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As softball players retire to the benches after a grueling batting practice, new head coach John Reina entertains the exhausted girls by cracking jokes. Reina’s amicable personality is something he shares with other new coaches Brian Germain, Harry Wilkes and Dorothy Brown.

According to JV softball player Lindsay Charters, sophomore, Reina “has a different coaching style.”

“Coach Reina is more involved,” Charters said, adding that he regularly attends JV practices in addition to coaching varsity.

Wilkes, the new boys varsity soccer assistant coach, expressed similar sentiments.

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The spring season is ushering in a newfound attitude of player responsibility and a strong sense of teamwork for the boys varsity soccer team.

“The players are taking much more initiative,” senior goalie Jason Warren, senior, said. “After practice or a game people post on our Facebook group what needs to be worked on.”

Warren added that “there is a lot more closeness among the team [and] people talk more outside of practice.”

Captain Filip Gouglev, senior, attributes the new attitude to a difference in determination among the returning players.

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Afrequent counterpoint to passionate political leaning speakers among critics is calling them ‘bigots’ or just obtuse.
However, a study by the University of Nebraska found that some people are actually biologically disposed to have fundamentally different political views.

Neuroscientists came to this conclusion by testing patients’ physiological arousal to a liberal and a conservative speaking, respectively.

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Music mash-ups have been around ever since The Beatles and The Rolling Stones began multitrack recording in the late 60s; as many as 12 songs were recorded at once and then were mixed together to create a more complex song. Since then, mash-ups have become an Internet sensation through bothContinue Reading

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When African Americans tried to mix with Whites during the Civil Rights years, the police and citizens enforced segregation by all means necessary. This fact is crucial to understanding an important time in our American history. But when merely communicated through the spoken word, can students truly grasp the hateContinue Reading