Are You Ready to Live a Vegetarian Lifestyle?
Caitlin Bohaboy, Social Media Manager
April 26, 2012
Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Steve Jobs were all brilliant minds as well as vegetarians, but does this mean that you must refrain from eating meat in order to be brilliant? Of course not; people create misinterpretations of the effects of a vegetarian lifestyle all the time. First and foremost,... Read more »
Tricks of the Trade: Senioritis
Cara "CJ" Jack, Editor-in-Chief
April 23, 2012
There is a contagious disease spreading through the halls of WHS. It can attach itself to you at anytime, anyplace. It is whispered about during freshman year, but fully acknowledge during senior year. What is it you ask? It is the unavoidable…senioritis. Senioritis is the lazy disease many high... Read more »
Hanging in the Balance: The Struggle in the High School Years
Maria Fernanda McCavitt, Staff Writer, World News and Spanish Editor
March 12, 2012
Many students find themselves trapped in the same position- forced to balance school, sports, social life, and sleep. They sit on a delicate scale, and neglecting any one thing could definitely have its negative effects. Not to mention an ongoing struggle with procrastination: the ever-present foe to... Read more »
America’s Secret War
Liza Bock, News Editor
March 9, 2012
Every night, after watching the novelas, we stayed tuned for the ten o’clock news, and every night, without fail, the top story was la droga. Almost every night of the eight weeks I spent in Mexico I saw the news that more women and children had died in the drug war. My host dad dipped pan dulce in... Read more »
For a Better Build, Play in Water
Cara "CJ" Jack, Editor-in-Chief
March 8, 2012
A new trend for high schools is to have a meme web page Simply put, a meme web page contains quirky content – usually pictures – that sweetly or sarcastically make statements about (school) life. An item that was recently put on the WHS meme page was a sarcastic comment about the WHS Swim... Read more »
Do Your Song Choices Mean Anything About You?
Abby Taussig, Arts and Entertainment Editor
March 8, 2012
Listening to music means a lot to students at Woodside, but does their choice in songs mean anything about them? No, of course not. It just means that they like listening to those particular songs. Looking through someone’s albums on their iPod does not tell you everything about them. The person... Read more »
How I Almost Went To Juvie
Liza Bock, News Editor
January 18, 2012
We had a ten minute warning. The paddy wagon was on its way. What was our heinous crime worthy of being surrounded by the Federal Police and Mounted Patrol? Peaceful protest. Actually, it was barely even peaceful protest, more like peaceful picnicking with banners.It was part of CODEPINK’s fifth annual... Read more »
How Cruises Bore A Hole in Your Wallet
Liza Bock, News Editor
January 18, 2012
It would be more entertaining to be a pirate in the Caribbean, than on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Even though a cruise ship’s main focus seems to be entertainment (and food), I find myself looking toward islands longingly and wishing I had a sword or some ropes to pull on. Although cruise ships... Read more »
The Journeys You’ll Make and the Odious Airports
Tirragen Vixie, Columns Editor
January 14, 2012
You probably don’t enjoy using airports. Whether you yourself fly or you’ve picked up or dropped off other people, you will likely agree: they’re crowded and confusing, they’re full of paranoid staff and incredibly stupid customers, the airplanes themselves are uncomfortable and expensive, and... Read more »
Too Many Old People
Liza Bock, News Editor
January 13, 2012
During my first seminar on The Nation Cruise, I sat in the back of the audience, and as I looked out on the other listeners, I noticed that most of them had white hair.There I was, listening to talented journalists, heroic activists, and great leaders discuss the state of the country and I’m surrounded... Read more »
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