Kindness is the Best Prize
By: Karen Becker, Reporter
October 29, 2013
The week spanning from October 14th to the 18th has a sense of celebration in the terms of spreading kindness across not only Kaneland schools, but Kaneland communities themselves. All of this originated from Rachel's Challenge an organization formed upon the death of Rachel, the first victim...
Mixed feeling still around about schedule
By: Austin Kintz, Editor
September 18, 2013
One year ago, Kaneland High School changed from the block schedule to an eight period day. With that change came many mixed feelings, both positive and negative. Current juniors had a year of the block schedule and had to transition to the eight period, while the recently graduated seniors had three...
Government censoring people of America
By: Amelia Likeum, Executive
September 18, 2013
Communicating with family and friends should be reserved for one person and the person or persons they’re talking to; no third party should be eavesdropping. That‘s just manners. Unfortunately, the government doesn't agree. Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA...
Teens Care For Media More Than the Real World
May 17, 2013
BY KAPRICE SANCHEZ, Executive Editor On March 27, the U.S. Army had lost one of their own. Sgt. Michael C. Cable, 26, was killed by a teenager in Afghanistan while playing with local children. Instead of the whole nation mourning the death of one of our soldiers, on April 1 the teen population mourned ...
Parents Cheer On Athletes, Not Coach Them
May 17, 2013
BY COURTNEY DIDDELL, Editor Why do parents tend to think they can coach their kids from the sideline? Last time I checked, I didn’t pay to be coached by my parents. There’s nothing wrong with giving advice, as long as it’s accurate and helpful, but parents need to understand yelling and hars...
Commercials these days aren’t eye-catching
March 15, 2013
BY CLAUDIA TOVAR, Editor Commercials have come to the point where they begin showing off their humorous side, but not everyone finds it amusing. Producers try to humor their audience, but it instead creates an even worse commercial. Television seems to have commercials that have no point or even make any sense. It makes a person think, “Why are they doing wh...
Reality is dramatics, not really what life is about
March 12, 2013
By: HANNAH WALLACE, Editor Reality television has become an integral part of American culture. We identify with the characters, and cross our fingers that the story-line will continue to go the direction we want it to. The formats vary from food shows to singing competitions to dancing competitions...
The internet isn’t different from the world
March 12, 2013
By: JAEMEE CORDERO, Editor Whenever people are out in public – whether it be shopping with friends or going to see a movie – they are always sure to have their personal belongings close to them or those precious items might be stolen. They are careful about being so open with some random stranger...
Value Human Life over Texting
February 3, 2013
By McKayla Helm, Editor With technology on the rise, some people seem to confuse what’s really significant in life. This confusion appears to be everywhere, even in the courtrooms, and it is wrong. When it comes down to it, human life should be valued. People are not handli...
The Best Christmas Movies of All Time
December 20, 2012
According to Andy Williams, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, and many of us agree. Who doesn’t like hot chocolate and snow? Or bowl games and family time? Everyone has a different way of entertained during the holiday season, but we can all agree that a Christmas movie can bring a...
End of the world
December 13, 2012
BY SARAH DRATNOL, Editor The world is absolutely NOT ending on Dec. 21. There are numerous people talking about how the world will supposedly end as we know it. This is just because the Mayan calendar stopped on that date. Many speculations of the end of the world exist around the world, and all of them will be pro...
Society is making violence acceptable
December 7, 2012
By Kaleb Schuppner, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Everyone has a moral compass; this doesn’t necessarily mean that all people are the most pleasant, but people usually at least have a decent idea of right and wrong. People tend to have a wide range of opinions on controversial topics because of their views on...
Marching band gets a waiver out of gym
December 7, 2012
By: Courtney Diddell, Editor Day after day, season after season, hardworking high school athletes practice everyday after school during the season. Despite this physical activity, they must take a Physical Education course during the school year. “Since I do sports year round, I don’t think gym is necessary. I think we should jus...
Caught Reading: English Teacher Christina Montalto
November 29, 2012
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. According to Montalto, if social media and other electronic distractions di...
Sophomores not able to park?
October 29, 2012
Kaneland classes have grown to odd amounts of people. There are more students entering the school than there are graduating. As the class sizes get bigger it appears that the parking spaces don’t grow with them. This means sadly, it has become an issue with the amount of people being able to park in...
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