“My goal is to establish a new system of learning. I believe it really comes around three big issues. Issue number one, is we have to get the best teachers in the area because we know that the quality of your learning is affected by the teacher.” Dr. Tony Bennett, the State Superintendent of Education [...]

Fusion can be described by many students and adults as many things, but these are all merely opinions. When you remove all of the opinions and thoughts, the facts remain. The fact is that Fusion isn’t just a concert, it’s a show. It’s a giant performance involving every single musical group at Reitz. The beauty [...]

Approximately 77 people receive an organ transplant each day, and the waiting list for them grows by 300 people each month. With these transplants, 10 percent of the patients are under 18 years of age. Senior Sarah Tuley knows what it is like being under 18 and going through one of these transplants. This is [...]

When the student body thinks of sports here at Reitz, they think of football and basketball. Perhaps this is because of the sports’ outstanding records for countless years, or maybe it is because the other sports are not discussed as much. Hockey is one of the sports that is not as popular in this area. [...]

The bell rings. Students perk up. Everyone’s favorite 45 minutes of the day has come. It’s time to scramble to the lines before they get too long. Students absently pile pizza, fries, or mashed potatoes on their trays. With the recently passed national bill that’s destined to improve nutrition in the cafeteria, one should take [...]

Since the shooting incident at Columbine High School, students have learned more about safety in schools. This includes Columbine, Paducah and Virginia Tech and others around the country. There was also the incident here, which, although not a shooting, was still a threat to safety. Safety is not only the responsibility of administrators, faculty and [...]

Some students feel comfortable walking the halls and talking with their peers at Reitz. Some, however, don’t feel comfortable with the student body at all- until now. RGSA, or the Reitz Gay Straight Alliance, is a group that senior Jake Svestka started earlier this school year. Every Wednesday after school, students meet in classroom 354 [...]

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 [...]

Countless girls across the country counted down the days until they could turn on their televisions and watch the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion show. When the much anticipated show arrived, many girls were disappointed to find that the models, previously 20 pounds heavier, strutted down the runways, showing off not just the new clothes for [...]

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 [...]