– By Hunter Moore ‘15 A fight broke out in a Miami bar last Wednesday between old-school rappers and contemporary rappers. An eye witness said it was more of a battle over which style of music was better: the old-school clean-cut rap about not doing drugs, or the contemporary foul-mouthed rap about how awesome drugs are. An eye witness identified … Read More
By Allie Pino During the past three years here at Sherwood, junior Colin Brandy has never been interested in school and has been barely passing his classes. Teachers say all he does is sleep and play Super Mario Brothers or Backyard Baseball on his Nintendo Game Boy. His second-period teacher, June Hack, reported that Brandy ran out of her classroom, … Read More
By Chase Wilson ‘17 Sophomore Will Lancaster was suspended recently for disrupting class constantly. In Lancaster’s fourth period, teacher Nancy Plywood told him repeatedly to “stop his face from being so annoying.” After the third warning, she sent him to the principal’s office where he continued, in an anonymous administrator’s words, ‘to be ugly.’ The Lancaster family, and more specifically … Read More
By Cal Wilson ‘14 Everyone knows that St. Patrick’s Day is a leprechaun’s favorite time of year. It’s their time to run around, throw four leaf-clover seeds and pinch people who are not wearing green. Playful and fun as they are, they refuse to let anyone get close to them. Don’t let that deter you from trying; there still are … Read More
By Mike Crooks ‘14 Lately, users of Internet dating sites, like E-Harmony, BlackPeopleMeet, and Christian Mingle, have been complaining that the sites are ineffective. They claim that the sites don’t match them with compatible partners because the criteria for creating a profile aren’t narrow enough. Some may say that these people should actually go out and try to form a … Read More
By Katie Mercogliano ‘14
By Becky Ewing ’14 When I complain about doing homework, my parents always scold me. “At least you have the internet! We had to use textbooks!” “At least you have a computer! We had to use typewriters!” “At least you have a car! We had to ride dinosaurs!” Blah, blah. I never understood why old people say things like that. … Read More
By Catherine Jou ’15 Since the beginning of the school year the temperature at Sherwood has fluctuated from what feels below freezing to excruciatingly humid. This has caused students to ban together and form the Temperature Regulation Organization (TRO); students have expressed their irritation in anonymous surveys handed out by the TRO. Senior Lauren Langston has seen an increase in … Read More
By Brooke O’Connell ’14 Prompt: The John Doe University Honors College is not your typical honors college. Here, we encourage students to be curious, open-minded, imaginative, and adventurous. Tell us how these adjectives would work to describe you. I am not your typical person. I am so curious that I counted the licks to the center of a tootsie … Read More
Com. 1: Ladies and Gentlemen, boxing fans, holiday partygoers of all ages, welcome back to the 2013 Winter Holiday Boxing Tournament. I’m Jim Davis, here with Mike Miller, looking ahead to tonight’s matches, which some folks have predicted to be the most gripping, unbridled display of pent-up wrath we’ve ever seen. Com. 2: Unbridled is right, Jim. With this group, … Read More