Alone on valentines day?
You're in Good Company.
Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and couples everywhere are spending extravagant amounts of money to prove they're in love. Companies such as 1-800 Flowers and Tiffany & Co are rejoicing at the money rolling in.
Of course not everyone has a significant other on this day of love, and Valentine's Day has an undertone of despair as single people are reminded of how dateless they really are. Often times people turn bitter, remarking Valentine's Day is a useless holiday and a waste of money, going as far as calling it Single’s Awareness Day- or SAD. Anti-Valentine’s Day posts are also frequent, leading to the question, what’s so bad about being single?
Being single is like having every path open to you! You don’t have to consult anyone about what you want, and compromise doesn’t happen every time you make a choice. You don’t have to spend money on dates, and you have free time to spend with anyone you want.
If you’re alone this Valentine's Day, remind yourself about the best parts of the single life! Here are some activities for the special person in your life, yourself.
Buy Yourself Chocolate: No one knows your taste better than you do. Spend a little extra and buy your favorite chocolates! Buy as many as you’d like, and don’t share with anyone! Eat as many as you want without judgment! Go an extra mile and buy that stuffed animal you’ve been eyeing!
Buy Yourself Anything: If candies and plushies aren’t your thing, go out and get something else. A book, an action figure, that new CD or new paintbrushes. Whatever you can afford, and have been wanting, go out and get it. It's not like you have to buy a date anything!
Go To The Gym: Work out. Pump iron. Sweat out all that negativity. Or do yoga! Gym’s aren’t only for big beefy guys! Roll out your mat (or towel) and focus on your breathing as all your muscles work and relax. Feel the stress of life fall from your shoulders.
Watch a movie: Lose yourself in a fictional world, or someone else’s life. The romance that you dream of, the adventure you long for. Whether you decide to go to the theater or watch it at home, spend a while laughing and crying, falling in love and storming a castle.
Sweat pants all day: Lounge around the house in your comfiest pajamas, whether they’re cute, new, old, or ratty, enjoy having no one to impress. Eat your body weight in ice cream, or play video games with no one to nag you. Leave your hair messy, skip a day of shaving that stubble. Relax and enjoy.
Alternatively, Dress Up: Throw on your best outfit, the ones that make you feel confident, and show everyone what you’re made of. Go out somewhere, whether to eat or just hang out, don your favorite dress, or best shirt, and feel good about yourself. Dress for yourself, because who else do you need to impress?
However you plan on spending the day, (Even though it's a school day, and we all have to spend the day bored in class) have fun, and leave the self-pity behind.
Of course not everyone has a significant other on this day of love, and Valentine's Day has an undertone of despair as single people are reminded of how dateless they really are. Often times people turn bitter, remarking Valentine's Day is a useless holiday and a waste of money, going as far as calling it Single’s Awareness Day- or SAD. Anti-Valentine’s Day posts are also frequent, leading to the question, what’s so bad about being single?
Being single is like having every path open to you! You don’t have to consult anyone about what you want, and compromise doesn’t happen every time you make a choice. You don’t have to spend money on dates, and you have free time to spend with anyone you want.
If you’re alone this Valentine's Day, remind yourself about the best parts of the single life! Here are some activities for the special person in your life, yourself.
Buy Yourself Chocolate: No one knows your taste better than you do. Spend a little extra and buy your favorite chocolates! Buy as many as you’d like, and don’t share with anyone! Eat as many as you want without judgment! Go an extra mile and buy that stuffed animal you’ve been eyeing!
Buy Yourself Anything: If candies and plushies aren’t your thing, go out and get something else. A book, an action figure, that new CD or new paintbrushes. Whatever you can afford, and have been wanting, go out and get it. It's not like you have to buy a date anything!
Go To The Gym: Work out. Pump iron. Sweat out all that negativity. Or do yoga! Gym’s aren’t only for big beefy guys! Roll out your mat (or towel) and focus on your breathing as all your muscles work and relax. Feel the stress of life fall from your shoulders.
Watch a movie: Lose yourself in a fictional world, or someone else’s life. The romance that you dream of, the adventure you long for. Whether you decide to go to the theater or watch it at home, spend a while laughing and crying, falling in love and storming a castle.
Sweat pants all day: Lounge around the house in your comfiest pajamas, whether they’re cute, new, old, or ratty, enjoy having no one to impress. Eat your body weight in ice cream, or play video games with no one to nag you. Leave your hair messy, skip a day of shaving that stubble. Relax and enjoy.
