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Staff Editorial

School-sponsored field trips come every year like clockwork.  Upperclassmen relay stories to underclassmen of the pranks and incidents that occurred on their trips, creating a sense of entitlement among the younger students.  They see these trips as their right, their opportunity to do what they like and indulge in the same misbehavior as their older peers, but these trips are […]

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In Loco Parentis? More like Big Brother

Readers be advised: If you’re planning on liking or sharing this article online, as unlikely as I know that is, please protect your social media accounts first—apparently, our administrators can see just about everything, and might even punish you for it. You have been warned. It started years ago when authority figures of all kinds found out the Internet wasn’t […]

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Knights Admirers or Knights Creepers?

If you were a student at North last year, you probably witnessed the tremendous number of Knights Admirers posts, some of them cute, some of them funny and some of them just plain creepy. If you use only Twitter, you’ve probably seen the anonymous accounts trashing people and spreading gossip. There have been multiple accounts like this—some of which have […]

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The social stress of college groups

As the end of senior year draws nearer, students are ready to move on to the next exciting endeavor: college. Many look forward to the first step toward adulthood, a taste of real independence, and for many, this anxious anticipation is released in different ways. So like everything in our tech-savvy, Internet-crazed generation, these feelings leak onto social media, and […]