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Abigail Segel June 3rd, 2021Farewell from the Former Editor-in-Chief

In 9th or 10th grade — normal school feels so long ago now — I was walking up a staircase after lunch and a muffin in a bag fell on my head.

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Abigail Segel February 21st, 2020Food Writer Priya Krishna is the Best of America

In the food world, 2019 was the year of Priya Krishna. She released her second cookbook, Indian-ish in April

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Abigail Segel June 13th, 2020PPS Won’t Pay Spring Sports Coaches Any Money for a Season That Had Already Started

In response to the economic and educational chaos caused by Covid-19, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed Senate Bill 751

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Abigail Segel March 14th, 2021Amanda Gorman Took the Nation — and English Classes — by Storm

Prior to January 20th, if you had asked me to associate a poem with the incoming Biden administration, I would have said, “the one where hope and history rhyme,”

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Abigail Segel September 17th, 2020'folklore', Ranked: a Careful Dissection of Each Track on Taylor Swift’s Soft New Record

Enter the pandemic. By whatever miracle, Swift decided to ditch her two-year release cycle altogether with a surprise drop

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Abigail Segel October 29th, 2019Simone Biles Continues To Be The Best At The Gymnastics World Championship

During the 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, American Simone Biles, 22, officially became the most decorated female gymnast in history.

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Abigail Segel March 13th, 2020Failed Communication From District, School Results in Work Release Chaos

On January 31, Assistant Principal Ms. Davies held assemblies for juniors in which, among other new policies, she revealed that the work release program would not exist next year.

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Abigail Segel November 12th, 2020Virtual School Heightens Inequities for ESL Students

As the pandemic has forced school to move from Shady Avenue to hundreds of computer screens, all Allderdice students have had to adjust to online learning.

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Abigail Segel September 28th, 2019Every Track in Taylor Swift's Lover, Ranked

After a 5-month promotion cycle (one for every hole in the fence), Taylor Swift, the songwriter of the century, has released her seventh album to worldwide popular and critical acclaim.

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Abigail Segel November 23rd, 2020Milk Bar Pie Is the Best Pie, and You Can’t Change My Mind

In elementary school, I went through a phase when anyone who met me knew I liked pie.

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Abigail Segel September 27th, 2019Carli Lloyd and Molly Virtue: Women in Football

At the end of August, Olympian and two-time World Cup champion Carli Lloyd visited a Philadelphia Eagles practice.

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Abigail Segel June 13th, 2020Why being a White American Jew is not the same as being a Black American

As I returned home from the Black Student Union’s powerful sit-in at Allderdice yesterday, I was thinking of the inspiring, courageous students who organized and spoke at the event.

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Abigail Segel November 1st, 2020"Emily In Paris" Was Awful. I Loved it.

In the beginning of October, Netflix released the 10 episode show, Emily In Paris.

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Class of 2021

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