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Written by Brandie Hanson, 18 - LA Youth
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
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Article Source: LA Youth
Brandie Hanson, 18, North HS in Torrance (2009 graduate)
My junior year I saw girls in the bathroom turn on all the faucets, wasting water, just for fun. After lunch I would walk through school and see the janitors picking the recyclables out of the trash cans, even though we have recycling bins all over campus. It made me wonder what were people thinking, were they even thinking at all?! The janitors have other things to do!
I felt that the students at my school needed to pay more attention to the environment. So on a whim at the end of junior year I applied for the new ecology position on student council. When I was chosen I was shocked and excited that I got the opportunity to start a new tradition, Ecology Week. My goal was to make more students care about the environment.
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Written by Tom McGhee - Denver Post
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
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Article Source: The Denver Post
DENVER: Hundreds of college students marched on the state Capitol on Wednesday to demand an end to cuts in funding for higher education.
"Our elected leaders are responsible for keeping tuition in Colorado low," said Andrew Bateman, Metropolitan State College of Denver's student government assembly president and an organizer of the march from the Auraria campus."Affordable education is the responsibility of our elected representatives, and control of tuition cannot be given away," Bateman said. "They are the ones that are answerable to the people."
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Written by MSNBC - AP
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
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Article Source: MSNBC - AP
Percentage of kids physically bullied fell to 15 percent in ’08
NEW YORK - There’s been a sharp drop in the percentage of America’s children being bullied or beaten up by their peers, according to a new national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are having an impact.
The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, found that the percentage of children who reported being physically bullied over the past year had declined from nearly 22 percent in 2003 to under 15 percent in 2008. The percentage reporting they’d been assaulted by other youths, including their siblings, dropped from 45 percent to 38.4 percent.
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Written by Val Willingham - CNN
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
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Article Source: CNN
Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) -- When Ryan Wallace got a diagnosis of autism at age 2, his parents never thought they'd hear him speak."He used to make noises. When he wanted something he would just point," says Ryan's father, Gerald David Wallace. "Or he would scream."
Therapists say that's not unusual for someone with Ryan's condition. According to doctors, many children with autism have difficulty understanding information from the outside world.
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Written by Chris Gaylord - CSMonitor
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 |
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Article Source: CSMonitor
How teenager Jamie Bell made the viral video A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything.
In the beginning, there was lined paper. Then, the big bang rippled through the ream and started A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything.
This new viral video may not have the professional polish of T-Shirt War or the genial charisma of the wedding dance video, but it distills the lovable, quirky charm of a creative kid with too much free time on his hands. It's a three-minute-and-12-second reminder of why YouTube is one of the most important galleries of modern culture – even without silly Super Bowl ads.
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