Letter From the Editors On March 13 we attended our last in-person day of school this year, though none of us knew it. Once a distant news headline, the coronavirus has infected over one million people in the United States alone, with almost two thousand confi rmed cases in our county. As teenagers, we are lucky that the virus does not pose life-threatening danger to most of us, yet that is not the case for many of our loved ones, and the pandemic has transformed our society for the foreseeable future. Prom and Senior Week were canceled and Graduation took place online, leaving seniors without a last opportunity to say goodbye. A swift transition to distance learning has left some students without resources to study as they would for in-person school, and a shift to pass-fail grading has caused other students to be concerned for this semester’s ramifi cations on their college admissions. Rapid changes like these across the country have led to misinformation about the coronavirus, including an outlandish suggestion that people drink bleach to stave off infection. In times like these, people turn to journalism to get an honest snapshot of reality, or sometimes for their experiences to feel seen. At the Mark, we are fortunate that our journalism brings a school community together. While many other extracurricular activities have been canceled, much of our work as journalists can still be done from home. We have continued to update our website, the M-A Chronicle, to track the pandemic’s impact on our community. In this issue of the magazine, we hope to bring awareness to stories outside of the pandemic that has consumed our lives. Publishing any magazine is a challenge, and producing a digital one from home is even more so. Because of this fact, we have had to rely on email or phone interviews and fi nd ways to continue projects we began months ago. Regardless of what happens in the coming months, we promise to continue our reporting in whatever medium it takes. No one knows what will happen in the future, but for now, let’s take a moment to be grateful for what we still have. Happy Reading! Th e Editors-in-Chief Violet Taylor Sathvik Nori Izzy Leake Cole Trigg Brynn Baker 2
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