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The Student News Source Of Kennedy High School

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Trump supporters at Iowa Caucus in early February of 2016. Photo by Nathan Sheeley.

Super Tuesday: Results

Naomi Hofferber March 1, 2016

What is it? Super Tuesday refers to the 11 primaries today. Similarly to the Iowa caucus, the primaries held tonight are a strong indicator of who the nominee will be for both political parties. Republicans...

STEM Fest

Caitlyn Fisher, Writer February 24, 2016

The public library in downtown  Cedar Rapids held their annual STEM fest on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Students from all over the Cedar Rapids area came to check it out.

Columbine School Massacre

Columbine School Massacre

Taya Floyd, Writer February 24, 2016

April 20th, 1999, students and teachers awoke that morning to attend a regular day of school, but instead walked into one of the worst school massacres, in the United States, in the last twenty years,...

Half-day Fridays will start next year

Half-day Fridays will start next year

Xander Riley, Editor-in-Chief February 24, 2016

Early release on Fridays is one component of the new school schedule for the 2016-17 school year that the Cedar Rapids school board just approved. Classes will let out 90 minutes early every Friday. The...

Friend Gives a Special Night

Friend Gives a Special Night

Brooke McNeal, Staff Writer February 22, 2016

Aubree Langhurst, jr., and Ellie Grovert, sp., have been good friends since middle school. This year, Langhurst wanted to do something special for her friend that she would never forget. She will be asking...

Photo provided by Melissa Osborn.

Bringing home the banner

Elianna Novitch, Editor-in-Chief February 22, 2016

After an already successful season, Kennedy's speech team traveled to Ames, Iowa this past weekend to compete in the elite All State speech competition. Kennedy had 12 groups receive All State nominations...

Human trafficking becoming an organization at Kennedy

Human trafficking becoming an organization at Kennedy

Abby Donovan, Editorial Editor February 21, 2016

According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center the number of human trafficking cases increases each year. In 2015 the NHTRC responded to 21,947 calls and 5,544 human trafficking cases were...

Senior Year

Senior Year

Erica Gouchee, News Editor February 15, 2016

Every high schooler looks forward to their senior year. But it comes with a cost. Not only a cost of money but also of your time. Prom, graduation, college applications. These are all major parts of...

Young voters

Young voters

Katie Beer, Writer February 12, 2016

Any United States citizen who is 18 years of age or older by Nov. 8 of 2016 will be eligible to vote in our country’s 58th presidential election, but some young people will disregard that right. CIRCLE,...

The Fight For 4%

The Fight For 4%

Naomi Hofferber February 12, 2016

Around 50 student representatives from the Cedar Rapids Community School District traveled to Des Moines on Wednesday to meet representatives, discuss education funding, and lobby for a 4% increase in...

More Recognition

More Recognition

Olivia Haefner, Writer February 12, 2016

Students have received awards recently for going above and beyond. The AP scholar assembly last month was one way of recognizing these types students. Recognition for making it on the honor role was...

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