Success on the Internet is a double-edged sword
March 2, 2010
Hall Monitor Page Dormier Issaquah High School
In my generation, we spend a lot of time focusing on and comparing other people’s lives. What we ourselves strive for is to become the best and most talked about. The way we know so much about one another is simple — the Internet.
If teenagers want to get exposure when it comes to singing, acting, modeling or even selling their own products, the Internet is the best way to do so. Anyone can make his or her own Web site at any age. Therefore, teenagers have the opportunity to show what they are made of to people all over the world. Some even become famous off free Web sites, such as MySpace or YouTube. Sites of all kinds have given teens a chance to become successful even before they graduate from high school. Read more
A band of free spirits
February 23, 2010
Michelle Dvorak
The best part about being in a band, Nick Luempert said, “is jamming with friends.” For Neil Gregerson, it’s making music and “figuring out how to put the pieces together.”
The two seniors started their band, Masters and Johnson, during the summer of their sophomore year at Issaquah High School. You can catch them playing at a number of music venues, including the Old Firehouse in Issaquah, and at art galleries, such as the Ursa Minor in Seattle. Read more
Extreme clubs
February 23, 2010
‘For the love of Harry Potter!’
Olivia Spokoiny
In a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, Allen Suner and Doug Dietzel fight for the Quaffle as (from left) Aseem Chipalkatti, Max Sherman, Sam Schneble, Erin Hoffman, Sam Stendal, David Zhong and Joseph Choung look on. By Jordan Rixon
Skyline High School’s Harry Potter Club is the largest (and certainly the quirkiest) club that the high school offers this year. Juniors Erin Hoffman and Erin Pazaski, founders and “Head Mistresses,” said the idea evolved over the past summer.
How to embrace your Facebook addiction
February 23, 2010
By Tiffany Xu
Facebook addictions are difficult to cure. Unless you’re about to resort to services such as Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (hand over your account information, say a few last words and watch your virtual profiles be erased within an hour), it’s time to fully embrace social networking.
Here are five tips for how to put your Facebook to better use. Who knows, they might temporarily alleviate your feelings of guilt and inadequacy as well. Read more
Class helps parents overcome teen misconceptions
February 23, 2010
Max Smith-Holmes
Any teenager is aware of the misconceptions parents have about them. Parents share stories and fears with one another, creating the illusion that certain issues are more prevalent among their children, while ignoring other potentially harmful ones.
In January, the Issaquah School District PTSA presented a series of educational seminars for parents, entitled “What Are Teens Really Doing Today?” Read more
The Hot List
February 23, 2010
- Movie: ‘Shutter Island’
Ehrik Aldana
Touted as filmmaker Martin Scorcese’s first venture into the horror genre, “Shutter Island,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, follows a U.S. marshal’s venture onto an island for the criminally insane. The film is adapted by the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, author of other novels adapted into film, including “Mystic River” and “Gone Baby Gone.” Read more
Washington state fails its own education test
February 9, 2010
Hall Monitor Ahren Stroming Liberty High School
Article IV of the state constitution begins with the following righteous preamble: “It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders.”
If that’s the rubric, then they haven’t earned a very good score.
For the 2007-2008 school year, the Issaquah School District received $8,405 per student from the state. The state average is nearly $900 per student more, putting us at a dismal 271st out of 295 Washington state school districts in revenue per pupil. If our school district was funded at the state average, we would get an additional $13.3 million. Read more
Get Involved
January 26, 2010
Issaquah High School
Robotics Society
By Alex Tucker
The Issaquah Robotics Society is in full swing as it gears up for its first competition in March in Portland, Ore. The robotics club has an impressive history of victories, and this year will likely be no different, due to the members’ enthusiasm and dedication.
Will the 2010 Oscars take a bold new direction?
January 26, 2010
By Ehrik Aldana
In 2009, moviegoers played witness to floating mountains, alien apartheid, levitating houses, time-warping red matter and at least three incarnations of George Clooney — those of which included a hippie and a talking fox.
Another year of film is over, and the movie awards season is creeping up with Oscar gold just around the corner. Of the 274 films eligible for the 2009 Oscar race, 10 — an adjustment from previous years’ five — will receive nominations for the Best Picture award.
Many professional associations, such as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the American Film Institute, the Writers Guild of America, Producers Guild of America and countless critic groups across America, have chipped in their two cents as to what films they feel should be regarded as 2009’s best.
The Hot List
January 26, 2010
By Rachel Osgood
Movie: “Dear John”
“Dear John” stars Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried in a tragic love story set against the backdrop of war. It was adapted from the novel by Nicholas Sparks, author of “The Notebook.” Read more
