Chloe Heller, Co-Editor-in-Chief
• February 1, 2018
By: Chloe Heller -
Recently, classrooms have been noticeably less full. Students are home from school for days on end, and substitute teachers line the halls. According to the Washington Post, these...
By: Cheney Hurley -
February has just started and students are already registering for classes for the next school year. The fall semester of 2018-2019 doesn’t start for another six months, but counselors...
By: Olivia McCown – In the 1950s, a cartoon turtle took to the screens and captured the hearts and interests of Americans – young and old. This helmeted animation’s name was Bert and, unlike his light-hearted Disney counterparts, he was on a serious mission – to teach the American public to “duck and cover” in...
By: Seth Householder – So what’s the deal with math? Why is it so hard for so many of us? According to a recent article in the Lincoln Journal Star “just more than half of LPS’ juniors are considered ‘on track’ to succeed in college or are meeting benchmarks set by the ACT.” The article...
By: Lizzy Lavin – Hope. Where does it come from? How can we as humans, regardless of the life circumstances we have, have more hope than others? Those who are going through illness, financial crisis, or whatever obstacle it may be, can have more hope than those who are more privileged than them. Hope doesn’t...
By: Chloe Heller – The world is rocked by tragedy and hardship on a daily basis. Some impact only the area in which they occur, while others become the headlines of newspapers circling the globe. Communities can easily be shattered by disasters, but on the other hand, disasters can form even closer, tighter-knit relationships within...
By: Cade Wilson – How lazy writing in The Walking Dead and shows like it ruins watchability Have you ever found yourself watching your favorite show, only to see something so unbelievable that it took you out of the moment? Did it cause you to wonder if that something could ever occur, even in your...
By: Julia Effle – The reality of text miscommunication in the social world, how it happens and what we can to fix it. Text messaging – according to a Gallup poll – is the largest form of communication. But in our generation, it seems to be the biggest form of miscommunication, as well. Every day,...
Chapter One By: Julia Effle – Fact or fiction, horrifying or dramatic, fantasy or satire, whatever the genre, there’s a novel for it. But you’re the writer, you have a month to get down 50,000 words -1,667 words a day and 7,143 words a week to complete it. Are you up for the challenge? Seniors...
By: Jason Rogers – On Thursday after school, Southeast held their biannual Art Show that showcases the work of students in art classes. These art classes include drawing, pottery, jewelry, photography, digital art, painting, 2-D art, and 3-D art. The art show is put on by the art teachers, who are Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Buhrman,...
By: Syann Engelhard – A staple of the emergence of the winter sport season is the Knight Zone t-shirts that can be found and bought for $1 in upper commons during all three lunches. The making of these t-shirts has been happening thanks to Southeast’s Student Council (Stuco) for many years and counting. Junior Maggie...
By: Nina Peci – One of history’s most important incarcerations happened Wednesday, November 22nd – and America isn’t talking about it. In July of 1995, Ratko Mladic systematically murdered 8,372 Bosnian Muslims – or Bosniaks – and expelled 20,000 civilians from the Bosnian city of Srebrenik in an attempt to “ethnically cleanse” the area. During...
