During the years of WWI, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was known as "shell shock" and during WWII PTSD was known as "combat fatigue." Soldiers aren't the only people who are affected by PTSD though....
Jasmine Beisner is a senior attending Wichita East High School, Jasmine is standing up against district dress code rules which she believes are sexist and harmfully affecting young girls. Her words were,...
Nightmares are something everyone experiences at least once in their life. Some are worse than others and stem from past experiences or fears in general. Some of these dreams are vividly realistic and...
So, you want to get the vaccine, or any vaccine for any illness. However, your parent(s) are antivaxxers. How do you convince them to let you get vaccinated? For some teens, there is a risk of homelessness...
South High is back to welcome its returning students with homecoming. The homecoming tradition sees another day, after being cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and back with a bang! Starting...
Mt. Cumbre Vieja, located on La Palma, a Spain governed island of the Canary Islands, has erupting, and been erupting since the 19th of September. The trouble began on the 11th, when an earthquake swarm...
The start of 2020 brought many unforeseen problems to the American workforce; how have labor unions protected workers? What are labor unions though? A labor union is an organized group of workers, usually...
Currently the U.S. has 250,000 unsolved murders and that number increases by about 6,000 each year. That's 250,000+ people who have received no justice because their killers remain unknown.
Perhaps...
Ollie Cockrum, 16, They/Them
Junior at South High School (Class of 2024)
A reporter and editor for the Torch
Vice President for the Gay-Straight Alliance
Avid Crocheter
Casual Linguist
Aspires...
Many people think that anxiety is just worrying about a job interview or an upcoming project but, it is much more than that. Anxiety could get so severe to the point of an anxiety attack. An anxiety attack...
Tiger King premiered March 2020 and later this year a Tiger King 2 will be released with an update on convicted felon, Joe Exotic. In January 2020 Joe or Joseph Maldonado-Passage was sentenced to 22 years...
During a shooting on September 23rd around Wichita State University on 14th and Belmont about 1:20 pm, 16 year old female, Azuri Jones was shot in the backseat of a car with a group of her friends while...
