Editorial: Students urged to cast vote in upcoming election

The United States of America is in the midst of precarious times. Unemployment is rampant and the economy is little more than a shriveled remnant of what it once was. The wealthy are getting wealthier, and the poor are getting poorer. It is in tremulous times such as these that the nation is truly in need of a strong leader to take command, to assuage the uneasy populace. Without bold and decisive individuals fronting America’s government, the future of the nation is an uncertain one. America needs Presidents who are painstaking in representing the wishes of the majority. However, it is the responsibility of American voters to select such a worthy candidate, someone we can…

Editorial: World news hits home at CHS

Seniors stood on the senior bridge cheering, waving their flags and raising their voices; students throughout the school were buzzing with the “exciting news” of Osama bin Laden’s death. It was a rare occasion to see such an overwhelming response to an event in world news raging through the halls of Coppell High School. After the earthquake in Japan, nobody stood on the senior bridge waving the Japanese flag. Only a few students have ever even seen a third-world country in-person. We responded more enthusiastically to the Super Bowl canned food drive in the hopes of meeting Channing Tatum than we have any effort to raise money for poverty-stricken areas across the world. Let’s face…

Editorial: Journalism alive and well

 “Journalism is dead.” Ever since the conception of the Internet, the sentiment has been building upon itself: why have print newspapers when everything is on the Web? Why bother continuing with journalism if it is just going to die off within the next ten years?  Anyone claiming this is oh, so wrong. Journalism still is – and will continue to be – the massive, thriving beast of society, no matter what changes are hurled its way. Granted, it is true that print journalism will someday be non-existent. It is a simple fact of life that we all must face; papers viewed on a website or on a Kindle will someday outshine those made with trees…

Daphne’s Dilemma: Senioritis a new experience

By Daphne Chen Last semester, I noticed a trend about myself. Something alarming. Unprecedented. Unacceptable. And yet, I never cared. After all, what kind of senior cares if his or her grades take a downward slide? And keep sliding? And keep sliding? I realized that I had just failed two quizzes in AP Macroeconomics and didn’t care enough to ask if I could retake them. I realized that I didn’t care that I hadn’t checked Portal in two six weeks. I realized that I didn’t care where my grades fell at all for the semester – as long as they were above an 85. But these weren’t the most disturbing of my realizations as I…