Nicole Ardila / Contributing Writer On Valentine’s Day 2018, a day usually filled with love, tragedy stole the lives of 17 South Florida teenagers. Three years ago, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, walked in excited to celebrate a day of love with their friends and dates. With about 40 minutes left of class, […]
Nathan Nayor/Contributing Writer It has been over two and a half years since the Parkland shooting, which sparked protests around the country pleading for regulations on guns that would prevent these tragedies; yet they ensue, and we have now had a year in which there have been more shootings than days in the year. With […]
Ernesto Antunez/Contributing Writer Eighteen-year-old Kyle Kashuv was a friendly and articulate young man singing all the right political tunes. A victim of the infamous Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, he was afterwards catapulted into a position of prominence among the Right as a well known conservative activist. Unfortunately, youth giveth and youth taketh away. Recently, Kashuv […]
By: Victor Jorges/Assistant News Director When Nathalia Balderrama walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year on Feb. 14, she had no idea her life would change forever. Balderrama –who now attends FIU– said when she walked into school, everything felt like a normal day. However, the feeling of normality rapidly faded with […]
Photos and Words by: Ivonne Rodriguez/Contributing Writer Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School, who created the March for Our Lives movement for gun control, are on a nation-wide tour called Vote for Our Lives to promote early voting until Tuesday, Nov. 6. On Saturday, Oct. 27, Emma Gonzalez of the March for Our […]
Uzi Darwiche/ Staff Writer I will never forget that day. I was at my school locker trying to get the right combination when I heard one of the lunch crew say that some airplanes had hit the towers and that they had collapsed. I had been inside the towers three months earlier with my mother, […]
Alhi Leconte/ Staff Writer This past Valentine’s Day was unfortunately filled with much more tragedy than love. Seventeen people were killed and 14 more were wounded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL by a gunman who was a former student at the school. Yet again, an incident of gun violence sparks a […]
