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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

Richard Yan

Richard Yan, Editor

Richard Yan is a senior and longtime student at North Allegheny. He was born in Pittsburgh but has travelled quite extensively all over the world. In his spare time, Richard enjoys reading and playing the piano. He also plays table tennis and leads the Table Tennis Club at NA. Some of Richard's academic interests include economics and decision sciences, as well as chemistry. Although he is fairly quiet and chronically tired in school, Richard strives to be an outgoing person and has a passionate love for potatoes. He works as a general editor at the NASH Uproar.

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MSU presents diversity concerns to School Board

MSU presents diversity concerns to School Board

Richard Yan, Editor May 30, 2018

The North Allegheny School District lists diversity as one of its core values, but last week, members and alumni of the Multicultural Student Union (MSU) attended a school board meeting to express a contrasting...

District Moves to Hire Armed Guards

District Moves to Hire Armed Guards

Richard Yan, Editor May 8, 2018

Over the last year, while the nation has shifted significant attention to gun control amidst a wave of school shootings, schools have also been busy taking student safety into their own hands. Since the...

Diploma Dues

Diploma Dues

Richard Yan, Editor April 11, 2018

Even after adjusting for inflation, the cost of a four-year college education has doubled in the US over the past 40 years. However, even though the benefits of a college diploma are beginning to be called...

On the Home Front

On the Home Front

Richard Yan, Editor March 19, 2018

In addition to considering the move to change  school start times as part of its initiative on tackling student stress, North Allegheny is now turning its eye to homework. To what extent, the district...

Put to the Test

Put to the Test

Richard Yan, Editor February 14, 2018

Second semester is a busy time at North Allegheny. For juniors, you're entering into what's probably the single most demanding stretch of high school. For seniors, you've finished college apps for the...

The Science behind Senior Slackitude

The Science behind Senior Slackitude

Richard Yan, Editor January 31, 2018

You walk into a classroom on test day.  It's the second semester.  Students are slouched over, half awake. They haven't done their homework all unit long. Even among the students that aren't predictably...

VARIATIONS advisers Ms. Esposito and Ms. Yakich lead a January meeting of staff editors.

Write On!

Richard Yan and Gabrielle Kossuth January 28, 2018

Each year, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) recognizes outstanding student-run literary magazines across the nation.  And VARIATIONS, our very own literary and creative arts magazine...

The event required two computer labs, the library and cafeteria, and six classrooms.

Can Hack It

Richard Yan, Editor December 23, 2017

We like to relax on Saturdays. Sit on the couch, watch TV, go out with the boys, whatever. But on a Saturday last month, 133 middle and high-schoolers from 25 school districts were hard at work, building...

NA Déjà Vu: Tommy McCoy

NA Déjà Vu: Tommy McCoy

Richard Yan, Editor December 11, 2017

I recently interviewed Tommy McCoy, NA'13, whose name still lives on in many of the classrooms at NASH. He was an extraordinarily accomplished student, and every few months he gains the notice of the faculty...

Is it Right to Write?

Is it Right to Write?

Richard Yan, Editor October 30, 2017

  I didn't learn that 9 = 23 in math class, but that's exactly what most college admissions offices think of your SAT and ACT writing scores. Every month, thousands of kids pay extra money and...

The week-long route, starting and ending at Moshi

Journey to the Roof of Africa

Richard Yan, Editor October 11, 2017

  As I sat in a piano practice room on CMU's campus, taking a breather between classes, a stray thought wiggled its way into the center of my thoughts. It was a summer day in August, and busy with...

Paging, Paging...

Paging, Paging…

Richard Yan, Editor September 29, 2017
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is everything teenagers don't want in a book: convoluted sentences, undecipherable dialogue, heavy religious and existential themes, lack of excitement, uninteresting plot, and frequent trips to the appendix section to translate the never-ending stream of French phrases and allusions to other Russian poets.
Photo: Reuters/KCNA

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Richard Yan, Editor September 7, 2017

As high school students, we often imagine that the world revolves around us and our school. Thus, as summer vacation commences every year, it's easy to assume the mindset that, with school on pause, the...

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