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The Abingtonian January 2013 Page 4 Papa Starker’s Favorite Carrot Cake Cupcakes By: Abbie Starker Ingredients: Cupcakes: In bowl #1: 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour, 1 ½ tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp nutmeg, 1 cup sugar In bowl #2: 3 eggs, 2/3 cup vegetable oil, 1 ½ cups shredded carrots (a food processor is helpful. If not, some stores sell pre-shredded carrots), ½ cup chopped walnuts (optional-- I prefer them without), ½ cup golden (or regular) raisins that have been soaked for 10 minutes in hot water Cream Cheese Filling: 4 oz. softened cream cheese, 1 egg yolk, ½ cup sugar, ½ tsp vanilla Directions: 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 2. Either line your cupcake tin with liners or grease them. 3. Once you have your dry ingredients combined in a medium sized bowl and your wet ingredients combined in a large bowl, fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients (egg/oil mixture). 4. Make the cream cheese filling in a separate bowl. It is much easier if you use an electric mixer for this. 5. Fill mini-cupcake cups about ¾ full. Put an overflowing teaspoon of cream cheese filling on top of the batter in each cupcake cup. 6. Bake for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean Note: My dad is a big guy and usually wants normal-sized cupcakes. Follow the same steps, filling each cupcake cup ¾ of the way, but add 1 to 1 ½ tablespoons of the cream cheese filling. They will need to bake a little longer so check with a toothpick every 5 minutes or so. Also, I usually double the recipe for the filling because my dad loves the stuff and adds some on to the top after they are baked. Keep the extra cream cheese filling in the refrigerator so it won’t spoil! Order in the Court! By: Erinmarie Byrnes FEATURES By: Halana Dash WORDLINK Hey word puzzle lovers! Frustrated with life? Well, sit back, relax, and fill out a wordlink. You play by creating a chain of compound words from the first word all the way to the last. The first and second word link to make a compound word, like in this example: Guitar and string connect to make guitar string, string links with band to make string band, and band and camp link to form band camp. Some of the words even have letters filled in to help you out! Think you solved the puzzle? Print your name at the bottom, cut out your completed wordlink, and drop it off at the Wordlink box sitting on the Abingtonian box in the library. YOU WILL BE ENTERED INTO A DRAWING TO WIN A PRIZE! Winners will be announced on the afternoon announcements! Best of luck! INCOME _ A _ _ E _ U _ _ _ _ _ R _ _ _ _ _ O _ _ _ _ R P _ _ C _ C _ _ _ _ N _ FAN NAME:____________________ Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after school, a small but tough crowd of people gather in Room 222C. The Abington Mock Trial Team has not been around long; it’s only been four years, but one would not know it by observing a meeting. Michael Fitzpatrick, a senior who serves as a prosecution lawyer for his second and final year on the team, makes an objection to a leading question. Senior Jimmy Kelly helps new-comer Yegene Hong with her cross examination questions after he perfects his closing remarks. Gudiance counselor Theresa Wallace, a lawyer herself, coaches the team of 14 members, who are currently gearing up for the PA Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division Statewide Mock Trial Competition, with the first round being sometime near the end of January to the beginning of February. One of the largest in the nation, this Mock Trial Competition gives over 290 high school student teams from across Pennsylvania the opportunity to act as lawyers and witnesses in simulated civil and criminal trials before actual judges and panels of juries. Each year, the winning team goes on to represent Pennsylvania in the national competition. Abington’s team, who hopes to advance to the next level, will head to the Montgomery County Court House in Norristown for the first round of competition. This year’s case is a criminal case with two charges of third degree murder. The team has been preparing questions, memorizing witness statements, and writing openings and closings for the past three months, with the goal of success in mind. They mastered the art of speaking eloquently and confidently, as well as having all the necessary parts of an argument to win the trial. I have been fortunate enough to be part of the Mock Trial Team for all my three years at the Senior High. My favorite moments have been nailing a rebuttal against an objection in the courtroom and receiving the best advocate award my junior year. Overall, the Abington Mock Trial Team is looking forward to another great year demanding some order in the court!
