The varsity baseball team has had a winning season so far this year with a 4-2 record. The team’s victories against Fairfax, Thomas Jefferson and South Lakes High Schools earned it a spot in the regional top ten. Junior Kent Blackstone, one of the varsity captains, said that the teamContinue Reading

Despite losing their starting goalie and a supporting attackman, the boys varsity lacrosse team broke their four-game losing streak and beat McLean High School 13-11 on senior night, the last home game of the season. The game, played last Thursday, was the team’s highest-scoring outing. “It was exhilarating,” goalie andContinue Reading

An achy, sharp pain in the inside of the edge of the tibia and swollen ankles are what describe a track runner’s worst fear: shin splints. According to athletic trainer John Reynolds, shin splints are medically known as medial tibial stress syndrome and are caused by two different foot conditions:Continue Reading

After facing a relocation of its home court, girls tennis started off the season with a 2-5 record. The team is looking forward to having “a winning season,” girls tennis coach Macarthur Deshazer said. According to team captain and junior Mili Mittal, the team welcomed a large number of freshmenContinue Reading

Living up to any legacy is hard, but living up to a 17-9 record is titanic. Still, that is exactly what Marshall’s varsity softball team plans to do this year, despite a rocky 1-4 start to the season. Coached by Laura Campbell for the past four years, the 2011 softballContinue Reading

Music mash-ups have been around ever since The Beatles and The Rolling Stones began multitrack recording in the late 60s; as many as 12 songs were recorded at once and then were mixed together to create a more complex song. Since then, mash-ups have become an Internet sensation through bothContinue Reading

After months of intense hype, Nintendo’s 3DS finally hit store shelves on Mar. 21. The system is the next generation of Nintendo’s handheld DS systems. When I first heard about the 3DS several months ago, I feared it would suffer the same fate as the DSi, the previous generation ofContinue Reading

When Algernon Moncrieff implores his friend Jack Worthing, who is spinning the tale of his double-life, to “pray, make it improbable,” he hits upon the very message of The Importance of Being Earnest: that deception (and un-deception, as one character puts it) become more trouble than they are worth whenContinue Reading

Thrillers have descended into a formula where you have a spy being hunted by some nameless intelligence agency. Hanna does not stray from this formula, yet the way Hanna’s story unfolds is simply breathtaking. Hanna, played by Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones), trains with her father, played by Eric BanaContinue Reading

When an issue is so contentious that teachers have parents on both sides of the issue trying to influence curriculum, it can make the topic more “time-consuming” to teach, according to biology and IB Environmental Systems and Studies teacher Barbara Brown. The biology curriculum dealing with evolution has resulted inContinue Reading