It would be difficult – if not outright impossible – to imagine a world without paper. In school, we use it as scratch paper, to print worksheets, tests, files, reports, and more. However, every year,...

Respect should be of the utmost importance to everyone.    “This is against the Civil Rights Act of 1965,” one responded.  “This is just like Brown v. The Board of Education. This is...

Hinsdale, like much of suburbia, is preoccupied with its facade of conformity and perfection. This cookie-cutter, car-dependent, upper-crust mindset has plagued our community with an ignorance towards...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Throughout grade school, every student was taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. From Columbus’s perspective, he made incredible discoveries and...

As the enlightened Garfield once said, “I see it approaching, the much-awaited, deeply desired weekend.” Relatable, right? After a grueling week at school or work, weekends feel like an oasis in the...

Seven hours. 420 minutes. The length of an average school day at Hinsdale Central. Now, let’s say that the average student has 7 passing periods, and the student spends only around 2 of the 5 minutes...

Hinsdale Central is a good school. Everyone knows it. It's chock full of overachievers who will do whatever it takes to get ahead- even trudging through hours of arduous homework. But is all that homework...

We’re all familiar with student stress. We can all visualize the classic, overwhelmed, high-achieving student trying to stay at the top of their class, amidst a sea of other like minded individuals....

Dear D86 Community, Hinsdale Central is sometimes a wonderful high school. Awe-inspiring academics, excellent extracurriculars, and locker rooms where racial slurs envelop the tongues of eruptive teenagers...

The Roman idea of cena, or dinner, was reclining on a couch and leisurely eating fruit and meat from a table. Sounds like a vacation, doesn’t it? But, in Hinsdale Central’s cafeteria, you are bombarded...