The official newspaper of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
By: Emma Killeen, Michael Miller, and Shubham Saharan Hearing about atrocities in Syria has become commonplace in our daily lives. In an increasingly turbulent political atmosphere, many Americans now see the Syrian Refugee Crisis as a propagandized affair as opposed to an issue with human lives at stake. But for the past 50 years, even before the current refugee crisis hit […]
The first day of school at WW-P does not only apply to the freshmen. Meet the new staff, get interested in new subjects offered at school, and learn a bit […]
Purchasing a ticket for the movie Snowden is like going down the cereal aisle at McCaffrey’s; bland, no fun, and nothing to be excited about. Film director Oliver Stone had […]
After teaching in the district for fourteen years, with ten of those years at North, Dr. Donna Clovis will retire at the end of this year…“I was covering 9/11 in New York and almost lost my life. I wanted to be close to my family and thought teaching would allow me to be home again with my children and other children,” Clovis said.
Remember all of those posts you saw on Facebook about the new year? Captions reading “new year, new me” and “page one of 365.” Remember how you felt after seeing that same post for the hundredth time? Well not only was Facebook the home of cheesy and inspirational messages but also on January 1st, 2016 Rachel Platten released her debut […]
If Adam Lambert and Freddie Mercury had a baby, it would be Panic! At The Disco. The operatic pop-punk band’s newest album Death of a Bachelor is nothing less than theatrical and dramatic. This is the first album for Panic! At the Disco since the original drummer and co-founder of the band, Spencer Smith, announced that he was leaving the […]
“Summertime Sadness” is a poor representation of Lana Del Rey. I never listened to her other songs, so all I knew of her was that song that made the Billboard Hot 100 from 2012. But when I gave her newest album Honeymoon a shot, I discovered the true Lana Del Rey: an artist with a passion for love, a cinematically […]
Balancing academics and athletics is admirable for any student athlete, but it isn’t often that the success continues outside of North’s hallways. Few reach out to participate in many clubs […]
Being known as big and intimidating may not amount to the best reputation, but when you’re a high school baseball player getting Division One offers to play at colleges like […]
“Is today a good day to die?” is the strangely fascinating opening sentence to Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places. Death is a sensitive topic; however, Niven plays around with […]
Gravity wasn’t as fantastic as many people claimed it was, and in the commercials, Interstellar looked like just another space-adventure-gone-wrong. However, considering I cried within the first 15 minutes because […]
When 10:50 rolls around, the library doors open and a herd of students rush in and fill the entire room within minutes; they don’t lounge with friends, however, but rather […]
When asked to summarize himself in ten words, senior Chris Lai said, “Whatever I’m trying to do, I give it my best.” Lai has learned how to manage his time […]
