Take Five with James Fountain
River Bradshaw, Staff Reminder
December 18, 2018
Filed under Award Winners, Double Truck, Features
He has a tournament named after him by a former student. He was one of two to be the first to be inducted as a 2005 inductee to the Arizona Forensics League Hall of Fame. He is super successful as a coach and has countless state champs and national ranked students. He took over for Lisle Jones ...
Immigrants facing nugatory remarks needs to stop
Morgan Chung, Staff Reporter
February 7, 2017
Filed under Award Winners, Opinions
People like jokes that are funny. But once the joke becomes personal, it isn’t funny anymore. Immigrants are being targeted on a daily basis everywhere in America, even at Perry. I have been the butt of these immigrant jokes numerous times. If the joke is funny then it is funny. But if the peop...
Texting while driving is more dangerous than teens believe it is
Morgan Chung, Staff Reporter
November 15, 2016
Filed under Award Winners, Opinions
Texting while driving is the equivalent of signing your own and someone else’s death wish. People say, ‘it won’t happen to me’ in response to someone telling them that they might die if they drive while texting. That is what people respond with when someone tells them that they might get a...
Leaving a Legacy
Cameron Martin, Staff Reporter
September 29, 2016
Filed under Award Winners, Features, News, Showcase
As a play-by-play sportscaster of four years, senior Joran Palacio is finally getting his big break. As a finalist for a Student Production Award, Palacio is one of about 120 students nominated as part of the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. According ...
Prop 123: More Money More Problems?
Nathan Tucker, News Editor
April 22, 2016
Filed under Award Winners, News
Arizona schools are stuck in an unenviable position. Out of 50 states, Arizona placed 48th in amount of money spent for each student: every Arizonan child in K-12 education equaled $7,208 spent, according to a 2013 report from the US Census Bureau (for reference, the national average that year was $10,7...
NHS process as hard as it needs to be
Emma Fernandez, Editor and Chief
March 1, 2016
Filed under Award Winners, Opinions
National Honors Society: the name means something. Students apply because it will look good on an application and there’s a reason for that. Not just anyone can get in. NHS only accepts the best of the best. Some people believe that NHS is too hard to get into. However, that is the point. If NHS w...
NHS selection process is too hard
Molly Ogden and Savannah Ostler
March 1, 2016
Filed under Award Winners, Opinions
The prestige. The honor. The distinguishment. These are all perks that come with acceptance to the National Honor Society. NHS is one of the most competitive and esteemed groups on campus. Many students spend their first 2 years of high school working to qualify for an invitation for NHS. Let us rewind...
Editorial: Scars left by social media post can last a lifetime
February 3, 2016
Filed under Award Winners, Opinions
Every day we hear adults or our parents and authorities dole out constant warnings about what we post on social media. For most of us, those warnings go in one ear and out the other, thinking we have total control over who sees what we post. Unfortunately, it is not until an irreversible mistake is made...
Senior doubles as student and professional model
August Bowers, Staff Reporter
May 20, 2015
Filed under Award Winners, Features
Imagine walking down the streets in Los Angeles, New York, England, Australia, and all around the world; seeing your face on top of billboards and posters, advertising your work as one of the most talented models in the world. Senior Taylor Howard is living this dream and taking the modeling...
State testing disrupted learning more than helped
Kaitlyn VanKlompenberg, Staff Writer
April 23, 2015
Filed under Award Winners, Opinions
Now that the 2015 AzMERIT testing season has come to a close, let’s take a moment to reflect. Or exhale. The term’s circus, zoo, nightmare have bounced around the testing circuit this spring, but why? Politicians like Gov. Doug Ducey and Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas have g...
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