October 18, 2011 • Maddie Schorr, Staff Writer
Florida’s legislature is poised to make cuts and changes to the popular Bright Futures programs. This would raise test score requirements and decrease funding by about 15 percent in an effort to alleviate the state debt. Cuts to the scholarship will coincide with the increase of state and...
October 18, 2011 • Clare McMahon, Staff Writer
Over the summer, junior Winston Chiriaco usually spends his time helping out at a summer camp in Vermont as a camp counselor. However, this year he was instead offered a trip to Asia, which he gladly accepted. While he was in Asia, Chiriaco did many exciting things, including visiting war museums,...
October 18, 2011 • Emily Benko, Staff Writer
Recently the falling standards of high school security have become more obvious through incidents such as the Freedom High School bomb threat, but CCC has made a point in insuring safety through prevention plans. Administration has taken a lead role in providing information about school...
October 18, 2011 • Philip Pytak, Staff Writer
Sophomores and upperclassmen have noticed that new policies and rules have been added to the student handbook. Many of these changes came from the teachers and administrations’ past experiences about clothing, behavior, and other such occurrences from previous years. One of the new changes...
October 18, 2011 • Ally Athanason, Staff Writer
There have recently been some rumors whether or not the city of St. Petersburg has made it illegal for Panhandlers to lie on their cardboard signs. The city Attorney Mark Winn had proposed a new ordinance that would ban fake panhandling. This would make it illegal for panhandlers to say they...
October 17, 2011 • Ally Athanason, Staff writer
On Wednesday, BlackBerry users across the globe were astonished by an outage of e-mail, messages and Internet services on the phones. This was the biggest outage for BlackBerry users since BlackBerry was first introduced 12 years ago. Research in Motion, the Canadian company that makes the...
October 7, 2011 • Abbie Milne, Staff Writer
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56 from a long battle with pancreatic cancer on Oct. 5. Jobs is famous for his revolutionary inventions in technology that have shaped society into a pure, technology based world, furthermore revolutionizing our discoveries, entertainment,...
September 30, 2011 • Emily Benko, Staff writer
AP Environmental Science provides students with scientific principals, concepts and methods to help better the understanding of the natural world. Science teacher Mr. McCann thinks outside of the box while assigning his students to a project for quarter one. The students must make cookies and...
September 2, 2011 • Michael Purcell, Editor-in-Chief
CCC welcomes two new faces to the English and Theology departments in the forms of Mr. James Margarella and Ms. Jennifer Ferreris. While both teachers bring a new energy and outlook to the school and to their respective subjects, neither is new to teaching. Mr. Margarella, the new ninth and...
August 31, 2011 • Andy Maher, Section Editor
Executive Council sure started things off with a bang. The welcome assembly hosted on Friday, Aug. 26th kicked off the 2012 school year with a surplus of spirit. As students entered the Performing Arts Center, contemporary music paired with a sidesplitting slide show inundated the student body...
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