Lots of people have taken their senior column as an opportunity to draw attention to every flaw and thing they dislike about our school, but I don’t want to go out like that. Ames High has given me a...

For many students, graduating and moving closer to a career is daunting, especially for the large amount of people who have no idea what they want to do. Personally, I’ve known what I wanted to do for...

There’s never a shortage of rumors and gossip in high school. Now, thanks to social media, information- false or otherwise- can spread faster than ever. With the advent of anonymous twitter accounts,...

Seemingly every year, the Web has an article bashing Valentine’s Day. They claim it’s commercialist, sexist, unnecessary, and have plenty more criticisms. Guess what? It can be. But that’s no reason...

It’s hard to remember a time in recent years when there wasn’t some series or another dominating the media, box office, and minds of impressionable teens. Harry Potter held the crown for a while, and...

Caution! May contain spoilers. For most movie genres, it isn’t too difficult to find television shows addressing the same topics. Comedy, drama, mystery, all are well-represented in the fall television...

Over the summer, Ames High students attended an informational meeting about the laptops they would soon be receiving. In this meeting, students were told of all of the magnificent uses for the computers;...