Every morning, a few minutes after second period begins, the speakers come to life and ASB students read off submitted announcements to the entire school, covering breaking news as well as news that’s...
Take a second to remember your most drastic hairstyle change. Maybe you got bangs during quarantine. Maybe your dad shaved your head at the last possible second before school one morning because you forgot...
Hellen Chung, Editorial Board Member
– December 3, 2024
Like the slightly regretful sugar crash after a Halloween night, biting into a face-sized cookie from Crumbl Cookies emulates the same feeling of short-lived happiness and sugar-induced nausea.
Just...
You haven’t had the full Liberty experience until you’ve been stuck in a first-period portable class in the dead of winter. As you hunch in your chair hoping to preserve placebo-levels of warmth, your...
Success in class starts with your attendance, your motivation, and the teachers' decorations in the classroom. Yes, the decorations in a classroom play a pivotal part in a student’s academic performance....
Hellen Chung, Editorial Board Member
– May 31, 2024
Let’s address the elephant in Liberty’s lunchroom: the new wooden utensils.
I can admit that the plastic utensils were less green, but if the school–or anyone, really–chooses to be more eco-friendly,...
While art is an expression of one's own ideas, good art is what the world wants to see. Perhaps what makes Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painting so enchanting for many is the usage of shapes and colors...
When we were between the ages five and ten, there were a variety of cartoons that we all loved to watch. Just the mere mention of cartoons like Wild Kratts or Max and Ruby are enough to send shivers of...
“Please let this be a normal field trip...”
“Duh... we’re going to Renton Tech. I think it will be fine”
As kids, field trips were the best part of the year. They were the one time a year...
Hellen Chung, Editorial Board Member
– April 26, 2024
TikTok is an app of seconds-long videos with endless possibilities: funny pet videos, life-changing food hacks, and dances like the Renegade.
To teenagers, the escape from reality through the short-form...
Addison Milne, Editorial Board Member
– April 26, 2024
This is probably going to upset some people, but tipping culture has gotten out of hand. Recently, I went to buy a drink from Starbucks, and it was already somewhat expensive. In addition to the $6.00...
Addison Milne, Editorial Board Member
– April 26, 2024
“I love paying $60 to stare at a screen and take a three hour standardized test!” future you said.
You might be wondering, “Addison, how do you know what I am going to be saying in the future?”...