The Abingtonian January 2013 Page 5 By: Chris Smith EDITORIALS Presenting: Point/Counterpoint No Military Recruiting in Schools I’m going to start by writing that I am incredibly pro-military in almost all other arenas of controversy. I am pro-torture, and I do not mind military tribunals. However, using teenagers to bolster the ranks of an organization in which suicides are through-the-roof and the war is never-ending, is absurdly wrong, and so soldiers should not be recruiting in our cafeteria. One day, at lunch, I managed to snag one of the recruitment pamphlets used by the representatives in Caf A to enlist students, despite the soldier’s intimidating glare that followed me around like those creepy dolls great-aunts like to hoard. It sure was an appealing piece of paper, saying things like “honor” and “integrity” and had a bald eagle on the cover. So I wondered, upon reading this teeny appetizer to a military career, how much of this honor or integrity would I have after facing the line of duty? Probably not too much. More likely, those ideals of liberty and freedom would be replaced by PTSD and prostheses, which is strange, because nothing of that sort was depicted in the cheery recruitment pamphlet I got. Oddly, such horrifying, realistic details are kept from students as they wander through the cafeteria, and such propaganda has no place in Abington. I often hear fellow students argue that most kids recruited out of high school never see action, and thus enlistments are harmless. However, the 18-22 year old age group makes up 28% of soldiers in active duty, according to the Department of Defense. With this in mind, the idea of selling enlistment to students is doubly disgusting, especially since students are in no position to make such a decision. I have heard several times: “We’re 18 now, we can vote and drive, so we can defend America too!” which is probably the most ridiculous statement in the history of teenage shenanigans. You can not seriously say that the hooligans loitering in the T are intelligent enough to fire a gun, because they are not. In fact, I would not let half of the nit-wits frolicking around this place look at a firearm, yet alone use one. Just the other day, Kate Stock said 18 year olds “are still developing”, to which I fully agree. Therefore, giving them the option to join the Army is unfair. In light of these statistics, many enlistment advocates take the opposite approach: It does not matter if it is dangerous; kids registering should know what they are getting into. This, of course, is madness; the equivalent of saying that it is the child’s fault he was lured by candy, not the pedophile’s. Most of what the average American knows regarding war is from Call of Duty and the opening scene to Saving Private Ryan—neither of which depict war today. How then, can someone be expected to know what they are signing up for if such violence is fictionalized to the point of insensitivity? I do not know, but there were a lot of big words in that last sentence, so I am probably right. Despite all this, I am not asking that you spit in the eyes of the soldiers the next time they are here recruiting. They serve this country, and what they are doing is honorable. Only Good Can Come From Military Recruiters By: Kate Stock The military sends recruiters to high schools to give students information about careers in the military and how the military can help them reach their goals, and that is a good thing. Of course, military recruiters try to get students to join the military – that is their job, after all. But if you argue that students need to be “protected” from military recruiters by keeping them out of the schools, what you are really arguing is that students are too naïve to make their own decisions. Military recruiters provide useful information about the many career options in today’s services, from computer technicians to doctors. In fact, 91 percent of jobs in the military are not in the combat arms, and even though service members may be deployed in a hostile place like Iraq or Afghanistan, most of the troops there are on large bases that are safe. Military service can help open doors too – students can find a trade, or get help from the GI Bill to go to college while they are out. Students do not only have to go into the active military, either—they can join the Reserves or the National Guard during college like my brother did. He wants to be a police officer after graduating, so he is going to get trained as a medic by the military so he can pass his EMT exam. That is the sort of information students would miss out on if recruiters were not allowed in school. Another reason the military should be allowed in schools should be for high school students to someone who is actually serving. Less than two percent of Americans are currently in the military, so most students do not know or have never met a service member. Whether or not students are interested in a career in the military, by having recruiters in school, they have a chance to speak with someone who is currently serving and find about what it is like, so they appreciate the sacrifice they make to protect us. Finally, there is the law to consider. If schools allow any kind of employers, college advisors or coaches to recruit their students, they have to allow military recruiters an equal chance to as well. So the only way it is legal to keep military recruiters out is if the school kicks out all of the employers who are seeking out students too. This would not serve the students at all. The armed forces continue to need new members every year, even though we pulled out of Iraq and have fewer troops in Afghanistan. Service members of every branch are needed to do all kinds of jobs. It is imperative for students to be able to hear about the career options the military has to offer, so they can make their own choice about whether it is right for them. Source: http://siadapp.dmc.osd.mil/personnel/MILTARY/history/hst1209_DMDC.xlsx
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