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Reagan Eastlick

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter

Reagan Eastlick is a senior at Hagerty High School, and this is his first year on staff. He enjoys running, writing, and working outdoors.

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The point of it all

The point of it all

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
May 6, 2022

What was the point of it all? That's a difficult question to answer, especially in light of the highly controversial stories I have written. With near every article there has been squabbling and outrage,...

Senior Cade Rogers receives his honor medal from principal Frasca. He is a part of the largest group of honor grads in school history.

Honor grad ceremony celebrates largest group in school history

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
April 21, 2022

180. That is the number of seniors who will graduate with honors this year from Hagerty. In a class of around 600 members, that number is staggering. That number is a direct reflection of both students...

The Ukrainian solution starts with United States

Reagan Eastlick, From the Right
April 19, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has cost thousands their lives, and that bloodshed has been broadcast over social media to millions around the world. That world and those people have come to a singular...

Politick: War in Ukraine

Politick: War in Ukraine

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
April 19, 2022

Math team dominates SSC competition

Math team dominates SSC competition

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
April 8, 2022

Math competitions look exactly what you think they would look like. Kids file into a room, sit down at desks, open up a testing packet, and start scratching pencil on paper, rushing through problem after...

Sophomore Aidan Priore fist bumps his teammate after a successful day coding. He and his team would win the honesty in scoring award at the UCF tournament.

Programing team competes in UCF tournament

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
March 9, 2022

Four hours of typing on a computer, frantically solving complex coding problem after complex coding problem, all for a trophy that is really just a balloon. While this may sound like a fever dream to most,...

Politick: Black History Month

Politick: Black History Month

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
February 22, 2022

Black History Month misses the point: we are all Americans

Reagan Eastlick, From the Right
February 18, 2022

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Chief Justice John Roberts declared those words in 2007, and they ring true today. February...

Senior Jah Nze drives to the basket. Nze would finish with 21 points in Hagerty's final game.

Boys basketball finishes in fiery fashion

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
February 18, 2022

Every once in a while, a game defines a program. Every once in a while, the stars align, on the court and in the sky, and a game ensues which defies all normal expectations. Every once in a while, a basketball...

Students contemplate the shift to online SAT testing. The proposed changes will affect the current sophomore class.

The SAT is set to change… but should it?

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
February 11, 2022

I can smell it. I can close my eyes and smell the graphite. I can hear the pencils scratching, the page flipping. And yet, I may be one of the last generations of students to experience a paper SAT administered...

Students are able to make investments in cryptocurrency with nothing more than a computer. A "digital wallet" is used to store any tokens acquired.

The cryptic world of crypto

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
January 21, 2022

Imagine a dollar bill. You can hold it in your hands, fold it and put it into your wallet. When you want to buy a candy bar, you can take it out again and feed it into a vending machine. Voila- you’ve...

Politick: Omicron Variant

Politick: Omicron Variant

Reagan Eastlick and Laura Shaw
December 15, 2021

It’s time to stop complaining and live your life

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
December 14, 2021

For over a year the singular cry of the United States has been Covid. For over a year the American people have obsessed, planned, and thought about the virus incessantly; no business remains untouched,...

Senior shooting guard Jah Nze drives into the paint against West Orange. The boys finished with a 63-59 win in their Friday night matchup against the team.

Boys basketball prepares for successful season

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
December 13, 2021

There is nothing more intense than the final moments of a basketball game. Sweat (and sometimes blood) is flowing freely. The crowd is chanting. Praying. Screaming. The tension is palpable, the mindsets...

MLK gives a speech encouraging equal rights for all. Photo via Britanica, modified by Reagan Eastlick.

OCIA “I Have a Dream” competition opens

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
December 5, 2021

Few loom as large as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a major leader of the civil rights charge in the 1960s, his legacy still impacts the United States today. To celebrate MLK’s profound impact on the...

Pictured at their post, Darryl Harris (left) and Keith Jackson (right) ensure that students are wearing their IDs as they enter school.

Checking in on the ID Checkers

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
November 8, 2021

As you walk into school with countless other kids, you are suddenly plucked out of obscurity, stopped and pulled aside. What are you guilty of? Your only crime is not wearing your school ID. As you rummage...

Politick: Supply Chain Crisis

Politick: Supply Chain Crisis

Reagan Eastlick and Joshua Nemory
November 2, 2021

Bananas, boondoggles, and bad economic policy

Reagan Eastlick, From the Right
November 2, 2021

I want you to take a moment and imagine the life of a singular banana. Fun fact: most bananas are imported into the US, about 6.4 billion pounds per year. Before you peel that banana, it has to cross the...

