Bearing News

First Amendment freedoms facilitate proactive conversations, progress

Anjali Noel Ramesh • November 6, 2019

Students utilize their First Amendment freedoms to generate change in their communities, using their voices to promote positive progress.

Students retell haunting tales

Devin Hall • October 30, 2019

Three students retell their ghostly tales, which include a terrifying tapping, an potential phantom and mysterious scratching.

Five students recollect Halloween experiences

Olivia Peters • October 29, 2019

Students retell their Halloween experiences: working in a haunted house, going to a haunted house, attending a Halloween party, trick-or-treating and watching a horror movie.

Halloween makeup how-to provides explanations, inspiration

sophie froese • October 29, 2019

Sophie Froese demonstrates a step-by-step tutorial for three scary looks just in time for Halloween. Her first look is a broken pencil with fake blood; her second design shows a face dripping with blood, and her final creation is a shining skeletal make-up mask.

Historic facts disprove Halloween myths

Amira McKee • October 29, 2019

Halloween, a holiday associated with superstition, religion and frightening images, stems from the complexities of myths, facts and mysteries as it has evolved over time.

Multicultural Halloween celebrations shape memory

Bailey Stover • October 28, 2019

Students from Saudi Arabia, Italy and Brazil reflect on their multicultural Halloween experiences and life in different countries.

Illness or Absence?

Anjali Noel Ramesh • October 1, 2019

[vc_text_separator title="Adolescents struggle between choosing schoolwork or recovery days" title_align="separator_align_left"] On the night Oct. 31 of 2017, current junior Lola Gingerich broke her arm...

Vape, Juul use increasing in adolescents; no amount of nicotine is safe

Will Cover • October 1, 2019

Vaping related illnesses have been popping up nationwide with 530 reported cases according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Missouri just experienced its first death due to vaping,...

iGen experiences blue light addiction

Maddie Orr • October 1, 2019

Phone addiction in adolescents has become prevalent in the modern world. There are many ways in which parents, doctors and teenagers themselves can take action against this new problem.

Pretty is as pretty does

Bailey Stover • October 1, 2019

The makeup products individuals use consist of far more dangerous chemicals than one might think. These products can cause sickness and infection if not monitored or by utilizing a proper skincare routine.

Artificial intelligence possesses controversial potential

Bailey Stover • April 26, 2019

As with a flipped coin spinning in mid-air, the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) is still undecided as to which way it will land: benefit or harm.

Jobs lost to machines provide space for new opportunities

Isaac Parrish • April 26, 2019

With recent advancements in artificial intelligence, people are starting to worry about what this might mean for the current job market.