Have cliques clicked into place for good?

Taylor du Pont
Multimedia Editor

When I look around the lounge during the lunch periods, the four grades are plainly divided. The seniors and juniors sit close to the buses, the sophomores sit smack in the center, and the freshman sit next to the courtyard. This deep division within our student body has become a tradition; incoming freshman always take their place, and gain better seating as they climb the NCHS hierarchy.

The Side Effects of Social Media

Audrey Piehl
Opinions Editor

“Do you have a Twitter?”

I have been asked that questions approximately 1,213, 545 times. The pool of those who have inquired include fellow students, close friends, strangers, teachers, and my own parents. My answer, a simple “no,” often produces a fierce barrage of insistence:

The mystery of StuCo and voting processes

Kit Clemente and Audrey Piehl
Opinions Editors

Amidst thoughts of an impending math final, my teacher casually mentions a “Student Council assembly” next period. I blindly follow a lackluster mob into the auditorium, merely to witness a series of prom-is-going-to-be-great speeches. While most are well delivered and the students are respectable members of their class, the passive crowd refuses to grant them any speck of interest. Later the same day pitiful ballots are passed out like busy-work homework, and my classmates vote with wary eyes plastered to their neighbors’ desk, thus completing an annual round of high school democracy.

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