The recent massacre in Newtown, Connecticut seems to have fully awakened the country to the horrors of school shootings.  Barring new legislation, it is difficult for people to know what they can do to...

As the year 2012 drew to a close last month, the holiday spirit was dampened for many across the country by the agitated and concerned voices of a number of politicians and spokesmen in the nation’s...

If you are reading this, that means you “survived” the end of the world. You were able to celebrate the holidays and bring in the new year without the apocalypse happening. The world was predicted...

Students from Social Studies teacher Linda Steinmann’s Band 9 A.P. U.S. Government class competed in the National Competition, We The People: The Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Ms. Debra Lesser...

Lying in a deep deficit during the fourth quarter of the finals, the Hawks Boys Basketball Team saw its hopes of winning the Jim Dilg Christmas Tournament begin to fade. In a dramatic upset, the team,...

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi has scored a record-breaking 91 goals in the 2012 calendar year, breaking the German Gerd Mueller’s 40-year-old record of 85 goals in a calendar year. Messi scored 79 goals...

From the onset, Qdoba and Chipotle are incredibly similar restaurants, serving “fast casual” Mexican food and stressing fresh and healthy ingredients. In an attempt to ensure maximum comparability,...

For many students at THHS, watching shows and movies online is a favored pastime. We are the Netflix generation, and for those of us who come into school and talk at length about the great shows we’ve...

Snowboarding and skiing may seem daunting to the timid, perilous to penny-pinchers, and time consuming to the average person. One of the most common reasons that students in NYC choose to abstain from...

In a day and age where most of our lives revolve around our phones and our ability to stay connected with one another, “smartphones” are becoming quite commonplace. While many of us are well versed...

I walked into the 12 o’clock showing of Les Misérables at my local movie theatre with high expectations. I’m a big fan of the Broadway production as well as Victor Hugo’s novel and, admittedly,...

The past few months were the hardest of 2012, bringing destruction and grief to the country.  After a lackluster election that ended with a victory for our incumbent, it was hard to get excited about...