By The Rock Crispy Chicken Sandwich: 9.5/10 I heard my peers celebrate when they checked the lunch calendar to find it was crispy chicken sandwich day. Their eager voices intrigued me. Was the sandwich really that special? I waited in line to get the meal and returned to my table. It looked like an average […]
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By The Rock The Lightning Rod is delighted to introduce a new cafeteria food review column to the publication. Here are the thoughts of our staff’s very own food analyst, The Rock: Chicken Nuggets: 8.5/10 The chicken nuggets imitate McDonalds’ taste with a school cafeteria texture. The outer layer was soggy, but I overlooked it.
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By Tori Igoe As the graduation season approaches, students of Saratoga Springs High School (SSHS) have learned they cannot decorate their graduation caps. Many students believe this rule is unfair. At SSHS we are taught everyone can be themselves, that we should not conform to the majority. Isn’t dressing completely alike going against what the
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By Ciara Meyer It feels like just yesterday that I was sitting in my seventh-grade Home and Careers class. I had just spent a day on an assignment that required documenting every food I ate, entering each item into a software that informed me of my exact caloric intake. I had measured even the smallest
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By Catherine Mongan ATTENTION STUDENTS OF SARATOGA: We have been silent for too long. It has become common practice to cover up and hide behind our shields – and by shields, I mean shoes. Let me ask you a question: When was the last time you let the piggies breathe? Shoe mandates have been enforced
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By Catherine Mongan Bathrooms used to be the place students would go to relax, kick back after a couple of hard classes, spend some time with friends, maybe take a quick nap to recharge for physics. Now, from the students’ perspective, the school bathrooms are reminiscent of Azkaban, with monitors and dementors guarding every door.
Satire: “Devious Licks and the Attack on Bathroom Liberty” Read More »
By Grace Beauregard Naomi Cohen and Emilia Brueggemann are two Saratoga Springs High School students who did a favor for Americans this past fall – they worked at the local polling place during the presidential election. Through an online interview, Cohen and Brueggemann shared the inside scoop on this important job. Q: What
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By: Ben Weatherwax Recent mass shootings have caused a panic and a rise of activism amongst young people across the country, who are uniting to have their voices heard. One thing that seems to be overlooked is training students on what to do if there is an emergency involving an active shooter on school
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Video by: Naomi Bartholama httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUJoAIKXsFc
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February 12, 2016 by Skyler Stanford “Why do you starve yourself?” is an often heard question by any girl 125 pounds or under. This is skinny shamming; whether through a joke or pure insult, commenting on someone’s weight (no matter what that weight is) can make the person feel self-conscious and insecure. “I’ve been called
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Monday, February 1, 2016 by Ben Palmateer If you walked through any high school hallway as the students enter the building in the morning, it would become immediately obvious that high schoolers are not getting enough sleep. In the hierarchy of students, no one is at the top when it comes to the everyday snooze.
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Thursday, December 31, 2015 by Aidan Joly During a late Queensbury rally, Saratoga was able to turn around and hold them off for a win. Saratoga varsity boys’ basketball defeated Queensbury on Wednesday night at Saratoga Springs High School by a score of 62-50. Saratoga had two players step up and provide the majority of
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September 30, 2015 by Hunter Johns The white guy who likes hip hop. It’s been a comedy bit since the 90s, and it continues to this day. There’s “white rap,” and there’s “black rap,” and the two are not necessarily enjoyed their stated audiences. Through reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter, fans of all color have unprecedented
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September 15, 2015 by Skyler Stanford According to media, the black community is in a state of outrage over white celebrities adapting traditional black hairstyles. If you haven’t read about this already, on July 11, Kylie Jenner posted a selfie of herself with cornrows and soon after a black actress from The Hunger Games, Amandla
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Sunday, June 14, 2015 by Skyler Stanford Free the what? Yes, the Free the Nipple campaign is a 20th century so-called feminist movement that supports women’s right to show their breasts in public and is against censorship that prohibits the posting of topless selfies on social media. 100 Saratoga students were surveyed on questions concerning
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