By Katherine Ren Every year, CHS Art IV and AP Art II students get a chance to experience the process of creating smart plate litho prints. The process starts with an ink drawing  or a photograph....

You heave your duffel bag over your shoulder, making your first steps upon the green before you.  Freedom has never tasted so good.  It seems that the long, hard work in high school has finally paid...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.” In every era of American history, the same vociferous debate...

In a world of over seven billion people, our generation is provided with an excess of opportunities to disappear.  Personalities can wear away beneath the rush of students through a crowded hallway,...

“Grand Theft Auto,” also known as GTA - is one of the most well known, best reviewed, and most controversial video games ever. The term “grand theft auto” is a term used to describe...

As I get home from school I check ask.fm, along with Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, and Snapchat right away. Usually, there are a barrage of replies to my questions and an equal amount of questions in...

On August 31, former New England Patriots player Brian Holloway discovered that nearly 300 local teenagers had broken into his vacant Stephentown, NY farmhouse and used it to throw a massive party. When...

Looking back to the earlier stages of our lives, we would see the fresh faces of child stars like Amanda Bynes, Lindsey Lohan, and of course, Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana). If we were to predict...

As I was waiting to talk to a teacher, I refreshed my news feed. Syria had chemically gassed its own people in the suburbs of Damascus. Yet America’s intense emotional response seems to be...

According to Forbes, she had 300,000 tweets per minute about her.  She also added 100,000 followers on Instagram, and 50,000 friends on Facebook--this was Miley Cyrus shortly after the VMAs.  After...

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” These words, once spoken by Albert Einstein, would likely be doubted by most present-day American...

There is nothing that comes to mind when I attempt to describe my experience as a 6th Grade Camp counselor – no words, at least. Instead, a hurricane of images hit me and induce dizzying screams,...