When I first heard about senior career day, I will admit it, I groaned. The stolen lunch, the pointlessness, career day was just a waste of time.
I was incensed that we were being made to learn about...
There isn't much to choose from; on the whole long list of meal after meal on a menu, there is very little that you can actually eat. Why? Because you are a vegetarian.
Being vegetarian means eating...
“This is my daughter, and I will kill the (expletive) who fought her.”
This threat did not come from the mouth of a student; it came from an infuriated parent by the name of James Jones who...
It can be heard ringing out across every school and workplace and is probably one of the most commonly misused words in America: retarded. Everyone from elementary school students to politicians and celebrities...
Discrimination is everywhere: in the streets, in the media, and in the work place - but discrimination isn't always bad, it can even save lives. The American Red Cross does this every day, determining who can...
It’s no secret that Foothill is obsessed with test scores. The 906 test score posters, the balloons - the rallies.
The administration advertises the yearly test scores as if they are the entire...
It’s 7:58, and students along Day and Loma Vista are running – or at least fast-walking – to try to get to class on time.
Maybe their alarm clock didn’t go off. Maybe they had to finish...
Shorts that are too short, shirts that are too low, and belly button rings that refuse to be covered; many of our fellow High School peers fall victim to the nit picking and scrutinizing of this self expression.
Though...
On September 11, a small nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida planned to burn Qur’ans in protest of the Islam religion. Thankfully it was cancelled due to the Department of Defense and...
A few months ago, as I was browsing some news articles in line at the grocery store, I came across a “Life and Style” magazine on the front page of which was a title in enormous, garish yellow letters:...