Tina Tehrani
Senior Editor
The following is taped on the wall in the corner of a hallway: “Please dispose of your trash [someone added “and spillage”] properly…” below in small print, it says, “…and yes, this means you!”
The hallway. A spot intersected between the world-language hallway and the library hallway…
Charlie Dorf
Reporter
As teenagers, we feel as if our lives are planned out for us. Get good grades, go to a good college, get a good job and … whatever comes after that. Often, we seek an escape, something more than our life pre-determined.
Lone Scherfig’s “An Education” nails this struggle perfectly through the character of Jenny Miller (Carey Mulligan). Jenny is an Oxford-bound 16 year- old living in 1961 England. She finds (at least initially) her escape in David (Peter Skarsgaard), a 30-something posh, clever fellow who can talk art, drives a sports car, and goes to jazz clubs. He embodies everything Jenny longs for in her life trapped in the lower middle class suburb of Twickenham…
Jana Persky
Centerfold Editor
On Tuesday, December 22, the boys’ basketball team took on the Warren Harding High School Presidents at home and came out on the losing end, 63-42.
The visitors rushed out to a 21-5 first-quarter lead, and then the Presidents used a stifling defense to coast the rest of the way to victory.
The Rams started slowly, scoring just five points (three free throws and one field goal) in the first quarter and turning the ball over multiple times. Rams coach, Jeff Bussey, gave credit to a tough Harding defense. “[Harding coach Charles Bentley] has been there for twenty years, so they are always well coached,” Bussey said…
Whitney Gulden
Reporter
“The holiday assembly used to be called ‘Cacophony of Sound’, don’t ask me how to spell it,” Attila Levai said. Mr. Levai has been teaching at NCHS for 36 years now, and his first year teaching was also the first year of the now traditional holiday assembly.
“Ultimately the holiday assembly is a showing of mostly student musical talents,” he said. “Over the years…
Emily Greene
News Editor
Tomorrow there will be a mandatory senior breakfast. Seniors will be excused from classes from 8-10:30 to learn about the transition from high school to college and life in college.
The first part of the event will take place from 8-9:15 in the College and Career Center. Members of the Board of Education, the Superintendent of Schools David Abbey, and a select cross-section of freshman college students will be chosen to represent different kinds of colleges and universities…
