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The Student News Site of Shawnee Mission Northwest

SMNW

The Student News Site of Shawnee Mission Northwest

SMNW

The Student News Site of Shawnee Mission Northwest

SMNW

Lonely Hour

Lonely Hour

Quentin Brown November 5, 2024

I’m pushed through the sluggish crowd on the way to the main gym. An ensemble of instruments can be heard from outside the doors while chatter from the crowd tries to drown it out. I’m pushed into...

Looking Up

Stella Grist (she/her), Co Editor In Chief January 24, 2022

If you talk to anyone my age, you’ll discover very few of us have a role model. Finding someone unproblematic and worthy of idolizing is hard to come by. WIth the rise of social media and cancel culture,...

Misguided Motherhood

Stella Grist, Copy Editor May 17, 2021

If you know me, you’d know that I don’t like kids... at all. No shame to anyone who does, they just really aren’t for me. I never thought much of my disdain for small children; I thought it was perfectly...

Illustration by Erin Albers

All… and nothing

Zach Harris, Staff Writer April 7, 2020

Our current lockdown is not stopping the spread of COVID-19 effectively because it is still necessary to leave our homes for basic human needs. The only way to totally stop the virus is to disallow all...

Education with Purpose

Annalissa Houser, co-Editor-in-Chief December 4, 2018

It’s a thought that we’ve all had in some class or another: “When am I ever going to use this?” I’ve always known that I want to be an elementary school teacher. I’ve always known that...

More Stress than Fun

More Stress than Fun

September 25, 2014

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]We all know that homecoming is on its way. But, I don’t get what the big deal about it is. Every year, people start asking one another to go to the dance...

Senior Column: You Won't Miss This

Senior Column: You Won’t Miss This

May 10, 2013

I’ll be honest with you, high school is possibly the worst thing ever. In middle school and elementary school, we were too young to have real nostalgia or a sense of impermanence, and so leaving was...

End of the Reading Rainbow

End of the Reading Rainbow

April 5, 2013

We shouldn't hate English books, just how we learn them. I don’t subscribe to the idea that being forced to read something changes your opinion on it. I went through sophomore year’s Independent...

Making Amends

Making Amends

March 3, 2013

Most people often have to go through the difficulties of having to deal with someone they don’t get along with. We all have that one person we just can’t stand. Everytime we see “that person,”...

Next week’s class schedule all mixed up

Next week’s class schedule all mixed up

February 15, 2013

by Rachel Bateman The schedule for the week of Feb. 18 through Feb. 22 will be as follows: No school on Monday; block day all week; late start on Thursday; and assembly schedule on Friday Do...

Monday Isn’t That Bad

Monday Isn’t That Bad

January 28, 2013

After thorough research, I’ve determined that Monday is not the enemy. It’s hard to find something that everyone hates. Some people hate Obama, but Democrats treat him like a god. People hated Romney,...

Will Andy Reid Last?

Will Andy Reid Last?

January 24, 2013

The Kansas City Chiefs haven’t had the best of luck with head coaches lately. Andy Reid, the newest coach for the Chiefs, just signed a five-year contract with Kansas City. Fans are hoping that Reid...

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