1 News-N-Everything e Official Student Newspaper of Robinson High School Volume 90, Issue 02 15 October 2012 e New e Election Draws Nigh! In light of the rapidly approaching presidential election, one may be interested in the viewpoints of the candidates and their plans for the country. e economy is the largest concern for most citizens, and Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have offered very different ideas on how to fix it. In his first term, President Obama proposed the Healthcare Reform Act, widely called “Obamacare,” and it was put into law. Under this law, each citizen who has the means to purchase life insurance must do so, insurance companies may not deny coverage to customers on the basis of pre- existing conditions, and children can stay on their parents’ healthcare plan until age twenty-six. Mitt Romney implemented a similar plan on a state level as governor of Massachusetts, but he disagrees with enacting the law at the federal level. He would repeal Obamacare and work with states to create their own individual healthcare plans. To lower the unemployment rate, the two candidates have differing plans to stimulate the economy. Romney believes that cutting regulations and taxes on corporations would give them more freedom to operate in a free market, which would create more business. As president, he would lower the tax rate on corporations by ten percent and repeal the corporate Alternative Minimum Tax, which is an income tax. He would also adopt a territorial tax system, in which the money a citizen makes in America would be taxed but the money a citizen makes in a different country would not be taxed by our government. Obama would eliminate tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs and create tax incentives for companies that create American jobs. He also plans to invest in education, research, and technology, and use half of the money saved from ending foreign wars to create jobs working on our country’s infrastructure. Reducing our nation’s deficit is also a pressing issue. To decrease government spending, Romney would repeal Obamacare and privatize Amtrak. He would also reduce foreign aid and the subsidies for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Romney would also eliminate Title X Family Planning Funding, which includes services like Planned Parenthood. Obama would end the war in Afghanistan and use half of the money saved to pay down debt, and he would raise the percentage of income tax paid by citizens who make over $1 million per year. Social issues are not discussed as often as the fiscal, but are still very important to many citizens. (continued on page 3) Obama vs. Romney What Do ey Stand For?
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News-N-EverythingThe Official Student Newspaper of Robinson High School Volume 90, Issue 02
15 October 2012
The New
The Election Draws Nigh!
In light of the rapidly approaching presidential election, one may be interested in the viewpoints of the candidates and their plans for the country.
The economy is the largest concern for most citizens, and Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have offered very different ideas on how to fix it.
In his first term, President Obama proposed the Healthcare Reform Act, widely called “Obamacare,” and it was put into law. Under this law, each citizen who has the means to purchase life insurance must do so, insurance companies may not deny coverage to customers on the basis of pre-existing conditions, and children can stay on their parents’ healthcare plan until age twenty-six. Mitt Romney implemented a similar plan on a state level as governor of Massachusetts, but he disagrees with enacting the law at the federal level. He would repeal Obamacare
and work with states to create their own individual healthcare plans.
To lower the unemployment rate, the two candidates have differing plans to stimulate the economy. Romney believes that cutting regulations and taxes on corporations would give them more freedom to operate in a free market, which would create more business. As president, he would lower the tax rate on corporations by ten percent and repeal the corporate Alternative Minimum Tax, which is an income tax. He would also adopt a territorial tax system, in which the money a citizen makes in America would be taxed but the money a citizen makes in a different country would not be taxed by our government. Obama would eliminate tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs and create tax incentives for companies that create American jobs. He also plans to invest in education, research, and technology, and use half of the
money saved from ending foreign wars to create jobs working on our country’s infrastructure.
Reducing our nation’s deficit is also a pressing issue. To decrease government spending, Romney would repeal Obamacare and privatize Amtrak. He would also reduce foreign aid and the subsidies for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Romney would also eliminate Title X Family Planning Funding, which includes services like Planned Parenthood. Obama would end the war in Afghanistan and use half of the money saved to pay down debt, and he would raise the percentage of income tax paid by citizens who make over $1 million per year.
Social issues are not discussed as often as the fiscal, but are still very important to many citizens.
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Obama vs. RomneyWhat Do They Stand For?
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Editorial:On College
Many of you students have probably spent at least a small amount of time trying to decide where to go to college or, for that matter, whether you even should go to college. While for some it may seem like an obvious choice and others a complete and utter impossibility, there are several things you should consider when making this choice.
For starters, what kind of life do you want after high school? Would you like a higher tier job? Something that undoubtedly requires some sort of college education or degree, but in the long run could pay off ten-fold? Or would you be satisfied with living a simpler life that doesn’t require years of your life set aside so you can hopefully get a good job?
Another major factor that a lot of students I have heard mention is the monetary side. College is expensive. There are no two ways around it. If you are considering going to college but don’t think you can afford it, don’t be shy. Look into scholarships, think about financial aid and loans, and talk to the guidance office. There is a way for you to achieve some sort of college education if you really want it. It may not be very easy, but if you’re set on a career that involves college, there are ways for you to get there. Be forewarned however: loans can be dangerous. Take this from someone who wants to go into business for a living. Don’t borrow money you can’t pay back. That is a slippery slope, and I have seen people roll recklessly down it before.
