On December 4th, 2009 the Perspective published its first online issue as an entirely student-run club. In the two years since Josh Yoder’s (’10) article about budget overrides first appeared on the site, uhsperspective.org has hosted over 29,000 visits resulting in more than 85,000 page views. The Perspective has a long history at University High School, [...]
Let’s take a look back at the pictures Photography Club has taken during the first semester. Meetings are every other Tuesday in Woon’s Room (105) starting at 8. The next meeting is the first Tuesday after winter break. Questions, comments; issues, problems? Contact Amanda Robinson, Kendra Knittel, or Brooke Teufel. Broken Pieces: Light: [...]
My Thoughts on Huckleberry Finn After reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, I can definitely say that it has been one of the more enjoyable books that I have read for an English class. To start off, the first thing that you’ll notice if you read the book is that it is [...]
There is one literary event I look forward to in the fall with a major amount of both excitement and nervousness (besides National Novel Writing Month), and that’s Poetry Out Loud. The process of searching for and choosing a poem, memorizing it, reciting it to myself while waiting for the bus or brushing my teeth, [...]
I read Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories one summer after devouring everything by Jonathan Safran Foer I could plausibly get my hands on, and reading somewhere that Crocodiles was one of his favorite books and a significant source of inspiration for him. I can clearly see why. Dreamy prose, astonishing imagery, [...]
`Tis the season…for Christmas Parties! (a.k.a. another excuse for the stark reality of finals week to go unacknowledged) By Kelly Liska Every year at my house, it begins again. My mom busies herself readying the house for our annual Christmas party, which was originally an idea of a family friend. This friend concluded [...]
Gingersnaps These are are bit more spicy than sweet, and really do snap. 3/4 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1/4 cup molasses 2 cups flour 1 tablespoon ginger 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt Preheat the oven to 350° Cream together: 3/4 cup shortening, 1 cup [...]
Pictures of the beautiful Esperanza dancers practicing, courtesy of senior Allegra Amend.