Power in Numbers
May 3, 2013 • Aarika Novelli
People are always trying to tell you that there’s power in numbers. They try to say that “teamwork is dream work” and “there’s no ‘I’ in team” and all other heinous lies to get you emotionally prepared for what’s to come. I learned the hard truth about what really happens in groups... Read more »
Empathy Elizabeth
March 28, 2013 • Liz Abrams
How I spent time as a pregnant teenager According to Dosomething.org, around 750,000 teenagers end up pregnant every year. That is three out of every 10 teens. If you take 10 girls: the valedictorian, the dancer, the cheerleader, the nerd, the hick, the harlot, the preppy, the popular, the athletic and... Read more »
Social hierarchy of high school is hard to understand
February 19, 2013 • Liz Abrams
The Populars, the Christians, the Jocks, the Cheerleaders, the Burn outs, the Nerds and the coolest people you will ever meet. High School is separated into different groups and kinds just to make the world go round. Could you imagine a jock talking to a nerd? Scandalous! This is how “the best four... Read more »
Living through the Internet
February 19, 2013 • Aarika Novelli
When should a child join the cyber world? Nowadays, it’s as if children are being born with cellphones in their hands. Children used to have to rely on their own imagination to have fun, but now they can get on their Nooks or Kindles and search through apps that can do it for them, some of which even... Read more »
From one Raider to another
February 18, 2013 • Nikki Culver, Contributor
With graduation coming up, there are a lot of things that seniors should be thinking about. College is one of them. By this time, most people know where they’re going to be attending school in the fall, but what do you do when you get there? Here are a few tips I’ve picked up during my first year... Read more »
Insight into different classes
January 29, 2013 • Aarika Novelli, Josh Radkowski, Sara Grosvenor
Counselors will visit social studies classes to plan next year’s class schedules. Are you on the fence about taking a dual credit class? Are you thinking of moving up into the world of advanced placement classes? To help you determine which class to take, our staffers gave a bit of insight on taking... Read more »
Flight or Fight
January 14, 2013 • Liz Abrams, Staff Writer
In the true situation of a man charging a school with a gun, someone taking over a plane or suicide bomber: what would you truly do? Would you protect those around you by trying to stop whatever is happening, or would you run the other direction? With the recent threats of a school shooting and the previous... Read more »
A day in the life…of a Wylie High School Pirate
January 10, 2013 • Liz Abrams, Staff Writer
High school football, as we all know, is a rather central idea in Texas. Take a normal football game, add a small town rivalry and ladies and gentleman that is a battle. Then expand the battle into every single aspect of daily life. Welcome to the war between the Wylie East High School Raiders and the... Read more »
No shirt, no shoes, no service
September 25, 2012 • Nicholas Wood
Strange and obscure dress code rules revealed No ridiculous hair fads! No visible boxers! No need for socks! Some dress code rules seem to be a little out there. Those rules are rather funny to see—as if it’s necessary to list them. The dress code says that sandals or open-toed shoes must have a... Read more »
Saying goodbye is hard to do
May 30, 2012 • Shelby Perkinson, Contributor
People try and never think about their friends graduating. You put the thought out of your head, but when the time gets closer, you are overwhelmed with feelings. You never realize how close those people are to you until they’re gone. For me, it happened two weeks early. I never thought this day would... Read more »