Whether you want to be a carpenter, a biologist, a secretary,
From GuidanceUpcoming College Events
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November1: Illinois State Rep (9:30)5: MacMurray Rep (9:30)7: LTC College Fair
Parent/Teacher ConferencesOctober 25 and 26
Cap and Gown OrdersOctober 30
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ELECTION(cotinued from page 1)
Mitt Romney is pro-life, except in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is at stake. He wants the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and would leave abortion laws up to the states. Barack Obama is pro-choice and would leave a woman’s health decisions between her and her doctor.
Romney believes in traditional marriage and would appoint an Attorney General who would defend the Defense of Marriage Act, as well as add an amendment to the Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Obama supports marriage for same-sex couples. He endorsed the Respect for Marriage Act, repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and made provisions for LGBT couples to have the same hospital visitation and medical decision-making rights as spouses.
The information for this article was taken directly from the candidates’ own websites, and its presentation here strives to be free from any bias.
Kimbra Shaner
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a garbage man, or the CEO of a company, college is always worth a look. You don’t necessarily have to go to a large, expensive university. LTC or OCC are both good places for those looking for some quick schooling before getting to work. My advice is to at least take a look into some schools and what they have to offer. A college education can make a huge different in a person’s life and future.
Matthew Buercklin
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RHS Student Halloween CostumesRHS students will dress in
costume for Halloween. Though many will not go door to door and collect treats, they will dress in costume and try to trick one another.
Junior Matt Buercklin has decided to dress like a lizard. Senior Jaide Taylor said, “I always dress-up for Halloween, but I am not sure what I am going to be. I am thinking I will be a Crazy Cat Lady,” while Bethany Knight said she would probably wear what Subway wants her to wear. “Last year we all dressed like old women.”
Freshman Conner Weber said, “I am going to be a Marine.” Henry Treadway, also a freshman, will be dressed as a “Zelda Link.” Many others reported that they were still undecided as to what they will dress up as or if they will. Sophomore Emily Inboden enthusiastically stated, “I am dressing up and going as a zombie again.” Elizabeth Sweet wants to dress up as a Blue Mountain Dew. Cara Atienza stated, “I don’t know if I am dressing up. Kasey, Harli, Brooke, and I were going to do Taco Bell spice packets, like the hot and spicy ones.” Kasey Meeks agreed she would like to be a Taco Bell hot sauce packet, while Melissa Jenkins wants to be a mild hot sauce packet.
Aviana Beckes
In Defense of Literacy
The following list is loaded with controversial and bizarre works of literature. The staff of the News-N-Everything wish to clarify why we made the choices we did for this compilation.
First and foremost, this list does not reflect the ideals, values, or moral beliefs of any staff member. It functions only as a standard of what one should read to develop a basic cultural understanding. For example, we are not trying to claim that everyone needs to do an in-depth study of Mein Kampf, only that it gives a greater understanding of the Nazi condition. We chose the works of literature on this list for the sole purpose of illustrating the differences in society as you cross both time zones and time periods.
Secondly, we’re not claiming that to understand society, you have to read every piece of literature on the list. We are saying that reading any of them is beneficial to your overall understanding of our society at large. I myself have only read a measly twenty-eight of the books on the list, and I consider myself relatively well-read for my age.
The point of the list is to provide you, our reading populace, with a collection of materials that not only challenge you to think, but also enlighten you to the differences and similarities in the literature of our advancing society and how literature reflects the mindset of individuals in different time periods.
We hope you decide to look into at least one or two selections on the list and engage in the larger discussion of literature.
