It’s time to get ready for prom. So get your suits and dresses ready because, on May 11th, the dance will start at 7 p.m. and run until 10 p.m.  Some important information concerning this year’s prom:

• It is at Edinboro McKean VFW, just like last year, and the DJ is Millennium Sound again. 

• The ticket price for this year is around $35 per ticket. 

• The theme for the dance is Under The Sea to go along with the Drama Club's spring musical “The Little Mermaid” and the Weekend With the Arts. 

• This is just a reminder to follow school rules and be respectful of the venue and the people from the VFW helping out.

• If you want to bring a guest or date, you can invite someone from 9th grade through the age of 21. 

• If it is someone who doesn't go to Northwestern you need to fill out a guest permission form. This needs to be turned in by May 6th.

•  Finally, enjoy the night and have fun.

By: Joe Schaukowitsch

Baseball has been around for decades. It has been around and was invented by Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York in 1839. Sometimes it is referred to as “America’s time.” There are many fans of baseball all around the world and many in our community. The schedule will be posted below if you are interested in coming and supporting us. Here is this year’s roster.

Meet the Northwestern Baseball Team:

Seniors 

 Josh’Sheem Perry, Garrett Eddy, Nick Timm, Jacob Mitchell, Joe Friend, Kaden Stout, Kaleb Glasl, and Gabe Hutchison.

Juniors 

David White,  Joe Schaukowitsch, Trysten Lear, Dalton Hough, Jaimen Barzano, Ben Bolte, and Jase Hutchison.

Sophomores 

Tyler Kuhn, Hunter Bendure, Connor Krnaz.

Freshman

Connor Morse.

This is the third time the U.S. government has threatened to ban the biggest social media app in the world, TikTok. Though it’s happened multiple times, people believe this threat is the most believable with Joe Biden saying that if this bill passed Congress, he would sign it; The bill seems to be a unanimous decision for TikTok to be banned. As said previously, TikTok is the biggest social media app in the world; it’s estimated there will be 2 billion active users on TikTok by the end of 2024 if it isn’t shut down. The site uses an almost addictive formula of scrolling through short-form videos and live streams. This type of short-form media has been said to have been detrimental to many children's attention span by having multiple videos, mostly gameplay, over the video. The main reason the Government has decided to ban TikTok is because they believe that the app can allow the Chinese government to access all the user's information, and influence the younger generation with propaganda, which I haven’t seen on my own for you page. TikTok was founded by Chinese entrepreneur, Zhang Yiming, in 2012 and was originally called Musicly; It became TikTok in 2018. It was an immediate success, garnering a little under 350,000,000 users in its first two years. As the years went on, the app started gaining the attention of small businesses where they would go to promote their products and/or services. This also became a place for new politicians to gain traction in their campaigns, which makes this bill all the more comedic. So long story short, TikTok is an app that contains a variety of entertainment and advertising, but has some downsides, like the declining attention span of children and even teenagers; the Chinese government theory is just that, a theory. In my personal opinion, I think it’s kinda useless to pass this bill. The world is in one of the biggest states of turmoil in a while, and the government has decided to focus on an electronic app.

In the modern era, it can be hard to keep up with the new fashion trends. Teens dress differently to explore their identity and to express themselves. Style and comfort are big factors in a teen's clothing choices. Some popular clothing brands among teens are Vans, Converse, Crocs, Nike, Adidas, Champion, and Hollister. Popular styles consist of hoodies, crop tops, ripped jeans, oversized clothing, yoga pants, sweatpants, hightops, and sneakers. Recently it seems that 90’s trends are making a comeback in the fashion world. Styles like grunge- a style composed of  loose fitting clothing, ripped jeans, and band T-shirts, and hip hop have begun to become popular once again. 

I conducted a survey to see what teens here at Northwestern like to wear. Here are some of the responses from participants:

I like to wear hoodies and sweatpants.

Anything loose fitting and baggy.

Anything black. Also Vans shoes.

Hoodies, yoga pants, sweatpants.

Hoodies, ripped jeans/skinny jeans, converse.

Hoodies, shorts, Jordans.

Crop tops, yoga pants, skinny jeans.

Hoodies and jeans.