Archive: May 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007
Cheerleaders Retain Title as City Champions
By Janayia James For the second year in a row our McKinley cheerleaders are the grand champions of the DCIAA Senior Championship. Many of McKinley students filed into the Coolidge Senior High School gym to cheer on McKinley's cheerleaders during the competition....
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 10:19 PM ET | Comments (0)
Robotics Team Makes Great Progress
By Amber A. Young If you are given six weeks to build and program a robot, do you think you could do it? McKinley's robotic team completed this task. For the first weeks of the second semester, the team met four times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday to...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 10:08 PM ET | Comments (0)
Addiction: When a Ritual Becomes Habitual
By Ashley McBride When does a habit become an addiction? Is it when you nearly kill yourself from consuming more alcohol than the law should allow? Or is it when you cannot concentrate in school because you are too concerned with your next high behind the school bleachers? Or maybe...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 9:43 PM ET | Comments (0)
Nibbling to the Nub
By Adrieanna Crocker Have you ever wondered why people bite their nails? Nail biting is a symptom of an emotional disorder. It is an oral fixation due to a person being nervous, stressed out, or bored. Some pathogens live inside of the nail and when you bite your nails, they...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 10:11 AM ET | Comments (0)
Do You Shop 'Til You Drop?
By Amber A. Young How often do you go shopping? When you are not shopping do you think about the next time you will get to go shopping? For many teenagers, shopping is a regular activity, especially in hot spots such as Georgetown....
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 9:46 AM ET | Comments (0)
Can't Stop Eating
By Joseph Durant It's a fact that people eat every day. Food is necessary for energy, nutrition, and maybe even as a recreational snack every now and then. But it is necessary for a person to know when enough is enough. At McKinley, a Wire survey revealed that 100% of...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 9:42 AM ET | Comments (0)
Myspace Obsession
By Ashley McBride When you think of a serious addiction, the chances are MySpace doesn't top your list. However, teenagers being addicting to MySpace isn't unheard of. Though this is unconfirmed, the site was originally used to send SPAM to profiles on Friendster. Since then, MySpace as turned into the...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 9:29 AM ET | Comments (0)
Beware of Tube Blues
By Janayia James Americans spend an average of up to four hours a day watching TV. Watching TV is one of our most popular past times. It seems as if we spend as much time talking about it as we do watching it. But we never mention how much time...
By Anna Kinsman | May 13, 2007; 10:03 PM ET | Comments (0)
Pot Will Take Hold of You
By Dominique Young-Smith Weed, chronic, pot, and Mary Jane are only some of 200 terms for the mind altering drug marijuana. Marijuana can become addictive. It is the most frequently used drug in America. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), 95 million Americans over the age of...
By Anna Kinsman | May 13, 2007; 10:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
Students Hooked on Gambling Rush
By Alton Lucas "Who got the dice?" "Play tunk for the ones!" "Shoot something!" "Bet a dub on the game!" These are common phrases throughout the McKinley hallways. Our school is full of students who love the rush of gambling. Although some students say it is not an addiction, there...
By Anna Kinsman | May 13, 2007; 9:48 PM ET | Comments (0)
