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Knight Life

The Voice of the Loy Norrix Community

Knight Life

The Voice of the Loy Norrix Community

Knight Life

Malik Farrakhan posing in front of Loy Norrix High School. Photo Credit / Henry Snapp

Loy Norrix’s Malik Farrakhan Working to Help Restore Lost Eyesight

Henry Snapp June 13, 2017

Glaucoma is an incurable eye condition that currently affects over 3 million people in the United States. Starting with their peripheral vision and extending inward, patients slowly go blind. According...

Loy Norrix Sophomore Bailee Smith sits and reads her bible. She enjoys the escape from the normal classroom environment.  Photo Credit / Lily Graham

What Happens When Jesus Takes The Wheel?

June 13, 2017

Guest Writer Lily Graham “When you put your trust in a higher power, it gives you a more positive outlook on life,” said Loy Norrix Sophomore Bailee Smith, when talking about her relationship with...

Views From Racially Mixed Students

Views From Racially Mixed Students

Jaelyn Anderson June 13, 2017

Being ethnically mixed can be both a blessing and a curse. For some students it makes them feel out of place and awkward, but for others it can help make them feel like they fit in more because they can...

Lily Graham

Standardized Testing Rips the Fun out of Learning

June 13, 2017

Guest Writer Lily Graham The alarm goes off on the first day of school, for most second graders this means a year of new classmates, exciting subjects and another year closer to being a “big kid.”...

From the Field to the Studio: Sports Give Senior a Love of Photography

From the Field to the Studio: Sports Give Senior a Love of Photography

June 12, 2017

Guest Writer Nate Goodwin-Kelly Twenty years from now you’re visiting your mom. You reach behind a dusty corner and find a box filled with old books. Intrigued, you dig into the box and find your senior...

Nate Goodwin Kelly

Waiting for Weighting: Kalamazoo Public Schools Should Weight the KAMSC Classes on a 5.0 Scale

June 12, 2017

Guest Writer Nathan Goodwin-Kelly On most weeknights, there are numerous students staying up late into the night, studying and completing assignments.  The Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center is attended...

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

June 12, 2017

Dear Editor, I really enjoyed your piece on the People's Choice Awards. It was a good representation of the concept, and really shows what the awards are all about. I believe that the awards gave a good...

Saryna Pineau

50/50 Parenting: Tearing Kids Apart

June 11, 2017

Guest Writer Saryna Pineau They always say it’s in the “child’s best interest.”  Little did the court system know, the parent cleaned up enough for the court hearing so they could get all the...

Future California resident?: Loy Norrix Freshman  travels all around the world

Future California resident?: Loy Norrix Freshman travels all around the world

June 11, 2017

Guest Writer Saryna Pineau “My mom loves to travel. It’s what we do as a family,” said freshman Ella Schnell. Schnell has been to Puerto Rico, California, Italy, Florida, Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania,...

More to the Middle: Why it is Imperative to Continue Sending Troops to the Middle East

More to the Middle: Why it is Imperative to Continue Sending Troops to the Middle East

June 10, 2017

Guest Writer Brandon Schnurr You can wake up in the morning, free and safe from some of the most dangerous people in the world thanks to a select group of people. While you wake up, smell the beautiful...

A Knight Balances her Family Responsibilities

A Knight Balances her Family Responsibilities

June 10, 2017

Guest Writer Devon Gross Some people don’t have the luxury of a good relationship with their families.  Loy Norrix sophomore Abrianna Ramos is lucky enough to have an unbreakable bond with her mother. “My...

The Good and Bad of the World Wide Web

The Good and Bad of the World Wide Web

Sebastian Rodriguez June 9, 2017

The internet has changed the way the world works and operates. Activities that required labor before, can now be achieved by the push of a button. Children used to run up and down the aisles  of toys...

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