I’m so glad that I’m leaving Ames. Don’t get me wrong, Ames is an amazing city and Ames High is a great school. The building is nice, the students are nice, the teachers are nice, and the food less...

    A few weeks ago, I made the choice to watch the LEGO Movie with some friends. Little did I know that what seemed like a trivial decision would lead to such intense nostalgia and life-altering thought....

    A new craze is spreading through Ames High, and it’s devastatingly addictive. Invented in 1984 by a Russian engineer, Tetris has recently hit a surge in popularity at our school. For those of you...

    Gravity is disorienting, nauseating, confusing, uncomfortable, and haunting. And it’s beautiful. Alfonso Cuarón’s (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men) latest flick is...

As the school year came to a close, thousands of high-schoolers, college students, and dogs alike flocked to the Carroll Marty disc golf course. Disc golf, commonly called “frolf”, or frisbee golf,...

LADIES: Take a moment to give one of AHS’s female attendees a once-over in a socially acceptable (read: not sexual) way, and I can promise you that she’ll be wearing either Birkenstocks or a sheer,...

Over the summer, the death of Cory Monteith shocked the world of gleeks.Finn Hudson on Fox tv series Glee. Montieth died on July 13, 2013, at the age of 31. People were devastated about the bright young...

At some point we all have to leave the small town we grew up in. One wouldn’t expect this, however, to be the mixed with deadly robots, bar fights and aliens. It’s the subject of the final movie in...