Category: Features

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 […]

Jacob Brase | Staff Writer With a few bucks and a computer, anybody can make money. In the world of gambling, it is very rare you hear talk of betting on eSports, or professional video game matches. Despite it not being a mainstream gambling technique, the eSports gambling market is projected to be worth over $30 billion by the year […]

Alex Lisa | Staff Writer We thought video killed the radio store, but the once-dominating field of entertainment may be making a comeback. Podcasts have become the modern equivalent to radio, despite only being open to the public eighteen years ago. The term “podcast” was used because they were originally only available on ipod devices, but they have since spread […]

Alekya Raghavan | Staff Writer As administrators crack down on vaping, the popular student pastime is going up in smoke. The use of electronic cigarettes or vapes has become a regular activity for many kids at MHS. Students partake in vaping by means of inhaling vapor from vape pens, mods or JUULs. Last year, the number of school suspensions for […]

Jacob Brase | Staff Writer African American superheroes are finally getting their time to shine, and the timing could not be better. In 1966, King T’Challa, also known as the ‘Black Panther,’ first appeared in a Marvel comic book. T’challa was the first African American superhero ever created in the history of comics. Nearly 52 years later, the Black Panther […]

Alexandra Lisa | Staff Writer Access granted. Welcome to the digital side of Mason High School. Greg Kummer’s Advanced Placement Computer Science (AP CS) classes teach students how to handle and master computer code, opening the door for them to pursue technology majors and careers in the future. Many of those students seek opportunities outside of the classroom to use […]

Luke Hutchinson | Online Editor Some things never go out of style. In the past, a dandy was a male who placed particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language and leisurely hobbies. Dandyism was the expectation for 19th century upper class Englishmen; it was a style marked with excessive refinement. For junior Daniel Caal, it is a lifestyle that fits […]

Alexandra Lisa | Staff Writer For many people, a ouija board is the star of a 2014 horror movie. For one group of students, however, it is a direct tie to the flip side. Senior Hallie Burke and her friends have been visiting abandoned places in the Mason area for just over a year, contacting spirits through the use of […]