Screen on the Green
Alice Maggio, '13, Staff Reporter
April 30, 2013
The Rosslyn Outdoor Film Festival is back again! As some Arlington residents know, every summer this weekly film event is held on the big screen in Gateway Park in Rosslyn every Friday night. From May 17 to August 30, picnics and blankets will be laid out for an evening of entertainment before the showing... Read more »
Kevin Ware
Will Siegal, '16, Staff Reporter
April 30, 2013
On March 30, 2013, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana went silent. Louisville Cardinals players fell to their knees, while Duke Blue Devil players turned away in anguish. And lying on the sideline was Louisville Cardinal Kevin Ware, on nationwide television, visibly in pain, leaving millions... Read more »
North Korean
Saira Rehman, Staff Reporter, '15
April 30, 2013
North Korea has been a great contributor to the nuclear crisis going on right now. Multiple times they have threatened a missile launch towards South Korea, Japan and the United States, more specifically an unincorporated territory, Guam. Communications suggest a North Korea missile launch is a possibility,... Read more »
New Orleans
Alice Maggio, '13, Staff Reporter
March 14, 2013
The Superdome Stadium glowed, just like the rest of New Orleans, on the night of February 3 of this year’s 47th annual Super Bowl football game. This glow parallels the hope that many have for New Orleans’s economy in the coming months due to the events and media it has been receiving. Events such... Read more »
US Embassy Bombing
Saira Rehman, Staff Reporter, '15
March 14, 2013
The suicide bomber of the deadly attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara entered Turkey from Germany, where he had been tolerated for many years, according to the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel. On Feb. 1, Ecevit Şanlı, a member of the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front,... Read more »
The Dangers of Extreme Sports
TR Sheehy, '16 and Will Siegal, '16, Staff Reporters
March 14, 2013
“Go big or go home.” That is now the new motto of extreme sports across the board. From snowmobiles doing flips to triple corks in snowboarding, everyone is pushing the limits of extreme and always trying to do what hasn’t been done, but at a cost. The definition of extreme sports,... Read more »
A Boy and A Bunker
Sophie Hatcher, Staff Reporter, '15
March 14, 2013
After six days being held in an underground bunker, six year old Ethan Gilman from Midland City, Alabama, is finally safe. The boy was kidnapped from his school bus after kidnapper Jimmy Lee Dykes shot and killed the bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr. Poland Jr. had blocked the aisle in the bus, allowing... Read more »
King Richard III
Zack Danik,'16, Staff Reporter
March 14, 2013
William Shakespeare portrayed King Richard III as an evil, deformed, and manipulative tyrant who stole the crown from his 12-year old nephew. After his death in 1485, his body was soon lost to the ages, until 2013, when his body was discovered under a British parking lot. In the early 1480s, Richard... Read more »
Harvard Cheating Scandal
Amy Sheahan, '13, Copy Editor
March 14, 2013
On February 1, 2013, Harvard’s integrity board finally finished processing its decisions on the 125 students accused of cheating on their final exam last spring. The class, largely reported to be the school’s Introduction to Congress course, had 279 students. Of the 125 students originally... Read more »
Katarina Holtzapple, '15, Staff Reporter
March 14, 2013
Growing up, it is not unusual for a child to own a plastic gun to use to play. They can be cowboys and cowgirl, or the police. A children without a toy could easily pretend to have one by pointing their fingers and saying “pow”. However, recently, these actions are starting to be condemned. Following... Read more »