The Voice of Wakefield High School

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The Voice of Wakefield High School

The Howler

The Voice of Wakefield High School

The Howler

It’s More Than Money: Netflix Furthers the Gender Pay Gap

It’s More Than Money: Netflix Furthers the Gender Pay Gap

Maxwell Bryn, Arts and Entertainment Editor February 14, 2018

Money: who deserves it, and who gets it? The gender pay gap has been a recurring topic of concern in American society, reinforcing the unfair bias in the United States economy. Now, the gender pay gap...

No, President, You “Step Up!”

No, President, You “Step Up!”

Anthony Howard, Social Media Editor February 14, 2018

The value of women in the music industry is considerable, but often times degraded by the hands of authoritative and senseless male counterparts, whose prestige influences the business significantly. The...

EPA rolls back yet another Obama-Era policy

Isabelle Kozubowski, Opinions Editor February 12, 2018
Many people are concerned by the current status of the EPA and the questionable decisions that it is making, especially previous EPA administrators. Most have warned that if we continue on the path that Pruitt has set out, issues like global climate change, widespread water pollution, and intense air pollution will only get worse.
Gabriella Kluch

The society we will inherit

Gabriella Klutch, Guest Writer, Junior January 31, 2018

We are the young, the new, and the uprising generation for this America we are inheriting from past generations. We should learn more and educate ourselves about this ever-changing society, as well, regarding...

Cyntoia’s Brown case can teach us a lesson or two

Paige Schepperley, Creative Director December 15, 2017
By getting high profile celebrities involved, prominent issues can be brought to the table and better addressed. Hopefully their involvement in the Brown case will help bring justice to her and many other adolescence victims of events in their early years they cannot control. By bringing awareness to these issues, steps can be taken to begin helping victims instead of punishing them.
Your president doesn’t care about the environment

Your president doesn’t care about the environment

Isabella Petruccione, Co-Editor in Chief December 13, 2017

Donald Trump is outspoken about many topics, from immigration, to economics, to health care-- he does not hesitate to fire out often unwarranted opinions on any subject under the sun. Amidst a plethora...

Violence in Egypt shocks the world

Violence in Egypt shocks the world

Isabela Mercer, Staff Writer December 12, 2017
As nations, we should be focusing on uniting to help those affected by these attacks all around the world, not on making it even harder for them to have any chances of a better future.

The FCC threatens the freedom of the internet

Evan House, Multimedia Editor December 11, 2017

As a driving force behind much of the progress in the world today, the internet is a vast, limitless expanse of information that we all count on. But, there are certain aspects of the internet that we...

A Banksy Tea Party

Anaum Salman, Staff Writer November 29, 2017
The scene was set. Red curtains, tattered British flags, tables decorated with cakes and biscuits-- the only pops of color in a dying country. The long tables, with child refugees playing their parts as ‘guests of honor’. All celebrating the event that began a century long war- The Balfour Declaration.

Sexual assault allegations infiltrate Washington

Isabelle Kozubowski, Opinions Editor November 28, 2017
America has already made its decision in regards to powerful men taking advantage of young women by electing Donald Trump as president although he has more than fifteen sexual misconduct accusations and at least three ongoing lawsuits.

Surviving Thanksgiving dinner

Katelyn Sajewicz, Co-Editor-in-Chief November 20, 2017
 Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to come together with the family, share such healthy food slathered in grease, and laugh over murdered animals.  But most of all, Thanksgiving is a time to politely discuss the current political climate.  

Firing shots at gun control

Paige Schepperley, Creative Director November 17, 2017

Chaos hit the streets of Las Vegas on October 1, when a gunman opened fire on a group of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival. Hidden high and tucked away in a hotel room on the thirty-second...

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