After a long and tiresome day at school, the first thing every student wants to do when they arrive home is obviously homework, right? There’s so much learning to be done that it can’t possibly be squeezed into a seven hour day. Students today face rising pressures to look competitive on college...

Some members of the Eleanor Roosevelt community have said they noticed that stereotypes about female and male students are leading to Roosevelt’s girls gaining the upper hand in the classroom. Where as recently as the 1990s research has come out saying that girls were not getting a chance to build...

With prom quickly approaching, it is interesting to look back at how the event has changed throughout Roosevelt's history. Prom came to the then Eleanor Roosevelt Senior High in the late '70s. The decade of flower children, bell bottoms, and questionable hair decisions paved the way for Roosevelt's...

“Hey yo my man, where yo I.D. at?” Almost all students here recognize this catchphrase. Stories get passed around and exaggerated all the time. How could a security guard be so popular with students? How does he know so many NBA players? It seems surreal: if a freshman heard it on their first...

Dexter Carr Jr. is the author of Tower of Nirvana, the first installment in his 5-book series, The Trinity Trials. He is an alum of Eleanor Roosevelt High School (class of 2009), and went to Penn State University for both his bachelor's and master's degree (class of 2013 and 2017). Tower of Nirvana, his...