Salary Inequity in Sports
Matt Wilkinson, Staff Writer
May 3, 2017
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Pay discrepancies in men’s and women’s sports have been the subject of intense discussion over the past couple of years, notably sparked by the USA women’s soccer team’s public complaints about their compensation. After winning the 2015 World Cup, the team was widely popular, yet was still making just a portion of the salaries of the less successful men’s players.
Read more »CO2 Incubator Obituary
Caleb Trantham, Staff Writer
May 3, 2017
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There has been a recent and very tragic development in the research department of Minnetonka High School. The sole CO2 incubator in the department has broken, thus delaying the research projects of many students who require the incubator to complete projects studying bacterial growth.
Read more »MHS Student Speaks About Her Life in the Community as a Person of Color
Jacey Mismash, Staff Writer
April 28, 2017
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The city of Minnetonka is homogeneous Minnetonka has a 94% white student population. The city of Minnetonka has a 90% white population. So not only is it hard to fit in at school, but outside of school, and for some people it’s hard to fit in at home.
Read more »Sanctuary at the U of M, Twin Cities
Matt Wilkinson, Staff Writer
March 22, 2017
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According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a sanctuary is “a place of refuge or protection,” and this is exactly how the term is being used now in politics and media. A sanctuary city is a city that welcomes illegal immigrants and refugees. If a city has adopted this policy, their police force will be instructed to disregard federal regulations regarding the deportation of their undocumented populace.
Read more »IB and AP Tests Are Coming
Mari Mazarguil
March 17, 2017
Filed under Commentary, Top Stories
Even though switching to daylight saving time has made our mornings before school dark again, it is pretty fair to say that spring is here. The time our frozen selves wearily trudged through the day in a school that should really have invested more in heating are over. With spring also comes decision time for seniors as they receive college acceptance (or rejection, but if you say it in parentheses, they don’t exist) letters. But, something more stressful than college is also on our way before the school year ends: IB and AP testing.
Read more »Trump’s VOICE Program, and Where Does it Lead?
Caleb Trantham, Staff Writer
March 17, 2017
Filed under Commentary
Trump’s Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement (VOICE) is a program that establishes a link between the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in addition to issuing quarterly reports of undocumented immigrant crime and the names of individuals accused of crimes. The stated intention is to prevent crime committed by undocumented aliens living in the United States and to give a voice to those who have been victims of crimes committed by immigrants.
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Classical Music Among Youth
Anna Barnard, Staff Writer
When we think of the music that defines our current youth culture, genres like hip hop and indie music pop into our heads. We are living in the era of autotune and lip sync, with heavy backbeats that drown out melodies. On the other end of the spectrum, classical music is probably one of the genres with which many youth would be least likely to identify. However, the movement to promote classical music amongst youth is currently picking up steam, and some teens are already beginning to latch onto it.
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