Meet the new girl from Kansas: Alexa!

A new year usually means a fresh start for most people, especially for sixteen-year-old junior Alexa Jade Lauppe. If the name does not sound familiar, it’s probably because most haven’t met her yet. She came all the way from Meade, Kansas, a town of only 1000 people.

In other words, she came from a town smaller than the population of our school. Her actual high school only had about 150 kids. However, that did not stop them from having similar extra curricular activities like Key Club, Quiz Bowl (Knowledge Bowl), and the Kayettes(a girls service club), among others. Furthermore, the schedule was different. “My classes back home are only an hour, and we have the same seven classes each day,” she recalled. … Continue Reading

How to be classified as a highly competent teacher

Luckily, at University High, we are blessed with some extraordinary teachers who really know what they’re doing. For those wanting to follow in their footsteps, here are some tips to propel you into a bright future:

When asked a question, give a nonsensical answer.

This will facilitate creativity and force students to work together to try and figure out what you mean. If your students cannot figure it out, ignore them to help build character and to help prepare them for the real world where rejection is prevalent. … Continue Reading

Are you okay? It looks like you hurt your pride.

Fifth year

As students enter high school they have to start thinking about college, and how they will pay for it. Many people have to work hard along with applying for scholarships and grants to pay for their education. Although some people can get enough scholarships to pay for college not everyone can.

So if a person was given the opportunity to get a free year of college why wouldn’t they? How this program works is that students sign up their senior year, and get to walk with their class for graduation. The one down side of this program is that by doing this you do not receive your diploma till the following year and you are required to have 12 college credits before your senior year is over. Although this program takes work it could possibly be worth it to get a free year of college.. Although by being in the program students will still be technically enrolled at University High School these people will never have to attend University. What many people are unaware of is that they could possibly have the chance to get a free year of college just by signing up for the fifth year program.

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Jane Eyre Review

The moment I walked in the door I was greeted by two school girls, curtsey and all. A “good evening Ma’am” was uttered as the door closed behind me. The lobby of the Auditorium was set up as a kind of seating room, the lamps sitting on small side tables. Walking into the auditorium, the small crowd was a disappointment for such an impressive display of talent, to say the least. The Auditorium was hardly filled, and the groups of students and family were so spread out that the audience actually looked larger than it was.

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In defense of University

The recent letter to the editor from my former classmate Faith Sears is full of many good points about both Union Colony and University, but I feel that several important pieces of information were left out of her argument. First of all, I should state that I have attended Frontier Academy and Union Colony as well as University for at least two years each, I currently have a sibling in each charter school, and my mother is a teacher at one of the charter schools. My siblings and I are the only students in Greeley with this distinction, and as such I feel qualified to give an unbiased opinion.

The best thing about charter schools is that they are different from each other. Union Colony is founded and run by teachers, Frontier Academy is founded and run by parents and University was founded by UNC. Each boasts fantastic teachers, each has well-

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I’ve Got Christm-…. er… Holiday Spirit?

It’s clearly the most wonderful time of the year. The most inspired season of kindness and well being, tolerance, peace among men, and good cheer. So why must this intended-to-be-positive time of year seem to spark so much hostility? Across the nation companies, corporations, and colleges must try to conform to a sense of national political correctness and religious tolerance in order to avoid bankruptcy-inducing law suits, and mass slander delivered by the always ‘accurate and unbiased’ media.  It seems that in today’s sense of a global mood and strengthened idea that the majority is always right, that tolerance is being preached to a point where having an ‘intolerant mind’ can become equivalent to a mortal tragedy. So who among us has the correct sense and responsibility to decide what is appropriately tolerant?

Recently in the news, a group of people gathered outside the capitol building to raise their arms and yell in protest, which is a basic American right. Ironically it seems they’re protesting another basic right; freedom of religion. In their opinion, showcasing holiday decorations is intolerance. Apparently in their perceptions, to support one religion means they’re favoring it and automatically

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The Way We Kum and Go

Many students take several different routes to lunch. Many students eat at the school cafeteria. There are also many students that get in cars and take off to local restaurants. Also, students frequently take the route of packing a sack lunch. Some students choose not to eat at all, but the one place that a lot of students eat the most, and possibly the majority, is the one students Kum & Go from.

Why the Kum & Go? Its simple; freedom of food and lack there-of. The matter of this is that students without cars have no other choice besides school lunch, sack lunch, or the Kum & Go. “The choices there are much better than what they are at home,” said Colin Fischer, Freshman. Many students just want the connivance of choice when it comes to lunch as opposed to eating whatever is given to them. So students know why they go to the Kum & Go and how they feel about it, the question is how they feel about university students. … Continue Reading

No More Free Music? Concert Fees

The Holiday concert took place on December 3, 2010 and enjoyed a night filled with applause, beautiful solos, and showing off the hard work all the students in the music department put in over the first half of the school year.  Seeing all these wonderful vocal virtuosos or instrumental prodigies is amazing on its own, let alone getting into this exciting event for free.  However, it may not be free for very much longer.

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Hot Dogs to the Rescue