On Monday, Pepsi released their new ad starring model Kendall Jenner and it’s raised a lot of controversy. The video starts off with Jenner wearing a blonde wig at a photo shoot while a protest passes by. A man nods for her to come join the protest, so she rips off the wig and joins the…Continue Reading Pepsi/Kendall Jenner Commerical Controversy
photo by Dezaray Villarreal CAPTION: Women all over the United States recently demonstrated in support of women’s rights. Students on campus have been inspired by the movement, and consider what their participation might look like. With the recent women’s march that took place across the nation, and even world-wide, conversations about feminism have resurfaced on campus and in our…Continue Reading OPINION: Misunderstanding Feminism
CAPTION: Screenshot of a tweet by President Donald Trump during his first week in office, stating his often-repeated plan to build a wall along the border with Mexico, along with other policies, in order to keep immigrants from entering the United States without proper documentation. Editor’s note: This column is a first-person account written by…Continue Reading Immigration: My Story (version in English and version en español)
This is a letter the Gavel Staff received from senior Business Careers student Damon Mershon titled “Beauty in the Soul & Strength in the Heart.” Letters to the editor are encouraged and may be submitted via email to matthew.singleton@nisd.net, or presented in person to room A102d. The staff reserves the right to edit all letters for…Continue Reading Letter to the Editor: “Beauty in the soul, strength in the heart”
STAFF OPINION One of the things that absolutely sucks is talking about why you are sad when others ask. The “are you okay?” provokes a river of tears, because it’s not okay and it hurts. How are you supposed to hold it all together when you feel as if your whole world is slowly falling apart in a blink…Continue Reading OPINION: From Husky to Husky, Accept How You Feel
The other day, I was thinking back to this lesson a few months ago in Pre-Cal where my teacher was explaining linear and angular speed. I’m not some nerd who just thinks about random lessons from class for fun, but there were some words my teacher shared during this lesson that stuck withme. He went into…Continue Reading OPINION: The purpose behind all of this school
Asylum by Madeleine Roux is a horror fiction book. Dan Crawford, a junior in high school, decides to attend a college camp during the summer in the New Hampshire College. The dorm in which the students will be residing was an old sanatorium (also known as an asylum) used for the criminally insane that had been…Continue Reading Book Review: Asylum
It’s a daily routine to do the pledge of allegiance at school. Stand up, put your right hand on top of your heart and repeat the same words that person in the monitor is saying. But as people know, this country is filled with all types of different people that have different ways of speaking,…Continue Reading OPINION: Students have rights to freedom of speech even during the pledge
Bone Gap is a young adult, magical-realism book by Laura Ruby. The strange, magical, corn-talking little town that is known as Bone Gap is the home of two brothers, Finn and Sean O’Sullivan. As with your everyday, typical little town, everyone knows everybody, from their secrets to their tragedies. But this town is still filled with mysteries, and…Continue Reading Book Review: Bone Gap
Holmes students went around campus and rated our school bathrooms from worst to best, and this is what they came up with. Top Five Worst Restrooms Lockerroom D-Building B-Building H-Building A-Building Top Five Best Restrooms Auditorium Nurse I-Building ROTC Cafeteria …Continue Reading Top Five Best and Worst Restrooms