A Nuther Thing: Tonight in the NHS Auditorium

Matt Otte, Grade 12, is performing tonight (Jan. 31) in a one-act play called A Nuther Thing. Matt says, "There are no real characters. We are, for the most part, playing ourselves." He adds that it is a funnier show, and most audience members will find it different from a typical play. The show begins at 7 PM in the North High Auditorium.

Reminiscing Winter Weather Stories

Minnesota is known as the nation’s refrigerator and infamous for its snow storms. The winters are hard and the cold climate is brutal. Each one of us has a unique snow storm story. North teacher Karyn Hall-Dayle recalls a strange snow storm memory from her childhood. When Karyn was a child she lived in a big house and one day during the winter a huge snow storm occurred. The snow storm covered the entire neighborhood and all the homes in the area. Strangely only the front entrance to Karyn’s house was buried in snow. Karyn and her family went outside from the back of their house all the way to the front entrance to dig a tunnel from the mountain of snow all the way to the front entrance of their home. However the nieborghood was not the only place that was affected by the snow storm. The high school that she went to was also badly covered in snow. Karyan stated that “we had a snow day because there was no way to reach the school.” She also stated that “my mom was laughing about the whole situation.” In addition Karyan stated “I would be excited if this were to happen again”. “I enjoyed the phenomenon of the snow storm and what nature is capable of” says Karyan.

Ed. Center building at North High School being lock for the hold day

Tuesday 1/3/2012 the first and second door is locking in the E.C. building you have to use a key card to get in these doors. The door out on the west side of the E.C. building it also need to be lock at 8:00am, Student and Teacher who are late won’t be able to get in the building.
The problem I see in this is that what if student that has a pass to the office how would they be able to get back in the building if they don’t have a key card to get back in.
The person who came up with this rule is the District Administration; she/he wants to make it save for the kid at North High School.

YLC SWAG

The focus of district 622’s Youth Leadership Council (YLC) this winter is a project called SWAG (Students Working on the Achievement Gap). The Achievement Gap is a big issue that happens in this country, so this year the SWAG project will focus on closing the Gap when it comes to the difference in test scores of white and non-white students on the GRAD Reading, Math and Science tests. The test results show that non-white students are scoring lower on the GRAD tests.
At their November 11th meeting, YLC members decided to take the Achievement Gap into their own hands and partner with Richardson Elementary School. Richardson is a school that has lower test scores in reading and math. North High Students have been recruited to help close the Gap by mentoring a Richardson student. Every Tuesday after school, about 20 NHS students will go to Richardson and read to a student for one hour.
The purpose of YLC is to work to improve the community and also help other groups by giving grants for them to do service learning project to help the community too. YLC have been around for three year now, and meets once or twice per month to receive necessary training to help guide youth development programs.

YouTube Problems

We all know what YouTube is. We use it all the time and it is a constant resource for virtually everything we could ever want to watch. YouTube is a place to broadcast yourself or just your videos for everyone to see which is done by uploading a video. YouTube may seem to be a flawless website at times, but there are and most likely will always be reputable problems with the sight just like any other.

Uploading videos can be one of the biggest problems on the site. YouTube only offers surprisingly limited options for what format you want to upload your video in. People here in North definitely think so. “I made my movie with iMovie and it wouldn’t upload at all. I spent a lot of time trying to get it to work.” (Richard Bradley Grade 12) Videos are not always compatible with YouTube; even the videos in QuickTime format are not always compatible. Other problems with the two can arise as well. Videos can take a long time to buffer. It depends on what device is streaming You Tube with but it still can have slow loading speeds. Computers and mobile devices are the most likely to be used by people to stream YouTube. These mainly used devices can often of slow loading speeds. It depends on your connection strength but much of the time it is blatantly obvious that it is just YouTube itself of that is slow. ”This video isn’t even loading, even going back a page doesn’t work.” (Shon Rought, Grade 12) Other devices like a PS3 can also have problems where the video doesn’t even load.

YouTube may have problems but it is still and probably always will be the most immense source of information and videos on the Internet.

The North St. Paul "Quitters"

There’s a minute remaining in the second half. Erik Steele
and Nick Jones, the top two scorers for the game, are out on the court. Erik
weakly chest passes the ball over to Nick Jones as he trudges lazily down the
court, clearly bored.
The end
of a basketball game is usually the most intense part of the game, if the score
is close. In this case, the score is 86 to 31, North St. Paul in the lead. This
last minute of the game is anything but intense seeing as Maplewood has lost
all hope in winning.
“The
Quitters” is the name of the North St. Paul in house basketball team. Every
player on the team previously played for the North High school team, but
decided to quit and create their own in house team. During their first game
against Maplewood, quitting was the last thing on their minds.
“Our
main goal as a team is to achieve the state in house championship at the end of
the season,” explains Johnny Economy, “We have all played together before, so
we understand what it takes to work together and come out with a win.”
“The
Quitters” are more of an independent team. They lack a competitive coaching
staff, but rather leave it up to themselves to carry the team along. “I
couldn’t play in Sunday’s game because of an intense morning migraine, but you
better believe I was still there on the sidelines, cheering my team along,”
says Sam Shipstad.
Although
this group of athletes quit from the school team, they have no intensions to
quit from this team. They have great chemistry together and most of all they
have fun while playing a sport they all love.

School dress code; enforced enough?

Is the school dress code still intact here at North? When I look around, I definitely wouldn’t get the answer the school is looking for. For as many rules as they have, the school dress code rules seem to be slipping away more and more as the year goes on. If this keeps continuing, girls will be practically wearing nothing! Samantha Ortiz a junior at North says that “The guidelines for how to dress at school aren’t really followed by the students. I don’t really care though; they should be able to dress according to their style. If they want to dress provocatively then go for it.” Another student Noah Keen a senior feels that “there should be a stricter dress code. Girls come to school in the winter wearing way to short of skirts like it’s the middle of July.” On the other hand, Emily Gill another junior believes that “students should be able to wear what they like and express themselves the way that they want to.” But still believes you should follow some of the guidelines for dressing at school. “Kids (mainly girls) don’t even dress according to the season anymore, they just try to wear as little of clothing as possible.” One of the rules is that your shorts and skirts must be at or below the fingertips. Emily has figured that most girls here at North tend to wear shorts that are much above the guidelines. The school seems to enforce dress code rules much less than the rules that apply for people simply wearing hats or gloves in school.