Classes like photography, debate and band give students opportunities for creativity and personal expression, but only for a price.
The district decided this past fall and over the summer to eliminate...
Since age 12, junior David Stubbs hasn’t stopped thinking about music.
“I never stop working on it,” Stubbs said, “24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
Stubbs is an audio engineer who was recently...
As everyone was frying under the sun on the beach, senior Alex Houston was watching a humpback whale breach in the icy waters of Antarctica.
Houston spent his spring break and the week before with around...
English teacher Lynne Renick is retiring this year, and even though she has been teaching for a total of 36 years, there’s never a moment when she doesn’t love her job.
“My students teach me so...
A picture of the softball and baseball scoreboards side by side, one dilapidated and one brand new, respectively, appears on sophomore Elizabeth Patton’s Twitter feed. Moments later, controversy and...
When did you start doing gymnastics?
I started doing gymnastics when I was about eight years old. I started out doing power tumbling in Emporia, and from there I went to G-Force in Lawrence. Then I started...
December, 2012, Texas sophomore Emily Bauer arrived at a hospital, blind and paralyzed after a reaction to synthetic marijuana. Nine months later, Bauer is finally making process towards a certain degree...
Teachers
With caps lock on and size 48 font selected, facilitator Peggy Nelson types an email announcement for FYI Club. Afterward, she advises a National Honor Society (NHS) meeting and plans future...
Q:Why are you leaving?
A: I am leaving so I can go teach Native American Eskimos in Alaska.
Q:Are you excited?
A: I am excited. I am going to be living in rural Alaska. The only way in and out...
On New Year’s, when Foster the People announced the March release date for their new album, I was ecstatic. I wanted to wait until the official release, but when I heard about a stream on iTunes, I had...
In December 2013, senior Chris Allen and his father scrolled through a website listing of soccer camps for international academies and clicked on a link that sparked Allen’s interest in studying abroad.
Allen...
A laugh that’s a little too long. A whisper that’s a little too loud. A comment that’s a little too blunt.
These seemingly harmless mannerisms can lead to ostracism, especially in high school, where...
