NCHS from the student’s point of view…
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.
Emma Hutchins Opinions Editor 2:05pm: Time, glorious time! Feel inspired by quotes like “The world is your oyster.” Smell the flowers, breathe the air, you
Teen drinking has been front-page news this past week. “Outback event shut down due to drunken youths,” “Teen Drinking: Police shut down dance at the Outback,” and “Intoxicated teens shut down Outback dance” are headlines from the New Canaan Advertiser, New Canaan Patch, and New Canaan News, respectively, used to comment on the annual Rave Outback dance hosted by the YMCA “youth leaders” as well as the Outback Student Governing Board (SGB).
Emma Hutchins
Opinions Editor
190 million users. 65 million tweets a day. Five years since its inception in March 2006, Twitter is an international phenomenon, helping ignite revolutions around the world – across the Middle East, and you know, in Charlie Sheen’s Sober Valley Lodge.
Emma Hutchins
Section: Opinions
“This one time…at band camp….” You know the movies. Them of the profanity-filled jokes that linger around late night time slots on Comedy Central. Long story short: sexually-frustrated-boy-meets-too-‘cool’-for-him-world and hilarity ensues. But beneath the façade of being a harmlessly crappy look into teen angst, these movies also place sexual pressures on the audience (of whom a good portion probably find the protagonist’s tale all too familiar).
