In the political world, there has been much talk about 37-year-old Mia Love, the recently nominated Republican woman for the fourth congressional district in Utah. What makes Love such a prime topic in the political world? Love is both African-American and Mormon; if she beats her competitor, the incumbent and Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in [...]

  According to the National Sleep Foundation, teenagers should sleep for 9+ hours every night. Additionally, most teenagers naturally fall asleep at 11 p.m.  and wake up at 8 a.m. According to a study by Dr. Kyla Wahlstrom, 201 high school students’ school start time was pushed back from 8:00am to 8:30am to test the [...]

Almost one year ago, NC State had no basketball coach and no hope of being a contender in the ACC and the NCAA. They live in their blue neighbors’ shadows during basketball season, but this year, with the help of new head coach Mark Gottfried, the Pack are coming back. Last week, on Sunday, March [...]

As I was scrolling through my newsfeed on Facebook one afternoon, I noticed an odd status; “like this status if u think im pretty”. Curious to see if this girl had written similar posts, I clicked on her timeline to look at the rest of her statuses. I found three more — all the same, [...]

Lately, there has been a lot of buzz on the Internet about Google’s new privacy policies and, on March 1, Google’s new policies are going into action. But what exactly is changing to the policies that is behind all of the hype? Basically, Google is changing how it shares your personal information within the many [...]

From the runways to the hallways, pajamas are a growing fashion trend. Men and women are wearing lounge clothes to the grocery store, to the bank and even to work. According to an article by the Wall Street Journal, teenagers are wearing pajamas to school and name brand stores are taking advantage of this loose [...]

This year was the first Christmas I’ve spent without my very beloved cat, Hercules. On September 11 of this year, my cat peacefully passed away in his favorite sunny spot during the afternoon. I, lucky enough,  wasn’t at home to find him deceased, but I was an hour away at my friends house in Roxboro, [...]

Every year students struggle with one aspect of projects — speeches. I, someone who enjoys speaking in front of others, want to help all the students who have the fear of speaking in front of others. In my freshman year, I had to do a “World Issues Project” in my Paideia World History class. The [...]

In groups of two or three students, Mr.Robinson’s Drafting One class worked on a project where they had to build their dream chair by using basic drafting skills they teach in course. In addition to the class skills used, it also taught the creative design process, teamwork, collaboration, problem solving and how to communicate your [...]

There are many racy and inappropriate topics that are all over the media, however something surprising has happened in North Carolina: The teen pregnancy rate has dropped. The rate has fallen a whopping 50 percent since 1991 thanks to slightly lower rate of teens having sex, an increase of the use of birth control and [...]

On November 3-5, Pride Productions produced The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, a play based off the book written by C.S Lewis. The play, in my eyes, was a big success. The plot of the play follows four siblings: two brothers and two sisters, coming to an unknown land through a wardrobe. It turns [...]

At this time last year, Pride Varsity Volleyball would’ve been done with their seasons for about two weeks. This year, though, the team made it into the top 16 of the state–something they haven’t seen since 1997. “We did so awesome,” said Taine Merganthaler, coach. “I’m proud to call this MY team.” The girls are [...]

Dabbleboard is an online tool made to completely reinvent the white board. When you log onto the website, you’re faced with two buttons to press: “Take the Tour” and “Get Started(No sign up necessary).” When you click on the “Get Started” tab, it pulls you to a the white board itself, with a mini tutorial. [...]

When the weather cools and the leaves start to fall, one big holiday comes into picture: Halloween. For those who aren’t big spenders, however, this is a difficult time of the year. Halloween costumes are a big business during October; the prices are up to $85 for a teenager costume and $130 for a child’s [...]

Google docs is a simple software suite provided by Google. You can use it just like Microsoft Office: writing docs, making spreadsheets, creating presentations, and drawings. Google, in creating the Docs program, has gone for simplicity over beauty of the program — and that shows. While the word processor lacked some very basic features I [...]