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Five games into the season for Lane baseball and t

Five games into the season for Lane baseball and they were 0-3 against cities out of the city limits until they met the Evanston Wildkits.

A chilly Friday afternoon game at Kerry Wood stadium proved instrumental for Lane to show themselves against a tougher suburban team and they more than did that, winning 9-2.

The non-conference game began with Lane making the first run of the day during the first inning.

Evanston momentarily caught up to Lane in innings two and three placing them ahead of Lane with a score of 2-1.

However, Lane got back ahead of Evanston, gaining eight runs throughout the rest of the game. Evanston couldn’t keep up, which ended the game for Lane granting them their 4th win of the season.

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📸: Megan Mesikapp and Mara Mellits for The Champion.

The crowd went wild and shined their flashlights o

The crowd went wild and shined their flashlights on the auditorium stage as Larry Young began rapping and hyping up the crowd for the last performance before intermission. Lane students and staff watched from the crowd, as singers, ribbon dancers and even a magic act took the stage for the Cluster Program’s Talent Show on Friday, March 25.

The performances took place during the second and third periods. Teachers were able to sign their classes up to come, and select students were invited to come to watch because of their involvement with the Cluster Program.

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✍️: Megan Mesikapp for The Champion
📸: Megan Mesikapp for for The Champion

“Sophomore year, March 2020 I wake up with a sm

“Sophomore year, March 2020

I wake up with a smile on my face — I can’t wait to go to school. My best friend and I walk into our first period class giggling, and even though we sit at different tables, we don’t seem to mind.

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Junior year, March 2021

My alarm wakes me up at 7:59 a.m. — just in time to open my computer and join my first period physics class. Sometimes I go right back to sleep and wake up to find myself kicked out of the Meet.

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Senior year, March 2022

I forge new friendships in all my classes senior year, just like my sophomore year. I find it easy to bond over similar interests like a shared teacher or dream school. My senior year classes are curated to what I want to explore: an abundance of English electives and fun classes like Contemporary Painting and Horticulture. And for the first part of the year, I live the rest of my sophomore year with only one motto in mind: to have fun,” writes Editor-in-Chief Mara Mellits writes on the comings and goings of high school friends in a pandemic.

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✍️: Mara Mellits for The Champion
🎨: Gen Carlozo for The Champion

Lane Tech’s baseball team hosted the St. Rita Mu

Lane Tech’s baseball team hosted the St. Rita Mustangs on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. The game had a slow start, but St. Rita was the first to make a move with one run at the top of the 4th inning.

Lane quickly followed with senior Nick Lagges scoring the first run of the season. The next run was made at the bottom of the fifth by Edwin Quinones stole home on a passed ball.

The rest of the game was a stalemate, as St. Rita was not able to gain any more runs to catchup to Lane. The Mustangs blew a bases loaded, no-outs situation in the top of the seventh, scoring no runs and granting Lane a 2-1 win for the season opener.

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📸: Megan Mesikapp for The Champion

Every year, sometime in March, Lane students come

Every year, sometime in March, Lane students come together for one of the most unique Lane traditions: International-Days (I-Days). After not having a full I-Days since 2019 (the second day and two nights of it got cancelled due to the stay-at-home order in 2020 and it was held virtually last year), the international dance convention was back in full swing.

Students participate by representing countries from all over the world, practicing the majority of the school year to learn and coordinate dances with their peers. The student dancers then perform for the entire Lane community over the course of three days. This year, students performed in Gym I and the auditorium due to social distancing measures. Usually, dancers perform in Gym I and teachers bring their classes to the auditorium to watch. However this year, the dancers performed in the auditorium for students’ classes and in Gym I for other I-Days clubs.

This year, the student dancers performed for both the entire school day on Thursday, Mar. 10 and Friday, March. 11. They then performed on Friday night and twice on Saturday, March 12.

Most notably, in the gym’s performance on Friday, clubs incorporated pieces of other club’s cultural clothing when they performed. For example, members of BSA (Black Student Association which represents Trinidad and Tobago) wore India Club’s vests and pants when they performed.

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📸: Mara Mellits for The Champion

Earlier today in a letter released on social media

Earlier today in a letter released on social media, CPS CEO Pedro Martinez announced that starting next week on the 14th, masks will become optional, ending CPS’ mask mandate.

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📸: Lane students at a girls basketball game on Dec. 14 2021 (Mara Mellits for The Champion)

“Trying to appeal to eurocentric beauty standard

“Trying to appeal to eurocentric beauty standards that have no inclusivity towards Black people is a dilemma Black people have faced for ages. Growing up and learning to be comfortable in your own skin is a struggle many Black kids will have to face.

My friends and I often discuss how we struggled with feeling ‘adequate’ enough for our white peers, especially when it came to middle school/high school crushes and self-confidence.

Even scrolling through social media, especially TikTok, other Black content creators weave a similar story, sharing how they often felt left out or pushed to the side in favor of their non-Black peers in middle school, high school and even college due to their physical features — and the stereotypes that have been placed upon Black people.

Though Black culture places an emphasis on being strong and persistent in the face of oppression, being a Black teenager — especially when people that look like you only make up 7.9% of Lane’s student body — can be challenging and frustrating at times.

Though the beauty standards are unlikely to change anytime soon, the one thing that has constantly been evolving is the acceptance and appreciation of Black culture and identity within the Black community.

From allowing unattainable beauty standards and racism to define our outlook on hair, to finally embracing the way our hair naturally grows and the sheer capability and power it holds: Black hair has come an extraordinarily long way,” writes Reporter Yaniya Gilford, in her opinion on embracing Black hair.

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✍️: Yaniya Gilford for The Champion
🎨: “Euphoria” by Lauren Wilson/ @art.laurenwils

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