Sydney Turnwald
April 26, 2013
As most Upper St. Clair students were finishing last minute assignments and preparing for spring break, 19 members of the USC Forensics team boarded a bus headed for Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, on March 21. Their destination was Susqueha...
Julia Pfatteicher, Staff Writer
April 26, 2013
On Monday, April 1st, three Islamist militants were killed in a final raid after the battle that took place this past weekend in Timbuktu. The militants have had control over many important Malian cities for about 10 months now...
Hunter Lantzman, Staff Writer
March 11, 2013
The American economy is forecasted to lose 700,000 jobs. $1.2 trillion will be gone from government spending over the next decade. The US government will be completely shut down in less than a month if nothing happens, all because...
Trudel Pare, Opinions Editor
May 1, 2012
Rick Santorum “suspended” his campaign for President on April 10th, just before the primaries in his home state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Santorum won 11 states in his campaign, in either primaries or caucuses, and was the most...
Lauren Kelly, Entertainment Editor
March 30, 2012
Three kids are now dead as result of an Ohio high school shooting. On February 27th, teenager T.J. Lane went on a wild killing spree in the cafeteria of Chardon High School, located in Cleveland, and began to randomly shot innoc...
Sriparna Sen, Staff Writer
March 30, 2012
On January 23rd, 2012, the field of regenerative medicine concluded an astonishing new find regarding human embryonic stem cells. According to the online published medical journal The Lancet, the use of embryonic stem cells may help...
Trudel Pare, Opnions Editor
March 30, 2012
Maryland legalized gay marriage within its borders on Thursday, February 23, 2012. It was the eighth state to do this. The governor, Martin O’Malley, is expected to sign the bill into law sometime soon.
This legislation came...
Trudel Pare, Opinions Editor
February 27, 2012
On Friday, February 10th, the Upper St. Clair Forensics Team wore suits to school in anticipation of a two-day long tournament at Bethel Park High School. After five preliminary rounds, two elimination rounds, and a final round,...
Trudel Pare, Opinions Editor
February 6, 2012
Illegal downloads of music, movies, and other copyrighted files on the Internet are not a new idea, especially to teenagers. Two new laws, SOPA and PIPA, or Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, were recently proposed in...
February 6, 2012
The Republican presidential primaries in Iowa were, as always, very important to the race. Romney, as the polls predicted, finished first, with Rick Santorum a very close second, though a later vote recount gave Santorum the win....
Sriparna Sen, Staff Writer
October 24, 2011
For over a century, Einstein’s special theory of relativity has stood proudly as one of the governing law of physics. His theory states that the speed of light “c” is a limit and that nothing in the universe at any medium...
Vijay Viswanathan, News Editor
October 17, 2011
On Wednesday, September 7, 2011, the nation's conservative population turned its undivided attention toward the fifth and largest major presidential debate of the year: the Republican Candidates Debate. The...