Boraan Abdulkarim, Editor-in-Chief
Boraan Abdulkarim, a senior at St. Paul Academy and Summit School, is looking forward to her fourth year on The Rubicon staff. Boraan enjoys calligraphy, photography, Spanish, classic novels, and spontaneous adventures. Boraan is a member of the Summit Singers, Senior Class Leadership Council (SCLC), Science Olympiad, Intercultural Club, and the Community Action and Service group. Outside of school, Boraan engages in journalism as a freelance writer for The Highland Park Villager.
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![READ-ALOUD. Librarian Cat Mullen's talent would encourage listeners to share her passion. "I feel like my greatest skill is reading. So maybe I would read a dramatic rendition of something...like the book I'm reading now, the new Hunger Games book. I'd make a BookTok and read a very dramatic part but leave it on a cliffhanger so then people would come [to the library]."](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_8226-1200x900.jpg)
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![[TRENDING] Ep. 5 Influenced or influencer? Students respond](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Copy-of-P-dcast-1200x800.png)
![one of my ideas was to make it My Little Pony themed [because] in beats we have four groups and they all produce work different weeks, so we split them into groups. And last year it was Minion-themed, so in my presentation, I wanted to have a little fun thing, so I was just like, ‘Oh, we should do a My Little Pony theme.’ And then, you know, we turned it into the theme of the year. And now we have four groups. We have team Twilight Sparkle. We have team Princess Cadence– is she a princess? Guys, I need to know my My Little Pony better. And then we have team Princess Celestia and team Princess Luna.](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Thomas-podcast-photo-1200x900.jpeg)
![Students sit in the Huss Center auditorium to watch short films. “Even if [Superzeroes] is kind of a mediocre movie, I like being on the radar,” senior Calla Saunders said.](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/student-movie-night-1-900x675.jpg)
![Junior Franklin Labovitz uses sterling silver sheet metal and a blowtorch to assemble rings of his own. “We use something called a solder [...]to put the two pieces together,” Labovitz said.](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/fronline.png)
