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Jan.26, 2009: Front Page
Aknowledging the Haiti crisis was a good thing we did in our Jan. issue, but its weird that we have no story to go along with the picture. The picture is interesting, but i think we should have captured a more power/intense moment of the after effects of haiti… maybe of kids crying, bleeding people, or broken homes.. not that im trying to be morbid or anything. I just think that a more intense picture would have impacted the students more. or at least more than the helicopter.
The front page is suppose to be the page with the most important news, yet we have an article about juice carton wallets and the house burning of a husky alumn whom more than 1/2 the school doesn’t know of. well, i guess its still a worthy story to be put on the front page, because they did lose everything in there house. but common’ juice cartons?!
Jan. 26, 2009: Features
The features section did a spread on ASB and what they really do in and for our school. yet after reading through it all, i dont feel like i actually know what they do. Well, since im in ASB, my opinion may be somewhat bais, because i know first hand about all the non-sense exploited student labor we go through for the sake of our school. For example, though our officers run various events during the school year, such as spirit week, dances, fundraisers, etc. they are part of our leadership class, and the class as a whole is what really impacts washington. Leadership WEEDS like no other, and is the key force behind the motivation and spirit of the school.
This week is multi-cultural week and in order to embrace the diversity of the school, leadership has organized unique days such as “Dress in your ethnic apparel” day (awarding students who dressed with free tickets to the international kitchen on friday), the multi-cultural assembly thursday, and international kitchen friday. Without little events like these, no matter how stupid some may seem, our school would be boring, and just like every other school in fremont.
Also, ASB keeps a record of the number of ASB cards sold, so we wouldn’t need to survey a group of people to find out. Even then, IDK shouldn’t have been an option.
Labeling a section of the check graph as OFFICERS seems misleading. The money looks like its being spent ON the officers FOR the officers, when in reality its being spent BY the officers FOR their class.
