By Emme Townsend The 2010 NFC wildcard game is on. The New Orleans Saints play the Seattle Seahawks. With less than four minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Seahawks are on offense. Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck hands the ball off to running back Marshawn Lynch. Lynch breaks through the defensive line and rushes 67 yards…
A Hero Right Down the Hall
By Brylee Beckley From a young age, kids want to grow up to be super heroes like Spider Man, Wonder Woman, or Iron Man, but for senior Destiny Johnson, her superhero was right inside her house. Johnson’s mom has been working at Hillcroft Services for as long as Johnson can remember. Hillcroft Services is a…
MJ Smith
By Riley Bratton This last spring break senior Madalynne Smith, or as most people know her MJ, and the Delta band traveled to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. “It’s been the first time we have been together in a really long time,” Smith says. “It kind of gave us a sense of normality.” Just like…
Built To (Miniature) Scale
By Grayson Zoller Building a helicopter is hard. It would be especially hard for one person. But senior Connor Hobbs has built more than just a helicopter. He’s built the Millennium Falcon, an X-Wing, an AT-ST, and more. How has he done all this? They’re all to-scale models that he’s constructed. A scale model is…
Soldier, Poet, King
By Eleni Bow Battling for a new record, inscribing a fantasy world, ruling the virtual playing field – all done by the same guy. Senior Dominick Davenport prefers to focus more on his personal hobbies rather than group activities. He may not be in any sports, but he’s turned exercise into a beloved pastime for…
The Big Sleep: How Much Rest are Delta Students Getting?
By Grayson Zoller Students need sleep. There’s no question about that. But how much sleep are the students of Delta High School getting, and how does that compare to how much they should be getting? We polled 109 students, and here’s what Eagle’s Eye magazine found. Sixty-six percent of students said that they would like…
More Than Buddies
By Persephone Miral Have you ever just decided one day that you are going to do something new? Not expecting for it to take you anywhere, but just for fun? This is what senior best friends Madelyn Haley and Sydney McKinney did with Best Buddies. During their sophomore year while watching Eagle Zone News, they…
Hall of Fame Artist Shares Connection With Matt Painter
By Zach Carter When someone gets inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, they get a drawing created for them. Delta graduate and Purdue University Head Coach Matt Painter will be one of 17 new inductees on March 23. One little known fact about this is that the artist creating the images for Painter…
When in Rome …
By Emme Townsend “It’s expensive, but it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Miss Amanda Craw said. A trip to the Colosseum in Rome, to the famous poet Dante’s House in Florence, and finally to the Parthenon in Athens, all in only 10 days. Craw teaches freshman English and senior Ball State English, but when she’s not teaching,…
Is Teaching Still a Profession of Interest?
By Caitlyn Kirby Teaching has been portrayed online as a job that demands much of your time with little pay, a career where the teacher’s approach of doing their job is picked apart by unsupportive parents. A survey by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education found that 19 percent of undergraduate-level…