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Mixed Messages-Anorexia
Sierra Perry - Senior Staff Writer
November 25, 2009
Anorexia in teenage girls and boys is a dangerous eating disorder that involves intentional starvation. It is both a mental and physical condition and contrary to popular belief, it is not about food. It involves extreme emotions, behaviors, and attitudes all about weight. Someone suffering from anorexia... Read more »
How To Save a Life
Sarah Snyder - Staff Writer
November 25, 2009
Did you know that 77% of students in the United States are bullied mentally, verbally, or physically? Did you also know that half of all those incidents go unreported? Bullying isn’t just punching or kicking; it’s defined as the act of intentionally causing harm to others through verbal harassment,... Read more »
What Will the Pride Cook Up Next?
Leanna Jasek-Rysdahl - Managing Editor
November 24, 2009
In an economic crisis, teenagers are stressing over their college situations whether it is getting accepted or paying the pricy bill. As teenagers know, college does have a price tag, and it could be even more difficult to pay for it than it was to get accepted. One way that Pitman High students have... Read more »
Thinking Pink
Jovannah Aguilar - Staff Writer
November 24, 2009
One in three Americans develops cancer throughout their lifetime. One in thirty-five people die. In the U.S. alone, breast cancer ranks third in its fatality rate, pushing the numbers up to nearly 40,170 deaths each year. Breast cancer has become a growing issue tearing apart families, friends, and... Read more »
A Smashing Situation
Sarah Snyder - Staff Writer
November 24, 2009
I’m sure we all have older people in our lives who are a little, to put it nicely, eccentric. Whether it is grandparents, aunts, uncles, or even a neighbor, there’s always one person that you know or know of. One man from Lanzhou took these eccentricities to the next level. 74-year-old Yan... Read more »
Tricks Disappoints
Samantha Trout - Co-Editor-In-Chief
November 24, 2009
Ellen Hopkins, a young adult fiction writer, has cranked out dozens of books for children and teenagers alike. Most of her books are about the “tough stuff”, covering topics such as religion, sex, drugs, mental illness, and suicide. She writes in freeform poetry, rather than a standard novel with... Read more »
The Health Care Bill: A Tremendous Idea?
Staff Writer - Janessa Jimenez
November 23, 2009
On Saturday, November 7th of 2009, the House of Representatives passed the bill for the Affordable Health Care for America Act. On that Saturday night, the tension was high among the House Representatives over the fate of the Affordable Health Care Bill. As the Democrats in the House of the Representatives... Read more »
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 improves on the original’s formula
Senior Staff Writer - Lukas Hibdon
November 23, 2009
I recently played the original Call of Duty Modern Warfare days before the release of the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and I was viewing some statistics from the game. I was looking at the amount of kills I had and the amount of wins until I found something that shocked me at first, but then... Read more »
Sophomore Year: Making the Grade
Samantha Trout - Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 20, 2009
As this first quarter comes to a close, most of us are thinking about what we might and might not have done differently during these past few months. It’s true that quarter grades aren’t extremely important; some teachers refer to them as a “glorified progress report”. However, the quarter... Read more »
Learning Lessons From Disaster
Michelle Mata - Page Editor
November 20, 2009
On Thursday, November 5, thirteen people were killed at the hands of one of their own. In Fort Hood, Texas, an army psychologist, Major Nadil Malik Hasan, opened fire in his own army base upon hearing the news about his deployment to Afghanistan. The media has taken advantage of this tragic affair... Read more »