New online gaming addiction
February 24, 2010
Filed under Features
Live in your world, play in ours. This video gaming system slogan represents a whole new generation of video gamers who find addiction all too familiar. The rise in technology and communication has sparked a new and improved video game experience. This phenomenon is better known as online gaming. Online... Read more »
OK Go
February 24, 2010
Filed under Uncategorized
Released January 12, 2010 OK Go’s new album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky has received mixed reviews and feelings. The four-man band essentially made a dance album. They are no strangers to dancing if you remember the 2005 clips “A Million Ways” and “Here It Goes Again.” Five years later... Read more »
Oscar Battles
February 24, 2010
Filed under Entertainment, Features
ALLY: BEST FILM: AVATAR Best movie of the year. I believe it is the best movie of the year because of the cinematography, dialogue, and the theme. It is a truly revolutionary movie, and way ahead of its time. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of “Titanic,” took four years to make... Read more »
Toughest Job Yet
February 24, 2010 • FALICYA CRACE
Filed under Features
When students drive off from school they are glad to be away from their parents for a few hours. Students dread leaving school as they think about the homework that was just assigned, the two hour basketball practice that starts at six and the essay due the next day. Wonder if you had all that to do... Read more »
Chapin Soccer
February 24, 2010 • BY AVERY DARNELL
Filed under Sports
Chapin Soccer has a legacy of success at Chapin, and they hope to continue the tradition this season. In the pre-season polls both the boys and girls teams were in the top ten. The boys are ranked third and the girls are ranked eight. Both teams know what the year has in store and are willing to do whatever... Read more »
Teacher cadet’s experiences
February 24, 2010
Filed under Features
Walking into the Mrs. Brinkley’s room, anyone would guess it’s probably just another typing or business class Chapin offers. However 1A offers a different group to her room; a room full of young high school future teachers. She only has one class for teacher cadets on one day, but on that day cadets... Read more »
Dear John
February 24, 2010 • Olivia Como
Filed under Entertainment
Nicholas Sparks has done it again with his New York Times bestselling novel, Dear John. This novel encompasses an abundance of emotions. Good Housekeeping says, “Bittersweet…a testimony to love.” This novel is a perfect example of love at first sight. It reveals the true meaning of unconditional... Read more »
CLUB NEWS
February 22, 2010
Filed under News
Student Government had Golden Eagle Evening on Feb. 20th, and was very successful. Golden Eagle Evening is a night when senior citizens come together and are treated to a dinner and a night dancing. Golden Eagle Evening is funded by the Coming Home fundraiser. Love Green and Junior Civitans did Adopt-A-Highway... Read more »
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal long overdue
February 22, 2010 • CHAPIN CLAW STAFF
Filed under An Eagle's View
The shameful “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that has been in place in the military since the Clinton administration is finally on the way out. In the State of the Union address, President Obama addressed the policy saying he will “finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to... Read more »
Don’t ask it to leave, tell it to come back
February 22, 2010
Filed under An Eagle's View
The year was 1993. Democratic President Bill Clinton had campaigned for persons of all sexual orientation to serve in the armed forces in his bid for the presidency in the previous year. This dream was in part solved through the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which instructed the US military... Read more »
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