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Talking Shop: WJ Students Shoplifting Remains a Problem for Giant
November 21, 2011 • Julia Cinquegrani, Print News Editor
Tom Murphy, a father of two WJ graduates and former PTSA president, was shopping for groceries at Giant one day a few years ago during WJ’s lunch period when he saw several WJ students conceal products in their belongings and their clothing and leave the store without paying. “It reminded me...
SGA Reflects on Year Thus Far
November 21, 2011 • Claudia Nguyen, Print Assistant News Editor
Before becoming this year’s student government association, President Jake Karlin, Vice President Josh Brenits, Secretary Takunda Ndoro and Treasurer Santi De Paco, each had to run in the SGA elections held last year. They recalled how they felt during the month prior to the election. ...
Funding for School Resource Officers May be Lost Due to Budget Cuts
June 6, 2011 • Julia Cinquegrani, Print Assistant News Editor
A recent proposal to cut the School Resources Officer (SRO) program, prompted by budget deficits, caused the Montgomery County Council to consider the necessity of having Montgomery County police officers working at middle and high schools. The County Council voted on Dec. 14 to continue funding the...
Pills for Thrills: Drug Use Gets Higher and Trips Up WJ Students in the Rave Scene
June 3, 2011 • Julia Cinquegrani, Print Assistant News Editor
The increasing use of illegal club drugs, which is frequently associated with the growing popularity of house music, techno music and dubstep, is causing mounting public concern. For many who frequent the venues where these types of music are played, the full rave experience can include the use of club...
NCLB: How Does WJ Stack Up? Obama to revise No Child Left Behind, giving schools more lee-way
June 3, 2011 • Julia Cinquegrani, Print Asistant News Editor
President Barack Obama hopes to make extensive revisions to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB). Among his goals are to change the way that school performance is gauged by using broader measurements than students’ test scores to track student growth, giving schools more flexibility to meet...
SGA: Reflection
May 27, 2011 • Jemile Safaraliyeva and Julia Cinquegrani, Print Assistant News Editors
PRESIDENT Michael New What do you consider to be your biggest accomplishment this year? Raising $38,780.30 What is your favorite memory from being in the SGA? The day that we all got elected and we met in Mr. Atencio’s room and we all looked at each other and we decided that we were going...
Graduation Speaker: Jody Olsen
May 27, 2011 • Jemile Safaraliyeva, Print Assistant News Editor
Chosen as this year’s commencement speaker, Dr. Jody Olsen was part of the first class to graduate from WJ and will be making an appearance on May 31 to speak at this year’s graduation to the Class of 2011. “It was the third year WJ was open, I was part of the first class to go out and graduate,”...
Sex and the Suburbs
November 11, 2010 • Devon Murtha, Print News Editor
According to The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit organization for the advancement of sexual health, nearly half (46 percent) of American teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 have had sex at least once. At WJ, a recent survey concluded that 20 percent of ninth through twelfth graders have had...
The Advertising Effect: Selling to Schools
November 10, 2010 • Jemile Safaraliyeva, Staff Writer
A research study conducted at the Arizona State University under the Commercialism in Education Unit deduced that there been a 473% increase in commercial activity within schools since from 1990 o 2001. Almost a decade after the fall of the economy, schools today find it hard to resist the offers by...
WJ Student Pushed to Take APs
November 10, 2010 • Julia Cinquegrani, Print Assistant News Editor
WJ’s push to increase student enrollment in Advanced Placement courses has become more noticeable this year, as WJ opened enrollment in AP United States Government and Politics (AP NSL) classes to non-APEX freshmen for the first time and eliminated all on-level English classes for twelfth grade students. Dennis...
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