
From Bed to Desk: A Day in the Life of a Virtual Student
By Imogen Lubin Editor-in-Chief I didn’t expect to like virtual school as much as I do. In fact, I struggled with choosing my 2020 learning model. I feared online school […]
The official newspaper of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
By Imogen Lubin Editor-in-Chief I didn’t expect to like virtual school as much as I do. In fact, I struggled with choosing my 2020 learning model. I feared online school […]
By Natalie Leung Staff Writer No More Mid-Day Pancakes At exactly 6:30 a.m., I hear the excruciating sound of my alarm clock, signaling the ever so dreaded time of the day; when I have to get ready for school. Something about it is still quite unsettling, as it’s been almost half a year since I’ve done so. Nevertheless, the morning […]
By: Nona Saharan Sometimes school felt like a chore. Waking up at 6am, wandering around the hallways from class to class, staying after for the sports and the clubs or […]
By: Emma Gampper Believe it or not, I actually haven’t read a book that wasn’t required by the school for about a year and a half. It’s rather ironic, considering I’ve branded myself as the bookish, well-read girl. My lack of reading becomes even more ironic if you take into account the fact that I work at a book store. […]
By: Sarah Hudes Summer of 2017 brought memories, laughter, and good times, but it also brought lots of tears. Yes, tears; as in the product of crying, weeping, sobbing, bawling, laughing, yawning too hard, etc. These are the reasons why I’ve cried this summer. Please feel free to laugh at, cry with, and/or feel sorry for me. Hopefully some of […]
By: Megan Leung Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Shamere Collins. Erica Noonan. Sean Bell. Alton Sterling. Over the course of the last ten months, 949 Americans have been […]
By: Elizabeth Jamison Ever since Donald Trump became president, he has made decisions, such as the ending of DACA, that have marginalized many minorities. The “Deferred Action for Childhood […]
By: Sarah Hudes Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy tells the story of Dante’s journey through hell, where he must pass through its nine different circles. 1st Circle of Hell: Summer It is 4:32 PM on August 26th, and it is your first time logging onto Genesis since late June. An intense rush of vehement hatred comes over you as you remember […]
By: Sarah Hudes What if I told you that the shirt you are wearing right now was stitched together by the hands of suffering child laborers in Bangladesh? Or that your favorite clothing store produces their clothes in dangerous garment factories in Cambodia? Would you rethink where you bought your clothes? While our morality answers yes, people still continue buying […]
By: Bharati Ganesh The first Presidential debate of the 2016 election season was held on September 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Media coverage of the […]
The security of athletes and spectators should be the number one priority, and keeping the Olympics in Rio, where the political climate is unstable and the Zika virus is running rampant, is no way to protect anyone’s wellbeing.
It’s nothing groundbreaking to say that there is value in failure. It builds character, thickens our skin, tells us when to strive higher. But in our valiant efforts to promote positive self-image we have instilled the belief in children that they can’t fail.
An overview of the policies of the remaining presidential candidates.
As of right now (Eastern Standard Time), I do not give the school permission to give me a B. Oh, and since I declared it in writing, it’s totally true. Unfortunately, this is not how the world works. And even more unfortunately for Facebook users, you were all part of a stupid rumor. Recently, numerous teenage Facebook users posted a […]
Unlike most students, I never minded taking big exams—it was a necessary evil. And I never questioned why we took them because I had been doing it my whole life. […]
The Amateurs CNN Audience – Within the opening few minutes of the debate the CNN audience proved that for them, this debate was meaningless. Lincoln Chafee offered up the first two minute personal description, and I’m sure somewhere his campaign manager was ecstatic. Chaffee delivered the near perfect formula for a 2016 Democrat: he smoothly delivered his political background, including […]