This is Spitfire, a style of head-to-head debates between The Accolade’s two Opinion editors. Kyuwon is blue. Elise is red.  PREVIOUSLY ON SPITFIRE: The former Opinion editors, Kayden Kim and...

I opened the mailbox on a fateful morning and was greeted with a thick, white envelope. It was addressed to me from Roger Boye, the director of the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute, to whom...

This is an extension of the column published in the May senior issue. I never fathomed that the 2024-2025 school year would lead to the historic success of the journalism program. The culmination...

The Accolade Editorial Board unanimously agrees that Sunny Hills does not offer enough parking spaces for students in the east and west lots, especially in the spring semester when more are getting their...

Genuine friendships. True connections. Valuable lessons. When I first joined the Circle of Friends club in my freshman year, after hearing about it from a senior friend, I honestly just thought it would...

I don’t like sports. Besides dabbling in swim for a few years in elementary school, athletics was never a passion I sought to pursue.  So, imagine my surprise when I saw my name printed right next...

In eighth grade, all I wanted was a byline. Not an award. Not a leadership title. Just to see my name in print — to write something that mattered enough to be published. Scrolling through the Sunny...

Freshman year starts in fall and feels like it too. We enter campus nervous, with a new backpack, maybe even a pair of new shoes and the air crisp with possibility.  We make friends and get used to...

It began as something to fear. The red pen came in many hands — teachers, peers, even family — each one tearing through my work with sharp, decisive strokes. A line through a phrase. A question...

I’m not someone who plans things out carefully.  I didn’t have some grand idea of joining a journalism program or becoming an editor one day. I just signed up for The Accolade because I liked writing...

I fixed my gaze upon Rory Gilmore, her perfect brown hair and lively doe eyes. The little similarities in her appearance, music taste and appreciation for food only made her resonate with me more. She...

My greatest talent is storytelling.  I believe in the power of narratives to not just inform but also to connect, and journalism sets the stage for this talent to flourish.  I used to think of...