Coach Iammarino Pins 52nd Year at Beachwood
Tyler Pohlman, Staff Writer
May 17, 2017
It was that time year again: trees began to shed their leaves and moms frantically buttoned their kids up in big coats. In crowded gyms across Northeast Ohio, wrestling season had begun. Bison wrestlers anxiously waited for their names to be called to the mat. Beachwood, the smaller and less experienced...
Author Marcus Sedgwick Describes Life on the Border
Malinda Creel, Staff Writer
May 13, 2017
On Thursday, April 27, author Marcus Sedgwick spoke in the BHS auditorium. Principal Reed briefly discussed his love of reading as a child before introducing junior Abbey Brewer, library club President, who gave a brief introduction to Sedgwick and welcomed him to the stage. Sedgwick has published...
Female STEM Students Encouraged to Defy Expectations
Cameron Godfrey, Staff Writer
March 9, 2017
According to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce (DOC), women hold nearly half of all jobs in the United States, but less than 25% of jobs related to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The Economics and Statistics Administration of the DOC cites many factors contributing to this discrepancy, including...
Federal Move Towards Vouchers Could Cut Into School District Budgets
Dalia Zullig, Editor-in-Chief
March 8, 2017
Betsy DeVos was confirmed by the Senate on Feb. 7 to the position of Secretary of Education, with the tie-breaking vote cast by Vice President Mike Pence. At her confirmation hearing DeVos demonstrated a lack of knowledge about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the federal law that ensures that every student with a disability rec...
Exploring the Impacts of Video Game Use
Tyler Pohlman and Parker Gill
December 15, 2016
Video games have become a staple of childhood and adolescent entertainment. According to the American Psychological Association, more than 90% of children from the ages of 2 to 17 play video games. Freshman Zach Harf estimates that he spends about 10 hours a week playing video games. “Sometimes,...
Inequitable School Funding a Persistent Problem in Ohio
Alex Cala, Opinion Editor
December 14, 2016
School funding is something that doesn’t receive nearly as much attention as it should. However, for some students, it can be the difference between having a full-time school nurse or a music class, things that are viewed by many educators as essential. And in Beachwood, where we benefit from one...
11,000 Miles to Beachwood
Ofek Hyer, Staff Writer
October 15, 2016
The sun bakes down violently on the dry desert of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and on the girl wearing the black hijab. But she is used to the heat. She is used to wearing the black, heat-absorbing cloth. She is used to the division of genders in her school. She exchanges numbers with her friends...
Exploring the City With the Cleveland Club
Rihab Ali, Staff Writer
October 7, 2016
Social studies teacher Greg Deegan and the Cleveland club traveled downtown on Friday, Oct. 30. The plan was to go to the Flats East Bank, but Cleveland’s weather did not cooperate. Due to rain, the club adjusted and went to the West Side Market instead. The students toured the market and bought...
A Problem That Needs To Be Faced
Gabriela Covolan Costa, Image Editor and Staff Writer
August 28, 2016
People don’t like to talk about sexual assault. According to staff members at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center (CRCC), rape is an issue that needs to be discussed, because our society silences sexual assault victims when we keep quiet. Ignoring the fact that a sexual assault occurs in America every...
Learner
Yuke Zheng, Staff Writer
May 19, 2016
Long before he taught physics in Beachwood, Michael Lerner left home to teach abroad in post-Communist Warsaw—in the process, he learned to grapple with uncertainty.
Destination Imagination Offers Creative and Fun Competitions
Clarissa Djohari, News Editor
April 27, 2016
At the Ohio Destination Imagination (DI) tournament on April 16, two BHS teams placed sixth and seventh out of 17 teams in the improvisational challenge. Flaming Marshmallowzzzz, the team that placed sixth, is comprised of juniors Molly Rosen, Amanda Wasserman, Julia Warner and Andrew Feldman. Four...
We Asked BHS Students About Their Social Media Habits
Grace Warner and Additional reporting by Beachcomber Staff
February 23, 2016
Here's What We Found
