Tight Tanks, Short Shorts, and Other Clothes that Make Me Scream…

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September 6, 2010  
Filed under Opinion, Top Stories

 Imagine this: you walk into school, prance down the hallway and stop at your locker. As you scan the perimeter to casually take a peep at your schoolmates, you see an unnerving sight—your buddy Jane, bent over, digging around in her locker…butt crack hanging out! Even though she is your friend,... Read more »

Too Much Technology?

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May 25, 2010  
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Often, I hear the elderly saying, “You young people these days, with all of your rap music and body gyrations, and those cell phones!” Well, I do not actually hear that too often, but I imagine that if I talked with a lot of elderly people they would say something similar to that. Even my dad frowns... Read more »

Senior Run

May 25, 2010  
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Every year, at midday, students will look up from their text books and teachers will open their doors as the sound of running footsteps and ecstatic cheers fill the hall way. The students line the halls clapping and shouting, “Congratulations” to the seniors who have just completed their high school... Read more »

Student Involvement

May 19, 2010  
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Student involvement has slowly decreased throughout the years. There have been quite a few attempts to try and boost student interest, but they have failed. They have been unsuccessful because sometimes the ideas were not good to begin with, or the student body just simply did not want to be a part of... Read more »

Teen Pregnancy

May 13, 2010  
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Teen pregnancy has been a topic of discussion for years and even more so now with the topic being discussed on The Tyra Banks Show and in Seventeen Magazine as well as many recently popular TV shows. Statistics show that each year more and more teenage girls get pregnant, and I feel like the so called... Read more »

Senioritis

May 3, 2010  
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With only two weeks of school remaining, seniors are beginning to feel the pressure. As you walk through the hallways you can feel the tension as several of these seniors are on edge. Many are cantankerous and moody while at school because they have simply been here for too long at this point. With the... Read more »

Light Up the Night: Prom 2010

April 27, 2010  
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The lights, the flashes of cameras and walking down the red carpet at Ottawa High School; The OHS prom was held last Saturday, April 24 with the theme of “Light up the Night.” Although there was controversy about how prom would be because of the change in attendance- this year was the first junior/senior... Read more »

Alice in Wonderland

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April 23, 2010  
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I did not like the flow of things in Tim Burton’s, Alice in Wonderland because I was lost most of the movie. I had no idea what was going on a parts of the movie when she had to fight dragons, and the floating cat had no point in being in the movie. I do have to say that Johnny Depp did amazing in... Read more »

Corruption in the Church

April 15, 2010  
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Lately, the biggest sex scandal in the news is one that is a little bit darker than the typical, “Brad cheated on Jen with Angelina!” Recently a leader of the Irish Catholic Church, Bishop John Magee, resigned due to allegations that he had failed discipline priests that had been abusing young boys.... Read more »

What To Do

March 29, 2010  
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We all have concluded that there is practically nothing to do in Ottawa. The only thing that we do have is a skating rink. It is more popular with the younger children of the community. Even so, it gets old doing it weekend after weekend. Therefore, concluding that we need more variety of things to... Read more »

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