By Diana
Hi all! Happy Earth Day!
I’m sure you’ve heard of at least a few ways to help save the planet – recycling, cleaning up the community, use florescent light bulbs, shorter showers, drive less, etc. – so I’m not going to go through all that. I’m kind of busy this weekend, so I’m putting off […]

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By Diana 
I’m not sure what else there is to say about the shooting at Virginia Tech. It was certainly shocking and sad.

AP photo

SWAT team members head to Norris Hall.

To be honest, school shootings, no matter how many are killed or injured, never quite wake most students because they seem so far away. I know the […]

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By Diana 
After a month long hiatus, much-needed break from McCaskey’s student newspaper, I’m back into the swing of things and hitting the ground running with a good story about a McCaskey East student awaiting a heart transplant. Whether or not I’ll need a translator is yet to be known because no hablo espanol y no […]

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By Diana
What do you think of when you hear (or read) “anti-tobacco video”?
Personally, I thought of those boring, repetitive videos shown in health classes. Every year, it’s the exact same thing: outdated and scripted videos featuring struggling actors, bad music, flashy colors and facts about tobacco flying across the TV screen. By the time kids reach […]

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