Pushing for More APUSH Textbooks
OXFORD — Sophomore AP US History students are facing a dilemma. Since the school board’s adoption of a practice five years ago, the funding for course materials has been changed. The practice was adopted in an attempt to justify the one-to-one program that Talawanda has adopted. The one-to-one program has provided individual Chromebooks to every […]
College Basketball 2017-2018: Early Season Wonders
With being only a week into the 2017 college basketball season, there is more than enough to be excited about especially after a thrilling 2016-2017 tournament that ended with North Carolina winning it all for their sixth NCAA National Championship. With so many good teams and great players, it will be interesting to see what […]
Who is the FFA President?
Oxford, OH– The roots of the FFA originate from a time when boys were losing interest and leaving the farm. Walter Newman, 1925 became the Virginia State Supervisor of Agricultural Education, wanted to seek a solution to this problem he and three other staff members of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Agriculture Education Department proposed forming […]
Destiny. . . To Succeed
“Destiny” is an incredibly popular video game made by Bungie, the creators of other amazing games such as “Halo: Reach.” The game revolves around the Guardians, who are just “normal” people who were born under a substance known as “the Light.” In the game, you are put to the test against multiple alien and robotic […]
The Game’s Afoot
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DISAPPROVED: Gender Roles
Throughout history, there has been a concept forced onto all of us that tries to restrict the way we live. It’s what keeps little boys from playing with dollhouses and suggests that women are simply meant to be quiet creatures. Of course, gender roles have existed for centuries due to years of oppression against women, […]
All the Bright Places By: Jennifer Niven
Oxford OH– “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”- Ernest Hemingway At the beginning of this book Jennifer Niven paints a picture of a 12th grader named Theodore Finch perched on the sixth-story ledge of his school’s bell tower, arms extended, welcoming the spectators below to his death scene. […]
Braves Snag First and Only Win of Season
OXFORD — On a chilly, rainy evening at Talawanda High School on Oct. 27, 2017, the Braves took on their long time rival the Ross Rams. Coming into the night, Ross had one win with nine losses while Talawanda came in with zero wins and nine losses. This game had no effect on playoffs but […]
The Talawanda Tallywacker
“Electoral fraud, election manipulation, or vote rigging is illegal interference with the process of an election, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both.” –The All-Knowing Wikipedia When you think about electoral fraud, you think about far off countries with corrupt governments; where […]
Major Accomplishments
OXFORD–You take a deep breath and count to four. You can’t see the crowd because of the stadium lights glaring down into your eyes, but you know there is a full friday night stadium staring at you. You keep your head high and your eyes set to kill- and you’re walking out onto the field. […]