Category: Features

Evelina Gaivoronskaia | Staff Writer   Mrs. Little and her fifth grade students talk about the process of designing their classroom.   Little designers have taken on the big project of designing their classroom environment. Since the first day of the school year, Mason Intermediate’s fifth grade Academic and Creative Talents (ACT) program has been working on personalizing their classroom […]

Andrea Hefferan | Staff Writer  From LA to Hong Kong, the members of Bing Yang Chinese Performing Arts Center have traveled thousands of miles in order to pursue their passion. Bing Yang Chinese Performing Arts Center (BYC-PAC) is a team that performs cultural dances from China, traveling around the world to compete. Sophomore Judi Hu has performed a vast repertoire […]

Ria Parikh | Staff Writer All it takes is five dollars to have your favorite selfie renovated into a cartoon. Sophomore Rachel Smith has been making commission off of her selfie cartoons for three years and promotes her work primarily on Instagram. Smith said selfies in particular appeal to her because the human face is particularly interesting to study and […]

Alex Lisa | Staff Writer Some kids at Mason High School are finding friendships in the most unusual places.   Many students have found comfort and support in friends they interact with exclusively online. They confide in them and build close relationships despite never having met in real life. Due to warnings about strangers online, freshman Joel Steinbicker said he […]

Millie Ortega | Staff Writer Fitness fanatics are exploring their passions online through popularized fitness Instagram accounts. In the beginning, the purpose of the popular social media app Instagram was for users to casually detail the monotony their daily lives. The explore page was filled with photos of dogs to cups of coffee to friends at lunch. Now, feeds are […]

Rahul Parikh | Staff Writer In May 2016, Chris Lee created his own universe, not knowing that he would end up sharing that world with over one million online gamers. Sophomore Christopher Lee’s self-created video game, Infinite Welfare, has over one million plays on the ‘Roblox’ gaming network.  Infinite Welfare places each player on a rectangular platform in the middle […]

  Alekya Raghavan | Staff Writer Big box office horror movies are coming back from the dead.   Through something of a renaissance, the last decade has witnessed a transformation in the way horror movies are being produced and received. Of the top five grossing horror movies of all time, two were released within the last year, while the other […]

MBC Reporter Rilee Malloy got exclusive coverage of the #MayaStrong lacrosse game.   Kaitlin Lewis | Staff Writer On April 17, the Mason girls lacrosse team played in honor of Maya Collins, who passed away last October after her extensive battle with Leukemia.  The school initially came together during the Homecoming football game where students wore blue to support the […]

Alekya Raghavan | Staff Writer Of all the revivals and reboots and spinoffs pouring out of Hollywood in recent months, one is re-making a huge splash: Roseanne. A half-hour comedy, Roseanne centers around the Conners, a blue-collar family living in the fictional Landford, Illinois. The titular matriarch, played by Emmy-award winner Roseanne Barr, juggles family and work alongside her husband and […]

Inspired by his uncle, senior Chevan Saunders first dressed in drag last year.   Luke Hutchinson | Online Editor Don’t be a drag, just be a drag queen. This was the mindset senior Chevan Saunders had when he first dressed in drag last year for Kings Island’s annual Pride Night. Drag queens are people who usually dress in feminized clothing […]

Jacob Brase | Staff Writer While some may ignore it, the heroin epidemic is real and present in Warren County. But, there is hope, as volunteers have been fighting back against the silent killer in the community. One City Against Heroin (OCAH) is a group of business leaders who seek to support projects that combat the local heroin epidemic. In […]

Ria Parikh | Staff Writer Every picture tells a story. Sophomore Grace Tang and senior Stephanie Krekeler won Gold Keys in the 2018 Scholastic Art and Writing awards. Gold Awards are granted to entries that qualify in the top one through five percent. Through her photography classes, Tang said she was able to apply her interest in taking pictures and […]

Lauren Serge | Staff Writer As digital communication has widened, worries of parents have intensified. With the development of location tracking apps, teenagers are faced with paranoia as their privacy is under observation. Through the Find My iPhone app, senior Lexy Nelson location is constantly being shared with her mother. Nelson explained that the app is formatted similar to a […]

Alekya Raghavan | Staff Writer Most students at Mason High School will spend their days in increments of seven, with a different set of 30 other students every hour. What they might not know is that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at any time, up to five of their classmates may be suffering, silently, from a […]

Andrea Hefferan | Staff Writer When it comes to Girl Scouts, these girls have been troopers. By high school, many girls have quit the group and moved on to other activities. However, some are still a part of it and have no intention of quitting. From daisy to senior, the girls from Troop 48045 have stuck through Girl Scouts thick […]