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Author Archives: Dawn Androphy
Sep
13
2010
LouFest outdoor music festival a success
The performers were talented, just about every band performed on time, and the weather was bearable considering that it was an August weekend in St. Louis. In a word: the first annual LouFest was a success. More prominent national acts such as Jeff Tweedy, Broken Social Scene, She & Him, and Built to Spill performed [...]
Aug
20
2010
LouFest anticipated by eager music fans
As someone who has bemoaned the lack of a music festival with nationally recognized acts in St. Louis for years, I was obviously excited when a local music festival by the name of LouFest was announced. Many times, if a band or performer I enjoy is going on tour, they either aren’t coming to St. [...]
In a 4-3 decision this past summer, the Missouri Supreme Court has made a controversial statement regarding how the public schools in the state of Missouri are to function. It all began when the Turners, a St. Louis family that had been sending its kids to the Clayton Schools as tuition-paying students, decided to sue [...]
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been a divisive subject of discussion from day one. However, the $10 billion dollar investment in this research tool appears to be paying off with exciting new scientific discoveries. According to the CERN website, on Mar 30, two high-energy proton beams collided in the 17-mile-long underground tunnel after two [...]
Apr
14
2010
Prop W passes despite debate
The divisive election of Tues, Apr. 6 has passed, but the controversy surrounding it certainly hasn’t subsided. Brad Bernstein and Susan Buse were elected as members of the Clayton School District School Board, with 36.54% and 36.06%, and Bernstein returning after a three-year break from service and with Buse maintaining her position. Bernstein is excited [...]
Mar
17
2010
Whittling away at the First Amendment
“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional right to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” The Supreme Court made this declarative statement over 40 years ago during the infamous Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District case that asserted students’ First Amendment rights. However, recent [...]
Feb
24
2010
Health care providers bring much-needed assistance to injury-stricken earthquake victims
Placing a crying child under anesthesia with crowds of sobbing, injured people sprawled around a makeshift hospital is not the ideal circumstance a doctor hopes for during surgery. But, desperate times call for desperate measures, and the mass of injured people suffering from the effects of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti certainly qualified as [...]
This past week, from Jan. 27-30, the 2010 Missouri All State Orchestra commenced. Many CHS students were in attendance after an arduous preparation process. CHS students Elle Jacobs, Matthew Millett, Richard Millett, Henry Myers, and Daniel Peipert all participated in the Missouri All State Orchestra. After an hours-long trek to Tan Tar A Resort in [...]
Jan
27
2010
Let’s go hounds! A look into post-war CHS
It’s easy to ignore the past, especially when interesting revelations are easily obscured in a barrage of uninteresting facts. CHS has changed a great deal in the last 50 years, and alumnae Harriet Spilker (’54), Barbara Kohm (’56), and Robert Diamond (’47) witnessed many of these changes firsthand as they attended Clayton High School and [...]
The sound of chickens clucking may not be one normally associated with a suburb like Clayton. Some Clayton residents have transformed their backyards into a home for chickens akin to what might be expected of a yard hours outside of St. Louis. Sophomore Daniel Peipert and his family have been raising chickens in their yard [...]
