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  • Huge influx of students creates hordes, stampedes

    Tuesday, October 09, 2007 By: REBECCA CRAPO

    Every school has a limit on how many students it can safely house before it reaches a point of overcrowding. Clarksburg High School, while only in operation for one year, is rapidly approaching that p

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  • Principal revisits, implements policies

    Tuesday, October 09, 2007 By: Kelly Holleran, Editor in Chief, 10/10

    Principal Christine Handy Collins did her homework. She studied, asked questions and went to school promptly over the summer while most students and teachers vacationed.

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  • Student Illusionist Gathers Crowds

    Wednesday, October 10, 2007 By: Amelia Bochain

    Senior Trey Heath doesn’t believe in magic. He doesn’t even consider himself a magician. Despite this, he’s been performing illusions and tricks to large crowds in the cafeteria.“It’s cool when you lo

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  • School makes grade, students celebrate

    Wednesday, October 10, 2007 By: Jacquasia Pryor

    What started as an ordinary school day for students at Rosa L. Parks High School turned into an afternoon of jump rope, movies, and fun.A town meeting was held May 11 in the Lou Costello Theatre. Howe

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  • Leadership Team discussing, implementing revised tardy policy: Harsher consequences have students worried about crowded hallways, classroom distances

    Thursday, October 11, 2007 By: Simon Campbell, News Editor

    At the start of the school year, students were presented with a new tardy policy that puts forward harsher consequences for being late to class. The policy calls for a warning for the first tardy, lun

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  • Board of Education receives backlash over sex-ed curriculum

    Thursday, October 11, 2007 By: Jessica Wolford, Staff Reporter

    Sex. It has always been a subject of major controversy among school systems, and in Montgomery County, this subject is rearing its ugly head again.

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  • Ancient holiday is about more than candy

    Thursday, October 11, 2007 By: Stephanie Sheridan,Staff Reporter, 10/11/07

    It is 2500 B.C. The feast is in full swing, everyone is wearing masks. The Wickerman is burning brightly and you might just be talking to your deceased relatives. What day is it? It is the equinox. Or

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  • Springfield helps environment: School system works toward green status

    Thursday, October 11, 2007 By: Lacey Shaw and Samantha Andrade

    The Springfield Public Schools District recently spent $4 million in order to pay for energy efficient motion sensor lights. It’s saving the district around $ 375,000 a year so far.

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  • Learning and Earning at Sea: Cal Maritime prepares students for college

    Saturday, October 13, 2007 By: Jessica Tabares

    Over the summer, 30 students from around California had fun, learned, socialized– and were paid for it. Cal Maritime’s Summer Academic Enrichment Program made this possible.The program is free. In fac

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  • Resident Evil 3 or Resident Awful?

    Saturday, October 13, 2007 By: ROBERT HALLIWELL

    Resident Evil 3: Extinction, the third and supposed last in the trilogy of the Resident Evil series, will move you and your feet right out the door!

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Issue Date: Saturday, October 13, 2007 Issue: Week of Oct. 14, 2007
 
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News
Whether sex should be a topic within the health curriculum is the hot subject in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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New tardy policy pressures students to hustle more quickly to class -- or else.
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Goshen officials considering a community water park.
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Bomb threat sends Arrowhead students to the out-of-doors.
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School district wins evolution lawsuit.
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Features
Thirty California students learned and earned as part of Cal Maritime’s Summer Academic Enrichment Program. The program prepares high-schoolers for the academic demands and social climate of college.
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Group dating beats the tension of single dates for some teens.
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Teens' physical chemistry make them easy prey for sleepiness.
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The Springfield Public Schools spent $4 million and save a bundle on energy-saving lights, a part of new green movement.
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Halloween is old all right -- 4,500 years old!
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