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Classroom Reinvented
By Skylar Lindsay
PSCS, as it’s called by those familiar with it, is a Seattle private school based around the idea that academics shouldn’t be the main focus of school. There are no rows of desks, no lockers, no pink attendance slips. The school places the creation of an environment where students learn without the conventional goals of increased test scores, more AP classes, and higher GPAs. While these may be important to individuals, they aren’t part of the school’s general expectations for students. In fact, these general expectations include very little at all.
Published April 30, 2010 - Focus
Does Size Matter?
An exclusive behind-the-scenes investigation
By Skylar Lindsay
A slow, grueling battle of the sexes has been playing out on planet Earth for centuries. Men fail to understand women, and hearts are broken. Women fail to understand men, and very few good sandwiches get made. But here’s where The Messenger comes in. In an attempt to mend hearts, improve sandwiches, and better the coexistence of the genders, an investigation has been made into whether or not size really matters.
Published April 16, 2010 - Features
On Top of Bubblin’ Brown Sugar
Garfield’s dance team takes a new style
By Skylar Lindsay
Before Bubblin’ Brown Sugar 2010, the Garfield Dance Team had often been champions of the annual competition via conventional booty poppin’ goodness.Tradition demanded a Bulldog victory packed to the bursting point with provacative seduction. An answer came in the form of new coaches, an almost entirely new team of dancers, and a new style.
Published April 16, 2010 - News
Spring Break, Picture That
Your week off just got a lot better
By Skylar Lindsay
As we know from “Ten Things I Hate About You,” Seattle in the spring is a gorgeous time to look for love as well as better yourself as an individual. And so, with those goals in mind, the Messenger has given me room to impart 700 or so words of Gandalf-caliber wisdom regarding your hyphy-as-possible spring break agenda.
Published March 26, 2010 - Features
A Down to Earth Approach
Garfield juniors get a semester closer to nature
By Skylar Lindsay
Located in rural Vermont, Mountain School is an opportunity open to high school juniors that takes them away from the traditional school for a semester of organic farming and learning. They take many of the same classes that they would’ve signed up for had they stayed at their regular high school, but Mountain School also encourages a strong connection to both the teachers and the land.
Published March 12, 2010 - Features
Bars and Polls
Washington felons on their way to the ballot box
By Skylar Lindsay
In 1996, six prison inmates brought a civil court case against the state of Washington in an attempt to regain the right to vote for felons across the state. On January fifth, the original advocates of the case, led by Muhammad Shabazz Farrakhan, convinced the 9th District Court to overturn a precedent and rule in their favor, agreeing with the plaintiffs’ original claims.
Published February 26, 2010 - News
Class, Break, Dip
Students across the district take part in auto shop
By Skylar Lindsay
There’s something to be said for having a nice car. You get mobbed by gorgeous women, and even the smallest trip out for groceries becomes an engine-revving occasion for bumpin’ it. Nevertheless, with great power comes great responsibility. And with any car comes a plethora of mechanical problems.
Published February 26, 2010 - Features
Fundraising Frenzy
GHS clubs scrape by on nickels and dimes.
By Skylar Lindsay
Across the GHS club scene, presidents and members alike have been peddling everything from baked goods to llama-blazoned sweatshirts in an attempt to escape the general lack of funds seen by many clubs at Garfield.
Published January 15, 2010 - News
Lifesavers Anyone?
Students Against Violence Everywhere returns to GHS
By Skylar Lindsay
As students settled into their seats for a Martin Luther King Day assembly on January 12, 1995, a freshman was bullied by then-junior Hassan Coaxum into giving up the weed he was selling. The freshman left the assembly and returned to school during lunch with a nine-millimeter handgun. Upon finding Coaxum in the first-floor lunchroom, […]
Published December 11, 2009 - News
November Election Reflection
Who's gonna run this town?
By Skylar Lindsay
An array of equally worthy personages have stepped up to fill a variety of local offices, deciding our fate as Seattleites for the next four years.
