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Q & A with the SMOB candidates reveals their individual goals
Richard Montgomery sophomore Alan Xie (shown above) and Damascus junior Nick Maggio are running against each other in the current SMOB election. Photo courtesy of Alan Xie.
As Montgomery County approaches the final months of the school year, high school students face the important task of electing next year’s Student Member of the Board.
The Black & White caught up with this year’s SMOB candidates, Richard Montgomery sophomore Alan Xie and Damascus junior Nick Maggio, to give students an intimate look into the platforms of the two candidates.
Teenage driving numbers don’t acknowledge provisional license statistics
Graphic by Shinduk Seo.
Do teens no longer care about driving? Has the once cross-generational symbol of teenage liberation taken a backseat to various other priorities for many 16-year-olds across the country? According to the Washington Post, the answer is yes.
Capital Improv provokes laughter with its outrageous “missions”
Capitol Improv members bare-all on the Jan. 10 "No-Pants Metro Ride." Photo courtesy of Bruce Witzenburg.
Bruce Witzenburg strolls up to the steps of the Smithsonian in downtown D.C. with a guitar case in one hand and a tin can for money in the other. He opens his case and, to the surprise of many, pulls out a plastic Guitar Hero guitar. After minutes of nothing more than silently jamming on the plastic controller, he is joined by a Donkey Conga player and a man with a Dance Dance Revolution mat. Yes, this is actually happening.
Over the last three years, Capitol Improv, previously known as the D.C. Defenestrators, has organized head-turning, laugh-out-loud worthy events located on and around some of D.C.’s most well-known landmarks.
New law outlaws minors’ possession of cigarettes
If the law is passed, minors in D.C. will be fined if found with cigarettes. Photo courtesy of tobaccofree.org.
The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to further the District’s anti-smoking campaign–this time with a special focus on keeping cigarettes away from anyone under 18.
Dylan’s concert memorable for all ages
“The poet laureate of rock ‘n’ roll. The voice of the promise of the ’60s counterculture. The guy who forced folk into bed with rock, who donned makeup in the ’70s and disappeared into a haze of substance abuse, who emerged to find Jesus, who was written off as a has-been by the end of the ’80s, and who suddenly shifted gears and released some of the strongest music of his career beginning in the late ’90s. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Columbia recording artist Bob Dylan.”
Goatees, beards and mutton chops, oh my!
Few Whitman students recognize that the school's namesake had one of the greatest beards of all time. Photo courtesy of lib.unc.edu.
George Clooney. Chuck Norris. ZZ Top. Homer Simpson. What do they all have in common? All bear the greatest symbol of manliness that has existed literally since the caveman era: the beard. Now in the midst of No Shave November, where men across the country are growing facial hair just for the sake of it, I can’t help but ask the Whitman male population one question: What are you all so afraid of?
“Wild Things” brings out the child in everyone
“Where the Wild Things Are” does not, by any means, typify the one-dimensional, simple story that many would assume from the genre of children’s books. Rather than attempting to be “edgy” and “mainstream,” Spike Jonze’s film adaptation masterfully portrays the depth of human character and emotion responsible for Maurice Sendak’s book having a place on the nightstands of millions of kids since the ‘60s. (continue reading…)