Class of 2020’s socially-distanced graduation ceremony
Lily Stickley, News editor
August 14, 2020
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Riots in the US are diminishing the intentions of the Black Lives Matter movement
Devon Gross, Editor in Chief
June 25, 2020
On May 25th 2020, 46 year old George Floyd died after being pinned down by a police officer for nine minutes. While Floyd’s death sadly isn’t the first to happen in this nature, the spread of the video of this event caused a social media uproar and has been the recent spark for protests advocating f...
Quarantine comic #2: The cat giveth, and the cat taketh away
Maya Crawford, Graphics Editor/Student Update Team
June 16, 2020
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Quarantine comic #1: Time is relative
Maya Crawford, Graphics Editor/Student Update Team
June 14, 2020
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A letter to the class of 2020
Alexis Weeden, Asst. Editor-in-Chief
June 12, 2020
Dear Class of 2020 and fellow Loy Norrix family, You may or may not know me; however, I want to congratulate you all on making it this far. This is something that not everyone who started with us back in 2016 has succeeded at doing. Take a moment to remember those our community has lost and cher...
Bilingual Loy Norrix students perform with The Kalamazoo Chinese Academy
Ian Woodruff, A/V Editing Team
June 12, 2020
You are sitting in darkness at Chenery Auditorium. Suddenly, a team comes out onto the stage and begins their diabolo performance. Diabolos/Chinese yo-yos are flying across the stage as the audience is in awe. In January and February, a yo-yo team from the Kalamazoo Chinese Academy performed at...
Hindsight is 2020
Jeanie Gould-McElhone, Arts and Entertainment
June 10, 2020
I’ve known almost my whole life that 2020 was my year. On my first day of preschool I was given a bright blue t-shirt that said “Class of 2020” across the front. It would take some time to fully understand what that meant, that 2020 was the year I would graduate high school with my friends be...
Exercise will improve life in quarantine
June 9, 2020
With so many businesses closed due to COVID-19 shutdowns, people haven't had the same day-to-day exercise as before. Before these shutdowns, non-essential businesses were open and employees had to move in some way to get to work, customers maneuvered around stores or malls, and students had to walk ...
Why SpaceX’s recent launch is so important
Jackson Kiino-Terburg, A/V Editor
June 9, 2020
On March 30th, SpaceX launched their Falcon 9 rocket into space with astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken as the company’s first two passengers. The launch was extremely successful, with everything going to plan. Hurley and Behnken’s exact return date are not currently confirmed, but it will...
The Loy Norrix chapter of NEHS is open for applications this fall
Lily Stickley, News editor
June 8, 2020
The Loy Norrix chapter of the National English Honor Society, also called the Loy Norrix Literary Luminaries, is opening applications this fall, with English teacher Jeffery Pickell as the faculty adviser. “[NEHS] is the only international organization exclusively for high school students and fa...
