Stories by Artemis Jenkins
1. Don’t be afraid to go wild!
Normally, I am not a proponent of self-inflicted humiliation, but the glorious week at the end of October is an entirely different matter. For one week I wear tutus, don party hats, and tuck in my shirt, among other heinous fashion faux-pas. I scream until, as one senior put it, “my throat ...
2. Cougar Construction Starts
As all Albany High athletes are aware, Cougar Field is under construction. In order to repair the ancient facilities, the Albany School District allocated funds last year for a renovation. The construction will include a new track, a field turf soccer/football field, a new baseball field, and a new ...
3. Art show coming to AHS May 30-31
The annual visual art show will arrive next week in a bang of pixels and paint.
4. Quizlet: Study 2.0
On January 17, 2007 an Albany High student launched a new innovation in memorization on the Internet. Quizlet, as the website is called, is “a site for learning vocabulary that allows students to collaborate,” said the site’s creator, junior Andrew Sutherland.
Sutherland started programming for the site the first quarter of his sophomore year as ...
5. Discrimination in admissions: fact or fiction?
As seniors frantically flesh out their extra-curricular brag sheets and beg for last-minute teacher recommendations, the question remains: “Will they pick me?” Yet, no matter how much students wring their hands, the decision is in the hands of a few college admissions officers. We expect these admissions officers to treat us equally and ...
6. Adolescence, in depth
On Thursday November 16th Barbara Staggers M.D, from the Oakland Children’s Hospital gave a presentation in the school library about teen health. The presentation drew about fifty people: a mixture of both parents and kids although it is debatable whether the teens were there by choice. The parents in the audience had both current teens and soon-to-be teenagers and had ...
7. New Year, New Music
With each school year we hopefully grow as people, so why not expand our music tastes as well? I have heard enough Green Day and Ciara on the radio to last me a lifetime. Therefore, I scour the internet for underground artists offering a fresh musical perspective. An underground artist, often called an indie artist, is generally defined as one ...