College sports have shifted recently, with athletes now being able to be compensated for their name, image, and likeness. Now that some student-athletes can make…
The Tattler
Jannik Sinner’s Doping Scandal
By AIDEN XIE on April 2025
Jannik Sinner, the top men’s tennis player, has been banned from playing tournaments for three months. @janniksin on X Jannik Sinner’s doping scandal has sent…
A Nonchalant Playlist
By JONAH GILLIS on April 2025
This playlist features tracks with the most laid-back vibes possible, hence the name of this mixtape. Tunes from past to present meld together in this…
STEM Feature of the Month: Woolly Mice and the Potential Return of the Woolly Mammoth
By LILY WANG on April 2025
When I think about woolly mammoths, Manny from the Ice Age movies is the first thing that comes to mind. I would never think of…
Dissolution
By CORALLUS MEEKS on April 2025
Come down and snap my dead branches Let summer greet me in my state of amateurity And fully embrace my rebirth Descend upon our wasteland…
Art
By ACE DUFRESNE on April 2025
The darkness spread slowly but surely. It enveloped every grocery store and shushed every dinner table. It blanketed the city, obscuring all notions of a…
Tennessee Relay Shatters Two NCAA Records
By LEA TESCHL on April 2025
The Vols shattered the NCAA 200 Free relay record at the SEC Championships. University of Tennessee Disclaimer: This article refers to events that take place…
Competitive Hobby Horsing: A Serious Sport
By JONAH JACOBSTEIN on April 2025
Competitive hobby horsing is a unique (and silly) sport where participants simulate horseback riding using a hobby horse: a handcrafted or store-bought toy horse mounted…
Frank Robinson: Underrated and Understated
By JONAH GILLIS on April 2025
Frank Robinson in the aftermath of unleashing a mighty swing. Getty Images At the 1972 World Series, Jackie Robinson voiced his wish for a black…
The Prelude of Spring
By YUCHEN LIN on April 2025
Spring, you are the day of revival.Though I and all things are trapped in ice and snow,the spring breeze breaks through everything,making my heart thump…
There
By REAGAN JOHNSON on April 2025
There,PhysicallyYou’re thereEmotionallyYou’re notEmotionallyStoppedAnd shut downTurned awayFrom youBut you thereYou’ve taught meTo mask upTo turn off my emotionsYou’ve shownA different part of lifeHereMaybe just maybeThere is…
Hell Has Frozen Over
By JULIA KLEINBERG on April 2025
The island’s Envirodome display hadn’t changed in days. At least, the same things kept popping up all over the massive, spherical screen: old cooking videos…
Untitled
By CAMILLE TROST on April 2025
you don’t need to change. don’t close your mouth, don’tbe softer, prettier, less volatile.be intense and grotesque, feeland talk loudtell the world what you thinktell…
Seasons of me
By EDIX on April 2025
I don’t fit in the skin I wore before. The girl in the mirror wants something more. I’ve outgrown the life I had before. Change…
Inside
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on April 2025
Outside, a storm is brewingFrom the high open sky.Claustrophobic there, I’m choosingTo stay inside– Inside. Inside. When it hits time,I keep my chin high.But then…
Dear Little Girl
By REAGAN JOHNSON on April 2025
Dear Little Girl You are as strong as a tree that survives a hurricane You are as brave as a single mother of 3 kids…
Knowledge: the pursuit. Trivial, fantastical, utterly inconsequential. Why try? Who among men (or women) should dare to hope for mental rejuvenation? We are what we…
It Doesn’t End With Us
By COLLEEN WHOOVER on April 2025
I met him on a Tuesday—the sort of Tuesday that feels like Monday’s twin. The sky was gray outside of the Planet Fitness I was…
hit me, baby, one more time
By THE PRINCESS OF POP on April 2025
oh baby baby how was i supposed 2 know that something wasn’t right here? oh baby baby i shouldn’t have let u go… and now…
What is Left of You
By ZADIE WANG on April 2025
CW: Miscarriage, alcohol, domestic violence. Her husband came home one night, later than usual. It was clear to her, when he walked into their bedroom, that…
Stapler
By STATIONERY on April 2025
Two puncture wounds, Vampire bite, Bound, Together.
Haikus My English Teacher Is Making Me Submit to The Tattler
By PAIGE BLANK on April 2025
My family meanseverything to me they aresupportive and stuff Earth’s overheatingBut there’s ice in my coffeeSo everything’s fine You never repliedto the Snap of my…
A Bathroom Odyssey
By SCRUB DADDY on April 2025
Locked. The bathroom doors by the Q Gym make faces at me, taunting me and the neon hall pass that swings by my legs. I…
IHS Should Expand New Bathroom Policies to All Areas of Student Life
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on April 2025
Disclaimer: The Tattler Editorial Board understands that the bathroom monitors were implemented for student safety and does not intend to mock any situations that made…
ICSD Signs Executive Deal to Buy TikTok
By DOOM SCROLLER on April 2025
In a “not-so-top-secret” deal made last Thursday, ICSD purchased TikTok, saving it from any possibility of being banned in the US. How the district was…
Chronic Absenteeism at IHS
By A. WALL on April 2025
IHS administrators are facing an unprecedented crisis: students are treating attendance like a suggestion rather than a requirement. With more empty desks than occupied ones,…
Honest Reviews: Air Quality at IHS
By CHO KING, KANT BREATHE on April 2025
Disclaimer: Many of these ratings were written before bathroom monitoring was instated and is not indicative of the current air quality. HS’s air is just…