The school newspaper of Blue Valley North High School
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Jessi Glueck is more than just the new co-editor-in-chief of The North Star. Even with newspaper being a big responsibility, she opens up about her life while not printing the presses.
Over the summer, Glueck went to debate camp for three weeks at Georgetown University. She said that the campus was beautiful and overall she had a great experience.
“I like that it wasn’t about competition, it was about intellectual exercise. It wasn’t like actual debate season,” Glueck said.
While taking a more academic approach, she improved on how to question other people and how to help support events. At the debate camp, however, she liked the other debaters and the atmosphere of the camp. She has started to wonder about debating in college, but she isn’t sure if she wants to go a competitive route. Ultimately, she just wants to study the truth.
On the topic of college, Glueck wants to major in English Literature and to be a professor. She loves to read books, and said her passion for it started when she picked up a copy of “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens and was utterly fascinated. Her favorite kinds of books are from the 19th century because of elegance and formality in language that isn’t found in present day literature.
Currently, Glueck’s biggest responsibility is being one of the editors-in-chief on the 2011-2012 The North Star. What drew her into doing journalism was being able to write, edit and teach people how to do things. Her favorite aspect about being on the newspaper staff is getting to tell people’s life stories and all the interesting things they have done. Her favorite kind of writing are opinion pieces, but she also loves to do features that have lots of in-depth understanding. She described herself as perceptive, because an important part of writing is intuition and being able to tell how people are feeling and thinking. She hopes that she has acquired that skill and that she can understand other people by their feelings and actions.
Out of the academic realm, Glueck likes to be social. When she hangs out with friends, she likes to go shopping with them and see movies, especially at Town Center.
“I also like to go for walks with my friends and just talk,” she said.
Glueck also pointed out that her love for talking is a quality that most people wouldn’t know about her, because of how into academics she is. In her spare time she also loves to read books for fun and work out. Even having one of the biggest jobs on the newspaper staff, she still finds time to have fun and be like any other teenager.
Jessi Glueck, Editor-in-Chief
May 14, 2012
Filed under Features
As Valentine’s Day approaches, most North students are worrying about sweetheart dates, not spouses. Not so for seniors CJ Griffin and Rymington Fulks. Griffin proposed to Fulks, his girlfriend of six months, on Christmas morning of this year. “He had a letter that he read to me. Then... (more...)
Jessi Glueck
May 14, 2012
Filed under Opinion
“All right, guys, this is going to be serious.” Thus began lukewarm discussions on diversity, bullying and prejudice in many advisory classes this year. As a mentor who works with a ninth grade advisory, I understand that these subjects are important. And yet —what do we really expect... (more...)
Jessi Glueck
May 10, 2012
Filed under News
“People were just waiting for someone to step forward,” sophomore Liz Waldberg, chair of the Johnson County Teenage Republicans, said of her decision to found the organization. This summer, the roughly 20-person group will head to D.C. for the National TeenAge Republican Leader Conference... (more...)
Jessi Glueck
May 10, 2012
Filed under Opinion
I’ve never been sure what my opinion was on serious, spend-the-rest-of-your-life-together high school relationships. In general, I used to think that people overestimate their capacity to make major decisions about love while they’re teens. I know I couldn’t. If you’d asked me before... (more...)
Jessi Glueck
May 10, 2012
Filed under Entertainment
Music swells in the darkened theatre. The voices of the violins meld with the jazzy piano sounds issuing from the screen. The camera pans to the black-and-white image of a glamorous old movie theatre, its patrons decked in white gloves and glittering diamonds. They’re laughing at the... (more...)
Jessi Glueck, Co-Editor in Chief
October 3, 2011
Filed under Features
Custodian Paul Conley, 65, is a sturdy, gray-haired, bespectacled fellow with a strong chin. He arrives at school at 6:30 in the morning and leaves at 3:30 or 4:00 p.m. Conley is the kind of man who hardly ever sits down. One morning this past month, though, he did sit down long enough... (more...)
Jessi Glueck, opinion editor
October 6, 2010
Filed under Features, Uncategorized