For the second year in a row on March 8, International Women’s Day, women across the world have gone on strike due to the lack of gender equality and sexual discrimination. It has been discovered that more than 5 million women have joined the 24-hour strike, according to BBC News. One actr...

My life should not be put at risk because it is easy for a teenager with mental illness to have access to your firearms. Teens across the nation are sick and tired of the mass shootings resulting in too many lives lost before they were truly allowed to live.   No more thoughts and prayers. ...

Imagine, as a man, what life is like as a woman. Picture life in your adolescence looking at the large movie screen and seeing a female character who is independent from a man, is clearly intelligent, humorous, and a role model. Imagine that, even in your young age, you can recognize just how rare thi...

Self-esteem is the way a person feels about themselves and what worth they possess. It is an evaluation of ourselves. When we have a low self-esteem, as we are taught in health class, we need to work on improving it so that we allow ourselves to love ourselves.   My theory is that until we are able to love ...

For the Fall Musical of 2017, East High Theater students performed “The Phantom,” a show by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kpit based on a book by French author, Gaston Leroux. The plot follows the character, Erik, who plays the Phantom,  as he haunts the Grand Paris Opera House.   To get stud...

Every athlete, of any sport, dreams of going to college on a full ride scholarship. They dream of playing the sport they love and getting an education that will take them anywhere. Most athletes know that sports will only take them so far, so they want a degree to achieve greater success.There are alway...

Public school, by definition, is a school supported by public funds that is free of bias or prejudice nature's; free of preference toward any specific group, race, culture, nationality or belief system. Unfortunately, many of public schools do not abide by this definition. According to the Center for P...

Columbus, Ohio, home of the eight-time national champions Ohio State Buckeyes. Unfortunately for Urban Meyer and his team, the year “2017” will not be added to their trophy case.   The college football playoff system originated in the 2014 season. The system brings in four programs acro...