Lane’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) program, Alpha, is a rigorous four-year program that sets up students for a successful career in STEM. However, with recent data coming out about the large gender gap in STEM fields, it’s a wonder if this trend is reflected at Lane. Editor-in-Chief Mara Mellits has the story on the future female scientists in the Alpha program.

In the wake of Facebook changing its name to Meta due to whistleblower Frances Haugen exposing data demonstrating the company’s harmful effects on teenagers, Lane students reflect on how Instagram, which is owned by Meta, contributes to their own issues of self-esteem. Reporter Nina Figurelli has the story on the good, the bad and the ugly of Instagram.

“This year, going back in-person has caused me, and many others that I have talked to, enormous amounts of stress, more so than years past. If I were to follow the same pattern I have before, that would mean I read less with more stress, however recently I told myself to just do it. And I did, I told myself just open the book, read one page, then one more, and before I knew it I was reading for hours on end. I submerged myself in the stories and emerged refreshed and warmed by the break away from real life,” writes Features Editor Saskia McDonogh Mooney in her love letter to reading.