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The modern world’s love of science fiction

Alice Bell, Features Editor March 28, 2016

Eighty years ago, color television had it debut. Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong took a small step into a bright and strange new world. Forty years ago, Luke and Leia met for the first time. Twenty years...

Senior Evan Schadelbauer prepares for a rebound.

Boys basketball ends the season on a high note

Will Siegal, Sports and Managing Editor March 7, 2016

The boys basketball team had already accomplished more than they had in previous seasons going into their regional first round game at Chantilly. While the loss was a disappointing end to the season, a...

Singer and songwriter Kesha sits in the back of courtroom as Justice Shirley Kornreich rules against her.

The justice system has let us down #FreeKesha

Callie Randall, Lifestyles Editor February 29, 2016

The #FreeKesha online movement has spread across social media, the news and by word of mouth due to the February 19 New York Supreme Court ruling that prevented American singer and songwriter Kesha from...

A decline in vocational education

A decline in vocational education

Matthew Herrity, Staff writer February 18, 2016

The United States losing manufacturing jobs has been a common theme of twenty-first century American Politics with an estimated 3.2 million jobs lost to outsourcing. When Tim Cook, CEO of Apple who has...

Arlington Public Schools student growth

Arlington Public Schools student growth

Jasmine Ben Hamed and Marisa Sydnor, Staff Reporter February 17, 2016

With a substantial rise in enrollment numbers of students in Arlington Public Schools (APS), the number of K-12 students is set to surpass 30,000 by 2020. As of September 2015 there were 25,238 students...

Photo of the Zika virus

Zika: New scourge?

Alice Bell, Features Editor February 15, 2016

In 1947, in the Zika Forest of Uganda, a feverish rhesus monkey was discovered. Over the next 60 years, only 17 humans ever contracted the disease the monkey had been ill with, a virus termed Zika after...

Gambling with the fate of the country

Gambling with the fate of the country

Matthew Herrity, staff writer February 2, 2016

With the 2016 election season in full-swing and many oddball candidates rising to prominence many Americans wonder, what are the odds one of these candidates actually wins? According to University of Pennsylvania...

Bowie performs in Chile during the Sound+Vision Tour, making his return to solo music after performing with Tin Machine.

A starman in the sky once more

Alice Bell, Features Editor February 2, 2016

For more than 40 years, the voice of David Bowie has been a cultural constant around the world, as a husband, a father, a beacon, a card-carrying mime, an electrician, Ziggy Stardust and a thousand and...

Oscar Isaac plays pilot Poe Dameron in the Star Wars franchise. He was recently discovered in a 2009 photo wearing an Atlas Shrugged t-shirt.

Oscar Isaac’s cold welcome into Tumblrland

Will LeHardy, Staff Reporter February 1, 2016

Oscar Isaac’s career has taken a Cinderella twist. Previously a lesser known actor appearing in minorly successful films, such as the title role in the Coen brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis, his...

President Obama delivers his State of the Union speech.

Mostly favorable reviews on President’s last State of the Union

Hannah Rosman, Staff Reporter February 1, 2016

President Barack Obama delivered his eighth and last State of the Union address at the chamber of the United States House of Representatives on January 12. The address was broadcast live on the White House...

The JV team at a game. Evelyn Smith is the player with the pink shirt beneath her jersey.

Evelyn Smith: Taking her gridiron

Will LeHardy, Staff Reporter January 28, 2016

The football field is brightly lit for the night’s JV game. The Generals, boys dressed in heavy padding and helmets, are clumped on the sideline, ready to take the field. Yet as the players jog into...

Athlights can stick to any piece of clothing anywhere from head to toe.

Invention success straight out of Arlington

Jasmine Ben Hamed January 27, 2016

Many of the popular innovations of the past year have come from Arlington entrepreneurs. DrinkMate, Notify AnyWhere, Snagajob, ValueCrates and Athlights are some of the major inventions that have gained...

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