Meredith Craven Focus Editor A typical senior in high school is enrolled in classes such as English, Calculus, Psychology, and a few breezy electives. But at Assumption, there’s a class, just for second-semester seniors, which isn’t set up in the average, lecture-style format. Humanities

  Kathleen Hines Assistant Features Editor On April 17, I, as opposed to the rest of Louisville, will not attend the 21st annual ‘Thunder Over Louisville’. I have decided not to attend after hearing information which has negatively affected my view of the entire event. From an envi

Maggie Wiesemann Entertainment Editor      A Glog. What is it? Where did it come from? Why are we using it? A glog is pretty much the same as a blog only you can do a whole lot more with it to personalize it and make it your own.  Said to be an online diary, glogs allow people to express

Rachel Gregor Assistant Features Editor     Catholic high school education is not without a price tag. For Assumption students, the base tuition for 2009-2010 was $9,375.    The numbers are about the same at the other all-girls schools in the Archdiocese of Louisville. Tuition for Mer

Stephanie Koch Editor in Chief Like so many routine tasks in our lives, most of us have probably let the 2010 census fly by, expecting our parents to fill it out and send it back.  As teenagers, or maybe even once into adulthood, it is difficult to understand the importance of the constitutiona

Allie Schmitt Op/Ed Editor According to Gary Phillips, a researcher at the non-profit American Institute for Research (AIR), “We [America] are not in the lead in winning this race to prepare the minds for the future generation.”   Phillips could not be more correct.  After AIR sent out

Maggie Wiesemann Entertainment Editor    As we entered Baxter Avenue Theater on a muggy Sunday night I had the highest expectations for what would unfold in front of me on the screen.  Except my expectations went right down the drain, or rather right down the rabbit hole.    We bought our

          Everyday millions of purchases are made from national chains such as Target or O’Charley’s, but more and more people have started diverting their purchases from national chains to local businesses. Assumption is located in one of Louisville’s most prominent areas of local bu