Recalling the Past – Juniors Give Advice about OHP to Sophomores
April 14, 2010 • Matt Adams, Staff Writer
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“It’s Over.” The class of 2011 cheered and clapped, knowing that all the hard work that they had put into their final Oral History Projects had finally come to a close. The months that they had put into researching, writing papers, interviewing people that participated in historical... Read more »
Jordan/Israel Trip 2010 Experiencing a different type of life
April 9, 2010 • David Utt
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For the 2010 Spring Break trip, a group of four intrepid parents and twelve adventurous St. Andrews students led by Ms. Yerbury, Mr. Porter, and Mr. Davila traveled half way around the world to Jordan and Jerusalem. This is a brief recap of the highlights of that trip: After a thirteen-hour flight from... Read more »
The Apple Ipad
April 9, 2010 • Marco Bonvillian
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Saturday, April 3rd was an exciting moment in the tech world. The iPad was released, and with it began a grand experiment about how we will interact with technology in coming years. Before its release, the iPad reviews varied. To a large extent, the negative reviews came from tech magazines and blogs... Read more »
From Advocates to Activists
April 6, 2010 • Matthew Graves, Staff Writer
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What is feminism? Are you a feminist? Do you advocate feminism? Mrs. Gail Krotky posed these questions in September to her new Gender Studies class. The students in this course have been working on projects to “help [them] develop a critical framework for thinking about contemporary questions related... Read more »
After the After Shock: A Personal Acount
March 29, 2010 • Andres Grimm, Staff Writer
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My mother picked up the phone, and heard her sister describing the damage. “At around 3:30 in the morning, we were awakened. The ground started to shake and roar. The paintings on the walls started to fall. Amanda started to cry. We ran outside, and started our house, hoping it would not collapse.... Read more »
Consumers Taxed for Plastic Bags
March 13, 2010 • Joe Chaney, Online Edition Co-Editor
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In January of 2010, Washington D.C. enacted a new law that will charge a 5-cent tax on the use of both plastic and paper bags. The goal of the new tax is to encourage the use of reusable bags in the District. The law made the District of Columbia the first city in the U.S. to institute a bag fee. ... Read more »
Female College Applicants Face More Competition
March 2, 2010 • Joe Chaney, Online Co-Editor
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For many female college applicants, it just doesn’t seem fair that competition in college admissions among girls is greater than competition among boys. At the college of William & Mary in VA, data regarding applications and admissions yielded shocking results. In 2008-2009, 1,859 male applicants... Read more »
A New Way To Donate
February 4, 2010 • Matt Adams, Staff Writer
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Technology Leading the Way to a Better Tomorrow It’s the twenty first century and pretty much everyone knows what texting is. You think its just another 21st century tool to instantly keep in touch with friends. Some people think it is annoying, it causes people to get into car accidents, and parents... Read more »
A Trip to Remember
January 27, 2010 • Brendan Toussaint, Special to the Mane News
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On December 3, 2009, St. Andrew’s Students Kiah Simms, Jamee Williams, Samantha Spacassi, and Brendan Toussaint went to Denver, Colorado for the 22nd People of Color Conference and 16th Student Diversity Leadership Conference, accompanied by faculty members Stacy Kincaid and Mario Pefaure. The conference... Read more »
Population Explosion at St. Andrew’s
January 22, 2010 • Andres Grimm, Staff Writer
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The number of teachers with children at St. Andrew’s has increased by 1050% in the past five years–from two children to 21. This major increase can be explained by several factors important to the teachers: to tuition remission, an opportunity for a better education, and... Read more »
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