Regular readers of the Sword & Shield may remember an article I wrote earlier this year enumerating my many reasons to be, to put it kindly, dissatisfied with the existence of the How To Train Your...

Spirit Day is back, Spartans! If you didn’t know, Spirit Day is an annual volunteering event organized by Spartan Youth Service (SYS) that brings close to 300 Memorial volunteers to our feeder elementary...

Like many students, I survived middle school by forming maladaptive coping mechanisms that to this day, haunt me like mildly irritating ghosts. One of these coping mechanisms was reading whatever popular...

Hello Spartans! I’m the Sword & Shield Opinions editor, Amalia Weix. I hope everyone is having a great 4th Quarter, and feeling ready to run the AP Test gauntlet (unless you’re a freshman, in which...

AP exam season is right around the corner, and most students are nervously preparing and reviewing a year’s worth of content for a several-hour test at the Alliant Energy Center. As a reminder, here...

Happy May, Spartans—Prom is right around the corner! This year, Prom will be on Saturday, May 3rd, from 7:30 to 10:30 P.M. at the Alliant Energy Center. The theme will be “Santorini Nights,” and...

Trigger warnings have been in the public consciousness for decades—originating on feminist messaging boards in the late 90’s—but only recently have I begun to see them used outside of a handful of...