Photo from Unsplash It is everyone’s favorite time of year: when 16 seeds are upsetting number one seeds and last second buzzer beater shots messing up everyone’s brackets up. March Madness is back in session. March Madness is a college basketball tournament that begins in March and continues into early April. There are 68 teams to start, and the competition is single-elimination, making only one team the final champions. This year there have been too many upsets to count,

Photo by Aimee Ni Here at BHS few topics spark as much debate and division as the quality of its bathrooms. According to students at school, the bathrooms have various factors that makes a bathroom the “best. To have an ideal bathroom experience students try to find the right balance between the two most important aspects: privacy and accessibility. The first quality that will be discussed is privacy. After asking around campus, one bathroom has been consistently ranked fir

Photo from Unsplash Between classes, sports, jobs and social activities, high school students are constantly balancing limited time and money. That’s why at-home press-on nails, which can be applied in minutes, have become such a popular option for school dances, special events and for some, day-to-day life. At the same time, many students still opt for nail salon services for their wider range of designs and professional application, especially if they’re concerned about na

Photo from Stock Images Have you ever lost an item at Bellevue High School and wondered what happened to it? Losing an item is a common occurrence, from your air pods falling out of your pocket, to leaving your jacket on the stairs and forgetting about it. When an item is found on campus, it is brought to the attendance office. If you have lost a possession, make sure to look for it there. Many students have already successfully found their lost items through the attendance

Photo from Unsplash Spring break is just around the corner and students are ready for their week off. From staying in town to boating trips in Europe, Bellevue’s student body will be traveling all around the world. But the question remains: where are Bellevue students travelling this year? After months of darkness and rain, this week off helps students reset after a long winter. This is the perfect time to get on a plane and go somewhere sunny. “During spring break I’m tra

Caption: Apple’s MacBook Neo, available in Silver, Blush, Citrus, and Indigo. Photo from Apple/apple.com Recently, Apple made a new pastel-colored addition to their shelves–the Macbook Neo. For only $500 with the student discount, Apple may have made the new value king of laptops for high schoolers. $500 is big news. The next cheapest Apple laptop would be the base configuration Macbook Air 13” at $1100, meaning Apple’s new best value proposition just halved in price. The N

The game poster from IMDb ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33309006/ ). On February 27th, 2026, the Japanese video game company Capcom released Resident Evil Requiem, the highly anticipated 9th installment of the survival horror game series. The game was so popular that, as of March 16th, it’s been crowned as the fastest-selling game in the series, selling six million units within the first two weeks of its release. It’s also highly rated, boasting an 89% score on Metacritic.

The Bellairs group. Image by Jay Choi. The Bellevue High School Jazz Choir “Bellairs” has experienced great successes this year! In February, they attended the Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) conference, staying in Yakima on the 13th and 14th. In March, they performed at the American Choral Directors Association down in Tacoma, one of the largest choral events in the Pacific Northwest. Bellairs has demonstrated a great deal of dedication to their music and has

The three new EICs: Harry Zhao (left), Vidula Rajesh (middle), and Aimee Ni (right). Image by Mingze Shi. Year after year, The Barque says farewell to its seniors, while current sophomores and juniors apply for the following year’s many leadership roles, including section editors, managers and chief copy editor. Among all returning members, however, three staffers are selected to serve the coveted role of editor-in-chief. Editor-in-chiefs are the primary decision-makers for

Photo by Aimee Ni Bellevue High School is known for its wide variety of clubs. From STEM, to business, to the arts and service organizations, BHS offers something for everyone. But while some clubs are well known, others are more ambiguous, leaving many wondering what goes on behind the meeting room doors. With so many clubs to choose from, can students accurately guess what other clubs do? To find out, several students were asked to describe their clubs and guess other club

