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What’s the scoop [Sept. 26]

inklefingle — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:30:11 +0000

Herff Jones will be visiting Sept 29 to take ring orders for students wanting class rings.

Students left for Stratford, Canada this morning at 2:15 a.m. Students are seeing Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Music Man.

SAT deadline is today for students wanting to take the SAT exam on Nov 1. Students wanting to take SAT’s for college should register today.

Colleges want early applications in by November. Seniors applying to IU and Purdue need to turn in their applications very soon.

Students who will be 18 before Oct 31 should register to vote in the presidential campaign.

Seniors wanting to submit recommendations for class motto, flower, or color should submit them to Andi Pieh (French teacher) as soon as possible.

What’s the scoop- August 28th

inklefingle — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:54:04 +0000

Hearing tests on September 3 are scheduled for 10th graders. The Speech and Hearing department are holding the testing in the Media Center. “It is important for the students passing the media center during the hearing test to be quiet for accuracy in the tests,” Paula Gerber (nurse) said.

Basketball is available to students during lunch time in the Activity center. No food or drinks are able to be in the room. “It is expected that the students to behave appropriately,” Dan Cunningham (principal) said.

The Activity fair is being held in the cafeteria commons on September 3. Sign up sheets will be available for every club. New clubs include Writers Guild, ASL, and Comedy Club.

Homecoming week is September 8-12. Voting for Homecoming is September 3 during resource. Float building and hallway decorating volunteers should notify their class sponsors. Spirit days will be notified to students in later weeks.

inklefingle — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:03:14 +0000

Shaina Bauman: Math teacher
Teaching record: First teaching job
Favorite color: Midnight blue
Favorite summer memory: Working at oaklawn.

Tricia Gregory: Math teacher
Teaching record: First teaching job
Favorite color: All shades of blue
Favorite summer memory: Going to San Diego, California with college golf team and playing in nationals.

Thomas Saunders: Art teacher
Teaching record: Taught at Lakeland Middle School
Favorite color: All shades of blue
Favorite summer memory: When I got the phone call of getting the job as teacher.

Steve Austin: Wellness teacher
Teaching record: 30 years.
Favorite color: Sky blue
Favorite summer memory: Getting picture taken with Jenny Finch

Chunhua Li: Chinese teacher
Teaching record: Taught English for 14 years, Mandarin for two.
Favorite color: Yellow
Favorite summer memory: Coming to Concord and meeting nice teachers and cool students.

Erin Pollock: English teacher
Teaching record: First teaching job
Favorite color: Turquoise
Favorite summer memory: Going to Flordia with my family and enjoying the beaches and warm weather.

Whats the buzz

inklefingle — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:20:01 +0000

February 17 students will be able to add their pop tabs to buckets with pictures of administration on them. Person with most top tabs will do a stunt for the student body. All pop tabs go to Riley’s Children’s hospital.

Students can buy roses or carnations for a sweet one or friend. Flowers will be sent to receivers on Valentines Day. Last day is February 9th.

Basketball boys will have the NLC Tourneys at CHS starting 10 a.m. Saturday.

Varsity girls’ basketball sectionals will be held today. Sectionals are held at Goshen High School.

The bombs are thrown

inklefingle — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:13:06 +0000

Students in US History A have the opportunity this Friday to participate in an interactive activity in the CLR.

“Trench Warfare is an activity for the students to go back to World War I (WWI) times,” Kate Mitchell (social studies teacher) said.

Usually held in the CLR, this year might be different.

“We’re not sure if it’ll be in the CLR, it might have to be in the little gym,” Mitchell said.

The students are separated into two different groups, the allies (Great Britain, France, and Russia) and the Central Powers (Austria Hungry, Italy, and Germany).

“The students learn about how the soldiers felt in World War I(WWI),” Mitchell said, “They experience what they hear.”

The students are also able to experience more by Mitchell herself doing a voice over during the entire skit.

“It’s just a great way to teach and it’s enjoyable,” Mitchell said.

Students will be in the CLR or the little gym on Friday bombing each other and experiencing WWI.

Scholastic Fantastic

inklefingle — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:19:43 +0000

CHS has a wide variety of students, including students who are crazy about art. One contest that Concord has and is participating in is Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

According to scholastic.com, “The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards offer early recognition of creative teenagers and scholarship opportunities for graduating high-school seniors,”

The art department chair, Bob Bieber, coordinates much of the process of getting ready to turn in hundreds of student’s projects.

“It’s hard to choose pieces, and sometimes we have to stop and re-look at pictures that we’ve already said yes to,” Bieber said.

Each student is allowed to send in 5 original pieces.

“Scholastic pieces must be picked this week [7-11], and turned in by the 16^th,” Brandon Kurtz (art teacher) said, “we send them to scholastic on the 18^th.”

Students can receive three different awards; Honorable Mention, Silver Key, or Gold Key. Kurtz, our own art teacher, received awards from his artwork.

“When I was in High School, I participated in Scholastic a lot, and received one gold key, which went to nationals, two silver, and three honorable mentions,” Kurtz said.

Though Scholastic is a wonderful opportunity for students, according to Bieber, it is also a time-consuming project for the teachers.

“Scholastic entries are due in January,” Bieber said, “and it’s difficult because I have many intro classes in January, and their pieces are not worthy of competition.”

Students can choose to turn in their artwork, though sometimes the teacher can recommend that they turn one in.

