AP Euro and you

Mike Pankonien Staff Writer AP European History; sounds like a hard class right? Sounds like hours and hours of reading, memorizing and analyzing with a cranky old history professor right? You couldn’t be more wrong. Let’s get the basics out of the way: AP European History, an analysis on the European continent from 1000 A.D. to today, is taught in B205 by Michael Brock. The course only counts as an elective and the AP credit may or may not be so helpful to you down the road in college. So why should you take this class when you could potentially take a release period instead? Some students would tell you that the class is incredibly…

Summer break not efficient schedule

By Mike Pankonien Staff Writer Summer vacation: what’s not to like? Two glorious months of total freedom; no school work, no teachers, no annoying kids blocking your way in the halls. Just you and whatever you want to do…that is until those two glorious months end and you’re hurled back into the school system. When students return to school having forgotten everything they were previously taught and fallen into a lax routine of laziness, is it really wise to postpone returning to school for two months? Wouldn’t a shorter summer be better? Don’t get me wrong, I’m anticipating for summer just as much as the next guy. But what leads to this wrecked condition of…