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Why Ill never forget

Why I’ll never forget

Principal Devan Ganeshananthan, Guest Writer September 13, 2021

Writer’s Note: I am so sorry to have not been able to do the video interview with you for your project about 9/11. As I mentioned to you through my tears, it is an extremely difficult thing for me to...

Guest submission: Overlooking

Guest submission: Overlooking

Lara Tsomik, Guest Writer June 15, 2021

Acknowledgements I greatly acknowledge the assistance of: Grade 10 Health class discussions and work on sexual concepts and laws  The Standard’s Article on Sexual Harassment: Shattering the...

Illiberal Liberalism: the push against free expression in education

Illiberal Liberalism: the push against free expression in education

Ayla Dhar and Maya Dhar, Guest Writers June 9, 2021

Writer’s Note: This is an essay-formatted version of a speech we wrote to present as the Student Speakers for Aequitas Week in March. Our opportunity to present was closed, but fortunately, we have converted...

During pandemic, increase in anti-Asian hate spells trouble

During pandemic, increase in anti-Asian hate spells trouble

Sara Kim, Guest Writer May 18, 2021

The rise of the coronavirus posed a multitude of new challenges and difficulties that caused the world to change in a way we couldn't have fathomed only a few years ago. Seeing people only through the...

Guest writer English Teacher Mark Mazzenga on the necessity of the Alternatives changes

Guest writer English Teacher Mark Mazzenga on the necessity of the Alternatives changes

October 1, 2018

Guest Writer English Teacher Mark Mazzenga Surfing on a beach in Morocco...for school? Sounds like a sweet field trip if not an enviable life story (even if many of those surfers returned to London...

Guest Writer Rohan Prasad (18) on diversity in texts

Guest Writer Rohan Prasad (’18) on diversity in texts

June 9, 2018

Rohan Prasad Guest Writer I have attended ASL for fourteen years. In this time I have read Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet; I have read The Odyssey and Antigone. I have scrutinized texts like The Great...

Guest writer Sam Habib (21) on the Mens Rights Movement

Guest writer Sam Habib (’21) on the Men’s Rights Movement

May 25, 2018

Sam Habib Guest Writer Shocked and confused were my initial emotions when hearing about the Men's Rights Movement (MRM). I had first heard of the movement after watching the documentary “The Red...

Why I wont just wear the shirt

Why I won’t just ‘wear the shirt’

September 1, 2017

Seniors receive their red T-shirts with sheer excitement; they dart to the bathroom immediately to change; they take photos upon photos together, smiling. Parents look on with pride because, at last, their...

One Young World Quotes

November 22, 2013

ALEX LIEDERMAN GUEST WRITER During alternatives, I went to Johannesburg, South Africa to attend the One Young World summit. One Young World is a London based charity that hosts an annual summit where...

Seeing the world, discovering yourself: How to spend your summer

October 24, 2013

ALEX LIEDERMAN GUEST WRITER  Life as a teenager at ASL seems challenging. High school is the time in your life when you feel the most confused and uncertain. To get through this period, you need to...

Join the debate

Join the debate

November 12, 2012

SHAHID MAHDI CULTURE EDITOR HAYDEN NADLER GUEST WRITER It is a characteristic of all humans to argue and debate. It is perceived as a route to seek clarity and truth. As the co-presidents of the...

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