Talking a Walk in Lere’s shoes
Friday June 17, 2005
Inspired by director Stanley Kubrick, whose movies include “2001: Space Odyssey” and “A Clockwork Orange,” Walker Lere directs and writes movies on his video camera.
Lere admires the versatility and the variations in Kubrick’s movies since each movie of his seems to be different. “[Kubrick] basically does anything and everything,” said Lere.
Golden boys head to state
Friday June 17, 2005
Along with 900 other scholarly students, Gabriel Rodriguez (’06) and Eric Smith (’06) will be leaving at 9:00 p.m. tomorrow night to attend the 68th Annual American Legion California Golden Boys’ State, a “laboratory of practical political science.”
The students are expected to arrive at the state’s capitol the following morning. A Greyhound bus will be waiting for them at the American Legion Post in Burbank.
Rojas wins most valuable teacher
Friday June 17, 2005
As the end of the year approaches, all of the year’s awards are revealed: Top 20 Students, scholarship awards, and even the Yearbook’s “Best of Hoover” winners. Notice a pattern? These awards are for students, but what about for the teachers?
This is where the Teacher of the Year title comes in.
The teacher who won the title this year via student voting is Spanish teacher Rosendo Rojas.
“Mr. Rojas deserves the [title] because he has a great way of drilling Spanish [into] our heads,” said Deegant Adhvaryu (’06). “Even though he gives us a lot of homework, it still helps us to do well on the tests.”
Parent involvement is essential
Friday June 17, 2005
Trust has always been an important part of any relationship.
Many of us do not give our parents a chance at friendship, but is it really the students’ fault? Are students pushing parents away, or is it the parents doing the shoving? If we were living in the past, it would be “normal” to see mothers in the kitchen or doing house cleaning, but as generations have passed, it has become more of a surprise when a parent does not have a job.
Must endow credit for college courses
Friday June 17, 2005
Many parents want their children to overachieve and many students also want to get ahead. However, there is an absurd policy at school that states if a student wants to take class at Glendale Community College (GCC), they will not receive any credit for the class.
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Partisan science shows bias
Friday June 17, 2005
A keychain found in a religious book store reads, “The Big Bang Theory: God Spoke and BANG it happened.”
Thus, the conflict between evolution and creationism is creatively illustrated. The origins of the world and human beings is an enigma that the scholarly ponder, yet in public schools only one version of the mystery is fed to eager young minds. Evolution is taught to elementary children as though it is a fact, while the concept of Creationism is wholly ignored. It is no less than a crime to rob the students of the choice of which theory to believe. Therefore, schools should create an unbiased education and teach both theories.
