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Changes in Grad Weekend prove
Enjoyable highlights, Opinion, May 2009 |
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Taking 280 seniors on a three-day trip, to Orlando hardly seems manageable. In fact, it may seem nearly impossible. But it wasn’t. Grad Bash may have easily been the most enjoyable moment of senior year, as well as the most pleasant wake-up call. Although it seems unlikely because classes have almost come to an end, there is still fun to be had. Granted, the trip came out to a pricey $325.00 per student, which may be seem like a bit much given the economic climate, but the ultimate value of the trip was immeasurable. |
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"Obama should've won, and he did"" -- Brandon Isahak, Junior
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Cyber-Bullying Sweeps internet
by Nina Price, highlights, Opinion, May 2009
Facebook, texting, e-mail, twitter, online gossiping profiles, blogs are all new ways to interact with people. Meanwhile, many users are forgetting the consequences of making rude remarks. Teenagers find that it is much easier to make slanderous comments or threaten someone through sites and applications like AIM, rather than expressing their true thoughts to their face.
Derferment option is overlooked
by Nicole Betancourt, highlights, Opinion, May 2009
While scanning quickly through the course of my lifetime, it seems that I have spent an overwhelming and approximate 16,000 hours of my existence sitting before a desk at a public school. At first this number seemed small, until I accounted for the number of hours I have used up sleeping, eating, walking, etc, not to mention the hours spent working on school-related activities at home.
Thrill Seeking Proves to be dangerous
by Alex Llanio, highlights, Opinion, March 2009
Most deaths are caused by accidents or diseases. However, death is something teenagers never feel applies to them. Sometimes teens are lured into the grand illusion that being young means invincibility. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, statistics show that from 1995 – 2007 more kids in the age group 6 - 19 died from playing a “game” than from committing suicide by hanging or self-strangulation. The irony is that these young deaths were unintentional and resulted from a thrill seeking behavior know as The Fainting Game.
by Jessica Cabrera, highlights, Opinion, March 2009
I’ve never seen such disappointed faces, so many seniors in bathing suits sitting in a cold auditorium. Considered a tradition by students—granted, not as widely accepted or encouraged as singing the alma mater (which not many people seem to enjoy, anyway)—skipping school on FCAT days is considered a rite of passage.
by Jozmel Melendez, highlights, Opinion, November 12, 2008
Music has been around forever. People have been obsessed with hearing, dancing and sharing music. In the invention process of mobilizing music on the go, they introduced the portable cassette players, the only way to take your music on the go. You were the cool kid in the block if you owned one. When technology later progressed they introduced the CD player. This was the new revolutionary way to listen to music, and skip to your favorite song. Now introducing a new format called (.mp3) which is a compressed format file in order to store more files that you regularly could. Now you introduce the MP3 players. All sorts of them have hit the market and teens have been craving them since day one to satisfy their music hunger.
by Carson Marino, highlights, Opinion, November 12, 2008
I walk onto the asphalt in the student parking lot and the familiar smell of burning carbon and rubber fills my nostrils. The hot sun shines in my eyes as I walk the same hundred and fifty feet I have walked for almost four years now. For four years I’ve let this go, but I decided to write this article, in the hopes of better education those who choose to put not only my life, but their own, in danger.
PETA pushes for new type of meat
by Brenna Verner, highlights, Opinion, May 2009
It is a dilemma that society has always faced; we love animals and care for their well-being, but meat is nutritious and delicious. Vegetarian alternatives fall short of the real thing, and living a more cruelty free life can run up quite a bill. However, at the same time, it cannot be ignored that about 50 billion animals are killed, most in inhumane ways, just to feed us.
Sex Education needs Improvement
by Evelyn Vanegas, highlights, Opinion, May 2009
A group of pimply faced freshmen are stifling nervous giggles as their gym teacher uses a banana to instruct the class on how to properly apply a condom.
highlights, Opinion, March 2009
In 1996 the Academy of American Poets named the month of April "National Poetry Month" in hopes of commemorating classical and modern works. In celebration of the upcoming month, select poems were chosen for publication.
by Jannelys Santos, highlights, Opinion, March 2009
In a culture of anti-talent, it seems as though the mainstream media serves little purpose. With all its colloquialism centred around futile issues, the media has become a place of perverse entertainment, void of any depth or significant social impact
by Nichole Betancourt, highlights, Opinion, November 12, 2008
The air is tinged with a sense of redundancy as admission officers read over thousands of applications characterized by a mess of numbers, personal essays, and course names. Finally, the officer reaches to the decreasing piles of papers and picks up your application – number 2,487. At this point, the last four years of your academic life are scrupulously looked over – from the lousy grade you received in ninth grade mathematics to the surprisingly high position you obtained in Italian Club.
highlights, highlights, Opinion, Nov. 12
The fifth National Coming Out Day event was held in the new cafeteria on Friday October 10, although the actual event is celebrated on the 11th. Members of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) were in attendance as well as faculty and staff. What is coming out? It is the process of personally accepting your homosexuality and sharing it with family, co-workers and friends. Coming out is different for every gay or bisexual person. Some experience a lot of pain and anguish while for others acceptance is a joyous time. It's perfectly normal to experience fear, doubt, loneliness, anger and even depression.
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