By Kaleigh Homer ’15 On an average day in the United States, more than one million people tan in tanning salons. 35 percent of American adults, 59 percent of college students and seventeen percent of teens have reported using a tanning bed in their lifetime. Tanning indoors and outdoors are both dangerous. About 76,100 new cases of melanomas will be … Read More
By Leo Corman ’15 Matthew Parsons is a health teacher and track coach at Sherwood. Parsons attended college in Frostburg, Maryland. After teaching one semester at a middle school last year, Parsons entered the big leagues at the beginning of this school year. The Warrior sat down with Parsons and asked him how his first full year of teaching went. … Read More
By Meagan Barrett ’15 As summer slowly approaches, the teenage stupidity hormones are practically palpable in the air. Everyone’s preparing for the big party they’re going to have while their parents are away or skateboarding off the roof or doing parkour off the neighbor’s fence, basically, anything that will likely end in negative consequences that were clearly evident beforehand. Unfortunately, … Read More
By Haley Whitt ’15 Abnormal Psychology is not the first class that has been offered to students to take through Montgomery College, but it is one of the most interesting. For the first time, Abnormal Psychology will now be offered to Sherwood students. Although even the name of the course is intriguing, there are requirements students must meet in order … Read More
By Samantha Schwartz ’16 Five seconds is the minimum amount of time a driver’s attention is taken away from the road when sending a text message while driving. When driving 55 mph, those five seconds are equivalent to driving the length of a football field without looking at the road. Distracted driving is an incredibly dangerous activity. According to the … Read More
By Leo Corman ’15 Matthew Parsons is a health teacher and track coach at Sherwood. Parsons attended college in Frostburg, Maryland. After teaching one semester at a middle school last year, Parsons entered the big leagues at the beginning of this school year. The Warrior sat down with Parsons and asked him how his first full year of teaching went. … Read More
By Ankur Kayastha ’15 The University of Maryland at College Park became a target of a cyber-security threat on February 19 and nearly 300,000 personal student and faculty records were compromised. The records that had been breached by a sophisticated computer virus contained names, social security numbers, dates of birth and university identification numbers. To compensate for the data breach, … Read More
By Kaleigh Homer ’15 On an average day in the United States, more than one million people tan in tanning salons. 35 percent of American adults, 59 percent of college students and seventeen percent of teens have reported using a tanning bed in their lifetime. Tanning indoors and outdoors are both dangerous. About 76,100 new cases of melanomas will be … Read More
by Dalton Sanchez ‘15 Just the anticipation for prom is simply exhilarating: the dance, the pictures, the shoes, the limo. And, for girls, the dress. Prom dresses have a sort of sentimental value for girls which may increase the pressure to find the perfect one. For some the search for the ideal prom dress starts very early. “Someone created a … Read More
By Lucy Hurlbut ‘14 After being closed since 2010, the Olney Library reopened its doors on March 15, with many drastic changes having been made. While the huge increase in size from 16,825 to 22,574 square feet might be a shock to some who were used to the small but cozy atmosphere of the previous building, others prefer the … Read More