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The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

Senior Rachel Katzovitz recieves her cap and gown May 24. The seniors last day is June 2, and they will be graduating June 6 at the stadium.

Staff Editorial: High school survival guide

Johanna Kaplan May 26, 2023

High school is notoriously difficult to navigate, and it’s easy to look back with both a sense of nostalgia and regret. The Echo seniors collaborated to create a list of tips that we wish we knew going...

Why I became a Minnesota Teen Activist

Why I became a Minnesota Teen Activist

Anisa Kahin May 25, 2023

Minnesota Teen Activists is a group of teens that work with government officials, communities in Minnesota and other activism groups to create change. Minnesota Teen Activists was created in 2020 by Aliyah...

Powwow brings excitement and culture to Park

Powwow brings excitement and culture to Park

Roberto Alvarez May 25, 2023

Recently, the Rec Center held a powwow event that I attended. This event was a day to celebrate Native American culture, with a variety of different things you can do at this event and celebrate native...

US Forest Service and native Minnesotan tribes sign historic agreement

US Forest Service and native Minnesotan tribes sign historic agreement

Modesty Manion May 25, 2023

Recently, an agreement was made between the US Forest Service and three northern Minnesotan Indigenous tribes over the control and regulation of the Superior National Forest area. The historic agreement...

Too much stress after the tests

Too much stress after the tests

Eliah Fink May 17, 2023

Almost all of the AP and IB tests take place during the early weeks of May, so at Park, the school year still goes on nearly a month after the tests. A long-standing debate at many schools has to do with...

Zero options for zero hour

Zero options for zero hour

Anya Panday May 16, 2023

Park offers more than 160 courses in 12 different academic departments. With so many options, it’s hard for students to pick just three to six a year to pursue, especially when many electives take up...

Let me SLPee

Let me SLPee

Anya Panday May 16, 2023

This year, Park has begun to implement new school policies in order to start to “normalize” school after COVID-19. These policies include new grading systems, phone policies and weirdest of all, pass...

Biden’s immigration policy is neglectful

Biden’s immigration policy is neglectful

Sarah Kluckhohn May 15, 2023

In response to the pandemic, the Trump administration issued a collection of temporary immigration restrictions in 2020 known as Title 42. The policy allows immigration officials to turn away migrants...

Minnesota becomes a safe state

Minnesota becomes a safe state

Anisa Kahin May 15, 2023

Minnesota has become the 21st state to ban conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is a pseudo-scientific belief in reversing homosexuality by using certain practices. Governor Tim Walz signed for conversion...

Roberto Alvarez May 15, 2023

I believe that the senior prank is harmless and enjoyable. No one is getting hurt in the activities or pranks that are being placed by the seniors, which simply includes a water balloon fight. That being...

Abby Keller May 15, 2023

While it may be fun for seniors to pelt all the grades below them with water balloons on their last day of school, I have never seen it that way. Instead I see a terror inducing act of celebration that...

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