![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
Logan: Violent but Heartwarming
April 13, 2017
WARNING: SPOILERS
Once again, the Marvel franchise has not disappointed. The movie “Logan,” which was without a doubt one of my favorite movies of 2017, left me with a whirlwind of emotions, but overall I was pleased in every way possible.
“Logan” did a fantastic job in balancing all the desires of its audience, from the intense gore and profanity to the heartwarming affection between Logan and his daughter. Yes you read that right; the infamous loner Wolverine has a daughter named Laura.
One of the most savage characters I have ever seen in a movie, Laura was created from the DNA of Logan to be the ultimate killing machine by an organization called the Facility. Similar to Wolverine, Laura has adamantium claws in her hands, but Wolverine falls short of his daughters capabilities, as Laura also has claws in her feet.
The movie focuses on Logan’s journey to help Laura reach Eden, a safe haven for mutant children created by rebel workers of the Facility. Both characters face an array of enemies throughout the movie and the fight scenes were choreographed in a brutally beautiful fashion.
Within Laura’s fight scenes, evidence of her father’s bloodthirsty nature is revealed through her vicious slashings of her opponents, whom she shows no mercy to. I thought it was clever for the director to add this element, for as Logan tries to calm her ferocious nature he is reminded of himself when he was young and oblivious of his capabilities.
Logan and Laura connect with each other as the movie progresses. Their humorous confrontations and mirror stances drive home the fact that, although Logan has never known of her before, Laura truly is his daughter. Their stubbornness to acknowledge their affection for each other finally ceases as Logan lays dying from a severe battle wound that his depleting healing powers cannot repair. I was absolutely devastated to see Logan die and although part of me had ill feelings towards the Marvel franchise for killing him off, I knew that it was time for him to go. The Wolverine has been through so much in his existence it’s almost comical. I believe that dying for his daughter was the most heroic way for him to leave his fans who should look forward to the continuation of Laura’s story.
Overall, I would rate “Logan” five out of five stars.