Hayden Treadway
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall ApartHenry Adams, The Education of Henry AdamsAesop, FablesDante Alighieri, The Divine ComedySt. Augustine, ConfessionsMarcus Aurelius, MeditationsJane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceSamuel Beckett, Waiting for GodotBeowulfThe Holy BibleWilliam Blake, PoetryJorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel”Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyreEmily Bronte, Wuthering HeightsJoseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand FacesMiguel Cervantes, Don QuixoteGeoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury TalesAnton Chekhov, “The Bet”Kate Chopin, The AwakeningSamuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient MarinerJoseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessThe Constitution of the United States of AmericaCharles Darwin, On the Origin of the SpeciesUmberto Eco, The Name of the RoseT. S. Eliot, The Waste LandRalph Ellison, Invisible ManRalph Waldo Emerson, NatureWilliam Faulkner, As I Lay DyingF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyJohn Fowles, The MagusSigmund Freud, The Interpretation of DreamsThe Epic of GilgameshThe Brothers Grimm, Fairy TalesStephen Hawking, A Brief History of TimeNathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet LetterJoseph Heller, Catch-22Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also RisesFrank Herbert, DuneAdolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Thomas Hobbes, LeviathanHomer, The Iliad and the OdysseyAldous Huxley, Brave New WorldHenrik Ibsen, A Doll’s HouseWilliam James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManCarl Gustav Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective UnconsciousFranz Kafka, The MetamorphosisImmanuel Kant, Critique of Practical ReasonJohn Keats, PoetryJack Kerouac, On The RoadHarper Lee, To Kill a MockingbirdNiccolo Machiavelli, The PrinceGabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of SolitudeW. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s EdgeCormac McCarthy, Blood MeridianHerman Melville, Moby-DickArthur Miller, The CrucibleJohn Milton, Paradise LostToni Morrison, BelovedHaruki Murakami, Kafka on the ShoreMythology: Arthurian (L’Morte d’Arthur), Greek, RomanVladimir Nabokov, LolitaIsaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaFriedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilGeorge Orwell, 1984Thomas Paine, Common SenseRobert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenancePlato, The Apology of SocratesEdgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death”Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s RainbowThe Qur’anAyn Rand, Atlas ShruggedJean-Jacques Rousseau, ConfessionsSalman Rushdie, The Satanic VersesJ. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the RyeJean-Paul Sartre, Being and NothingnessWilliam Shakespeare, HamletSophocles, Oedipus RexJohn Steinbeck, The Grapes of WrathBram Stoker, DraculaThe Talmud
Tao Te ChingHunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las VegasLeo Tolstoy, War and PeaceMark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnVergil, The AeneidKurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-FiveTennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named DesireVirginia Woolf, A Room of One’s OwnWilliam Wordsworth, PoetryRichard Wright, Native SonWilliam Butler Yeats, Poetry
Please note that this list includes only a single representative work for each other.
The staff would like to thank the Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Forbes, Miss Zdanowski, and Mrs. Jenkins for their assistance in compiling our list.
Banned Books Week 2012 Sept. 30 - Oct. 6
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The Good and the BadReviews and Recommendations You Can Trust
Youth and Other Fictions, Jonathan M. Cook’s debut novel, could, without a doubt, be a bestseller if enough people were exposed to it.
Youth and Other Fictions is the story of a town that experiences a huge tragedy. The past is far from being forgotten, and many intend on bringing the memories back up. Giving away any part of the book would be a travesty because going into it knowing nothing makes it even better. One thing a person should know is that they need to keep an open mind while reading because the real answers are in one’s mind. Every line is a cliffhanger, all the way up to the epilogue.
There are two sections to this book; one section shows teenage life from a teenager’s point of view, while the second section comes from a teacher’s perspective. The only reasons I would discourage a person
Youth and Other Fictions
from reading this book would be because one is younger than fourteen (due to some questionable language and concepts), hates mysteries, or is easily offended. This book is full of cynicism and politically questionable disputes. Religious controversy, murder, and suicide also occur throughout, but there is so much more, beginning with drugs and alcohol and ending with love and sexual relationships.
I personally liked the controversy, and the way it is written is not directly offensive because it is realistic. While reading this book, the mysteries were incredibly involving to the point where I couldn’t put it down.
With a wide spanning story comes a wide audience. In some ways, this book could relate to almost everyone because of the way teenagers are subjected to and tempted by sex, drugs, and alcohol.
Some of the scenes are too descriptive. If this book was a movie, there would be a fine line between PG-13 and R. Some words could easily be unknown by the average teenager, such as “quorum,” “alderman,” “ankh,” and “credulity.” Regardless, that didn’t ruin everything in the story for me.
I would highly recommend this book.
Marisa Koester
Taken
My selection for this month is Taken starring Liam Neeson. I will warn you, it can be violent, but it is a truly moving story about a man who will do anything to bring his daughter home.
The movie begins with a reluctant Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) being asked if his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace) can travel to Paris. Being a retired CIA agent, Bryan is very reluctant to let his daughter out of the state, let alone out of the country. Eventually Kim and Bryan’s unhappily divorced wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) wear him down and he agrees to allow Kim to travel to Paris, but with a strict set of rules. Through a “chance” meeting, men break their way into Kim’s apartment, and kidnap her and her friend are taken, but not before the most famous lines in the movie are whispered angrily through the phone to the kidnappers. Bryan swiftly goes to Paris and begins the manhunt to find his daughter and bring her home safely.
While Taken may be a simple revenge film, it has an emotional weight behind it. What would you do if your family was in danger? Would you proceed exactly as Mills does?
If you’re looking for action, you’ll find it in this wonderfully crafted tale of a man and his daughter.
Grade: A.
Willem Devin
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Brittney QuickEditor-in-Chief
Elise JensenDirector of Photography
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Willem DevinHeather Duzan
Jessica KartawichAlison Kite
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