Editorials
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Reynolds Wrestling vs. The Budget: A Look into Sports Favoritism
Reynolds Wrestling vs. The Budget: A Look into Sports Favoritism By Megan Krumpak Growing up, I never thought too much of money. It was always just there: mom had it, businesses had it, and schools had it. The first time I heard anything about budget cuts and wages was when I was in elementary school, when a large portion of my district’s teachers went on strike. I live in a small, rural development called Reynolds Heights, which houses the Reynolds School District. It was built on top of an old army base named, you guessed it, Camp Reynolds. It housed millions of soldiers and trained them before they went…
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Access Now
Getting around in today’s society can be difficult, especially if you have a disability that hinders your mobility. You really don’t pick up on how inaccessible places can be unless you know someone with a disability or experience it yourself. Fortunately, Maayan Ziv created an app, AccessNow, that allows people around the world to discover the accessibility of different locations and can add details about the accessibility of places themselves. They stated that their main goal “…is to map as many places as we possibly can…we want to find ways to create access where there is currently none,” (AccessNow). I personally think this is a fantastic program, as it can…
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Review: David Mitchell’s Slade House
David Mitchell is a thrilling author who weaves his works like a knotted ball of string; there is an end and a beginning, but the reader is seemingly on their own when it comes to everything in the middle. Because of these works, Mitchell is an award-winning and bestselling author who, according to his website, was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People world-wide. His novels are stand-alone explanations of these awards. Slade House is one of his twisted novels, where Mitchell’s knotted ball is never fully unwound. The novel’s basic structure is simple. There are two twins who inhabit Slade House, a time-warp of…
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I Believe in Yesterday
Life is a funny thing. One day, you’re in school, not paying attention as your economics teacher drags on and on about the importance of taxes, and all you can think about is the minutes counting down to freedom while you doodle horrible scribbles in the top corner of your textbook. Then, suddenly, you’re at the hospital every day of the week, morning until night for three weeks with the worst cup of coffee in your hand and anxiety constantly creeping up on you to say hello. Life is like that sometimes; one day the smallest of things can escalate in a fashion that no one was expecting. It’s a…
