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While apps such as Instagram and TikTok might provide entertainment, they may be doing more harm than good to students' mental health and body image.

Pressure to be perfect: Social media sites only give a glimpse of reality

Grace Holleb, Features Editor
April 13, 2021
Student-athletes should be able to opt out of P.E. classes, writes reporter Amy Ren.

Student-athletes should be allowed to opt out of P.E.

Amy Ren, Reporter
April 12, 2021
As the pandemic has continued, students have faced new challenges navigating social interactions, leading some students to relax their diligence about getting infected with the coronavirus. Some have completely avoided in-person socialization, while others formed small pods, where members reduce risk by committing to interactions only with a limited group.

Pandemic Problems: Social isolation reveals importance of human connection

Téa Tamburo, Content Manager
April 9, 2021
A year ago today, Lab closed for an extended spring break. This week students and teachers finally returned in-person.

One year of distance

Ella Beiser, Editor-In-Chief
March 13, 2021
History teacher Naadia Owens poses with her husband, Aaron Brunswick, and their daughter, Eden, in typical pandemic get-ups outside their home. Since schools transitioned to distance learning last March, parents like Ms. Owens have had to adjust to working near their young kids, and in the process, have gained insights into who their kids are as students.

Shared spaces: Families come to understand distance learning, work lives

Caroline Hohner, Arts Co-Editor
March 10, 2021
Junior Loren Calleri makes knives, hooks, cheeseboards and more through woodwork and metalwork with his dad. These are sold on his Etsy shop, Driftless Metal Works

Loren, Daniel Calleri start Etsy shop, bond over woodworking

Téa Tamburo, Content Manager
March 5, 2021
Music is a powerful medium for teachers to communicate and connect with their students during a time of separation. “When I see people bobbing their head to a song at the start of class or have a student mention the music in office hours,” english teacher Rachel Nielsen said, “it makes me feel like I still have some of that connection and culture from before all of this.”

Calm, comfort, community: Adults and students discover music of different eras

Clare O'Connor, Reporter
March 4, 2021
Kindergarten teacher Lisa Washington Kuzel, a two-time Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching finalist, reads a story to her students March 2.

Teacher selected as finalist for Golden Apple award

Peter Pu, News Editor
March 2, 2021
Days when students are allowed to return to campus will increase, according to interim director David Magill.

Lab to parents: We commit to fall 2021 return

Amanda Cassel, Editor-in-Chief
March 1, 2021
Students and parents protest Lab's conservative return-to-school approach and lack of transparency on Feb. 25 after gathering in front of Blaine Hall.

Parents protest in-person delays despite updates from administration

Nicky Edwards-Levin, Editor-in-Chief
February 26, 2021
In the second Gratitude Project, Lab families make lasagnas to express gratitude for faculty and staff. Faculty and staff received them by delivery or pick-up outside of Gordon Parks Arts Hall.

Families express gratitude for faculty, staff with lasagnas

Colin Leslie, Reporter
February 24, 2021
The U-High community is split on whether to opt-in to hybrid learning with many fearing COVID-19 risk.

Still undecided: Community anxious for hybrid learning details

Lucia Kouri, An Ngo, and Berk Oto
February 10, 2021
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