Month: March 2018
Experts Hour Pick Their Bracket (Spoilers–It’s Not Very Good)
Experts Hour Hosts Talk About Gun Violence in Schools
A March for All
by Gabby Lewis, News Editor In a world divided by politics to the extreme and plagued by prejudice for one another, finding a way to unite people as one against a common threat; the Women’s March, however, managed to do just that. On January 21, 2018, men, women, and nonbinary people alike gathered in cities…
Nature of News
by Zackariah Summers, staff writer In our society, there is a dominant informative station that is largely accessible, highly polar in presentation, and extremely controversial. It’s name? The Internet. If people need to be reminded of something, this is the age of information. People all around the world can conglomerate their respective knowledge into the…
Grace and Frankie season 4 review
by Ryan Brown, staff writer What show teaches the viewers that the oldies are still goldies and can still give us a good round of laughs? That’s right, they’ve really come back for another round. Grace and Frankie is a Netflix original American comedy-drama web television series created by Marta Kauffman (best known as being…
This Should Have Been Prevented
by Megan Kinner, sports editor The FBI knew. The Police knew. The students knew. The teachers knew. Everybody knew it was him, but it wasn’t enough to stop Nikolas Cruz from opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, killing 17 innocent teachers and children. Broward County Sheriff,…
Enough
by Chris Fazzari, staff writer Enough. I’ve had enough. You have all heard by now of the 17 people who were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on the 14th. Tragedies of this scale have become absurdly common in this country. It is unacceptable. All those people, all their stories, their…
I, Tonya: What Really Happened
by Lauren Mitchell, Features Editor In 1994, Nancy Kerrigan, top Olympic figure skater, had her knee bashed in by a hitman, shocking fans worldwide. Due to the immense evidence of her involvement, skating rival Tonya Harding took the harshest punishment, being removed from Olympic skating and crushing her dreams. Although the whole world remembers the…
This year’s abnormal Flu season
by Elijah Taylor, staff writer The months of October through May are often dreaded times of the year for their increased likelihood to contract the influenza virus, commonly known as “the Flu”, which has varying levels of severity which can leave you sick with slightly worse symptoms of the common cold, or hospitalized with the…