Dear Midway readers,
As we begin the 101st year of the U-High Midway, you have our sincerest thanks for continuing to read and support the newspaper.
This year, our primary goal is to engage in a closer dialogue with U-High’s student body, faculty and administration. It is our absolute privilege and priority to reflect your voices, tell your stories and report on the issues that matter most to our community.
In a time when journalists are being threatened by censorship, political opposition and attacks on the truth itself, the Midway team is choosing to lean in rather than step back.
Student journalism, too often dismissed as practice or play, is in fact a form of resistance: it insists that young people have the right and responsibility to speak, ask questions and demand clarity from the institutions that surround them.
Part of that responsibility means being transparent about the tools we use. The Midway allows only limited and disclosed uses of artificial intelligence — for example, to help with transcription, support research or summarize documents — never to generate quotes, images, or publishable text. Every word you read in these pages is written, curated and edited by students. AI will never replace the judgment, curiosity or voice of a student journalist.
We will strive to cover stories that reflect not only the achievements of our community but also its tensions and contradictions. Our commitment is, and will remain, to seek what is true — even, and especially, when it’s uncomfortable. The Midway will strive throughout this year to engage as much as possible — and more than ever — with its audience, and we thus invite and encourage you to read, respond to, and challenge us in turn. Journalism grows stronger when readers push back, when conversations get messy and when silence is broken.
Thank you for your support and for reading the Midway.
Light Dohrn, Kabir Joshi and Sohana Schneider
Editors-in-Chief
