Patrick Mulkey, co Editor in Chief, Sports and co News Editor
• May 1, 2025
Red Bull is nothing if not consistent this season. LIam Lawson after only two Grand Prix's has been demoted to Alpha Tauri Red Bulls second team and Yuki Tsunoda has taken his place. This came after a...
Patrick Mulkey, co Editor in Chief, Sports and co News Editor
• May 1, 2025
Spring is here! Spartans, the time has finally arrived for warm sun, blistering wind, and the occasional snow storm all within two weeks! With this comes long track meets, exciting baseball games, and...
Regular readers of the Sword & Shield may remember an article I wrote earlier this year enumerating my many reasons to be, to put it kindly, dissatisfied with the existence of the How To Train Your...
Spirit Day is back, Spartans! If you didn’t know, Spirit Day is an annual volunteering event organized by Spartan Youth Service (SYS) that brings close to 300 Memorial volunteers to our feeder elementary...
Patrick Mulkey, co Editor in Chief, Sports and co News Editor
• May 1, 2025
Steves Lava Chicken is an amazing song! Jack Black has once again struck it out of the park with the Minecraft Movie and you can really tell he had fun with it. The highlight of the movie for me was definitely...
Like many students, I survived middle school by forming maladaptive coping mechanisms that to this day, haunt me like mildly irritating ghosts. One of these coping mechanisms was reading whatever popular...
Hello Spartans! I’m the Sword & Shield Opinions editor, Amalia Weix. I hope everyone is having a great 4th Quarter, and feeling ready to run the AP Test gauntlet (unless you’re a freshman, in which...
AP exam season is right around the corner, and most students are nervously preparing and reviewing a year’s worth of content for a several-hour test at the Alliant Energy Center. As a reminder, here...
Happy May, Spartans—Prom is right around the corner! This year, Prom will be on Saturday, May 3rd, from 7:30 to 10:30 P.M. at the Alliant Energy Center. The theme will be “Santorini Nights,” and...
Trigger warnings have been in the public consciousness for decades—originating on feminist messaging boards in the late 90’s—but only recently have I begun to see them used outside of a handful of...
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