The Reitz High School Journalism Department took home several awards from the University of Southern Indiana’s annual High School Media Day. Junior Melody Hart won with each of the two photos that she entered. In Sports Photography, she took a third place with her picture of a Panther hurdler while in News Photography she took [...]
The Hilltoppers are called, the crowd cheers as the dancers move onto the court, then the music starts. About two minutes later, the last note rings out and the dancers stop moving while the crowd roars out their cheers. But the preparations of the dance routine took far longer than those two minutes, and it [...]
‘Tis the season to spend time with family and eat a huge meal with ham, chicken and dumplings, corn, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, cookies, pies and other delicious food. Or at least, it is for most high school students at Reitz. There are a few of us who have a different agenda for Christmas. [...]
2007 Reitz graduate Ester Uduehi was recently named a Rhodes Scholar, Fresh out of high school, she’d received the Wells scholarship to attend Indiana University. Uduehi is IU’s fourth student in the last decade, and the sixteenth since 1904 (the year it was first rewarded), to receive the Rhodes Scholarship. Read the official press release [...]
Senior swingman Evan Brinkmeyer let the way with 43 points against a stong Terra Haute South team Saturday. He also pulled down 12 rebounds and dished out 6 assists in the 70-59 victory. Read more about Brinkmeyer’s feat on the Courier and Press’s website.
The 9th Ranked wrestling Panthers opened their season on Saturday winning the annual Hill Classic. The host team went 5-0 on the day and the following wrestlers went undefeated: 103 – Damon Kuhn 112 – Blake Johns 119 – Gideon Vanhook 125 – Trevor Moody 135 – Derek Dowdy 140 – Blake Rueger 145 – [...]
Superintendent Bertram presents Matt Williams, graduate of F.J. Reitz High School, with a figurine this past weekend after being named to the EVSC Foundation Hall of Fame 2010 Class. EVSC Foundation hosted a reception for Williams who was unable to attend the induction ceremony in September. Williams was one of 12 individuals to be inducted [...]
David Archuleta’s most recent album, “The Other Side of Down,” is a top 40’s pop fan’s dream. It features upbeat, cutesy love songs like “My Kind of Perfect,” “Elevator” and “Parachutes and Airplanes.” It also features positive songs like “Good Place” and “Look Around” that could make anyone feel like they’re a hundred feet tall. [...]
As schools struggle with how to improve education, one option has been to infuse the school with technology, especially bringing in a one-to-one option, giving every student their own computer. EVSC has distributed netbooks to all of its high school students so that, whether they have their own computer at home or not, students may [...]
When “Family Guy” was delivered by fans and ambitious executives at Fox, it went largely unquestioned why the show had failed at all on a network that had successfully nurtured “The Simpsons.” Even at its best, though, “Family Guy” wasn’t much more than a slapstick version of “The Simpsons,” with a nasty-talking baby, Stewie, replacing [...]