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Clara Medalie, Campus and City Editor
May 17, 2012
The sandstone fountain anchoring the courtyard renovation vanished sometime between May 11 and May 13. “The fountain was put in storage,” Principal Michael Griffith said. Workers are waiting for the rest of the garden to be built and the planting to be done before finishing the fountain. Planting is... Read more »
Julia Scharfstein, Managing Editor
May 16, 2012
Class of 2015 President-Cherie Lo Vice President-Walker Edwards Treasurer-Kieran Aulak Secretary-Arpit Agrawal Representatives: Maeve Cook Casey Crowley Charles Lampert Zach Silverman Narayan Sundararajan Abby White Class of 2014 President-Evan Seballos Vice President-Simone Malone Treasurer-Zaylon Green Secretary-Rebecca... Read more »
Liz Jacob, Editor-in-Chief
May 9, 2012
Construction of the new track and turf field began April 30. After postponing a vote on the project at its March meeting, the board of education approved a contract with Great Lakes Crushing, Ltd. to complete a $1.65 million replacement of the track and installation of a turf field. Beginning on May... Read more »
Allie Harris, Campus and City Editor
April 25, 2012
A group of males, some armed with handguns, forced their way into a house party on Strathavon Road and later assaulted two students who fled March 23. Senior Matt Reesing, who attended the party, described it as a typical Shaker party attended mostly by Shaker senior boys. Reesing saw several males... Read more »
Allie Harris, Campus and City Editor
April 25, 2012
It took a former Shakerite editor to contact the most sought-after man in America. It seems everyone was talking about George Zimmerman, but no one was talking to him until Ohio University senior Wesley Lowery (’08) exchanged email messages with Trayvon Martin’s shooter April 9. Lowery, a former... Read more »
Julia Scharfstein, Campus and City Editor
April 25, 2012
According to a March 20 Associated Press article, employers are increasingly asking applicants for the passwords to their social media profiles. A Washington Post opinion article offered an explanation of why employers would request access to applicants’ accounts. It stated that employers may want... Read more »
Julia Scharfstein, Campus and City Editor
April 25, 2012
By late spring or next fall, students will have another outdoor area in which to enjoy their lunch. After the Garden Club and Green Club proposed extending the courtyard garden last year, they came up with a design, and presented it to Art Department Chairman Dan Whitely. Whitely refined it, and then... Read more »
Taylor Butze, Staff Reporter
April 12, 2012
A three-judge panel from the Eleventh District Court of Appeals denied a motion to reconsider its Feb. 13 decision to uphold the murder conviction of Ronald Kelly (’08). Kelly and Adrian Barker (’06) were convicted in the death of 23-year-old Kent State University student Christopher Kernich, who... Read more »
Allie Harris and Julia Scharfstein, Campus and City Editors
March 20, 2012
The proximity of the Feb. 27 shooting at Chardon High School and the arrest of a Shaker student who brought a semiautomatic weapon to school have raised fear among students that a similar event could happen here. English teacher Maureen Sylak’s son is a senior at Chardon. He was walking toward the... Read more »
Julia Scharfstein, Campus and City Editor
March 20, 2012
Just this year, five or six confiscated phones were replaced by the school because they were stolen before they could be returned to the student. In most of the cases, the phones were stolen from a teacher’s desk. In one instance, a phone was stolen after the floor of a gym locker fell through. Principal... Read more »