Alternatively, Dress Up: Throw on your best outfit, the ones that make you feel confident, and show everyone what you’re made of. Go out somewhere, whether to eat or just hang out, don your favorite dress, or best shirt, and feel good about yourself. Dress for yourself, because who else do you need to impress?
However you plan on spending the day, (Even though it's a school day, and we all have to spend the day bored in class) have fun, and leave the self-pity behind.
Juniors to take act, workkeys test at craig
By Aidan Eno
February 28th and March 1st are two big days for the junior body.
On those days, juniors across the state of Wisconsin will take the ACT and the Workkeys test, respectively. The ACT at Craig will go until approximately 1:00, and juniors will be dismissed from school. Freshman, sopho- more, and seniors will not have school.
The ACT is an important test for college bound students. While some colleges have begun to give students the option of submitting standardized test results, most still require those scores. “The school started administering the ACT to all juniors during the 2014-15 school year as a result of a state department of public instruction mandate that all juniors in the state of WI take the ACT on the same date,” said Sherri Rudkin, one of the school’s coordinators for the test.
There are a few benefits to the school’s administering of the test. If a student were to take the ACT on a national test date, the student would have to pay $58.50. The test administered at Craig on the 28th, however, is free to students. These scores can be used for college admission, so if a student does well, they would not need to take the test again, as is common among juniors shooting for a better score.
“The ACT score can be used for admission to any state four year or two year institution as well as any state technical college,” says Rudkin. The scores usually arrive at Craig around three weeks after the test date.
For some students, a lot of preparation goes into the ACT. Preparation courses are held throughout the year, and some have already taken the test, in hopes of better understanding the types of questions on the test.
The administering of the test also requires a lot of preparation and coordination. Room rosters need to be be created so the juniors know where to report, and ACT supervisors and proctors need to be assigned a room. Parents and families need to be informed, and that means distributing information to the families of about 400 families. All staff will attend meetings on how to deliver the ACT. Expelled students need to be tracked down, because if they don’t take the test, it counts as a zero for the school’s report card. And after the test is over, the tests, about 400 or so, will need to be boxed up and sent out for scoring. It’s a lot, but with this intense preparation come quite a few benefits.
Students registering for the statewide ACT will register during I-block on Feb. 21st and 22nd, whereas a student registering for a national test date would register online. If a student were to take the ACT on a national test date, the student would have to pay $58.50. The test administered at Craig on the 28th, however, is free to students. These scores are can help get students into college. And for students who aren’t juniors, school is off.
The following day, juniors will take the Workkeys test. The Workkeys is a test that assesses a student’s readiness for a job.
Students can submit their scores to potential employers, and their employers can gauge their strengths and weakness.
The test will be held on March 1st, and it will go until 12:30. After that, students will attend shortened classes for the rest of the day.
Both of these tests are serious and important, and students should treat them as such. While it is necessary to remember that each individual is more than a test score, these scores can help strengthen an application, whether it be for college or a career, and students should try their best.
So freshman, sophomores, and seniors... enjoy your day off. And juniors... good luck.
On those days, juniors across the state of Wisconsin will take the ACT and the Workkeys test, respectively. The ACT at Craig will go until approximately 1:00, and juniors will be dismissed from school. Freshman, sopho- more, and seniors will not have school.
The ACT is an important test for college bound students. While some colleges have begun to give students the option of submitting standardized test results, most still require those scores. “The school started administering the ACT to all juniors during the 2014-15 school year as a result of a state department of public instruction mandate that all juniors in the state of WI take the ACT on the same date,” said Sherri Rudkin, one of the school’s coordinators for the test.
There are a few benefits to the school’s administering of the test. If a student were to take the ACT on a national test date, the student would have to pay $58.50. The test administered at Craig on the 28th, however, is free to students. These scores can be used for college admission, so if a student does well, they would not need to take the test again, as is common among juniors shooting for a better score.
“The ACT score can be used for admission to any state four year or two year institution as well as any state technical college,” says Rudkin. The scores usually arrive at Craig around three weeks after the test date.
For some students, a lot of preparation goes into the ACT. Preparation courses are held throughout the year, and some have already taken the test, in hopes of better understanding the types of questions on the test.
The administering of the test also requires a lot of preparation and coordination. Room rosters need to be be created so the juniors know where to report, and ACT supervisors and proctors need to be assigned a room. Parents and families need to be informed, and that means distributing information to the families of about 400 families. All staff will attend meetings on how to deliver the ACT. Expelled students need to be tracked down, because if they don’t take the test, it counts as a zero for the school’s report card. And after the test is over, the tests, about 400 or so, will need to be boxed up and sent out for scoring. It’s a lot, but with this intense preparation come quite a few benefits.
