The New GTA
Hope and change for the techie in all of us
By Amanda Baker
Last year, Garfield’s Global Technology Academy (GTA) was shut down, ending the long-standing tradition of GTA trips to foreign countries. Students in the program had learned about, collected, and refurbished computers in their Tech class and then brought them to villages in countries around the world.
Published December 5, 2008 - News
Jonesin’ for a Change
Environmental speaker Van Jones captivates his audience
By Tory Sheffield
Unbeknownst to most Garfield students, a fair share of celebrities have visited our school. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke here. In 2004, Barack Obama came to the Garfield Community Center, where Governor Gregoire spoke in October. And on November 13, our school hosted its most recent celebrity: Van Jones.
Published December 5, 2008 - News
Wimpy and Her Son, Wimpy
The true purpose of Disney movies revealed
By Celia Gurney
This summer I spent some time talking to the mother of Joey*, a boy I occasionally babysit. We were discussing Joey’s love of computer-animated dinosaur movies when I decided to casuallyshift the conversation to Marine Science, as most self-respecting former sophomores would do.
Published December 5, 2008 - Opinion
OMFG!
Gossip Girl will not get you pregnant
By Hannah Rusk
I have nothing against current events, but it seems like every week, no matter how hard I try to hide them, some publications prints an article that whips my mother and father into a disapproving parental frenzy, and I have to shield myself from the fallout.
Published December 5, 2008 - Opinion
Garfield Traumarama
Not for the faint at heart
By Tory Sheffield & Hannah Zieve
We all have our “whoopsie!” moments. To reassure you that such moments happen to all, we compiled a group of embarrassing stories from your fellow classmates. Prepare to squeal with horror, cringe with empathy and cry with joy. And please, they’ve already suffered enough. No teasing.
Published December 5, 2008 - Features
A Trip to the Zoo
See the animals, feel the madness
By Ian Sanquist
It’s not that most people I know would rather go to sixth period than to the zoo with me. It’s just that they have no choice. There’s work to do, tests to make up, colleges to be accepted by. Most everyone I asked rejected enticing offer of a free trip to the zoo.
Published December 5, 2008 - Features
Orals and Morals
Student sex article provokes lawsuit
By Zach Wener-Fligner
When readers of the Puyallup Emerald Ridge High School student newspaper saw a story on oral sex plastered across a four-page spread last February, many viewed the story as a mature slant on a difficult and often taboo subject. Others saw it as literary pornography, shameless finger pointing purely for shock value.
Published December 5, 2008 - News
White River, White Power
A political prank hits close to home
By Anna Miller
On election night in Washington State, most people were either celebrating wildly or mildly sulking, only to move on by the next day. A few kids in Buckley, a town near Tacoma, planned something more disturbing.
Published December 5, 2008 - News
Link Me Up
This art program is hooking kids up with their futures
By Kate Guenther
The sunny room on the sixth floor of Cornish College smelled like paint. The crisp November air seeped in to the room, packed with high school students, painting shoulder to shoulder, their brows furrowed, as their arms whipped and darted, working paint into canvas.
Published December 5, 2008 - News
In Memoriam: Quincy Shea Coleman
By Marie Dohrs
I gave Skylar, Quincy, and Alex a ride to school every single morning last year. And every morning, the second I walked out of my door, I’d call Quincy; I’d be like, “Quincy, we’re outside your house. Come out now.” Because I’d have to wait there; literally, some days it would be twenty minutes until he’d come outside. One time, he came out, and I was like, “Oh! Finally, he came out hella fast!”