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The Student-Run Newspaper of Townsend Harris High School at Queens College

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The Student-Run Newspaper of Townsend Harris High School at Queens College

The Classic

30 years of Founder’s Day celebrated

Ekta Rana November 25, 2014
This year, the Townsend Harris community gathered for Founder’s Day at Colden Auditorium to celebrate the school’s 30th anniversary since its 1984 re-opening. Aside from the traditional presentations, there were a few aspects that made this year’s celebration unique.

Boat shoes sail into style

Asiya Jaffer November 25, 2014
You don’t need to own a boat to rock the latest footwear trend - that’s right, you guessed it: boat shoes! When Harrisites can’t pick between a pair of kicks and heels, they find a trendy but casual middle ground with these lifesavers. The boat shoe--also known as...

Sophomore artist a finalist

Shreya Seepersaud November 25, 2014

Sophomore Kyra Hu recently qualified as a finalist in the “Take This Phone and Glove It” competition hosted by Ripley’s Believe It Not! Times Square. This institution partnered with Glove It, an...

Life of Little Pie

November 25, 2014

THIS SEASON, you can make the holidays as easy as pie by ordering a delicious homemade pie from Little Pie Company. Little Pie Company is a bakery that originated in New York in 1985. Located in Manhattan...

Girls bowling loses to Stuyvesant after a successful season

Catherine Ng November 25, 2014

  After a successful season of 10 wins to 1 loss, the girls bowling team in the Queens I League Division lost to Stuyvesant High School in game A 545-473, and game B 447-415 in the playoffs. Despite...

Fig wins big in powerlifting competition

Eileen Jimenez November 25, 2014
Teachers are more than just the eight hours they commit themselves to at Townsend Harris. Outside these walls, they all have families, hobbies, and interesting stories. Besides being the dean...

Writing worked for me

Sara Laderoute November 25, 2014

I question whether it is appropriate for a student to label publicly a Department’s work as being one of “a monotony of drills, exercises and endless translations “ with the approval of a school’s...

Another student perspective

Parbattie Anant November 25, 2014

Last month, Zion Kim’s article “Foreign Language: let’s speak more, write less” advocated for language classes to stop with monotonous grammar drills in order to have more verbal lessons. However,...

Ignorance

Christan Castillo November 25, 2014

STUDIES HAVE examined various factors that impact learning a second language including lesson planning, classwork activities and the use of technology such as audio and video in order to achieve proficiency...

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