The Depressing Truth of New Year’s Resolutions
February 6, 2012 • Qinglan Huang, Features Editor
Filed under Opinions
I adore the holidays: the time of families and friends gathering together and miracles coming true. Schoolwork and worries are forgotten amidst the joy and festivity as another year draws to an end. Everything and everyone is bathed in the soft glow of happiness that only comes along once a year. What... Read more »
Destruction of a dfferent kind: competition
January 31, 2012 • John Benhart, Sports Editor
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Bitter stomps of rage, nasty retorts, and even the sneer of a victor: all too common sights and sounds of the average day for the average American citizen. All these interactions, despite their negativity, persist in being a part of life. Competition, while truly beneficial in the fields of evolution,... Read more »
Upper St. Clair’s New Cell Phone Policy: Technology and the Future
October 24, 2011 • Trudel Pare, Opinions Editor
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I love my smart phone. I love my smart phone probably more than I will love my first born child. So when I moved to Upper St. Clair and realized that I would be able to use my phone during school hours, I was understandably thrilled. It seemed like an ideal way to keep in touch with everyone and always... Read more »
Osama: what we should have done
June 1, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Humor & Leisure, Opinions
On May 2, 2011, the world, at last, was rid of one of the most infamous men of modern times: Osama bin Laden. Architect of the September 11 attacks and founder of international terror organization Al Qaeda, bin Laden was killed when his living compound in Pakistan was the target of a top-secret raid... Read more »
Intervention is needed in the Zimbabwe sexual assault crisis
April 14, 2011
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On March 31, 2011, Michealine Cristini Risley came to Upper St. Clair High School to present her new documentary, Tapestries of Hope. In the clips of the film that she screened to the audience of students and through the ensuing question and answer session, students soon understood the gravity of the... Read more »
100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire occurred on March 25th
April 14, 2011 • Vinay Viswanathan, Opinions Editor
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100 years ago on March 25, 1911, America was stricken by the terrible Triange Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which killed 146 innocent American factory workers, mainly Jewish and Italian women in their late teens and early twenties. The fire burned down the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village,... Read more »
Wisconsin GOP in Senate ends the standoff, passes anti-union bill
April 7, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
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Three weeks ago, the Wisconsin state senate faced the mass exodus of all of its Democratic members, who fled in order to prevent a landmark vote. The vote in question was to be on a radical new bill championed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: the so-called “budget repair bill.” While the bill... Read more »
Newt Gingrich visits the University of Pennsylvania
March 16, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
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It was an exciting evening at the University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, when former Speaker of the House and Time magazine Person of the Year Newt Gingrich appeared to talk to the student body about issues pertaining to the future of the United States. Rather than a politically-minded dirge, however,... Read more »
Ways to cut the deficit
March 11, 2011 • Vinay Viswanathan, Opinions Editor
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It’s no secret that the U.S. federal deficit is over $14 trillion dollars and increasing every second (www.usdebtclock.org). Numerous politicians, both Republican and Democrats, discuss curbing the deficit on a federal scale in Congress, yet it is all for naught; there is very little action taking... Read more »
People need to understand the real meaning of the season of giving
February 3, 2011 • Vinay Viswanathan, Opinions Editor
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The holiday season is past us. The season of giving, unfortunately, has become a materialistic mess. The season of giving has become more of the season of getting. One of the major problems is that presents are no longer symbolic, but are instead viewed as an item. Senior Meghan Taylor confessed... Read more »
