Staff Editorial

   In March of this year, a twelve-year-old girl in Minnesota was called into the office of her middle school. She was forced to give up her Facebook password by the principal and a sheriff armed with a taser. Her parents were not aware of the incident until she returned from school humiliated and embarrassed.

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Staff Editorial

   A new bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is currently being pushed through Congress with support from companies like CBS, Time Warner and Sony Pictures while internet companies such as Google oppose it. The bill is supposed to keep people from illegally distributing copyrighted materials and give copyright holders the ability to take down sites that support piracy. These copyright holders do this by blocking the domain name, thus blocking site access. SOPA would even make social networking sites such as Facebook liable for the content that users post. We feel that this bill poses a serious threat to both the internet and civil liberties.    

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Britnee Stickles, Feature/Opinion Editor

   Statistics show that over 175 million people per day log on to Facebook at least once, according to techcrunch.com. Facebook has become something that has been technologically ingrained into many people’s lives.

   It’s no wonder with that many people logging on each day that Facebook creators may feel the need to change the layout to satisfy public diversity, but the changes are confusing and I don’t feel that they are needed. It’s a waste of time to log in and be faced with a new layout to confuse you, when posting on Facebook should be a simple process.

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Madeliene Connolly, Opinion Editor

   The cafeteria has undergone changes because of new state legislation that made it mandatory for some products to be unable for purchasing in the cafeteria. Items that have been barred include Little Debbie Snacks, carbonated beverages of any kind, candy, juice in containers larger than 12 ounces, potato chips, and fruit roll-ups.

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Jasmine Williams, Sports Editor

   Page 35 of every student handbook provides a clear understanding of the dress code that all students—both male and female—are expected to abide by.  However, the students who participate in athletics, directly of the female gender, seem to be held to a higher standard of expectation when it comes to this regulation.

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Stephen Bell, Sports Editor

   With the high price of gasoline and the weather starting to warm up, driving a car to school is becoming less of an attractive option.  That is why recently I decided that I would like to start riding my bike to school in the mornings. 

   I live very near to the school and making the ten minute ride each morning would not be that difficult.  I would also enjoy getting the exercise and waking myself up. 

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Luke Bewley, Staff Writer
Editorial Story

Many of the television shows that are popular for teenagers today are either reality shows or shows that are made to be similar to a typical teenager’s life. Although these shows can sometimes be entertaining, I find that it can be annoying how these shows falsely and poorly portray a so-called ‘typical’ teenager’s life.

   The most obvious show to discuss is ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.”  If you’ve heard the name of this show, you would think it was closely related to the life of a normal teenager, right? Wrong.

Although there are high school pregnancies, they are not nearly as common in real life as they are in the show. Amy, the main character, gets pregnant with Ricky’s baby, and then dates Ben, who ends up getting another girl, Adrian, pregnant. The plot of the show often throws curveballs and presents situations that are not common at all in the real life of an American teenager.

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