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Volume 2, Issue 23 April 7, 2005 |
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My
farewell to the ALC By Heath Kane Judging from the many stories I have written, you’ve probably noticed that I tend to dislike a lot of things, so this might surprise some, but I really did like the ALC. Since coming here I’ve met several interesting people and also made a lot of friends. I’ve also met teachers that are here to teach not here just to get paid. Now many of you probably don’t agree, but you didn’t go to the high school that I did, where everything was dictated by participation in extracurricular activities or your last name. When you come to a place like this, you learn what a school is really supposed to be like. When you go to the school where I used to go (and was forced to return to this quarter) you realize how stupid people can be – how they can take one thing that you do and blow it completely out of proportion. Some ALC students say that teachers are hard on you here, but when you wear a hat here you get warned. At my other school, you would get an automatic ISS (In school suspension). Tell me what sense that makes? (Continued à) |
And if you use your phone at my old school, you get it taken away because it’s what they call “drug paraphernalia.” My other school also has a thing known as a restriction cube where during lunch you must sit in a room for an entire hour and eat and work. Why does one go to the restriction cube? You have to go if you’re failing a class. Fun HUH! Not really. Teachers at my other school fail you if they don’t agree with your ideas – unless you play sports. Is that fair? So maybe now
you understand why I came here for a few quarters. But now, unfortunately, I’m back at my
other school. So the next time you talk
about how bad the ALC is, be glad you don’t go my other school. Oh yes, my other school is the …. Okay, okay.
Ask me later and I’ll tell you. |
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Opinion
Column The Red By Alie Paine
Okay so we all
heard about the school shooting at For one thing they are trying to blame it on the “Goths” again by saying stuff like “He wore black a lot and doesn’t really talk to people.” They are also saying the reason this kid might have done it is because of the kind of stuff he was into. I know quite a few “Goths.” I even know few people who are collectors of Nazi stuff. But none of them go around shooting up schools and old people. To me, this all sounds suspiciously similar to the things people said about the Columbine shooters. It seems to me that people just want some thing to blame, so they target something about the person in question that they see as bad and try to call it a motive. Excuse me but I don’t see how wearing black, having an interest in Hitler, or listening to Marilyn Manson could possibly be motives for killing people. The real reason these people did what they did probably had nothing to do with any of the reasons people are putting forth. They are just using that stuff as a scapegoat. If the real reasons were that other kids in the school were treating them badly, or because they had a lousy home life, or that (Continued à) |
Accused
Red Lake shooter Jeffrey Weuse their parents didn’t know how to raise kids, or maybe even because they were just crazy, nobody would think it was very interesting. The media doesn’t want to make the parents or the schools or the shooters themselves look bad. They just want to make the perpetrators look like Nazi loving, pistol packing, gothic psychopaths. I really think people need to get off that train of thought and try harder to find out the real reasons as to why someone would do this. Maybe all school shooters are crazy. Maybe they are just plain evil. I doubt that their crazy actions had anything to do with clothing or music choices.
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What goes
into making a race car? By Michael Denison The first thing you are obviously going to need to make a race is a car, of course, and that depends on the type of race car you are making. I, myself, am using an 89 Dodge Daytona with a 2.9 liter engine and a 5 speed transmission. I chose this car because it was made to go fast and it is a light built car as well as the fact that it has 4 cylinders, so it is able to race in the hornet class. The reason I picked hornet as the class of car I want to race is because it is the cheapest race class to start in. The first thing you need to do is to take all the interior stuff out. This consists of the driver and passenger side seat, as well as the backseat if you have one. Once you have taken these out you’ll need to take out all the interior lights. After that you will need to take out all the paneling from the car so that there is bare metal showing on the doors and the sides of the car. (Continued à)
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Then you need to take out all of the carpeting because it is flammable and not allowed in racing. After you have taken out all the interior items, you will need to take out the windows and windshield as well as the back window. The next thing you will need to do is to find someone to build a roll cage for your car and install it. This will probably take the most time and cost the most money. Most roll cages cost anywhere from 300 to 500 dollars. Once you get that done, you will need a racing helmet and a racing seat. You also MUST have a FIREPROOF racing suit. This is the most popular way to build a race car. You will have as much fun doing it as I am. Now go hit the track.
