20,000 Sheets A Day: Staples' Paper Addiction
May 14, 2011 • 1 views
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Emily Goldberg '12 and Farrel Levenson '11 Web Managing Editor and Staff Writer According to main office secretary Mari Caroll who orders all of Staples paper, Staples goes through 200,000 sheets of paper every two weeks. That’s 100,000 sheets of paper every week, 20,000 sheets of paper every... Read more »
Oral Cancer Rate Among Sexually Active Teens on the Rise
October 29, 2010 • 1 views
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Image via Wikipedia When the most people hear the term “oral cancer,” they usually associate it with men with yellow teeth who have smoked or chewed tobacco their entire life. What most don’t know is that people of any age or gender are susceptible to the disease, regardless of their smoking... Read more »
Teachers Use Blackboard, Individual Websites to Reach Students
October 11, 2010 • 1 views
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Image via CrunchBase Last year, science teacher Kevin Glass stopped giving his students physical tests. As Glass explained, every exam that he gives, including the midterm and the final, is done through Blackboard. Glass is just one of the many teachers that have begun using Blackboard more extensively. According... Read more »
Seniors Still At School Question Their Decision to Stay
June 23, 2010 • 1,858 views
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Image via Wikipedia Emily Goldberg '12 Web News Editor When Angela Gibson ’10 entered her Spanish class on May 17, she was one of four students present. The previous Friday, there were approximately 20 other students in the class. This excessive number of absences was not due to students... Read more »
Orthodontists Are Evil
May 29, 2010 • 1,496 views
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Alix Neenan '12 Features Editor You know the drill. You wait in an uncomfortable sitting room that reeks of alcohol and toothpaste, with "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" playing as background noise. There are grimy children scampering around beneath your feet like rats. You would pick up last... Read more »
Aitkenhead Moves to Wakeman Farm
January 15, 2010 • 1,111 views
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Michael Aitkenhead, an A.P. Environmental teacher, does what he can to cut down on energy use and promote the “green” lifestyle. He recycles, limits his food consumption, and bikes as his use of transportation as much as possible. Aitkenhead admits that “it feels futile and hypocritical... Read more »
A Pirate’s Life for Me: Student body unfazed by Consequences of Piracy
December 22, 2009 • 1,220 views
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Lila Epstein '10 & Ross Gordon '11 Editor-in-chief & News Editor In the United States, copyright laws protect the music industry by making music piracy illegal. However, file–sharing clients such as LimeWire and Acquisition make it easy for anyone with a computer to download any song for... Read more »
Letter to the Editor – Re “Smoker’s Choice”
December 17, 2009 • 1,987 views
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TO THE EDITOR: The December 4, 2009 edition of Inklings contained a front page article entitled, "Smoker's Choice." While I know the intention of the article was neither to promote the use of marijuana nor to condone its use, some adults in the community who have seen the article have contended... Read more »
Smoker’s Choice: Poll Shows Students Feel Marijuana Is More Socially Acceptable than Cigarettes
December 8, 2009 • 2,560 views
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Sam Freeman '11 and Stevie Klein '12 Web A&E Editor and Web Features Editor Thirty years ago, students could often be seen sneaking out of school during their free periods and ducking outside the cafeteria for a quick smoke. Today, the next generation of students has extinguished its... Read more »
Scandalous Field Hockey Dance
October 22, 2009 • 1,400 views
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Image via Wikipedia When the Staples Field Hockey team walked onto the field during the pep rally last Friday there was a relatively fitting tone to the crowd of students and teachers. However, the crowd’s opinions split once the Field Hockey team opened their dance with “Good Girls Go Bad”... Read more »