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Students feel pressured over course selection during the months of January through March.

Course selection results in unnecessary stress

Maria Krug '22, Arts Editor March 5, 2020

“You are only taking four APs?” says one student. “You weren’t recommended for AP Stat?” replies the other. “You should take at least two more APs senior year than you did junior year,” someone...

The We the People competition is centered around the United States Constitution

We the People class advances to national competition

Will Matar ’21 March 6, 2019

On April 26-29th, 2019, Staples High School’s We the People Class will be heading to Washington D.C for the national We the People Competition after they won the wildcard. After losing to Trumbull in...

Woman awarded Chemistry Nobel Prize for the fifth time in 117 years

Woman awarded Chemistry Nobel Prize for the fifth time in 117 years

October 5, 2018

By Nicky Brown '19 Each year, Nobel Prizes are awarded to professionals in six categories: literature, physics, peace, medicine, chemistry and economic sciences. This year, a female chemistry professor...

[April 2017] Classes will always struggle for equality

[April 2017] Classes will always struggle for equality

April 26, 2017

By: Jackie Sussman '17 Nicola Alexander ’17 came from a long line of social conquerors; her sister, mother and aunt had climbed Staples’ social ladder. Nicola’s name had to carry the weight of...

Staples Got Class makes schedule sharing easier for students

“Staples Got Class” makes schedule sharing easier for students

Kit Epstein, Web Opinions Editor June 1, 2016

On Tuesday, May 31, Dylan Diamond ’17 released his sixth iPhone application, “Staples Got Class.” “Staples Got Class” is a schedule sharing application available for all iOS devices in the...

Gender Divide

Amina Abdulkareem, Staff Writer April 7, 2015

Pink versus blue. Barbies versus action figures. Dance versus football. There are gender stereotypes linked to each of these words, associations often made without malice or conscious prejudice. But...

Administration debates class leveling system

Andrea Frost, Breaking News Managing Editor March 10, 2015

Core classes at Staples High School are offered at various levels to appeal to the learning needs of all students. However, while physics has five different class levels — honors, A, B, AP physics B...

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Choosing classes is a game of chance

Julie Bender, Web Opinions Editor March 9, 2015

There’s only one reading assignment that I’ve gotten in all of high school that I’ve actually been excited to start, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that it wasn’t chapter one of my...

he hands-on CPR classes offer students the chance to learn potentially life-saving skills.

CPR classes provide potential to save lives

Meg Root, News Editor March 3, 2015

CPR classes provide potential to save lives Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, better known as CPR, is a potentially life-saving skill that over 70 percent of Americans lack. Reni Forer ’15 is looking...

Piano class teaches playing in key

Piano class teaches playing in key

Becca Rawizer, Staff Writer September 19, 2014

Wait, Staples has a piano class? Most students certainly know about Staples’ popular orchestra and band classes, yet the beginning piano class is sometimes overlooked. Brimming with twelve...

Artsy AP students sketch portrait of a young class

Artsy AP students sketch portrait of a young class

Claudia Chen, Features Editor September 19, 2014

This year, the art depart- ment’s new course addition, AP 2D Studio Art class gives a whole new meaning to the sight of pencils flying. The blurs of yellow pink are no longer to bubbling scantrons...

Visual literacy puts the pow in English course

Visual literacy puts the “pow” in English course

September 19, 2014

There are normal books filled only with words, and then there are graphic novels. Few people know there is an actual class on these visual pieces of literature. However, the 20 students per semester...

Reunited with school and it feels so good: Happily ditching summer to be back in action with my school routine

Reunited with school and it feels so good: Happily ditching summer to be back in action with my school routine

Jane Levy, Editor-in-Chief August 25, 2014

Here you are, dozing off in the cafeteria, caffeine surging through your bloodstream, dreading the bell, a cue for tests to be taken and papers to be written. But here I am, couldn’t be happier to...

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