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Kirkwood High School student newspaper

The Kirkwood Call

Kirkwood High School student newspaper

The Kirkwood Call

No flying permit over this zone

December 15, 2010
With age comes sacrifice, with sacrifice comes stubbornness and with stubbornness comes overprotective, clinging-for-life parents. And the parents who take grasp of their child’s freedom of life and tweak it to their liking are negatively affecting the child’s development.

And I brush my teeth with Colgate

Johnny Frohlichstein December 15, 2010

Let’s go all the way tonight. No regrets. Just love. The party don’t start ‘til I walk in. Pulling up to the party, trying to get a little bit tipsy. There’s a place I know if you’re looking...

7 minutes in heaven

Cassie Kibens December 15, 2010

It’s just me versus more than 1,600 other students every day.  For six minutes between each class I fight; dodging freshmen, pushing my way through the stop-to-chat-ers and carefully gliding past those...

Drinking while driving puts death in the passenger seat

Maggie Hallam December 15, 2010

Five people. Two cars. One death. It was a snowy night in Marissa, Ill. Amanda, Emily and Laura were out shopping and having fun. They weren’t doing anything wrong, and they didn’t deserve what...

Friends don’t let friend text and walk

Claire Salzman December 15, 2010

A horrible trend is sweeping through KHS halls. Just last week two seniors and a sophomore were seriously injured in a crash at the intersection of the science and math hallways due to withdrawn walking. It...

Grow up, Cleveland Fans

Sam Edwards December 8, 2010

Get over it, Cleveland fans. Five months after NBA player LeBron James brought his talents to South Beach, Cavaliers fans are still booing LeBron and burning his old 23 Cavalier jerseys. If you want...

Giving the media a hero

Emma Lawson, Emma Lawson, and Emma Lawson November 30, 2010

With new technology able to expose the personal lives of many of our favorite sports players, it’s becoming clear that many of the people our society idolizes are not as god-like as they seem.  That’s...

If you amplify everything, you hear nothing

Claire Salzman November 17, 2010

Congratulations, Washington D.C. You have officially crushed my spirit. The petty name-calling, vicious political advertisements and blatant disrespect of your opponents have left me speechless. It’s...

First Amendment wrongs

November 17, 2010

Among the CIA, the FBI and the Witness Protection Program, there remains another federal giant for security. Their name? The American Thought Police, and they’ve been rapidly making their way into the...

Keep calm and carry on, from Kate

Kate Strube November 8, 2010

Everyone has their struggles. I’m just one of many. But you know me.  I’m the girl who was happiest when I was starving myself. The one who nearly wasted away thinking that to be better, I had to...

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