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Serra Oral
Blogs Editor
With junior prom just around the corner and the season of asking people to senior prom coming up, prom has been a constant topic of high school students lately. But with the discussion comes the problems or “proma”. Here are the top issues that tend to be faced in this period.
This year the editorial staff has tackled a lot of difficult issues; there haven’t been many “light” editorials.
Earlier this year, we wrote an editorial about the senior patio being closed due to a select group of seniors that preformed what looked like a “freshman Friday” to most people, even after the administration explicitly told them not to. The first print issue of the year, we decided to take the “side” of the administration and wrote an editorial that wasn’t taken well by some of our peers.
Ben Stryker
Cartoonist
Senior Austin Sandvik said this about his bracket-making tactics: “when the experts aren’t sure who’s going to win, I choose the team with the better mascot.” But what happens when you pick your teams ONLY by mascot. This got me thinking, which NCAA men’s basketball team has the best name?
Lily Kazemi
Reporter
If you haven’t heard the latest YouTube video gone viral, you must be living under a rock – thirteen-year-old Rebecca Black’s “Friday” has become one of the most-watched, and most-mocked, videos on the site. With over 31,000,000 views as of Monday night, almost ten percent of America has heard the song.
Logan Phillips
Senior Editor
On Wednesday, March 16, the boys hockey team suffered a heartbreaking loss to St. Joe’s in the state championship semifinals, ending their long-awaited run at perfection.
The last time the boy’s hockey team won the state championship was 1972. Since then, it’s been 38 years of frustration for the NCHS fans who have seen their team appear to be destined to win a state championship time and time again, only to fall short at the last minute.
