VOICES
LEGALIZING MARIJUANA:
It Should be Good
January 23, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Ruoyao Huang, Carlos Melgar & Kevin Sigaran
“When you are smoking you start to feel like peace, you feel free like your senses relax and improve your encouragement and remove stress,” said a college student and an alumnus of Flushing International High School.
Has Sexual Harassment Become Normalized?
January 23, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Zikun Jin, Camilla Carrasco Lopez, Xin Lyu & Aurora Reynoso
“I can let you pass my course, but you have to have sex with me after school.” This was the story one FIHS teacher shared about being sexually harassed by her professor from college.
COLLEGE DEBT: What is the Real Cost?
January 23, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Erika Alba, Iris Feng Cen, Rong Chen & Miguel Marin Ruiz
“I spend my whole life after graduating and while I was in college. Paying for school. I am 34 and I started paying for college out of my own money when I was 19 years old.”
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The LGBTQ+ Family
January 23, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Jia Cheng Liew, Miryam Alexandr Lucero ,Yuning Shi & Maria Ventura
“When I was 16 years old I realize that I really really like my friend Anna, like a lot. And I had a boyfriend at that time, a very cute boy, but I did not like my boyfriend so much but I really liked my friend Anna."
STUDY NOW, PAY FOREVER:
Burdened by Student Debt
January 23, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Yingying Chen, Diego Leon & Honglin Zhang
“I’ve been paying since I was 19. I am now 34 and I’ll probably keep paying for 10 to 20 more years,” responded Ms. Jillian Leedy, the Flushing International High School Media Arts Teacher, as she sat in the tiny college office of the school, with its walls filled with banners and flags, advertising colleges from around the state and country.
OBESITY: Overcoming Personal Challenge
January 23, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Said Alava-Loor, Betsy Nunez, Brayan Pulido & Hugo Wu
If you ask people “Do you like going to McDonald’s?” The average answer will be yes, everyone loves going out to eat, the french fries are good and the chicken nuggets are just right.
SCHOOL GUN VIOLENCE: Taking a Teenager’s Life
January 23, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Arif Miah, Dariana Velez, Malak Saleh & Yuki Wang
“I feel free that nobody is going to bring a gun or something dangerous to the school,” said a female student named Brisen, she is 14 years old, from Union Square Academy for Health Science.
The Many Victims of Police Misconduct
January 23, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Zhenjiang Qiao, Brithanny Rivera, Wendy Silva, Nelson Valencia & Yawen Wang
“But sometimes your voices are not loud enough for people to hear because where we come from and there are a lot of issues that people can talk about, but it’s very important to speak up and stand up for somebody for what’s right."
NYC Is A Welcoming Place For The LGBTQ+ Community
January 21, 2020 | PBAT MAGAZINE
By Yaroslava Kyselia, Richard Rios, Mayra Vivas De La Cruz & Tiffany Zheng
"Over there it felt like I’m sick, like I have a mental disease, and when I came to New York it finally felt that I have a chance for a normal life,” said Nicole, a lesbian woman originally from Russia, now living in New York.
WE WANT PARTIES: No One is in Charge of Student Government
December 15, 2019
By Bonita Saha & Yuki Wang
Student Government was the biggest club in the Flushing International High School where many students and teachers worked together to arrange a lot of fun activities every year, but not anymore.
Congresswoman Grace Meng Warmly Talks to
FIHS Students
November 15, 2018 | ISSUE 10
By Harrison Yang
Congresswoman Grace Meng shares her experience of being a second generation immigrant in New York and becoming the first ever Asian American woman to represent New York in Congress.
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