The controversy surrounding this year's prom started long ago. In December, the rumor that it was going to be on May 15 circulated and raised a few concerns with upperclassmen across the school. It was on a Friday, leaving people limited after-school time to get ready, and it was on the one year anniversary of the passing of Drake student Jeremy Collins. Since then, the date has changed a few times to accommodate the wants and needs of the student body, leaving a lot of questions and only a few happy students. Prom is usually held in mid-May on a Sunday evening (there has always been a …

Deep into rehearsals, this year’s production of Names & Faces is well underway. Is it because of this play that I drag myself out of bed on Sunday mornings and lazily make my way down to the one place I try to avoid on Sundays: school. Why? Allow me to explain. In the 1980s, Drake’s long-time drama teacher, David G. Smith saw a group of panels from the now world-famous AIDS quilt. He saw that in each panel lay the story of how someone, and the people around them, struggled and were eventually brought down by this incurable nightmare of a disease. This inspired Smith to write Names & Faces: …

Who got in where? That is now the question. Jan. 15 has passed and with it the college application process for most Drake High seniors. All the late nights essay writing sessions and hours spent in SAT tutoring will now hopefully pay off as so many of us put our fates in the hands of college admissions boards a thousand miles away. There is, in such a process, an innate sense of competition; the whole point of applying to college is based on using your academic superiority to get you somewhere. Well, I'd say that high school students are arguably the most insecure demographic out there. And …