Today is Friday, May 18, 2012
Today is Friday, May 18, 2012
This is what happens when you watch too many romantic comedies.
Apathy seems to be a common sentiment when it comes to high school. This is true to the extent that, at least in passing conversation, it is considered cool to keep oneself at a polite distance from school involvement. Yet, whether or not that seeming sense of disengagement with school events and activities actually exists depends largely on how school spirit is defined.
Remember the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)? It was that anti-piracy bill in the House of Representatives that stirred up enough controversy to start a Reddit-lead grassroots anti-SOPA campaign, which blacked out the internet for [...]
I am a skeptic and a misanthrope. I can without much further explanation say that I was understandably critical when I got home Wednesday night to see a flood of posts and profile picture changes promoting something called “Kony 2012,” spearheaded by a group that I was quite familiar with: Invisible Children (IC).
So far, the race to the Republican nomination has been a wild roller coaster ride and almost every competitor has had his moment in the spotlight. While this has certainly bought the candidates attention, it isn’t serving them well and the party would be better off settling on a single nominee.
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In an election year, almost every word that comes out of a president’s mouth is political.
The Green Team is on a roll, and hasn’t stopped to rest after elevating the entire MVLA district to a Green Certification. Despite these improvements, people are still not recycling as much as they could. In order to achieve its full recycling potential, the school needs to remove trash cans completely from the quad.
I like to call it the switch: going to bed on October 31 and waking up the next morning only to see Halloween decorations being replaced with winter holiday ones.
In the last nine months, the sports world has been rocked by athletes’ suicides everywhere. Former San Jose Sharks center Tom Cavanagh, a Harvard alum, leapt to his death in a Rhode Island parking garage; Dave Duerson, once a Pro Bowl safety for the Chicago Bears, shot himself and proclaimed his body open to medical study on mental illness; and Jeret (Speedy) Peterson, an Olympic silver medalist in aerial skiing followed Duerson and also shot himself in the head.