An Artistic Opportunity
Molly Chapin
October 18, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment
The Naramore Art Show takes place in April and May every year, in the community gallery of the Seattle Art Museum. It showcases around 200 exceptional works of art and photography from the Middle and High schoolers of Seattle Public Schools. The show began in 1985, and was named for legendary Seattle...
Freshletes
Ben Mefford
October 18, 2018
Filed under Sports, Uncategorized
Ioan Street Although he joined cross country just to get fit for his first high school soccer season, Ioan Street has a new found love for running. When he came to his first practice, everyone was shockingly tall. With captains’ practices everyday for two weeks before the first day of school, he b...
The Hate U Give Review
Simone Cielos
October 18, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment
TW: Mentions of violence In the novel The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Starr, Carter’s life is split into two worlds- her home, and her school. After witnessing the fatal police shooting of her childhood friend Khalil, her worlds collide. Finding herself stuck between the police and Garden Heights’...
Garfield Students Jam On
Sara Javkhlan
October 18, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment
Many people have heard of Garfield’s award winning symphonic orchestra and jazz bands. It is lesser known that some of the talented musicians in school ensembles also play in their own student-led music groups where they perform covers and produce original music. One such group is The Unaccompanied...
Cheer Steps Up
Milena S. Haile
October 18, 2018
Filed under Sports
It’s the homecoming assembly, Garfield’s biggest hype men, the cheerleaders, are dancing, stepping, and performing one of their most famous cheers, Y-E-L-L. Suddenly, the cheerleaders crowd in one place and raise one of the girls high into the air. Another one follows on the right side and they both...
The Drive Towards Playoffs
Izzy Lamola
October 18, 2018
Filed under Sports
As playoff season is coming up, the stress to be the best is affecting players all around Garfield. This school has a legacy for being successful in sports. The athletes will push themselves to succeed and continue said legacy, despite all the other stressors that get in their way. The girls swim...
Fall Show Preview
Sara Javkhlan
October 18, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment
When you think of Shakespeare, you probably think back to the time in your freshman year when you had to study and perform Romeo and Juliet in your language arts class. Most would agree that it was a tragic play that was tedious and boresome at times. That is not the case for The Comedy of Errors, the...
Far Trekking Music Teachers
Camryn Soo
October 18, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment
After 41 long hours on the road, Garfield’s new Band Director Tomisha Price-Brock arrived in Seattle from Atlanta, Georgia, roughly three weeks into the school year. As Price-Brock adjusted to cold rainy weather, she began to settle into to the region. Garfield’s Jazz teacher Clarence Acox, ...
Student Submissions
Various Authors
October 18, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment
The Day I Couldn’t Fly By Josephine Nguyen Josephine is a senior at GHS with a physical disability. She has run track in the past, loves writing and is hoping to start playing lacrosse soon. It was the summer of my junior year of high school, and I was going to be a senior in the fall. During...
The Morning Hustle
Grady Canty-Swapp
October 18, 2018
Filed under Sports
When Seattle Public Schools changed the bell times once again in 2017 it changed the schedule Garfield had newly adopted just two years before. Following these schedule changes the football, volleyball, soccer and swim teams all switched to morning practices. Our football, volleyball and soccer practices ...
Editorial: We Stand With Our Teachers
Julia Lin, John Volk, and Delphi Drake-Mudede
October 18, 2018
Filed under Opinion
On the morning of September 28th, hundreds of students filed into the Garfield High School gymnasium. Some held signs, some took pictures, and some had no idea why they were there. Teachers held binders with their names on them, hoping to organize their disoriented pupils amidst the chaos. “We real...
The Club Beat
Tea Fortune
October 18, 2018
Filed under Features
PROJECT PENGYOU Meets in room 221 every other Tuesday. Culture is something that everyone can take part in. Project PengYou is a club that holds meetings in which members discuss Asian culture in America and beyond. Project PengYou also wants students to gain a sense of community within Garfield. “My...