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The Student News Site of Saint Francis High School

The Lancer

TEDxSaintFrancisHS co-directors Anna Fazioli (’25), Riley Clarke (’25), and Aarav Sontakke (’25) opening the event.
Ideas change everything: behind the scenes of TEDxSaintFrancisHS 2025
Katherine Winton (’25) April 4, 2025

On March 7, Saint Francis hosted its annual TEDxSaintFrancisHS event, where student speakers come together to give a series of talks that inform, entertain, and inspire. This year’s conference saw eight talks given by a total of ten speakers (with two duo talks), spanning topics from democracy to animation...

The adolescent the “village” fails to raise.
“Adolescence” review
Skye Dean ('27) April 4, 2025

This article contains spoilers! When a child commits a crime, who is at fault? Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s breathtaking new mini-series Adolescence, attempts to answer this difficult question. Simply stated, there is no way to oversell this...

Mackenzie Janosky ('25) runs with the lacrosse ball.
A spotlight on the Girls’ Lacrosse Team’s season
Ethan Bates (’27) April 4, 2025

Since the start of the spring sports season, our Girls’ Lacrosse Team has had an impressive start to their season, with a record of seven wins and three losses, two of which came to teams ranked top three in the state. While their small defeats are...

 A final review with the hosts exchanging snacks.
The Joe Show: the finale
Semira Arora ('25) and Smriti Vijay ('25) April 4, 2025

Over the length of the Joe Show, the co-hosts have gotten to know each other and grow closer together through the medium of Trader Joe’s. For...

Corset tops, platform shoes, and low-rise bootcut jeans—all current-day fashion trends which have been recycled from older decades—are surrounded by a nostalgic haze.
Fashion designers: masters of reinvention or just recycling?
Claire Marcellini ('26) April 4, 2025

In the 1930s, British author James Laver proposed Laver’s Law: the idea that fashion trends would recur every 150 years. Since then, it’s...

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