What Really Grinds My Gears

Bathroom dryers not cutting it

Jarrod Crump

Assistant Editor-in-Chief

 

     You know what really grinds my gears; how there’s no paper towels in the bathrooms. All they offer you is a little dryer, and those things just don’t get your hands quite dry enough. I have to dry the majority of my hands off on my pants and than I have big wet spots on the bottom of my jeans.

     People may argue that we need to save the trees and not waste so many paper towels, but let me bring up this point, those trees are already dead. The paper towels have already been made; we may as well use them and not let them go to waste. Another problem that people bring up is that some kids like to use all the paper towels for evil. They clog the toilets with them and make the water overflow. This problem can simply be solved by only sticking paper towels in the Junior/Senior hall. We all know that the center of the problem would be in the bathroom by the freshman.

     Having paper towels could decrease tardiness, and increase cleanliness. If kids are going to be late they might not wash their hands, due to the hindrance of having to dry their hands with air. If we had paper towels, kids could wash their hands, wipe them really quickly and be off; everyone is happy. Having people who are skipping out on washing their hands is not good, especially with all of the MRSA scares that are going on. A vital way to prevent MRSA is to make sure you wash your hands every chance you get.

     Paper towels are a precious commodity that should be used in select halls of our school.    

Presenting and appreciating pop art

Anastasia Graham

Business Manager

 

     In the advanced art classroom, students appreciate more than painting and drawing, but technique and sculpture too. To start the year off with the first project, Mrs. Scozzoro presented to her students, pop art.

    Pop art is where students take an object that represents pop culture; like toys’, phones, or an iPod. To begin the process the students take the measure of the actual size of the physical object. In order to make the object bigger, “the students scale it up a lot because of the ridiculous scale size that was something pop artists did, only building size, gigantic,” Mrs. Scozzoro explained. The object is built from tag board, card board, or paper Mache. Finishing up the project takes some painting or lettering to make it look real.

    The pop art project took 12 weeks, which is more than half of a semester. This was Mrs. Scozzoro’s third time doing the project with her advanced art students, and is very complicated.

    “I think they did enjoy it. It was definitely challenging. We got to do two things, work really big and got to do sculpture,” said Mrs. Scozzoro.

    Another requirement the students had to turn in with their project was a written essay. The essay explained the symbolism. The object that the students picked, researched the pop arts symbolism.

    Mrs. Scozzoro was not able to pick just one outstanding pop art, but said that the projects had, “a lot of technology, really impressed on how much each object fit the person that did it.”

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