With Thanksgiving break approaching, members of the Marshall community are looking forward to having some much needed time off from school. Students are heading off to visit family across the country and a good number of them will end up missing school on Wednesday. With so many students absent, itContinue Reading

In one of the enduring moments in the legal battle for student’s rights, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas delivered the line “it can hardly be argued that students […] shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” His majority opinion in the case TinkerContinue Reading

Senior year, despite the stereotype that it is easy, challenges students as much if not more than junior year. Seniors deal with the constant torment of worrying about life after high school and multiple IB assignments on top of the the work and social pressure of normal student life. TheContinue Reading

Marshall has an array of activities, such as sports, clubs and arts programs, which offer ample opportunities for students to get involved; however, just because these activities already exist does not mean that everybody is going to be interested in them. What if one searches for a club that coversContinue Reading

The late bus runs on Mondays from 5 to 5:30 p.m. and is a great advantage for those who stay after school for clubs, activities and after school help. At the same time, its effectiveness is limited because it is only available one day out of the whole week. ThereContinue Reading

The Social Studies department decided this year to remove the Historical Investigation, or HI, from the Government curriculum, tampering with hundreds of sophomores’ chances to practice writing a major essay in a more supervised setting. The HI aims to examine and compare varied perspectives on a historical topic the writerContinue Reading

Coming to school with nothing but a pen and a stack of random papers stuffed in your backpack is the epitome of fatigue most students experience by the time the end of the school year rolls around. Anticipating the classes where little classwork occurs is a huge part of theContinue Reading

The only thing that motivates me towards the end of the school year is a long summer vacation. This year’s summer vacation is shorter by nine days, which is very frustrating. Even though having a short summer makes you value every second of your vacation, we deserve a longer break.Continue Reading

Exam week is typically comprised of hyper-stressful studying, frantic cramming before exams and attempting to recall information not covered since September. It seems unreasonable that, on top of all this, teachers should continue to introduce new material throughout the exam portion of the year. Some, recognizing the importance of finalContinue Reading

Almost every spectator at a sports game is familiar with the uproar within a crowd when they think a referee or umpire makes a bad call. Many athletes tend to go home after a loss, making statements about how they think the referees calls were unfair. What constitutes a badContinue Reading