Marin Ubersox

Marin Ubersox, Feature Editor

Hi! My name is Marin Ubersox, and I use she/her pronouns. I’m a senior, and this year I’m the Feature editor. I love writing about issues that affect our community, and I hope to continue raising awareness about them in Feature this year. I lead the ETHS Politics Club, am a board member of the Community Service Club, and also play tennis. In my free time, I love reading books and hanging out with my friends.

By Marin Ubersox

National Merit Semifinalists

Marin Ubersox, Feature Editor • October 11, 2024

Though standardized test-taking rooms are typically cold and uninviting, with desks lined in rows and stop times hastily scribbled on whiteboards, they can sometimes house surprising opportunities for...

Women In Stem: how gender impacts experiences

Marin Ubersox, Feature Editor • September 13, 2024

Though Chemistry and Physics (Chem/Phys) classrooms are decorated with slate gray tables, intimidating lab equipment and chalkboards full of nearly indecipherable equations, the positive energy within...

5: ‘One of the models’

Milo Slevin, Marin Ubersox and Sophia Siddiqui • May 21, 2024

On a Zoom call for the Reparation Information Thought Series in the winter of 2023, Robin Rue Simmons captivated her audience through the screen, engaging a national audience of activists and community...

Just the Jakes

Izabella Paracuelles and Marin Ubersox • May 8, 2024

Sullivan Sisters bring bluegrass to Evanston

Marin Ubersox, In-Depth Editor • February 22, 2024

On a blustery morning at the Evanston Farmers’ Market, patrons with arms full of produce stopped to listen to a beautiful sound drifting through the air on the wind. It floated past canvas tents displaying...

Empowering minds, nurturing inclusivity

Marin Ubersox and Paula Hlava • November 17, 2023

As Superintendent Dr. Marcus Campbell named his strategic priorities for District 202 for the 2021-22 school year, social-emotional learning was at the top of the list. Students would be returning to school...

Seeking Affinity

Sophia Sherman, Isaac Suarez Flint and Marin Ubersox • August 15, 2023

2,580 miles away from her home in Medellin, Colombia, Maria Gomez stepped into ETHS for the first time in 2021, a junior in high school. As Gomez made her way through the unfamiliar, winding hallways of...

Four years in replay: the moments that shaped the Class of 2023

Sophia Sherman, Marin Ubersox, Isaac Suarez Flint and Sophie Milner-Gorvine • May 11, 2023

As graduation caps fly into the air on May 21, four years accumulate into a single moment. 902 students gather on stage, diplomas in hand, ready to take the next step. Throughout its time at ETHS, the...

A historical tug of war

Jessica Sehgal, Bridget Baker, Marin Ubersox and Milo Slevin • March 15, 2023

In 1969, then-senior Hecky Powell marched 250 students through ETHS’ Heritage Hall that runs right through the center of the building. Students from all walks of life parked outside of the Superintendent's...

Mass killings in America reveal pattern

Sadie Dowhan, Marin Ubersox, Hazel Hayes and Lily Roback • February 27, 2023

Violence on the basis of race has repeatedly happened throughout American history because racism is embedded into the fabric of the United States. From the first injustice against Native Americans to modern day, these factors of a massacre have sparked suffering throughout history that continue to affect Indigenous groups. Massacres are not defined by the murderous rampages of a single instance, but the massacre of culture and freedom that Native Americans had cultivated for centuries prior.

Just a 30-minute cab ride away: An inside look at North Cook Young Adult Academy

Jessica Sehgal, Bridget Baker, Marin Ubersox, Charlotte Geyskens, Paula Hlava and Odessa Winn • December 16, 2022

Jian Kramer couldn’t remember how that pocket knife even got there in the first place, but now it sat in the palm of the safety officer's hand, staring Kramer back in the face: a mindless error that would change the course of his entire high school education.

Technological troubles in teaching: how mobile devices affect education, ETHS

Jessica Sehgal, Bridget Baker, Marin Ubersox, Paula Hlava, Zoe Kaufman, Sophie Milner-Gorvine and Kate Myers • October 14, 2022

The years following the pandemic saw a large uptick in students' addiction to technology, specifically cell phones. Technology had been one of the only things that allowed people to connect with each other even when everyone was stuck at home, and many teachers have noticed the increase in technological use that students endured remotely has translated into the classroom setting. The new phone policy attempts to curb that addiction.