Victims of child abuse require advocation to protect innocence
October 19, 2009 • Skye Watson
Filed under Opinion
A tiny girl, never before seen, was found peering out a small, shattered window in Florida. The neighbors knew about a mother with two adult children, but no child. Police showed up at the house two years later, the home was leaking feces, cockroaches and rotting bodies among a little girl laying on... Read more »
Health care debate uncovers detrimental policy flaws
October 19, 2009 • Megan Manion
Filed under Opinion
In 2000, director M. Night Shyamalan wrote and directed a film called Unbreakable, with two characters, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. Willis, who is blessed with almost freakishly superior health and Jackson, who suffers ailments procured from simple activities. The sick man tries to find the necessary... Read more »
Seven-block schedule hits student nerve
October 19, 2009 • Student
Filed under Opinion
In an effort to increase school productivity, adminstrators may propose a schedule change which would go into effect next year. This change would implement more than four blocks three days a week, and the current schedule twice per week, potentially eliminating the chance for rotating classes and open... Read more »
Future Center achieves student veneration
October 19, 2009 • Student
Filed under Opinion
The future is a frightening place, but the newly added future center is working to make it at least a little less unknown. Kent Child and the parent volunteers work tirelessly to help students explore their options. It is often difficult to know where to begin when attempting to confront post-high school... Read more »
OSAA reclassification creates hybrid league
October 19, 2009 • Student
Filed under Opinion
After an arduous process of submitting and selecting the right proposal, the Oregon Schools Activities Association has selected a plan to change league requirements, which will allow athletes in the Central Oregon and Colombia-Gorge districts to travel less and play more. The potential arrangement will... Read more »
Storm wins Oregonian Cup
October 19, 2009 • Student
Filed under Opinion
As current Oregonian cup champion, the Storm holds high schools across Oregon to standards often left overlooked. Overall excellence in the areas of sports, academics and other extra curricular activities, show that high school students are preparing for the future by working toward distinction in the... Read more »
Copyright laws stifle consumer creativity
October 19, 2009 • SYDNEE O’LOUGHLIN
Filed under Opinion
Copyright laws, first established by the Statute of Anne in 1710, attempt to protect artists’ works from unauthorized duplication, alteration or exploitation. These laws were originally created “for the encouragement of learning” and to ensure artists, authors and musicians received proper... Read more »
Facial hair hazard to high school harmony
October 19, 2009 • Caleb Nyberg
Filed under Opinion
Such future Bee Gees are apt to flaunt their facial hair around the less gifted, humiliating the hairless with their thick face manes. Young men like these are the veritable Hairtocracy of the school. Despite often being mistaken as teachers, loggers or small bears, they wear their hair with pride. There... Read more »
Team sports overshadow academic groups
February 23, 2009 • Maddy Dahl
Filed under Opinion
Last year, our concert band placed first in Districts. The group also placed second in their category and earned a Gold Award at the Heritage Festival in Anaheim, California. At the end of the year assembly when all of the school awards were announced, the band was overlooked. Our choirs continue... Read more »
Piracy result of poverty, lawlessness in Somalia
February 10, 2009 • Chris McKee
Filed under Opinion
Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city and a major African port town, hosted a Jan. 14 trial of eight Somalis accused of piracy after a failed attempt to hijack a Danish freighter. They were captured in the Gulf of Aden by a British frigate in November and brought to Kenya for trial, according to CNN.... Read more »
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