For senior Sam Wells, varsity tennis player, tennis had become a burden. The sport he once used to love as a child, the sport he sacrificed his weekends throughout grade school to expierience the thrill of tournaments, the sport he used to create one of the largest tennis academies in [...]
The rumors still exist to this day. There are some that claim enrollment rates at Rockhurst were once so low, Rockhurst almost began accepting girls, or there’s the one about Rockhurst almost closing down because it was struggling to retain and enroll students. Although Rockhurst did struggle with enrollment during [...]
Welcome ladies and gentleman to the first ever live, Most Beautiful Teen Contest! That’s right, the wonderful and, of course, beautiful teenagers that constantly grace your Facebook newsfeed have agreed to a live competition to decide the victor once and for all. Without further ado, let’s meet our first contestant, [...]
Some say he is the devil incarnate—dressed in all black on test dates, cranking ACDC’s “Back in Black” to greet students as they prepare to meet their maker. Some say he gives work that is too hard for students—rumors of four-hour nights spent on physics homework aren’t uncommon and don’t [...]
The idea was a simple one: record people. It’s as simple as that, record what other people and I say throughout the day and then listen to what was being said. My thought process went something like this: somewhere someone is taping a bunch of rich basketball trophy wives and [...]
I ’ve got a confession to make: I still play Pokémon games. I don’t know if it’s the game-breaking graphics that keep me coming back to playing Pokémon Blue and Yellow, but in my 17 years of living, I’ve decided that there are few things in life more satisfying than [...]
Strike one, strike two, strike three…turkey? That’s what upperclassmen have been saying recently, as bowling has become a growing form of entertainment, especially for the senior class. This is due in part to the senior Lifetime Sports class, which bowls every day at Ward Parkway Lanes. Some of these students [...]
“This isn’t Burger King. You don’t get it your way. You take it my way, or you don’t get the damn thing!” He starts the school year by throwing his students out into the deep end with one test and two essays over three summer reading books, within the first [...]
No one knows. That’s what I think. No one knows what college admissions officers and counselors are looking for when reading over an application. I’ve heard it all. “It’s all in the ACT score and GPA. When it comes to co-curriculars quality over quantity.” And my personal favorite, “the essays [...]
The door is open. Inside the office, besides two blue chairs off to the side of the room and a cabinet filled with a few binders, nothing stands out. A small window looks out into the Barry Commons. A computer sits on the desk accompanied by some papers. It’s not [...]
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