Gun rights should be honored in America
Cody Conger, Staff Reporter
October 16, 2018
Filed under Opinion
The Second Amendment should be honored, and we should all have the ability to holster arms in our own homes but with some restrictions. If we place restrictions who can purchase and get their hands on firearms, then we can reduce a lot of the trouble present in America. While the U.S. loosely denies access t...
Hate speech not protected by First Amendment
Kalyssa Boyle, Staff Reporter
October 3, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Hate speech should not be protected by the First Amendment. The definition of “hate speech” by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is speech expressing hatred of a particular group of people. Many say that hate speech, although extremely racist or homophobic, is protected by the First Amendment. However,...
Freewill is an illusion
Addie Braun, Staff Reporter
September 27, 2018
Filed under Opinion
By definition freewill is, “made or done freely of one’s own accord; voluntarily,” but, what if it doesn’t even exist? From the moment we begin to understand the people surrounding us, we are impressionable. We don’t know any differently than what they tell us because we are so young that we aren...
Edge superior to other browsers
Kalyssa Boyle, Staff Reporter
September 13, 2018
Filed under Opinion
While Google Chrome may be what teachers and administration urge students to use, Microsoft Edge has more advantages to the everyday student. Edge has the immediate advantage of the easily accessible “Hub” that contains “Favorites, Reading List, Books, History, and Downloads” with large icons...
Board of Education should not purchase Chromebooks for next school year
Alicia Feyerherm, Staff Reporter
April 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Next school year, Hays High will be getting new devices to replace the Surface 3s. One replacement option is a Chromebook. However, if the Board of Education were to choose Chromebooks, it would be a mistake. First of all, Chromebooks run on their own operating system. They do not support any Windows...
Global warming evidence hard to ignore
Isabelle Braun, Staff Reporter
April 9, 2018
Filed under Opinion
As freshmen, students are tasked with a project over climate change in Integrated Science. This project gives students a chance to better form opinions on whether they believe in climate change or not. However, not believing in climate change is hard to do. According to Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: Evidence,...
25-minute lunches should be commonplace
Lacey Gregory, Editor-in-Chief
March 15, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Top Stories
Many teachers give up five minutes of their third hour class period to add to students’ already-short lunchtime, bringing the lunch period to a whopping total of 25 minutes. However, it has recently been rumored that 20-minute lunches will become required in all classes. This standard is not realistic...
Pressure to choose career stressful for teenagers
Rebekah Porter, Staff Reporter
February 9, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Elementary school children and younger are constantly being told to think about a career. This can be a stressful thing for a kid, not knowing what they want to do, yet being pressured to decide on something even though they aren’t ready for it. We need to stop demanding definitive answers from stud...
YouTube’s policy change strikes outrage among small YouTubers
Alicia Feyerherm, Staff Reporter
January 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Small YouTubers were outraged last week when YouTube released new guidelines to their Partner Program. The YouTube Partner Program allows YouTube channels to make money through Google AdSense. Once a channel becomes part of the program, YouTube places ads before or during that channel’s videos....
Golden Globes fraught with hypocrisy
Lizzy Lee, Staff Reporter/Cartoonist
January 10, 2018
Filed under Opinion
This year’s golden globes had some amazing results, but the feel for the event was shadowed by a large political premise. That being the hypocrisy of the entertainment industry. For the whole night, women and men alike wore black to the red carpet to protest sexual abuse in the entertainment industry....
YouTuber’s recent upload unforgivable
Allison Hillebrand, Staff Reporter
January 5, 2018
Filed under Opinion
To continue his vlogs during his time in Tokyo, YouTuber Logan Paul uploaded a video of a suicide victim in Aokigahara, Japan’s ‘suicide forest.’ Paul had the audacity to walk onto hallowed land and make a mockery of a dead body that he found hanging there. He has received a large amount...
Net neutrality laws should remain intact
Lacey Gregory, Editor-in-Chief
December 8, 2017
Filed under Opinion
Imagine something similar to the school’s barracuda web filter popping up when you open Netflix because your parents only paid for news websites. Though nothing like that could happen at this point in time, similar situations could potentially occur if net neutrality was repealed. In recent weeks,...
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