Viking Call

Upper Merion High's Student Newspaper

Year: 2022

The Growing Possibility of Supersonic Commercial Flights

With all the new technology within the past decade, society continues to progress at an exponential pace. One such technology enables you to travel faster than the speed of sound. However, before supersonic flight even becomes a possibility—much less a…

News

School Shooting Tragedy at Oxford High School

On November 30th, a terrible tragedy occurred at Oxford High School in Detroit, Michigan, that left four students dead and several more injured. At around 12:50pm that day, a 15-year-old sophomore named Ethan Crumbley allegedly entered one of the school…

Biden Announces a Diplomatic Boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics

On December 6th, 2021, United States President Joe Biden announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics. It won’t be a full boycott, which means that athletes will still attend the games, but no government officials or diplomats will…

Op-Ed

Painful Pencils: Satirical Piece

   Pencils!     What are Pencils?    Pencils are nothing but a yellow object that humanity uses to restrict their thoughts, their creativity, their freedom!    Pencils force humanity to be wasteful, for a pencil is useless without paper-which requires us to cut down…

Op-Ed

Districts, Senate; and Shenanigans-Delegate: PA’s 2022 Elections

 As the United States nears the 2022 Midterm elections in November (to elect all the members of the House and a third of the Senate), news of political elections have made their way into the public’s eyes. Primaries in both…