The staff of Matrix was very pleased to learn on Friday that the American Scholastic Press Association awarded them first place in the 2011-’12 Newspaper Review and Contest. This was Matrix’s first time competing in this contest.
Matrix once frequently entered such competitions, but stopped competing for several years.
Physics students at Athens High School are facing a change of pace with the cancellation of the annual field trip to King’s Island. The trip has been an AHS tradition since 1983. While many students grieve the change, alternative activities are being planned and physics fun will still live on. According to Athens High Physics teacher Tom Stork, this year the trip was canceled because of scheduling difficulties.
The school administration calls a meeting for seniors to discuss the many tragedies that occured this year involving AHS staff and students. Seniors were encouraged to actively look out for each other and for underclassmen. All students are welcome to speak with an AHS adminstrator or teacher should they need to do so.
AHS will face several changes in the upcoming years. Students will be required to take 3.5 credits of history instead of three to graduate; the new required elective is “Econ/Personal Finance” on the college preparatory level. Other new classes include “Plant and Horticulture Science” and “Technology of Food,” while the popular class “Silversmithing” will be cut.
Emergency drills for situations involving dangerous persons or bomb threats, are rarely practiced at Athens High School. Regardless, it is important that students and teachers familiarize themselves with the three emergency codes, each which stand for a level of emergency.
With the recent news of Chauncey Elementary School’s closing still echoing in community members’ ears, it is little wonder the new—and greatly reduced—budget is big news. Although threats of school funding cuts have been news for a few years now, it is only recently that students have begun to see the effects of these cuts.
The KONY2012 campaign goes viral – really viral – and the effort has received both heavy support and heavy criticism. Some argue that, once you cut through the emotion and sensationalism of the video, its goal is for military intervention in Central Africa or imperialism. Some point out that the Ugandan government, with whom our armies would pair up with to find Kony, is guilty of horrible human rights violations itself.
I’m writing this piece on Monday, March 12, 2012. I woke up today exhausted; an inconvenient daylight savings took place yesterday, and at 6:30 a.m. it was cold and dark and rainy. I went to school, took a French test, then freaked out with my classmates about how hard that test was and how much I needed a good grade.
Matrix Co-Editor in Chief Volume XXXVIII: Issue 5: Page 2 About three weeks ago, a video produced by Jason Russell, a co-founder of Invisible Children, went viral in one night on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. The Video, titled Kony 2012,…
What is happiness? Due to my philosophical profundity, I have found an appropriate and startlingly accurate definition of happiness to be the fuzzy feeling inside achieved through two pints of Ben & Jerry’s, the complete last season of Gilmore Girls and no homework.