Photo from tenor.com Earlier this year, a penguin from Werner Herzong’s 2007 documentary, Encounters of the End of the World took TikTok by storm and has become a popular object of many interpretations for viewers. It features a penguin suddenly walking away from its pack towards barren lands that stretch for miles on end. Viewers found it interesting because the behavior of the animal was unexpected and abnormal. The penguin was said to be embracing nihilism, which is defin

An assembly in 2024. Image by Mingze Shi. Bellevue has a problem with its assemblies. It’s not that assemblies lack spirit,  instead, assemblies are too unruly. This is especially prevalent when it comes to one of the most important symbols of American public schools: the national anthem, for one, it takes too much time for the audience of students to get quiet, and then even during the anthem, students do not stay quiet. The anthem isn’t important because it’s simply a trad

Taking a picture using a digi camera. Image by Piper Lipon. Two aesthetics are emerging from apps like Instagram and Facebook with two seemingly completely different visuals and vibes. The first aesthetic has developed throughout social media since sharing photos online started; these types of photos usually involve a clear shot with deliberate posing and are achieved on phone cameras usually. The second aesthetic has recently come back into the sphere of the younger generat

Nicole Caulfield's classroom for Ceramics and Jewelry, 1126. Image by Mingze Shi. In my personal experience, if you take an instrument series—band, orchestra, etc.—it guarantees you successive years of art. But if you do not, you’ll likely realize that the required art credits are a lot. For many that really value artistic experiences and find them interesting, BHS has a variety of these courses at your disposal. But for those who want to take a lot of STEM classes (physics,

The show's season 4 poster, from Netflix. Netflix’s “Bridgerton” released one of its most anticipated seasons this past month, centering on the crowd-favorite sibling Benedict Bridgerton. While Bridgerton started out as a smashing success, it recently faced harsh criticism from fans over season three, which the audience claimed didn’t seem to hold the same magical romance of the first two seasons. “I stopped watching ‘Bridgerton’ halfway through season three. Penelope and C

Photo from Church POP on Facebook Every time the Seahawks make a serious run for the Super Bowl, something unusual seems to happen. This is part of the “Seahawks–Pope Conspiracy” theory. The theory suggests that whenever there is a change in leadership of the Catholic Church, the Seahawks reach the Super Bowl. While this may seem random, fans believe that there is a clear pattern to what is happening. The Seahawks made their first Super Bowl appearance in the 2005 season. T

Photo from Unsplash The World Cup is back! The upcoming soccer matches will be hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico. Not to mention, there are some matches being held at Lumen Field in Seattle. There are six games scheduled here, including group stage games Belgium vs. Egypt, USA vs. Australia, Quatar vs. UEFA Playoff Winner A, Egypt vs. Iran, along with a round of 32 game and a round of 16 game. Unique to Seattle, the Seattle World Cup organizing committee has de

Photo by Ken Lambert from The Seattle Times. Although budget problems have plagued Bellevue School District (BSD) with uncertainty over the past couple years, on February 10, some monetary anxiety was temporarily alleviated with the renewal of two BSD levies—the Education Programs and Operations (EP&O) levy, and the Technology and Capital Projects (TCP) levy. Both levies are collected in the form of proportional property taxes on assessed values of Bellevue housing propertie

Bellevue senior boys enjoying their last day in town at a restaurant just hours before all outside access was restricted. Photo by Alex Gillin. During mid-winter break in February, members of Bellevue's senior class visited Punta Mita, Mexico. A completely gated resort packed with beach clubs, hotels, restaurants and even two golf courses. Punta Mita is located about 25 miles northwest of the city of Puerto Vallarta, in the neighboring state of Nayarit. The region is a well-

Photo from Unsplash              After waiting four years, the Winter Olympics have finally arrived in Milan, Italy. Although often overshadowed by its summer counterpart, the Winter Games feature a wide variety of sports accommodating all sorts of tastes. There’s freestyle skiing for exhilaration, curling for strategy and patience, skating for fast-paced racing, and much more, all of which result in of the most exciting and anticipated events in recent years. And this time,