Social media is full of amazing platforms and good times, but let’s not forget the chaos it has caused during our high school years. Mistakes are par for the course, we just have to make sure we’re...

Here’s your Lolla checklist: Lightweight shirt, sunglasses, wristband, weed, vodka… Substance abuse has become so normal that we see it as an obvious part of the festival experience, when the real...

Get smART. Too many of us stop taking art classes because we don’t realize all that they can do for us. From mental wellness to your GPA, art classes are worth considering. So you think you’re...

There are a million things to do with your time, yet you find yourself watching a show that makes you feel like you’re losing brain cells. Don’t beat yourself up, though—watching “bad” TV is...

The media is unavoidable, but being brainwashed into giving up your time, money and free will is not. If you don’t fight back against what you see, you lose your mental independence. Everywhere you...

Every gender, race, and age comes with unrealistic beauty expectations, and the new wave of body positivity in the media is supposedly trying to change that. Unfortunately, they’re not doing enough. According...

Phones away! We’re tired of hearing it. Teachers, parents and the technology resistant see mobile devices as the bane of the millennial generation, when really, they are great assets to have. We,...

You’re materialistic. You’re ruining the holidays and forgetting their meanings by emptying your wallets for every single one. Sure, the old-timey name for Halloween is All Hallow’s Eve, but...

Step up. Always listening to music for free hurts the musicians, producers, writers and others who are behind the songs, because they’re hardly being paid. You have a responsibility as a listener...

Hey, go like my instagram. So many a teen have sent or received this text. Whether it be our newest “insta,” Facebook profile picture, or tweet, we are always checking the hearts, likes and favorites,...

I love One Direction. What did you do? Roll your eyes? Groan? Start judging me and my entire existence? Usually I receive a combination of the above when I say those four words. The next thing that happens...

INVINCIBLE. The ESANDE dance performance opens tonight at 7:30, and promises to encompass routines from all over the world to create a show that’s truly unstoppable. "We've been trying to treat...

You probably don’t understand what it was like to live in North Carolina during the Civil Rights Movement, but seeing The North Star this winter could help you put a face to what you’ve learned on...

Pressure and practice. Performers that will be taking the stage this January know all about them both. The Music Dept. is putting on its twenty-first annual Honors Recital, where the school’s best...

You probably don’t understand what it was like to live in North Carolina during the Civil Rights Movement, but seeing The North Star this winter could help you put a face to what you’ve learned on...

“We want Pomkits!” ETHS fans heavily anticipate the performances but it’s the effort behind the scenes that makes them so engaging. “I love their energy,” Says sophomore Tessa Otting. The...