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Michal McDowell

Stories by Michal

Students assess their direction at academies
By Michal McDowell, 17, Cedric Peterson, 16, Andrea Phillips, 17
Y-Press F or most students, high school is a place where they take classes that might help them decide on a college major, which then might lead to a future career. For students at the Indianapolis Metropolitan Career Academies, school is a place where they can directly try on various careers. "Why waste four years of college just to decide that it's not what you want to do? This is giving us a ch
Group takes on challenge of HIV/AIDS in S. Africa
By Michal McDowell, 15
EDITOR'S NOTE: Michal McDowell is a sophomore at the International High School of Indiana. Last summer, she traveled to South Africa with her mother, Jennifer Drobac, a board member for the California-based Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, which focuses on major health care issues. The foundation is one of several funders for loveLife, and its officials toured loveLife facilities to determine wh
Harsh security measures annoy airline traveler
By Michal McDowell, 17
Never in my life have I been so humiliated as I was on Aug. 10 at the London Gatwick Airport. I had just finished summer classes in Cambridge and was headed back with my father to Dallas, where he lives. For most of the year, I live with my mother in Indianapolis. My parents have been divorced since I was 2, and I've been flying back and forth for 15 years. On that awful day, airports shifted to h