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3 exponential points

3 exponential points

Ally Schilmoeller, Senior Design Editor December 21, 2018

The seven point scale. 93-100 is a 1. 85-92 is a two. For eight years the seven point scale has been crushing the hopes and dreams of students here at Elkhorn South. Students watch in agony as a single...

New season, new show

Calli Gregory, Senior Design Editor December 20, 2018

As the chilly weather begins to set in and winter pitches its tent, people begin looking for a good excuse to stay curled up inside, watching television and drinking hot chocolate. For television providers,...

Brockhampton: Impressive yet unexpected

Brockhampton: Impressive yet unexpected

Skylar Farris, Journalism Contributor November 15, 2018

Rap group, Brockhampton, has just released their fourth record titled Iridescence.  Unlike their previous three albums, this takes a more delicate approach at rap, while still keeping a mosh-like nature....

Take my phone, please

Take my phone, please

Olivia Wilke, Journalism Contributor November 15, 2018

My phone is attached to my hand nearly 24 hours a day, and if it isn’t, it’s in a shoe organizer or box in a classroom. The times that it’s somewhere else other than next to me is when I’m most...

The haunting of Capitol Hill

The haunting of Capitol Hill

Joey Schafer, Content Manager November 1, 2018

Term limits are the ultimate abdication of voter freedom: a bold faced attack, perpetrated by an ever expansive bureaucracy that neither represents their constituents nor responds to the average American....

Outdoors vs. indoors, which is better?

Outdoors vs. indoors, which is better?

Paige Girardot, Managing and Design Editor November 1, 2018

Dear sterile indoors,   going outside is just a draining experience. Period. The outdoors are analogous to sensory overload. The outdoors are to sensory overload while the indoors are to peace...

Women in breast cancer awareness ribbon symbol. Vector file layered for easy manipulation and custom coloring.

Think about the pink

Sarah Shatel, Senior Web Editor November 1, 2018

I can vividly picture my mom handing me a children’s book with the title “Mommy has Cancer”. I gazed at her with the most confused and saddened look i’ve ever given her. I was in 5th grade, about...

Pumpkin spice: sexism's vice

Pumpkin spice: sexism’s vice

November 1, 2018

If you’re a teen girl who likes to drink frothy, autumn-flavored coffee and wear Uggs to Vala’s Pumpkin Patch, watch out. You’re under attack. Girls who enjoy pumpkin spice lattes are mocked...

She said: James Madison was an idiot

Ellie Akough, Reporter October 23, 2018

No, James Madison wasn’t an idiot; he just didn’t have the fortune telling powers to see 200 years into the future. Women’s rights, black rights, and overall ridiculous laws were made when muskets...

Was James Madison an idiot?

Was James Madison an idiot?

Joey Schafer, Content Manager October 17, 2018

In the era of 24 hour news, constitutionality is a term that is thrown about, but what really does the constitution say? Why has the Constitution become a unifying rallying cry for justice? Our forebears...

Trafficking truths

Sarah Shatel, Senior Web Editor October 9, 2018

Living in a West Omaha town in Nebraska should make anyone feel safe. Right? Girls should be able to walk around freely without looking over their shoulder scared to death in broad daylight. They should...

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