EDITORIAL: Travel: Put your money where your mouth is
As a staff, we believe global travel is something to which our school administration should dedicate more money and time. Here’s why.
Opinion
BREAKING: Student uses school skills in real life, feels ‘nerdy’
I did it. It was crazy. It was weird. But, standing in the middle of Market Street, I realized I had actually done it. I had used chemistry and math outside of class.
Let’s rewind back a decade or so to when I was in the third grade. This was the first time I wondered about the importance of school.
Pro sports lack past grit
It’s hard to make a definitive argument for any sport regarding who is the best when it comes to all-time greatness.
One thing that is clear is that professional sports today have a certain lack of toughness when comparing the greats of today with the legends of yesterday.
EDITORIAL: P.E. strikes out; students at disadvantage
The next group of Amarillo College freshmen will be at a slight disadvantage to those of us already here. Beginning this fall, students entering AC will follow a new core curriculum – one that doesn’t include any required physical activity or wellness education.
OPINION: ‘Help others to help yourself’
I have found that the most gratifying thing I can do in life is to be a benefit to others. Few of us are immune to the frustrations and challenges of daily life—family problems, conflicts at work, illness, stress over money. When we get depressed or anxious, experts may recommend medication and therapy. But a newly emerging school of thought suggests that a simple, age-old principle may be part of both the prevention and the cure: Help others to help yourself.
OPINION: Common courtesy applies to e-cigarettes
Electronic cigarettes are becoming quite popular lately, some use it as a gateway to quitting, others as a substitution for the harmful effects of real cigarettes. But where do you draw the line for appropriate use?
In the commercials on TV or online advertisements, you see videos and photos of people smoking them in restaurants and other public places where families and children are present.
OPINION: ‘We must rise from the ashes’
At some point in our lives, we all have felt insignificant. We all have failed or felt like a failure. We all have disappointed people as well as ourselves, and we all will do it again before our lives are over.
All of us have our faults; some of ours are just more obvious than others. 43.8 million, or 19 percent of all adults, in the United States smoke cigarettes according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
EDITORIAL: People are too personalized
It seems people have forgotten how to get along. Our sensitivity to being offended has gotten to point that we now expect the whole world to adapt to our own personal idea of what’s acceptable. We are so disconnected, and our technology allows everything about our lives to be so personalized, that we expect other human beings to be just as customizable.
OPINION: It’s time to hit the snooze button; packed schedules aren’t rewarding
I had been fed the dangerous truth that involvement is the key to success, yet I was not given a measuring cup to know what quantity was too much.
I should not have expected one to be handed to me in the first place; after all, I firmly believe that we must live with the consequences of our decisions.