The Student Voice of North Allegheny Senior High School

The Uproar

The Student Voice of North Allegheny Senior High School

The Uproar

The Student Voice of North Allegheny Senior High School

The Uproar

The freshly cooked homemade ravioli are being ready to freeze for a Christmas day feast.

Passed Down the Generations

Halle Marsalis, Staff Writer December 22, 2021

For my family, one of the best things about Christmas is cramming in one kitchen while scurrying to make my family's famous homemade ravioli. I often find myself, regularly, craving this ever so delicate...

Theres many things about NASH that irk its students on a daily basis.

The 12 Rants of Christmas

Sally Cho, Co-Editor-in-Chief December 21, 2021

December is a month full of holidays, where people spend time with loved ones and celebrate. It is also a time of spreading joy and gratefulness. So, in the spirit of the holiday season, I thought I would...

College application fees can add up quickly, but the total cost of the process is even greater.

A Costly Process

Virginia Lucas, Staff Writer December 16, 2021

Mentally preparing myself, I clicked warily into the “Application Requirements” section of my Common Application.  There, the application fee of each institution I was applying to was listed in a...

Some colleges across the United States work to lower their acceptance rates when they could be putting more students first.

Tweaking the Numbers

Quinn Volpe, Co-Editor-in-Chief December 15, 2021

Most of the programs that I have considered my top choices throughout the college application process have acceptance rates below 20%. The environment that surrounds me at North Allegheny, though this...

With the holistic admissions process US colleges have adopted, students spend hours working on all parts of their application.

A Roll of the Dice

Sophie Lu, Staff Writer December 14, 2021

For many seniors, applying to college represents the culmination of four years of hard work in high school. The process can be one of the most arduous and stressful that students will have to go through,...

NASHs Preschool Practicum is one of the buildings best-kept secrets, and it may point the way toward a national solution to the ongoing daycare crisis.

Of Mutual Benefit

Michelle Hwang, Features Editor December 13, 2021

At 8:15 AM on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, North Allegheny Senior High School sees a second wave of morning drop-offs. This time, the students who say goodbye to their parents and scamper into...

The question of Who am I? can lead to self-inflicted labels that restrict change.

A Mosaic of You

Kara Mihm, Co-Editor-in-Chief December 9, 2021

There is only one person you will spend your whole life with, one person you can’t break up with no matter how serious the fight.  And in case you are not sure who I am referring to, take a quick peek...

Dick Night Train Lane at a pre-season photo shoot for the 1960s Detroit Lions

Top 10 Sports Nicknames of All Time

Connor Smith, Staff Writer December 9, 2021

You can’t have a top ten sports nicknames list without sparking some controversy. So let me set some guidelines on how I judged these nicknames and where they land. First of all, the nicknames can’t...

My grandfathers flowers at his gravesite.

Living in the Moment

Halle Marsalis, Staff Writer December 7, 2021

Humans are put on this earth to do great things but then eventually pass away. In a way, we live to die. As blunt as it sounds, dying is simply a part of life. Without it, life is not complete. It is something...

Oxford Township, Michigan, grieves the loss of the four lives in the shooting last week at their local high school.

A Grave Reminder

Waverly Younts, Senior Staff Writer December 7, 2021

On the afternoon of Tuesday, November 30, the Oakland County Police Department received more than one hundred 911 calls after a 15-year-old student opened fire at Michigan’s Oxford High School, leaving...

Even among great success, one flaw becomes the sole focus for a perfectionist due to a fear of not being enough.

I Am Not Perfect

Anna Parsons, Senior Staff Writer December 3, 2021

Perfect. Even the word itself is perfect with an evenly distributed number of tall and short letters that are very pleasing to the eye. But apart from the symmetry comes a mental distortion of what...

The stigma those with Antisocial Personality Disorder face puts them in danger not only in their everyday lives but also in medical and judicial settings.

Still Human

Aris Pastor, Staff Writer December 1, 2021

The words “psychopath” and “sociopath” are strewn throughout the media, from factual accounts of serial killers to the fictional world of crime shows. Recall Silence of the Lambs, No Country for...

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