Throughout the Ames High building, teachers walk every day into rooms in which they have held sway, personalized, decorated, and tutored their students for years. For them, their classroom is more than...

Living in Ames, a fairly progressive college town, we often forget how blessed we are. To be, for the most part, so open to moving forward towards modernity and yet so aware and appreciative of our history...

While America’s human rights problems—homelessness, abuse, trafficking—are relatively well contained and under the radar, a massive part of the world sits as we speak in a...

Not quite a comeback, not quite a meltdown: after five long and awkward years following erstwhile rock saviors The Strokes’ confusing third album First Impressions of Earth , their fourth studio...

The 2010-11 school year marks the 50th anniversary of the first classes in the current Ames High School. While the current building doesn’t seem quite that old due to the numerous additions (front...

Let’s get this out of the way: Justin Bieber is a corporate, manufactured-image, coddled, overhyped, shallow little child. If he didn’t have those younger-Ryan-Sheckler-without-a-dark-side...

Kanye—No single artist has been as controversial yet influential, loved yet hated, in the last ten years. From his remarks on Bush and Katrina to the Taylor Swift incident, he has marred his...

Imagine for the moment that you are an attractive young female (well, some of you don’t really have to imagine) or look like a Middle Easterner (or both). You’re traveling to see your...

Are you by a computer? Good. Go over there, and turn iTunes on. Play Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” (yes, we all know you bought it). When it’s done, play Ke$ha’s...