Index
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Good News/ Bad News: The Falling Dollar
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Pippin: An Extraordinary Life The Problems of Violent Video Games
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Always Forever Now: The Clock of the Long Now
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Matt Shultze: New coach in town
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Ms. Booth Takes Control
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Monks of Peace vs. Junta of Violence
Dr. Caraway: Renaissance Man Artistic Piracy: Theft Downloaded Mr. Green on the Scene
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The 2008 Presidential Race: Democratic Contenders
Page 15 Mr. Bachman: Historians Story
FINANCE
Good News/Bad News. The falling dollar
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Cole Swartz
___________________ The falling U.S. dollar is going to affect the United States in good ways and in bad ways – either way you look at it. This change will be a good one for U.S. exports, but not so much for U.S. imports. First, one of the good ways it will affect the United States is our export rates are going up – and will continue to climb – because of the falling dollar. The reason for this is because a sudden boom in exports with a lower valued dollar means that things are cheaper to buy here in the U.S. for foreign investors and consumers. One would hope more
countries would start buying the same products here in the U.S. that are made in England, for example, because the product would be cheaper. So be nice to foreign tourists, or at least thankful they are emptying their wallets here. But then there are bad ways that the falling dollar will affect the United States. U.S. import prices will go up – and keep on rising – as long as the value of the dollar keeps decreasing. What this will do is make things quite a bit more expensive at stores here, since prices of foreign goods are higher. Our stores must maintain a profit margin, though, and the only way to do that will be to raise prices. Additionally, petroleum products which we consume in great amounts every day – gasoline, oil, and most plastics – will keep on going up in
price as the foreign export prices of petroleum become more expensive to us and the dollar loses value. As gas prices go up, the prices of goods and items delivered by trucks and planes will also have to go up. This might mean no more dollar meals at the fast-food chains, and frownyfaces at the big box retailer instead of smiley-faced price ads. Finally, it should be noted that the U.S. is a country that borrows a lot of money from other countries. If we start to slack off on in getting that money back to our loaners, then they will react as if we can’t be trusted, and they will increase interest rates on the loans we get from them. And this reaction will just get the United States into even more debt. What will the falling dollar do next? Will it stop? Or will it keep on falling and prices keep on rising? None of the experts are positively sure about when it will stop losing its value, but the dollar should return to its early 1990’s value. Back then, the Clinton administration purposely backed and encouraged a high dollar policy, which gave U.S. citizens a short-lived feeling of prosperity by making imports prices low and by keeping inflation low. This feeling of prosperity returning is the expected future course of the dollar, but nobody can be positive about where it is going. The falling United States dollar will continue to affect the economy of one of the most powerful nations in the world for quite a few more years. Who knows how soon – or if – the dollar will bounce back?
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THEATRE
Pippin
An extraordinary life BY GREGORY STEINHELPER
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lthough it sounds out of character, Pippin was extraordinary – at least at Keystone. From October 11th through the 13th, student thespians performed the musical production Pippin here to the delight of appreciative audiences. The play is about Pippin, a prince, who attempts with some difficulty to find an extraordinary thing he does well. Sasha Rohret played the character Leading Player, with Jean-Paul Tatum as Pippin, Andrew Koepp as King Charlemagne, and Daniel Quintero, the only middle school student in the cast, as Theo. Things started out with a troupe of players in medieval/jester-like clothing performing a musical number. One could tell that Sasha, having almost perfect pitch, was extraordinary! Pippin, the son of the King Charlemagne, thinks he is
destined for extraordinary things, and throughout the play Pippin tries to be extraordinary. He first attempts to become a scholar, then a soldier, and finally a King, but fails in all of them. It’s only after he fails that he has a normal life and becomes truly happy for the first time. The play was mesmerizing but a little confusing at first. Fortunately, after a while it started to sort itself out. The choreography was complicated, beautiful and synchronized. The background cast wore identical white gloves, which provided a visual similarity, defining a style for the set of the stage. There were many hand movements in the dancing, so it was creative genius to make everybody’s hands look identical. Most of the costumes were athletic attire with stockings, and the background actors had half of their faces painted. The end of the play might also
have confused many people, so to help explain it, I asked Mr. Ciaravino, our drama teacher, to clarify the climax and he explained it like this: the troupe of players tries to convince Pippin to sacrifice himself in a spectacular way on the stage. To this end, he should jump into the fire. However, Pippin doesn’t, and instead has an ordinary but joyful life. The point of the play is to explain to people that if you have an extraordinary life, it will go by faster, and an ordinary life can be filled with as much happiness as an extraordinary one. The actors really displayed their talent. Sasha Rohret (Leading Player) had good enunciation and her body language was well synchronized with her lines. Jean-Paul (Pippin) was a natural at acting as if he wasn’t that extraordinary, although his voice was extraordinarily good. Andrew Koepp was great at playing King Charlemagne. His voice was deep and commanding, and he seemed to really tower over everyone – just like a king! Daniel Quintero was good at playing Theo, a young boy. For a 6th grader, he was very good, remembering his lines and singing as though he was actually a young boy. The production of Pippin here at Keystone was no doubt lighter and funnier than when it was a longrunning Broadway musical from 1972 to 1977. Our Pippin had some humorous parts to it, and it told the story quite well. Overall, the actors, crewmembers, choreographers and director did their job with great aplomb.
