The official newspaper of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
By: Ananya Dondapati and Nona Saharan Tributes to Kobe and Gigi Bryant decorate the whiteboard in UDH. The drawings were originally started by Senior Marcus Sabian Santiago but other students […]
By Kieran Sattiraju & Ismail Sy The WWP North wrestling team finished the Mercer County Championships with two third place individual fighters, Tim Glynn (pictured on the right) and Tom […]
By: Edward Simon Cruz Flags from the United Kingdom and European Union wave in the wind outside of the UK Parliament Building. Photo Credit: Politico.eu On January 29, the European Parliament […]
By: Ismail Sy Photo credit: NBA News I was five years old, and I had just returned home from my first day of kindergarten. I finally got to see my […]
By: Emma Gampper, Shivam Kapoor, Ranjini Krishnan, and Ananya Sathish Teachers Anita Stewart and Lorraine Sieben sit with some of the many pouches they have made for orphaned wildlife in Australia. […]
By: Rafeea Tamboli and Megan Leung During the grade-wide assemblies hosted in early September, the administration met with each grade to go over the myriad of changing policies at […]
By: Michael Miller and Neha Badade The last time High School North thespians performed Shakespeare was back in 2004, with Much Ado About Nothing. That is why the cast […]
By: Shubham Saharan and Miriam Lubin Last year alone, opioid overdoses claimed the lives of nearly 2,000 New Jersey residents—a number exceeding the population size of many small New […]
By: Srinidhi Ananth and Neha Tailigeri On November 17, 18, and 19, North’s theatrical department will put on the year’s fall drama, “The Adding Machine,” by Elmer Rice. Robert Corriveau, the co-advisor of the drama, describes “The Adding Machine” as a cautionary tale about machines replacing human labor in the workforce. The protagonist Mr. Zero, played by Jon Watkins, is an […]
By: Srinidhi Ananth, Michael Miller, and Isha Patlola Last October, WW-P superintendent David Aderhold issued a letter to parents to address the high stress levels in the district. This letter […]
By: Lei Lei Wu and Shaun Robinson In its September 2016 issue, New Jersey Monthly Magazine released its biennial state high school rankings. North came in at number 2 on the Top 100 list, out of a total 337 public high schools in New Jersey. However, this year the magazine changed its ranking criteria. They considered, for the first […]
Bharati Ganesh On September 18, hundreds of supporters congregated in Princeton for the grand opening of the Hillary for New Jersey State Headquarters. People talked excitedly among themselves and […]
From scanners in the Lower Dining Hall to a new running track, change has been everywhere this school year. The cafeteria wasn’t unaffected—over the summer, the district and Sodexo, WW-P’s food managing company, worked toward improving lunch options. In previous years, students had new options of Boar’s Head sandwiches and soup; the school now provides biodegradable instead of Styrofoam lunch […]
by Diana Tang and Lei Lei Wu This year, the school district has removed finals and midterms from the high school curriculum. Students will no longer have to take the […]
At the end of the previous school year, Financial Literacy was redesigned to be a 2.5 credit course, the state requirement, and the Board of Education decided students would be allowed to take this course during their study hall. These students alternate between going to class and staying in study hall for each four day cycle. In other words, a […]
by Zehra Madhavan and Hannah Mitlak During the weekend of October 16, North students came together for Homecoming weekend, which involved a football game on Friday night and the Homecoming […]
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