Category: Opinion
The Milken Diet
Gabi Kamran - Monday, May 13, 2013
Gabi Kamran Staff Writer “At Vicki’s Lunchbox, we support and encourage our children to make smart food choices, empowering them to embrace a healthy lifestyle,” reads the Vicki’s Lunchbox website. Smart food choices? Healthy lifestyle? Vicki’s Lunchbox? Those things definitely don’t belong in the same sentence. Every day when lunchtime rolls around, the campus is [...]
The SAT: A race to nowhere
Jodi Marcus - Monday, February 25, 2013
Jodi Marcus Staff Writer It’s everyone’s favorite season! No, not holiday season. It’s time for the SATs. Quite opposite from the happiest time of the year, these next few weeks will be the start of anxiety, stress and apprehension about the future for many juniors. In the midst of weekly tutoring and practice tests, it [...]
Cleanup Time
Ella Sherman - Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Ella Sherman Staff Writer While walking across campus, look around. The trash condition is getting out of hand. Plastic and lunch boxes are strewn across campus, and Milken faculty is at a loss for what to do. It is time that we, as a community, take responsibility. Students need to realize that our school is [...]
A eulogy for 30 Rock
stu64353 - Thursday, January 31, 2013
Anna Rae Stern Contributing Writer January 31 marks the end of an era—30 Rock is concluding its seven-year run on NBC. Its years were filled with laughter, joy, tears and just plain absurdity. For those who have not seen 30 Rock before, here is a crash course: 30 Rock is the brainchild of the brilliant Tina Fey. Fey, who [...]
Plenty of sports, no spirit
Leeat Elkayam - Friday, December 21, 2012
Leeat Elkayam Staff Writer Wildcat pride on campus is at an all time low. Students do not come to support fellow students while they play in their blue and white jerseys. I always hear people complain that they want to go to a more “normal” or “American” school. We now have a tackle football team [...]
Is Netflix taking over our lives?
Jordan Yashari - Monday, December 17, 2012
Jordan Yashari Staff Writer Ever stayed up at night watching your favorite shows before you go to sleep? Ever passed up on hanging out with your friends to see one more episode? Maybe even spent a whole day watching your favorite show? This is the Netflix epidemic. Students everywhere have found a system better than [...]
Taking away Oneg: the pros and cons
stu64353 - Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Noa Kattler Kupetz Life Editor The purpose of Oneg was to ease Milken into the spirit of Shabbat, a time reserved specifically for community building. Whether the goal of Oneg was ever reached is debatable, but the student response to the schedule change that eliminated Oneg is clear: we’re angry. In actuality, many Fridays consisted [...]
The American value system
admin - Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Daniel Shoumer Contributing Writer When we think about the United States of America, people usually think of it as being a concept. And it is! Whenever people see something as going against what America stands for, it is usually known as ‘un-American.’ However, if something goes against what France stands for, as an example, it [...]
Why vote?
Yasmine Novian - Monday, November 5, 2012
Yasmine Novian Editor-in-Chief Tomorrow, November 6th, I will be one of the millions of citizens to cast a vote for the next president of the United States of America. After doing my research, watching the debates, and engaging in discussions with other students, I have finally become confident that my vote will be for the [...]
The pressure is getting to us
Jodi Marcus - Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Jodi Marcus Staff Writer I recently heard a comment from a friend that really concerned me. “I am too busy to be happy,” he told me. Troubled by this, I looked in to the root of his sentiment: the stress from school is getting to us. The fact that so many students feel that they [...]