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OPINION
The Problems of Violent Video Games Effects of Exposure to Realistic Simulated Violence by Joseph Vadakekalam
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re violent video games harmful? Advocates dismiss the idea claiming that they are entertaining, harmless fun while others, including myself, insist they are making people more aggressive – and more dangerous. There seems to be some proof that violent video games are harmful. Evidence from scientific studies indicates that the degree of and time exposed to violent video games increase real violence and stimulate more aggression. According to Dr. Brad Bushman of the University of Michigan, children tend to push, shout, and yell more often after play-
emotion, and much less activity in the area dealing with strategy and planning – which another brain scan of kids playing non-violent video games showed. And similar brain scan research at Michigan State University indicates that exposure to violent video games leads to more aggressive thoughts. Sometimes violent video games are used to actually facilitate violence. These games are employed as training tools by the U.S. Marine Corps to sharpen potentially life-saving skills needed in combat situations. Some engage in violent video games to get rid of stress, but it has been observed that repeated losses may cause such a degree Sometimes violent frustration in some people they video games are used of become enraged, blind with fury. to actually facilitate Simulated violence, frustration, and anger relate to aggression in violence. an alarming way. Shooting people again and again in a game until it ing violent video games. An Indiana seems a natural response no differUniversity study using brain scans ent than swinging at a good pitch shows that subjects playing violent might cause people to act as if their video games have more brain activ- life – or the lives of others – were ity in the area dealing with strong only a game.
There are cases of real violence sparked from fake violence. An example is the Virginia Tech shooting of April 16, 2007, which most of us remember. If the aggressor was influenced by the violent game Counter Strike, as some reports suggest, then how many other lesser incidents were fueled by violent video games? I agree that violent video games are bad; even though many people say they aren’t that bad, and some say that they are good. Violent video games are proven bad by scientific studies, and they reflect poorly in society in the way they are used, and in the events of human violence produced from fake violence.
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SCIENCE
Always Forever in the Long Now by Christopher Shearer
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he Clock of the Long Now is a clock that rings once every 10,000 years. The next time it will ring will be in the year 12,000. Although you and I may not be here for this next ring, the Clock itself is a story that should stick around for quite a while. The Clock is about six feet tall and about two feet wide. It will be designed to tick once a year, and have a century hand that moves once every hundred years. Every millennium, it will chime, like a cuckoo clock for the ages. The people that made the Clock did so because people tend to think too much in short-term time. With this project, people might think in longterm more often, and not just focus on what seems to matter in the here and now of current events and popularity contests. The Clock of the Long Now will eventually be located in a limestone cliff near Ely, Nevada. This site is chosen not only for it’s present day remoteness, but also for what one day may be part of a vast and singular city called America. The prototype for the Clock of Long Now is now on display in The Science Museum of London. This clock was finished in 1999 – just in time for it to ring seven years ago when our calendars turned to the year 2000. The Clock tells time with five digits instead of four. For example, it now reads 02007 instead of 2007. The clock measures time like this because if it measured time with only four digits, it would get messed up after the
year 9999! The Clock uses atomic energy and solar power systems. These systems are used because they are they best way to keep a clock working for the far long term. One worry about the Clock of the Long Now is the question of ultimate meaning. What if this clock won’t have any meaning in the next 10,000 years? That is, what if people won’t care? Part of the idea of the Clock is to be, like a museum, a repository of history – chronicling what has gone on in the last 10,000 years, and, looking forward, what sort of things humanity will need to know and do for surviving the next 10,000. There are many people who took part in the conception, designing, and building the Clock. Danny Hillis is the Long Now Foundation co-chairman of the board of directors. Previously, Hillis was Vice President of Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering. He developed new technologies and business strategies for Disney's theme parks, television, motion pictures, and consumer-products businesses. He also designed theme park rides, a full-sized walking robot dinosaur, and various micromechanical devices. With the Clock of the Long Now running, now, and forever, is a good time to start remembering the past and thinking about the future. And the next time someone asks you for the time and you don’t have a watch or clock on you, you can always remark, “It’s now – but, a really…long…now.”
