Amnesty Club and Reveille will host Slamnesty after school today. The event, a poetry slam, aims to give students the opportunity to share their views on human rights issues.
To raise awareness about these issues, Amnesty decided to have students share poetry related to human rights.
“Everyone [can] share their poems and opinions on human rights,” sophomore Maggie Schumann said.
There was a time in our society that referring to a black man of any age by the term “boy” was a perfectly acceptable practice. It was used as a way to show that black men were not equal to white men. This is certainly not the only term orContinue Reading
Due to the global economic downturn and governmental corruption, revolutions in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt have occurred. It is unlikely this trend will continue, however, because of the determination of the remaining regimes to stay in power in the Arab world. Furthermore the western world, specifically the United States, will use diplomatic pressure to maintain the governments of their allies.
DECA was named a preferred chapter at DECA States, held March 4 through the March 6 in Norfolk. Twenty-eight students qualified to go to nationals, which will be held in Orlando, Fla. April 30 through May 4.
Additionally, Marshall is currently tied with Chantilly in the most first place DECA wins.
One of the DECA advisors, Jennifer Hendrickson, was recognized as one of several Outstanding DECA advisors, she said.
Auditions for Amnesty International’s second annual Jamnesty event took place last Wednesday. Jamnesty will be held in May, but no date has been publicized yet.
The event is the club’s main fundraiser of the year and the money raised will be used to pay for postage for the club’s letter writing campaigns.
“It [will be] a night of music and human rights awareness,” club sponsor and social studies teacher Andrew Freeman said.
Jamnesty will feature a concert with student and teacher acts.
The French Club is hosting a dance to celebrate the French festival of Mardi Gras. The dance moved from March 18 to Friday because of conflicts with a soccer tournament at Marshall also taking place that weekend.
“We want as many people as possible to come,” officer and junior Sharon Walbarsht said.
The dance is prepared entirely by the students involved in French Club, with four officers—juniors Yazan Alshawkani, Faby Chaillo, Amir Noorbaksh and Wolbarsht—leading the preparations.
By the end of March, the majority of freshmen, sophomores and juniors will have solidified their schedules for the 2011-2012 school year.And, as they meet with their guidance counselors to finalize their schedules, they have the opportunity to consider several new classes that will be offered in the upcoming school year: Sports Medicine, Creative Writing, Leadership Training and Avid.
Sports Medicine, which will be taught by athletic trainer Esther Horner, will focus on medical professions, anatomy and physiology of skeletal and muscular systems, types of injuries and injury prevention.
I moved from Illinois after my freshman year in high school. I thought that the school would be almost the exact same as Illinois, both socially and academically. Socially, it was, because high school is pretty much the same anywhere you go, but academically, boy was I mistaken. Never beforeContinue Reading
A documentary called The Race to Nowhere has been on a tour around the country, using schools as theaters to audiences of mostly parents. It captures the stress of the most students through interviews and footage of students from third grade to a college level, with the primary focus onContinue Reading
Rumors have recently circulated regarding the termination of Lunch and Learn. Rising concerns, especially among IB students, have resulted in a large number of student testimonials on L&L posted to the wall of a Facebook group devoted to the subject as well as an accumulation of letters to the editor on this subject.
Principal Jay Pearson addressed the situation publicly on March 4.
In a discussion inspired by junior Brandy Allen and specifically targeted towards worried IB students, Pearson outlined the fate of next year’s lunch.
The opinions presented in this column reflect those of the individual writers, not of the Rank & File collectively. 1. The Kardashian Sisters (Khloe & Kourtney): Khloe and Kourtney are best known for being Kim’s not-as-attractive sisters whose names irrationally start with “K.” 2. Paris and Nicki Hilton: Like QueenContinue Reading
As the second block dismissal bell rings, students run to be first in line for lunch, avoiding being the laggards who are stuck with minimal food choices. Routinely, they grab a milk carton, a tray and have a variety of food choices ranging from pizza to fries to choose from. Salad is barely considered an option.
The following is an edited transcript of an interview between Rank & File and substance abuse counselor Patrick Lawton.
Rank & File: There’s been a recent spike in the trend of teenagers and young adults smoking synthetic marijuanas, including the substance known as K2. Are you aware of this at Marshall or around the county?
Marijuana: The word and plant have been used amongst high schoolers for decades and are, in some cases, some of the hotter points of conversation.
Synthetic marijuana: This man-made drug is new to our generation. We know little about it, and it remains a mystery even amongst its users.
Use of synthetic marijuana, frequently known as K2, is on the rise. It has been used as a back-up for the real thing or sometimes when a user has been on probation or in drug rehabilitation. In some cases the user is just looking for a change of pace in their high.
What does it mean to be human? This question has indirectly split our society in two. Every day in these halls is a slow one, not because of work stress but because we are made to feel inferior. Any teacher or administrator would dispute this but that is sheer denial.Continue Reading
Spray tans and four year-olds do not usually go together. However, in the world of toddler pageants, they are nearly inseparable.
Toddlers and Tiaras, TLC’s show about the competitive toddler pageants, highlights the risky side of these baby beauty contests. By exposing young girls to judges of their perceived beauty, toddler pageants inspire a dangerous psychology in the mini-queens: a need to be perfect.
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