![Many young athletes battle body dysmorphia, driven by a variety of social and athletic pressures. From dances strict emphasis on perfect alignment to the double-edged use of weight classes in sports like wrestling, body image issues manifest themselves in across a variety of athletic disciplines.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/bodydysmorphia-1200x838.png)
Body dysmorphia pervades athletics
by Eva Cheng and Katerina Matta
• March 8, 2024
![With suicide in the top three leading causes of death amongst teenagers, it’s alarming that we are so used to hearing these words that we don’t notice them anymore. These jokes trivialize suicidal thoughts and imply that this problem is commonplace, normal and even insignificant.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/editorial-illus-900x542.jpg)
Editorial: Insensitive jokes harm environment
by Editorial Board
• November 30, 2022
![In the aftermath of countless mass shootings and an intrusion on our own campus, we cannot be passive bystanders and wait for a more dangerous situation to happen to us in order to enact change. Our system for responding to school shootings needs an update.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/editorialimg-Large-900x378.jpeg)
Editorial: Responses for school safety require an update
by Editorial Board
• September 14, 2022
![This article tells the stories of students personal experiences relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its impacts in sports, music and health. Solitude became our reality from March of 2020 to June of 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic continued on, and more social connection has emerged out of the return to in-person learning this school year.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/covidfeatureillustration_updated_AngelinaHu-1-900x600.png)
‘A reality check’: Students share their personal stories with COVID-19
by Sarah Mohammed and Isha Moorjani
• March 31, 2022
![Perspectives: Does grind culture provide gain or strain?](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GrindCulturePerspectivesIllustratiofullqualityn-900x475.png)
Perspectives: Does grind culture provide gain or strain?
by Margaret Cartee, Kinnera Mulam
• February 24, 2022
![Many young athletes struggle to prioritize mental health while juggling academic and athletic commitments. A survey conducted by the University of Wisconsin found that 68% of student-athletes have anxiety high enough to require therapeutic support.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-27-at-3.21.19-PM-900x641.jpeg)
‘No athlete wants to step back’
by Sarah Mohammed and Tiffany Chang
• November 27, 2021
![As we come back, we’re questioning what we used to consider “normal.” Sometimes, it all feels like too much.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/I3_Editorial_Illustration-3-900x510.jpeg)
Editorial: Changing our meaning of ‘normal’
by Editorial Board
• November 17, 2021
![Playing the cello became a chore, rather than a luxury. While practicing, I could feel my hope disappearing as I counted the number of minutes I played.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sally_TIB-900x675.jpg)
This I Believe: The right decision for myself
by Sally Zhu, A&E and Lifestyle Editor
• November 4, 2021
![On the final day of the Olympics, seven days after she last appeared in the arena, Simone Biles returned to compete on the beam, not expecting to receive an award and saying “I was just going out there doing this for me.” Just like Biles, you have the power of choice—the power to sacrifice immediate results to take care of your well-being and to pave the way for long-term fulfillment.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Simone_Biles_Illus_Aug2021-900x576.jpg)
Power of choice: Olympians set example of strength in making healthy decisions
by Arely Sun, Co-Managing Editor
• August 15, 2021
![My biggest tip [for young writers], the thing I would have told myself, is just to be as weird as you are in your writing. Let your images be strange. Pretend youre talking to yourself: give yourself that permission to talk. Be as weird as you are, Benaim said.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/162516536_875625363287193_8622420487431577924_n-675x900.jpeg)
The Poet’s Project: “Poetry can show us what is possible”
by Sabrina Benaim, Guest Writer
• April 12, 2021
![In 2018, 25% of the approximately 1,000 people fatally shot by police in the U.S. had mental illness. The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), a structure in law enforcement designed to minimize accounts of injury or death in encounters between police and people with mental illness, failed to reduce the use of force.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MentalHealthPolice-900x614.jpg)
Press and police fail to address mental health episodes
by Nicole Tian, Opinions Editor
• March 6, 2021
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