Did you know that every time you light up a cigarette, you are inhaling 4700 chemicals?
This disgusting factoid, along with many other tidbits on smoking were presented and discussed at the Smoking Information Session held during both lunches yesterday. This mini-conference was organized in hopes that it might help some of the students of Macdonald make the first steps to quitting for life.
Hosted by Donna McNeely (whose crusade against smoking began when her father died of lung disease) of the Lung Association, the session was informative, and just may have helped a couple of people, too.
The Lung Association have a great deal of services open to smokers, their families and friends. Many of these services are free to the public. For more information, contact the Lung Association at 922 - 9440.
MacNews
p.s. Isn't alveoli, like, a pasta dish?
We won! Yes that's right, we won! We played Woburn on their field and yet still ended up winning.
You wanna know our secret? HARD WORK. The hitting, crunching, and running. The littlest guys on our team were crunching Woburn's 250 pound guys. This was the secret to our success.
Although we won, it doesn't mean we're perfect. We need a lot of work to win the championships. If we continue to work hard, I'm sure we can do it.
Well this is cuju, signing off. 'Til next week. Same rugby time, same rugby channel.
cuju
P.S. We won 17-0. GO MAC!
Some of you may have already heard of what is happening to our teachers. About some being sent away and others being encouraged to retire. Well, I'm not going to try and explain everything because, to be quite honest, I don't think anyone knows everything that's happening.
Many of the younger teachers have been told that they won't be teaching at Macdonald because of the "surplus" of teachers and how they don't have seniority.
Many of the older teachers have been encouraged to retire, and to make it easier to get more teachers to retire, they've reduced the 90+ factor to an 85+ factor. This means that a teacher can retire after the total of their age and years of teaching reaches 85 instead of 90. As an extra incentive, by retiring the older teachers leave a space open for one of the younger teachers to fill in.
This change is unfortunate for the teachers and for the students. Younger teachers haven't been able to keep a job they were looking forward to enjoying. Students will be losing the chance to be educated by some of the greatest teachers of both the older and younger generations.
Everyone here at MacNews hopes this whole situation will eventually be resolved for the betterment of all parties involved.
Smutton
Those spagmatic school officials have commited the most heinous criminal act possible: they have extended the school year for two days! This means we will end on a Friday and have our homeform class as our last period. Coincidence? I think not.
Where have all the summers gone? This extension is not only an infringement of our (so-called) rights to summer vacation, but it is also a load of poo. We shouldn't have to stay in school for so long. Isn't it enough that we spend five long years of our lives here? We should be able to run free in the hydro fields before they're replaced by cheap living places (or a neighbourhood park, in which case you should stay in school the extra two days).
Smutton
I do not understand how NIMBI (a.k.a. Now I Must Become Involved a.k.a. Macdonald's environmental club) could sell murder to raise money for the environment. Are they not aware that 85% of topsoil erosion is directly attributable to raising animals for food?
Some other facts, courtesy of PETA (a.k.a. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) are as follows...
This is why I feel that NIMBI whould not have sold hamburgers (a.k.a. ham-MURDERS). Instead, they should have had a vegan (no milk or egg ingredients) bake sale along with veggie burgers.
rainbo brite
NIMBI proves that they're true friends of the earth by serving dead cow that's been burned over raped resources, resulting in carcinogens entering our atmosphere. So, how did the earth's enemies celebrate?
Staff
On Tuesday we found some appalling comments written on one of the girls bathroom stalls, such as "-------- is a lesbo frag" and "------- is a fat a** B**ch". First comment, what is a frag? Secondly who's business is K----'s sexual preference? Or how much L----- weighs? I totally believe in freedom of speech, but not when you are stating degrading offensive comments.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly states in article 1 "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights" and article 5 states "No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." (There are others that fit this situation, but are too long to write)
I believe that everyone should be treated equally, no matter how different they may be from you. Also, no one has the right to belittle anyone else and this hatred should and must be abolished. This writing on the bathroom walls and stalls is totally ignorant and cowardly of you. If you want to talk about someone, you should tell them to their face. I know I would have no problem looking you in your eyes to tell you how pathetic you are.
rainbo brite
The second part of the Cartman's Father epic saga will be presented tonight on the Global Televison Network.
