Tyler Kendall and Isabel Lawrence
Features Editor and News Editor
Ty and Isa here, helping you welcome in the 4TH QUARTER! (Almost there, kiddies). For those of us who are still somewhat engaged in this whole “school” concept -if you’re already in college, you don’t count- the Courant’s current and past stories can keep you informed about what’s up in NCHS.
So here are a few things we’ve learned since workin’ on the Courant:
1. People like reading chunks’o’text just about as much as they enjoy reaching down to scoot your chair in and touching fossilized gum.
2. When given the choice to read about events or people, the majority of us will read about people (especially if it’s about us, duh)
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(sub-point) People from ages 14-18 like reading about people typically aged 14-18
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(sub-point) stories should be about people not ideas
3. You all look at the big photograph at the top, read like two lines of the article, then open a new window and hashtag your way to 140 characters.
Don’t be ashamed, you agree with all of the above, true? True. We know.
But here at the Courant we put a lot of time and effort into each of our stories and (sad face) some of them don’t get as much publicity as we had hoped! I mean, we hope you care more about what’s happening in your school than about the name of Kimye’s baby (if you can click your way to Perez Hilton’s blog, you can click your way to the Courant’s). We promise, pinky swear in fact, that what’s happening in your school IS muy importante, and you should probs get informed before they implement the new dress code. (jkjk, there’s no new dress code. Well…. 😉 See. This is why we need to read the Courant).
Like you guys helped make our past blog post reach nearly 700 views and, we don’t want to give you the wrong impression, but other stories need some love and affection (see what we did there? Thank you Rihanna). We know chunks of text are intimidating! But this ain’t Spodek we’re talkin’ about (APWH represent). This is LIFE. And this is what we think about skimming or skipping articles instead of reading them.
So we have a few stories that when you’re taking some time off from that history paper you were working on so diligently (HA jokes it’s 4th quarter so “working” is probs more like this) or give your thumbs a breather from the showdown you’re having on Fun Run, and you need a break, you can put these bad boys into the search bar at www.nchscourant.com.
It’s some of the most informative 225 words you will read. (Except maybe if you read all the backs of the Vitamin Water bottles. Those things are epiphany-inducing.) Vine is today what Tinder was 2 months ago: the deadly combination of socially interactive and current. We don’t know if that’s very good or very bad…
Students raise $30K on annual scholarship Sunday
$30 k. As in $30,000. You should read this article to know about good service NCHS students are doing! Someone is going to ask you, “what has your school done to give back to the community?” And you will be like a brainy kid encyclopedia when you recite how we raised $30K for students to go to college on a single day. One Sunday. Not even the whole Sunday, like, half of the lighted hours. Sports teams even got together and came out for the event. It truly was a school wide effort with kids from every grade helping out to make a difference.
Guys, c’mon! It’s Mike Donnelly. He was even referenced by Johnny on the “Sport’s Report” to come help with our teams that were “on fire” that week. This article is something you should read not just because it is an inherently interesting and meaningful topic in that students put themselves in danger voluntarily to help others, but that it is something cool that your fellow classmates are doing. This goes back to our list above (section two sub point two) about the appeal of stories about people doing things. Mike Donnelly rides in fire engines and can put on full gear in under two minutes. And you can watch it all without ever having to stand near a flame. There’s a video at the top of the article, it’s 3 minutes and 44 seconds, and trust us it’s worth it.
READ THESE STORIES. Read all our stories! We help keep you informed about a wide range of things: news reports, artsy-esque pieces, just cool things your classmates are doing, even the oddly missleaneous. There is a story that can be interesting for anybody. And if there’s not, then… IDK look harder. You’re wrong.
Love,
@tkendallcourant and @IsabelLcourant
