INFOGRAPHIC: students speak about M&M’s in cookies
Macey Poitras-Cote, A&E Editor
January 16, 2020
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Don’t text and walk
Jula Utzschneider, Staff Writer
January 15, 2020
Picture this: you are walking down a street and you receive a text message, so you open your phone to respond. Even after texting back, you continue to look at your phone while you cross the busy street. Suddenly, a car honks, snapping you back to reality, and you realize how little you were paying atte...
Teachers should utilize BYOD more
Andrew Roberts, Staff Writer
January 8, 2020
Every day, hundreds of students bring their own computers to school as part of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program that was introduced about a year ago. Yet most teachers have struggled to adapt to the program, teaching similarly to how they did before the program began. On a daily basi...
Standardized tests need to be reevaluated
Kayla Albers, Staff Writer
January 2, 2020
Each year, as the college deadlines approach, applicants are forced to fill in many students’ most dreaded number: scores received on standardized tests. Whether it’s the SAT, ACT or even state standardized tests such as Massachusetts’ MCAS, students across the U.S. take the same version of an ...
EDITORIAL: Sleep deprivation is nothing to brag about
December 20, 2019
In a typical day at Algonquin, it’s not uncommon to hear at least one person talk about the amount of sleep, or lack of, they got the night before. Whether it’s two, three, four hours or none at all, many students will gloat about how they are somehow superhuman because they are surviving on minimal s...
Take responsibility for your future
Liza Armstrong, Online Editor
December 14, 2019
Throughout my four years at Algonquin, I have heard constant grumblings from students saying that guidance has never helped them in the college process. That guidance has left them to their own devices to navigate the process of finding and applying to schools that match their criteria. However, I h...
Disney should add LGBTQ+ representation to help highlight community
Sahana Sivarajan, Staff Writer
December 13, 2019
In a whole new world, Disney has been hooking kids for 96 years with Mickey Mouse, princes and princesses. But have you ever wondered if the princes and princesses were to be LGBTQ+? When asked about the possibility of an LGBTQ+ Disney princess in a Huffington Post Interview, one of the movie direc...
Movie character stereotypes simplify the reality of society
Aaliyah Yan, Opinion Editor
December 10, 2019
It’s Friday night and I’m bored (as usual), so I turn on some Netflix. As I begin scrolling, I notice that most movies and TV shows seem the same. They all have the same over stereotyped characters in them. I for one am sick of constantly seeing a dumb blonde or a smart Asain in TV shows and mo...
Stop fake wokeness, pave way for those that care
Sharada Vishwanath, Graphics Coordinator
December 9, 2019
So you want to change the world. How about starting with some kindness at the day-to day-level? There's nothing more obnoxious than seeing people's pretentious social media posts concerning some form of activism, and then witness them being utterly crappy people in real life, and not following through...
Think about the environment before you shop
Pranitha Polavarapu, Senior Staff Writer
November 29, 2019
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are a celebration of consumerism as retailers, stores and malls love to call it. In 2018 alone, a hundred million Americans went shopping during that weekend (Expanded Ramblings), ambitious for the amazing deals and holiday feel. On a consumer level, that’s a big impact on economy and comm...
Using a CGI version of dead actors stops creativity in films
Annabella Ferraiuolo, Assistant Photo Editor
November 27, 2019
I’ve always loved movies. Throughout the years I've dreamed of moving to Hollywood and getting to direct stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Blake Lively and Timothée Chalamet. However, like banking is going paperless, Hollywood is going actor-less. Set to release in 2020, the Vietnam war movie, "...
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