With a new school year comes new rules, and not everybody is thrilled about them.
It's a new year here at SHS, and Principal David Angeramo is more than happy with what this year, so far, has brought. "We have a lot to be excited about," says Angeramo. "It's almost as if there is a whole new improved attitude around the school."
The Salem High School community came together by raising money for Greg Martinez, who was injured in a bike accident this fall.
After all the hype about MTV coming to our school, another channel snuck its way in, Fox News. As part of their High School Friday series, Salem High was featured with a focus on the football team and the journalism class that creates the Witches Brew.
A new season brings new trends to the fashion world. Just because you may not have the hundreds to spend on the eclectic styles that this season holds, doesn't mean you have to go without. Here are just a few of the many trends of the 2008 winter season.
The beginning of the school year brought many new changes to Salem High, ranging from stricter policies to construction. But most of all, Salem High has a number of new faces working in the building. One of those faces is Mr. William Shevory, the new dean of the Turner House. Several students have noted that Shevory is strict, but with the change of stricter policies, stricter enforcement most accompany them.
History teacher Ms. Lori Marenda embarked on a journey of a lifetime this past summer when she had the chance to go to Russia and live with a family there. Marenda got this opportunity by receiving a federal grant called the Fullbright-Hays grant from the University of Illinois.
Ms. Tara Cowe-Spigai and Ms. Maureen Sullivan, the advisors of the Embrace Club, came together to improve the activity TAD and make it a better and safer environment.
Along with the new renovations done to the building, Salem High has undergone another kind of refacing | the refacing of its old policies. When students entered Salem High School on Sept. 6, little did they know the school's administration had made way for revised, stricter policies that they are definitely planning to enforce. Not too big of a deal for the incoming freshmen, but a major adjustment for the school's Juniors and Seniors, who had become accustomed to Salem High's laid-back environment.
Attention seniors; Have you ever looked at a previous yearbook and noticed missing pictures in the senior section? Or are you afraid that you will have to wait until you are in college to receive your high school yearbook?
Throughout the years there have been many controversies in sports. You can go as far back as the "Black Sox Scandal" when Chicago White Sox threw the World Series, or you can go as recent as Michael Vick, the star Pro Bowl quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons who had a promising career ahead of him. He threw it all away when he pleaded guilty to dog fighting charges. You can look at any sport or any decade and there's a history of scandal -- the steroids in baseball, football, Tour de France, and in the Olympics.
Salem Scopes: What's in the stars for you at SHS?
Here's an interesting combination: 1,200 high school students, an administrative secret accompanied by a baffled staff, and an unprecedented all-school assembly. Obviously, MTV's True Life is coming to Salem High School.
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