and Clare O'Connor
November 22, 2019
The submissions box in Sherry Lansing Theater is one of the places where students can submit their proposals for Student Experimental Theater, which will be accepting submissions until Dec. 2. There is another box in the high school office.

[Photo] Audio audacity: Students use concealed earbuds to avoid authority

Anathea Carrigan, Reporter
November 22, 2019
Friend-finding apps can be counterintuitively isolating

Friend-finding apps can be counterintuitively isolating

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
November 7, 2019
U-High sophomores and juniors will work among fellow high school and college students for 37.5 hours a week to research areas of interest in the computer science field.

Computer science internships returning this summer

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
November 5, 2019
The gratitude journal is available in Pritzker-Traubert library for anyone to write in something they are thankful for.

[Photo] Gratitude Project installs journal for writing positive feelings

Noa Appelbaum, Reporter
October 24, 2019
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[Photo] Renaissance magazine submissions beginning

Abe Callard, Reporter
October 21, 2019
Students and families are invited to participate in the annual Eid dinner Oct. 23 hosted by the Muslim Students' Association

[Photo] Students, families invited to dinner celebrating end of Ramadan

Grace Holleb, Midway Reporter
October 17, 2019
Looking for a scare? Try some of these

Looking for a scare? Try some of these

Leland Culver, Assistant Managing Editor
October 10, 2019
Class of 2023 elects Student Council representatives

Class of 2023 elects Student Council representatives

Leland Culver, Assistant Editor
September 29, 2019
U-High graduate confirmed to lead Labor Department

U-High graduate confirmed to lead Labor Department

Leland Culver, Assistant Editor
September 29, 2019
CHANTING FOR CHANGE. U-High senior Joana Rose and other students walk out to protest in the Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20.

Students covering students: Generation Z stands together on climate

Peter Pu and Leland Culver
September 24, 2019
Class of 2023 election in full swing

Class of 2023 election in full swing

Leland Culver, Assistant Editor
September 22, 2019
U-Highlights has arrived

U-Highlights has arrived

Leland Culver, Assistant Editor
August 24, 2019
Faculty Association approves new 4-year contract

Faculty Association approves new 4-year contract

Leland Culver, Assistant Editor
June 20, 2019
HAMILTON’S WORLD. This diagram of “The Battery,” a term for Manhattan based on the artillery batteries that protected the city from the British, comes complete with sets of buildings that defined New York at the time. The room is decorated with portraits of important figures in Hamilton’s life.

A young, scrappy exhibition

Leland Culver, Assistant Editor
June 4, 2019
The first lines of the letter which called upon UChicago to change the structure of its community benefits agreement.

UChicago promises changes in benefit programs after community pressure

Leland Culver, Midway Reporter
May 9, 2019
PHOTOS: Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019

PHOTOS: Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019

Leland Culver, Midway Reporter
May 6, 2019
Junior Franzi Wild speaks in front of her committee at the Northwestern Model UN conference.

Model UN wins best large delegation at Northwestern

Leland Culver, Midway Reporter
April 24, 2019
The campaign signs for Lightfoot and Preckwinkle have been all over Hyde Park and Chicago for a few months now.

Lightfoot wins historic Chicago mayoral election

Leland Culver and Berk Oto
April 3, 2019
Chicago choices

Chicago choices

Leland Culver, Berk Oto, and Priyanka Shrijay
February 15, 2019

Lab reps attend school diversity conference

Leland Culver, Midway Reporter
February 14, 2019

School leadership creates new spaces for work and relaxation

Leland Culver, Midway Reporter
January 28, 2019

New study spaces to come

Leland Culver, Midway Reporter
January 28, 2019

Negotiations begin for new faculty contract

Leland Culver, Reporter
November 14, 2018
Trump supporters thwart Boy Scout ethics at camp

Trump supporters thwart Boy Scout ethics at camp

Leland Culver, Guest Columnist
January 19, 2018
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