Alex Enyart, Staff Writer

October 23, 2024 • No Comments

It turns out that offering high school students the opportunity to make their own choices about their education is a lot harder than it seems. That’s what administrators...

Ashlyn Rodriguez, Copy Editor

October 21, 2024 • No Comments

For six weeks, students have faced a vacant Student Support Services (SSS) office. This is a special place on the Akins campus where students have sought various forms of...

Melany Serrano

October 24, 2024

While Latinos make up the second largest ethnic group in the United States with more than 62 million — or 19% of the population — they are known for having the lowest...

Nadim Lama, Staff Writer

October 23, 2024

School shootings have skyrocketed over the last 15 years. We are not even done with 2024 and there have been 144 shooting incidents resulting in 107 injuries and fatalities...

Samantha Limon, Sports Editor

May 20, 2024 • No Comments

As this school year comes to an end, the leaders of next year’s athletic teams, coaches have already started identifying students whom they expect to be leaders on the fields...

Silas Baker, Staff Writer

October 15, 2024 • No Comments

Every year a select group of students from Akins are given the opportunity to screen some of the biggest films of the year, months before their theatrical release. This...

Yanitzel Salazar, Staff Writer

October 15, 2024 • No Comments

There is nothing quite like Beetlejuice — the character or the movie. When the original Beetlejuice movie came out in 1988, audiences were treated to a macabre tale about...

Faby Rodriguez, Staff writer

May 17, 2024

As the Class of 2024 finishes their last semester in Akins, there is another group that is on its way out, as well. Gear Up, which stands for Gaining Early Awareness and...

Mark Lomas, Co-Editor-In-Chief

April 23, 2024

Elections have consequences. Every four years, voters experience these consequences when a new president is elected and that person works to set administrative policies...