The Voice of the Loy Norrix Community

Knight Life

The Voice of the Loy Norrix Community

Knight Life

The Voice of the Loy Norrix Community

Knight Life

Women wear crop tops while walking to class, doing yearbook layouts, socializing with friends, and more.  Despite being against the dress code, crop tops are very common.  (Photo Illustration)

Students are still affected by the dresscode despite loose enforcement

Josephine Velo, Executive Director February 22, 2024

There is a major split between common fashion in the Loy Norrix hallways and the Kalamazoo Public Schools Code of Conduct. According to a portion of the dress code listed in the Norrix Parent/Student...

Junior Leah Sparks works on the AP Psychology study guide as she prepares for exams. She is very stressed as some information learned over the first trimester is omitted.

Students struggle balancing schoolwork with life outside of class

Emma Goschke, Guest Writer December 12, 2023

In high schools throughout America, including Loy Norrix, students struggle everyday to manage their time throughout their daily lives, both in and out of school.  Students, like junior Leah Sparks,...

Many Norrix students take the classroom pass to sit in the hallway or the bathroom on their phone. Administrators hope to fix this problem with an online pass program.

Administration pilots an online pass system to monitor the halls and ease burden on teachers

Chloe Rathbun, Staff Writer September 28, 2023

Almost every class period, it feels like there’s one student who takes the pass for over half the class period. Then, teachers are faced with a long line of students asking to use the bathroom, and all...

Freshman Avalon Yarworth is reading the note and signature that freshman Malia Guy wrote in her yearbook. Yarworth wants Guy to sign her yearbook in order to remember her freshman year and all of the friends she has now.

Students still purchase the expensive yearbook, despite the presence of photos on social media

Madelyn Ide June 3, 2023

Inside the dimly lit yearbook classroom, students are resizing photos, editing captions, or writing stories. Some students may not even be inside the classroom; instead, they are scattered around the school,...

Cecilia Garcez. sophomore, Anniha Peraglie, senior, and Mara Vander Beek, senior and editor, all work together to create posters to advertise the yearbook. Those interested in a yearbook can visit K6.

Yearbook students come together to face stress and meet deadlines

Thea Pipe, Web Editor May 5, 2023

Yearbook is a constant here at Loy Norrix. Many students have posed for club or team photos or given interviews while they’re at lunch, but what about the students who produce the yearbook? What is...

Colby Cuppernull discusses Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” with his honors English 11 class. The students have been studying Shakespeare and his works for about two weeks.

Colby Cuppernull joins English department: students and teachers are happy about his arrival

Lexi Tuley, Graphics Editor December 14, 2022

Many teachers at Loy Norrix have eagerly awaited the arrival of the new member of the English department, excited to have their plan hours back instead of substituting for the teacherless class. Cuppernull...

Junior Isabel Ricardo-Ramirez came into Brianna Englishs classroom with a small fan that plugs into her computer. This plug-in fan helps her regulate the hot temperature of the windowless K3 classroom.

The K-Wing: warm classroom temperatures persist into the colder months, students and teachers alike are frustrated

Chloe Rathbun, Staff Writer December 7, 2022

As the temperature outside gets colder and snow falls on the ground, students bundle up to face the frigid temperatures outside. However, upon their arrival to school, many students are faced with classrooms...

Students have troubles getting on the WiFi in the K wing. This causes many delays and troubles in classes.

Without KPS Guest WiFi, teachers and students struggle to function at Norrix

Gracie Goschke, Business Manager, Opinion Editor November 2, 2022

With the 2022-2023 school year back in full swing, students are still getting used to major changes in the building. In past years, students have been able to easily access the Guest WiFi network. This...

Spanish teacher Marta Grabowski substitute teaches for Atiba Wards fifth hour international business class. Like all teachers at Norrix, shes been called in to sub on a rolling basis.

Substitute teacher shortage plagues Norrix staff

Elliot Russell, Editor-in-Chief November 10, 2021

With teachers frequently in and out of the building because of COVID scares as the pandemic rages on, familiar faces have been popping up around the building. Maybe your algebra teacher had to lecture...

Loy Norrix journalists and yearbook staff receive MIPA awards

Loy Norrix journalists and yearbook staff receive MIPA awards

Stella Amy, Social Media Team June 11, 2021

“I think working on any publication is a great way to build essential skills,” said yearbook teacher Brianna English . After working on articles for the newspaper and stories for the yearbook throughout...

Dyami Hernandez, math and Latin teacher, feeling powerful after getting his COVID-19 vaccination.

Loy Norrix staff relieved to get COVID-19 vaccine

Stella Amy, Social Media Team April 16, 2021

“I felt incredibly safe during the whole vaccination process,” said LN teacher Sammy Simpson, “There were definitely tears of happiness at the site where I got my vaccine.”  The COVID-19 vaccine...

Participants, (pictured top left to bottom right) Margaret Elfring, Hailey Yoder, Clara Garcez, Claire Knudsen, and Brianna English during the November 18 session of SEL. The theme of this session was gratitude.

Loy Norrix teachers and students alike are benefitting from SEL

Milo Turner, Social Media Team December 2, 2020

Objectively, online schooling can be a primary stressor in the life of a student in 2020, the Google Classroom icon feeling like yet another weight on your shoulders.  Being physically isolated from...

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