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Eli Frommes, Host and Audio Producer
![Students struggle to find the balance between good grades and committing to their sports.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/27th-1200x800.jpg)
A stressful balance
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![Old, faded signs on the doors to the Upper Campus that restrict firearms at the school would do little to stop a school shooting, but MCHS has put measures in place to protect students.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_6334-1200x800.jpg)
Triggered
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![Brando Sanchez reads his letter from his pen pal in his English Lab for Multilinguals class on Nov. 2. Multilingual students work on their grammar and writing skills and connect to staff members throughout the school by sending pen pal style letters back and forth.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20231103_123321-3-1-1200x900.jpg)
[Photo] Pen friends forever
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![Students from MCHS's Wind Ensemble headed to Nashville over the weekend, where they toured the city and performed in the WorldStrides Performing Arts Heritage Festival.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_0677-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Band trip to Nashville
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![The sophomores celebrate a dizzy human pyramid contest during the spring spirit rally in the Upper Campus Main Gym on March 23.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_9486-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Spring spirit rally
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![In a recent Panorama Education survey, 39% of MCHS’s students reported they feel disrespected frequently, or almost always at MCHS. That’s a startling number, and one that MCHS’s staff hopes to correct in the coming months and years.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/canvas-5-sideways.png)
A matter of respect
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![Students sing during the Winter Choir Festival in the Freshman Campus main gym on March 2. Several student groups performed, including all of MCHS's choirs, the school's guitar and the 8th grade choirs.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_0271-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Winter Choir Festival
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![Wind Ensemble performs at the Freshman Campus main gym on Feb. 1 during the Winter Band Festival.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_6079-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Winter Band Festival
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![When parents have access to grades, they can help students stay on track. But constant conversations about grades can also add pressure to students who are doing their best and struggling to keep their grades up.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/unnamed-900x600.jpg)
Full access
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![Doug Martin races in the IHSA cross-country state tournament.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG-5584-900x507.jpg)
Working through it
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![October was Breast Cancer Awareness month, and both students and staff found ways to show their support beyond simply wearing pink — from running and raising money at 5Ks to staying at the side of loved ones fighting their diagnosis.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/breast-cancer-900x600.jpg)
The fight for survival
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![Members of MCHS's Marching Warriors prepare for Chicago's 70th Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 10. The band took a bus downtown, gathered on Upper Wacker Dr. and marched down State St.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_4551-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Chicago’s Columbus Day Parade
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![Sophomores Luis Adame, Jamison Shea and Jiji Thorne walk through the hallways of the Upper Campus. As sophomores, this is their first year in the building, which makes them feel like freshman for a second year in a row.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_4344-copy-900x600.jpg)
Freshman, freshman, junior, senior
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![Runners from the cross country team practice at Veteran Acres in Crystal Lake on September 15.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_8367-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Cross country practice
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![Sophomores enjoy eating hot dogs and hamburgers and play games during a special sophomore picnic organized by Connections Crew on Sept 15 outside of the Upper Campus.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_9147-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Sophomore picnic
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![MCHS students perform during the first night of pops concerts — the final choir concerts of the year and before graduation — on May 4 in the Upper Campus auditorium.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_2446-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Spring choir concerts
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![Students watch Staff Infection perform during a sneak peek at the Upper Campus on April 29 in the main gym.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_7942-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Upper Campus sneak peek
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![Freshmen in Tamara Pitz's Spanish I class make piñatas the week of April 25 to give to students at Edgebrook Elementary School.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_7337-900x600.jpg)
Gallery: Spanish I piñatas
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![Freshman Gavin Wuchter conducts first period Concert Band at the Freshmen Campus on January 21. Wuchter stepped up while the district found a replacement for MCHS's director of bands, who left at the beginning of second semester.](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/unnamed-2-900x643.jpg)
The right direction
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![Freshmen can submit their writing assignments to Paper or get feedback from a trained tutor in any of their core classes. So why don't all upperclassmen get this oportunity as well?](https://themchenrymessenger.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20211206_120521-900x675.jpg)
Opinion: Upper Campus should have Paper too
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