April tenth is this year's pay equity day, which is a day supposed to bring awareness to the problem of the gender pay gap. It is important to remind ourselves that sexism still surrounds us, in countless ways. One of the ways it impacts us here at Shortridge on a day to day basis is in the dress code. I...

The NRA was founded by union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate, who were disappointed in the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops. So, they built a shooting range in long island New York, and the program grew. So what is the NRA's purpose? One could summarize it as "to...

In this age of humanity where work in the natural sciences has seen rapid evolution, there has also been a massive denial of certain scientific matters by people of influence. Namely, a number of American politicians, particularly businessman-turned-president Donald J. Trump, have disregarded the research behind the existence of climate change. And to this effect, the United States is now the only nation in the world to have rejected the Paris Climate Agr...

IPS voted on 2/21 to allow Matchbook, a corporation which runs failing schools for different school districts, to proceed to run their innovation school program. IPS school board commissioner Elizabeth Gore spoke out against this act. A journalist from the Echo interviewed her about what innovation schools ...

Shortridge's student government voted on February 13th to ratify a new version of the school's constitution. The vote was unanimous, eleven for and zero against, with only one member absent. Leading up to this vote, there were many days of debate over the wording of the previous constitution, which...