On April 27th, 2018, students from different schools all around the state went to Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, for J-Day, or Journalism Day. Shortridge High School was invited to attend, and 9 students got to travel to Ball State to attend this conference. At Ball State, we heard from Lori...

On April 24, the IPS school board met in an agenda planning session.  Before the meeting began, there was a community meeting about transportation which was attended by several students. In this meeting, it was announced that the proposal which will be voted on Thursday will move IPS to a two tier system....

April tenth is this year's pay equity day, which is a day supposed to bring awareness to the problem of the gender pay gap. It is important to remind ourselves that sexism still surrounds us, in countless ways. One of the ways it impacts us here at Shortridge on a day to day basis is in the dress code. I...

The NRA was founded by union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate, who were disappointed in the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops. So, they built a shooting range in long island New York, and the program grew. So what is the NRA's purpose? One could summarize it as "to...

In this age of humanity where work in the natural sciences has seen rapid evolution, there has also been a massive denial of certain scientific matters by people of influence. Namely, a number of American politicians, particularly businessman-turned-president Donald J. Trump, have disregarded the research behind the existence of climate change. And to this effect, the United States is now the only nation in the world to have rejected the Paris Climate Agr...