Lizzy Burke Opinions Editor A few weeks ago at a Free the Children meeting, our club advisor, English teacher Hannah Magnan, commented on how many
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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.
Original December editorial on academic competition
Lily Kazemi & Sara Levine
Editors-in-Chief
‘Tis the season to be jolly?
It certainly is for those students who applied early to schools and received their acceptance letters. However, many students are still anxiously awaiting their decisions, having already received their rejections and deferrals or having pushed the whole thing off to the last week of December.
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.