For one student, senior privilege means more hours at work. For another student, senior privilege means a longer afternoon nap. To some students, senior privilege means simply a day without the inconvenience...
The Kansas public schools have won the battle, but not the war.
Not yet.
The infamous lawsuit filed by the public schools over constitutional funding was settled in the district court in December,...
"Wreck-It Ralph"= chocolate cake
Disney/Pixar has a way of making adults laugh while entertaining everyone at the same time. Wreck-It Ralph gives the movie goer a huge slice of chocolate cake. The cake...
In the hours leading up to winter formal, many students’ schedules involved grooming, photo taking, dining out, and spending time on a party bus. The party bus’s destination, however, was not actually...
It’s called the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ for a reason. If Congress had failed to come to a decision, the United States would have fallen off of the “cliff” and into a deficit of 1.1 trillion dollars which...
I'll be honest: the second after I hit "publish" on this fifth and final blog, I'm high-tailing it to Pinterest to spend the rest of the night catching up on the cupcake recipes I've missed over the week.
I...
One thing I've learned for certain from this week without technology: I was not meant for this technological-dependent generation.
Sure, I didn't give up my vehicle or the microwave or running water,...
katie guyot, co-editor-in-chief
• January 17, 2013
This afternoon, my mom plopped a laptop on top of my AP Politics book and pointed at her screen.
"Look at this recipe," she said, tapping a picture of a fennel-and-orange-steamed chicken breast that...
I think people underestimate the value of social media and its incredibly reliable and speedy method of relaying information, whether it be news worthy of mass amount of retweets or not. As I chat with...
sam boatright, co-editor-in-chief
• January 17, 2013
I've got to be honest, I'm writing this post on the fourth day of my technology-lacking adventure because I didn't have time yesterday.
Currently, I am being taunted and tortured by Reddit, the amazing...
One thing I'm starting to learn about this whole "no technology will teach you to value the importance of communication skills and independence and appreciation of nature blah blah blah" is that, it's...
katie guyot, co-editor-in-chief
• January 16, 2013
The newspaper has been planning this catastrophic Week Without Technology for a long time. In fact, we've had it on our docket since last year (i.e. late December). We decided that after we survived the...