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Much ado
about apples and oranges By: Cody
Phrommany Hilary Swank, a two time Oscar winning actress, was fined for bringing a forbidden fruit into another country. She was traveling to New Zealand, and when she was getting checked onto the plane, she had forgotten to mention that she had an apple and an orange with her. When she got to New Zealand she was slapped with a fine. The fine was put on her because of the strict quarantine law. Swank, the actress of Million Dollar Baby, wrote a letter to the ministry to ask if she could have her fined expunged. Hilary told the ministry that she had forgotten that the fruit was with her. The Manukau District Court advised the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that Swank's appeal had been rejected and that she had been fined $142 plus costs of $21. The ministry replied that all international travelers are required to declare all foodstuffs they may be carrying when entering New Zealand. Thousands of other visitors arriving in New Zealand are slapped with on-the-spot fines each year for not declaring agricultural products such as fruit. Unlike Hillary, few contest the fines. It amazes me that a country would be buggin’ about some fruit brought from another country. I think there are a lot more things going on around the world that they could focus on. At least, that’s what I think. |
Hilary
Swank, star of Million Dollar Baby POWER HOUR By Kenny Granstra Most are familiar with the “power hour” tradition when people turn 21 -- drinking 21 shots of liquor in one hour. Lots of 21 year olds have done this stupid act at 12:00 midnight on their birthday. I’m going to tell you of a student at Minnesota State U of Moorhead. At the stroke of mid night the first drink was pounded down by Jason Reinhart. By the time his hour was up he only finished 14 shots of vodka. When his frat brothers got him home they laid him in bed to sleep not knowing he was suffering form a very bad case of alcohol poisoning. A couple hours later at 4:00 a.m. he was dead in his sleep. March 14, 2004 was the date of Jason’s death. His mother now is trying to get a law passed so that there will be no drinking for kids just turning 21 at the stroke of midnight. They will at least have to wait until the next day. The point of this story is to suggest that drinkers drink responsibly or they will end up just like Jason. Remember -- drinking is not the greatest part of being 21. |
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Book Review Angels & Demons I recently sat down, and read a book by Dan Brown titled Angels & Demons. A friend of mine borrowed it to me a while ago, and I finally sat down and read it. When I first started the book, I was really confused, and thought that none of it made sense. Hoping that it would eventually explain why it was so confusing, I read the entire book. After maybe five days of reading the entire thing, the entire book came together. At one point, I literally didn’t even want to put the book down. The story is about a Harvard
professor/symbologist (Robert Langdon), and a Top Scientific Researcher for
CERN trying to discover the location of a deadly weapon known as
"Anti-matter," a gram of which could destroy an entire
city. The canister of Anti-matter is known to be located in
Vatican City, Rome. They have 24 hours to find the canister of
Anti-matter, otherwise the entire citywill be destroyed, as well as all of
the leaders of the Catholic Church. |
Movie
review on The Pacifier
By Heather Mondloch Vin Diesel stars in this movie as Shane Wolfe, a member of the worlds’ toughest and most highly trained force, the Navy SEALs. He is sent on a mission that he thinks will be no problem until he learns that he must protect a slain professor’s family. The professor was assassinated because he made and held important documents for the government. The rebellious one of the family of five children is Zoe (Brittany Snow). Then there is the moody boy, Seth (Max Theirot). There a wanna be ninja named Lulu (Morgan York). And don’t forget toddler Peter and baby Tyler. Vin embarks on a crazy babysitting adventure and tries to keep the house clean while trying to protect secret documents. But just where are the documents located?... In the end, Vin ends up realizing that a family is what he’s never had. So does he stay with a family or goes back to his Navy SEAL job? See it and find out. |
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Confusion Sometimes I don’t know if I should be so in love with you. How could something that seems so right be wrong? From the first time I saw you I fell in love. Why don’t you just come back to me and stay a while? I know down inside this is what I want. The things they tell me could be all lies. I still believe them ‘cause I want you by my side. Could I just be wantin’ someone I can’t have? Do you feel the same way I do? Tell me boy what you want to do? You gunna be with me… Or should I look for someone new? |
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