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Ask Jake: final week

Jake Alden • May 26, 2013

[media url="https://vimeo.com/67027214" width="640" height="360"] Video by Urmila Kutikkad Dandy Cats: https://vimeo.com/33968489 Welcome to Ask Jake, Bearing News’ first online advice column. I have...

Capers 2013

Urmilla Kuttikad • April 29, 2013

Band - Visible Silence: Grant Flakne, Harrison Kiethahn, Jacob Kovarik and Jashawn Linwood "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers [media url="https://vimeo.com/64963706" width="640"...

Weighted GPA would take load off AP and Honors students’ minds

Adam Schoelz • April 25, 2013

Gravitational forces in history have had a mixed reception. Though they have kept us all from flinging into space, they have also led to numerous deaths by drowning, falling, dropping off rocks and, indirectly,...

Neighborly relationships prove to be long lasting

Adam Schoelz • April 10, 2013

Our world has changed. When I was a kid I had three brothers who put substantial time toward torturing me. My brother Jack and his friend Thomas, whom I cleverly dubbed ‘Evil Jack and Evil Thomas,’...

From Nashville With Love

Adam Schoelz • April 8, 2013

Show choir was an activity relegated to the sidelines until the premiere of Glee in 2009 made it seem cool and hip to be uncool and unhip. Naturally, this attracted large amounts of people to show choir...

Film paints amazing portrait of two men worlds apart

Adam Schoelz • March 2, 2013

At first glance, "The Captain and His Pirate" could be a swashbuckling film, its name conjuring images of romance and intrigue. And to an extent it is -- there is combat on the high seas, a hostage crisis,...

Dystopian Life

Adam Schoelz • February 25, 2013

These stories are about a dystopia set in Alaska in the near future where corporate word is law. One is from the perspective of a cynical but well-paid corporate mercenary, and the other the musings of...

Depth Charge: Nothing to Play?

Adam Schoelz • February 22, 2013

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got ‘nothing to play’ syndrome. For those non-gamers out there, or those few that haven’t experienced this, it’s like opening up the fridge and finding it...

Kickstarted

Adam Schoelz • February 22, 2013

So I have a blog now. I being me, Adam Schoelz, and the blog being … well, something. Blogs are hard for me because while it is in my nature to blab, it is not in my nature to blab about myself, at...

Oscar Insight: Predictions for 2013’s Academy Awards

Lauren Puckett • February 20, 2013

It's that time of year again - Oscar season. This Sunday, Feb. 24, the acclaimed academy will decide which of this year's films truly take the cake. We'll see celebrities dressed in their best, parading across the red carpet. We'll hear numerous thank-you speeches, accompanied by the occasional shed tear. We'll see directors and cinematographers holding their little golden men, beaming with pride. But, most of all, we'll get to see what is truly great in the film industry, and we'll get to honor it with the year's most prestigious television event. Several Bearing News staff members have pulled their heads together, and compiled this list of predictions for 2013's Oscar winners. We're by no means experts, but we hope readers will appreciate and enjoy our analysis of this year's cinematic experiences.

Ask Jake week five

Jake Alden • February 11, 2013

[media url="https://vimeo.com/59381166" width="640" height="360"] Video by Urmila Kutikkad Welcome to Ask Jake, Bearing News’ first online advice column. ANYONE can send in questions by either dropping...

Maus, secondary administrators deserve commendation

Adam Schoelz • January 11, 2013

Yesterday could not have been an easy day to be Mark Maus. After an email to RBHS teachers outlined the most recent proposal for start times, many were miffed, to say the least, that high school was scheduled...