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‘Healthy Relationship Building 101’ Needs to be a Core Curriculum in Education

The Harbinger

We’re taught as students how to solve equations, write essays, and pass exams, but we are not taught how to build healthy relationships. In a system that prioritizes academic success, many young people enter relationships without the ability to recognize unhealthy patterns. Jealousy is mistaken for care, control is confused with protection, and emotional int

Athlete Profile: Amanda Petric’s gritty journey to joy

The Harbinger

The ball left Amanda Petric’s foot with a clean, rising curl; the kind that makes a crowd inhale before they even know why. Under the late‑afternoon light at Harper’s home field, the corner arced toward the box, spinning above a cluster of jerseys until Grace Nikolakakis rose into it like she’d been waiting her whole...

Turning Point USA is Not a Hateful Organization

The Harbinger

Turning Point USA is a nonprofit organization started by Charlie Kirk, that promotes high school and college campus conservatism, free markets, and freedom of speech, with the goal of getting students involved in politics and encouraging debate. Turning Point faces many criticisms with the biggest one being that it is a hateful organization or that...

Harper Must Lose The Flock

The Harbinger

Once you spot one, you’ll spot the whole flock. I’ve heard about these Flock cameras before. Not in detail, but I knew about its existence across the nation and the Northwest Suburbs through an Instagram reel from a local high school. Admittedly, I didn’t watch the full video they linked in their bio, but...

Why the Trump Administration is Failing Americans

The Harbinger

As a major consumer of fossil fuels and producer of green house gasses, the U.S. has a responsibility to the world and its own citizens to take an active stance on mitigating the effects of climate change. Since his return to office, President Trump has done the opposite: he’s taken action to reverse progress...

Student Athlete Keeps it Simple and Excels

The Harbinger

Sophomores in College often find themselves under a lot of stress. Second-year students have more responsibilities than they’ve ever had, don’t enjoy the comfort of financial abundance, and some, like Ryan Golden, are further burdened by an intense passion for adrenaline, competition, and physical challenges. Golden is an education major who consistently ear

2025-2026 Harbinger Event Photos

The Harbinger

Gallery • 37 Photos After the sunset, Harper students dance with glow sticks at the Neon Lights event on August 28th, 2025. (Photo by Hector Rodriguez)

Why we must protect and advocate for the U Visa

The Harbinger

Domestic violence does not always begin with visible bruises. Sometimes, it begins with control, fear, and the slow realization that you are no longer safe in your own space. For many immigrant and minority women, that fear is intensified even more by something else: the threat of losing everything if they speak up. That is...

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