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National Day of Silence
Friday, April 21,2017, was the National Day of Silence. The Day of Silence was meant to be in remembrance of all who have committed suicide due to bullying ...
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News 0National Day of Silence
Friday, April 21,2017, was the National Day of Silence. The Day of Silence was meant to be in remembrance of all who have committed suicide due to bullying and slurs. According to the CDC, 4400 people between the ages of 10 and 24 commit suicide yearly. GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ organization, created the Day of Silence to bring awareness to “the silencing effects ...
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Around the Community 0Caring about Science and Other Difficult Truths
According to a live running list of Trump’s actions pertaining to the environment by National Geographic, the administration means to go “back to basics” in their environmental agency and action. However, many—including an environmental scientist who retired from the Environmental Protection Agency at the end of March— see this idea as a less inflammatory phrasing of “working to dismantle EPA and its ...
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News 0Women’s Month
March is Women’s History month, stemming from a weeklong celebration of women’s contribution to culture, history, and society in the Sonoma school district, California 1978. Two years later, in 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation to declare National Women’s history week as the week of March 8. This week was extended to the entire month six years later when ...
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National Day of Silence
Friday, April 21,2017, was the National Day of Silence. The Day of Silence was meant to be in remembrance of all who have committed suicide due to bullying ...
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Legally Blonde: La Plata’s Spring Musical
La Plata’s Thespian society has been working hard these past few months on their spring musical, Legally Blonde, which will be performed from April 27- April 29. Legally ...
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Caring about Science and Other Difficult Truths
According to a live running list of Trump’s actions pertaining to the environment by National Geographic, the administration means to go “back to basics” in their environmental agency ...
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Spring Pep Rally
The Spring Pep Rally is a fundraiser that happens every year at La Plata High School, and it is organized by the students who play soccer and baseball ...
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On Validation: Insecurities and My Visit to the Beast that is Stanford, Part 2
I applied to Stanford under the Restrictive Early Action program in which I was limited to only one private college in the early round; public colleges were still ...
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The End of an Age: Logan Review
For the past 17 years there has been one constant when it comes to Marvel movies, and that has been Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. This constant, unfortunately, is ...
