Talia Schwartz, Senior Partisan gerrymandering is a significant contemporary issue in Congress because it allows politicians to redraw state districts that favor their specific party. While this issue is bad for democracy, the Supreme Court has not intervened in decades because the courts say that partisan redistricting is a political question and therefore not one…
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DramaFest 2023
Ila Bumagin, Junior Never once did I imagine going to a theater competition and having a crumpet thrown at me. But that’s exactly the beauty of theater – expect the unexpected, and accept the absurd. Marblehead High School’s Drama Department put on a production of Beowulf this weekend at METG, or DramaFest, which is a…
Discovering Vintage Computers
Michael Piper, Senior If you asked me to list my hobbies and interests two years ago, the last thing on my mind would be vintage computing. The typical pathway into vintage computing consists of being old enough to remember using BASIC, a DOS prompt, and floppy disks, but having grown up surrounded by the Internet…
Driving: From a Learner’s Perspective
Benji Boyd, Sophomore Alongside hot Dunkin coffee and an insistence on wearing flops, driving on bad roads is a classic Massachusetts winter tradition carried on throughout the generations. However, for new drivers learning to parallel park on sidewalks heaped with ice, the experience is not nearly as glamorous as it sounds. As a teenager beginning…
Teen Mental Health Crisis
Katherine Twomey, Junior A new report from the CDC containing data about the mental health of teenagers has revealed some alarming results, especially about teen girls. According to the report, almost 1⁄3 of teen girls said that they had seriously considered suicide during that year (2021), which is a nearly 60% increase from the previous…
Earth, Wind, and Fire Music Review
Benny Burns, Senior Even if you don’t know their name, you’ve probably heard some of Earth, Wind, and Fire’s music. For example, most people have heard their hit “Boogie Wonderland” or their song “September,” which calls for a yearly replay on September 21st. The group, including musicians Junior Wells, Philip Bailey, and Maurice White on…
Thoughts on the State of the Union
Zoe Gast, Senior This past Wednesday was president Biden’s second State of the Union speech and his first since the midterms, where control of the house was awarded to the Republican majority. Although this historical speech was listened to intently by families around the country, the atmosphere on the floor differed. Over Biden’s 73-minute speech,…
Beowulf: The Power of a Story
Benji Boyd, Sophomore There are few stories that stand the test of time. Despite ever shifting language and culture, a few timeless masterpieces of the Western world survive in renown, including the works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and whoever wrote Dante’s Inferno. However, one of the greatest stories of the past belongs to no known author….
MHS Winter Track Recap
Rachael Albert, Junior The MHS winter track team has had a crazy, successful year with multiple school records broken, athletes competing at the National Championship, and many great rookie performances. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams only lost one meet in the regular season, and both finished second place at the Northeastern Conference Championship. But…
North Shore Young Writers’ Conference
Benji Boyd, Sophomore On Friday, the third of February – yes, the one with record temperatures that had everyone over forty reminiscing about the blizzard of ‘78 – the fires were stoked in the homey halls of the Waring School as students and visitors alike ran for the doors. As the winds raged outside, a…