Fraternity Failure? Negative accusations emerge nationally
Across the country, fraternities continue to make headlines for the wrong reasons. In January, members of the University of Michigan chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu...
Scholarships: Students score money for college
A simple Google search for “college scholar- ships” yields about 87 million results. Many of those websites are smaller search engines, designed to help high...
Should special education students be included in traditional classrooms?
“We all want to be accepted, regardless of what we might look like, or how tall we are, or whether we excel or do not...
Should land use be restricted in Chatham County?
Zoning is a major issue for the citizens of Chatham County. The county is currently in a minority of counties in the state that don’t...
Origami Obsession
[caption id="attachment_3441" align="alignright" width="300"] Elizabeth Her/The Omniscient.[/caption] “How did you do that?” is a phrase I hear a lot. It’s not because I do magic...
Staff Editorial: Plus 1 gets a makeover: Which version is most effective?
[caption id="attachment_3444" align="alignright" width="233"] By Natalie Fragnito[/caption] Around three years ago, the leadership of Chatham County Schools requested that their district high schools implement extra...
A Brief Rant About Standardized Testing
I have been dreading this year for my entire school career. Throughout middle school, I understood that I would have to take standardized tests and...
Finding closure after my loss
During the summer of 2010, I was driving to the mountains for a vacation. My mother got a phone call, stopped the car and stepped...
“Papers for the Hands:” Foreign language instruction should review its goals
When my mom announced our upcoming trip to Mexico, I was the most excited of my family. For the first time ever, I would be...