Learning can be most advanced during the summer
Summer, a time when the sun stretches across the horizon into the zenith and perpetually remains there for an eternity, a time when multitudinous fields of...
Brothers Can Be a Bother
Tuesday. Lunch. You chat idly with your friend and amble into the quad. You weave your way through the traffic of hungry students until you...
The Importance of Being Carefree
I love airports. This affection does not stem from the bland architecture inside, designed for the purpose of herding travelers through...
Time with Grandpa
I hated reading. Kindergarten was a nightmare. When we all got into our reading groups that consisted of red, blue, green, and yellow, and I fell into...
Pain Leads to Confidence
For six years, I lived with a set of metal teeth in my mouth. For six years, there was a constant pain as they...
A Modern-Day Odyssey Leads Home
It’s been a long day, and the search for my keys at the bottom of my bag is the last hurdle until my trek home is over. I should be used to...
A New Tune to Life
I used to be a band kid; I played just fine, but I did not have the ear that makes people great musicians. My brother can...
Excessive tardies creates need for instant detentions
It’s a minute to class, but a view of the quad doesn’t show it: students are milling around, joking with friends, and dragging their feet with no apparent intention of arriving to class on time. Excessive tardiness is an increasingly problem. On Wed. Feb. 10, however, the school is taking dramatic action in correcting this problem by enacting a much stricter policy. Each student that is late to class, whether by a minute or an hour after the bell, will receive...
Students rush to help earthquake victims
Except for the light tapping of raindrops on the windows, the dark living room at Lynne Moquete’s house was silent. Twenty students who had accompanied her to the Dominican Republic and Haiti sat, unmoving. A friend from the town they stayed in called Moquete after she helped earthquake victims in Haiti. “So what do we do now?” Moquete asked her students. “We spread awareness and make this fundraising the best it can be,” answered senior Alexis Halstenson. The students gathered at Moquete’s house...
For Haitian students, family comes first
A Haitian man once said that he is never scared now, because growing up in Haiti, his entire life was a nightmare. He was never hungry, because growing up in Haiti, his body could not miss what it rarely possessed. Haiti, the poorest region in the western hemisphere, never received adequate support before the horrendous Jan. 12 earthquake. When it occurred, it shook the lives of many, including several Haitian-American...