Schools require clearer policy

by: Cardinal News Staff

Having been back at school for nearly two months, many teachers and students have begun looking forward to the small escapes they will be able to make in the form of half-days, days off and even field trips. Only this form of escape, though, provides education as well as relief.

The Wauwatosa School District, however, has made planning and organizing these field trips difficult by creating an atmosphere in which field trips are viewed as an interuption to now strictly protected class time.

According to the district

Keys to success not in this pianist’s range

by: Kelly Annesley

I like music. I like listening to it and I like playing it. But I hate playing piano.

I like hearing other people play piano. But I’ve been taking piano lessons for longer than I’d care to admit, and I still hate it.

Also, I am awful at piano. Sure, I should probably practice more. But I just hate it too much to care… it’s a vicious cycle.

But why do I keep taking lessons? I ask myself a lot. The best answer I’ve been able to come up with is this: being bad at piano crushes my self-esteem. So I figure, keep taking

Television show carries misconceptions

by: Jessie Jones & Kathryn Ench

The extent of our riveting summer vacation, along with midnight trips to McDonalds for deep fried treats and belting out the lyrics to Lady Gaga songs (please no judgment), included sitting down once a week for seven episodes of the popular MTV mini-series, “16 and Pregnant.”

While neither of us were, or are, experiencing a pregnancy firsthand, we felt oddly drawn towards the hour long episodes depicting girls our age dealing with their unplanned pregnancies.

The controversial documentary/ reality series showed five of the six teenage

Obama undeserving of Nobel Prize

by: Nate Deisinger, webmaster

Imagine, for a moment, that you are applying to college. While filling out your application, it asks you what you have accomplished so far. This is your big chance!

Excitedly, you write page after page about how you have been waiting for college to get your life moving, and how you are going to change the world with your contributions.

Which would be great, if you had actually read the question. Or in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize, if the committee had read Nobel’s will.

Nobel’s will states the Peace Prize will be

Annielyzing life: Students Need Thesaurus Lesson

by: Annie Burnett

I want to address something that I feel is somewhat of an issue. And I’m sure I’m the only person that believes this is an issue. But either way, I think something needs to be said.

I always end up reading things that were obviously made out of a thesaurus. I’ll show you what I mean by this.

Let’s take a normal sentence. I went to the mall. Thesaurus version: I absconded to the commercial center. Or I didn’t like those drapes because they were really ugly. Thesaurus version: I didn’t have a preference for those hangings for the