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PHOTOS
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SPORTS
Matt Shultze – New Coach in Town
Matt Shultze is the new coach at Keystone school. He is a very cool guy, as you will see in this interview.
Interview by Matt Stahl
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: Do people tell you all the time that you look like Brett Favre (quarterback for the Green Bay Packers)? A: Yes, I hear that all the time. I’m a hardcore Packers fan.
Q: What were some of the qualities of Keystone that attracted you? A: The students. There are great students here, a great atmosphere, and a great faculty to work with.
word out on nutrition. I believe it really is important to eat your fruits and vegetables.
Q: Rumor has it that you have a new member of your family. Is it a Q: What are some of the games and boy or a girl? What is the name? Q: Where did you grow up? sports that we are going to play this A: She’s a girl and her name is A: Marion, Texas. Right outside year? Brandi Vaughn Shultze. San Antonio, on a farm. A: Capture-the-flag, ultimate Frisbee, soccer, basketball, football, Q: Mazal Tov – congratulations! Q: What college did you go to? and much, much more. A: Thank you. Did you play any sports there? A: I went to Texas A&M in Kings- Q: Do you have any plans for your- Q: If you were to be stranded on a ville, where I played football, and self when you are done being a deserted island and you could only I graduated at UTSA, right here in coach? bring three items – not people – San Antonio. A: Yes – retire and live on a lake, what would you hope to have? and fish, and play golf. A: A-ha! That’s tough. Let me Q: When did you decide to become think…. Sunscreen, matches, and a P.E. coach? Q: Golf on the lake? a cell phone – in case I wanted to A: Right after I got out of high A: No! leave. school. I knew I wanted to work with kids. Q: Do you believe nutrition is im- Let’s all hope Coach Shultze has portant? all he needs now for a prosperous Q: What is your favorite sport to A: Yes, very much so. Yes, be- future at Keystone! coach? cause San Antonio is one of the A: Hmm…. Soccer, I guess. fattest cities in the United States. School is the best place to get the
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INTERVIEW
Ms. Booth takes control by Tess Sailor-Tynes
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sat down with the new Lower school headmaster, Ms.Booth. I asked her a couple of questions about what her occupation was before she came to Keystone. She gave me some interesting answers to some of my questions. To find out more about her…read on!
think that will help. And the fact that I have experience will help me a lot!
Q: What did you want to be when you were little? A: I actually wanted to be an astroQ: Why were you interested in this naut. I wanted to be and I still want job? to be an astronaut. I get really bad A: Well, Keystone is an awesome motion sickness, though. I can’t place! It’s very unique! I was a lit- even handle elevators, people think tle hesitant when I got on the plane I’m trying to exercise by running Q: What was your favorite subject from Vermont to Texas, but when I up and down steps, but it’s because when you were in school? walked in the doors at Keystone, I I’ll get motion sickness. I wanted A: Oh! Well, science. But I have knew I was at home. I knew I was to be an astronaut so badly, that’s to tell you I regret not taking more in a special place. The people are all I wanted to do, because when I art classes, and I encourage you to all very unique, and I knew that I was really little, I thought it was the take more art courses. I took pho- wanted to work in this kind of en- coolest thing. I really wanted to do tography, which was great. I also vironment. that. But, after that, when I was in love physics. When you get out and college, I wanted to be a psycholostart working, you forget about all Q: What is your favorite hobby? gist, and that’s what I got my degree the fun things. Science and phys- A: Hmm (she says with laughter.) in. That’s what got me interested in ics though are my favorite classes. I love to read. Well, my family is school business. But I still regret not taking more art my favorite thing, then comes my classes. work. I love sports! Soccer, football, hockey, running, I’m a big Q: Tell me about your recent work. sports fan! Then I would say shopA: Well, before I came to Keystone, ping. I was assistant head of school at a school called Maple Street School, Q: Where did you which I’m what’s called a founding live before? educator, which means I started the A: I grew up in New school. So, the school wasn’t there York, in the city. I before I came. Myself along with used to play stickball three other teachers, two board in the street as a kid, members, and one administrator and then I moved to started the school. Southern Vermont. I was there for most Q: What strengths do you think you of my adult life. But can bring to Keystone? I would be traveling A: To Keystone? Well, first I’m a to Northern Vermont great person! I have strong leader- because I raced on a ship skills, and I’ve been working GS (Giant Slalom) at different schools for over twen- team. The gates were ty years, so I know how different harder. So mostly, schools work. I think I can help I was a Vermonter, Keystone move on to the future. I but I still have New also work well with people, and I Yorker in me. 8
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Monks of Peace vs. Junta of Violence by Mirsab Zar
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uddhist monks, joined by students and thousands of other protesters risked their lives to march in the streets of Burma on September 25th, 2007. They marched in protest of the brutal and corrupt military rule that slowly began to control the country since 1962. The military junta, which rules the country with an iron fist, seized control in 1989 and renamed the Southeast Asian Myanmar, a name which remains unrecognized by many entities including the United States. The monks were protesting the government’s doubling of fuel prices in August, a move that would cause incredible suffering for the poor in the impoverished nation.