Students registering for the statewide ACT will register during I-block on Feb. 21st and 22nd, whereas a student registering for a national test date would register online. If a student were to take the ACT on a national test date, the student would have to pay $58.50. The test administered at Craig on the 28th, however, is free to students. These scores are can help get students into college. And for students who aren’t juniors, school is off.
The following day, juniors will take the Workkeys test. The Workkeys is a test that assesses a student’s readiness for a job.
Students can submit their scores to potential employers, and their employers can gauge their strengths and weakness.
The test will be held on March 1st, and it will go until 12:30. After that, students will attend shortened classes for the rest of the day.
Both of these tests are serious and important, and students should treat them as such. While it is necessary to remember that each individual is more than a test score, these scores can help strengthen an application, whether it be for college or a career, and students should try their best.
So freshman, sophomores, and seniors... enjoy your day off. And juniors... good luck.
Jazz trip to steven's point
On Friday February 4 Jazz I, Jazz II, and Combo band, a small jazz band that focuses on improvisation, took a 2 hour trip to Steven’s Point Jazz Fest.
They came back with lots of awards even though this was non-competitive. In Jazz II Parker Runquist, Noah Kolak, and Ryan O’Donnell each won outstanding soloist award winners.
In Jazz I Bobbie Jo Disch, Andrew Moore, and Alex McNall each got outstanding jazz musician awards.
After eating lunch they separated and went to their different masterclasses where they were taught a little bit about proper warm-up techniques and techniques they should use to learn a song on their instrument.
After warming up each one of the bands played and were introduced to Tim Albright, a trombone professor at Lawrence University, and Laura Caviani, who has a master in music and has taught at many schools and colleges, the clinicians that judged the bands.
Then to end their time Tim and Laura went up to the stage and helped the bands out by going through parts of the songs that could use a little improvement and the bands also got to have some fun with improvisation which is a huge and very important part of jazz.
They came back with lots of awards even though this was non-competitive. In Jazz II Parker Runquist, Noah Kolak, and Ryan O’Donnell each won outstanding soloist award winners.
In Jazz I Bobbie Jo Disch, Andrew Moore, and Alex McNall each got outstanding jazz musician awards.
After eating lunch they separated and went to their different masterclasses where they were taught a little bit about proper warm-up techniques and techniques they should use to learn a song on their instrument.
After warming up each one of the bands played and were introduced to Tim Albright, a trombone professor at Lawrence University, and Laura Caviani, who has a master in music and has taught at many schools and colleges, the clinicians that judged the bands.
Then to end their time Tim and Laura went up to the stage and helped the bands out by going through parts of the songs that could use a little improvement and the bands also got to have some fun with improvisation which is a huge and very important part of jazz.
Lesser known black figures for black history month
Everybody knows Martin Luther King Jr. and Maya Angelou, but they’re far from the only Black figures this month is dedicated to.
Here are a few of the others.
Benjamin Banneker was a free-born descendant of slaves who became a famous 18th-century astronomer, mathematician and surveyor. He is considered by many to be the first African-American scientist. “Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
George Washington Carver was a world-famous chemist who made important agricultural discoveries and inventions. His research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops and improve their diets. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. “Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.”
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years. “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
In 1983, Guion S. Bluford became the first African American to travel into space when he served as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
Macon Bolling Allen is believed to be both the first African American licensed to practice law and to hold a judicial position in the United States. Allen passed the bar exam in Maine in 1844 and became a Massachusetts Justice of the Peace in 1848.
Mary Jane Patterson is largely recognized as the first black woman in the United States to graduate from an established four-year college. “Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.”
Valerie Thomas is an African-American scientist and inventor best known for her patented illusion transmitter and contributions to NASA research.
Even under discrimination these people did big things.
Here are a few of the others.
Benjamin Banneker was a free-born descendant of slaves who became a famous 18th-century astronomer, mathematician and surveyor. He is considered by many to be the first African-American scientist. “Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
George Washington Carver was a world-famous chemist who made important agricultural discoveries and inventions. His research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops and improve their diets. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. “Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.”
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years. “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
In 1983, Guion S. Bluford became the first African American to travel into space when he served as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
Macon Bolling Allen is believed to be both the first African American licensed to practice law and to hold a judicial position in the United States. Allen passed the bar exam in Maine in 1844 and became a Massachusetts Justice of the Peace in 1848.
Mary Jane Patterson is largely recognized as the first black woman in the United States to graduate from an established four-year college. “Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.”
Valerie Thomas is an African-American scientist and inventor best known for her patented illusion transmitter and contributions to NASA research.
Even under discrimination these people did big things.