Veg Club Plans to Raise Awareness this School Year
Katie Bartlett, Entertainment Editor
November 1, 2019
Living a plant based lifestyle, whether it be vegan, vegetarian, or pescatarian, has numerous benefits. Cutting meat out of your diet has been connected to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and lower rates of heart disease. It is also environmentally beneficial, because the meat and dairy industries a...
What Madison Students are Looking Forward to Most this Year
Caroline Scheider-Williams, Entertainment Editor
October 30, 2019
Almost one quarter into the school year, students have started to form routines that they will follow for the rest of the year. While there are still months to go until we even take our first SOL, AP test, or final exam, it is never too early to start looking into the future. One student from each c...
Madison senior AJ Arnolie offered acceptance to Stanford, MIT, Duke, other top schools
Lulu Dawes, Staff Reporter
April 8, 2019
When it came time for AJ Arnolie (’19) to start choosing which universities he would apply to, the thought “why not just go for it?” crossed his mind. Seeking to major in electrical engineering and computer science, Arnolie began his application process by looking at the list of best engineeri...
Kase’s Experience: Why the proposed defunding of Special Olympics is unacceptable
Hannah Kase, Lifestyle Editor
March 27, 2019
This weekend, I finished my second season of coaching Special Olympics basketball. My team had a third place finish in the Marymount Special Olympics Basketball Tournament, enjoying a Sunday of playing hard, dancing and singing to music during game breaks and eating frozen yogurt together. Today, I woke ...
My story: Struggling with mental health
Madeleine LeTendre, Fact Checker
January 24, 2019
Disclaimer: this article contains descriptions of self-injury, anxiety, and depression. If you are in crisis, please see the resources at the bottom of the article. Not a ton of people expect a 12-year-old to suffer from addiction. Until recently, I didn’t realize that what I have been going throu...
A eulogy for the Vienna Taco Bell
Abbey Gastrock, Staff Reporter
January 8, 2019
After months of controversy over whether our favorite Mexican restaurant would be replaced by yet another Starbucks, the time has finally come to say goodbye. The Taco Bell on Maple Avenue has officially closed and is set to become a drive-thru Starbucks. I have been confused since April, a.k.a. the beginni...
Jammin Java offers intimate concert-going experiences
Sophie Shayne, Staff Reporter
December 3, 2018
Child TV star Drake Bell recently performed at Jammin Java in Vienna, and a number of Madison students attended his performance. “Drake Bell could respond to the audience if someone yelled because he could actually hear us,” Leah Litman (’22) said. “Since it was not scripted, he just chose ...
Review: ‘Noises Off’ brings laughs, fascinating entertainment and astonishing talent to Madison High School
Spencer Todd, Staff Reporter
November 10, 2018
“Noises Off” by Michael Frayn is a comedic farce that follows the production crew of a play entitled “Nothing On” starting the day of their opening night performance. There’s only one problem: everything is going wrong. The play follows the characters in three acts as mayhem consumes their pro...
Devan Fink (’19) visits Newseum for journalism conference
Devan Fink, Entertainment Editor
October 25, 2018
This article was originally featured in the Oct. 19 print edition of The Hawk Talk. I spent a week of my summer with one student journalist from every state. If that sounds like a unique experience, that’s because it was. Fifty-one student journalists, exactly one from each state (plus Washington, D.C.)...
Madison swimmers named USA Swimming Scholastic All-Americans
October 22, 2018
On Sept. 18, USA Swimming announced the 2017-18 Scholastic All-America selections. Two Madison students, Anna Keating (’20) and Elizabeth Khulkin (’20), both qualified for the 2018 USA Swimming Girls Scholastic All-America. “Not a ton of kids are able to achieve this so I’m so honored that I did,...
Meet Madison’s new faculty
Bridget Levesque, Staff Reporter
October 18, 2018
The beginning of every school year brings along with it many familiar faces. Most students, with the general exception of freshmen, return to school for a new year. The same, for the most part, is true of the staff. But, alongside all of the familiar faces are some new ones, both among students and sta...
School Board celebrity Ryan McElveen visits Madison in first ‘MADTalks’ of year
Hannah Kase, Lifestyle Editor
October 5, 2018
Madison’s student-led speaker series, MADTalks, conducted its first live interview of the 2018-19 school year on Thursday, Sept. 27. Sky Zoom (’19) interviewed Ryan McElveen, an At-large School Board Member for Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). Approximately 80 Madison students attended the t...
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