It might be considered odd to doubtful the declared enemies of see monks protesting increased gas democracy and freedom can silence prices, but they are speaking for the monks. Will the monks be able to use Police forces of the their wisdom, morality and meditajunta have been using tion to cause a positive effect in the tear-gas and clubs to stability of their nation, or will the protests end in more death, misery, attack monks and suffering? many voiceless, powerless people. Recently, First Lady Laura Most people in Burma – some 89 Bush wrote an editorial for the percent - are Buddhist, and the Wall Street Journal, siding with monks are highly revered. They are the monks. She, like many others, also quite unpopular with the mili- believes the junta generals should tary regime because the monks are step down and allow democratic revocal, active opponents of the bru- forms in government. tal rulers who will go to any lengths Currently, our government is imto silence their opposition. posing sanctions against the junta This is a battle between two of leaders, including freezing the asBurma’s most powerful groups – the sets of fourteen junta leaders. This monks and the junta. Police forces is intended to have the chilling efof the junta have been using tear- fect of impoverishing the Burmese gas and clubs to attack monks. At government, and forcing them to least one monk has been killed, and reconsider their ability to exploit many more injured and arrested. their citizens. Will this be enough Because freedom of speech is de- to promote peace and freedom? nied and foreign journalists barred from entering Burma, the number of deaths remains unknown. It is estimated the number of dead or disappeared runs into the hundreds. The outcome is unknown, but it is 9
INTERVIEW
Dr. Caraway renaissance man
by Luke Weissler
my wife’s friend move. She was a student hear. Later after I had finished my Ph D and I was beginning to look for college jobs and Keystone needed someone to temporarily cover maternity leave. And that is how I started here. And after three years I am still hear. Q. What languages do you speak? A. English I hope, Dutch, Italian, French, and I get by in German.
Q. Where did you grow up?
years. An opera singer, a bar tender, a A. Just outside of Colorado Springs, translator, I wrote a beer column Colorado or a column about beer for a magazine, I’ve been a secretary, and I’ve Q. What do you like about teach- been a ranch hand. ing? Q. What was your favorite job? A. It’s always different. It’s an intellectual challenge. One year I might A. You mean not teaching. Digbe teaching English, the next year ging up dead people. I could not French, the next year history, the wait to go to work in the morning next year government. It’s always and I hated to leave. There is somedifferent. It keeps me sharp. thing interesting about digging up Q. What don’t you like about teach- dead people. Whenever I drive by ing? an old cemetery on the east coast of the United States, or in Europe, A. Getting up early in the morning, I practically drool. Last summer I Grading and Growling at people to was in New Finland I did a lot of be quiet. I call it the three Gs. drooling. My family kept having to say “Down David Down.” Q. What were your previous jobs? Q. How long have you been a A. I’ve worked a lot in restaurants, teacher? I’ve climbed poles for cable TV, I’ve been a cave exploration guide, A. 2 years, 11 months and 7 days. I’ve been a tourist guide, I’ve been As of October 5, 2007. an English tutor, I’ve driven a forklift truck, and I’ve collected trash, Q. Why did you choose to work for I’ve been a model for drawing Keystone? classes, I’ve been an assistant archeologist A. It was an accident. I learned I dug up dead people for about two about Keystone when I was helping
Q. What is your favorite place to be? A. In an archive conducting historical research. I love dusty old papers ,its like going through somebodies things when they aren’t there. Q. What is your favorite subject to teach? A. I’m a historian at heart. I probably like teaching history the best, but I am very much enjoying teaching French, and I like the government class. Maybe I like teaching best what I am teaching at that moment. Q. What is your favorite age group to teach? A. I’ve taught 11 through adult. And I’ve liked them all. So 11-99. Q. What was your dissertation? A. Well the title is Retreat from liberalism, Willem I, Freedom of the press, political asylum and the foreign relations of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands 1814-1818. 10
