Archive for September, 2008

  • Volleyball

    Volleyball

    Terrace volleyball is sitting pretty as they gaze into the outlook of the 2008 season. Banking on the fact that they are only losing three seniors and the top teams in WesCo South are graduating several seniors, the prospect of having a great season seems very high. Even with this though, consistency is going to [...]

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  • Cross Country

    Cross Country

    As is tradition for the Hawks Cross Country team, the team is gearing up for another successful season where expectations are high and goals even higher. Last year’s season ended in heartbreak when they took fifth place at the Northwest District, which ousted their state chances by a single placing. This year though, the team [...]

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  • Men’s Tennis

    Men’s Tennis

    The men’s tennis team is recovering from the loss of their long time coach Gigi Johnson. New coach Alberto Ramirez hopes “to have a successful season.” Ramirez was formerly the JV team’s coach, and the team members support his new position. “He’s a really good guy who knows the game well. He will help you [...]

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  • Women’s Soccer

    Women’s Soccer

    After a surprisingly disappointing 5-10-1 season last year, the women’s soccer team will be in rebuild mode. With 10 seniors leaving it will be up to the young guns to fill the shoes left by the graduated seniors. Seniors Amanda Berry, Becky Bradlee, Titi Chikoore and Kylie Hollenbeck will be the only seniors from last [...]

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  • Football

    Football

    Last year the Hawks ended their football season with an unfortunate 1-9 record. But this year, they have different plans. “Everybody wants to win. But you have to do a lot of hard work in order to win, and this year we have a team that is willing to put in that work and win [...]

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  • Women’s Swimming

    Women’s Swimming

    While many of the rest of us were sitting in the last days of summer’s sun, the women’s swim team had already begun preparing for their season. “Practices have just started and it has started off great,” Co-Captain Michelle Liu said. The team began practice on Monday, August 25. The girls swim team is focused [...]

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  • The ramifications of corporal punishment in schools

    The ramifications of corporal punishment in schools

    A recent report put out by Human Rights Watch revealed that over 220,000 public school students in the United States received corporal punishment during the 2006-2007 school year. Corporal punishment, the act of being physically harmed, is still legal in 21 states. The fact that this is still allowed in the United States’ public schools [...]

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  • Lasers diverting missiles on commercial planes

    Lasers diverting missiles on commercial planes

    On July 11, a commercial American Airlines plane successfully completed its flight from New York to California, equipped with a missile-repelling system. The JetEye system, developed by the United Kingdom-based BAE Systems, is an infrared missile defense system that diverts shoulder-fired missiles. It works by firing a laser once it detects heat-seeking missiles in order [...]

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  • War of the game consoles

    War of the game consoles

    If you’re talking about video games, the conversation inevitably revolves around at least one of the major gaming console producers in the world today; Microsoft of the United States, or Sony and Nintendo of Japan. Subjects of the video game industry love to claim their favorite system as dominant, be it Microsoft’s Xbox 360 with [...]

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  • Salmonella and Coli Scare

    Salmonella and Coli Scare

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 76 million cases of food poisoning occur annually in United States. Of those, approximately 300,000 result in hospitalizations, and 5,000 in death. The term “food poisoning” describes illnesses caused by eating unsanitary food or drinking water that is contaminated. Some of these food are raw meat, [...]

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