sam boatright, co-editor-in-chief
• February 27, 2013
I partially owe my sanity to sitcoms. To sappy music, to pop art, to New York Times columns, to romantic comedies. Each of these artistic forms act as alternative universes, as life consultants, as stress...
sam boatright, co-editor-in-chief
• February 27, 2013
If men actually thought about sex one time every seven seconds, then, unsurprisingly, they would never be able to get anything done as they would be inundated with invasive innuendo over 12,000 times a...
High school: four years in a person's life that will never be forgotten. One could say this is because of all the opportunities to learn, participate in activities and meet new people. However, most would...
steven ozaki and sydney dorrance
>sophomores
How long have you been dating?
Sydney Dorrance: Nine months.
How did you ask her out?
Steven Ozaki: Well, she was living in Missouri at the time so...
If I were a boy . . . “even just for a day / I'd roll out of bed in the morning / And throw on what I wanted.”
And that’s about the only thing Beyoncé and I would have in common if we switched...
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...
Standing tall, silent and still. An incoming force approaches and slides down the lane. The pins fall over, defeated, and the bowling team celebrates another victory.
“Our bowling team is ranked up...
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...
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...
