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The student news site of Manhattan High School

The Mentor

Social Medias Effect on your attention span

Social Media’s Effect on your attention span

Kael Stock, Staff Writer February 26, 2024

Tiktok and other social media apps such as Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, and more have caught on to the new trend of reels. Reels are little one minute clips of people doing anything. This...

Letter to the Editor: Response to Sept. 18 Editorial

Susan Copeland, Guest Writer October 4, 2021

As I was reading the September 22, 2021 editorial board conversation regarding the appropriateness of the response to the “Devious Licks” challenge and the damage to school property in the restrooms...

Pay more attention to world around you, not phones

Pay more attention to world around you, not phones

Elizabeth Stokes, Video Production September 20, 2021

Facebook has been around since 2004. iPhones have been around since 2007, and since then has come Instagram, TikTok, Reddit etc. Anyone born after 2010 will never understand life without smartphones.  The...

Reactions to TikTok challenge not effective

Reactions to TikTok challenge not effective

Lasirra Hines, Opinions Editor September 18, 2021

A trend on TikTok titled the “Devious Licks” challenge has blown up nationwide, with students around the country filming themselves performing acts of vandalism in school bathrooms. The trend made...

TikTok Vandalism reaches Manhattan High

TikTok Vandalism reaches Manhattan High

Ayana Jones, Staff Writer September 17, 2021

Vandalism known as Devious Licks -- a new TikTok trend that encourages teens to steal and vandalize school property -- has made its way to Manhattan High, causing our school bathrooms to close and having...

Students need to be more aware of companies they support

Kris Long, Opinions Editor December 10, 2019

TikTok, a popular social media app used by much of Manhattan High’s student body, is again wrapped up in controversy after suspending teenage Feroza Aziz’s account for expressing anti-Chinese political...

Social Media allows students to show self-expression

Madison Ritz, Blue M Student Life Editor September 9, 2019

Our generation, known as Gen Z, MillenGenerationZ and “the Internet generation” has been taking to social media to express its feelings onto a variety of major platforms. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube...

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