Advocate Print May Issue (senior edition)
May 18, 2020
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Spice up your quarantine playlist with these albums
Natalia Berti, Jack Ging, Sophie Burns, Editor-In-Chief, and Olivia Ostrowski, Editor-In-Chief
May 10, 2020
Quarantine offers the chance to get more wrapped up in new genres of music and allows you to find a mix of songs that speak towards your personality. “I think that many people spend time listening to music in quarantine because it is a constant in our lives,” said Gabi Camara, junior. ...
Nursing home workers threaten to strike during the coronavirus pandemic
Meghan Malec, Anna Pellegrino, Sophie Burns, Editor-In-Chief, and Olivia Ostrowski, Editor-In-Chief
May 10, 2020
Workers at 40 Chicago-area nursing homes began protesting outside the Alden Wentworth long-term care facility on April 27 for better wages and more Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while treating a large number of patients suffering from the coronavirus (COVID-19). These nursing home workers are threaten...
Parks and Recreation hosts special quarantine episode
Zoya Anjarwala, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
May 7, 2020
Parks and Recreation, a popular sitcom that aired from 2009 to 2015, hosted a special reunion episode on Thursday, April 30. Actor Chris Pratt made his theatrical debut through Parks and Rec before he took on roles for other films such as Marvel and Jurassic Park. He played Andy Dwyer, a sweet and goofy character who polishe...
Gallery: Enjoying warm weather in quarantine
Anna Pellegrino, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
May 5, 2020
Disney releases famous park recipes
Meghan Malec, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
May 1, 2020
Disney Parks have been temporarily closed since March 12 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), but that doesn’t mean you can’t bring part of the Disney magic to your own home. Disney is encouraging people to “cook up some magic at home” after they released the park’s Dole Whip recipe on the My...
Observing Ramadan in quarantine
Lamis Alnatafgi, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 30, 2020
The month of Ramadan started on Friday, April 24 at dawn. Every year, nearly seven million Muslims abstain from food and drink from dawn to sunset for an entire month. It’s not a hunger strike or an unusual food diet; it’s the fasting of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. ...
States weigh when to cancel lockdowns
Olivia Ostrowski, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 26, 2020
On Thursday, April 16, President Donald Trump and fellow members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force unveiled a new three-phase plan to reopen states as the Coronavirus curve starts to flatten. Trump has long been an avid supporter of reopening the economy, especially as the number of u...
Continuing the college search from home
Sophie Burns, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 23, 2020
This year has been a stressful year for all of us. It is far from what we expected of the new decade and derailed all of our plans in the foreseeable future. Considering now is around the time most juniors begin the college search, this has impacted the class of 2021 especially. Many students had college visits planned ove...