By: Will Bedwell
Twice every school year United Blood Services holds a blood drive on campus. One is held in the fall and one in the spring. This year, during baseball season, Oak Grove is competing with Petal High School to see who will donate the most blood. The winner will be announced at a game [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Will Bedwell’
March 4, 2010
Students show heart and donate blood
March 4, 2010
Arik “the man” Shams snags Star Student award
By: Will Bedwell
Oak Grove High School’s 2009-2010 Star Student Arik Shams stepped off a plane and onto U.S. soil on March 6th, 2008 when he was sixteen years old. Up until that point, Shams lived in Bangladesh with his parents, grandmother, and older sister. His uncle is a professor of mass communication and journalism at [...]
February 9, 2010
Is Obama’s plan for increasing troops in the United States’ best interest?
YES
By: Taylor Herring
Obama’s plan to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan is the most probable and feasible idea for counterinsurgency. After eight years of fighting the war overseas, the military and officials are desperate for the light at the end of the tunnel. With Obama’s proposed plan and timeline in check, insurgency will only continue [...]
February 9, 2010
Music Review: Vampire Weekend’s “Contra”
By: Will Bedwell
In January of 2008 four Columbia University graduates released their self-titled album Vampire Weekend. This pop album filled with bossa nova, British punk, and ska influences debuted at number 17 on the Billboard charts, then went on to be named the 10th best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine. After this sudden [...]
February 9, 2010
Stephen Colbert saves US Speedskating
By: Will Bedwell
The U.S. Olympic Speedskating Team fell on hard times last year when sponsor Dutch Bank DSB went bankrupt in October. The bank had a four-year sponsorship worth $300,000. U.S. Speedskating CEO Bob Crowley announced budget cuts would have to be made in a number of key areas. Then when it seemed all hope [...]
December 11, 2009
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
By: Will Bedwell
One belief of the American mindset has always been that Americans can and will change things. This mindset has caused constant upheaval and reform in the U.S. social system. In the early 1900s, when industrial workers tired of dangerous work environments, they stood together to unionize and demand changes. During the 1960s and [...]
October 5, 2009
What in the world is World of Warcraft?
By: Will Bedwell
The television commercials for World of Warcraft (WoW) began airing in late 2007, featuring such celebrities as Mr. T, William Shatner, and Ozzy Osbourne, bringing the question to the non-gamers’ minds: What is World of Warcraft? I, in search for the truth behind this addictive phenomena, have spent three months in the late [...]
