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Freshmen Interviews: Favorite Things About Payton
The Paw Print spoke to four freshmen to find out their favorite things about Payton. Read more
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Freshmen Interviews: Favorite Seminars
The Paw Print spoke to four freshmen to find out their thoughts on seminars. Read more
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Freshmen Interviews: Thoughts on Finals
The Paw Print interviewed four freshmen to find out their thoughts on finals, which begin Monday. Read more
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VIDEO: “War of Thunder” Video Game Review
PNN Broadcaster Brian Whitacre reviews “War of Thunder.” See video here: Read more
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Gallery 37 hosts CPS student artists
Gallery 37 Center for the Arts on Randolph Street trains many CPS students in the arts. Check out these clothing designs from Aaliyah Willinghampierce. She designs clothing for women in many different styles and includes mesh, lace, and feathers as part of her signature style. Original drawings by Aaliyah Willinghampierce Read more
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Top 10 Winter Themed Beauty Products
By Annel Lopez December means value sets in stores like Ulta, Sephora, Mac and other beauty shops. Value sets usually mean winter themed products, and this year is no different. The stores are filled with palettes and sets with puns about winter themed songs and feeling the holiday spirit. Whether you want to pick up… Read more
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“Rogue One”: One of a Kind
By Zemerluan Meehan The latest Triple-A installment in the “Star Wars” continuum dropped on December 16, marking the next major achievement that the hulking mogul of a franchise has produced in the last couple of years. The Force Awakens started the ball rolling again after Disney acquired Lucasfilm, and since then, fans around the world… Read more
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From Grizzly to Lion: Payton sends first Division I football player to Columbia University
By Camille Grandjean For the first time in Payton history, a football player will be playing Division I football in the coming fall. Myles Davis ‘17 recently committed to Columbia University in New York City to play football for the next four years. Paw Print: When did you start playing football? Myles Davis: “I started… Read more
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A Chromebook for Everyone: Payton Goes One-to-One
By Allison Cho, Camille Grandjean, and Grace McDermott EDITORS Many students are familiar with the current school laptops: bulky, slow, and constantly low on battery. But technology at Payton will soon undergo a drastic change, in its role and quality, in an effort to further enhance the developing project-based curriculum. In the fall of 2017,… Read more
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Walter Payton’s Stella Binion Honored as National Student Poet
by Caroline Bernet Stella Binion steps on stage, to deliver a poem, but she is not standing in Chicago. She is in Washington D.C. in front of First Lady Michelle Obama. She is nervous, but at the same time, she knows that the message of her poem deserves to be heard, especially by the First… Read more
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No Justice No Peace: How Eva Lewis is Transforming Youth Activism in Chicago
By Julianna Ritzu The past couple of years have seen an eruption of social justice activism across the United States unlike anything seen since the Civil Rights Movement. Specifically the Black Lives Matter movement, which began as a response following the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman, on second-degree… Read more
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Republican panel discusses identity, belonging with PALs
In the first meeting of its kind, representatives from Young Conservatives club were invited to speak to the Payton Advisory Leaders (PALs) during a seminar meeting on March 30 to discuss the Republican identity at Payton. This invitation comes after the published results of January’s ‘invisibility survey’, which aimed to pinpoint subgroups of the student… Read more
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The Real Cost of Averted CPS Crises
In recent years, the Chicago Public Schools have teetered on the brink of severe teacher layoffs, devastating budget cuts, and disruptive strikes — pawns in a three-way tug-of-war between CPS, the Chicago Teachers Union, and politicians in Springfield. Interestingly, some fix seems to materialize at the eleventh hour: be it the State’s discovery of millions of… Read more
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Generation All Initiative Seeks to Improve Neighborhood HS
While Generation All – The Chicago Community Trust initiative- may be a newer initiative that launched in 2014, the disparity between high school choices for Chicago students has hindered the city for more than a decade. As school “choice” increases in Chicago, the once pillar of the community, neighborhood schools (middle and high schools), have… Read more
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Payton Freshmen: Be More Than an 896
The success around Payton continues to glorify the numerical and statistical achievement of its students. The admitted class of 2020 has yielded an entrance exam score of 896 – a score four shy of “perfection.” Out of all selective enrollment high schools, Payton is last in regards to opt-out… Read more
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