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NOV 2025 VOL. 11, ISSUE 2
Uptick in free hours for Huron students SATVIKA RAMANATHAN PRINT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF It’s 11:40 a.m. and senior Aarna Desai is done with school. More specifically, she has finished her in-person classes for the day. Desai has had a reduced schedule for online classes every year of high school. This year, she has an online fifth, sixth and seventh hour. She is one of 249 Huron students taking an online class this year and part of the larger pool of approximately 270 students with a reduced schedule. In March 2020, when the pandemic hit, the floodgates for online learning opened up within AAPS and at Huron. Since Covid, the number of students with reduced schedules has increased. There are many reasons students opt to not have an inperson class. Some students taking advanced classes want an hour or two off to make their workload more manageable. Some students want to take classes online for wider course offerings. Some students just want flexible schedules to dedicate more time to careers not involving a four-year university.
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Sophomore Amelia Bai studies up during a free hour PHOTO AND GRAPHIC BY ELLA YIP not have an in-person class. schedules for students. “It’s normal This means that the library is “Supervision of open developmentally for students often very populated during hour student is becoming a to want to socially connect the school day. growing responsibility in this with each other,” Hughes said. The number of students space,” librarian Caroline “I celebrate that, but I think who spend at least one hour in Hughes said. there’s also a time and a place the library has been growing Librarians are for everything.” each semester. spending more time writing Some students who live One factor that dictates passes, helping with within walking distance or numbers of open hours is resource collection and drive opt to go home early or when departments have managing students, which come late if their free hours collaboration hours. The allows for less time to do line up that way. English team’s hour off is fifth other administrative and Social versus study Desai walks home after hour, meaning that no student organizational tasks that also spending late lunch with her can take an English class fifth need to be done. The Huron media friends because she feels more hour. Counselors have to work The library can also be center is the designated efficient at home. around that when creating the distracting for many students. location for students who do “I’m the type of person who just likes to be alone for studying,” Desai said. “If I’m AVERAGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE LIBRARY DURING EACH HOUR at the library, I’ll just go on my phone or talk.” Hughes said she feels sad that having so many students might negatively impact her ability to have positive relationships with them.
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AAPS STUDENTS CAUGHT IN OCTOBER EMAIL SCAM JAEWON LEE NEWS EDITOR In early October, Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) students got their accounts compromised and emails were sent to other AAPS students that were later identified as phishing. “Phishing” emails are malicious emails that attempt to steal the recipient’s
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personal information through suspicious links, attachments, and more. The phishing email contained a table asking the user to open the attachments, which turned out to contain malware. Many of the messages sent used titles like “Review And Sign Document Attached” and other generic subjects. They appeared to be from AAPS students, deceiving some people. “It was really frustrating and annoying,” an anonymous Huron student, whose account was compromised by the incident, said. “If you get sent something strange and [Google] gives you a scam READ THE FULL STORY ON THEHURONEMERY.COM
Artificial Intelligence has made its way into high schools. Students have been incorporating AI into coursework, resulting in a need for an organization to ensure fair and accessible use of AI. Senior Isaac Thomas is leading the way through the AI Rights and Responsibilities Council (AIRRC), a board of students and two Ann Arbor staff members who try to make AI usage in the district something that everyone has an opportunity to use equitably. Thomas helped work on the AI Bill of Rights for Ann Arbor Public Schools. “The AI Bill of Rights was Michigan’s first AI Bill of Rights created by students, and was made to clearly outline the rights of students regarding AI usage,” Thomas said. “I thought it was really important because, as many READ THE FULL STORY ON THEHURONEMERY.COM
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TITLE IX PAGE 8-9 PAST & PRESENT IMPACT
ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 13 JOSHUA SLONE & SITCOMS
Screenshot of the phishing email. PHOTO BY JAEWON LEE
SPORTS PAGE 15 STUDENT SECTION & SOCCER REGIONALS