John Berger Senior Editor For weeks leading up to the start of this year’s NCAA basketball tournament, a number of experts all said that they
Category: Blogs
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The 10 most outstanding looks of JProm 2012
Harrison Burt
Blogs Editor
Some say that prom takes the title from Christmas as “the greatest time of the year.” The sun seems to shine a little brighter as juniors and seniors alike prepare for the biggest social event of the NCHS calendar. With this excitement, though, comes an added pressure of choosing the best look for you. This year, put your best effort into doing prom correctly and photographing like a star. Here are the ten looks that I found most outstanding from last year’s JProm.
Health and fitness, prom edition
Elliott Cottington and Keaton McAuliffe
Reporters
Attention: Prom is in approximately two weeks. Whether or not you have an official countdown (12 days, 7 hours and 35 minutes…..but who’s counting?) it is time to begin preparations to fit into that dress or tux.
Editors’ Blog: Adventures at Late Night
Tyler Kendall and Isabel Lawrence
Features Editor and News Editor
Hello Again!
The infamous “late night” was upon the journalism crew again last night. We basically lock ourselves in room 119 until 9 p.m. and, fueled by pizza and philosophical ponderings with McAteer, put the finishing touches on the Courant paper. Surprisingly, we all secretly enjoy bonding with each other, and appreciated the Mac computers, to which we owe our lives (well, for the solid five hours invested in late night, it sure seems that way.) As you can probably imagine, after around 8 p.m., the caffeine wears out, and everyone sinks into a printer-toner induced trance. But, when energy surges through the group again, this is what happens to the jliz crew:
Confessions of a high school Buddhist: animals are friends, not food
Taylor du Pont
Multimedia Editor
Over the past few years, I have struggled to accept a religion into my life. I was brought up in a Congregational family, but as the years of my childhood flew by, I began to question my Christian faith. After my best friend was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor when I was in seventh grade, my skeptical religious views turned into agnosticism. When I was a sophomore in high school, she died and I became a pessimist, turning to atheism.