Yes You Can! Do Something About Climate Change
June 13, 2016
Filed under Opinion
The future of our planet is dim and clouded with smog. By the end of this century, many areas of Africa, South America and Asia will have a maximum of around 113 degrees Fahrenheit daily. 94 percent of Miami Beach and 88 percent of New Orleans will be flooded. With the increase in temperature comes the s...
Why I Support Bernie Sanders and Why You Should Too
June 13, 2016
Filed under Opinion, Uncategorized
Everyone seems to be counting Bernie Sanders out of the 2016 presidential race, but I’m not, and neither should you. I support Bernie Sanders and it’s an easy choice for me, to stick with the one candidate who stands firmly in favor of the people, and consistently states the importance of the ...
More Technology is Needed in Classrooms
June 13, 2016
Filed under Opinion
Ever since the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy was implemented in Howard County at the beginning of this school year, students using their cell phones has become a commonality within classrooms. This year, more and more teachers have been planning assignments and activities...
Testing For PARCC Is Going To Take Some Adjusting
June 13, 2016
Filed under Opinion
PARCC isn’t going away. As much as many students would like to never take PARCC or another standardized test again, that doesn't seem likely. Because we can’t get rid of it, we need to find a way to live with it. Both students and staff need to work together to change the things they can. 1....
Why Everybody Should be a Feminist
June 1, 2016
Filed under Opinion
Time Magazine has been publishing an issue at the end of the year with someone they name the Person of the Year. Since 1927, the beginning of this tradition, there’s only been 4 women to ever be named this and Angela Merkel, Time’s 2015 Person of the Year, is the first woman since 1986 to receive...
Teen Dating Life Impacted By New Standards
February 2, 2016
Filed under Opinion
Dating in high school has become more complicated than it used to be, due to new social norms and pressures for having the “perfect relationship.” However, you shouldn’t have to strive for the “perfect relationship” but rather strive for a healthy one. Having a genuine relationship in school...
Tardy Table Proves to be Inadequate
November 12, 2015
Filed under Opinion
Every morning there are students who are just a few seconds or minutes late to school and instead of being able to quickly run to class, they have to stand in the tedious and long tardy table line. The tardy table was implemented as a way to make sure that kids who are late to school get consequences...
Cafeteria Staff Feels Disrespected
November 12, 2015
Filed under Opinion
When a student walks into the cafeteria, they might notice a tense atmosphere, frustrated kitchen staff, and hungry, impatient students clumped together in the free and reduced line. There is an unorganized, large mass of students pushing and shoving to get to the front. While in the line, a student...
Be Proud to Play for Wilde Lake
November 12, 2015
Being a Wilde Lake athlete, you constantly see the stigma and the category that the rest of Howard County puts us into: ghetto. I saw this stigma even before I came here, with people’s faces dropping when I told them where I was districted to go. People I’ve known for years have moved or attend...
How Early is Too Early?
June 16, 2015
Filed under Opinion
According to Nathaniel Popper of The New York Times, in today’s sports world “coaches at colleges large and small” are recruiting 13 and 14 year old girls to fill future rosters, “despite NCAA rules that appear to explicitly prohibit it.” Rather than deciding which college to attend senior...
Perspective: Should Girl’s Lacrosse Continue To Wear Skirts?
June 16, 2015
Can you imagine running down the field in a skirt that goes down to your knees? Some women athletes almost know what this feels like. In 1926, the first girls’ lacrosse team ever was created. Their uniforms were long, loose pleated dresses that came down to their knees and they wore long-slee...
The Important of Losing
June 16, 2015
Filed under Opinion
Loser. No one wants to be associated with that word. Perhaps that is why so many families want to send their children to schools that win in sports often, such as River Hill with its numerous state championships. What those families fail to realize, however, is that schools, such as Wilde Lake, where...
