Elizabeth Kilbride Opinions Editor Some of the the following items are going to be quite literal, and you can feel free to take it as
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Media hits the social bullseye with ancient weaponry
Audrey Piehl
Opinions Editor
Obama announces support of same-sex marriage
Kit Clemente
Opinions Editor
With many issues currently surrounding the political arena, and the intensifying effect the upcoming elections have on politics, one issue, gay marriage, has come to the forefront of many debates.
Please mind your manners and thank you for reading
Kelly Saiz
Editor-in-Chief
Maybe it’s my mother’s southern roots or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve lived in Ye Olde NC for the past eleven years, but I grew up with a plethora of books about manners, cotillion, and Walter Schalk’s Ballroom Dance Class (who didn’t love getting their feet stomped on or waltzing with their arch nemesis?). Chivalry might be dead, but I’m definitely not the only one in NCHS who thinks about manners.
One teen’s views on the injustice of another teen’s death
Charlie Dorf
Senior Editor
The shooting of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that Americans will not soon forget. The circumstances surrounding the incident have brought attention and examination to issues such as racial profiling and Stand Your Ground laws not just in Florida, but across the country.