After many complaints from the wonderful hicks...I mean yanks down south, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have decided to air the episode which was supposed to be the season opener for next year tonight.
Comedy Central received thousands, no really thousands, of complaints from the American viewers who were very upset with the Canadian Terrance & Philp episode. Funny, how no Canadian's complained, eh? Downtown Canada? The American's probably thought there really is a downtown Canada, but that's another story.
In response to the complaints, Matt Stone said
"If you really get that p***** off (upset) because you don't know who a little construction paper kid's father is, then there's something really wrong with you."
I think there's something really wrong with me.
Terrance & Philp rule!
See ya!
(about five minutes from going truly insane) Stoopid Head
During March break, the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards were broadcast on Fox. Everybody in the biz showed up to see the stars (superstars, that is) dressed up for the joyous occasion. The crowd applauded and cheered as their favourite entertainers accepted their much deserved awards. Well . . . almost all of them were deserved.
In the category for Best Female Pop Vocalist, the nominees were Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, and Mariah Carey . . . two Canadians against one American. We had a 66.5% chance of winning that award! And guess who won it?!!
Mariah Carey did NOT deserve it! Sarah McLachlan should have won the award because her new album has spawned three number one hits and it earned her four Junos. Celine Dion should have won it because "My Heart Will Go On" has topped the charts all year, breaking every record in existence! So what has Mariah Carey done, you ask? Well, she married and used the head of Sony music to advance her career then divorced him when he didn't want her to do Hip-Hop. Plus, her appearance on the charts has been as brief as her tube top.
In case you haven't guessed it, I am accusing Blockbuster of FIXING the votes so that the American would win! It's time to take action! I refuse to make tonight a blockbuster night! So there! Hhmph!
(:CHEEKY:)
I can't believe some people! The big question that I would like answered is this: why are some people such geeks??!!! Just look at a couple of the members of MacNews for example. (Forgive me, cool members!!!!!!!) If you have ever attended a MacNews evening, you would see how difficult it is to talk about things without the annoyance of a couple persistant members who you just want to strangle. YES!! I admit; this paper was better back in the days when I was a minor niner, and it was still good when I was still looking like a niner, but I was a tenor (ha ha, bad pun!).
Macdonald C.I., we need your help. Bring the coolness back to this once (yet occasionally STILL) cool paper. I'll complain for a while more about what I am experiencing right now. I'm trying desperately hard to make this interesting, but I'm being harassed infinitely by two young boys in grade ten who think that having fun is sitting on the school floor saying they are using their energy to sit on their foot. On top of that, they repeat everything over and over again. They are like a broken record run by solar power on a bright day with no clouds in sight.
Anyway, one is worse than the other and the only way to try to make this paper interesting again is to bring back abuse and insult (within context though).
So, Mac complainers, I among them, HELP SAVE YOUR SCHOOL PAPER!!! Come and write! Write about anything and everything! What happened to all that stuff about the mysterious lock in the wall, or about the rats in the cafe? Let's have a contest. If you can find Waldo, I'll let you write with me next week! We can have so much fun writing about where words come from, and why the computer keyboards aren't in.......
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Dear Hecubis
I do not like your style. The way you walk around like you own the place really makes me want to retch. I feel that T.V. is our most precious natural resource and it should be cherished for it's countless hours of top notch entertainment. It shouldn't be chastized for being too commercial.
Ugly Bob
Dear Ugly Bob
I will take this time to fill everybody in on how my boycott of television is going. I am currently on day numero duo. I am having violent withdrawl symptoms. I miss my glowing friend. No T.V. and no beer makes Hecubis...something something. I will try my best to continue NOT watching television for the rest of the week but I con't promise anything.
Spanks a lot,
Hecubis