“The entire process is very competitive; many students won’t even get a mention,” Kurtz said.

Students can choose to turn in their artwork, though sometimes the teacher can recommend that they turn one in.

“Bieber has been telling the entire art staff that we need to be strict in which pictures we pick, because we cannot turn in art projects that are done by pictures on the intranet,” Kurtz said.

Even so, students can turn in their original artwork and receive awards.

“As long as the students show a good understanding and shows good skills [in computer graphics], then they’ll enter pieces and sometimes win,” Kevin Keltner (art teacher) said.

However, many pieces are entered into the contest, and thousands are on display for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

“Everyone, students, faculty, and parents should all go and look at the art that is put on display during Scholastic,” Bieber said.

Students can turn in projects from the year before, but it’s difficult to hold a piece that long without “forgetting, damaging, or losing the project” according to Bieber.

“It’s a good corporation because it allows everyone to be more aware of the beautiful art that is being made right in their very school.” Bieber said.

The art pieces will be returned to their creators within two weeks after they have turned them in.

“It’s a lot of work just to get everything together and turned in, but the overall results is amazing,” Bieber said.

Treasure hits the box office

inklefingle — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:07:19 +0000

Within three weeks of the long-awaited sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets. National Treasure was released on December 21^st, and by the end of two weeks, it topped the box office with 20.2 million, followed by Juno.

The sequel Book of Secrets had its own twist when it came to being exciting. Finding his way around the world, Ben Gates, played by Nicolas Cage, discovers a secret treasure map that is literally, around the world; in pieces. The main nemesis in this film is Mitch Wilkinson, played by Ed Harris, who is impolite and aggressive. This film brought piles of money to the Box Office, and smiles to the faces of people watching. It is a fantastic family movie, in which children can receive an adrenaline rush, but not enough to scare or bore them. Parents will enjoy it, for the storyline is based on past events and a history lesson will be taught.

On top of the aggressive nemesis, Ben Gates has an ongoing conflict between an old loves, and brings their controversy into the entire movie. Bringing a love story only intensifies the response to the many dangerous adventures that they all experience. Not only Ben Gate’s love story is brought into the movie, but also his parents, whose love broke for, what seems, a stupid reason.

Of course, the story line cannot be finished unless we have a conflict between oneself. Riley Poole, played by Justin Bartha, has an uneasy conflict with trying to receive woman’s attention and getting his own friends to pay attention to him. However, his optimistic attitude makes the viewers love him, and laugh at his sarcastic and edgy responses.

Overall, this movie was incredibly entertaining for the entire 124 minutes that it runs. From beginning to end, the movie captures the attention of every viewer, and creates a wonderful memory for families who are able to experience this movie. It was a fantastic sequel to National Treasure (2004).

Common cold mutating

inklefingle — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:56:09 +0000

In the past 18 months, 10 people have died from a new mutated version of the cold virus. Named “Adenovirus 14”, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this strain of the cold virus is very morbid and dangerous.
“I haven’t heard of it until now, though it seems like it would imitate the common cold until the victim would be hospitalized,” Paula Gerber (nurse) said.
Symptoms reported happening before the deaths are cough, fever, and shortness of breath. In later stages, it turns into pneumonia.
“They had an outbreak of the adenovirus in 1955, in a military unit,” Gerber said.
The deaths that have been caused because of this mutated virus were from New York, Texas, Oregon, and Washington. Most of the cases were in close-net groups.
“The cold virus is easily spread when a bunch of people get together and spend time together,” Gerber said, “it affects everyone, healthy or not.”
No reports, however, have been in Indiana.
“The symptoms of the cold around this time are filled with cough, stuffy nose, and vomiting,” Gerber said, “though usually I also see high fever, but I haven’t this year.”
According to CDC officials, this mutation should not be an alarm for most people, and they are not going to recommend any new precautions for the general public.
“The best that people can do to keep themselves happy is wash their hands, and not to share food or drinks,” Gerber said.
This virus, starting in 1955, has not been detected since.
“The dangerous part about viruses is that they sleep until they mutate and pop up again, and they could become extremely dangerous,” Gerber said.
The CDC does not recommend any new precautions, but students should wash their hands and not share their drinks, according to Gerber.

Homecoming Ballots

inklefingle — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:23:33 +0000

Jared Schooley and Kayla Evans place their ballots for Basketball Homecoming. Votes will not be calculated until after Winter Break. Basketball homecoming is the 23 of January. “Vote for us.” Schooley said.

Top 5

inklefingle — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:40:07 +0000

Top 5 reasons to donate to Salvation Army bell ringers

5) If you don’t, the picture of the bell ringers will eat at you when you see homeless on the street corner wanting food.

4) You will feel better about yourself and your sins; it is a cure for guilt.

3) They will have to stop ringing their annoying bells for at least three seconds to say “thank you.”

2) You can brag to your grandparents about giving to the ‘less fortunate’ and gain respect. Respect from grandparents = money.

1) Heck, it is for a good cause.

Top 5 reasons to be accepting towards people with disabilities

5) They can give you rides on the back of their wheelchairs. Thanks Danny Bock (class of 2006).

4) You never know if they’ll end up with super powers like Dare Devil.

3) They will teach you more lessons in life than your parents.

2) They can get you really good parking spots.

1) They can trip your opponents with their canes.