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...
What you don’t know about Coach McDonald
Many people may think they have learned everything there is to know about Coach Richard McDonald, who took over full time in 2012 as the...
“Hot Pursuit” Review
I was prepared for the worst going into the new movie Hot Pursuit since I hadn’t heard very good remarks about it. However, the comedic duo...
“Tomorrowland” Review
My friend, a Disney fanatic, and I, a sci-fi enthusiast, both really wanted to like Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland, but we ended up regretting forking over...
“Avengers: Age of Ultron” Review
Avengers: Age of Ultron was a movie I had been looking forward to for well over a year, and through all the anticipation I was a...