College is already expensive with things like tuition, housing, books and other supplies making it one of the greatest bills you’ll ever pay. Students shouldn’t be required to pay for their application,...
The Northwest Passage was the only student publication in the Shawnee Mission School District to publish a presidential election poll.
In election years prior, Shawnee Mission schools conducted mock...
Math has been known to be an independent subject. Students learn, work, and think by themselves. It’s all based on what you can do. Right?
Not anymore. At Shawnee Mission Northwest, the math teachers...
It’s no secret that American media places athletics on a pedestal. Cliché teen movies cast jocks as heroes, professional athletes are paid billions each year and an estimated 123 million Americans watched...
Imagine a student: 16 years speaking, writing and reading Spanish. Yet as the first minutes of a high school Spanish class begin to unfold, he immediately notices this isn’t his Spanish.
Words like...
Picture this: you’re a child sitting on your couch, and you see your favorite character from the book your mom reads to you before bed on the TV screen. Winnie the Pooh, but bloodied and deranged. You’re...
The Vote: 9 agree / 3 disagree
The class of 2023’s experience in high school has been influenced by COVID-19 restrictions and guidelines. Freshman year was cut short and sophomore...
THE VOTE: 14 agree / 0 disagree
For the third year in a row, Kansas governor Laura Kelly vetoed “The Fairness of Women’s Sports Act,” which would have restricted transgender student athletes from...
THE VOTE: 7 agree / 2 abstain / 5 disagree
The intercom buzzes as static echoes throughout the halls. Some eyes glued to the flag, others to their phones.
“One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty...
The Vote: 11 agreed / 1 disagreed / 1 abstained
Qatar was unprepared to host the World Cup in 2010 and, after 12 years of work, they are still unprepared in 2022.
The country blatantly disrespected...
Vote: 10 agree / 0 disagree / 3 abstained
Americans overlook the massive amounts of trash produced each day. Unaware of the candy wrappers and fast food packaging that pollutes their surroundings while...
THE VOTE: 10 agree / 1 abstained / 2 disagree
Roughly 50 students are counted absent every single day. When those students walk into school late, they are then required to wait in the tardy kiosk line...
