15,000 young people around the state are attending the very first We Day in US on March 27, in the Key Arena at Seattle Center. Fueled by the desire for change, and the hope that the world can be a better place, We Day is the call that brings a generation together. We Day is an [...]
Dianna Hanson, a 2007 graduate, was killed by a lion at the Northern California wildlife park where she was an intern. She was 24 years old. Hanson was found dead by investigators in an enclosure and the lion was shot dead by sheriff deputies. “Dianna was just a really outstanding young woman at our school,” [...]
President Barack Obama may have scored a decisive win in his re-election bid on Nov. 6 but expectations remain high. Millions of Americans want the President to do more to improve the economy. Though Obama defeated former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney by a wide margin in the Electoral College, the President faces numerous challenges including [...]
Some 851 students and teachers registered to vote in the mock elections, which are held every four years for the presidential elections. Humanities teacher Chris Ellinger and his students manned the mock election voting booths in front of the theater on Nov. 6. “Mock elections are an opportunity for students who can’t legally vote to [...]
On Sunday, May 20th 2012 (May 21st on Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere), an annular solar eclipse occurred and could be observed in various parts of the world, primarily in countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. Many spectators from Japan, Taiwan, and western America witnessed the moon blocking the view of the sun, causing it to look like [...]
Holocaust Remembrance Day began on Wednesday, April 18, and ended on the evening of Thursday, April 19. In 1951, after two years of debating, it was decided that Holocaust Remembrance Day would be on the 27th of Nissan, later named Yom HaShoah Ve Hagevurah (Devastation and Heroism Day) and later simplified to Yom HaShoah. The [...]
The Washington state senate passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington on Feb. 1. The bill must now be passed by the state House of Representatives, which appears to be likely, and must receive the signature of Gov. Chris Gregoire. Washington is on track to become the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage [...]
App of the Year In this year’s iTunes Rewind, the application Instagram took home the award of “iPhone App of the Year.” Instagram is extremely popular and has about 15 million users. The photo sharing app lets you take pictures, add effects to them and share them on social networks. The five-star rated app is [...]
White House Shooting Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is the man charged with trying to assassinate President Barack Obama with an AK-47 assault rifle at the White House on Nov. 11. Police arrested Ortega on Nov. 15 in Pennsylvania. If convicted, he could receive life in prison. Ortega said President Obama “needed to be taken care of,” according [...]
Occupy Wall Street has been in 67 cities in 33 states. Although many protestors don’t know what they want, it is clear that they blame Wall Street greed for the United States’ financial issues and they are angry about economic inequality. Although they have been occupying and getting more attention than thought imaginable a cohesive [...]
