Peter’s Palette
June 28, 2011
Peter’s Palette
June 10, 2011
Peter’s Palette
May 28, 2011
Gotta Get Down On Friday
May 25, 2011
On March 14, Ark Music Factory released Rebecca Black’s new single, “Friday.” According to Techno Cloud, within forty-three days, the song amassed about a hundred 28 million views, 2.5 million dislikes (most of any Youtube video), almost 3 million comments (mostly negative), and a whopping number... Read more »
Lake Orion rallies in 7th to upend Troy
May 22, 2011
A nearly caught pop-up bunt, a leaping line drive catch, three double plays, and one confusing obstruction call went into Friday’s baseball game between Troy and Lake Orion. Yet, the game was decided after all that in the seventh inning by who hit and fielded the baseball better. The Colts couldn’t... Read more »
Troy Reacts to iPad 2 Release
May 19, 2011
In January of 2010, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., announced that the launch of the iPad, Apple’s newest line of electronics, would take place in April of that year. On the day of the release, over 300,000 iPads were sold. And on March 11th, 2011, when the iPad 2 became available, the same Apple craze... Read more »
Day of Silence: LGBT
May 15, 2011
On Thursday, April 21, THS students participated in a national Day of Silence to promote Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) awareness. According to Xinxin Zhou (12), the actual national Day of Silence was Friday, April 15, but THS did not have school that day. Zhou, along with Haley Steele (12),... Read more »
Danielle Deals Da Dish: Passover
May 15, 2011
As a Reform Jew, I know little about my own religion. My modest knowledge extends to the facts that we don’t believe Jesus is God’s son, Israel is our homeland, the stories about the major holidays, and kosher is a type of diet Jews are supposed to keep. As far as I knew, kosher meant no meat and... Read more »
A Letter to the USA
May 14, 2011
Dear America, Two weeks ago, an honors student named James Tate went to his high school at one in the morning to hang up a sign on the side of the school asking a girl to prom. Although Tate had never been in trouble with his school, his principal told him that he had trespassed and had committed vandalism... Read more »
Peter’s Palette
April 28, 2011

