Going Out with a Bang
How do you measure a year? How does a class stack up against the past and prepare for the future? Students put in hours of work, physical strain, and mental anguish. But perhaps the biggest measure of success for a senior class here comes not from what they do, but from what they can get…
Up in the Air: Food Insecurity
About 8% of children in the United States do not know where their next meal will come from. Within this number, 0.8% often miss meals because of poverty. This statistic represents not just a number, but real kids who have to deal with the growing problem of food insecurity. Hunger affects those near us even…
Going Greener
Just like Kermit the frog said, it’s not easy being green. But just because it’s not easy doesn’t mean that it isn’t a worthwhile goal. The purpose of the Green Team started out well enough—to encourage reuse and recycling and to play our small part in saving the planet. That purpose, however, somehow got lost…
Can-do Attitude
In recent years, we have found a way to make the can drive that benefits Helping Hand into a competition between the home rooms. The results produced more cans, but has the competition taken away from the focus on feeding the poor? When it comes to charitable causes, do the ends justify the means? The…
Redemption: A Podcast
A Transcript of the podcast is below: Redemption: In the dictionary it means, “The action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil. To some people, it is a religious word, meaning coming back into the faith; for others, it is a means to gain back fidelity, a way to make…
Being a Good Man
Often in life, especially as a student Catholic High, a boy may ponder what it means to be a good man. Ms. Jenny Moses hopes to answer that question with the Mount Saint Mary’s (MSM) production of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, which premiered on Thursday, November 3rd. You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown…
Computer Power
If knowledge is power, a new class at Catholic High—Computer Science and Programming—really packs a punch. The class itself is a result of a push from the governor of Arkansas, Mr. Asa Hutchinson. Mr. Hutchinson said he believes that offering computer classes will change the state’s economy and “will put us on the forefront of technology education.”…