October 24, 2011 • Michael Purcell, Editor-in-Chief
So let me start by saying that this is my first column, and you’d be amazed at how difficult it is to decide on a topic. With so many things to write about, deciding on just one is quite a chore. But recently, in looking toward the future, I can’t help but be brought back to the past and...
October 24, 2011 • Stephanie Cruz, Section Editor
One day I came home from school and walked straight to my room, following my typical routine. As I opened the door to my closet to change out of my uniform, however, I shrieked as a terrifying monster leaped out at me from behind the door, causing me to fall backward onto the floor and proceed...
October 24, 2011 • Andy Maher, Section Editor
Sometime between the first and second week of school, homecoming became the bane of my existence. The work, while time consuming, was perfectly bearable, and the same goes for the planning. Yet one factor still gets my blood boiling. To put it simply, I am talking about “haters.” ...
October 24, 2011 • Sophia Gallo, Staff Writer
Students walk up to the box office on a fun-filled Friday night. Choosing a movie used to be the most difficult decision of the evening, but not anymore. Now there is the option of watching any feature film three-dimensionally. Many movies recently have the option of viewing in 3D. Many...
October 24, 2011 • Ben Kieler, Staff Writer
In a terrifying movie, a shark jumps out of the water toward a doomed college student on a vacation gone horribly wrong. After grabbing the college student, the shark continues its airborne trip right into the audience at the screaming viewers. The people watching the movie have just been...
October 20, 2011 • Emily Benko, Staff Writer
Toddler beauty pageants have been taken to greater heights due to a highly proclaimed reality show, Toddlers and Tiaras. What has been taken to even greater heights, however, are the rampant complaints about the so-called “abusive”, superficial and intellectually detrimental pastime. Critics...
October 20, 2011 • Zach Grandich, Staff Writer
Since 2009, our television screens have been covered in the shallow glimmer of Toddlers and Tiaras. This TV show has given us an insight into beauty pageants and their contestants all over the U.S.. Just watching it makes me sick. Whenever I decide to watch the show, the same question always...
October 19, 2011
There is a fine line between what defines a panhandler and a homeless person. Too frequently, though, this line is blurred, and people lump the two groups of people together. Judgments are immediately made, and we assume that the homeless are lazy, conniving deviants whose life purpose is to...
December 3, 2010
Being a teenager can be difficult while balancing school, work, sports and other activities while trying to take care of yourself, too. Students seem to be too bogged down with the homework beast, studying for tests, or putting everything off until the last minute to go to bed at a reasonable hour....
December 3, 2010 • Daniel Milne, Food and Lifestyles Editor
Food is essential to life, because of the nutrition factor and for a sense of comfort. Proteins, starches, spicy, sweet, breakfast, dinner-there are numerous characteristics which define food, and everyone has their specific taste. Proteins: these correspond with muscle. They usually are the...
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