Sarah Shaw and Samantha Weisner, Opinion Editors
March 20, 2012
Pepperoni is no longer the most exciting topping on your pizza. Recently, the district’s food-service provider, AVI, has been topping its pizzas with some interesting choices. We understand that the company doesn’t want...
Linda Hile
March 20, 2012
It started with a scuffle in the dance room, one teacher randomly walking in on several students with their voices elevated. The teacher tried to verbally break it up and move the students along, but the students start moving...
Graham Fine and Ilana Kramer
March 20, 2012
Turn to page seven and look at the staff box. How many non-white, non-female contributors are represented? Unfortunately, very few.
The Shaker Heights City School District is 51 percent male and 49 percent female. Last year,...
March 20, 2012
It took the KONY 2012 video six days to accumulate 100 million views. It only took a weekend for most of those viewers to lose interest.
Compared to music or comedy videos that have gone viral, KONY 2012 was the fastest to...
Sarah Shaw, Opinion Editor
March 6, 2012
Students from Gilmour Academy were reprimanded for wearing red in support of Chardon because red is not a school color and is not part of the school uniform. One Facebook post read “Wore red despite problems with a school administration...
Nate Livingston, Staff Reporter
February 28, 2012
Excuse me. Excuse me, dude? MOVE OUT OF THE WAY! I wish I had the guts to say that to the gigantic upperclassmen clustered around my locker. Instead, I awkwardly push through and grumble once I’m a safe distance away. I understand...
Sasha Rae-Grant, Staff Reporter
February 27, 2012
Every freshman must take Global Studies. For some students, the class is easy. I didn’t have to put any effort into my work, and I still earned a 115 percent at the end of the year. I already knew most of the material and I...
February 27, 2012
Students complain constantly that the administration and security enforce policies that “serve no purpose.” Apparently we refuse to acknowledge that we are a large population that needs supervision in order to be successful....
February 27, 2012
Did a girl go into labor in the high school? Were kids arrested for smoking in the bathroom and back stairwell? Is Kid Cudi coming to prom? It’s the pathetic truth, but Shaker students find entertainment in the bizarre...
Shane McKeon, Staff Reporter
February 27, 2012
“There has to be a tired Guinea pig somewhere in this school,” stated Drew Puskar. “The computers are ancient.”
In Room 108, a quiet computer lab down the hall from the security office, about two-dozen chunky Dell monitors...
Mike Bellamy, Noah Rosenblatt
February 14, 2012
Ever notice that whenever you whip out a pack of gum, everybody in the classroom instantly becomes your best friend?
Many of these people have never talked to you outside of class, but in the presence of your gum, they are...
Andrew Boyle, Staff Reporter
February 14, 2012
When you’re preoccupied, it’s not unusual to forget something important. Say, for example, your sweater on a very cold day. It sure as heck has happened to me. At the end of that day, I checked all of my classrooms, hoping...
