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The Stigma of General Classes
by Tessa Stathis
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Are general classes really all that bad?

"Yeah, I'm in Honors English, AP Euro, AP Bio and next year I want to take AP Lit." Know people like that? I sure do.

In a school like Jamesville-Dewitt High School where academics are considered vastly more important than any other kind of after-school activity such as sports, hobbies or elective classes, teachers and guidance counselors are always pushing students to perform their best. Now, this isn't necessarily bad because of this strive towards academic perfection many of us find...

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SSYO's Recent Ordeals - How Will It Survive?
by Brianna Suslovic, Andrew Lee, and Chris Yu
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Three Rampage editors reflect on the meaning of their favorite musical group.

Picture, if you will, a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Place yourself in an auditorium, watching a group of fine musicians playing their hearts out onstage. Hear the last few glorious notes of a...

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Spring... For Real?
by Andrew Lee
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It's not Spring if it's still snowing... pull it together Syracuse

Enough of this, Syracuse. Thanks for tantalizing us with a week of warm weather, clear skies, and green grass before dumping another few inches of snow on us. Real considerate, seeing as it's...

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A Banquet of Hunger?
by Katie Cieplicki
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Learn what Katie Cieplicki learned from a night of hunger hosted by J-D Cares.

Hunger banquet? That was my reaction when I first heard about J-D Cares's biggest event of the school year, an event that I would later find out was intended to raise awareness about world hunger...

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The Loss of Elementary Art?
by Derek Horn
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How can cutting 10 minutes out of an elementary art class harm students?

When I went to the Jamesville-DeWitt Board of Education meeting on March 14 to fulfill my Government class public meeting requirement, I hadn't realized how interesting it was going to be. I went...

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Music Censorship? Think Twice.
by Brianna Suslovic
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When music gets censored, critics should also consider the message behind the lyrics.

What do "Forget You," "Puff the Magic Dragon," and "Hollaback Girl" have in common? They've all been censored on American radio stations in the past 50 years. Among many others, these songs have...

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