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  • ‘Another high school in our backyard’

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Nina Barraclough/News Editor

    The School Board has approved the construction of a new high school on property adjacent to our campus in the hopes of alleviating severe overcrowding at Krop. The facility, temporarily named DD1, wou

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  • Editorial Cartoon

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Drew Lerman/Editor-in-Chief

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  • Student takes break from Hollywood

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Carol Kerpel

    Years before freshman Sammy Kahn became a student at Krop, he had already stepped into the world of screenplay, theater and fame.

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  • NJROTC builds cadets’ character

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Inna Granoyskaya

    “Through these halls walk the finest NJROTC cadets.”

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  • Quiet girl, loud dreams: With over 3,800 peers, facesare lost in the corwd; however, behind every face is a story. In this section, a randomly-chosen student will be featured monthly. Check here each month to see who's next.

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Naomi Enzinna/Feature Editor

    With headphones on, sophomore Nancy Munoz quietly completes her class work. Her teacher, accustomed to Munoz’s silence, sits at his desk, unaware of her playing music.

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  • Unused bedroomsWhat are they good for?

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Erica Semel

    As seniors consider colleges and new places to live for the next four years, their parents must decide if they should preserve their bedrooms or trade for a new home gym.

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  • Young club performs flag routines

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Inna Granovskaya

    The flagettes started spinning flags and doing marching routines only last year, when the club was first approved.

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  • Poetry Night

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By:

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  • High School Reunion: Former Krop varsity football player Chris Dirksz, now playing for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, talks about his experiences playing college football and his lessons learned at Krop

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Nicole Horwitz/Web Editor

    Rising up to play football under the bright lights after a lifetime of hard work is not a movie plot or a fairy tale, but the true story of Chris Dirksz, a Krop alumnus who was recruited to play for R

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  • Turning it around:: How a new coach and a new attitude is changing the image of the baseball team

    Thursday, November 17, 2005 By: Carol Kerpel

    After a short summer, returning baseball players found out they had a new coach. Little did they know the baseball team would be in for drastic changes.

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The Lightning Strike Dr. Michael M. Krop High School Miami, FL
Issue Date: Thursday, November 17, 2005 Issue: Volume 8 Issue 3 Last Update: Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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THE STRIKE GOES TO CHICAGO: Editors and staff writers attended a national journalism conference in Chicago, IL in mid-November, and returned with awards and a wealth of knowledge.
The duty of a journalist is to seek truth and report it. We at The Lightning Strike strive for this goal every time we brainstorm for article ideas. The same is true when we gather information, conduc
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Editorial Cartoon
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Improve safety in parking lot
There is a problem in the student parking lot. At 2:30 p.m. it turns into a mob of student drivers trying to escape school grounds.
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Presidential ethics
In light of charges brought against I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former vice presidential chief of staff, President Bush held a series of ethics seminars at the White House. Here are the “authentic”
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Cut out-of-state tuition costs Cut out-of-state tuition costs
Public colleges charge students from out-of-state much higher tuition rates than what they charge for state residents, in effect making out-of-state colleges prohibitively expensive. For example, at U
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Disallow recruitment on college campus
Next month, the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, inc. (FAIR), a coalition of U.S. law schools, will argue the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment in front of the U.S. Court of Appea
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Teachers violate code of conduct
The participation grade has become self-explanatory in many classes. If students ask or answer questions in a class where a participation grade exists, they get an A.However, in certain classes, the
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Keep religion out of school
Most parents would be upset if their children learned that the world was flat. And they would have every right to be: it is proven that the world is round.
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Leave God out of the pledge
The separation of church and state is one of the oldest fundamental beliefs in our government. It protects religious freedoms as well as allows government institutions to function smoothly and effecti
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myspace.com:Social tool or waste of time?: It helps connect people in a new and fun way.
With rapidly growing technology, it’s easy to get wrapped up in websites that encourage us to find our soul mate or a long lost friend in cyberspace.
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