There is a stigma that surrounds eating and mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, bulimia, anorexia and OCD. In most cases, physical ailments are taken more seriously than mental disorders, because the problems and declines in health are more obvious. This difference does not mean that they are any lessContinue Reading
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
With a fresh offensive strategy and a new lineup, the girls varsity basketball team hopes to finish the season as one of the top four in the conference and head to the regional tournament. To achieve this goal, the girls have instilled new tactics to specialize the way they playContinue Reading
Here’s a joke: If you take the “act” out of activists, what do you have? What constitutes an “act,” anyway? A mere click of the mouse or a 140 letter tweet? In all seriousness, it’s hard to envision social change as a text, yet social justice has managed to rootContinue Reading
Rank & File: Why do people disagree about whether the polar vortex is real? Elizabeth Hurley: I don’t think they disagree about if it’s real, it’s that they disagree about whether it was caused by human induced climate changed or not. I think the polar vortex is real—it is a documentedContinue Reading
Participating on high school teams can often turn what is traditionally an individual-focused sport into a sport based on team success. Winter sports are prime examples, especially gymnastics. Senior captain Casey Howard sees a contrast between club gymnastics and high school gymnastics at Marshall. “From what I know from peopleContinue Reading
The CyberPatriot club, an after-school program in which students create and destroy computer viruses while improving their own teamwork and leadership skills, is a more welcoming place for girls than their 15:1 ratio of boys to girls would suggest. Historically, females are underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)Continue Reading
Most people make new year’s resolutions, and one of the most common resolutions is something to the effect of being healthier, going to the gym more or losing weight. These resolutions are also among some of the most commonly dropped. Senior Alexis Fahrney made a similar resolution, but prefers toContinue Reading
The logic behind illegally downloading music is simple: music prices are too high, and it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal. Marginally speaking, this is correct—illegally downloading one song will not cause any devastating damage to anyone. However, pirating in the long term has a large impact on artistsContinue Reading
Towner Hale is a senior and a varsity basketball player. Below, R&F asks him what he thinks of the team. Q: Why did you start playing basketball? A: When my dad coached in Hawaii, I used to always go to his high school games. Like the Marshall team, he coached aContinue Reading
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