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The Student Newspaper of Jackson-Reed High School

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Harper Dunn

Harper Dunn, Written Content Editor

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How the pandemic changed my life philosophy

How the pandemic changed my life philosophy

Harper Dunn, Written Content Editor December 8, 2020

I don’t believe everything happens for a reason. I used to, though; experiencing the challenges of the pandemic has changed my perspective about the popular mantra. If someone experiences a hardship...

Summer

Summer

Harper Dunn, Written Content Editor October 27, 2020

In the beginning, Parched grass transitioned into a vibrant spread, Sunbeams glistening on our warm shoulders, Whimsically gliding through the carnival of life,   But inside the rain...

AP World History to be discontinued next school year

AP World History to be discontinued next school year

Harper Dunn and Sophia Hosford June 23, 2020

The popular sophomore Advanced Placement course AP World History will not be offered at Wilson next year. History Department Head David Heckler spearheaded termination of the course, seeing that it caused...

How to get through the rest of the year

How to get through the rest of the year

Harper Dunn, Written Content Editor April 4, 2020

With distance learning and so much chaos regarding the coronavirus pandemic, the end of the school year may seem light years away. So instead of spending your time being sad and bored waiting for school...

Graphic by Kali Kowal

WilsonLive basketball clip goes viral

Harper Dunn, Written Content Editor March 6, 2020

“It’s rebounded by Darren Buchanan Jr., pushing the fast break . . . OHHH MY GOD!” These words have become pretty familiar around Wilson since WilsonLive’s broadcast of the boys varsity basketball...

Stolen! An inside look at Wilson thieving

Stolen! An inside look at Wilson thieving

Harper Dunn and Anya Herzberg June 9, 2019

We all have experienced the feeling of leaving something behind, panicking, and quickly returning to the spot where it was left. Sometimes upon return, however, it’s nowhere to be found. Those AirPods...

Tracing Wilson's carbon footprint

Tracing Wilson’s carbon footprint

How much paper does Wilson use? Is it too much? By the end of a normal day, the average student accumulates about 14 pieces of paper. That is more than 2,300 pieces of paper per student per year, which...

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Wilson YouTube usage: not clickbait

Harper Dunn, Written Content Editor March 31, 2019

According to a recent study by Pew Research Center, 85 percent of American teens say they watch YouTube. That’s more than both Snapchat and Instagram. But does this hold true at Wilson? According...

Random kid, random gig: tiresome techno at the McCormally-Ward concert

Harper Dunn and Anya Herzberg January 27, 2019

We walked into the backyard of the Rhizome, a run-down, modest house in Takoma. Lights were hung across the yard and people sat around a campfire listening to an odd type of music. We looked to the front...

Don’t waste your snow days on subpar sledding

Harper Dunn and Anya Herzberg December 16, 2018

Sledding. An essential snow day activity, right? But did you know that after all this time you may have been sledding on the wrong hill? We couldn’t stand knowing that many Wilson students were wasting...

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