So Easy a caveman can do it

By: Mia Saunders

 

 

 

            ABC is creating a new show, remember the caveman commercials featured for Geico car insurance? Well they now are about to have their own show. It’s a unique comedy with its own twist on stereotypes about the early caveman. The series will look at life through the eyes of the outsider’s three modern cavemen as they try to find a place in the world of today.  The series will be produced by Touchstone television this spring they will struggle with prejudice on a daily basis as they strive to the lives of normal people in 2007
Atlanta Georgia. The show will air every Friday.

GETTING READY FOR SENIOR YEAR

By: Andres Ruiz Morris

                                    Juniors of the class of 08 have a big year ahead of them. The end of this school year closes the chapter on the class of 07 but opens a new door for the rising juniors. Although senior year is often viewed as a layed back year, the amount of pressure for those of us who seek to get into college is enormous and we are forced to realize that the minute the last day of school is over, the rush begins to do everything possible to get into that one good college. This Summer Juniors will be forced to buckle down and plow through SAT’s and ACT’s while trying to find all the money to even go to college if we’re lucky enough to get accepted. During our Senior Year, the class of 08 will need to keep our minds open and think out of the box in order to maintain an edge for our college applications. Tiffany Chan, a junior of 08, said on the issue, “It’s very overwhelming, It’s hard to remember all these dates for Tests and tours and stuff, I just can’t wait till I can finally get accepted somewhere!”

 

Here is a link to Fast web, a great site that lets you customize your goals and needs for college to find scholarships that can provide financial support for college.

Fastweb

Life after School Sports

By: Rocio Reyes 

          When you join a school sport you have a set schedule. You go to school, then go to practice. Practice usually lasts for about 2 hours or more. That usually takes up all your time everyday and then you do the same thing over and over and over again everyday expect on weekends. But what do you do when the season is over? What do people do now with this new gained time? That is the problem most athletes are facing. The have “free time” now after school but have nothing to do or wish they could keep playing to stay in shape. One of the best things to do is keep in touch with your team mates. Doesn’t matter what sport you played. You should organize game days between the entire team and just meet and play. You can also go running, go to the gym or better yet stay after school and check out the sports clubs out there.

Making a Difference- Relay for Life

By: Kailey LanierIf you call yourself a Relayer, you’re in good company. More than 3.5 million Americans take part in Relay for Life, and tens of thousands more participate in events held across the globe. Those millions of Relay volunteers at more than 4,800 community events each have a story to tell. They also know better than anyone what makes relay the moving and powerful experience that it is

One day, one night and one community:  By participating in an American Cancer Society Relay for Life event near you, you honor cancer survivors, pay tribute to the lives lost to the disease, and raise money to help fight it – all right in your community. Much more than a walk around a track, Relay is a time to celebrate those who have battled cancer, remember those lost and get inspired to fight back. Those who have shared the same experience find common ground, hope and healing at Relay. By participating, you have the power to continue the American Cancer Society’s progress toward a future where cancer doesn’t take the lives of our friends and family.

Every dollar you raise makes a difference to people in your community whose lives are touched by cancer. The Society has contributed to almost every major discovery in cancer research. Millions of lives have been saved as a result, including people you may know. For those people and countless others, the research the Society has funded is resulting in better ways to prevent, detect, and treat cancer.

South Lakes’ Students Getting Lazy

By Kaitlyn Clinage 

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First off, some students have less work to do now that school is almost over, because their major projects and assignments have already been due.  With all the testing that’s going on right now, teachers aren’t assigning homework to students to enable them to study if the feel they need or want to.

Secondly, the majority of school sports are over and the pools are opening up. Because of this, students are spending more time with their friends and at the pool; they no longer want to do their school work.

Thirdly, those of us who aren’t seniors wish we were, and are seeing their peers leave early or coming late to school, therefore we wish we could do the same.  Because they only have two and a half weeks left of school, which makes it harder on the rest of us to think that we still have school after they graduate.

Also, some students are calculating their GPA’s and trying to figure out the bare minimal grade percentages they need to keep their fourth quarter grades as high as possible.  For example, if a student receives an “A” all year in one class, they might only need to get a “B” or “B+” to maintain their “A” for their final grade remarks for that class.  Some students feel it is unnecessary to do all the extra work and studying to get an “A” when they might not need it, especially with their lack of energy and excitement for the summer.

Lastly, some teachers are also getting sick of school and are anticipating and counting down the days left, just like we are.  Therefore, they don’t want to do anymore work either.  Because of this, students are having less work to do at school, and watching movies in their classrooms.  I can guarantee those students aren’t complaining, but that has a major impact on how they determine how much time they put into their school work.

Shrek the Third has success at box office

by Katie Busch 

Shrek the Third made 122 million dollars at box office its opening weekend, making 20 million more than Shrek 2. With its box office success there is not question this film isn’t good, it’s just not great.

 

The movie opens with Shrek (Mike Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) stepping in as king and queen of Far Far Away due to King Harold’s (John Cleese) failing Health. When Shrek becomes aware of another heir to the throne, he ventures out with Donkey (Eddie Murphy), Puss and Boots (Antonio Banderas). The heir being Fiona’s cousin Arthur (Justin Timberlake) a misfit teenager who’s whining voice and much too sensitive attitude will annoy you to death. Other characters from the previous Shreks make appearances in the film like Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) who again amuses the villainous role of trying to take over Far Far Away.

