NCAA March Madness Part II

John Berger
Reporter
By now, you are probably in the same position as I am. In other words, your bracket probably has been busted.

I had a very good opening session on Thursday. I only missed one game. But then, I started missing left and right. South Dakota State lost to Baylor. VCU beat Wichita State. UNLV lost to Colorado. And so on and so forth.

I don’t want my bracketing mishaps to take away from a very good first weekend of games. Friday was particularly crazy, with two 15 or 2 seed upsets.

Flipping her way to fame

Emily Wood
Reporter

If you were to ask any NCHS student who the best hockey player in the school is, they would immediately tell you Olivia Hompe. But if you were to ask them who in our school is a four time State Champion gymnast, most people would be stumped.

U.S. history class explores the Roaring Twenties

Kate Howard & Monica Nair
News Editor & Reporter

On Feb. 29, over the course of three periods, students from Michael Staffaroni’s U.S. history class engaged themselves in various interactive stations portraying topics of the 1920s. The goal of this assignment was for each pair of students to deliver a presentation to their classmates in a creative manner as an alternative to sitting in a classroom.

Overdose on dependence

Lizzy Burke
Reporter

How many times have you felt that nagging headache and reached for the cabinet to grab some Advil instinctively? Self medication is recognized as the use of drugs to treat untreated and often undiagnosed ailments.