Amnesty Club and Reveille will host Slamnesty after school today. The event, a poetry slam, aims to give students the opportunity to share their views on human rights issues.
To raise awareness about these issues, Amnesty decided to have students share poetry related to human rights.
“Everyone [can] share their poems and opinions on human rights,” sophomore Maggie Schumann said.
The French Club is hosting a dance to celebrate the French festival of Mardi Gras. The dance moved from March 18 to Friday because of conflicts with a soccer tournament at Marshall also taking place that weekend.
“We want as many people as possible to come,” officer and junior Sharon Walbarsht said.
The dance is prepared entirely by the students involved in French Club, with four officers—juniors Yazan Alshawkani, Faby Chaillo, Amir Noorbaksh and Wolbarsht—leading the preparations.
Rumors have recently circulated regarding the termination of Lunch and Learn. Rising concerns, especially among IB students, have resulted in a large number of student testimonials on L&L posted to the wall of a Facebook group devoted to the subject as well as an accumulation of letters to the editor on this subject.
Principal Jay Pearson addressed the situation publicly on March 4.
In a discussion inspired by junior Brandy Allen and specifically targeted towards worried IB students, Pearson outlined the fate of next year’s lunch.
Junior Matt Crawford, who wrestles in the 285-pound heavy weight class, won the NOVA classic, a wrestling tournament that took place at Fairfax High School on December 10 and 11. Juniors James Cusack and Zac Brooks won sixth and seventh place, respectively. With experienced players who have been playing forContinue Reading
Constantly new coaching staff seems to be a universal problem for Marshall sports teams. Teams from all seasons have had to deal with losing part or all of the coaching staff, presenting the challenge of adapting to a new coaching style. The boy’s basketball program is no exception. After losingContinue Reading
This Saturday, at the Audrey Moore RECCenter, swim and dive will be competing at districts. During their McLean meet last week, Head Coach Ann Jopke said that she was putting out one of the best line-ups in order to prepare for the upcoming competition. “We’re really working on small detailsContinue Reading
Sexual misconduct between teachers and students has always been, and will continue to be, an issue in schools. Simply creating a set of guidelines to limit teacher-student communication will not be effective in reducing sexual misconduct, even though its purpose is to, “protect students from sexual misconduct and abuse [while] providing a safe and healthy environment for teaching and learning.”
Communication and interactions between teachers and students is a common thing in schools; however, when it begins to go outside of school is where it gets dangerous and out of hand. Teachers text-messaging, contacting students through social networks like Facebook or meeting excessively with specific students is inappropriate, unnecessary.
On Feb. 3 and 4, IB Film Study will be holding a film festival in the auditorium during Lunch & Learn where IB Film students will be showcasing their own trailers as a part of their film study project. The objective of the project was for students to make aContinue Reading
The physics department was greeted by a new face at the beginning of the year: Nimel Theodore. Theodore, who teaches Active Physics, IB Physics I and II SL, has already fallen in love with Marshall in his first half year here. “You really feel like you belong when your studentsContinue Reading
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