Archive for February, 2009

  • Pass privileges too exclusive

    Pass privileges too exclusive

    High food prices and long lines have caused many students at Terrace to search for alternative dining during lunchtime. With the current off campus pass system we have in place, there are two main passes that students can use to get food outside of school, the off campus pass and the Senior Privilege Pass. The [...]

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  • Return of daily advisory

    Return of daily advisory

    Students agree that daily advisory would help out By Amanda Radcliff and Avi Morales Guest writers To many students and teachers, bringing advisory back in the everyday schedule seems like a great idea, but to others it seems useless. Most freshmen don’t know that advisory used to actually be an everyday occurrence instead of just [...]

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  • Perilously politically correct

    Perilously politically correct

    Political correctness sucking the fun out of the holiday season As Dr. Seuss has said in “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,” “And the Grinch, with his Grinch feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons, it came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, [...]

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  • Snow keeps students indoors

    Snow keeps students indoors

    Edmonds School District (ESD) along with many other school districts in Washington state suffered from snowstorms just before winter break. Snowstorms continued to block roadways for about two weeks. In response to these weather conditions, several days of school were canceled. Principal Greg Schwab said, “Everyone was saying the storm was coming so they just [...]

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  • Vending machine changes delayed again

    Vending machine changes delayed again

    The new year is opening with many changes, including a adaptations with the vending machines. Policy had it that by the end of February, most vending machine contents would be banned. However, due to negotiations mainly advocated by Kim “Stew” Stewart, both the contents of vending and soda pop machines will remain until the end [...]

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  • Terrace Hi-Q faces off in the theater

    Terrace Hi-Q faces off in the theater

    The MTHS Hi-Q team had a home match on Wed, Jan. 8, in the MTHS Theater. The MTHS Hi-Q team was up against the Hi-Q teams from Cascade High School and Glacier Peak High School. Hi-Q, an academic quiz competition for high school students, first started in 1948 in Pennsylvania and Washington in 1976. The [...]

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  • Prop 8 sparks protest on Capitol Hill

    Prop 8 sparks protest on Capitol Hill

    In a sea of bright colors and odd shaped picket signs saying “love, not h8”, close to a thousand people crammed together in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill in Seattle on Nov. 15. The Anti-Proposition 8 Rally, brought together by Seattle Central Community College student Kyler Powell, was a march through Seattle’s Capitol Hill area [...]

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