Paranormal Activity 3 to hit theaters this weekend

By Annie Wen Staff Writer In 2007, Paramount Pictures released the supernatural horror film Paranormal Activity. The movie received a positive reaction from both critics and people who watched the film. Following the success of the first film, Paramount released Paranormal Activity 2 in 2010, which received mostly mixed reviews. Paranormal Activity 3 will be released this Friday, October 21. The Paranormal Activity series is presented as “found footage”. The first movie follows a young couple, Katie and Micah, who are haunted by a supernatural demon in their house. Paranormal Activity 2 is a parallel prequel to the first movie, set two months before and following up with the events in depicted in the first…

Outsourcing; the future global model

By Mike Pankonien The pen I used to write down ideas for this article column was made in China. The laptop I am typing this on was made in Malaysia. The tech support I called when my laptop died suddenly is based in India. Welcome to the global economy of the world, folks: in this brave new world, trade that was once restricted to the local market has moved to the colossal market that is the world. Resources move across the planet, products are manufactured on one side of the of the world, so they can be sold to the other, and money changes hands between cultures and people who, a hundred years ago, were…

Academic Decathlon Recruiting

By: Chris Cummins Staff Writer Academic Decathlon holds an informational meeting Thursday at 4:00, in Mr. Dixon’s room in B211. The meeting is an informational one, giving prospective students the chance to learn about Academic Decathlon and hear about it from the students themselves, as well as Mr. Dixon. For those who don’t know, or who don’t care enough to find out, Academic Decathlon is comprised of seven subjective categories: math, super quiz, history, art, music, language and literature, and economics. There are two subjective portions as well: an essay and a speech. Each student who joins Academic Decathlon is put into one of three categories: A, B, or C. Each category is composed of…

Diggs to carry on highlights at Mizzou

For numerous high school seniors, the prospect of playing college athletics is daunting and highly unlikely. Only a handful of Coppell student athletes each year are lucky and privileged enough to play at one of the highest levels of organized sports in the nation.  Senior soccer captain Alyssa Diggs is one of the lucky few who have worked hard enough to earn a scholarship at the next level, which for her will be at the University of Missouri.  Diggs’ recruiting process started in high school around the beginning of her junior year.  Baylor and Texas were in the early running for Diggs, but she had other ideas about schools. “Initially I wanted to go to…