 

Shrek the third was a little disappointing with its writing as well as acting. Many of the old jokes in both Shrek and Shrek 2 reappeared in Shrek the Third. Some of the jokes weren’t as fast or witty enough and were somewhat predictable. Casting Timberlake was a poor with his very sappy voice over as Arthur.

 

The film did have a good message of being your self and was able to include some adult humor. It was an enjoyable film but it was that of the quality of it’s’ predecessors Shrek and Shrek 2.

 

 

Myspace sex offenders

By: Ashley Armitage

 

Again today the police caught another Myspace sex offender. The gentlemen was caught after a police posed as a 16 year old girl and the gentlemen was asking the girl(police) to have sexual relations with him. Of course the police agreed and the gentlemen got on a plane and flew down to
Atlanta. When he got there the police arrested him and took him into custody. No bail has been posted yet.

Myspace has agreed to give the names of all sex offenders and all of the messages that have been sent and received from the sex offender and the other person. So far Myspace has deleted about 7,000 profiles of sex offenders.

The thing I want to know is what do students have to say about this I took a survey and all of the students are scared about sex offenders but none of them want to stop using Myspace and an unnamed source said that they will take the chance to come across a sex offender. My advice for everyone with a Myspace is to watch out and make sure your just talking to your friends.

 

 

From first meeting to Engaged

Lisa Andariese 

The Bachelor two hour season finale was Monday night May 21, 2007 at 9pm. People sat around their television anticipating his pick. 

 Lieutenant Andy Baldwin went through weeks of spending time with plenty of beautiful women to only realize that he has to come up with a decision each week and let a lot of them go. He got to know all of the women and took them on group dates and took one special lady each week on a one on one date. At the end of each episode he kept who he thought he could connect with the most, which would be the hardest decision anyone could ever make. He broke hearts as he got closer to picking the women he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.  

The two women in the finals were Bevin, who works as a clinic research coordinator and currently lives in
California, everyone who watched this show could see how Andy and Bevin connected. The other woman is Tessa who is a social worker who also currently lives in
California.  

They went on one on one dates with Andy and met his family and his family liked them both but had liked Tessa’s personality better and thought she would be a better match for him.    

The last scene was Andy standing on the balcony of a gorgeous mansion by the sunset and told Bevin that she wasn’t the women for him. It was very emotional when he walked her to the limo and when she got in she broke down in tears. Then Tessa came and he told her that his love for her is very strong and was finally convinced that she felt the same way. He got down on one knee and asked her to marry him and of course she said yes. He stood up and said “ One last thing” he grabbed the red rose and said “ Tessa Lee, will you please accept this rose” Tessa replied “Of course” They kissed and looked into the sunset and then the credits came on.   

 

“A” for Effort

By Alexander Crowder                As grades soar, so do the expectations of colleges. This is one of the main concerns of the student body these days. As schools up their learning requirements and push their kids to get exemplary grades, suddenly the grades do not become as exemplary. When once, a 3.7 was exemplary, now it is expected, and a 4.0 is the new standard. While it can be considered a good thing, those kids with grades that are the old special, are finding it difficult to get into college. Also the colleges find it hard to accept these people based on grades anymore, seeing as all of them have the grades required The consequence of this is that colleges are no longer looking for grades and academics to get their student’s enrolled, and are now focusing their attention on the ever dreaded SAT. The grades have gone out the window and are now replaced by standardized test scores, so now in order to find your way into a college, not only must your grades reach above the normal standard, but so must your test scores, causing a distress among the student body. He question became, since when did we have to push ourselves so hard in order to get ourselves to a place that could allow us to continue with our lies and so forth. While colleges sympathize with most of the student body, there is still nothing that they can do and the great fear among the educators and students alike is that the same thing will happen with the SAT’s and that they will have to find a new alternative for accepting students. 

The Only One he Ever Feared…

by Michael Shannon

We have all been waiting to see what happens to Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) next in the fantastic and breathe taking movie series. Finally, the 5^th chapter of Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix, has been seen on the big screen in theaters. The official trailer for Harry Potter is now out and can be seen at Moviefone.com, Youtube.com, or Harry Potter’s own official web site.

The 5^th chapter of Harry Potter is mainly about Dumbledore’s army which Harry creates to prepare all the 5^th year students at Hogwarts of what danger awaits them. Dolores Umbridge who is later the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts and soon not long after that, the Headmistress of Hogwarts, is also the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and simply will not let any of the students practice attack spells or defense spells…this is what sparks Harry and causes him to explode with anger, enough in fact that he creates his own class where he is the teacher and he and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) help out as well.

A few new faces enter the Harry Potter series in this chapter like Luna Lovegood (Evana Lynch), Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), Ballitrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Cartar), and more.

Lord Voldemort(Ralph Fiennes), has returned to full strength and is now trying to build a army of Death Eaters(Lord Voldermort’s followers) so he can take down the ministry of magic and all that are muggles(not pure blood). Harry Potter wants to stop Voldemort before he can gather to many followers; The Order of the
Phoenix is an organization of aurors (dark wizard catchers) which are all on the move to stop Voldemort as well.

Hurry and watch the 5^th exciting chapter of Harry Potter coming to theaters in 7/13/07!

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