Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
February 19, 2013
A love for animals and a bad case of allergies sparked sophomore Cherie Lo’s creation of the Protecting Animal Welfare Society, also known as the PAWS club.
“I’ve always loved animals, but I have allergies to basically...
Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
February 19, 2013
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
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
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
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
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...
Abby White, Anna Seballos, Hillary Lacks, and Becky Marcus, Staff Reporters
February 19, 2013
Based on the numbers, Shaker girls kick Shaker boys’ butts.
From the PLAN and Ohio Graduation Tests for high school students to the Terra Nova Tests and Ohio Achievement Assessments for younger students, Shaker students take...
Sarah-Jane Lorenzo, Editor in Cheif
January 22, 2013
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
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
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
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
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...
