By Ankur Kayastha ’15 and Betselot Wondimu ’15 Following the wild success achieved by the Field of Screams during the Halloween season, Terry Benson and Toby Lewith, two Sherwood seniors, decided to create their own institution called the Field of Dreams. The students noted the disgusting and disturbing aura of the Field of Screams, which evoked fear and panic in … Read More
By Ashley Nnabue ’16 Across the board, recent studies have shown an intriguing relationship between children’s emotional growth and the amount of time and freedom they receive for play. In Western society today, there has been a prevailing viewpoint that a constraining parent is a good parent, but that actually may only lead to having children that are too afraid … Read More
Why do the majority of students join NHS? Do tutoring hour policies need to be changed? Should it make more of a difference in the Community? Students in the National Honor Society (NHS) are certainly academically talented students. To be considered for admittance into Sherwood’s NHS, students must have a 3.7 unweighted or 4.0 weighted GPA and provide evidence of … Read More
By Stacey Wells ‘15 The highly anticipated “Mockingjay: Part 1,” the third movie in the Hunger Games series, opened in theaters on November 21. Though many mumbled and grumbled over the fact that the final book-to-movie adaptation is split into two, the separate films will allow for each and every event in the book to be thoroughly portrayed on the … Read More
By Marie Moeller ‘ 15 It seems like going gluten-free is the new peanut allergy for teens. For some, a gluten-free diet is just a fad for losing weight, but for others this diet is a life altering reality due to their gluten intolerance. At Sherwood, several students have been diagnosed as gluten intolerant within the past year and have … Read More
By Meagan Barrett ’15 For 13 straight years of American schooling, whether you truly understand and retain the content or not, you are pushed through classes that you may or may not excel at in order to keep up with the ever-competitive “standard.” As the United States education system has progressed, it has developed this obsession with encouraging—or pushing, really—students … Read More
By Emma Hierholzer ‘ 15 To be a foodie is to be obsessed, enthralled and ultimately in love with the art of taste and all of its wonderful variations. As highfalutin as that sounds, anyone can be a foodie! Here are a few commonplace types that can be found in the foodie community. Which one are you? The Snob These … Read More
By Leo Corman ‘15 Senior shooting guard Xavier (zah-vee-ay) McCants started playing basketball when he was 8 years old, following in the footsteps of his older siblings. Now entering his third season on the varsity squad and returning as the team’s leading scorer from last season, McCants will look to establish himself as the number one player on his team … Read More
By Chase Wilson ‘17 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was released at midnight on November 4 with more than 300,000 pre-orders. Available for the Xbox 360, Xbox one, PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation 4, this is the eleventh installment in the Call of Duty (CoD) franchise. The developing studio, Sledgehammer, stated that one of the most difficult things they had … Read More
By Jack Armstrong ’15 San Francisco based startup Uber, a taxi service which offers luxury sedans to riders from an app on their smartphone, has been under attack by major cities around the world, most recently Toronto, for operating ‘illegally’ by offering non-licensed taxi drivers in unmarked cars to riders. Since its founding in 2012, the San Francisco based company … Read More