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The Occidentalist

The Occidentalist

The Occidentalist

Sioma Abdul-Karim, Photographer, Reporter, Photo Editor

Sioma is a freshman when she is not busy with school work or working on the newspaper. You can find her with a good book in her hand. She also loves to travel to some of her favorite places she has visited are Africa, Japan and Greece. Whenever Sioma travels she loves to try food that you can not get in the USA where there are different types of snacks and sodas.

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Robinson’s daughter was also at the event-but not just for dressing up as a witch-she was playing the violin with a few of her friends. It was really fun just to walk around and hear them play. They were always moving around and changing where they were playing their songs, so there was no guarantee that you would see them. “[My daughter] works with MI Music studio up on Garfield. They're going to dress up as pirates and run around town [playing] the Pirates of the Caribbean song,” Allie Robinson said.

Witches Night Out Back from the Shadows

Sioma Abdul-Karim, Reporter • October 31, 2025

On Sept. 25, the first fundraiser of the year for She's the First, they raised more than one hundred dollars for charity and they all have a say in what charity to donate to. “We are going to see how much money we are going to make, we take a vote as a club and we are going to decide which charities or which non profits we want to donate,” Volbrecht said.

She’s the First Club Helps Women One Fundraiser at a Time

Sioma Abdul-Karim, Reporter • October 13, 2025

 Imagine everyday you wake up. People assume you cannot do as much as them or be as smart or smarter because of your gender or skin color and no matter where you go this thinking follows you around. This...

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