![Minutes before the Activities Fair in the gym, president Abhi Gowda ‘26 prepares the stall for his club Helping Hands, Sept. 4. A relatively new club, Helping Hands was co-started by Gowda and focuses on assisting the homeless, and just last year they succeeded in raising a couple hundred donations to send to shelters. This year, they have goals to expand, with hopes to increase volunteer opportunities and take in-person trips to shelters, as well as extend their help beyond just homeless people. “The Activities Fair gives a lot of underclassmen the opportunity to really get to know the Canyon culture, and it gives them many opportunities for service and volunteering,” Gowda said. “[Through the Activities Fair,] I hope to find a bunch of new and passionate members about our club and just get our name out there and spread awareness to the cause that we’re fighting for.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2-1200x885.jpg)
![The winter guard team makes fifth place at the state championship finals in the Denver Coliseum, March 30. The team performed to Barnes Country's “Glitter and Gold,” lead by coaches Margo Sanford, Blair Bickerton and Anna Orgren. In their class there were a total of nine groups participating, and the top five who made it to finals received a plaque. “[Walking onto the stage] is very nerve-wracking, but also very exciting as well. When you first start color guard there's a lot of anxiety and uncertainty when you first perform in front of an audience, but once you've done it for a while, it starts to become the best part of the season,” Ella West ‘25 said. “It's very fulfilling to see an audience react to something you've put your heart and soul into.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Both-socal-media-nd-website-main-1-1200x846.jpg)
![April marks the 25th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, created by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). This month is to spread awareness of the harassment, assault and abuse that happens around the world. The symbol that represented the month was a teal ribbon; however, some survivors of assault create different symbols and movements like the TikTok trend in 2022, where survivors would tattoo Medusa on their body, in honor of her backstory in Greek Mythology. “I don't think [this month is known] at all. I rarely see anybody talk about it. I rarely see much of an emphasis on posting it online, or much discussion about it, and I feel like there needs to be way more discussion,” an anonymous source said. “I think just validating every experience that a person has gone through, regardless of the degree of it, the severity, is an essential step into making sure that people are aware that this is a very real problem in a society and that we need to do better in addressing it.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_0011-1200x900.jpg)
![Lesbian Visibility Day is April 26, and it’s a holiday to celebrate the lesbian community of the world. Lesbian Visibility day was established in 2008 by many queer activists and organizations who sought to raise more awareness for lesbian history and culture. “So this is why during Lesbian Visibility [Day] we celebrate and center all lesbians, both cis and trans, while also showing solidarity with all LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary people,” Linda Reily, in an article written by her, said.](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Lesbian-Visibility-day.jpeg)
Sickness and Changed Personalities: types of sick people
Hand-Foot-Mouth, Coronavirus, and the Rock Canyon plague part two? Sickness is in the air, and the diseased are either people to steer clear of, or people you have to make sure are still breathing. With varying types of sick people, walking through the germy halls of Rock Canyon has never been more interesting.
media by Emily Wilson
March 9, 2020
The Zombie
The telltale signs include glazed eyes and being completely unresponsive to anything happening around them. No, this is not just describing your average high school student. These types of sick people are who you see walking in the halls that look as dead on the outside as they feel on the inside. They are the people you see walking, and move out of their way as you think, “Holy moly, are they okay?” The Zombies are known for looking gloriously sick, bored, and dead all at the same time. You can be sitting next to them in class and while you bounce your leg and fidget with your pencil, they will be like stone next to you. They are the people who really just need to go home and sleep for five years.
Sis Snapped
Imagine you walk into class and realize you don’t have a pencil. You very politely ask your seat neighbor if you can borrow one for the class and will give it back at the end of the period. Instead of a simple sure, you get scolded for five minutes on why you need to be more prepared for class. These are the aggressive sick people who you avoid at all costs. Or you say as little as possible so as not to make them angrier. Maybe they just need food, maybe they need a nap, or maybe they need world domination, but when you cross paths with the aggressive sick people, they certainly seem to have fire in their eyes. They are the people who drop one part of their Brenda’s cookie and will go on a tangent of why school should start later. No connection, but their angered tone, nasally voice, and sickly looking skin strikes fear into every bystander. The aggressive sick people are the ones to be reckoned with and are not to be tried until they eat a Snickers bar and feel more like themselves.
I Swear I’m Not Sick
You know the people you always hear coughing, sneezing, and sniffing but can never really pick out in a crowd? These are the people who swear they are not sick even as they cough through the statement. Maybe they are the reason you need to wash your hands so much and maybe they are the reason you are starting to feel sick. These are the people you can tell are under the weather but refuse to go home and instead, risk giving others their disease. That slimy green speck you see on your desk? That is a little gift left by your favorite in denial sick student.
Mom, I’m Dying
The famous last words from students who refuse to accept that they are sick are “I’m fine.” However, the over exaggerators are the feverish sun to the denials moon. The favorite phrase from this type of sick person is in fact not a phrase at all, just constant groans of pain and agony. These people could have the slightest runny nose or simply something caught in their throats but like to think that means they are dying. People say it is bad to google sick symptoms because it never leads anywhere good. Well, the over exaggerators don’t even need Google to help them to the conclusion that they might have severe problems. They are the people who will stay home for a week believing they are sick when in reality, the school was just cold enough to make them shiver once during English class.
Crackheads
Have you ever seen someone look so sick but have so much energy? The crackhead sick people are the ones who get more done in one day when they are sick than they will in a whole month when they are healthy. These are the people medicine bottles warn you about when the label states the drug could cause excitability. No, they haven’t had any coffee, they just refuse to let the sickness keep them down and instead go into overdrive. That five-page packet that was assigned for homework five minutes ago? They have already finished it. Sure, the sickness clouds their judgment and some of the work is not coherent, but hey, it’s done. You can feel the energy radiating off of these people, but all they really need to do is take a break and take a nap.