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Ava Jordan, Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Opinions Editor
![Pay attention underclassmen, Ava Jordan (right) and her graduating classmates have advice for your upcoming senior year.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_6587-1200x900.jpeg)
Advice from graduating seniors for rising seniors
With the 2023-2024 school year coming to an end, what better way to wrap it up than with advice from the graduating seniors for the rising seniors (and everyone else, too).
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![Lily Miller (‘24) is ready to leave school with her floaties, prepared for anything or anyone who might try to get her out of the game.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_2238.jpeg)
All is fair in love, war and Senior Assassin
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![Nearly 20 million women in the United States will develop an eating disorder in their lifetime. And quite often, in an impossible quest for the perfect body, even seemingly simple decisions like choosing a bagel (with or without cream cheese) can cause stress and anxiety.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_3711-1200x900.jpeg)
Body image, eating disorders and the imperfect quest for ‘perfect’
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![Reading is beneficial to everyone. No matter what genre, a good book can reduce stress and enhance your learning. Find a book you love and you’ll be off on a new adventure.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2107-e1709925904125-900x1200.jpeg)
Turn the page – 12 great books everyone should read
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![What’s your take on Valentine’s Day? From head to toe, journalists give answers (and pictures) of the holiday.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_3773-1200x900.jpeg)
Photo story – The look of love
A (photo story) answers Valentine’s Day questions within CSD high school
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![Candy is often associated with Valentine’s Day but for CSD student journalists the holiday has different meanings entirely.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_1420-1200x900.jpeg)
It’s not about the candy
Student journalists reflect on a holiday with mixed personal significance
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Episode 8 – Spartans Review – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Join student journalists Isabel Sands, Callie Hobbs and Ava Jordan (with original episode music by Allison Gottlieb) for a review of the latest Hunger Games release.
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![The controversy of banning books rages in communities and schools cross the country.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_1867-1200x1200.jpeg)
Exploring the controversy of banning books
Why are books being taken away when things that could be classified as worse are not? Every reason a book is banned can be found easily on the Internet, so why are we choosing to ban books?
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![Front row third from right, Isabel Sands (‘27) played for Christ the King’s (CTK) field hockey team in the 2023-24 fall season, along with four more girls at CSD and a few others from various other high schools that didn’t have a team.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_1804-1200x899.jpeg)
Field hockey in a different high school’s colors
Students from multiple high schools, including CSD came together to build a community field hockey team at CTK high school during the fall 2023 season.
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![They always popular “Spartan Specific”Halloween episode kicks off our second year. Listen and learn all things about the spookiest, scariest holiday on the calendar.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_1757-1200x1043.jpeg)
“Spartan Specific” Podcast – THE Halloween episode is LIVE!
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Fall Playlist – 23 “cool” songs for fall 2023
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![Many say the first week of fall is one of the most enjoyable at CSD. In the week leading up to Homecoming, CSD has a Spirit Week full of theme days, a packed football game and the first school dance of the year.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_1693-907x1200.jpeg)
Spirit Week and CSD Homecoming 2023 – A week that was Spartantastic
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![One of the perks of being a CSD Spartan senior is priority seating (standing) at fall football games.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_1665-1200x900.jpeg)
The perks of being a CSD senior
At CSD, things are different when you are a Spartan senior.
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![Walking a college campus and talking with a tour guide can do so much more than make a first impression for students thinking about where they might go after graduating high school.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/3EB2ADD1-EAB9-4BDF-9C2E-05A81B13DA6E-e1682036770817-675x900.jpeg)
Opinions – College tours can do more than make a first impression
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![Social media, whether on a cell phone or a computer, has both positive and negative implications on student mental health depending on how it is used. Often times it can be difficult for high school students to balance and navigate.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/86A0502A-74A9-4B69-88A0-9B9078D1673F-690x900.jpeg)
Social media and student mental health
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![Sleep in or study? That is what most CSD students wonder as the Halloween holiday gets closer.](https://csdspartanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/E7F470C6-F1F8-43D2-AB75-9132CD54C6A4-675x900.jpeg)
Sleep in or study? The CSD Halloween dilemma
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