Leigh Charlton, Executive Editor @leighcourant A clear indicator that the frenzy of politics and campaigning that go hand-in-hand with student elections has returned to NCHS
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VOTES brings voting to NCHS
Leigh Charlton, News Editor @leighcourant Amid the frenzy of the upcoming presidential race, NCHS held its own mock election. On Monday, October 31, each student had
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.