The Communicator • A Student Voice

Michael Savage: The Moderate

In a school with overwhelmingly left-wing views it is difficult to retain a different perspective. CHS junior, Michael Savage, has more conservative political views than the average Community student. While attending Community has affected Savage’s leanings, his search for a balanced perspective and conservative roots make him unique. Savage tries to stay as up to date on current events as he can and reads a variety of sources to form his own opinions. Savage is not truly conservative in the grand scheme of things, but his views certainly set him apart from his peers.

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Founded in 1972, Community High School was created in response to the rigid learning environments at Pioneer and Huron, where a need for an alternative high school was becoming more apparent.  The idea of this new experimental school was a “school-without-walls,” or a centralized community of students and teachers using the city around them as a resource for designing their own curricula.

In its first five years, the school began as a blank slate; an almost lawless experiment to see what happens when students are given complete freedom to determine their own education.

Linda Diane Feldt, graduate of Community’s class of 1975, explained the atmosphere of CHS in its beginnings. “It was kind of a free-for-all, as far as drugs, and sex, and figuring out what the new boundaries were, and how to behave.  There was a lot of student activism; students had the keys to all the rooms and we were attending the faculty meetings, started our own student newspaper.  It was like we were running the school.”

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A group of freshmen gather to hear a story from CHS junior Sonya Kotov, a natural story teller.

If there is one thing that stands out about Sonya Kotov, it is her laugh. The Community High School junior has a distinct laugh that evokes varied reactions from those around her. Some smile, laughing along. Others are not sure what to make of it. More…

ALSO APPEARS IN The Communicator, Edition 7

This Year, Community says goodbye to three of its most cherished teachers.

Madeline Drake

Madeline Drake’s long reign of teaching will come to an end this year, as she opts to retire after teaching for 33 years.  Drake attended Macomb Community College for two years and then received her bachelor’s at Michigan State.  Drake student taught  at Lance Cruz High School  and then received her Master of Science degree at Eastern Michigan University.  Her teaching career began in the Bloomfield Hills school system – she taught there for 10 years until moving to Community, where she has now been a teacher for 23 years.  Drake was led to retire by two main reasons. More…

Bandito's serves up mexican food on Liberty and Fourth

On Liberty and Fourth, there is a small Mexican restaurant, largely unknown to the citizens of Community High School. Many students have not noticed this now twenty-year old restaurant as a lunch option. However, with Bandito’s new five-dollar menu for Community students, this may change More…

Every year at Scarlett Middle School, students and teachers, especially in the English department, spend most of their 3rd quarter preparing for Portfolio Day. During this time many of the students have their first experience writing a resume, and compiling work to present in a formal job interview.
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Most lacrosse stars don’t start at three years old. Not many toddlers are found on the basketball court, and a rare few tee-ballers end up in the big leagues. Dance seems to be one of the only ‘sports’ (define it how you will) that often starts so young.

A photo from the CHS Dance Body show, which both Solomon and Ringquist are members of.

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Aidan Mase-Kemnitz: The Not-So-Typical Dancer

CHS Senior Aidan Mase-Kemnitz performing.

Aidan Mase-Kemnitz, a senior at Community, is passionate about dancing. However, he’s not your typical dancer. Mase-Kemnitz describes his experience in multiple styles of dance as a male high school performer.

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It seemed as though one could sense the buzzing excitement that filled Rackham Auditiorium on Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 before even stepping through its doors. Anyone in close relation with a CHS senior — staff, parents, grandparents, siblings, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends — was at Rackham that night.

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It’s a late morning on a typical Thursday in May at Ann Arbor’s Fleetwood Diner. Instead of the usual strong odor of cigarette smoke upon opening the door, the smell of coffee and hash browns fill the air. Not a cigarette is to be seen. Instead, there seems to be more food; plates laden with ‘Hippy Hash’ and buttery pancakes and fried eggs are present at almost every customer’s More…