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The Black and White
The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White
The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White
Ethan Wagner

Ethan Wagner, Education Writer

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11

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I joined the Black and White so that my writing could have an impact on the community.

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Old car smell.

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Quizbowl places second in tournament

Quizbowl places second in tournament

By Ethan Wagner
March 11, 2020
Roy (left) tries to get Gali’s attention while Gali (right) gazes directly into the camera.

A blog about my dog

By Ethan Wagner
March 5, 2020
Cody Therrien, AP Language: “Plethora” and “Perouze” Therrien uses these words a lot, and his students have started to use them in their writing “possibly to poke fun at me but it’s all in good fun,” he said. Therrien recalls that many years ago, he was watching the movie, The Three Amigos, which has a funny scene about the word plethora. He explained that the word perouze is a contronym — a word with two contrasting definitions — to plethora. “Perouze” officially means to read something very closely and annotate it, but people generally use the word to mean “skim over.”

“Jeepers Creepers:” Whitman teachers have lots of catchphrases

By Ethan Wagner
January 14, 2020
MCPS releases calendar for 2020-2021 school year

MCPS releases calendar for 2020-2021 school year

By Ethan Wagner
January 11, 2020
Amnesty International, an organization that combats human rights abuses globally, held a climate change event on the George Washington University campus Sept. 16. At the event, Amnesty presented 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg with the Ambassador of Conscience Award.

I wasn’t a climate change activist. Then Greta Thunberg changed my mind.

By Ethan Wagner
November 7, 2019

The other side of trick-or-treating

By Ethan Wagner
October 28, 2019
When it comes to summer work, quality over quantity

When it comes to summer work, quality over quantity

By Ethan Wagner
June 13, 2019
Studying: one thing teachers don't teach

Studying: one thing teachers don’t teach

By Ethan Wagner
June 10, 2019
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