Rachel Leman

Athletic Director Mr. Andrew Turner will be leaving Normal Community High School at the end of this school year to take the same position at Main South High School. Turner began his employment in Unit 5 in 1995 teaching science, coaching baseball at both Normal Community and Normal West, and then earning...

With Netflix offering over 4,000 TV shows and 9,000 movies for its users to stream, making it impossible for even a binge watching expert to view every reputable film and show that streams on the service. Often the same movies and shows pop up on the Netflix recommended list, but what happens when you...

  1. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop Music) - Courtney Barnett   Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett released her debut album in March. Barnett’s songs offer surface level messages, but can take on a deeper meaning after a second listen...

House of Cards, a Netflix original series about the dark side of politics, has caught the nation’s attention. According to Procera Networks, 10% of Netflix’s 30 million subscribers watched House of Cards the first weekend it premiered. With the full season release of Netflix series, shows like...

After much critical acclaim from sources such as Vogue and The New York Times, Jill Soloway’s Transparent is returning for a second season. The show is a lighthearted comedy-drama with an embedded social message, comparable to shows like Modern Family and Glee. With the first season winning many awards,...

All over the United States, presidential hopefuls like Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are working to gain the vote of an inaccessible group. A group that has been traditionally inactive in elections - the young. As November 8, 2016 draws nearer, these candidates become desperate to appeal...

Game of Thrones-esque violence, with the emotion and drama of Downton Abbey, while keeping the politics of The Tudors and the sex scandal suspense of Grey’s Anatomy or any Shonda Rhimes show. These are the elements that build the CW show Reign. Acting led by Teen Wolf’s Adelaide Kane, Reign fits...

Brooke Vogel, a senior at Normal Community High School, looks at her phone and sees six new picture messages, all depicting a poorly drawn green frog with abnormally large eyes and a sad, hopeless expression.   Another meme attack, something that happens regularly and with little explanation. Sure...

Two students standing too close. Uncomfortably close. Invading each other’s personal space, their heads bent awkwardly towards each other. Two students unaware of their surroundings speaking only occasionally. Two students connected by a single white cord, one end branching towards their ears and...

Updated: 10:26 am - 11/30/2015    On a dim, chilly morning, buses and cars filled with sleepy students come pouring into the school parking lot. Yawning and stretching, kids shuffle into the building, trying to rub the sleep from their heavy eyes.  The day moves forward, each period ticking...

 In San Antonio, Texas, one week before NBC airs the US All-American Bowl, hundreds of high school seniors from across the country pile out of buses. Each carrying a week’s worth of clothing and a confidence that comes with being selected to participate in the US Army All-American Bowl. Most of the...