November 2, 2007 -Vol. 36 Issue 4

Editorial: Role models prove to be great
influence to young people
By Michelle Sollars, sr.
For the Editorial Board

A world filled with miniature Britneys, Paris Hiltons, K-feds, and T.I.s. Little boys dressed like gangsters with grilz and huge bling-bling chains. Little girls, skinny as a pole, carrying tiny dogs or exotic animals draped over their shoulder, wearing sunglasses the size of their faces and drinking a mocha-chino. Young children acting twice their age. This is the way we see the world being in the future with the role models stated above.

Now picture this, children acting like children, playing on the jungle gym, wearing average clothing, and eating candy, happy to be themselves, in love with Dora, Pablo, and Bob the Builder, playing tag and hide-n-seek. This is the way today’s society should be.

Children and teenagers need proper role models to function properly or they might end up acting like the celebrities mentioned earlier.

Role models should be chosen on accomplishments and what they do for the community or how they influence it, not by how much money they have, how many diamonds they can wear at once, or by how many curse words they can say in one sentence.

Cartoon by Bethany Wolverton

How a child develops is a very important factor in how they will end up in the future and should not be taken lightly.

Children should not be exposed to such rappers as 50 cent, Eminem, and Loyd Banks. They should be listening to cds with the ABC song and the wheels on the bus song on them.

If parents allow their children to idolize the inappropriate characters on television today, the world could be headed for doom.

The children today are tomorrow’s leaders. We do not want our future leaders using catch phrases like “that’s hot” or “omg.” Young people need to choose the right role models to mold themselves for their futures.

Celebrities are great idols under right circumstances (Pro)
By Randi Barnett, jr.
Sports Editor

Everyone has someone who they look up to. For some people, it is a famous athlete, a parent, grandparent, or maybe a big brother or sister.

Teenagers can look up to celebrities because they are well known and do great things like charity work and give donations to help people in need. Plus, they have really cool jobs.

Two celebrities who would be great to look up to are Dr. Phillip McGraw and his wife Robin. Dr. Phil is a well-know psychologist with his own talk show that is on every day at 3:00 p.m. Some days Dr. Phil asks for Robin’s opinion if he is not quite sure how to answer a question. This shows that Dr. Phil respects his wife’s opinion and wants to give his viewers the best advice he possibly can. Dr. Phil helps people every day, and he has been for more than 30 years.

As for looking up to people such as friends or relatives, this is great, but sometimes teens want to excel in a certain career later in life, such as psychology, but the teens do not know any psychologists who they can look up to because they may live in a small town.

This is a great reason to find a celebrity who is in the same field as the teen aspires to be in that is not in all the tabloids for bad things such as drinking, drugs, or partying all the time. There is nothing wrong with looking up to friends, relatives, or mentors, but teens cannot always do that because they may not be the person the teen wants to be like when they get older.

Therefore, teens can look up to celebrities with clean records.

If anyone has seen the first three “Saw” movies, then they may as well go see Saw IV. This movie follows the series tradition of picking up where the others left off.

John Kramer (Jigsaw) is dead. The scenes open up with the autopsy of his body which is even more gruesome than the brain surgery in Saw III. It is the end and the beginning of Jigsaw.

The story focuses also on Officer Riggs. He must play though his game in 90 minutes because of his problem with trying to help people “too much”.

With Jigsaw gone, it is obvious that he has a new helper. Most of the traps do not follow the usual schemes. Some are made to destroy, leaving the victims no way to escape.

However, the traps in the new movie are more mental. They have to deal with what the victims did to deserve their “game”.

The movie brought John’s past to the surface more prevalently in this new thriller. It relates back to his past, brings in his ex wife, and shows viewers an insight into the hardships that made him into “Jigsaw”, which makes his motives a lot clearer but at the same time raises new questions.

The main weakness of this movie is the ending. It was smart and clever, however, it is sort of demeaning and disappointing morally.

At the movies

Showtimes
for Nov. 2
Information compiled by
Michelle Sollars, sr.
From www.bbtheatres.com

Cub Voices
Who do you admire? Why?

Christa Phillips, sr.,“I admire Melany Megenity because she is the best in everything she does and is a good role model.”	David Setter, jr.,“I admire Theodore Roosevelt because he guided his life by values which are honesty, pride, responsibility to protect people, and helping and caring for others.”
Kassidy Young, so., “I admire my grandma because she has taught me everything I need to know about life.”	Ezra Bartlett, fr., “I admire my parents because they take care of me and love me.”
Rob Myers, Math Teacher , “I admire Jesus for his humility and self-sacrifice.”

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