Get your Midwestern cousins to vote Joe
Camille Grant, Managing Editor
October 1, 2020
Let’s be clear: We’ve already had Joe Biden in the White House. Voting for him isn’t a matter of supporting a hypothetical presidency, but rather favoring a return to the status quo instead of a Trump dynastic rule. While you should vote for Joe, too much concern is given to the tiny minority of...
Reconciling Role Models
Libby Eggert, Editor-in-Chief
September 30, 2020
On Sept. 18, at 6:28pm, I was finishing up a shift at work, and responding to a text from my boss. A push notification dropped down from NPR with the headline “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87.” Fortunately, no one was in the store, and my body crumpled to...
Media vilifies black teenagers to justify murder
Dante Berry, Staffer
September 30, 2020
Late this summer, yet another young Black man became the victim of a high-profile case of police brutality. Jacob Blake, 29, was shot seven times in the back by police officers on Aug. 23 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, suffering paralyzation from the waist down. He has three children. However, much of the news...
Is it time to break up with your phone?
Elizabeth Short, Staffer
September 29, 2020
OPRF junior Maggie Blonski is spending time the way many teens do: on TikTok. She scrolls, watching video after video. And then she wakes up. Like 800 million users around the world, Blonski watches TikTok videos, and she is hooked. She admitted she occasionally dreams about scrolling through ...
Proposal: A fairer way of voting
Harrison Dear, Staffer
September 29, 2020
An NBC/WSJ poll in 2019 reported that almost 40% of the country wants a third major political party. Many feel unrepresented in the political establishment and look for parties such as the Green, Libertarian, or Constitution Party to support. However, 2016 Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson only...
Book Review: “Kobe Bryant”
Alex Goldstein, Staffer
September 29, 2020
Merriam-Webster defines ‘biography’ as “a usually written history of a person’s life.” Its sole purpose is to provide information, to encourage the reader to admire and reflect on the certain figure’s legacy. And Kobe Bryant is certainly a figure worthy of admiration and reflection. Written...
Work at the Election
Libby Eggert, Editor-in-Chief
September 29, 2020
In less than two months, we are facing an election in extremely unprecedented circumstances. Along with the presidential contest itself, going out into public feels unnatural after months of isolating ourselves. But even amidst a pandemic, perhaps even moreso, we have a public responsibility to continue...
What can we do about identity theft?
Harrison Dear, Staffer
September 29, 2020
Some say we are the guinea-pig generation for technology. I would agree. However, unlike guinea-pigs, we have agency over many of our choices. Having had Internet access since I was little, I would say I have generally been careful. Like many of us, my parents told me not to talk to strangers, which un...
HASS TAKE: Thank you, Trapeze: What you gave me and why it matters
Ella Haas, News/Opinion editor
June 3, 2020
Technically speaking, I was on Trapeze before I was a high schooler. A few weeks prior to the start of my freshman year, I’d become set on joining the paper. By then, journalism had been cemented into me as my future career: I’d been composing stories for over a decade. I had dreams of owning the Ne...
A Letter From the Editors
May 27, 2020
An Update from Trapeze: As the 2019-2020 school year comes to an end in a way none of us could have expected, Trapeze is preparing for all the possibilities next year holds. We will continue to report updates regarding announcements and regulations as they come from the school board, the ...
Impacts of the N-word
Zaahir Hall, Contributor
May 8, 2020
Being on OPRF’s majority-white soccer team as the only fully-black kid, you’d think kids at a school who prides itself on being progressive would go out of their way to make me feel welcomed. I quickly realized it was the complete opposite case - maybe as early as the first week of OPRF soccer, ...
HAAS TAKE: A Hard Case for Decriminalization
Ella Haas, News/Opinion Editor
May 8, 2020
Opioid use is increasing within high-school age groups. According to RehabSpot, “21,000 (American) teenagers used heroin in 2015, and 6,000 of them had a heroin use disorder in the previous year. Unfortunately, it appears the problem is getting worse. Teenage opioid addiction rates increased by ...
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