Monaco Tiffany - Managing Editor
Daylight savings effects: Tips and activities for student motivation
It is common for students to feel dreary and unenthusiastic as the winter season approaches, and the sun sets early as if their day has already ended merely an hour after school. Although this feeling can be difficult to overcome, there are ways to make seasonal depression endurable. Seasonal depression, also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, is a mood disorder characterized by depression-like symptoms in response to specific seasonal changes. Many students suffer from seasonal depression, so it is not something that only one student experiences at a time. These symptoms typically occur during the winter in response to shorter daylight hours and the weather. “The early nights in winter are tough for me,” said Samoria Claybron, OH senior. “I often feel more tired, and I’ll look at the clock to see that it is only 5:30 P.M., yet it’s already pitch black outside.”
Panther Marching Band celebrates ‘best show ever’ from performance season
This year, the Panther Marching band performed "Pale Blue Dot," a show whose themes conveyed through the performance “the best show [[they]]’ve had” in the past four years, according to OH senior and Marching Band trumpet section leader Stephen Balhan.
Opinion: Students need more creative writing
Across the United States, schools celebrate National Arts in Education Week during the second week in September. Today, the school takes a day to celebrate creative writing. Creative writing is a type of writing important to both the art and ELA (English language arts) programs, so naturally it should appear prominently throughout the ELA curriculum. However, it appears only rarely...