Jake Holtzman and Will McGlynn

November 5, 2019

You decide you want to support cancer research through the Rutgers Cancer Institute’s annual Century for the Cure Bike Race. Unfortunately, you’re not much of a biker but you still want to help. What should you do? It’s simple, donate to Oona Harrigan; all donations go to fund cancer research and in return, she performs an Irish dance in your honor. Harrigan is a WHS alumna and attended Boston College where she earned a degree in biology. Today she is working at Rutgers Cancer Institute,...

Hank Shapiro

November 11, 2019

The jog from the field to the locker room might have been the longest 30 seconds of my life. Nothing had gone right for our team in the first half. Down 20-0, there were no signs of life on either side of the ball. We were dumbfounded with how Bridgewater-Raritan utterly dominated us in the first half.  There was silence for at least a minute which is unheard of in our locker room. The coaches went to their office to regroup and come up with a strategy for the second half. You could start to...

Colm Slevin

October 28, 2019

It has been 35 years since the release of the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, yet readers are still asking questions: What happened to Offred? How did America become the anti-feminist dystopia of Gilead? On Sept. 10, Margaret Atwood released The Testaments, answering many of these questions. The Testaments is set in the same world as The Handmaid’s Tale, but years later and uses some recurring characters. However, it has none of the same main characters. These elements made me feel like The Testaments...