Staff Report
Be sure to check out the five finalists of the Fourth Annual NCHS Math Music Video Contest. Voting will take place tomorrow during Math class. Great job to all who entered the competition!
Year: 2011
Wrestling Season Kicks Off
Jack Ludtke
Reporter
In this, the last Armchair Athlete of the 2011 calendar year, our subject is the new wrestling season. The wrestling team’s 2010-2011 year was full of ups and downs to say the least. Projected in the preseason to continue their dominance from a 22-3 2009-2010 campaign, last year’s squad went 7-14 with fewer FCIAC State award recipients. However, there were some signs of hope last year, as a strong underclass combined with a surprise FCIAC bid has set them up for some high expectations for the upcoming year.
10 Things I Love, 10 Things I Hate (pt.2)
Gogo Jones
Sports Editor/ Bauce
LOVE:
1) Those classic blow horns before every hood rat rap song
2) Splashing cold water on my face after an all-American shave
3) Pillaging sample-size shampoo bottles from premium hotels
Holidays: the Universal Religion
Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Reporter
Religion, the very source of all major winter holidays has been repeatedly pushed aside recently by those who feel it is a downer on an otherwise joyful holiday season. In a time when 15% of Americans do not identify with a religion, many see the holidays as a secular affair. Many people still believe that religion needs to be at the forefront of the holidays, others think that without religion, we get rid of an unnecessary stick in the mud during the winter festivities.
John Green: The Biggest Nerd of Them All
Isabel Lawrence
Reporter
Though he is a New York Times best selling author, has been published in more than twelve languages, is the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award in 2006 and the Edgar Award in 2009, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist not once but twice, John Green is not widely known. Other authors such as J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer bring instant Potter and vampire connections to mind; but to many, John Green draws a blank. This up and coming author, however, is gaining speed and quickly making a name for himself in the young adult (YA) literature world.