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Elaine Ekstedt: A half-century at MA

Tracing her path to a golden year Fifty years ago, the average gas price was 39 cents per gallon. Fifty years ago, The Godfather won Best Picture at the Oscars. Fifty years ago, the Watergate trial was underway. Fifty years ago, the U.S. ended its involvement in the...

Student businesses: an alternate option

Summer is just around the corner and so are work hours. Many students dread getting a job, but find the idea of starting their own business attractive. In a study conducted by CNBC (a news network), it was reported that 60% of teens wanted to start their own business....

Destinations around the neighborhood

Some people prefer lemonade. Some people enjoy horchata. Others caramel lattes. And the occasional person who just drinks water. With about a third of the MA community restricted to transportation by foot or by pedal, the locations accessible from school are limited....

How Style Shapes You

The way people express themselves through style You may know not to judge a book by its cover, but you still judge a person by their sweater. Style is often seen as an outward expression of one’s personality, but it is also the way people perceive us at first...
Motivated to learn

Motivated to learn

“Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think,” Albert Einstein once said. But how...

The MA Shoe Scene

The MA Shoe Scene

Shoe buzz at Minnehaha Emerging recently from the shadows is a new phenomenon: shoes. Shoes have been around for a...

Attention Dwindles

Attention Dwindles

Social media wreaks havoc on brains Eight out of ten people will skim this story’s headline, but only two will read...

Musk and war

Musk and war

Elon Musk's role in politics This September, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, lunched at a lavish, unnamed golf...