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Wyatt Whitman, T3, left, talks with Surgeon General Dr. Murthy and second gentleman Mr. Emhoff.

U.S Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy & Second Gentleman Visit UNIS

By Ananya Ghose and Angelina So November 18, 2023

“Loneliness is just a bad feeling. And you suck it up and get over it.” These were the candid words of Dr. Vivek Murthy as he summed up his childhood loneliness. Dr. Murthy, colloquially known as the...

StuCo Brings Back Winter Formal

StuCo Brings Back Winter Formal

By Maya Mukherjee, Editor-in-Chief March 1, 2023

High school dances are the ultimate rite of passage. If ubiquitous movie scenes over the decades are to be believed, most school dances take place in the sweaty high school gym with kitschy bluish lighting...

Political cartoon about the realities of labor exploitation in Qatar.

Controversies of the Qatar World Cup

By Anais King and Asha Black, Writers December 16, 2022

“FIFA knew what was happening there and didn’t take any action against the abuse, and that’s where it’s problematic,” a UNIS student states regarding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Every four...

Controversies of the Qatar World Cup

By Anais King and Asha Black, Writer December 16, 2022

Controversies of the Qatar World Cup Anais King and Asha Black “FIFA knew what was happening there and didn’t take any action against the abuse, and that’s where it’s problematic,” a UNIS student...

Controversies of the Qatar World Cul

By Anais King and Asha Black, Writer December 16, 2022

“FIFA knew what was happening there and didn’t take any action against the abuse, and that’s where it’s problematic,” a UNIS student states regarding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Every four...

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UNIS’s Response to Omicron

By Robert Zeleny, Social Media & Publicity Manager February 10, 2022

Over the past three months, the world has faced a new mutation of the coronavirus — the Omicron variant. First reported on November 24, 2021 to the WHO in South Africa, the variant rapidly spread around...

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The Ever-increasing Price of American Colleges

By Marta Lagarrigue Espinosa, Writer February 10, 2022

Over the last few decades, the average cost of getting a college degree in America has skyrocketed, even when taking overall inflation into account. Since 1980, college tuition and fees are up 1,200%,...

Drawing of Greta Thunberg

Climate Change Conferences — What Have They accomplished?

By Amarins Edens, Writer January 27, 2022

Though scientists first warned us of the dangers of climate change in the late 1950s, little action was taken in the following decades. In recent years we began to see the many catastrophic weather events...

The Never-Ending Story: UNISs Waste Management Saga

The Never-Ending Story: UNIS’s Waste Management Saga

By Felipe Tavares, Managing Editor June 18, 2021

On April 22nd, Earth Day, UNIS announced plans to hire a paid Sustainability Director for each division of the school to begin tackling the issue of sustainability in a dedicated and “schoolwide approach,”...

A screengrab from UNISs new election hub.

UNIS Launches Election Hub!

By Anyue Zhang, Opinion section editor May 3, 2021

As the end of the school year rapidly approaches, so do Student Council elections! For us as students, this is an opportunity to engage in a democratic process and elect peers who will represent our needs...

When We Lose Our Things, Where Do They Go?

When We Lose Our Things, Where Do They Go?

By Sijia Zhong, Writer March 21, 2021

“Do you see the calligraphy brushes I just put on the table?” a UNIS JUNOC Club student asks helplessly to other club members in the cafeteria after club activities finished. “Where did the ink go?”...

An electoral college map from CNN Politics.

Aftermath: The Legacy of the 2020 Election

By Benjamin Gorisek-Gazze, Writer March 15, 2021

The United States held its 46th presidential election last fall — it took place from November 3rd to November 7th. Late afternoon on November 7th, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was projected...

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