By Brianna Lehr Business Manager As the semester comes to a close, the Pride committee is issuing an award to ten lucky students who put in Pride tickets this past semester. All the Pride tickets gathered this semester will be put together and ten tickets will be picked at random. The students who get chosen will be presented a field trip to SkyZone during the school day. This trip will include the 10 winners and each winner will be able to bring one friend with them on the trip.
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Senior Editor After months of name-calling, talk of building a wall, erased emails, unknown taxes, and “feeling the Bern,” President-elect Donald Trump will move into the White House. He will be sworn into office as commander in chief on Jan. 24, making him the 45th president of the United States. Trump has promised several things to the American people. According to a policy statement from Trump’s campaign website, he says he’s going to restore faith in the republic of those who have given up on it. He thinks that if faith is restored, the citizens who have felt alienated for years will step forward and believe in the system once again. Perhaps helping with that cause is Trump’s outsider status. He will be the first president to have never previously held elected office nor served in the military. By Carly Guise Junior-Editor-in-Chief Juniors Jacob Lorenzen and Summer Hinton have made Red Lion history. The duo became the first Red Lion team to score in the top three at the 32nd Annual Millersville University Science Lectureship and Competition on Nov. 17. They worked together to complete a test based on mathematics and science topics and earned third place. “We went into the competition with very little preparation,” Lorenzen said, “so when we got third place, we were very excited and surprised.” By Kristen Nowicki
Staff Writer “It was insanity,” Red Lion junior Melanie Tarnacki described the mall on Thanksgiving night, or the eve of Black Friday. Black Friday is the craze shopping event that occurs the day after Thanksgiving. More than 154 million people will spend the holiday weekend shopping. This was an increase of 3 million people from 2015, according to the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights and Analytics. The average shopper spent $289.19 Thanksgiving weekend, which was down only ten dollars from last year, NRF said. Of this, 74 percent were actually spent on gifts. By Molly Merson
News and Features Editor The 2016 presidential election was one of the most talked about elections in several decades. The amount of social media buzz involving this election raised many eyebrows and questions among the people. The internet traffic regarding the election could have swayed the opinions of voters at the polls. By Brianna Lehr
Business Manager During the week of Nov. 14 to Nov. 18, Student Council is hosting a Cash for Cans event during school. This event is all about giving back to our community by using a competition between classes. Cash for Cans will be set up during the lunch shifts, and it allows students to put coins in their class can in order to gain points for their class cup. However, classes can put bills into another class’s can, to make that class lose points. The top three classes will be awarded class cup points and the winning class will win an incentive, such as a Sheetz coupon. “It boosts school spirit with the class competition aspect,” Colleen Dai said, who is a member of student council. At the end of this event, all the money goes towards the food bank. “It helps students give back to our community,” Colleen Dai said. By Shawn Gunarich
Multimedia Editor Red Lion students will pick up the slack of a pre-established recycling program in a campaign that kicked off in November. With the help of Mrs. Heather Fogell, science teacher and recycling activist, and Mr. Mark Harvey, head custodian, students will be tasked with picking up the recycling from classrooms due to a lack of resources among custodial staff. Red Lion Area Senior High School has considered starting a student-run recycling program for a long time. Recycling does exist at the school school, and has for a while, but students were asked to fill the gaps in the existing program. “The school has all the necessary grounds and maintenance, but due to the custodial staff spread so thin, there is not enough time or help in the day,” Mrs. Fogell said. “With the push of student help, we should be able to successfully get the ball rolling.” By Carly Guise
Junior Editor-in-Chief Punkin Chunkin--it’s an activity that has been steadily gaining popularity over the past few years. The idea is that participants build some kind of machine — usually a catapult or a trebuchet — capable of launching pumpkins that range from five to eight pounds. Chunking festivals around the nation have popped up, with the most well-known in Delaware. On Nov. 4, the festivities were brought to York County, with a Punkin Chunkin contest at West York Middle School. Red Lion juniors Tyler Burchett and Andrew Bacon placed fifth out of 15 teams while there. By Helen Zeidman Editor-in-Chief The Red Lion Area Senior High School shows its pride goes beyond an undefeated football team with its new status as the No. 2 school in York County. Red Lion’s high score on the Pennsylvania School Performance report bumped the school to the top of the county. The Pennsylvania Department of Education annually evaluates schools in Pennsylvania on a plethora of different factors. The department combines the scores from various categories to calculate the overall score for a school. Therefore, the top performing and well-rounded schools end up at the top of the rankings. Red Lion’s new ranking shows the hard work from staff and students has paid off. “The message I try to send is that we have a great school,” Mr. Mark Shue, the principal of Red Lion Area Senior High School, said. “This validated what we do. It really shows we have a great school here.” By Tori Austin
Staff Writer Physical education is an assigned course that students are required to take two days a cycle every year--but that will all be changing next year. During a meeting on Nov. 3, the school board approved a plan that will completely alter the way science labs and gym classes are set up. Under the plan, physical education will become a semester-long course students take every day of the cycle. However, students will only be required to take three semesters of gym class throughout their high school career. This change means that students could have a senior year free of gym class. Meanwhile, Advanced Placement (AP) science classes with double lab periods would move to having a lab period every day for a full year. During the first three marking periods, under Mr. Mark Shue’s outline, the lab period would be used for an extension of classwork. In the fourth marking period, however, the class would explore a specific science elective that the teacher deems relevant to the end-of-the-year AP test. |
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