The girls soccer team changed the practice time from 5:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. due to the coach’s and staff’s inability to attend after school practice as well as conflicting practice field scheduling. “[The rescheduling] has to do with our coach being a teacher here,” sophomore and varsity player OliviaContinue Reading
A part of the Friday Night Lights experience is socializing after games. From football season to basketball season, students convene at the McDonald’s on Chain Bridge Road year after year to catch up with friends. The tradition began soon after Marshall opened, as it was the closest McDonald’s to MarshallContinue Reading
“Metro: Exodus” has two sides to its overall plot. In the beginning, the game is a first-person shooter, horror and adventure. The second side is an outdated game design with a whole mountain of technical problems that will surely bring someone to a nervous breakdown. But, I want to startContinue Reading
For eight years, junior Iain MacKeith has competed as a road cyclist and races in national competitions across the country. He is currently a part of the team DC Velo. MacKeith said he has wanted to compete as a road cyclist before he was able to ride a bike. TodayContinue Reading
High school graduation is a celebration of 13 years of personal and academic development, and as such, it boasts hundreds of beloved traditions like walking across a stage to receive one’s diploma and adorning oneself with cords and stoles to represent various honors, achievements or awards. Our school, however, refusesContinue Reading
Over 400 schools participate in the Project LIT program to allow students, teachers and community members to obtain relevant and diverse books. Librarian Krissy Ronan recently initiated Marshall’s “chapter,” in the program. In an attempt to eliminate “book deserts,” or areas where community members are unable to easily acquire printedContinue Reading
Imagine if the average high school student had a quarter for every day they forgot a pen or pencil. Now imagine if a school of 2,000 students had a quarter every time any teacher, student or administrator needed materials they did not have. The Richmond Convention Centre brought this simpleContinue Reading
Junior Avery Burke is ready to return to lacrosse season after sitting out the previous one due to a tear in her Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL). Burke’s knee popped unexpectedly last March in the second scrimmage of the season when she went to change direction. Burke said the seven monthContinue Reading
The Fairfax County School Board Regulation 8541 requires all Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) facilities to recycle, but the extent to which Marshall does so is unclear. The U.S. Department of Education named FCPS the 2017 Green Ribbon School District due to their initiation of Get2Green in 2010, a programContinue Reading
It is hard to accept that a high school friendship may not last. But the bonds members form in youth groups such as Young Life or the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO), are lifelong. If teens took advantage of youth groups, they could form relationships that could last a lifetme.Continue Reading