4 Editorial/Opinion Parking Problems for Seniors

October 14, 2011 By Phoebe McPherson Editor in Chief Imagine driving the first day of school: sure, youre sleepy and bummed that summers over, but you have Starbucks, a sweet schedule, and your own car. The parking lot will be a no-brainer. Just whip into your spot and slowly waltz into the school, soaking up the last of your summers no strings attached clauses. But, my dear stallions, one thing it should not bring is migraine-forcing confusion. Unfortunately for all of us Senio12s here at South County, this is what we were asked to endure. We were greeted by a revolutionary-sized mess of the parking lot: two sets of two hundreds, a supposed senior parking lot, and mass confusion. Multiple mini-trips around the parking lot left me realizing that the spots hadnt been painted Photo by Tre Moore over, leaving them The parking lot is calm during the middle of the school day. This was not the case on the first faded and slightlyday of school nor whenever school is let out at 2:05 p.m. extremely illegible. Oh, and lets not forget our lovely friends, the parents. of the problem. The real reason there the students and inform them about These determined creatures that deem was so many problems that first day of the mistake. If youre going to leave it necessary to disregard all notices, school and why there still exists mul- something wrong, please let us know. announcements, security guards, and tiple in and around our school: the We are in the know creatures, and signs. As well, they believe that two administration. love to know when things are going kiss n ride zones are not enough that The schools administration con- on because, believe it or not, when their child reins superior to all others trols everything from whats on the a few of us get a voicemail from the and must have the utmost best treat- menu in the cafeteria, to which mov- school, the word is going to spread: ment at 7:30 in the morning. ies can be shown (legally) in class- like wild fire. Many of us turned straight to the rooms, to, of course, the parking lots. All together, the first day of school security guards, who stood hopelessly Im not attacking them, but simply was a bit of a bumpy start in considerin the rain, attempting to calmly as- trying to get a point across. If the ad- ation to parking and parents. sist the herd of student drivers to their ministration has been more organized Now that weve all figured out how correct parking spots. The problem before school had started, then this to formulate our parking passes, we was that they, themselves, were not would not have happened. This situ- just need a plan to remove the parents entirely sure of the correct spaces for ation could have been avoided. There from the parking lot.... Oct.14, 2011 Volume VII, Issue 1 student to use either. If we take a step back from this jumble heap, well realize that they are only 4 guards maximum. Ever. In the parking lots, they can only do so much. We can complain, explain, vent, or drone, but nothing can really be done. We must go to the source: the root were two simple solutions. Solution number one, just re-paint the numbers. The administration only had to re-paint a certain section considering there was only repeat set of numbers. Heck, they could have gotten the students involved and cut down on costs in paint and labor! Solution number two, call home to

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Namisha Khatri Editorial Columnist As we all know, Charlie Sheen went on a bizarre rampage last year. He started to say bad things about the producer and director of Two and a Half Men and got fired. He also demanded more money per episode because apparently $3 million isnt enough. Now, if I was getting paid $3 mil for a 30 minute episode, call me crazy, but I would take it. Charlie Sheen has been replaced this year with Ashton Kutcher. Ashton Kutcher is more respectfully known as his role in That 70s Show as Michael Kelso. The new season kicked off on Sept 19. Charlie Sheen was perhaps the funniest character on the show. I really dont know why he went crazy and started saying he was from mars and stuff but it was pretty obvious that he was going to get kicked off the show. Not only did he get kicked off, he got killed off! He cant even come back to the show if he wanted to. That would just be weird. The first episode opened with the funeral of Charlie Sheen. Basically, Ashton Kutcher popped up out of nowhere in the episode and at the end said that hes going to buy Charlies house because its on sale. Ashton Kutchers character name is Walden Schmidt who is a billionaire and tried to commit suicide because his wife left him. He character in the beginning wasnt that funny and the episode wasnt even that good. Dont get me wrong, Ashton Kutcher is a funny man, but the show isnt going to be the same. I know that a lot of people are going to start watching the show now because of him, but honestly Charlie Sheen brought his own spunk in the show. If the first episode of the season was bad I wonder how the rest of the season will be? The show is just going to remain average now. It went from being awesome to completely going downhill. Its still fun to watch and at parts it is funny but I laughed more when Charlie Sheen was there. At the beginning of the season, I was laughing at the kids jokes more than Waldens or Alans jokes but as the season went on, the show started to meet my expectations. Ashton Kutcher is just a generally funny man so whenever he spoke about something it always came out to be funny. Over the course of the episodes, I started to miss Charlie Sheen less and less. The gap of him not being on the show is starting to fill with the presence of Ashton Kutcher. The season is now off to a good start and is meeting I think everyones expectations. The show is going good and is becoming the same as it was before. Ashton Kutcher is doing a good job on filling the space of Charlie Sheen. I wish all the best to the show and to Ashton Kutcher because he has been given a huge responsibility.

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