It’s hard to summarize as you might guess from the title. But it’s about freedom of the press and political asylum and international security. Particularly some French political refugees left France after the fall of Napoleon who took up in what are today Belgium. It caused an international crisis because a lot of European countries thought these refugees were dangerous. Q. What sports have you played? A. Baseball, football, basketball and swimming. Q. What positions did you play in these sports? A. In football I was feared and respected I was a kicker and sometimes I would play split end I was also a coach. In baseball I played second base and I dearly loved second base. In swimming back stroke and breath stroke. Q. During your childhood who made a big impression on your life? A. My father. Best man I ever knew. If I could be half as good as he was I would be happy. Q. If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only bring one book and one recorded piece of music what would they be? A. The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides and La bohème by Puccini it was my first love it stays my favorite
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OPINION
Artistic Theft Piracy: Downloaded
by Brittany Solar
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hen you buy a song for your MP3 or iPod, what do you do with it? Just listen to it yourself? Or make copies for your friends? Or maybe even post the music on the Internet? There are a wide variety of things you could do with your music that are illegal, so people need to know that it wrong to steal anything, and know why illegal downloads are a form of stealing. If you hand out a copied CD to all of your friends, it not only betrays the creators of the songs, but also thousands of other people who depend on the music industry – from the agents and helpers of the musicians and artists all the way to a teenager that works at a store that sells music. Also, think about the consequences people could face if everyone or even most people downloaded and shared music illegally. A lot of people could lose their jobs, new and up-and-coming artists and bands wouldn’t have a chance to make it big, and the music industry would slow down, which means less entertainment for us. The same thing goes for movies. Downloading a movie from an unauthorized place is illegal. If the website is legal to download from, or if you buy a movie in a store,
there is still opportunity to commit a crime. This could take the form of copying the movie and selling or distributing it to others. Many people don’t get their movies legally – they just download them from one of the many illegal websites. Does this sound familiar? Hopefully not. Stealing movies and music is no joke. The Recording Industry of America can sue an individual for as much as $150,000 per song that is downloaded illegally. As of March of 2004, two thousand people were sued because they downloaded music illegally. More than five hundred of these people had to pay bills averaging $3,000! And according to the Canadian national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, Canada’s government has recently made the penalties even harsher. Think about it. If you were at a museum and you stole a piece of artwork – everyone knows that this would be wrong. So why would you do it? Is your pleasure more important than the intention of the artist to share fairly, and the ability of the artist to prosper? The bottom line: it’s called stealing, and it’s illegal. So don’t do it, and avoid the costly penalties, and stay away from helping to seriously damage the movie and music indus-
try. We need to get rid of this problem, and anyone and everyone can
The Recording Industry of America can sue an individual for as much as $150,000 per song that is downloaded illegally. easily help by persuading friends not to do it, and by not doing it oneself. You wouldn’t even think of stealing clothes or another item from someone, so why would you steal music or a movie from artists whose job is to inspire us all?
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INTERVIEW
Mr. Green
on the scene by Mirsab Zar
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r. Green is the new photography and journalism teacher here at Keystone School. The reason he likes his job he says is because, “It allows me to do three things that I really like – that’s photography, helping students reach their potential, and designing publications.” He says that the skills of photography and design match the skills needed to work for a magazine. Mr. Green thinks that a person who has this job should “be able to work well with children, have good design ideas, and be very passionate about what they do.”
