Reading Room
The Rune's student reporters wrote for their classmates. These longer pieces were written for the archive, not by the newspaper staff. They read the old stories closely and pull out what they can teach anyone writing today, from a news lede to a college essay.
What a School Newspaper Teaches About Writing
Student reporters learn to put the point first, let sources speak, and cut what does not earn its place. Six articles from the archive show how, and how the same habits carry into essays.
Student Athletes and the College Essay
Signing ceremonies and state titles make headlines, not essays. Here is how to find the moment, the role and the honest sentence inside a season, drawing on the Rune's sports pages.
From Service Trip to Application Essay
The sentence every service essay reaches for is the one to cut. The Rune's coverage of mission trips, gift drives and a dance marathon shows what to keep instead.
Team Trips and College Visits
Tournaments in Las Vegas and Ohio, an art trip to New York, spring break in Belize and Thailand, and the campus visits seniors arrange themselves. What the archive shows about budgets, schedules and paperwork.
Winter and Spring Break Abroad
The Rune's winter break lists stay in Kentucky; its spring break stories go to Thailand, Belize and Nicaragua. What a student brings home from either depends on noticing, and on a notebook.