Statesmen Theatre placed first overall at the Capitol Conference One-Act Festival on Jan. 15 for This Is Where We Came In, a quirky 1990 play featuring twisted reenactments of classic fairy tales. The show opens with several peculiar storytellers (sophomore Anna Brotman-Krass, senior Lily Roth and sophomore Anya Karaman) whoContinue Reading

Down in the newly renovated design and technology lab, Technology Education teacher Michael Martin struggles with a decision to act on what he calls an “early retirement.” This decision stems from recent alterations to the course offerings for the 2014-15 school year.  Next year, the school will be offering aContinue Reading

When indie band Field Music went on hiatus in 2007, brothers Peter and David Brewis, its founding and primary members, each released albums individually, exploring their own sounds and styles. School of Language is David Brewis’s solo pseudonym, although sophomore album Old Fears includes contributions from Peter Brewis. The BrewisContinue Reading

To hear the experts talk, sleeping is the holy grail of all health problems. The National Sleep Foundation warns that too little sleep can cause you to “forget important information like names [and] numbers,” and worsen acne. The Guardian links lack of sleep to depression, high cholesterol, obesity, flu, coldsContinue Reading

This year’s March Madness tournament has been high-intensity, as multiple upsets have thrown brackets into turmoil and predictions haywire. In fact, a joint Quicken Loans-Warren Buffet venture offering $1 billion to anyone who could create a perfect bracket reports that no one has maintained a flawless record this far. TheContinue Reading

From the very first day of high school, students are pressured about what they’ll be doing after they graduate. Both Marshall and FCPS offer plenty of support for finding the right college, figuring out how to pay for college, and writing the perfect essay to get into college. Parents pressure theirContinue Reading

How much foreign language did you learn in elementary school? Unless you were committed to an after-school program, the answer is probably not much. After all, beyond the smattering of elementary schools offering a partial-immersion program, young FCPS students’ only in-class opportunity for foreign language acquisition consists of just twoContinue Reading

In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president with an impressive 66% of the vote amongst 18-29-year-olds. Boasting endorsements and support from stars like Oprah Winfrey, Usher, and Scarlett Johansson, Obama was highly popular with young people–in November of 2009, a Harvard University Institute of Politics survey found that 58% ofContinue Reading

The primary goal for student tutors, many of whom are in honors societies, is primarily to help less-advanced students understand and grasp a concept in a class. In addition, since all the students in a class learn the same material, student tutoring is helpful because it can strengthen the understandingContinue Reading