Mr. Green was born in San An- But as Mr. Green says, “The funny tonio and has spent most of his time thing is, I don’t know why.” here, but he has also lived in Washington, D.C. and traveled in Europe and Latin America. He has been interested in the field of visual arts for more than twenty years and remains very interested in changes brought about by increasingly sophisticated technology. He has studied fine art, graphic art, philosophy, linguistics, and photography. The reason he chose to become a part of our community? “I see Keystone as an opportunity to work with motivated students. It has a focused vision, and that’s important.” At various points in his life Mr. Green has played baseball, golf, tennis, and has been known to skateboard. His favorite photographer is Henri-Cartier Bresson because he likes the way Bresson captured the moment. His favorite book is The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. 13
POLITICS
The
2008
Presidential Race: Democratic Contenders by Tess Sailor-Tynes
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here is one thing in America we are all focusing on and that is the presidential race for 2008. This is one of the most exciting and interesting years of any presidential election. This is because never before has America had such a unique potential for a new president. For the first time in electoral politics, America has both a female candidate and an AfricanAmerican candidate who could become the leader of the free world. These two people are both running for president in the Democratic Party, and they are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Here is a primer on these two historical figures. Hillary Rodham was born sixty years ago, on October 26th, 1947. She attended Wellesley College and later met and married Bill Clinton. In 1978, President Jimmy
Carter appointed her to the Legal Services Council, and her husband was elected as the Governor of Arkansas. In 1980, she gave birth to their only daughter, Chelsea. Hillary served as Arkansas’ first lady for twelve years, and later as America’s first lady for eight years. When President Bill Clinton left the White House in 2000, she was elected as a senator representing New York. Hillary now lives with
Is America ready for a female President? Bill in New York, and is considered the first woman running for president of the United States who actually stands a good chance of doing so. Many questions about Hillary’s potential have been raised. Is a woman strong enough to hold the duties and responsibility of an American president? Is America ready for a female president? If Hillary becomes our president, would Bill be the First Gentleman of the United States? And would Bill be as important in his role, since he’s already been a president? Just how would his experiences help her in the future? Lots of questions are
being held in the house of politics, but we all will have to wait and see what happens. Barack Obama is another candidate we should all look at closely. Barack was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4th, 1961. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and his father moved back to Kenya, in Africa. When Barack was 21 years old, his father died in a car crash. His mother remarried, and later, she died of ovarian cancer. In 1996, Barack was elected as an Illinois state senator. In 2000, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. But then in 2004, Barack won the race for the U.S. senate, and is currently the only African-American senator. Many Americans are watching polls and surveys, wondering who will win the presidency in 2008. The next president will have some big responsibilities dealing with war, immigration, mortgage problems, education, and the environment, just to name a few. We all need to recognize that whomever we elect as president, he or she will need to be responsible for finding ways to solve these problems, and so it is up to an informed citizenry to make a responsible decision.
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INTERVIEW
Mr. Bachman: Historian’s Story Interview by Gregory Steinhelper
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r. Bachman is the new 5th and 6th grade History teacher, and there are some unusual factors about him. After only a few weeks of school, many people thought he was quite cool, doing such activities as skateboarding to school. Here he will answer some questions that should help us learn more about him.
Q: What do you like most about Q: How is life different here than
teaching history? A: Challenging students to question accepted versions of history. Q: What do you dislike most about teaching history? A: Nothing. Q: Have you ever taught a different subject? Did you like teaching it more or less than history? Q: What do you like most about A: I’ve taught Global Politics, and I’ve taught Ethics. One thing that teaching at Keystone? A: Being part of the Keystone I like better (about history) is that my strength is in more modern hisCommunity. tory, and I’m a political junkie. Q: Why do you like to skateboard to and from school? Q: What college did you go to? A: One, I surf, so it is my chance A: I went to Widener, Rowan, and to surf away from the beach. Two, Northeastern. it saves fuel, and the environment. Q: Where did you grow up? And three, because it’s fun. Q: What is your favorite type of A: Southern New Jersey. Q: What are your hobbies? music? A: I listen to many types, but Hip- A: Surfing, biking, skateboarding, weight training, and reading. Hop and Jazz are my favorites. Q: What are your favorite foods? Q: Where did you live before you A: Pizza, sushi, cookies, and ice came to San Antonio? Or have you always lived here? cream. A: I’ve lived in Philadelphia, BosQ: All at once? ton, and Washington, D.C. A: No!
it is there? A: The climate is different, and the pace of life is slower here. Q: What comes easiest to you as a teacher? A: Interacting with the students. Q: Did you have any siblings when you were a child? A: Yes, two sisters. Q: Were you the oldest, youngest, or in between? A: Middle. Q: If you were going on a long trip, what three books would you take? A: Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country, and Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael. Q: Do you play any sports? If so, what sports are they? A: I was a swimmer. And I played soccer. Sometimes I play a round of golf, and I play racquetball. As you can see, Mr. Bachman is a cool guy and will be a good history teacher for the 5th & 6th graders. 15