What You Think – Security cameras
What affect do the security cameras have on the high school?
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Column: College acceptance an achievement
Janie Simonton | Staff Writer The other day, I pulled into my driveway after school, locked my doors and walked to the mailbox. Perusing the daily post, I see the usual suspects: the bills for my parents, the “Hey, come check out our campus!” letters from colleges I would never even consider. Usually, most of the college envelopes that show […]
Read moreStaff Editorial: Safe Spaces just restate high school’s purpose
Marked by a three-inch sticker on classroom windows throughout the school, Safe Spaces are harassment-free zones and places of security for students in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, and have multiplied with the training of 60 additional teachers.
Read moreColumn: Is it actually cooler to be a Christian? – Web Exclusive
Julia Halpin | Editor Intern Parents always talk to you about the “dangers” of high school — the peer pressure to drink, smoke, use any kind of illegal drug you can get your hands on, etc., is imbedded into teenagers’ minds as the pressures that are going to attack them as they walk in the building. While these pressures are […]
Read moreColumn: Store employees’ perception of teenagers – Web Exclusive
Janica Kaneshiro | Staff Writer As I stood before the parents of the varsity soccer team in the minutes leading up to the game, I announced that I was from National Honor Society, and was selling Wendy’s cards for a dollar to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma society. Almost in unison, their heads turned away from me and avoided eye […]
Read moreStaff Editorial: Service requirement will defeat purpose of volunteering
The idea of community service, it is safe to say, is instilled in a healthy number of students at a high school where advantages are plentiful, compared to neighboring districts that are struggling to survive in the midst of a recession. The answer seems thrust in our faces oftentimes; people need help? We can do it, and get recognized for […]
Read moreColumn: The U.K. versus the U.S.: a tale of two tellys
Thom Carter | Staff Writer With the new school year comes a brand-new season of primetime television, and people are feverish for the return of some of their most beloved shows. This made me begin to ponder the difference between television here in the U.S. and television in the U.K. Spending much of my summer across the pond, I couldn’t […]
Read moreStaff Editorial: Ten-Year Plan is ambitious
The 10-Year Plan states that “80 percent of MHS students will take AP or college-equivalent courses.”
Read moreColumn: Welcome to the third dimension – Web Exclusive
Thom Carter | Staff Writer As always, movies are changing. Special effects become exceedingly spectacular, monsters become more and more convincing, and disasters become startlingly real. But what if all these things and more came out you in eye-popping 3-D? More than ever, the third dimension has become the new avenue for filmmakers to venture down, and with good reason. There’s no […]
Read moreLetters to the Editor – 10/29
Tri-County’s Youth Escort Policy a bad business move
Read moreColumn: Free speech can’t justify all
Janica Kaneshiro | Staff Writer Put simply, the First Amendment is an important one. It’s what makes us Americans. Okay, so we’ve been hearing this since the second grade, right? But it wasn’t until recently I had even considered that there might be a truly ugly part of this freedom. I don’t think it’s so much the amendment I’ve suddenly […]
Read moreWhat You Think – High school relationships
Does being in a relationship hinder your high school experience?
Read moreEditorial Cartoon – School Board
Ajay Agrawal | Editorial Cartoonist
Read moreColumn: Senior year has a price tag – Web Exclusive
Janie Simonton | Staff Writer So, here’s my idea for a senior shirt: “Football Ticket: $4.00. Homecoming Ticket: $20.00. Senior Memories: Priceless.” Just kidding, that’s not my idea. At all. Two reasons: 1. The Mastercard “Priceless” parody is so trite, it’s practically as cliché as the phrase “a penny saved is a penny earned.” 2. Senior memories are not priceless. […]
Read moreColumn: MTV at MHS: if we really knew each other
Julia Halpin | Staff Writer If any of you are avid MTV watchers, you might have seen the show “If You Really Knew Me.” Traveling to different schools around the country, the show delves into the lives of specific high school students in order to reveal who they “really are.” Surprisingly so, people admit to rather personal details on this […]
Read moreStaff Editorial: Third trimester slump
Don’t lose momentum during third trimester…
Read moreStaff Editorial: Earth Day
Consider changing habits to make easy green efforts as Earth Day approaches…
Read moreStaff Editorial: Sense of entitlement too present in current generation’s attitude
We are called the entitled generation; in other words, we are demanding and disrespectful, arrogant and spoiled. We are said to expect immediate reward for our skills in the workplace and classroom, while previous generations have persevered for years to reach their positions. A recent Boston Globe Article, “The New Me Generation” by Jake Halpern, even states that our generation refuses to […]
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