Kit Clemente
Opinions Editor
With many issues currently surrounding the political arena, and the intensifying effect the upcoming elections have on politics, one issue, gay marriage, has come to the forefront of many debates.
Category: Opinions
NCHS from the student’s point of view…
Please mind your manners and thank you for reading
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.
One teen’s views on the injustice of another teen’s death
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.
Getting through the weekly grind
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.
Mitt Romney and the War on Women
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?