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Behind the Screen
Sometimes friendships are just a click away
By Lisa Buckner
Garfield junior Selam Gessese sits on the bed and leans her back against the wall. A sleek, blue Dell Studio laptop rests on her thighs, humming and getting progressively warmer as it processes every request. A window bearing the blue-outlined, bubbly word “Skype” opens on the desktop, and she runs her finger across the touchpad until the cursor falls over the green “video call” button. Gessese taps the touchpad twice, and watches as a black box comes up on the screen.
Published May 21, 2010 - News
Rachel’s Challenge
A Columbine shooting victim continues to inspire
By Lisa Buckner
Rachel’s Challenge, so named for the call of action in Scott’s essay challenging readers to look for the best in others, has been presented to over five million people in audiences around the world.
Published April 30, 2010 - News
Culture Shock
Bizarre practices from around the globe
By Lisa Buckner
Across the world, people take part in customs and rituals that have withstood the tests of time. Unique to each culture, these practices have long histories of meaning and significance, even though oftentimes they may seem awkward, bizarre, and out of place in today’s society.
Published April 16, 2010 - Features
Like Mice in a Maze
Deviation is impossible
By Lisa Buckner
A year ago I would’ve been disappointed in her, reassuring her that college is in fact the opposite of stupid. But today, I recognize the unnecessary amount of work most of us put into making feasible for ourselves a fixed future that we deem as “normal”; a future including going to a respected college and working a respected career. Our society has made it so that failure to attend college might as well be failure period.
Published March 26, 2010 - Opinion
Secret Seattle
This city offers a lot more than just restaurants
By Lisa Buckner
Along the road leading to the water at Golden Gardens, attentive eyes can spot out an ill-maintained trail. Hike along this trail for about half a mile and one will come to a clearing with a yellow-roped swing hanging from the branch of one of the numerous trees. This spot is one of the few truly secretive places mentioned on Facebook’s “Secret Seattle” group page, a group “for Seattleites to share secrets of the Emerald City,” originally inspired by the groups “Secret London” and “Secret New York.”
Published March 12, 2010 - News
The Big One-Eight
Some unfamiliar privileges that come with adulthood
By Lisa Buckner
It seems like an entire world of opportunities instantly puts itself at your fingertips when you turn 18. The term “illegal” becomes a little less applicable, while the term “responsibility” either earns immense respect or gets completely ignored. At the age of 18 one is granted a running list of legally viable activities to be conquered without parental consent.
Published February 26, 2010 - Features
S.W.A.G
Garfield’s popular art club starts its first project.
By Lisa Buckner
Students Want Art at Garfield (S.W.A.G.) has quickly become one of the most well known clubs on Garfield’s campus. Dedicated to getting more artwork and true dog spirit around the school, it’s no wonder that S.W.A.G has over 300 members in its Facebook group. Members of S.W.A.G plan on doing small school spirited projects, such as painting trashcans and getting banners, but much larger plans have also been made.
Published January 15, 2010 - News
Off With Their Heads!
I’m a strong believer in the death penalty.
By Lisa Buckner
I believe in second chances when a 10-year-old boy beats up his classmate. Fight hate with love, and the 10-year-old boy most likely will grow up to be a nice young man. I don’t, however, believe in fighting hate with love when it comes to a murderer.
Published January 15, 2010 - Opinion
Can I Make an Exchange?
America in foreign eyes.
By Lisa Buckner
Most of the exchange students I befriended this year are in the exchange program AFS, and go to schools throughout and outside of Seattle.
Published December 11, 2009 - News
Lightning, Thunder, Hail, Oh My!
Charlie Phillips: The Weather Man
By Lisa Buckner
He’s a star student in school, but his abilities don’t stop there. Charlie has one more: he can accurately predict atmospheric conditions based on raw numerical weather models, the alignment of winds at different millibar levels in the atmosphere, and the distance in feet from one pressure zone to another.
