6 Reasons to Vote on November 6th

Morgan Gage, Senior Editor

November 6, 2018

Filed under Opinion, Personal Columns, Showcase

The idea that individual votes don’t count is a dangerous thought. 60% of those eligible to vote don’t turn out to the polls. While one vote might not make a difference, the collective vote of the millions who say their vote doesn’t matter is more than a drop in the pond-- It could shift t...

Pediatric Cancer Awareness

Lelia Edmonson, staff writer

September 21, 2018

Filed under Personal Columns

As the leaves begin to fall off the trees, around 15,000 kids have to watch them from a hospital window. September is pediatric cancer month, but the majority of the population knows little to none about this topic. Pediatric cancer is a serious issue that people all across the would should take part...

The Immigration Question

Morgan Gage, Senior Editor

September 12, 2018

Filed under Opinion, Showcase, Top Story

By modern standards, the colony of Jamestown was a neighborhood of illegal immigrants. Plymouth was a sanctuary city. For some reason, our immigrant-phobic nation hails these colonists as heroes. We teach our children about the first Thanksgiving before we teach the American Revolution. Alexander...

6 Ways to Upgrade Your Avocado Toast

Morgan Gage, Senior Editor

September 3, 2018

Filed under Entertainment, Personal Columns

Why Our Attitude On Guns Needs to Change

Caitlin Gorbett, Staff Writer

August 28, 2018

Filed under Opinion, Personal Columns, Top Story

We’ve all heard them before. Click, bang, pop! We see them in big glass cases in nearly every home we go into. For some people, in their own home. Most people love them. Not enough people are scared of them. I’m scared every day I walk into school that it’ll be the last time. I’m scared every time...

Top Ten Pieces of Advice for Freshman

Morgan Gage, Caitlin Gorbett, and Brayden Hogue

August 20, 2018

Filed under Personal Columns, Showcase, Top Story

Don’t be afraid of seniors. Seniors are too busy with college applications and enjoying what’s left of high school to spend their time teasing you. The majority of seniors are more than happy to help you with any of your concerns, and plenty of them want you to join the organizations the...

The Future is Female

Morgan Gage, Staff Writer

February 23, 2018

Filed under Opinion

Women lining the streets of Washington, stone faced and starving to be equal to men in not only the eyes of the law but in society. Their fingers curl around picket signs until their knuckles turn white, and their cries are met with contempt from the very men they’ve claimed oppress them. This is a...

21st Century Education

Morgan Gage, Staff Writer

December 12, 2017

Filed under Opinion, Personal Columns, Top Story

When you accept a job as a teacher, elementary and high school alike, you’re consciously placing yourself in a position of power. Though you may answer to someone higher up, your department head or principal or superintendent, you’re still in charge of the students who pass through your classroom...

No Shave No More

Timia Cobb, Staff Writer

September 26, 2017

Filed under Opinion, Showcase

Whitehouse has always been strict when it comes to enforcing the school's dress code. A seductive shoulder would never go unseen in the hallway, and a too scruffy chin would never win the fight against a razor from the front office. Starting this school year, the dress code is allowing all boys to gr...

Is Advisory All That Bad?

Katrina Christine, Staff Reporter

May 22, 2017

Filed under Opinion, Showcase

There have been many different changes at WHS since WISD has hired Dr. Moran as the new superintendent. Since the year started, the administration has tried out a new idea: power hour. Power Hour gives students time to eat lunch while also providing a time to go to tutorials or club meetings. Many stud...

Family Values

McKenna Mirsky, Staff Reporter

May 16, 2017

Filed under Personal Columns, Showcase

Family Values When you hear the word ‘family’ what comes to your mind? Most likely, it’s a mother and father with two to three kids that live in a stable average household. Why is it that we don’t think of a single father with kids? Or a couple only having adopted kids? Or families raised by...

A Protection Problem

Timia Cobb, Staff Reporter

May 16, 2017

Filed under Opinion, Showcase

In the past year, there has been many cases of school shootings or stabbings at high schools and colleges. It seems that no matter how many laws we make against guns or for school zone safety, our situation always still ends with a student or teacher being injured, or even worse, killed. In my op...