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  • What it's like to be straight-edge

    Thursday, November 01, 2007 By: Carolina Navarro

    Senior Randell Walden is different. His clothes match, his belt sparkles, and he abstains from drugs and alcohol.

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  • 'Cool' lunch boxes set trend

    Thursday, November 01, 2007 By: Nick Prejido

    High school students are carrying lunch boxes that were originally intended for elementary school students because it's the new 'cool' thing to do.

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  • Be safe, live healthy, and get inked: Tattoos and piercings not just for your average rebel

    Thursday, November 01, 2007 By: Amber Hull

    The word tattoo is said to have two major derivations- from the Polynesian word ‘ta’ which means striking something and the Tahitian word ‘tatau’ which means ‘to mark something’. The history of tattoo

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  • Competition That Uses Horses

    Thursday, November 01, 2007 By: McKinsey Lintner

    Equestrian team is a sport where people ride horses through different patterns, some timed and some not. The equestrian team is not called a sport but a club, because the riders pay for all the expens

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  • Making time stretch

    Friday, November 02, 2007 By: Brittany Sumter

    It’s a typical day at Rosa Parks High School: several students are racing through the hallways rushing from class to class. It seems as though there is not enough time in the day. For many students, t

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  • Bringing a bit of 'Hollywood' to Paterson

    Friday, November 02, 2007 By: Aria Corbin Smith

    If you’ve never been to Hollywood, there’s no need to worry. Hollywood has now come to Paterson. People may ask where Hollywood is, but it isn’t a place. It’s a person, a barber actually, and the name

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  • Dog hears for teacher

    Friday, November 02, 2007 By: Amanda Finnin; Copy Editor

    Shannon Harrigan, nearly deaf, uses a hearing dog to help her hear things like the doorbell and phone ringing.

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  • Administration bans all handheld devices

    Friday, November 02, 2007 By: Adam Jones, Photography Editor

    For many, cell phones, ipods, and cameras are the center of their universe...

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  • Video class produces professional films: Duo films Fresno Rescue Mission, Margaree Mason Center

    Friday, November 02, 2007 By: Sarah Ingersol

    Video productions teacher CJ Haydock and student Jonathan Bingman, '08, plan to partner with two organizations, the Fresno Rescue Mission (FRM) and the

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Issue Date: Saturday, November 03, 2007 Issue: Week of Nov. 4, 2007
 
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At-a-glance

News
Administration bans all handheld devices
No more hand-helds. Fairborn High administration bans cell phones, iPods and cameras to increase student focus and halt cheating.
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Hacker attack. Krop Senior High student ackonwledges he tampered with school's Reading Plus records, including grades. School officials unsure what to do.
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Tough travel. Students among hardest hit by rising gas prices.
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Question of discipline. University Academy teachers unhappy with new, less stringent disciplinary policy.
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Features
Goin' Hollywood. Hair is the canvas for Julian "Hollywood" Edwards' art and Rosa Parks High is his gallery.
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Lasting messages. Tattoos and piercings make major statements about a young person, statements that last a lifetime.
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Cafeteria cool. Hang on to your old lunchbox. It's making a comeback in high school lunchrooms.
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Healthy life, healthy outlook. Straight-edge students shun drugs, alcohol and other unhealthy habits in a quest for positive life and image.
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Opinion
Fast, not better. Technology may offer quicker connections to others, but it's just not the same as eye to eye, heart to heart.
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Say what? "Textorexia," the language of this techie era, is changing communication, and not necessarily for the better.
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