The rape case that occurred on the night of Aug. 11 and early morning of Aug. 12, 2012, in Steubenville, Ohio is sickening: a 16 year old girl, intoxicated to the point of unconsciousness, was...
Relationships and self respect are two issues teenagers struggle with every day. The new Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program by Lawrence’s Willow Domestic Violence Center desires to address both...
Last year sophomore Alison Prather filled in the bubbles on her Matchmaker form and turned it in with minimal expectation. A few days after Valentine’s Day, Prather logged onto Facebook to find a message...
katie guyot, co-editor-in-chief
• February 25, 2013
The morning-after pill isn’t always taken the morning after—and the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) fears that in too many cases involving adolescents, it’s not taken at all.
As part of...
Almost 1.5 million high school students nationwide experience physical abuse from a dating partner in one year, yet only 33% of teens tell someone about it, according to loveisrespect.org.
Domestic...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
