What if you didn’t have a choice? What if you didn’t have a choice in what you wore? What you eat, what you say, what you can own? Who you love? When you die? What if you weren’t allowed to write and your favorite poems, paintings, music was taken away from you? What would you do? If you were Cassia, [...]
Articles written by: Kristin Getter
Advising program assists students through high school career
Throughout their high school careers, students meet new people, encounter new challenges and face more responsibilities. The advising program has been around for several years, aiming to help students through these challenges. “I think the advising program can be looked at as a way for us to find connections for kids to the school, and so it initially started as [...]
Physics students learn science in a “real-world sense”
Science teacher Donna Wojciechowski created a new science project in which students must plan out, design and test a boat that can carry three tootsie rolls across a water trough. “The goal, first of all, is to have kids actually design,” said Wojciechowski. “To work and design a boat that can make it across an eight-foot trough. Part of the [...]
Received grant inspires BRFHS to get healthy, to get well
Though school was cancelled Wednesday, February 29, the Leap Day activities were rescheduled for the following day Thursday. The idea for the health and wellness mini-courses stemmed from an email Principal Tom Chambers received regarding a Fuel Up to Play 60 grant. “I had received an email for the Fuel Up to Play 60 grant, and looked at it and [...]
More stress over less study time
20 pages of AP US History notes, a 500-word article, a journal and a 10-line autobiography poem. It’s all due tomorrow and I work from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.I’ve been there, done that.I don’t have time to do half the homework, so I do it all half-heartedly. I stay up late doing my homework and then rush to do [...]
Seniors experience the first waves of the lasts
To most, the first day of school is an annual event– nothing to make a fuss over. But for the seniors, September 1 marked something more than just the first day of school. It marked the beginning of the end. Before the first day of school, the last of the beginnings officially began with the last first day of practice. [...]
5 Questions with…Mrs. Neville!
1.) Choosing between the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo or violet, what would you dye your hair if you had to? I think blue because it would be the closest to a normal color. If you get in the sunlight, it would look black, if it is dark enough. It is the least neonish color. 2.) Would you [...]
The Rundown earns four stars
Action-packed and hilarious, 2003′s The Rundown is about Beck (Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock) who goes to the Amazon to chase down his mobster boss’s son, Travis, and bring him back to Los Angeles. Beck arrives at the Amazon in a broken and duct-taped plane driven by a scottish man named Declan (Ewen Bremner). He discovers that the [...]
Who Done It: Why, Savannah Hansen, of Course!
Sophomore Savannah Hansen shows her creative side with her behind-the-scenes sketching. “My grandma had a fake tattoo ‘lick and stick’ and I saw it,” explained Hansen. “So, I challenged myself [to recreate it] and the results turned out pretty well.” To Hansen, a sketchbook is a necessity. “I love sketchbooks,” said Hansen. She has one sketchbook that she takes to [...]
Verona Chambers: A Tale to Tell, Part II : Things Not Found in East Germany
We already explored Verona Chamber’s experience in East Germany and her arrival to West Berlin under the arm of a democratic country in Part I. Now, in Part II, we will explore Mrs. Chambers’s experience coming to America. Mrs. Chambers, freshly released from Russian territory, experiences her new life in a free, democratic land. ”I can’t even explain to you,” said [...]
