Learning the real story of Occupy
January 18, 2012 • Lucy Phipps-Kaye, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Opinions, Top Stories
A man with a kitten. A free box of ice cream. An elderly woman with no place to sit. This is not what I expected. A few weeks ago, I traveled to New York City and visited Zucotti Park, home of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The movement is a continuous effort of demonstrations nationwide regarding... Read more »
Our voice: Pay some respect
December 19, 2011 • Colleen Suratt, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Opinions
Hollywood tends to hyperbolize reality. No one becomes engaged after four dates, nor would anyone dare drive in the opposite direction on the highway. Paramount Pictures’ 2007 film “Freedom Writers,” however, was nearly spot on. It displayed the reality of some of our nation’s high schools –... Read more »
Face off: How should the college football postseason change?
December 19, 2011 • Sam Levy and Jake Rodgers, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Opinions, Sports
Its bowling season, not literal bowling, but the College Football Bowl season has begun. The biggest issue with the current system is how the national championship game is decided. How do schools who don’t play in the major conferences get a shot at the bigger bowl games? Around the nation, people... Read more »
Students have the power to end this
December 19, 2011 • Leela Goshorn, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Opinions
There’s this girl. She’s been flirting with you for weeks. She keeps doing all these things that you know are directed at you. And all of the low cut shirts, tutoring sessions and not-so-accidental brush-up-against-yous are not helping. So now you’re at a party, and she’s had a bit to drink,... Read more »
Get back to classy
December 19, 2011 • Lucy Phipps-Kaye, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Opinions, Top Stories
Tangled hair, sweaty foreheads and bare skin. Tight black dresses and legs bouncing together to form a huge mass of thumping feet and swerving bodies in the middle of the dance floor. Girls squished against a guy’s front, dancing in a snake-like motion to loud, “expressive” music. Known as “grinding”... Read more »
Ripping open region alignments
October 26, 2011 • Sam Levy and Jake Rogers, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Opinions, Sports
The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) created a proposal that adds a sixth classification to high school sports.This proposal means the smallest classification is single A and the largest is AAAAAA – GHSA denotes classifications by using the letter “A”, meaning 2A equals AA, when spoken... Read more »
For the sake of the game: administrators restrict students’ freedoms
October 26, 2011 • Sam Levy, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Opinions, Top Stories
Why did Decatur build a gleaming, new football stadium? I came up with three reasons. First, our old stadium was crumbling and we needed a new one. Second, the town wanted to replace the old eyesore of a stadium. Finally, the students needed a new stadium; the old one didn’t have a proper student cheering... Read more »
Speech really matters, you know?
August 23, 2011 • Leela Goshorn, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Opinions
I sound dumb. It wasn’t something I was aware of. When I had a conversation with someone, I was only listening to what they were saying, not my own voice. But once I joined Scribbler, started conducting interviews and had to listen to myself talk on recordings, I noticed. I talk slowly. I say “like”... Read more »
Get moving
March 14, 2011 • Colleen Suratt, Scribbler staff
Filed under Opinions
Glimpsing at my cluttered planner puts a crippling feeling throughout my entire body. The pages are filled with notes of all the things I have to do tonight for homework. That doesn’t include working til six or getting to bed at a decent time in order to go to the YMCA before school in the morning.... Read more »
MAP testing wastes time
March 14, 2011 • Ellen Hughes, Scribbler staff
Filed under Opinions
In theory, MAP testing sounds great. The test is more conclusive than other fixed grade-level tests. Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) scores give teachers an accurate understanding of how much their students have progressed academically, whereas the Georgia High School Graduation Test just tells teachers... Read more »