October 11, 2006
Why are we pushing away our best support system, the only people who truly understand what exactly it is we’re going through? Yes, our deans and parents care, and yes, they’ve gone through the same horrifying process that is facing us, albeit 30 years ago. I don’t remember what it was like being a freshman. That was only three years ago.
October 11, 2006
Here I was, with a drowning child about to roll out. He wouldn’t be screaming at me to stop, but his proxies were. It was hard to tune them out, and I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to be the stereotypical cold journalist. But I wouldn’t give in to the pressure to put down my camera. I wouldn’t let my emotions rule. I made sure the camera was on, ready to go.
October 11, 2006
It measured 3.6 on the Richter scale in South Korea, but North Korea’s successful nuclear test on Monday shook the collective mind of the world, especially that of the United Nations, to a magnitude 100 times larger.
October 11, 2006
The west calls it the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century. Radical Islam calls it a holy war to liberate itself from centuries of western oppression. They are the members of the evil ideology, and we are the infidels to be converted by the sword. But it is a crusade just as much as it is a reciprocated cultural and philosophical ignorance.
October 11, 2006
An elected government is responsible for representing the ideas of the voters. It is hard to make sure that our representatives are fulfilling their duties when their weekly meetings are closed to the student body.
October 11, 2006
Among all of the new things senior year brings, one just may be the most important: voting. While many dispute whether voting is a right, a privilege, or a requirement, there is one thing I urge all eligible voters to do: vote.
October 11, 2006
You can hear them all the time. For eight periods a day, in History, English, even Math, they do it, sit at the front of the classroom and speak. They are your teachers, and their basic goal is simple: to get through the material, and only the material.