By Elizabeth Kolling Sixty seconds in a minute, 60 min in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, and 18 weeks in the Fall Semester, a meager 3024 hours to divide between academics, athletics, theatre, debate, speech and the multitude of other student activities offered [...]
By Jojo Sanders High school is a very important time in a person’s life. It is like a train, with hundreds of stops and destinations. College is on the horizon, new friends are waiting to be made, relationships need to be nurtured, and we still have a family to be [...]
By Allison Ashley “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” - Aesop When my 20-year old-cousin Michelle was 13, she wrote a story in seventh grade English class that she read to me when I was nine years old. The name of the story was “Smiling [...]
By Marbeya Garcia-Bermudez As a Latina woman I knew I had a lot to learn at the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC). Therefore, when I saw that the majority of the students attending were black and white I began to question the purpose of the conference. Wasn’t it to empower [...]
By Amy Pino It’s no secret that being a teenager is hard, and comes with its own set of difficulties. It’s also no secret that school and the pressure to succeed are becoming larger percentages of these difficulties. While some stress may come from simply being a teenager and its [...]