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Con: Does D.A.R.E. prevent drug use by adolescents?
Posted on June 4, 2012Posted in Opinion
Written by Olivia Slagle, Staff Writer
D.A.R.E. is a program that is a familiar memory for most Henderson County students. Those four letters call to mind the smiling deputies, the friendly lion mascot and the graphic pictures of drug and tobacco users. But D.A.R.E. isn’t... Read more »
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Pro: Does D.A.R.E. prevent drug use by adolescents?
Posted on June 4, 2012Posted in Opinion, Top Stories
Written by Erin Gromelski, Staff Writer
“Want a beer?” a high school senior asked an underage girl at a party. She was about to accept when she remembered the dangers of drinking from her experience in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program in elementary school. Satisfied... Read more »
Comments: No ResponsesStudents should check behavior to benefit futures
Posted on June 4, 2012Posted in Opinion
Written by Staff Editorial
Each day, students are seen parading the halls wearing hats and using profanity or tobacco products, and each day teachers reprimand their students for breaking the rules. Here in the journalism room, we’re big fans of the freedom... Read more »
Comments: No ResponsesColumn: Try getting high on life
Posted on May 17, 2012Posted in Opinion
Written by Natalie Rice, Editor-in-Chief
The new norm, it seems, is to go out every weekend, binge drink, possibly use a type of illegal drug and maybe wake up the next morning not remembering what all happened the night before. Why does it now seem necessary to escape... Read more »
Comments: No ResponsesCon: Do we still need affirmative action?
Posted on May 17, 2012Posted in Opinion
Written by Lauren Stepp, Creative Director
The down-on-his luck man we’ll call John Doe struggled and trembled, trying to place the correct number of quarters onto the supermarket countertop. An unemployed Caucasian male, he had spent the last 10 minutes scraping through... Read more »
Comments: No ResponsesPro: Do we still need affirmative action for minorities?
Posted on May 17, 2012Posted in Opinion
Written by Diane Gromelski, Junior Editor
At the end of a long day of work, a woman and her male co-worker pick up their paychecks. While both employees worked equally hard for the same amount of time, they walk away with significantly different sums printed on their checks.... Read more »
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‘Pink slime’ not as bizarre as some would like to think
Posted on May 17, 2012Posted in Opinion, Top Stories
Written by Staff Editorial
Each day fast food restaurants use every trick in the book to make more money and spend less. Who truly knows what is in the infamous Big Mac sauce? The fast food industry is filled with ways to get by with pinching pennies, and... Read more »
Comments: No ResponsesColumn: Just another bandwagon fan
Posted on March 27, 2012Posted in Opinion, Sports
Written by Michael Turlington, Sports Editor
Ever since I began to follow sports, it felt like the only news that I ever heard was bad. Sports stars like Michael Vick and Plaxico Burress were in the news because of the crimes that they had committed. Joe Paterno’s career as... Read more »
Comments: No ResponsesColumn: Smarts are sexy too
Posted on March 27, 2012Posted in Opinion
Written by Ashley Heywood, Senior Editor
“OMG, did you see that Robert changed his relationship status to single?” Completely meaningless. Calculus, physics, politics, arts, current events. All sexy. Entirely attractive. To me, any person who can actually hold a conversation... Read more »
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Staff Editorial: Many students unable to define Internet piracy
Posted on March 27, 2012Posted in Opinion, Top Stories
Written by Staff Editorial
We seem to think that if we can’t see the effects of our actions that those effects do not exist. It’s the same “If I can’t see you, then you can’t see me” mentality that we used when we were kids playing hide and seek. When... Read more »
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