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Articles from November 2007

We make the grades

November 7, 2007

Over the course of the week, we will all receive our quarter grades.  If you're at all like me, your parents are suprised that you've been offering to bring in the mail these past few days,

Be respectful: don't cheat to eat

November 7, 2007

Sophomores and juniors should not be sneaking off campus. Don’t deny it. You have been caught.  It doesn’t matter whether you are just grabbing a bite or smoking, sneaking off campus shows both a lack of respect for the school administration and a lack of concern for safety.

Repair community service program

November 7, 2007

The community service program is failing in its primary goal: inspiring students to serve the community. Students receive their full year’s worth of credit by spending a mere half-an-hour making Halloween cards for hospitalized children or by playing in a paddle tennis tournament.

Give us liberty, or give us detention

November 7, 2007

When in the course of athletic events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the school, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Surrender to school spirit

November 7, 2007

Did I really just compete in a pie eating contest, inhaling more pumpkin pie filling in a matter of minutes than I have in the past five Thanksgiving?

Clean up, clean up...

November 7, 2007

The cup, the tray, the bottle, the plate, the burger and the napkins are stacked impossibly high on the table, but it’s not mine, so I’ll leave it.

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