Mary Dvorak: A walking miracle
You’re having a bad day and all you want to do is long board with your friend. Things are going great, until things get a little winding. You find yourself carving corners you have never even thought about, then all of a sudden all your momentum has just come to a complete stop and you […]
How-to: Flower crowns
By Lauren Burnham Ah, the flower crown. A must have accessory of anybody, anywhere! Yes, you too, guys. If you’ve noticed, and I won’t be surprised if you haven’t, every Thursday a few people go around the school with flower crowns on their heads. This ‘Flower Crown Thursday’ is something me and my friends thought […]
Twenty One Pilots connects with fans at Aragon Ballroom
By Tommy Maren Tyler Joseph (right) and Josh Dun (left) get a final ovation from the crowd after playing their last song “Trees.” Twenty One Pilots played at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on December 3rd in front of a sold-out crowd on night 1 of 101 WKQX’s “The Nights We Stole Christmas.” From […]
Jensen’s keys to success
By Bailey Gorlewski Thump. Thump. Bright orange spheres slap the ground, as a pale hand hits them down again. Our scene is set at a Batavia High School girls’ basketball practice. A Mimio pen glides down a white board, as an equation is written on the board. Once again we are at Batavia High […]
Work ethic wins
By Davis Ward The buttery smell of popcorn, the popping of soda cans, the swoosh of the basket, feels like home for Coach Jim Nazos. After being in Batavia for five years, Coach Nazos has really made a name for himself. He has carried on the traditions of Batavia Basketball ever since he started coaching […]
Ways to ease the excruciating pain of PARRC testing
by Aaron Viland Political doodles What better way to express your disgust with the ‘fascist pigs’ in Washington D.C. than through doodles in the extended response section of the test? Maybe you badly desire to express the similarities you’ve observed between Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler, or maybe you have an itch to somehow portray […]
No gluten-free items in the lunchroom?
By: Bailey Gorlewski From what I can tell, and what I have been told Batavia High School does not have any strictly gluten-free options. Who does this affect, you may ask? Not having gluten-free options affects those with Celiac disease, wheat allergies, and others with gluten intolerance. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease that hurts […]
OPINION: Geneva students aren’t that bad
By Jennifer Walton Geneva is one of Batavia’s biggest rivals, and many people in Batavia would say they hate them. In my opinion I think Geneva is a good school, and I don’t really care about the rivalry. When comes to sports I don’t like geneva sports very much. I like Geneva because I […]
Romance isn’t dead; it’s badly written
By Lauren Burnham Let me first start off by saying that there is nothing wrong with the Romance genre. A good love story gets me right in the heart. However, every love story has a time and a place, and shoving it into a fantasy narrative, or a sci-fi thriller is decidedly neither. “For every […]
The alarm that alarmed too much
By Maison Tollas Faulty parts in the fire alarm system made a fire drill at Batavia High School go awry on Nov. 19. The school was unable to successfully reset the fire alarms until third block, resulting in additional alarms and constant flashing. Around 9:00 a.m. the fire alarm first went off at BHS. It […]