Reasons to Love School

I loveeeee schooolll! Its SOO Much fun. Especially Beverly Hills High School. I just wish it lasted for more than 4 years. And we only have 9 months outa the year to go to school. If you ask me the district is wasting a precious 3 month period. Coming back to school I've come to realize all the things I took for granted last year: 

1. The trash in the hallways and the odd smell the origin of    which you cant really be sure but know is something gross

2. The strong whiffs of perfume/cologne you get from walking by people trying to cover up their nasty BO

3. All the different colors of Juicy velour clothing

4. All the cool people hanging out in front of staircases and in the middle of hallways during passing periods

5. The soft cushiony seats and thank god they took away those arm rests they always got in the way

6. All the different shades of eye liner and mascara and all that good stuff people use to cover up their faces

7. The sound of subwoofers from the gangstas nice enough to turn their stereos loud enough so everybody can hear the beats as they drive into the parking lot

8. The conscientious drivers

9. The teachers with years of experience and ranging from great colleges around the country, Arizona state University included

10. The line at el pollo loco..ahh how ive missed the line

11. Homework and the rush you get from going into a test knowing your completely unprepared

12. Farsi
and lastly- all the super cool intelligent students at our school
this years gonna be so much fun. I cant wait for my first test

Here goes another year.. or at least another

- Jeff White 

Recycling Club

          Please tell me the recycling club website http://hometown.aol.com/diamondgirl1041/ is a joke. Please do tell me! I find it very distressing that the writer of the site is actually in high school. Now please note, I am in no way against the Recycling Club for their efforts. I think it is important to recycle resources so that we humans don’t ruin the environment. A little off topic, but I would like to make a comment on the $10 littering fee at school…”oh please”. Number one: I highly doubt anyone will enforce the rule, and number two: a $10 fee isn’t very intimidating. A $10 littering fee, in my opinion, is just asking for students to litter. If the school wants to take a stand against littering make a $50 or $100 fee. That will stop the students from even considering littering, given, that it is enforced. Now getting back to the original topic, please first read the website before you read the rest of this editorial.

Hopefully you have read the BHHS Recycling Club Site so that you can better understand my commentary on the marvelous work of literary genius that the site contains. The articles are broken up in the same fashion as sections are on the site. 

Article I) “First Year”: If I am not mistaken, the aim of the recycling club is to make a difference at the school by recycling bottles and cans. I am very curious to know why the Recycling Club wanted to contact the Tree People and other such organizations. How would that help their goals? 

Article II) “Second Year”: Good job Recycling club! There’s nothing bad to say there. 

Article III) “Scandal… Gasp… Scandal… OMG…”: Just the section title gives away the immaturity contained in the text. This section sounds like a highly misinformed and biased account of what really happened. Why in the world would Ms. Utley hold a Recycling Club meeting without any of the members? Is that even considered a Recycling Club meeting if nobody is there? I am truly astonished to hear that people were having private conversations during the club! Private conversations? That’s unheard of! In case you didn’t catch on to the sarcasm, I find it pathetic to accuse people of wrongdoing because they are talking to each other during a lunchtime club meeting. I would also be interested to find out who the cruel “they” is. Why would “they” do such things as take away community service credit when it is “they” who would benefit from the hours? The motives don’t make sense. This is obviously a huge misinterpretation of the actual events, probably induced by gossip and hearsay. 

Article IV) “sO, wHaT HaPpeNeD???” I love the flowing wave of capital letters and no caps. So now, somehow, the efforts made by “they” were destroyed and the bins did in fact arrive. Now here I have to make an assumption. If I am mistaken I apologize, but the facts point towards my conclusion. Why would Ms. Utley “wrest power” from the Recycling club? It sounds like the writer of the website has power issues of her own. She seemingly wants full credit for an effort that is to help the entire school. Furthermore, I doubt Ms. Utley accused the Recycling club of being lazy, unmotivated, and irresponsible in front of class. These three adjectives seem to describe the club very well however, given the fact that “scandal” and gossip seemed to comprise for most of the club’s meetings. Also, I haven’t heard “Fair, Shmaer” used since my days in the second grade. It doesn’t sound like something Ms. Utley would say.

- Jim Moore 

Iraq

Things are just getting worse and worse and even more troops are going to be sent out to be placed on the firing line.

American troops kill 11 Iraqi policemen by mistake. In another incident, an American Humvee is blown over when it goes over a bomb, number of casualties not yet reported.

Will any compensation be paid to the families of the slaughtered policemen?

Truck loads of sand and buckets are to be delivered to the Whitehouse for the government to bury their heads in.

- Anonymous
 

New Slogans

There are a couple of slogans that I think the school should change around. The first is the "Tower of Hope" (what the Oil Well is called because it was painted by sick children... many with cancer, can you see the irony?). The old name, the Tower of Hope, should be called the "Tower of Despair". 

Another slogan that needs revisiting is the school motto "Today Well Lived" (you can see the explanation for the slogan here). The new slogan, in light of the Oil Well threat, should be:

"Today Well Lived, Tomorrow Not Lived"

- Zack Anderson