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The Student Newspaper of Jackson-Reed High School

The Beacon

The Student Newspaper of Jackson-Reed High School

The Beacon

Emily Mulderig

Emily Mulderig, Managing Editor

Emily is very excited (translation: scared) to be the Managing Editor of this stellar newspaper. She’s not really sure what this role entails but thinks maybe it has to do with finances, which should work out okay since she did receive Mathematician of the Week in her Algebra 2 class. You can probably find her nursing her sourdough starter, embezzling from The Beacon's PayPal account (shhh….), or managing the HECK out of Charlotte.

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Baseball team sets sights on DCSAA title

Baseball team sets sights on DCSAA title

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig March 30, 2022

The Wilson Tigers’ 2022 baseball season is swinging into action, and the team has one simple goal: bring home the state championship.  “I think people are gonna doubt us because we are a much different...

AP Language and Composition students had their class from the atrium on Tuesday, December 21, because their teacher was absent. Wilson closed for virtual instruction on Wednesday.

Chancellor adapts COVID notification system in response to rising cases

Joanna Chait and Emily Mulderig December 22, 2021

  Wednesday afternoon, the Chancellor announced that DCPS is making adjustments to expedite the notification process after a student or staff member tests positive for COVID-19.  Emails sent...

Student-athletes respond to vaccine requirement

Emily Mulderig and Charlotte Guy November 12, 2021

In accordance with a DC mayoral mandate, Wilson student-athletes were required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by November 1 to continue participating in sports. For vaccinated student-athletes,...

Wilson hosts first HBCU college fair

Wilson hosts first HBCU college fair

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig November 6, 2021

Pumping music, dozens of eager students, 10 college representatives, and palpable excitement. Wilson’s first-ever Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) fair was held earlier this fall,...

Edna B. Jackson and Vincent E. Reed

Edna B. Jackson and Vincent E. Reed

Emily Mulderig and Leah Carrier November 6, 2021

Edna B. Jackson 1955 was an important year in Wilson High School’s history. Not just for the twentieth anniversary of its opening, but for the arrival of one of the most impactful teachers to set...

Reparations for Reno: Wilson organization pushes for affordable housing in Tenleytown

Reparations for Reno: Wilson organization pushes for affordable housing in Tenleytown

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor October 3, 2021

In 2019, ELA teacher Marc Minsker worked with ten Wilson students to advocate for rehabilitating the Chesapeake House, an abandoned building on the corner of Fort Reno, as a community center. Now, all...

Safety measures aim to mitigate virus spread

Safety measures aim to mitigate virus spread

Joanna Chait and Emily Mulderig October 1, 2021

After a year of closed doors and empty hallways, Wilson has reopened fully for in-person school with a variety of safety measures in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. As of September 27, the school...

New schedule to include two lunch periods

New schedule to include two lunch periods

Joanna Chait and Emily Mulderig September 7, 2021

Starting Tuesday, September 7, Wilson’s schedule will incorporate two lunches, designated as Lunch A and B. Principal Gregory Bargeman announced the change Friday, following concerns from community...

Martin leaves Wilson after six years as Principal

Martin leaves Wilson after six years as Principal

Emily Mulderig and Joanna Chait July 8, 2021

After serving six years as the Principal of Wilson High School, Kimberly Martin is leaving to take a promotion within DCPS. Assistant Principal Gregory Bargeman will act as the Interim Principal.   Martin...

Lawsuit names Wilson personnel; Farrar seeks restitution as whistleblower

Lawsuit names Wilson personnel; Farrar seeks restitution as whistleblower

Joanna Chait, Emily Mulderig, and Charlotte Guy June 25, 2021

A former Wilson health teacher and coach has filed a lawsuit against DCPS, alleging that she was wrongfully put on administrative leave and investigated for staff misconduct involving a student. The...

Graduation to require compliance with many restrictions

Graduation to require compliance with many restrictions

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor June 22, 2021

The Wilson administration is adhering to many regulations in order to hold in-person graduation at Audi Field at noon on June 22. When DCPS chose the venue to hold many of this year’s high school...

Delving into data: how the pandemic shaped this year

Delving into data: how the pandemic shaped this year

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig June 14, 2021

After what was surely one of the wonkiest years in Wilson’s history, we couldn’t help but wonder what had changed in our school community. So as any ordinary teenager would, we contacted our school’s...

Wilson alumni express dissatisfaction with name change proposal

Wilson alumni express dissatisfaction with name change proposal

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig May 24, 2021

Sally Schwartz can still picture the fury on her principal’s face as she and a band of classmates marched into his office, victoriously bearing a stack of papers scrawled with the signatures of every...

Two new schools buildings to open in Ward 3

Two new schools buildings to open in Ward 3

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor May 18, 2021

DCPS will open two new schools in Ward 3 in the coming years to relieve overcrowding in Wilson’s feeder pattern. The schools are currently being identified as Foxhall and MacArthur. Both buildings...

Five decades later: a Q&A with a Beacon alumni

Five decades later: a Q&A with a Beacon alumni

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig May 9, 2021

We set out on a very important mission with only one goal: to be transported back in time. To a time when typewriter ink and teach-ins about the Vietnam war were more prevalent than cell phones. To accomplish...

Hardwired for success: robotics team continues to compete during pandemic

Hardwired for success: robotics team continues to compete during pandemic

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor April 30, 2021

The Build Captain of Wilson’s robotics team trekked to the robotics lab earlier this year and gathered every material and spare piece that club sponsor Angela Benjamin would let her take.  The Wilson...

