Arcade games beep in the background, and the carpeted floors provide residence for many soda stains and loose popcorn kernels. Nearby, the high school competitors prepare for action. This may not seem like the ideal place for a high school sports team to compete, but then again, this is no ordinary sport. It's bowling.

At two minutes until 10 a.m. in courtroom 15A on Jan. 18, 2008 the Grant Constitution Team began their quest for their fifth state championship in five years. After two-and-a-half hours of competition, the team of 36 seniors won the state title and will compete in the national competition in May.

This year, sophomore English students at Grant have picked up Persepolis, a book that focuses on Iran and Iranian history. Grant math teacher Pardis Navi brings the book to a personal level for the students, giving them a person they see in their halls to connect Iran to their lives. In 11 of the 14 sophomore English classes at Grant, students dedicate a portion of their year to the book Persepolis. Persepolis is a coming of age graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. This autobiographical novel focuses on Satrapi's childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis speaks to the oppression women and of ideas.

In the opinion of the paper:

When the nude posters advertising Grant's play, "Lysistrata", were posted around the school, there was surprisingly little hubbub from the student body. This lack of commotion, however, shouldn't be attributed to the students' disinterest, but instead to the fact that the posters were ripped down an hour later. The next time they went up, with black electrical tape covering the bare chests and backsides artistically depicted in the line-art drawings, students peeled the electrical tape off. The once again nude posters were, once again, torn down.