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Pro/Con: Can Internet activism replace traditional forms of activism?

By Puck Bregstone Michelle Chavez | May 9, 2012, 7:31 p.m.

Tailoring content to our readers

By Claire Sleigh | April 27, 2012, 12:30 p.m.

If you flip through an issue of Silver Chips from the past couple years, you'll find one topic suspiciously missing: what Blazers do once they graduate Blair.

Restrictions are the driving force behind safe roads

By Puck Bregstone | March 20, 2012, 12:12 p.m.

In a recent study, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recorded and analyzed the deaths of teens in the age range of 16-19 in order to access the effectiveness of the Graduated Licensing System (GLS). According to their findings, after the implementation of the GLS, states have suffered 1,348 fewer fatal automobile accidents with 16-year-olds behind the wheel. But in the same period of time 1,086 more 18-year-olds have been killed behind the wheel.

Pro/Con: Should MCPS raise the high school dropout age from 16 to 18?

By Peter McNally Claire Koenig | March 14, 2012, 12:10 p.m.

The place of a parent

By Claire Koenig | March 14, 2012, 11:30 a.m.

The Latin expression in loco parentis gives schools and institutions the right to speak for their students' best interests in dire instances. Administrations in schools have saved lives in crises and protected students when their parents could not. But although our schools can shoulder that legal burden while we are behind their gates, does it hold that they should keep it with them at all times?