From Lady Gaga to Phoebe Prince, the issue of adolescent bullying has surfaced recently as the darling of the news media. Even though bullying is not a new issue, I’m relieved that it is finally becoming the epicenter of critical commentary from a plethora of viewpoints. The sad part is, ...
This piece is dedicated to Christopher Mark, the “fearless leader” of the Huron Orchestras, for he is perhaps the quintessential example of a remarkable teacher and the Andrew Jackson of our hearts. This is the age of sterile progress and efficiency. Computers and smartphones have replaced television sets and radios. ...
"Inside Hana's Suitcase" opens this year's Jewish Film Festival. If the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival were a person, it would now be celebrating its bar/bat mitzvah year (and we’d all be saying, “Mazel tov!”). Having reached its 13th anniversary, the annual, multi-site Detroit area festival that highlights work that ...
DEAR DR. GOTT: I have lost 40 pounds in four months. I'm on a 1,800-calories-a-day diet and exercise almost daily. My doctor prescribed Adipex-P daily to help me with my weight loss and Arthrotec for my arthritis. These are the only new medications I am taking. I'm a 69-year-old female. Since I began losing the weight, my hands have been unusually cold. It feels as if I have them in ice water. Is this something I should ask my doctor about, or is it normal?
By the time I got to the second floor of the downtown Borders bookstore, every single plastic chair had already been occupied. College students sporting North Face jackets sat side-by-side with grandparents and middle-aged mothers, toying with their iPhones. I stationed myself along the edge of the chairs as the ...
I am going to the store. I have exactly one dollar and five cents. I can buy anything with a price tag ranging from breath mints to potato chips. I pick something out, take it to the cashier; money and products are exchanged. Thus ends my transaction. How do we ...
This is the first post in a series of blog entries aimed at providing insight on high school issues that are not typically highlighted in the media. All posts are reflective of my personal opinions unless otherwise stated. After school resumed for the second semester, a friend of mine asked ...
This letter was written by University of Michigan student and Huron Orchestra alumni Naomi Lin. To you who are concerned, Let me start off by saying that Chris Mark, all that he is as a teacher and as a person, has changed my life in a myriad of ways. He ...
The fourth floor space used for the school board meeting on Nov. 17 emanated with heat from the crowd of people that had already shuffled in well before the 7 p.m. start time. Parents brandishing cameras and recording devices were already clustered behind a gaggle of wide-eyed choral members from ...
An 84-year-old Whitmore Lake man was upgraded to serious condition today after his vehicle collided head-up with a dump truck on M-36 in Green Oak Township on Monday. Wayne Lamerson remains hospitalized at the University of Michigan Medical Center, officials said.
Huron High School’s Mock Trial Team is a group of students who meet up weekly to simulate mock murder trials, with scenarios that seem straight from the hit TV series “Law and Order." Far from being united by a general fondness for gruesome situations, the students of the team share ...
A gaggle of sophomore students at Ann Arbor Huron High School walk through the doors of the auditorium, chattering about the latest geophysical science test. Among them is Stephanie Choi, a veteran member of the Key Club International at Huron. Even with daily homework and tests, she makes time for ...
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