By Dylan Xie December 10, 2025 On Wednesday afternoons, when many students are tired and eager to head home after a long day, a new adventure is just beginning around the corner of campus in Room F-4—the clatter of dice on the table top,  the murmur of voices around the table, the players plotting their next move. This is a typical afternoon at Leland’s Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) Club, a growing community of students eager to explore the limitless realms of make

By Liliana Chai December 10, 2025 The morning of Nov. 6, Typhoon Kalmaegi unleashed a torrent of destruction on the central Philippines, killing at least 188 people in the country. Heavy rains brought by the typhoon triggered landslides, obliterating residential areas and public buildings. Underlying the storm’s physical damage is the nation’s long-standing issue of corruption-plagued flood control infrastructure projects. This failure in disaster preparedness ha

By Winston Chu December 10, 2025 The destructive civil war that broke out more than two years ago in Sudan still persists today, spreading famine, genocide and death among fighters and innocent families in what the National Public Radio has labeled the world’s largest humanitarian disaster.  While the conflict officially began in 2023, tension emerged when President Omar al-Bashir seized power in a coup in 1989. Al-Bashier presided over Sudan for three decades un

By Sarah Perez December 10, 2025 Time slows down for travellers as they stand in long waitlines. Overhead screens filled with the word “delayed” extinguish any hopes of progressing in the line, invoking dread. At 40 major airports serving 1.9 million daily passengers, cancellations and delays became the reality for 5.2 million travellers during the 10 days of flight reductions by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).   The FAA implemented flight reductions d

By James Tong December 10, 2025 "What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet," renowned natural historian David Attenborough once said. In the face of rapid climate change—causing devastating heatwaves, droughts and habitat destruction—environmental action is more urgent than ever. Companies and governments often emphasize individual lifestyle changes as the solution, but this framing can overlook larger sources of emis

By Ayush Deshpande December 10, 2025 Typically, one's impact is defined by lives changed or notable achievements. Yet, at each meal or car drive, a less visible influence grows: the carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases generated by a person, group or activity. In the face of rapid climate change, the term has become increasingly widespread in education and the media.  The carbon footprint builds upon the earlier i

By Brandon Koo ` Dec. 12, 2025 Emma Wang Art “Stay positive!” The screen flashes as the teacher monotonously reads off the Seven Mindsets slides. A student scrolls through TikTok under the table, and another races through his math homework. The Social and Emotional Learning Program, founded by author Daniel Goleman, created the Seven Mindsets curriculum and new Monday mental health activities to improve mental health and community, yet, for many students, it coll