The Harbinger

The Harbinger The Shawnee Mission East community's number one source for breaking news and award-winning coverage. Dow Tate, the paper has won numerous national awards.

The Harbinger is the exclusive student-run newspaper of Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village. Staffed by approximately 70 dedicated super-students and overseen by adviser C.

Senior Jack Reeves scored six out the seven touchdowns at the varsity football game against the Olathe South Falcons. Re...
09/29/2025

Senior Jack Reeves scored six out the seven touchdowns at the varsity football game against the Olathe South Falcons. Reeves scored within the first six minutes of the game with the Lancers’ first possession. Reeves ran 71-yards down the field, scoring his third touchdown of the game. Sophomore Thomas Vanice scored the fifth touchdown of the game after catching a pass from Jack Reeves. The Lancers and the Falcons were tied with nine minutes remaining in the fourth quarter before Jack Reeves scored his sixth touchdown of the game. In support of raising awareness for pediatric cancer, the theme was Gold Out. Cheerleaders wore gold shirts and bows and handed out pediatric cancer bracelets and pins to all fans to support the fight against cancer The Lancers record is now 4-1.
The boys varsity football team will play their next game against the Lawrence High School Chesty Lions on Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. at Lawrence High School.

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When Lead Custodial Manager Chris Garrett started working at SM East in May 2021, he couldn’t even fold up a cafeteria t...
09/29/2025

When Lead Custodial Manager Chris Garrett started working at SM East in May 2021, he couldn’t even fold up a cafeteria table. The pain was just too much. 

Garrett spent most of his time submitting work orders on his computer. He occasionally helped pick up hallway trash, but only did about half of the average custodian’s workload. 

Four months prior, Garrett had a near-death experience. He can’t quite recall the whole memory — it’s still in fragments. Despite his accident, he remains a valued staff member in the whole East community.  

In January 2021, Garrett was spending his Sunday evening cleaning Rushton — a school where he didn’t even work —  when his boss offered him an extra shift. He had swept and mopped every hallway and taken out every trash can: a daily chore for him as the then-custodian at Indian Hills Middle School. 

Garrett remembers checking the school one last time and exiting the kitchen with leftover trash bags. What happened next is blank. 

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He was killed for his political views. No politics, just prayer. I don’t support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie s...
09/29/2025

He was killed for his political views. 
No politics, just prayer.
 
I don’t support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.

Hundreds of students  posted Instagram stories with captions like these on Sept. 10, the date of American political activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Students were either mourning his death, or criticizing the people mourning his death.

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Junior Gwynnie Hockey knew she wanted to play field hockey when she got the chance. Her older sister played and the majo...
09/29/2025

Junior Gwynnie Hockey knew she wanted to play field hockey when she got the chance. Her older sister played and the majority of her friends played, so she grew up around the sport.  Gwynnie started playing in seventh grade at Pembroke Hill. She transferred to SM East the second semester of freshman year when she realized East didn’t offer field hockey.

She heard around that her friends, juniors Campbell Griffin and Mady Hutsell, were thinking about starting a club, so she brought up the idea of field hockey.

“I think, being one of the first people to join, it gave me a leadership role in the club,” Hockey said. “I was also the only one in the club who knew how to play.”                                                        




Discover more about the student-run publication, the Freelancer.
09/26/2025

Discover more about the student-run publication, the Freelancer.


A breakdown of the change of the SM East student section. To read more, click the link in bio.
09/26/2025

A breakdown of the change of the SM East student section.

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An infographic sharing the different perspectives of students and their parents who work at East.
09/25/2025

An infographic sharing the different perspectives of students and their parents who work at East.




Is it normal to be out of breath after walking up the stairs? If a bloodthirsty fire is chasing me down, will I be too w...
09/25/2025

Is it normal to be out of breath after walking up the stairs? 

If a bloodthirsty fire is chasing me down, will I be too winded to take the emergency exit?

“The Long Walk” directed by Francis Lawrence answered those questions for me.

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An infographic reflecting the increasing use of AI in the classroom, and the environmental troubles it poses.To read mor...
09/25/2025

An infographic reflecting the increasing use of AI in the classroom, and the environmental troubles it poses.

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An infographic that showcases a few clubs at East, including details about each club.
09/25/2025

An infographic that showcases a few clubs at East, including details about each club.


No callers identified. No conversations recorded. No phone records kept. You’ve been told to expect this call. It’s for ...
09/24/2025

No callers identified. 

No conversations recorded. 

No phone records kept. 

You’ve been told to expect this call. It’s for your own survival.

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Every morning, to the right of the fourth-floor staircase, SHARE coordinators Sheyl Kaplan and Erin Billingsley are foun...
09/22/2025

Every morning, to the right of the fourth-floor staircase, SHARE coordinators Sheyl Kaplan and Erin Billingsley are found either deep in a conversation discussing the next service project, organizing volunteers or brainstorming new ideas to get more students involved. 
 
Kaplan and Billingsley have been working together as SHARE coordinators for four years now. They encourage students to get involved in SHARE, a volunteer nonprofit organization. 

“SHARE is fun,” Billingsley said. “It’s low stakes and a way of getting out and doing something for other people, which I think is important.”

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