Archive for November, 2010
Waddle This Way #1
On Sept. 14, 2010, a date that shall for ever live in infamy, the Motor Vehicle Administration actually thought it would be safe to give me a driver’s license. That’s right Wootton, better start wearing your seatbelt. Danny Wadler’s on the road. At 8:30 that morning, while my fellow students were sleeping in and my [...]
Make Your Move!: Homecoming halls and floats
As Homecoming neared, class planning members put on their game faces for another edition of hall and float showdown. SGA manages the competition in which each grade designs, constructs and decorates with the theme “It’s Game Time! Make Your Move!” Board games have never been so patriotic, my friends. “The competition brings out the best [...]
Waddle This Way #2
Finally! There are only ten excruciatingly long days left before the March to Keep Fear Alive, and only one more after that until Halloween, the magnificent last night of October when Fear comes out to play (dead or alive, Mr. Colbert; fear is just as fun either way). Now, you may wonder whether it is [...]
Youth groups provide fun, social opportunities to students
The acronyms are constantly flooding your mind: BBYO, BATY, GMCYM, KPCR, BPC, YJ, USY to name a few. If you didn’t know before, these are all names of youth groups, which serve a large population of Wootton students. Most youth group members became involved when they entered high school and have stuck with it because [...]
Top 11 Celebrity Beards
In honor of the upcoming “No-Shave” November, a favorite holiday of strong-minded post-pubescent brutes, Top 11 will grace your brain with the most awesomely-ravishing, disgustingly-overgrown, daintily-fresh and quasi-erotic facial hair of our favorite public figures. Please follow their leads: ditch the razor, and let the beards grow. Visit woottonnews.com and vote to have all Common [...]
Looking beyond big-name colleges: Alternative colleges offer unique academic experiences
When students around here think of colleges, the same several schools usually come to mind. University of Maryland – College Park, Penn State, University of Michigan, Cornell University and so on. Ivy League school applications are rapidly increasing, and the desire to leave the state is also redoubling. But when was the last time you [...]
Halloween varies across cultures
If you were to ask a Wootton student what they think a typical Halloween is made up of, you’d get many of the same answers: trick-or-treating, costume parties, haunted houses, telling ghost stories, watching scary movies and carving jack-o-lanterns. But if you were to travel anywhere else in the world, you’d get slapped in the [...]
‘The Social Network’ ignites new Facebook controversy
Called “deliciously vicious” and “addictively entertaining,” “The Social Network” topped box office charts the first weekend it came out, grossing $23 million. The movie follows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s rise to billionaire status, highlighting his supposed betrayal of best friends. Zuckerberg is portrayed as a largely antisocial, backstabbing thief of intellectual property. In the movie, [...]
Student life in the 70’s: a blast from the past
Do you ever wonder what student life was like at Wootton 40 years ago? The name of the school may have stayed the same, but according to those who learned and taught here in the 70’s, Wootton lived a significantly different life. Social studies teacher Nia Cresham was in eighth grade when the school first [...]
Curtains rise on 40 years of Wootton theater
On the weekend of Oct. 22 and 23, the Woottton theater program performed the show “Wootton the Musical: A Decade of Hits” as a part of the celebration of the school’s 40th anniversary. The show may have covered musicals performed by the theater in the last decade, but the theater’s history stretches back to the [...]
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