Thank you, teachers

Thank you, teachers

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig March 16, 2021

Last March, we stepped foot in Wilson’s halls for what would be the last time in over a year and our teachers plunged head-first into the world of virtual instruction. Teachers have walked the fine...

Teachers react to DCPSs hybrid learning plan

Teachers react to DCPS’s hybrid learning plan

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig February 23, 2021

The second semester is underway, and teachers have to face the entirely new challenge of teaching a combination of both in-person and virtual students.  Matthew Burgoyne, a history teacher, feels that...

Vincent E. Reed

Vincent E. Reed

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor December 8, 2020

Vincent Emory Reed was born in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, the 14th of 17 children. His career in education included working as a DCPS teacher, administrator, and superintendent. He was the first Black...

Hilda Mason

Hilda Mason

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor December 8, 2020

Hilda Mason was a renowned advocate for DC statehood, educator, and city leader. She dedicated her life to public service and fighting for progressive causes, and her efforts have left an indelible mark...

Anya and Emily’s cook strip

Anya and Emily’s cook strip

Anya Herzberg and Emily Mulderig November 23, 2020

Hello fellow chefs! Chef Anya Herzberg and artist Emily Mulderig are ready to present our… cook strip! I love cooking, and Emily loves drawing, so we decided to put our talents together and create a...

Wilson community brainstorms ideas for name change

Wilson community brainstorms ideas for name change

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig November 10, 2020

The Wilson community has been granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—changing the school’s namesake, Woodrow Wilson, to a more deserving figure. Currently, parents, faculty, and students alike are...

New student-run initiative collects and donates menstrual products

New student-run initiative collects and donates menstrual products

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig September 18, 2020

One day this summer while working at the Young Women’s Project, Wilson junior Sophia Hosford was asked a transformative question by her boss: What is one thing she would change about her school? Her...

Anya and Emilys cook strip

Anya and Emily’s cook strip

Anya Herzberg and Emily Mulderig September 18, 2020

Hello fellow chefs! Chef Anya Herzberg and artist Emily Mulderig are ready to present our… cook strip! I love cooking, and Emily loves drawing, so we decided to put our talents together and create a...

Zoolights remains a festive DC winter tradition

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor February 10, 2020

Okay, okay, I get it: NO ONE likes Zoolights. It’s cold, your hands feel like they’re going to freeze off, and who wants to walk all the way up that big hill at the end? And that’s all true… but...

Wilson students attend GDS Summit on Sexual Assault, debrief with Principal Martin

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor February 5, 2020

A group of Wilson students and faculty attended Georgetown Day School’s (GDS) annual Summit on Sexual Assault and Consent on November 23. Since the event, they have met with Principal Kimberly Martin...

Basketball player channels talents to counseling

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor November 19, 2019

A 6’9” professional basketball player probably isn’t what comes to mind when you picture a high-school counselor. But the new 11th-grade counselor, Bobby Collins, is just that, and considers...

Chesapeake House to be rehabilitated as a community center

Chesapeake House to be rehabilitated as a community center

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor October 14, 2019

The Chesapeake House, an abandoned brick building located on the corner of Chesapeake Street and Belt Road on the Southwest corner of Fort Reno, is often overlooked by passerby. But members of the Coalition...

DCPS in $23 million budget deficit

DCPS in $23 million budget deficit

Joanna Chait and Emily Mulderig September 8, 2019

DCPS’s budget for this year is on track to be overspent by more than $23 million. They have until September 30th (the end of the fiscal year) to make up that money. When the situation became public over...

Climate change makes DC even swampier

Climate change makes DC even swampier

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor September 7, 2019

As a typically hot and sticky DC July came to a close this summer, I learned that it had been the hottest month recorded by humans, ever. Worrying as this fact was, I can’t say I was shocked. Growing...

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Flower Mart welcomes summer to DC

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor June 10, 2019

On May 4th and 5th, the National Cathedral celebrated its 76th annual Flower Mart. From great food to a variety of vendors, kids’ rides, live music, performances, and of course plenty of flowers, Flower...

Why, Wilson?

Why, Wilson?

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig June 9, 2019

When you’re scrambling to get your stuff together before the bell rings, the last thing you need is your substitute calling you up to sign in, especially for the second time. Between PARCC and AP...

Assessments in acrylics: the ins and outs of AP Studio Art

Assessments in acrylics: the ins and outs of AP Studio Art

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig June 9, 2019

Many Wilson students are all too familiar with the stress that comes with AP exams, but for AP Studio Art students, their test doesn’t involve any last minute studying. In fact, it’s not a test at...

Field trips take students to cadaver lab, Supreme Court

Field trips take students to cadaver lab, Supreme Court

Charlotte Guy and Emily Mulderig May 2, 2019

Wilson students were gathered around the leg of a corpse when they realized with amusement that the toenails were painted. Don’t worry—nothing shady was going on. They were in Anne Arundel County at...

This teachers dog has more Instagram followers than you

This teacher’s dog has more Instagram followers than you

Emily Mulderig and Charlotte Guy March 3, 2019

On a snowy January day in 2016, Wilson social studies teacher Matthew Burgoyne faced a trial most urban dog owners can relate to: protecting his pup’s paws from the snow-melt salt on the sidewalks. In...

Wealth club encourages financial awareness

Wealth club encourages financial awareness

Emily Mulderig, Junior Editor November 4, 2018

If you read the Wilson weekly newsletter, you have probably noticed messages about the wealth club. Members of the club discuss and learn about business, finance, consumerism, and everything there is to...

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