Student views on Lake news

Valhalla
Student views on Lake news

Valhalla
Student views on Lake news

Valhalla

Cameron Smutz, A&E Section Editor

Cameron Smutz is a senior this year at Lake Stevens High School. In this year’s Valhalla, he intends to contribute his editing skills. Cameron’s skills also carry on to skateboarding and jazz band. His favorite music genres are jazz, rap, reggae and soul. 

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In the know: Senior Cameron McTee takes some time during lunch to check Twitter. He scrolled through his feed to get updated on trending topics. “Twitter is probably the best social media app to to see what is going on and being talked about in general because it shows you trending things and suggested tweets instead of just posts from who you follow,” McTee said.

Elon Musk sets out to buy Twitter in $44 billion deal

The Tesla CEO explained his ambitious ideas to enhance one of the largest social media platforms
Cameron Smutz, A&E Section Editor
May 23, 2022
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Max capacity: Student parking fills up quickly in the morning. Many students reported that finding parking was an obstacle to being on time. “The biggest factor that was interfering with my ability to get to school on time was the parking situation at the time of when the policy was put into place,” junior Caleb Cumberledge said.

Attendance office cracks down on tardy problem

Cameron Smutz, A&E Section Editor
April 25, 2022
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Unobstructed: Students in German class participate in their regular class activity while mask-free. The class learned better being able to see each other's mouths while speaking. “I think not having to wear masks makes learning German a lot easier. You can see the way people's mouths are moving when they say words you aren't familiar with, so it’s easier to learn how to pronounce them,” junior Keaton Axtell said.

Students part ways with their masks

As the number of COVID cases rapidly declines, Washington state is ready to lift the mask mandate
Cameron Smutz, A&E Section Editor
March 22, 2022
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October album releases: Arts & Entertainment Editor Cameron Smutz talks about his thoughts on new albums each month in his Music Spotlight column. Smutz describes and praises his favorite album of October, LP! by JPEGMAFIA. “JPEGMAFIA is one of my favorite rappers because he's just unique. There's not really anyone else like him" Senior Federico Soto said.

Music Spotlight: November 2021

Among albums released in the past two months, there is one that stands out.
Cameron Smutz, A&E Section Editor
December 16, 2021
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September album releases: Arts & Entertainment Editor Cameron Smutz is bringing a music review column to the Valhalla in which he will talk about his thoughts on new albums each month. Smutz describes and praises some of his favorite releases of September such as Injury reserve and Little Simz. Regarding By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Injury reserve, junior Caleb Cumberledge said, “I definitely think that it can also bring a lot of emotion in a weird sense too in the album because it's able to compel a bunch of emotional feeling in such a unique and different way than most other music has been able to in a long time.”

Music Spotlight: September 2021

While there were many highly anticipated albums released in September, a few of them stand out as the best, and are worth covering.
Cameron Smutz, A&E Section Editor
November 5, 2021
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