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Canada’s most recent election, when voters ousted longtime-incumbent Stephen Harper, is the longest in the Great White North’s history. However, those eleven weeks pale in comparison to the quadrennial marathon that occurs south of the border.

The Presidential Marathon

Jack Scott, Staff Writer January 14, 2016

On March 23, Texas Senator Ted Cruz became the first major candidate to announce a campaign for the presidency in 2016. Since then over 20 people have announced their intention to make it to the White...

There is an American Ninja Warrior course set up for anyone to try and test their strength. People train for years to participate in the televised event; most competitors begin in small gym courses practicing the same type of obstacles on the real course.

First American Ninja Warrior Crowned

Julie Day, Staff Writer November 30, 2015

American ninja warrior is a fitness based obstacle course that originated in Japan. The American adaptation is less rigorous than that of its Japanese brother, but still challenges anyone who can make...

Sometimes, the smallest things can make all the difference. The butterfly effect is named for the metaphorical example stating that a butterfly flapping its wings could cause a hurricane someplace far away.

Butterfly Effect

Jack Scott, Staff Writer November 30, 2015

Suppose that a student drops a pen on the ground while in class. His teacher, a person who obsesses over cleanliness, berates him. She tells him how careless his pen-dropping habits are. The kid is nearly...

North Forsyth flies their American flag half-staff to honor the memory of lives taken on 9/11. It is important to know the truth behind the terrorist attacks so that we, Americas people, receive justice for the lives our government may have aided in the extermination of.

The Truth of 9/11: What is the US Government not telling us?

Natalie Wilson, Associate Editor September 11, 2015

The amount of Americans skeptical of the recorded events on 9/11 is significant, but not nearly enough people are aware of the evidence that depicts supposed U.S. government involvement in both the downfall...

As his mother threads the needle for a quilt of his life, young James endangers himself on the frugal frontier of a nation at the expense of his mother’s symbolic gift.

Needle to the Heart

October 28, 2014

She ran her needle through the fabric, molding the pieces of his growing life together one fluid dip of her wrist at a time. The heavy sun held itself protectively above her, radiating heat upon her...

There’s nowhere like Times Square

Soul of the City

Lyndsay Hampton, Poetry Editor November 22, 2013

Architecture pierced the sky like an urban mine Incandescent lights awakened the night I saw New York Yellow trumpets blasted left and right Indistinct chatter of a million passerby’s I heard...

Friday Links: Negotiations in Syria

Sam Dobrotka, Staff Writer September 20, 2013

Over the weekend Secretary John Kerry announced the agreement to the Russian proposal to dispose of the Syrian chemical weapons without military force against President al-Assad. The proposal calls...

Junior Deborah Welch glues over the red, white, and blue of the American flag, morphing the top superpower’s national symbol into its close competitor’s flag.

Friday Links: What’s Happening in the World?

Lacy Hamilton, Staff Writer September 17, 2013

Syria Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the refugee crisis within the country has become an international matter. In July, the United Nations declared that the crisis is so horrendous...

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