The summer before senior year can be fun not only abroad, but also within Pittsburgh's city limits.

Junior year is full of both memories and lessons, both of which NASH students will carry far into their futures.

They are our survivors. Our honor bound. Our zombie killers, our superheroes, our action figures. They also make up 13% of the homeless adult population. They have a higher rate of risk seeking behaviors,...

You’ve been to Caltech, Yale, MIT, and a host of other college campuses. What was your favorite part of your college travels? My favorite college visit is probably MIT’s campus preview weekend,...

Outside the GOAL office, a poster quotes United States Poet Laureate Ada Limón in celebration of 2023's National Poetry Month.

As climate politics have developed over the past few years, amid the denialist voices, between those that claim that global warming is a part of the earth’s natural ebb and flow, new claims have come...

As North Allegheny continues to lead the way forward in the modern educational world, the district is always looking for ways to improve students' learning environment. At the most recent district facilities...

Mass graves. A highly contagious disease spreading on an immense scale. Millions of deaths worldwide. If this sounds too familiar, it should. Though largely in the rearview mirror—at least within United...

In 2022, Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of famous actor Johnny Depp and actress Vanessa Paradis, told Elle, “If somebody’s mom or dad is a doctor, and then the kid becomes a doctor, you’re not going to...

As life becomes increasingly digitized, so too have our relationships. In the past twenty years, the world has moved to Discord chats, Twitter threads, and subreddits, making it easier than ever to build...

Speech and Debate has long been one of North Allegheny’s most successful clubs. When former head coach Mrs. Sharon Volpe’s took over the already successful team 20 years ago, membership surged,...

The first time I heard the concept behind BeReal, I was skeptical. I never did download the app, but the name itself seemed like an ironic joke—“being real” on a social media platform that’s meant...

A few months before I deleted TikTok, I was witness to a spontaneous wave of hatred towards a cosplayer under the username @arsenic.anarchy. The harassments were too disturbing to detail here, but suffice...

Throughout high school, I have heard a collection of Supreme Court cases over and over again. Some, like Roe v. Wade, are spoken of due to their relevance to modern politics or the controversial nature...

On September 21, 2022, Netflix’s Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story was released, sparking a new wave of discussion—and controversy—regarding true crime. The arguments that surround Dahmer...

Online psychology spaces are full of warped definitions, medical terms that have become disturbingly colloquial, and diagnoses that have become yet another commodity in the attention economy. The term...

For many people, October 31st means costumes and pumpkins and candy, as well as a healthy dose of frights. But for many seniors, the last day of October denoted something different and undoubtedly more...

In 2017, the Washington Post adopted the phrase “Democracy Dies in Darkness” as its official slogan. It was coined by investigative reporter and Post associate editor Bob Woodward in a 2015 conference...

For decades, the digitization and innovation that has marked developments in artificial intelligence (AI) has brought with it a persistent, and often justified, fear: a loss of jobs. From security to marketing...

Although the dance is the big event this Saturday, Homecoming groups are looking forward to beginning the evening at restaurants around the Pittsburgh area.

Last summer, I volunteered at the Rosalinda Sauro Sirianni Garden, cleaning, weeding, watering, and harvesting plants that were to be sent to food banks around the community. There was a good amount of...

In 2020, when COVID-19 was first announced, a wave of pseudoscience rushed through the internet. From health gurus recommending plants like garlic, ginger, hot pepper, and lemon as healing medicines to...

As a new school year begins, hundreds of NASH students are getting ready to return to class. But before starting to panic about the summer reading we all definitely read or the applications we have yet...

With the growth of the internet has come a new wave of fascism, a phenomenon that has been noted by journalists, YouTube personalities, and authors alike. The increasing popularity of online authoritarian...

In his poem “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost famously deliberated over two roads in a yellow wood, wondering which path he should take. This month, many students, faced with two prompts per day,...

Animatronics. Cardboard models. Makeup. All of these are deeply emblematic of the history of practical effects in movies, especially in science fiction and fantasy. Throughout television and movie history,...

Everybody knows that war is ugly. We are given stories like Saving Private Ryan and All Quiet on the Western Front that reveal the scars war leaves behind, and extensive studies on Post-Traumatic Stress...

It’s not an exaggeration to call the last few years horrible. Many factors contribute to this verdict—COVID-19 pandemic, a politically fraught atmosphere culminating in a contentious election in 2020...

When I was in middle school, I had an intense hatred towards the song “Happy” by Pharrel. It always seemed out of place in my middle school life, especially when I was struggling with mental health...

Valentine’s Day—a day for lovers, crushes, and panicking boyfriends that probably don’t have a gift planned yet. Still, the day has a long history of romance, so how is North Allegheny celebrating?  Some...

Everyone knows the joke: Disney owns everything. From Marvel to Star Wars to the princesses that popularized the company, Disney seems to have a hand in almost every new piece of media. The company has...

Mitski has always appealed to me as an artist. Her songwriting, singing, and music videos are all uniquely intimate, a view into her headspace performed in a blunt yet poetic manner. She expresses the...

As I progress through high school, the semester of health classes I received in freshman year becomes more of a distant memory. Even the middle school anti-drug rallies fade in my mind, and many times,...

This article contains spoilers for Hawkeye and Avengers: Endgame. In the wake of Avengers: Endgame, many people, including me, were frustrated that Clint Barton, or Hawkeye, survived rather than Natasha...

The words “psychopath” and “sociopath” are strewn throughout the media, from factual accounts of serial killers to the fictional world of crime shows. Recall Silence of the Lambs, No Country for...

While some may think of November as the month of Thanksgiving break or the days when the chilly air turns into frosty mornings, many writers see the month as a different time. National Novel Writing Month,...

Urban legends are a staple in every city, warnings of closed roads and spaces under bridges taking new forms with every additional voice. Many of them are the only legacies of the mostly forgotten dead....

I remember the moment like it was yesterday; singer-songwriter Mitski finally returned from her musical hiatus. I was eating lunch and scrolling through my phone, awaiting something interesting to catch...

This past summer, the Tokyo Olympics hosted at least 160 LGBTQ+ athletes, and perhaps even more revolutionary, the first openly transgender athletes to compete in the Games. However, at the same time,...

Trigger warning: This review contains discussion of depression, mental illness, and suicide. When I first read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai in an attempt to expand my focus beyond American literature,...

Women in public office. Women in space. Women in sports. Promoting the breaking of gender barriers is taking place by women all around, even specifically by 23 females at North Allegheny. On March 8th,...