Shelby Lavigne waited patiently while a team of two strapped the skis onto her walker. The other snowshoers packed down a path in the snow for her to reach the trail, cheering her on with words of encouragement. Her coach,…
Month: February 2019
Rate My Whip
Editor’s Note: Don’t forget to vote at the end of the article! At 7:50am, in the U-32 parking lot, students come flooding in, blasting bass-heavy music and going excessively fast. Parents and teachers glare at the speeding teenagers, the menaces…
“We have to shift with the time”: Our Changing Library
It’s Monday morning. Students are spread out at the tables to socialize or do last minute homework. There are students using the study rooms to create podcasts. Many people are on their phones. There is even a class taking advantage…
Summer School: Opportunity or Penalty?
Editor’s Note: This piece includes reporting from Jacob Miller Arsenault. As each month passes, Drew Junkins, a Pre-Calculus and Geometry teacher at U-32, puts another big X on the calendar hanging in the front of his room. Students and teachers alike…
Opinion: Military Recruiters Are Violating Your Privacy, Here’s How You Can Fight Back
A table sat by the lunchroom on February 21st. It was decorated with books, pictures of soldiers, and an eye-catching red cloth. Emblazoned on the cloth in yellow were the words “U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Service” I walked up and…
Comic: Ego
This is a piece of “speculative fiction” written and illustrated by Ella Farr. She created it for her Future Lit class, which is co-taught by Chris Blackburn and Adrian Wade. Speculative fiction is a narrative with a supernatural element that explores…
Spirit Week Posters- Internet Download?
Random spirit week posters plastered the school this week without warning, and students continued to pay little attention. Was spirit week downloaded from the internet in an unsuccessful attempt to shift the school’s focus from the ever-looming proficiency-based grading? Or…
5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Lift-off! U-32’s Rocketry Team Takes to the Skies
The team is crowded around the center table in the physics room. Senior Addie Hannan is gluing a hook for the parachute onto a kevlar cord, while Alec and Evan are searching through a plastic box for the right tool.…
The School Bus Accident: One Account
On Wednesday, February 13th, the morning after a snowstorm dropped eight inches of snow onto Washington County, Sophomore Isabel Giammusso was riding Bus U15 on her way to U32. Washington Central Supervisory Union schools were operating on two-hour delay schedule,…
Comic: Seoid
This is a piece of “speculative fiction” written and illustrated by Charlotte Bodin. She created it for her Future Lit class, which is co-taught by Chris Blackburn and Adrian Wade. Speculative fiction is a narrative with a supernatural element that explores…
Roadside Mowing: The Tradeoffs
Effects of Sediment in Watersheds Eight years ago, six dogs were exposed to cyanobacteria in Milford Lake, Kansas. Three of them died. Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can release toxins that are harmful to humans and animals. There are many effects…
Two Years Later: Remembering Laure’s Funeral
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on February 22, 2017. The original title was “Don’t Be Afraid”: Laure’s Funeral. The content has been left unchanged for this republication. This article is for those in the U-32 community who were…
Making an Album: Jacob Bradley
Jacob Bradley pulls into the driveway of Colin McCaffrey’s rustic house. Colin meets him at the door and the two walk into a green-painted room. Sound-dampening boards hang on the walls. In one section of the room is a desk…
Summer School or Super Senior? 15 Juniors Respond to “The Meeting”
The cafeteria was packed with juniors giving blank stares or holding side conversations as Steven Dellinger-Pate explained the final steps the Class of 2020 has to take in order to graduate. Given the weight of the situation, few students seemed…
Comic: Lux & Lana
This is a piece of “speculative fiction” written and illustrated by Claire Thompson. She created it for her Future Lit class, which is co-taught by Chris Blackburn and Adrian Wade. Speculative fiction is a narrative with a supernatural element that explores…