Seniors choose their majors and careers
Lin Song, Co-editor
February 2, 2015
Filed under Features
College applications were submitted. Graduation is approaching. Parties begin. But seniors, have you already decided what you want to learn in college? Senior Yuzhu Zhang is taking AP Calculus and accounting at school now. She came to study in America from China in her junior year. Her deep int...
Chihiro Mase gets beyond bone cancer restrictions
Silvana Bautista, co-editor
January 31, 2015
Filed under Features, Showcase
It is impossible to know a person at first glance. Chihiro Mase is a 15 year old McKinley sophomore who likes to play around with her friends. She plays the alto saxaphone for the band. At home, she likes to take naps and eat. She seems like a typical high school student but this is not the case. Mase...
SAT Tests become top priority for High School Students
Yunmi Kim, Reporter
January 21, 2015
Filed under Features, Showcase
For seniors, there are at most three chances during their senior year to take the SAT test, provided that they never took the SAT test during their freshmen, sophomore or junior year. Most college applications are due in late November, early December and January. Which means that seniors must take the...
Wang improved her English as an ELL student
Lin Song, print co-editor
January 20, 2015
Filed under Features
As an English Language Learning (ELL) student, she faced lots of challenges because of language problems. “I did not understand most of what the teacher said in the first several months,” Mengling Wang said. Her sister signed up Newswriting class for her and it turned out to be a special learning...
What students learned from guest speakers
January 19, 2015
Picking Which Movie to Watch
December 21, 2014
Filed under Features
Recently there has been new movies coming out in December which children and adults watch for entertainment in Hawaii. I hear from many of my friends and teachers at McKinley High School about what movies they’ve watched or how good or how bad that movie was, etc. Even though I haven’t seen any...
Many students appreciate school lunch
Jane Lavea, Web co-editor
December 5, 2014
Filed under Features
Students do not know how hard it is for cafeteria manager Mitch Arnold to make sure that everyone has a decent meal. Cafeteria managers follow the guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create menus for breakfast and lunch. It is a five-week cycle of menus. “MHS was always at...
Wellers go on a mainland marathon
Karrina Johnson, reporter
December 1, 2014
Filed under Features, Showcase
In May 2010, Margaret Weller traveled across the mainland in only three days. Weller was moving to Hawaii, but her family did not want to fly straight there. They wanted to make it a bit of an adventure. Weller, her brother and their parents left Virginia, driving one car crammed with eleven suitcases. From...
To Read or Not to Read?
Karrina Johnson, reporter
December 1, 2014
Filed under Features
Most students said they would rather not do AR testing. They said that it is a waste of time. However, reading is an important part of school. AR helps us understand books, freshman Sean Nakata said. In the first quarter, three students (two in grade 10, one in grade 12) had 100 or more points. ...
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