Some people have parties to watch sports. Some people have parties to celebrate holidays. And some people have parties to watch television shows and eat cake with a man’s face on it.
Junior Bailey...
katie guyot, co-editor-and-chief
• February 7, 2013
At around 8 p.m. on Feb. 6, senior Ajala Anavberokhai posted to her Facebook wall, “By the graces of God he has shown me who he is and what he can do. I won youth of the year tonight.”
The post...
Sports require amazing amounts of dedication, commitment, and unfavorable sleep schedules.
Senior Ben Sloan is in the pool practicing for swimming eight to nine times a week for approximately two and...
katie guyot, co-editor-in-chief
• February 3, 2013
Bills forbidding paycheck deductions for union dues, limiting collective bargaining rights closing in on the law books
When the Lawrence Education Association--the teachers union representing educators...
Our generation revolves around technology. Social media is all the talk with a billion people on Facebook, over 500 million Twitter users and four billion views on YouTube per day. A certain resentment...
katie guyot, co-editor-in-chief
• January 31, 2013
The first task I accomplished over winter break was to misplace my cell phone.
At least, I assume I lost it on the first day of break. It could have been the day before, or the day before the day before,...
When math teacher Danira Flores sees cell phones glowing on her classroom desks, she doesn’t confiscate them. In fact, she encourages them. That’s because she knows her Algebra and Pre-Calculus students...
Say a person just sent an email to their friend talking about a new book they enjoy. Once they receive a response from the friend, a bunch of ads will pop up about the book. Information regarding bookstores...
Junior Noah Kenn sees science everywhere.
“Science produces all kinds of crazy stuff that’s interesting,” Kenn said as he pointed out a window. “Those cars deal with science, these windows deal...
Tumblr, Facebook, the non-educational Youtube. Students with extra time on their hands at school often long to reblog a post, poke a friend or watch the latest cute cat video.
However, if a student...
Gymnastics is full of death-defying leaps, tangling twists and intricate routines on skinny beams. Gymnasts throw themselves through the air and catapult at neck-breaking speeds.
So, it' s not a surprise...
Music is an art that is as old as anyone can remember, yet it never stays the same.
Along with the sound, the business also has changed in the music world.
Junior Evan Barnes attributes some of the...
