Issue 9 - North Canton City Schools - sparcc

It’s mail
time!
Cartoon catastrophe
In the last issue of “The Viking Views,”
there was an editorial about the cartoon that
was printed in Denmark about the prophet
Mohammed. The editorial expressed that
the creator and the government showed
little responsibility. But just like the U.S.,
Denmark allows freedom of the press.
And that is exactly what the creator of the
cartoon did – freely expressed his opinion.
And if the government started to censor this
cartoon like the Middle Eastern countries
wanted it to be, then the government would
be taking away a right that Denmark, as
well as many other countries, use daily.
This does not show irresponsibility on
anyone’s part except for the countries in the
Middle Eastern where they do not have the
freedom of the press. This article showed
a disregard for the rights and freedoms of
the creator.
–Christopher Ray, 11
OGT: oh, good grief
In retrospect, I have to question the
wisdom of the OGT testing schedule.
Unless the objective was to create utter
inconvenience for three-fourths of Hoover
students not involved in testing, I’d hesitate
to call it efficient. I’m just having trouble
seeing the logic in shortening nearly every
viking virtue by Steffany Bagnolo
Letters to the editor
one of my classes, and in some cases,
lengthening to the point of obscenity so
that sophomores can take the apparently
sacred OGT. Why not move them to Hoover
Hall I know the three second bell might
be pretty distracting to those not in a two
hour math class, but I’m confident in their
coping ability. Not to mention the fact that
other schools in the area allow their students
late arrival for OGT week. But I guess I did
mention it….
–Matt Polen
Purse problems
Why are girls allowed to carry
ridiculously large purses while the student
body is not allowed to use backpacks
during classes I understand the need for
a small purse, but things have gotten out
of hand. The backpack ban was originally
put in place to help lower the risk of a
student bringing a weapon to school.
However, many of the purses carried by
female students are even larger than the
average backpack!
A growing number of girls use the
need for a purse as an excuse to carry
school supplies (making it a backpack
by definition) and absurd qualities of
unnecessary gear around school with
them. I ask the administration to please
deal with the purses or give us our
backpacks back.
–David Benedetto, 9
“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of
information can drive out knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin
Keyboards. Self-check-out stations.
Wireless Internet. Arthroscopic surgeries. It
seems that modern technology is constantly
changing, striving to make things faster
and easier.
As a result, our generation has become
constantly impatient. We are frustrated if
a webpage doesn’t load. We get annoyed
at waiting in a five-minute lunch line. We
tailgate the adult driver ahead of us because
(gasp) they’re driving one mph below
the speed limit! We’re impatient to get
everywhere and find out everything.
But through our constant quest for
information, we seem to have lost sight of
the more important concept – knowledge.
At Hoover, this concept becomes
especially apparent. I bet that each of us
can recall memorizing things for a class or
an exam. Comprehending the information
wasn’t important, just that you could hold
it in your brain long enough to spit it back
out to get a decent grade.
The danger in this is that retaining
information without knowledge makes us
identical to the computers we know and
love. So leave the information banking to the
inventions and instead pursue knowledge.
After all, no technology can outdo the human
mind – or at least we hope not.
student views
What is your
favorite tv show and why
LAURA DEERING, 10: “‘Will and Grace’
because the characters and comedy work well
together.”
MATT MERCER, 11:
“‘Family Guy,’ because it is
quite possibly the funniest
show in the world.”
Brittney Morgan, 11:
‘Smallville,’ because Tom
Welling is hot. I also like
the plots.”
MATTHEW UITTO, 9:
“‘One Piece,’ because the
characters are really fun and
have cool superpowers.”
KAREN WILSON, 9: “‘Gilmore Girls,’
because the characters are interesting with
their unique personalities and they make me
laugh.”
KARTINA MANN, 12:
“‘One Tree Hill.’ I like the
characters and their personalities.
They say a lot of
meaningful things.”
DAN HENDERSON, 12: “‘The OC’ on Fox,
because it has hot girls. Just kidding, I like the
storyline: a poor kid in a troubling situation,
moving in with the upper class and going to
school with the rich kids.”
MRS HOUSTON,
secretary: “‘Law and Order
SVU,’ because it’s exciting
and eye-opening. I enjoy
solving mysteries.”
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