OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS

EDITORIAL: THREATS TO NAPERVILLE SCHOOLS MUST END, OFFICIALS MUST RESPOND MORE CLEARLY

After several gun and bomb threats to area schools, our staff felt very strongly that, regardless of how credible the threats were, they weren’t being handled properly by our school and district administration. I led the newsroom in an editorial discussion where we detailed the problem and what changes we hoped administrators would make to keep its students safe. 

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(Illustration Credit: Isabel Zhou/Central Times)

DON’T BE THE GRASSHOPPER: THOUGHTS ON COVID-19 FROM A CHINESE AMERICAN

On the Friday when the pandemic shut school down, I ran into some students who were pinning the virus on racist and inaccurate stereotypes of Chinese culture. Those thoughts developed through the first few weeks of the pandemic, leading me to write this piece about how the pandemic resulted from universally human complacency, not any particular people or culture.