Staff Editorial: A Stinky Situation
This year, Southern Lehigh High School has encountered a new and frustrating problem: locked bathrooms. Students have been vandalizing the bathrooms, as well as flushing various items down the toilets....
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Changes to Recycling Protocol Coming to Southern Lehigh
“Reduce, reuse, recycle.” Those three words have been nailed into the heads of every student since kindergarten. All around the school, bright blue recycling bins can can be found in classrooms,...
View ArticleSouthern Lehigh’s Six-Minute-Man Nick Colasurdo Leads the Spartans Into Battle
Every high school athlete has their fair share of grit, determination, and sacrifice needed to prosper. Football players practice until their entire body aches, basketball players shoot free throws...
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New Political Clubs Open Up Discussions
In the classroom, students are often told to shy away from discussing politics. However, Southern Lehigh students are forming their own clubs as a way to discuss current events with their peers. In...
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National School Walkout Rallies Southern Lehigh Students Against Gun Violence
At 10:00 am on March 14, the students of Southern Lehigh High School walked out of school for the second year in a row. This display of political activism came after some concerned seniors approached...
View ArticlePortfolio Students Display Their Paintings in Art Exhibit
During the month of March, the Allentown Art Museum will be displaying “Luminous Divide,” an art exhibit that features paintings from Southern Lehigh High School’s portfolio class. The paintings are...
View ArticlePennies for Patients Raises Money and Awareness for Childhood Cancer
This year the annual Pennies for Patients fundraiser raised over $8,000 ($8,684.64 to be exact) for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS), an organization dedicated to combating childhood cancer. This...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Our ‘Awful’ Senior Trip
At the beginning of the year, the seniors were called down to the auditorium for their last ‘first class meeting of the year’ ever. Mrs. Guarriello told us that this was our senior year. She explained...
View ArticleState-Ranked SLHS Musicians Attend PMEA Conference
From April 4th to April 7th, four music students, sophomore Helena Munoz, junior Drew Curtis, senior Jake Finkbeiner, and senior Marissa Harley, attended the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association...
View ArticleSpeech and Debate Prepares for Nationals
After months of afternoons practicing, and dozens of weekends in front of judges, the Southern Lehigh speech and debate team has wrapped up another successful season. Not only was the Southern Lehigh...
View ArticleStaff Editorial: SLHS Should Bring Back Class Rank
The 2018-19 school year is the first year that Southern Lehigh High School hasn’t recognized class rank, or a valedictorian and salutatorian — the students ranked number one and number two in the...
View ArticleDrinking Water Provides Numerous Health Benefits
When life gives us lemons we have a couple of options: we can either make lemonade, or we can just toss them right back at the tree they came from. This can be considered the same thing as making a...
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Letter from the Editor (2018 – 2019 School Year)
I don’t think that I had any idea what I would be getting into when I first joined the Spotlight. Originally, I wanted an outlet for writing, and journalism felt like a instinctive choice. Back then, I...
View ArticleDr. Mykee Fowlin Shares Emotional Stories During Assembly
To kick off the school year with a message of unity, psychologist and and performer Dr. Mykee Fowlin spoke to the Southern Lehigh High School student body during an assembly on September 6th. A follow...
View ArticleNetflix Original “Tall Girl” Fails to Stand Out
In mid-September, the new Netflix original “Tall Girl” suddenly took over every social media platform as it became an internet phenomenon. Suddenly, everyone was talking about milk crates, Swedish...
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