Dee Lee, Editor-in-Chief
Hi, my name is Dee Lee and I am a senior. This is my third year on staff, and I am so excited to serve as one of the co-Editor-in-Chiefs this year! Outside of the lab, I participate in clubs like Model UN, Happy Crew, TSA and more. I also love to spend time with family and friends, take naps, travel and get sweet treats! This year, I’m so excited to lead and nourish the talents of our staff roster, most of whom are completely new. I really hope to report at more events and try working on longer-form content! I also really hope to restart my column from sophomore year, the Monthly Mixtape! I love what I do here in Rockmedia, and I hope you all do too! Make sure to follow us on all platforms @rcrockmedia, and check back frequently for some fun content on our website!
![Minutes before the Activities Fair in the gym, president Abhi Gowda ‘26 prepares the stall for his club Helping Hands, Sept. 4. A relatively new club, Helping Hands was co-started by Gowda and focuses on assisting the homeless, and just last year they succeeded in raising a couple hundred donations to send to shelters. This year, they have goals to expand, with hopes to increase volunteer opportunities and take in-person trips to shelters, as well as extend their help beyond just homeless people. “The Activities Fair gives a lot of underclassmen the opportunity to really get to know the Canyon culture, and it gives them many opportunities for service and volunteering,” Gowda said. “[Through the Activities Fair,] I hope to find a bunch of new and passionate members about our club and just get our name out there and spread awareness to the cause that we’re fighting for.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2-1200x885.jpg)
![The winter guard team makes fifth place at the state championship finals in the Denver Coliseum, March 30. The team performed to Barnes Country's “Glitter and Gold,” lead by coaches Margo Sanford, Blair Bickerton and Anna Orgren. In their class there were a total of nine groups participating, and the top five who made it to finals received a plaque. “[Walking onto the stage] is very nerve-wracking, but also very exciting as well. When you first start color guard there's a lot of anxiety and uncertainty when you first perform in front of an audience, but once you've done it for a while, it starts to become the best part of the season,” Ella West ‘25 said. “It's very fulfilling to see an audience react to something you've put your heart and soul into.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Both-socal-media-nd-website-main-1-1200x846.jpg)
![April marks the 25th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, created by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). This month is to spread awareness of the harassment, assault and abuse that happens around the world. The symbol that represented the month was a teal ribbon; however, some survivors of assault create different symbols and movements like the TikTok trend in 2022, where survivors would tattoo Medusa on their body, in honor of her backstory in Greek Mythology. “I don't think [this month is known] at all. I rarely see anybody talk about it. I rarely see much of an emphasis on posting it online, or much discussion about it, and I feel like there needs to be way more discussion,” an anonymous source said. “I think just validating every experience that a person has gone through, regardless of the degree of it, the severity, is an essential step into making sure that people are aware that this is a very real problem in a society and that we need to do better in addressing it.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_0011-1200x900.jpg)
![Lesbian Visibility Day is April 26, and it’s a holiday to celebrate the lesbian community of the world. Lesbian Visibility day was established in 2008 by many queer activists and organizations who sought to raise more awareness for lesbian history and culture. “So this is why during Lesbian Visibility [Day] we celebrate and center all lesbians, both cis and trans, while also showing solidarity with all LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary people,” Linda Reily, in an article written by her, said.](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Lesbian-Visibility-day.jpeg)
![With a marker in hand, Sophia Foldery ‘26 writes notes about the events of the Columbian Exchange on a whiteboard in preparation for AP World History: Modern exam May 5. Foldery met with a group of classmates taking the same course to study each unit of the course in preparation for their class final exam and AP exam. AP testing week started on May 6 and continues through May 17, with the AP World History: Modern exam taking place May 15 at 8 a.m. “I’m definitely stressed [about the exam], but I’ve been reviewing a lot of the information to relieve my stress,” Foldery said. “I especially like working with friends, because they usually save me on the topics that I don’t know.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0340-1200x1200.jpg)
![Prisha Gupta ‘26 and Shreya Ganesh ‘24 work on a project with their Starbucks red cups during Access Nov. 16. The day marked Starbucks’ annual “Red Cup Day,” where customers who order any handcrafted beverage received one holiday-themed 16-ounce reusable cup. Shiven Patel ‘26 also purchased a drink and received a red cup. “I think Red Cup Day made us get into the festive spirit. The smell of the Starbucks gave [me] the thought of sugar cookies and Santa,” Patel said.](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_7065-1200x1200.jpg)
![Zoe Katsoulas ‘26 presses her mooncake into a mold in Jenny Xian’s period seven Chinese IV Sept. 28. The class celebrated the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, which started Sept. 29, by making mooncakes. ”I liked pressing [the mooncake] in the mold and then seeing the flower design and eating it when I got to eat it,“ classmate Ella Scheichenost ‘26 said.](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_5924-921x1200.jpg)
![JD Freivogel ‘24 practices guitar while looking at sheet music in Benjamin Dale’s period seven Guitar II Sept. 5. The class worked on various sheet music compositions and presented finger exercises. “It's nice just having a class that's kind of like a break from everything. I originally started taking it because I figured [that] practicing by myself wasn't that fun, but if I forced myself to practice, however many times a week, then I could get good at it,” Freivogel said.](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_5175-1200x1200.jpg)