Chemicals in food become subject of investigation

January 23, 2012 • Jasmine Sachar and Molly Spain  
Filed under In-Depth

    contain an illegal fungicide last week, the issue of the safety of the U.S. food supply is now being questioned. The illegal fungicide in the contaminated orange juice has been linked to liver cancer. The Food and Drug Administration Press Officer Siobhan Delancey said the FDA was not aware of... Read more »

Junior reflects on anorexia throughout middle school years

May 20, 2011 • Molly Spain, In-depth and Opinion editor  
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During her middle school years, junior Ali Williams* could not go to sleep until she felt her rib cage. She would lie on her bed and trace slender fingers along her flat stomach searching for the contours of her ribs. She would rejoice with the feel of the bony structure jutting from her body beneath... Read more »

Column: Club experience leaves scars

May 18, 2011 • Molly Spain, Entertainment editor  
Filed under In-Depth

  Just say no. Growing up, I never thought I’d actually have to use those three simple words we are taught throughout middle school. Yet, three weeks ago these words were all I wanted to mutter. I went to a club for the first time to experience rave life and was immersed in a completely different... Read more »

Venture to the greener side

December 2, 2010 • Luke Swinney and Lauren Rose, Editor in Chief and In Depth Editor  
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Students explore vegetarian dietary habits The images flashed across the screen. Sick piglets thrown against the hard concrete slab on the slaughterhouse floor. Forklifts operated by muscled workers impale a helpless mother cow, flinging her across the slaughter house. Turkeys raised so fat that they... Read more »

Depression meds give students options

November 2, 2010 • Luke Swinney and Alex Cain, Editor-in-chief and reporter  
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She stopped eating in middle school. It wasn’t an eating disorder, but junior Allison Turner’s* appetite still began to dwindle rapidly. If she managed to get anything down, she felt sick to her stomach. Turner soon discovered her eating habits were just a side-effect of a bigger problem – depression. “You... Read more »

The darkest of summers

November 2, 2010 • Devon Miller, Feature Editor  
Filed under In-Depth, Uncategorized

Ian Drew lies in bed in a silent room. His empty brown eyes trace patterns on the ceiling. He’s so consumed by feelings of sadness and negativity that he can’t make himself get up. He doesn’t really want to anyways. He doesn’t want to do anything anymore. It’s the summer of 2010, his senior... Read more »