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The Patriot Press

Spend time away to appreciate life at home

Marthe Jatun, Staff Writer April 28, 2015

Being away from home this long has taught me a lot. I am an exchange student here from Norway, and in only five months I have grown so much and started a new life on the other side of the world. So while...

Advice from a Liberty graduate

Rachel Wittenberg, Guest Columnist April 28, 2015

Hey there, Pats! Although I haven’t been gone from Liberty that long, I think any graduate from my class could tell you that there are a lot of changes in the first semester away from high school. I’m...

Canned food should not be used to buy grades

Kasey Winter, Staff Writer April 28, 2015

We all know that kid who boosted his grade ten percent just by bringing in an absurd amount of cans for the food drive. By allowing students to buy their grades, teachers change the motive behind the food...

Assigned reading is not the antagonist

Hannah Matson, Creative Director April 28, 2015

English class is not everyone’s metaphorical cup of tea: keeping every single character in “A Tale of Two Cities” straight in your notes, fighting through a swarm of high-horse 19th-century writers...

The Un-common Application

Sydney Dybing, Opinion Editor April 28, 2015

When applying for college, seeing the words “We’re on the Common Application!” on a school’s website is a fantastic feeling. “I only have to write one essay that applies to every school!” you...

Hurry up, admissions!

Trevor Sytsma, Editor-In-Chief April 28, 2015

College application season was stressful enough. You wrote variations of the same essay describing your intellectual passion for butterflies more times than you care to count, and paid for so many SAT...

Standardized testing has no purpose

Betsy Faris, Staff Writer April 28, 2015

We all remember it, sitting down with a number two pencil and a beast of an exam. The teachers droned on and on for weeks about how important it was to eat a good breakfast and sleep eight hours before...

Equal credit for equal work

Trevor Sytsma, Editor-In-Chief April 28, 2015

Ever heard the phrase “equal pay for equal work?” Since the 1963 Equal Pay Act, and even as recently as last month’s State of the Union address, advocates of gender equality have asserted a woman’s...

Stuck in the Netflix black hole

Marthe Jatun, Staff Writer April 28, 2015

Have you ever heard of the Netflix black hole? Once you’re sucked in it, you can’t escape. I mean, what’s better than lying in your comfy bed, watching something that makes you laugh, makes you happy,...

Web filter? Cock-blocker

Sydney Dybing, Opinion Editor April 28, 2015

It’s like being stabbed. Having your hands chopped off. Dying of radioactivity poisoning. Imagine you’re a Patriot Press staff member, and you just wrote an excellent article about why school shouldn’t...

New semester, fresh start: put finals before break

Kasey Winter, Staff Writer April 28, 2015

It’s the weekend before you come back from break, and all you can think about is finals. You wish you took the finals before break so you could come into break done with tests and no homework and come...

Feeling sick? We’d all appreciate it if you just stayed home

Jacqueline Rayfield, Opinion Editor April 28, 2015

Everyone knows the student who comes to school sick. You are sitting in class as a myriad of coughing and sneezing echoes from the back of the room. At first you try to ignore it, but after an hour...

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