McKenzie Knight, Reporter
April 13, 2021
Like many rising juniors, Scottie Brown planned on taking her ACTs this past June only to find the testing canceled. “All the summer ones got canceled, like, every single month,” Brown said in October. At the time, her top choices Samford, Covenant College, and Baylor University were not test-optional, so she didn’t know if she could apply without test scores. She was among the 770,000...
Miles Masters, Editor
April 2, 2020
"Hello, my name is Miles Masters, and my pronouns are ‘he/him.’” Just a few years ago, no one would have introduced themselves this way. An introduction contained a few parts: a greeting, name and perhaps a personal connection or detail. But now, at least for some, pronouns have become a regular part of introductions, a way of guiding new acquaintances. This still isn’t the norm for many,...
Isabel Dlabach and Jacob Gettig
March 23, 2020
It seems like “Star Wars” has been a force, binding modern culture together since the premier of “Episode IV – A New Hope.” Whether they’ve seen the movies or not, many people in western society (and beyond) have heard about “Star Wars,” including 95% of Collierville campus student survey respondents. Over time, one movie turned into three, and those three movies evolved into an entire...
Cary Robbins, Editor of Feature Stories
March 20, 2020
This past November, junior Dariya Jones performed a poem at Coffee House, St. George’s annual performing arts showcase. The poem, which she wrote as a monologue for her sophomore English class, sought to describe her life as a black person in America. In it, she referenced losing an uncle to gun violence and how it feels to have white people and fellow classmates claim her culture. “Yeah, we...
Cary Robbins, Editor of Feature Stories
January 7, 2020
Memphis is a majority-minority city. According to the United States Census Bureau, 63.9% identify as Black or African American. However, just because there is such a large minority group, that doesn’t mean all people feel included or treated equally. People who identify as Hispanic and Latinx make up only 7% of Memphis’ population, and at St. George’s many of the Hispanic and Latinx students...
November 20, 2019
"I was kind of slacking off in my classwork,” senior Silas Rhodes said. “I mean obviously Snapchat was something like two hours a day, but Instagram, when I got that, I spent like three hours or so. It was just ridiculous.” Rhodes is not the only teenager who felt that the introduction to social media took over their free time. According to a 2018 teens, social media and technology survey...
Owen Hewitt and Erin O'Connell
November 7, 2019
Two years ago, Carsten Haddad took the field on a Thursday night in autumn for Mid South Futbol Club. Haddad had been playing for the club since it was created, when he was eight years old. It had been a fairly normal Thursday for Haddad, a freshman at the time. He had gone through the typical St. George’s academic day, then suited up for an evening match. The talented young striker, having been...
Snowden Farnsworth and Isabel Dlabach
October 29, 2019
In the dawn of the school year, St. George’s has faced challenges that have prompted difficult discussions. Racial tensions have thrust the school into the public eye and pushed its community to face them head on. How exactly does a school deal with this kind of conversation? We’re finding out. On Tuesday, Sept. 17, the school day was interrupted so that Head of School Mr. Ross Peters and...
May 22, 2019
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And these days, where there’s a cloud, there’s a vape pen. In its earliest stages over a decade ago, vaping was marketed as a means to ease the process of quitting smoking cigarettes but now threatens to make a new generation addicted to nicotine. Vape pens and JUUL pods are the new metaphorical poster children of teenage addiction, and the controversial,...
Snowden Farnsworth, Dean Campell, and Owen Hewitt
May 20, 2019
"When I moved to Memphis and began working at Playhouse, I approached the Playhouse On the Square staff with the idea of adding a Queer Youth Theater to our education department, and everyone was on board,” Ms. Carley Crawford said. “Thus, Q&A was born.” Ms. Crawford founded the group in 2015 with Ms. Claire Rutkauskas in 2015. Ms. Rutkauskas grew up in midtown Memphis as a part of the LGBTQ...
