Y-Press M ost high schools have homecoming celebrations in October, although football season has started long before. At homecoming, student leaders make their biggest push to rouse students' sense of pride and loyalty. What started as a way to celebrate the football team (and a lucky student king and queen) has evolved into a weeklong party of costumes, hallway decorations and class rivalries. Of

W hen former All-Star Jose Canseco used his book "Juiced" to go public on steroid use by professional baseball players, it not only embarrassed the sport, it cast suspicion over other athletes, even at the high school level. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in its 2000 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey that among high school seniors, 3.3 percent of females and 6.4 perc

S aturday, thousands of teenagers will wake up before 8 a.m. That alone is news to anyone who's spent time around teens on Saturday mornings. These students, however, are getting up early so they can report to local testing centers at 8:15 a.m. to take the new Scholastic Aptitude Test, the dreaded college entrance exam. The revised exam, first administered March 12, is radically different. A writi

Take a moment to appreciate your hair. You can wash it, blow it dry and style it. Most people take for granted having hair that doesn't get matted and fuzzy after a few years, like synthetic hair does. Since synthetic hair lacks natural oil and weight, many more knots and tangles form in it. It's easy to buy a wig with fake hair, but getting a wig with real hair is much more difficult and can be v

For one day, fifth-graders from Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School ran a community. They applied for jobs, managed budgets, governed the city and worked with others. They went to Exchange City, a Junior Achievement program in Downtown Indianapolis. "I would describe it as a really fun place where you get to learn jobs," said Madeline Leahy, 11. Y-Press recently talked to Madeline and four ot

When you are young, you are willing to try new things, even if it's not something in which you might excel. For example, you might try out for your school's basketball team. While you are not very tall, have bad eyesight and have never really been interested in sports, it looks like fun. However, everyone you play one-on-one beats you. As you leave the gym, your classmates make snide remarks about