‘Columns’ Archives
Trust proves to be essential
BY: KALEB SCHUPPNER, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Naturally, boundaries are pushed each day. Whether it’s a teenager rebelling against their parent, or an employee sticking it to their boss, things can get heated in an organized setting. Keeping this in mind, it is inevitable that [Read More]
Caught Reading: English Teacher Christina Montalto
BY SARAH DRATNOL, Editor Ever since the rise of social media, student reading has gone from a normal pastime to a homework assignment. English teacher Christina Montalto has noticed that students don’t have enough patience to just sit down with a book and read anymore. [Read More]
Technology stunts social skills
BY KALEB SCHUPPNER, Executive Editor Imagine a school day with no technology: no Google to research those precious primary source documents for U.S. History, no thesaurus.com to improve that research paper in English, and no iPhones to “look something up” in the middle [Read More]
Caught Reading: Principal Chip Hickman
BY SARAH DRATNOL, Editor This column will be done each month to help promote reading at Kaneland. Each month, I will be interviewing a different faculty member on their favorite book current and former, their view on student reading, what they are currently reading and if [Read More]
Don’t take hoodies the wrong way
Clothing is thought to be one of the easiest ways to guess what type of person someone is. This isn’t true, of course, and there’s a saying, “Don’t ever judge a book by it’s cover.” A hoodie is technically a cover, right? While it seems like just a comfy piece [Read More]
The WBC takes the protests too far
There I am, sitting in Government class. My teacher presents current events like he usually does, every so often. Only this time, he informs the class of the Supreme Court ruling on the Snyder vs. Westboro Baptist Church case. Albert Snyder, a father of a soldier, sued the [Read More]
Happiness comes from within us, not others
As I walk through the hallways, I start seeing more and more trends in teenage relationships. It’s ridiculous how much one person can affect another. Frequently, people let their significant other impact them to an unhealthy extent. Loosely defined, codependency is [Read More]
Virginia’s forced ultrasound law is an abomination
By Casey Jacobson, Editor When picturing any ultrasound for an expecting mother, I see a particularly happy pregnant woman getting ready to view the results of her growing belly. In a nutshell, all that is required is a little dab of cool jelly and a remote-like machine to [Read More]
Contraceptive coverage is employee’s responsibility
When Obama brought up a new bill suggesting that all employers offer birth control under their health care plans, private universities and churches were in an uproar. [Read More]
Everyone deserves to be treated equally
The best part about the ad was what it didn’t say. It didn’t say, "Look! Here is a mentally disabled child that we put in our magazine!" It didn’t say, "Our magazine is making a difference by including down syndrome children to model for us!" And the ad especially [Read More]
The gift of friendship
Some student shy away from disabled students because they may not know the right thing to do, but there isn’t anything to be nervous about. [Read More]
The best gift is the gift of kindness
He was sitting all by himself, with no one to talk to, when a table during my lunch period noticed. Immediately, I felt sad. I wouldn’t want to be treated like that. Then I saw that table do a small act of kindness: they invited him to their lunch table. It didn’t take [Read More]
