Voter Registration Step by Step
Noel Mohammed, Reporter
October 12, 2020
This year with COVID-19 you may not feel comfortable registering to vote in person. Luckily there are two other ways to register contact-free. In Kansas, you are allowed to vote in-person and by mail. Each of these ways to register has a specific deadline, October 13, 2020. An abundance of celebrities...
Homecoming Madness
Reese Woods, Multimedia Editor
October 9, 2020
Friday, Oct. 9 is the 2020 homecoming football game and ceremony that was originally scheduled for the coronation to begin at 6:30 and the football game against Olathe South to follow, but with the COVID-19 outbreak on the Olathe South football team, a crazy thirty minute stretch for players and nominees...
The Gates Have Opened
Sarah Ohlde, Copy Editor
October 7, 2020
On October 1, the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment (JCDHE) released an update on school gating criteria regarding COVID-19. Johnson County is in the orange zone,which according to JCDHE, allows for the hybrid school model.. Along with an adjusted gating chart, there is also guidance...
Coming To You Live From SMS
Annalie Polen, News & Opinions Editor
October 2, 2020
Friday nights here at South look a bit different than they did last year and every year before. Instead of a full stadium with football players and cheerleaders, filled with the sound of the band playing, you can find a quiet, empty stadium. Although it doesn't quite look the same, football and every...
Netflix, But For High School Sports
Evan Shibel, Editor-in-Chief
September 22, 2020
At 12:56 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22, John Johnson, athletic director at Shawnee Mission South, announced that all sporting events held in the main gym, auxiliary gym, or the stadium, would now be livestreamed starting October 2nd. This was a district wide decision as now all schools in the district...
SMSD Board approves return to fall sports
Evan Shibel, Editor-in-Chief
September 9, 2020
After questions concluded around 6 p.m. Wednesday, the SMSD board of education voted 5–2 in favor of resuming the fall sports seasons. Prior to the vote, SMSD was the last district in the state to still postpone fall sports. The day before, the board met with Johnson County Health Department as many...
From South To Senate: Making Kansas Safer
Ansley Chambers, Opinion Editor & Copy Editor
April 17, 2020
The fourth and final woman to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee Feb. 24, senior Emily Lang shared her story to the Old Supreme Court room filled with Kansas legislators. Senators stood in support of the bill requiring sexually motivated breach of privacy to be listed on the sex offender regi...
Update on the Democratic Primaries
Elias Henderson, Reporter
March 11, 2020
The race has thinned for the 2020 democratic candidate. In our last issue, we outlined that both Pete Buttigieg and Michael Bloomberg were front-runners. However, after poor showings by both on Super Tuesday both have dropped out. This leaves us with Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Tulsi Gabbard as the...
Newspaper Members Going to State
Alma Harrison, Editor-in-Chief
March 6, 2020
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association holds its annual regional contest in which schools all across the state compete in varying categories related to journalism. The top three winners, as well as three honorable mentions, earn a spot at the state competition. Several members of The Patriot competed...
The battle is over
Nichole Thomas, Editor-in-Chief
February 7, 2020
After 7 months of court battles, President Donald Trump has been acquitted of all charges made against him in the impeachment trial. The two charges included the following: abuse of power and obstructing Congress. There was one Republican Senator who voted against Trump, Senator Mitt Romney. This ...