Know your rights
By Sierra Clark, Co-Editor-in-Chief
May 14, 2018
Filed under News, School News
“Know your rights,” say The Clash in their protest song of the same name, which highlights differences they observed between the rights — the right not to be killed, the right to food money, and the right to free speech — that people seem to have and the rights that are actually enforced. Students, like The Clash, have the r...
Transgender rights in jeopardy, again
By Nolan DeGarlais, News Editor
May 14, 2018
Filed under News, U.S. and World News
The U.S. Department of Education, under Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, announced the department will no longer hear or take action on complaints relating to the bathroom and facility use of transgender students in public schools on Monday, Feb. 12. The decision makes it clear transgender students i...
Facebook is in business
By Ben Savell, Hawkeye Staff
May 14, 2018
Filed under News, U.S. and World News
Social media is not just a form of communication anymore, it is part of our identity. For some, every aspect of their lives is implanted on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Their algorithms determine who and what we view. What if somebody with malicious intent gained ahold of this information? On Mar....
#HeForShe
By Nhung Lam, Hawkeye Staff
May 14, 2018
Filed under News, U.S. and World News
Nhung Lam With the issue of gender equality being widely discussed, the HeForShe campaign’s rooted goal is to show that gender equality is not just for women's rights, it's for human rights. Founded by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, HeF...
Washington schools afflicted by Skyward outage
By Nolan DeGarlais, News Editor
April 28, 2018
Filed under News, School News, Technology
The Skyward service went down after a technology glitch on the afternoon of Friday, April 20, cutting off all parent, teacher and student access to the service for nearly a week. Skyward is used by 274 out of the 294 school districts in Washington state to manage everything from student grades to informat...
Students walk out in protest of school shootings
By Teresa Bonilla, TEMPO Graphics and Design Editor
April 20, 2018
Filed under Featured Stories, Local News, News, School News
Today’s walkout was held on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting. Lane Murdock a Sophomore from Ridgefield High School in Connecticut organized the walkout on a national level. The walkout at terrace was organized by students who met in Mr. Tongs room to make signs at flyers. T...
ESD considers changes in non-student time
By Nolan DeGarlais, News Editor
April 20, 2018
Filed under News, School News
The Edmonds School District (ESD) recently decided to consider changing the way non-student time is distributed throughout the school year at all school levels. Non-student time refers to the half-days and non-student days where school district staff are given time to work on improving their instruc...
#NeverAgain: Student Activists Speak
By Matthew Hipolito, Copy Editor
April 13, 2018
Filed under News
Late in the afternoon on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 2018, a former student entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Armed with a legally-acquired Colt AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and “countless magazines”, he pulled a fire alarm to sow confusion, and in the ensuing panic, fired...
SpaceX blasting off again
By Jackson Freund, Staff
March 23, 2018
Filed under News, STEM, Technology, U.S. and World News
Elon Musk is one of the richest and most well-known men in America, as well as the maker of the “Not a Flamethrower,” the owner of “The Boring Company,” the CEO of SpaceX and the founder of Tesla. Musk is also involved with improving and inventing new rockets that can hopefully, in the future, b...
An inventory checkoff of school sheds
By Nina Pavlovic, Hawkeye Staff
March 23, 2018
Filed under News, School News
Right outside of the softball field here at MTHS, there are two sheds that hold emergency supplies. These supplies are supposed to be used to not only sustain students and staff in the case of natural disasters, but also to shelter students and staff from the harsh weather if people were ever forced out ...
Student Activists Speak Out Against Gun Violence
By Nolan DeGarlais and Jackson Freund
March 20, 2018
Filed under News
Ciara Laney February 14, 2018 started as a seemingly normal day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSDHS) in Parkland, Florida, a public high school with over 3,000 students. However, at around 2:19 in the afternoon, close to school dismissal time, a former student entered Building 12 of th...
A Neutrality Crisis: The Internet and You
By Matthew Hipolito, Copy Editor
March 20, 2018
Filed under News
What is net neutrality? Net neutrality is a policy enacted Mar. 12, 2015 by the Federal Communications Commission, a five-person board that regulates interstate communications, under orders from then-President Barack Obama. Officially called the Open Internet Order, the act reclassified broadband ...