Bearing with the Block Scheduling
Seth Bequette, Reporter
April 18, 2019
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives
As soon as students found out, they were horrified: Block Scheduling. Quickly everyone was convinced doom was coming to drag students from their forty minute classes into some new tortuous ninety minute version. Ames High is set to have a test run of block scheduling during the 2019 - 2020 school...
Dominik McDonald
Oliver Chen, Co-Editor in Chief
April 18, 2019
Filed under Archives, Profiles, Showcase
If one happens to hear the stately timpani of Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique or the lively xylophone runs of George Gershwin’s American in Paris drifting through the music wing, the source of the music can likely be traced to senior Dominik McDonald. Since he first began taking lessons in eleme...
SASHA
Akshata Gandhe, Profiles Editor
April 18, 2019
Filed under Archives, Campus Life, Showcase
92 seconds. That is how often a person is sexually assaulted in this country, be it a 12-year-old or a 50-year-old. Junior co-leaders of SASHA (Students against Sexual Harassment and Abuse) Victoria Kyvergya and Silvia Aydinyan knew that something could be done from their part about this issue. Speaking...
Freshmen strive to improve mental health
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
April 17, 2019
Filed under Archives, Campus Life, Showcase
According to a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry half of all chronic mental illness begins by age 14; three-quarters by age 24, making high school a critical time to identify and treat mental illness. Mariam Mkhitaryan and Preksha Sarda have spent their Freshmen year working on a projec...
The future of sustainability at Ames High: Carbon neutral by 2030?
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
April 17, 2019
Filed under Archives, In-Depth, Showcase
On February 21, the school district hosted a showcase of the latest plans for the new high school building. At the meeting, architects from OPN, the architecture firm tasked with designing the new high school building, showed slides of the floor plans and walked the community through the different ph...
April 8th: Ames High School United
April 8, 2019
Filed under Archives, Campus Life, Showcase, Top Story
April 8th: Ames High students and staff joined community members in a peaceful display of unity, in response to a coordinated protest from a well known hate group. ...
Salty Stereotypes
Akshata Gandhe, Profiles Editor
March 26, 2019
Filed under Archives, Opinion, Showcase
“Is BuTtEr a CaRb?” These famous words were uttered by THE Regina George when Mean Girls came out in 2004. The strange portrayal of high school in that movie made a lot of us question human sanity but for some of us, the movie was everything. There probably is no high school where people h...
Very Barchofski
Zoe Mamakos, Reporter
March 21, 2019
Filed under Archives, Profiles
"I'm tired," said junior Vera Barkosky, going to bed at 8 p.m. This is a common conversation experienced every day by her stay-up-late friends who can’t relate and literally anyone else who knows her. Imagine the dream life, going to bed early every night, getting your homework done RIGHT after...
Glass – A shattered opportunity?
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
March 14, 2019
I’m a bit late for the tea party that is M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Eastrail 177 Trilogy’, though to be fair the first film of this triple play was two years before my time. Despite that and some strange things Shyamalan’s movies have been known for, my interest was piqued by the purple hued thri...
A Senior Artist Snapshot
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
March 14, 2019
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives
PRESTON WITTE Preston Witte didn’t discover art until his senior year, initially using robotics as his creative outlet. “I usually have all these ideas just swimming around in my head that I haven’t always been able to elaborate, and I’ve usually strayed away from elaborating,” said ...
Liam Struck, Reviews Editor
April 18, 2019 • Comments closed
The first promposal occured in 2350 BC, when the first caveman asked the first cave women by throwing a rock at her head with the message ooga ooga slathered with his blood....
Zoe Mamakos, Reporter
April 18, 2019 • No Comments
Life is worth living. The everyday routine. The constant argument with your alarm clock as it shakes, ringing 7:00. Again. A brand new day. You sit up in bed, accepting...
Akshata Gandhe, Profiles Editor
March 26, 2019 • No Comments
“Is BuTtEr a CaRb?” These famous words were uttered by THE Regina George when Mean Girls came out in 2004. The strange portrayal of high school in that movie...
The Classes of Ames High: Roasts and Reflection
March 26, 2019
Finals After Break? An Investigation
February 15, 2019
“It smells like broke in here!”
February 13, 2019
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
March 14, 2019 • No Comments
I’m a bit late for the tea party that is M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Eastrail 177 Trilogy’, though to be fair the first film of this triple play was two years before...
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Get caught up in the Spider Verse
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