May 2007 Edition


 

 

 

Junior Blaine Lapp has a part-time job at Stroh’s Ice Cream Parlor where he serves, and sometimes eats, ice cream.  Photo: Jordan Vitick

Part-time jobs work for students

BY JORDAN VITICK

With unemployment rates skyrocketing throughout the country, finding a job, let alone finding a job for a busy high school student, has become more of a problem. Teens all around the downriver area are searching for work to help pay for college and to become more responsible in the real world.

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War protest in the information age

BY JUSTIN MAIKE  Several military conflicts and resolutions after Vietnam, the anti-war movement has made a sluggish revival, going, for the most part, under the media radar. Without the draft posing an immediate threat to the youth of America, the movement binds itself together with the less eccentric, older generations; a bulk of the conservative Catholic community, and a smaller percentage of the youth.

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Rollerblading: Skateboarding’s funkier cousin

BY CHELSI WALKER  The sound of wheels alternatively gliding over and slamming onto concrete…the sound of plastic grinding down metal rails…the painful image of a body flying through the air and missing its mark to fall to the ground.

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Art room gets makeover from painters

BY EMILY CHAPMAN  Daily schedules seem to be alike for many students. Wake up, get ready for school and spend almost seven hours in white walls learning the knowledge that students need to "be the future." After those seven hours of brains being filled with subjects such as math and science, many teens go home and do nothing when they could be making a difference by volunteering.

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New Renovations taking place at the DIA

BY ASHLEY MASSENGILL  As the Detroit Institute of Art Renovations are coming to its closing stages at the end of this year, the DIA gets a new look.

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