Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
February 19, 2013
Filed under CAMPUS & CITY
Girl Scouts of America’s policy on gay members is more open than that of the Boy Scouts organization.
Junior Tiara Freeman-Sargent is a member of Girl Scouts troop 1510 and said the group’s policy contrasts that of the...
Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
February 19, 2013
Filed under CAMPUS & CITY
Local Boy Scout troops have decided not to forbid gay people from participating in scouting despite the current ban.
One of the nation’s largest private youth organizations, the Boy Scouts of America, seriously considered...
February 19, 2013
Filed under INVESTIGATIONS
Dual-enrolled at Cleveland Heights High School and Case Western Reserve University, senior Natasha Madorsky is high achieving. However, she has never been interested in the sciences; she has “never been in a really good science...
February 19, 2013
Filed under INVESTIGATIONS
Senior Evelyn Ting has noticed different treatment between male and female college applicants. “Colleges and universities will try to send emails that target girls for math and science programs, so I get a lot more of that mail...
Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
February 19, 2013
Filed under CAMPUS & CITY
Despite the recent bombing of the United States Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, the Shaker band’s scheduled trip to Istanbul this spring will proceed.
On Feb. 1, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside a personnel entrance to...
Sarah-Jane Lorenzo, Editor in Cheif
January 22, 2013
Filed under CAMPUS & CITY
Shaker students were surprised by a snow day Jan. 22 when school was cancelled due to cold weather.
The snow day was particularly unusual because it was called during finals week, disrupting the high school exam schedule and...
Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
January 15, 2013
Filed under CAMPUS & CITY
Phone theft is not limited to the high school. Swimmers who use the Woodbury locker room have also been targeted, and senior Walker Smith reports “three [thefts] in the last month.”
Smith was one of the victims. He said ...
Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
January 15, 2013
Filed under CAMPUS & CITY
The surest way to keep a phone from being stolen is to not even bring it to school. However, few students are willing to sacrifice their phones for an hour let alone an entire school day.
Head of security Vic Ferrell gave the...
Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
January 15, 2013
Filed under CAMPUS & CITY
Four months after the debut of Wi-Fi and the new Bring Your Own Device policy, thieves are having a field day stealing iPhones.
“It is happening too much,” said security chief Vic Ferrell, who took a desperate step out...
John Vodrey, Maria Slovikovski and Sam Mitro, Staff Reporters
December 24, 2012
Filed under CAMPUS & CITY
Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates conducted their two public input meetings on what the Shaker School District should look for in a new superintendent last week.HYA is conducting a search for Shaker’s new superintendent. The...
Marcia Brown and Shane McKeon, Investigations Editors
December 12, 2012
Filed under INVESTIGATIONS
The following quotations were compiled from email interviews with teachers regarding extra credit policies.
“For the last twelve years, in my courses any assignment, quiz, or test can be retaken up until the end of the quarter. ...
