Welcome to the most fun part of the year: zombies fill the hallways and teachers hide behind walls of hand sanitizer and tissue boxes. It’s cold season. First, I shall debunk some…
Category: Student Life
The End of the Year
It’s the time of the year for seniors to start fretting about the freshman 15, for juniors to start planning their rise to seniority power, for sophomores to scamper away from their…
Summer Bummers
With summer quickly approaching, the daydreams of sand between toes are replacing the thoughts of reading, writing and arithmetic. However, summer also brings some not-so-relaxing health dangers. It goes without saying that…
Medalling Around
Five students will compete in UIL Regionals on April 14 at Commerse’s Texas A&M University after advancing last weekend at academic UIL District. “UIL academics is competitive, demanding, exciting, exhausting, thrilling, and…
Courtship With The Law
A select group of HHS students will be advancing to State Mock Trial on March 1-3 in Dallas, Texas after the State pulled a wild card that allowed them to compete. “I…
The First Two Letters of the Alphabet Have Never Been Less Fun
As spring approaches, so does flu season. The flu can lead to serious illness that, in some cases, can cause hospitalization or even death. This is most common in the elderly and…
An Article by Someone Not Entirely Qualified to Write This Article
As your local short-haired, follicly-conscious journalist, I will be your guide to growing your hair out to be long and healthy… even though my hair is the exact opposite of long. Avocados,…
A Whole New World
UIL is a huge part of high school for a lot of people, myself included, but why should you join UIL in the first place? I, your dashing, daring, amazing, investigative journalist,…
The Keto Sweep
The ketogenic diet is a fad sweeping the nation, but many questions arise from it. What is the ketogenic diet? What does it do for you nutritionally? Will it help you lose…
The Curious World of Debate
There are two types of scholars in this world: typical students and debate students. Nevertheless, I decided to take a step into the explosive University Interscholastic League event known as Debate. If…
Shaking Things Up
The Fall musical “All Shook Up” opened Friday, December 1. “A lot of time went into this production,” Alaura Goad, who plays Natalie/Ed, said. “We’ve spent months preparing it. We’ve spent so…
Winter is Coming
The UIL, University Interscholastic League, Academic season begins in January 2018. There are many different opportunities to participate in UIL such as Journalism, Number Sense, One Act Play and most recently, Debate….