Abby Karlin, Business Manager, Opinions Editor
October 24, 2016
Filed under Campus Life, Opinion, Top Stories
Last year, I wrote a piece on PE, and how it was unfair that students who participated in school sports still had to get a PE Credit. The general argument was that PE and Sports are different because PE has a curriculum and required...
Mitchell Wenger, News Editor
October 24, 2016
Filed under Campus Life, Opinion, Top Stories
Harvard. Stanford. MIT. Yale. All colleges that every American strives to attend. The pinnacle of academic achievement. The most elite colleges in the country. But are they really worth it?
Every single senior stresses about how they...
September 30, 2016
Filed under Blogs, Opinion
Alex Hifler- Online media editor
The need to escape is inherent in all of us. Escape from our thoughts and crowd out the thoughts through interaction with others, escape from problems, escape from self inflicted torment, and ...
Mitchell Wenger, News Editor
September 14, 2016
Filed under Campus Life, Opinion, Uncategorized
The most recent pep rally was an affront to the integrity of this school. The violation of tradition has enraged many seniors against the abomination that is the sophomore class. Â For over 15 years the Spirit Stick has been given...
Kristine Le, Blogs Editor, A&E Editor
September 14, 2016
Filed under Campus Life, Opinion
I don’t intend on having a major conflict nor do I have much of an opinion on the recent pep rally’s results, however it’s been getting out of hand.
One issue is the fact that it’s a McClintock tradition to give the...
Mitchell Wenger, Reporter
August 16, 2016
Filed under Opinion, Sports
With the Olympics games in full swing, there has been a lot of hype for the athletes, but also a bit of scandal. The Olympics have a long history of doping and use of performance enhancing drugs, and this year is no exception.
The...
Alexis Kunke, Social Media Director
April 20, 2016
Filed under Blogs
The average teenager is expected to follow the suburban plan of moving out. This plan means that you stay with your family throughout high school, pack your bags on the day of graduation, and head off to live on your own in a...
Alex Rand, Editor in Chief
March 28, 2016
Filed under Blogs, Opinion
Coming out is the act of telling other people that you’re LGBT+. Because I’m transgender, coming out is something that’s really hard to avoid. People tend to assume I’m a girl and that they should refer to me with ‘sheâ...
Kassandra Perez, Editor in Chief
March 18, 2016
Filed under Blogs, Opinion
Okay, let's flashback to elementary school. There were the social group of kids who were always ready to answer a question with so much confidence and weren’t afraid to be themselves. Then there were the annoying troublemaker...
Wyatt Calandro, Reporter
March 1, 2016
Filed under Blogs
By far, the last three weeks have been some of the hardest I’ve ever experienced in high school. Calculus has been a hard subject for me the entire year, but recently I have been having trouble with understanding the lessons,...
Garret Allen, Reporter
March 1, 2016
Filed under Blogs
Time Management is something that everyone hears at some point during their life at school. Using your time wisely is so overused that, as this point, I'm not even sure what it means. Is using your time wisely using all the time...
Wyatt Calandro, Blogs Editor
February 22, 2016
Filed under Campus Life, Opinion
The widespread use of technology in schools has become mainstream within the last few years. The first thing I recall about the shift is a mobile computer cart filled with MacBooks at my middle school. Now, my brother tells me...