Keep Coppell landmarks from becoming history

By Elizabeth Sims Staff Writer Recently, I was driving down the streets of Coppell and looking around at all the half-empty strip malls, numerous fast food restaurants and sub-divisions. I became very troubled. I began to notice that familiar streets with older homes were now leveled by bulldozers and under construction to make more subdivisions. When the news that Old Town Coppell was under renovation came about, I started to question just how much of it was actually original to the city and had not been replaced or revamped at some point. Then the horrible realization hit me, we are losing our value of history. We travel to places like San Antonio or even overseas…

Coppell vs Southlake game dates back

By Chris Reagan Staff Writer Coppell High School is buzzing with talk about the always anticipated yearly football game against Southlake on Friday, but how many actually know the history between these two teams? Not many can tell you that this matchup actually goes back to  Coppell’s first year of football in 1963. Coppell won the their last game of the season against the Dragons 26-12. Despite the history this game has it wasn’t much of a rivalry until back in the late nineties when the Carroll coach called Coppell students white trash. Coppell students responded by coming to the game dressed exactly how the coach described them. While Carroll leads the series with a…

The next generation: the children who won’t remember 9/11

By Ben Cowlishaw Staff Writer The question “where were you when…” has become synonymous with September 11, 2001. However, the generation of children who will only learn about the events of 9/11 from TV specials, their parents and history textbooks is quickly growing. The senior class of 9/11, the graduating class of 2002, is now in their late 20’s, out of college and beginning their families. This year’s senior class witnessed the events through the eyes of a second grader, meaning the day was confusing and full of questions. Most significantly, this year’s freshmen, the class of 2015, were not actually in school that day. In the year before kindergarten, this group of mostly 4…

Black History Month

By: Chris Cummins Staff Writer While to most people February may be known as the month of love, it shares this title with something that’s just as important. February is Black History Month, and it offers some people who may not know about the vast contributions to American culture African-Americans have made a chance to remedy that. Founded in 1926 by Carter G Woodson, a black historian who was the second black man to earn a doctorate at Harvard, Woodson aimed to create an event that would help educate black people about their history and contributions to American history, while inspiring pride in their cultural contributions as well. While picking February to become Black History…

AP Euro and you

Mike Pankonien Staff Writer AP European History; sounds like a hard class right? Sounds like hours and hours of reading, memorizing and analyzing with a cranky old history professor right? You couldn’t be more wrong. Let’s get the basics out of the way: AP European History, an analysis on the European continent from 1000 A.D. to today, is taught in B205 by Michael Brock. The course only counts as an elective and the AP credit may or may not be so helpful to you down the road in college. So why should you take this class when you could potentially take a release period instead? Some students would tell you that the class is incredibly…

A small tribute to… gum

by Ashley Attanucci Staff Writer We all love gum. We love to have some, share some, ask everybody in our class for some. Some of us like to stick gum on other people’s things, or play with our a-b-c gum, and smack our gum; some chew gum for its unique texture, others for its flavor. Some even chew gum for energy (ever heard of caffeinated gum?) or whiter teeth (yeah, Orbit White)! And a few like to make art with their gum wrappers. So, I think it is safe to say, we all have to love gum, for one reason or another (and chew it at school whether we are allowed to or not). But…

What happened to April Fool’s Day

By Gaby Moran Staff Writer Back in the good old days of elementary school, every holiday, nation-wide or obscure, was celebrated. But now that those kids grew into teenagers, holidays, like April Fool’s Day, seem to be forgotten.  April Fool’s Day origins are not for certain, but many believe it can go back all the way to sixteenth-century in France. There, the New Year was celebrated on April 1 instead of January 1 until Pope Gregory introduced the new calendar. Some people did not hear about the change and when April 1 came around, they celebrated the New Year and became the fools for getting the date incorrect.  As of today, the holiday is more…

History vs. history: Difference more than just capitalization

Ellen Cameron Staff Writer I like history. I greatly dislike History. The difference in capitalization, then, represents the difference between what has happened in the past and man’s warped view of what has happened in the past. History, the kind studied in books and taught in school, is often little more than a National Enquirer’s look at the events. What goes into our text books is what people decided happened, not necessarily what really did. According to Napoleon, history is “the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon”. For example, Japan was in hot water after writing in their text books that during the Japanese invasion of China in World War…