Dear Aspiring Scholar.
You can call it a class, but I’m not sure that would be the proper word.  If you’re a pirate then it may be your crew.  If you’re an athlete then this is your team.  And if you’re going to be the president, this would be your cabinet.  Newspaper class, if you must call it that, is a gathering of those gifted few students who take a special interest in journalism, after all, the class is technically called Journalism: Newspaper II or III.
With that said, you’re likely not a …

by Nisa Hussain
Shocking as it is, I happen to like Flex Lunch. I realize I am part of the minority in the school population of irritated students. But this early in the year, it’s a little bit irritating hearing those students pout and complain endlessly already about how much they hate one hour lunch. I’m not saying I think they are all wrong and annoying, because I myself have my own reservations about the new system. Instead, I just think everyone should keep an open mind about it and go …

by Shaj Mathew
From our seemingly interminable wars in the Middle East to our recent health care firestorm, we are a nation beset by a litany of issues — and, perhaps, more disturbingly, fewer solutions.
President Obama has set aside the health care debate as his first domestic priority. Unfortunately for the president, an intransigent Republican party is determined to defeat any measures that would provide tangible health care reform — without providing said solutions to improve upon the current bill.
While the outrage over the nonexistent death-panels has subsided, myths and outright …