YMCA- By Andrew Pulsipher

Have you ever been to a YMCA? Do you want one in your city of Gladstone? Gladstone needs a family friendly place for kids and adults to go. There would be a basketball court, weight room, tennis court, and swimming pool ect.

The city of Gladstone could do fund raiser to fund the cost of the YMCA building. The YMCA building would be in Gladstone Oregon. People could go for a work out or a fun and even just to cool off in the pool. Kids could go and have a pick up game of basketball. Everyone would be allowed to go as long as you had a membership.

Dress Code: Is School a Place for Fashion? By: Skylar McLeod

Whether you’re a girl or boy, everyone is affected by ‘what or what not’ to wear. And so the question remains, what is wrong with the Dress Code?

            First of all, no matter who you are in school, there’s a dress code. Some people may even be thinking “What’s the dress code?” And that’s a good question. On average, shirts should not be sleeveless. And shorts should be at least mid thigh. Yet some people choose to ignore it, wearing tank tops and short shorts. They want to be able to wear what they want. To express themselves through fashion. But are they showing too much skin?

            Generally speaking, most people in school understand that you should respect yourself, and the rules. That showing too much skin leads to name calling or loss of respect. Even if it is comfortable, everyone should know what’s ok, and what’s going too far. While also respecting and following the rules, even if you don’t completely agree with them.

            Restating, the dress code affects both genders, but in different ways. Yet the most types of people who seem to be disobeying the rules are girls. For example, I’ve never seen a boy walking around in yoga pants or short skirts. Girls just seem to be wearing not enough clothing, or clothes that are easy to see through, like lace or thin layers.

            We see lack of clothing in school, and all around the world. Of course, you can wear whatever you want at home, but in school, we have rules. Rules of which students should either follow, or talk to a teacher about your opinion on it, or why we have it. You should always confront a teacher about any questions you have, rather than go on about life disobeying a rule.

            In summary, I’m not saying we have to have uniforms, but there is things we can do to make sure we follow the rules. One example is wearing long sleeved shirts under your tank top. Or, leggings under your shorts. It’s comfortable, stylish, and not breaking any rules. What I’m saying, is there are ways to look great and wear what you want, all while also following the rules. This is what we should be doing, instead of showing off all our skin and disobeying the dress code, for there are always alternatives.

Dogs in Kraxberger- By Cloe Storer

           As a rule, Kraxberger doesn't allow dogs in school. Why won’t they allow this? Many people have asked. They don’t allow this because they feel it brings a distraction to the classroom. Also some students may have allergies from dogs, or do not want to spend most of their day near a dog.

          As usual, most people want this to happen because they think it would be fun to play with the dog, and pet the dog. I asked people in my power time class, do you think our school should allow dogs in classrooms? Seventeen of them answered yes, and three of them answered no. I think it would be fun to have a dog in the class, so I would want this to happen at Kraxberger.

          As you can see, many people want to have dogs in classrooms. Where as some others are either allergic to dogs, think it’s going to be a distraction or just don’t like dogs, don’t want our school to allow it.       

The Offensive Line-Written by Noah Zollin

Written by Noah Zollin

The offensive line can make success for your team and much better offense. But when they can’t block it can make your season bitter.

       For a 0-8 season we did ok but the source of our awful season was by our 5 man in front the line. In bad blowouts it’s all of our faults but in a tight game they get tired and they quit their job to block. If they blocked we could do better.      If they helped we could have at least 3 wins. Also our QB’S wouldn’t have to do a 13 yard drop back and our running game we would have many touchdowns. But we can’t run the outside or we would get blown up so we would have to run in the middle for 2 yards. Like the 2006 season of the Detroit lions they had a horrible 0-16 season because of their line.

In the practice they do awesome but under pressure they can’t or do anything. Sometimes they are on top of their game and mostly not. The one game we got blown out was by their fault.

         Some of our coaches are tired of them not blocking. But all of it is not all of their fault but the question is can they block?