Tyler Welch performs CPR on a dummy. CPR training was part of a health training class after the PSAT this Wednesday.

New CPR bill breathes life into Hagerty

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
October 16, 2021

When people stop breathing, problems start to pile up quickly. Nowhere is this more true than in high school, an environment filled with kids who are untrained in CPR. Following the unanimous passage of...

Politick: Texas Abortion Law

Politick: Texas Abortion Law

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
October 12, 2021

Lone Star State plays ping-pong with morality

Reagan Eastlick, From the Right
October 12, 2021

When does life begin? What constitutes life? These questions, and their subsequent answers, drove the Texas legislature to pass a law which bans most abortions after six weeks. Before dissecting the new...

School IDs and Kabuki theater

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
October 5, 2021

The idea of a high school ID is not necessarily a bad one. On Aug. 16 2019, Robert Frasca wrote to parents that he “want[ed] to be proactive when it comes to student safety and security on campus,”...

James Lopez stands with and without a mask. The school board voted against a mask mandate this Thursday.

Seminole County rules against mask mandate

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
September 3, 2021

Hundreds of parents gathered outside the Seminole Education Center for a Seminole Country School Board meeting on Thursday, Sept. 2. They came with a specific mission in mind: to present their opinions...

Reagan Eastlick

Reagan Eastlick, From the Right
August 31, 2021

For the first time in a long time, there seems to be unity in America, but at what price? When the United States entered Afghanistan 20 years ago, we did it together. Sept. 11 struck dumb the dissidents...

Politick: Afghanistan Exodus

Politick: Afghanistan Exodus

Reagan Eastlick and Olivia Tulloch
August 31, 2021

Cafeteria staff prepare chicken sandwiches for lunch. The staff prepare food three times a day for each meal opportunity on campus.

Lunch lines and the labor shortage

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
August 26, 2021

Lines, as a general rule, suck. Who willingly wants to wait for something? No one. But waiting is a part of life, and with the return of brick and mortar schooling, increasingly common. For students, long...

Students settle down to eat lunch on the second day of school. Many wonder how the school year will proceed.

New school year ushers in old questions

Reagan Eastlick, Staff Reporter
August 13, 2021

Will we have to wear masks? Will we have the same events that we did before the pandemic? Will anything ever be the same?  Hundreds of students and parents pondered how this new school year would look...

Letters to the Editor

Reagan Eastlick, Guest Writer
April 5, 2021

Appropriation: noun, the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission. (Source: Oxford Languages) In the United States, we have a culture aimed directly against...

So it’s Christmas time again

Reagan Eastlick, Guest Writer
December 17, 2020

Historians say that Jesus was probably born in the springtime. Apparently Christmas was moved to the 25th of December because the pagan holidays of Germanic “Yule” and Roman “Saturnalia” had previously...

Letters to the Editor

Reagan Eastlick, Guest Writer
December 7, 2020

It’s easy for the American people to assume that all the chaos and uncertainty surrounding American politics will dissolve as soon as an American President is chosen. But easy is not correct; with the...

Letters to the Editor

Reagan Eastlick, Guest Writer
November 17, 2020

Floridian voters passed Amendment 2A during this election;  after Sept. 30, 2021, minimum wage will be raised to $10, increasing $1 each subsequent year, with a limit of $15 per hour in 2026. A stunning...

Letters to the Editor

Reagan Eastlick, Guest Writer
October 30, 2020

What does your vote really mean? This election presents an active choice between capitalism and socialism, or more fairly, between your loud uncle and your local car salesman. Today I want to elaborate...

Letters to the Editor

Reagan Eastlick, Guest Writer
October 14, 2020

Court packing seems to be a hot ticket item on today's political agenda; since our country’s inception it was deemed too radical, too abominable and too dangerous to the stilts that our delicate governmental...

Letters to the Editor

Reagan Eastlick, Guest Writer
October 8, 2020

On Friday, President Trump was airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Hospital. Public response has been extremely varied, with some parties stating that they hope he dies, and others displaying sympathy. For...

Letters to the Editor

Reagan Eastlick, Guest Writer
October 2, 2020

Our nation watched in terror as the first 2020 presidential debate swept over national airwaves. Describing it as petty would be grossly exaggerating the actual spirit of the event. To be quite frank,...

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