Kelly Saiz
Editor-in-Chief

Maybe it’s my mother’s southern roots or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve lived in Ye Olde NC for the past eleven years, but I grew up with a plethora of books about manners, cotillion, and Walter Schalk’s Ballroom Dance Class (who didn’t love getting their feet stomped on or waltzing with their arch nemesis?). Chivalry might be dead, but I’m definitely not the only one in NCHS who thinks about manners.

Charlie Dorf
Senior Editor

The shooting of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that Americans will not soon forget. The circumstances surrounding the incident have brought attention and examination to issues such as racial profiling and Stand Your Ground laws not just in Florida, but across the country.

Kit Clemente
Reporter

Let’s all be real, waking up on Monday morning to start off a new week at the hellfire we so endearingly call NCHS is already enough of a bane on a teenager’s existence. In fact, it’s most comparable to the levels of inferno only Dante has enough literary skill and cynicism to describe.

Steffi Badanes
Blogs Editor

In 2002, Mitt Romney was pro-choice. He strongly believed in protecting women’s rights to choose. Now in 2012, he’s pro-life and carelessly tells America that he plans on “getting rid” of Planned Parenthood and instead give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans. So the man who once believed in protecting women’s rights now believes that women shouldn’t be able to have access to cancer screenings, pap smears, STD tests/treatments, and other forms of basic health care? He would rather help Americans who need it the least?

John Berger
Reporter

We’re about three weeks removed from Opening Day, but the baseball season is still in its infancy. That means we’ve got enough time left to make some predictions.

AL East- New York Yankees. The Yankees didn’t have any big signings over the winter, but they did make a few beneficial moves. The AL East will be very competitive, but the Yankees are the best team. C.C Sabathia anchors the rotation, and Mark Teixera, Curtis Granderson, and Alex Rodriguez are part of a strong lineup. Granderson and Jeter are on fire thus far, each with an OPS over 1.000.