Summer Activities
April 30, 2013 • Maggie Moncure
Filed under Columns
If you don’t have any major summer plans, like me, then you’ll be sitting around your house dying of boredom. So trying to prevent that I have made a list for the few of you actually reading this, here we go! Things you have to pay to do: See a drive in movie, just like at the theaters, but in the... Read more »
Entitlement leads to problems at Chapin
March 28, 2013 • Erika Jones
Filed under Columns, News
Parking has been a huge problem with students at CHS since the beginning of the year. First, the school had a problem with there not enough parking spaces for everyone. Now, students are complaining because they are getting parking tickets for parking in the wrong place, as if they aren’t the ones... Read more »
Bad breakups hurt
January 28, 2013 • Erika Jones
Filed under Columns, Entertainment
Break ups are bad, no matter how they happen. Whether it’s been five days, five months or five years…it still hurts the same. Although the worst breakup I’ve ever been through was a guy dumping me on my birthday in the eighth grade, I’ve had plenty of friends who have dealt with bad breakups... Read more »
Christmas consumerism kills holiday spirit
December 12, 2012 • Laney Kincaid
Filed under Columns
When we were younger, Christmas presents were something you worked for all year and they were your rewards. They were well deserved and you were proud to get them. Now though, kids seem to think that it is not a privilege, but a right to have Santa bring them their toys. They don’t work hard all... Read more »
School Pictures Leave Lasting Impressions
November 2, 2012
Filed under Columns, Student Life
This year as the student body showed up for registration day we got our books, our schedules, and we, regrettably, got our pictures taken. Now the aforementioned pictures taken at registration are proudly (or shamefully) hanging around our necks in the form of IDs. Bad school pictures have been around... Read more »
Freshman fight to survive
September 20, 2012 • Maggie Moncure
Filed under Columns
In the words of Guns N’ Roses: Welcome to the jungle. And if you don’t know how it works, you could get hurt. Freshmen, are the figurative ants or the high school hierarchy. They went from being the top of the middle school, to the bottom of high school, which can be a pretty big adjustment.... Read more »
Winning IS everything
March 28, 2012 • Cody Brundage
Filed under Columns
Competition is about winning. People who tell you different are lying. No one remembers the second place team or the team that placed one hundredth for that matter. In the words of Ricky Bobby, “If your not first your last.” Competition isn’t about feeling good about yourself for trying or just... Read more »
Bullying Leaves Scars
March 27, 2012 • Haley Willingham
Filed under Columns, Features
I’m sure everyone who’s gone through school has heard the whole “don’t bully” or “stop bullying” speech. We’ve heard the classic “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” And we’ve certainly been taught the Golden Rule: treat others as you would... Read more »
Do I have to write this?
March 27, 2012 • Thames Jamison
Filed under Columns
Senioritis. You knew this story was coming, because it comes up every year around this time. Honestly, I could live without writing this article because most people aren’t going to read it due to the fact that this story is directed toward the senior class who most likely won’t be here to read this…Or... Read more »
High School teaches more than education
February 24, 2012 • BROOKE BAUER
Filed under Columns
For many students, high school seems to mean nothing more than a burden of waking up early and being held “in captivity” for eight hours. However, at one point or another, students realie how much more high school has provided than just an education. High school helps differentiate oneself... Read more »
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