by Rebecca Stussman ‘12 Olney has four, soon to be five, major grocery stores, three pet stores, four tex-mex restaurants, five Chinese restaurants and zero entertainment opportunities, making our adorable-yet-mundane suburbia haven more like a collection of fragmented strip malls than a true, community. We have food, we have shops, we have all the dog chow we could ever … Read More
Finding the Least-Worst Fuel by Alex Porter ’13 With the national average gas price at $4, an increase of more than $1 from last year, and the high prices of summer approaching, energy doctrine is back on the national agenda. Pressure is mounting in Washington to take away oil subsidies and to find a way to lower prices, and that … Read More
After the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during April of last year, President Obama issued a moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells. As prices have risen at the gas pump to over $4.00 and the job market continues to suffer, Obama reversed his decision this past May and now says that the United States will … Read More
After the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during April of last year, President Obama issued a moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells. As prices have risen at the gas pump to over $4.00 and the job market continues to suffer, Obama reversed his decision this past May and now says that the United States will … Read More
by Whitney Marie Halaby ’14 Way back in 1999, the Board of Education first discussed a change in high school exam policy. This proposal became known as the double ‘A’ exemption policy. Ultimately, the policy was not accepted by Board members because the members felt that there would be more pressure to have other types of tests for seniors and … Read More
by Isabel Paterson ‘12 Theories about the world ending in 2012 have been in the air for a while now. Some look at it as more of a joke, something to poke fun at or use in a punch line. Something bad happens and usually there is that one person in the group who says, “Oh it’s okay guys, we’re … Read More
Students who took an AP exam this school year, whether it was one or five, deserve to be recognized for their achievements. They challenged themselves by taking college-level classes and should be proud of what they have accomplished. For this reason, many students were disappointed this year that there was no AP picnic or AP t-shirts, which students who … Read More
by Diana McDermott ’13 The U.S./Canadian border is some 5,525 miles wide is and could possibly be the most ignored, unwatched, undefended border in the world. Canada is the world’s leading producer of marijuana and with new strains of heroin and cocaine grown in Canada, the smuggling of narcotics by low flying planes, that are undetectable by radar, is not … Read More
by Holland McCabe ’11 There is little argument that bomb threats, firearms, drugs and violent attacks have no place in a school for the safety of students. So to combat these threats, many school systems employ policies that automatically attach harsh consequences to dangerous infractions. Beyond the safety considerations, zero tolerance policies were put in place to objectively punish students. … Read More
by Arjun Singh ’12 Students go to school every day to socialize, participate in extracurricular activities and, most importantly, learn. However, negative influences such as drugs, alcohol and violence can infect the school environment and disrupt the safe haven that students need to succeed in school. MCPS schools use zero tolerance policies to limit these negative influences and promote safer … Read More