The Communicator • A Student Voice

College football this year in America has been full of upsets, blowouts and surprises.  It has been a great year for watching, with higher scoring and more exciting games across the nation.  And as we finish the season, we come to the finale of NCAA football—the BCS bowl games.

The five BCS bowl games (Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, and National Championship) promise to be some of the best in recent memory.  With only five undefeated teams left in football, the others are trying to hand those teams their first loss of the season, or compete for the next best thing—a BCS win.

Rose Bowl – Ohio State vs. Oregon
This year’s Rose Bowl is the product of a subpar Big Ten Conference and an average Pac-10.  Ohio State, generally a lock for the top ten at the end of the season, has lost two disappointing games, one to a USC team that looked shaky throughout the season, and the other to a Purdue team that finished below .500, with a 5-7 record.  Terrelle Pryor has not looked like the quarterback that we expected, and Ohio State’s running game has been inconsistent throughout the year. More…

The man rips back a fistful of her hair

and it flares into barbs.

Like that, his fist shreds. She dashes

but his screams ring

the alley with no doppler

downshift, she flees at the speed of normal panic

while his left hand cradles his wrecked right:

last fist it’ll ever make

to raise for breakaways

or saviors, to clutch a fork

or forge a check, offer a balloon to a child

or teach its mother a lesson.  These things

don’t happen, but here she is next week

leaning against her school locker,

barbed hair snagged in the vents. More…

Sam Worthington as Jake Sully

I don’t need to write a long-winded introduction for this movie. “Avatar” is the biggest blockbuster of this decade. It is destined to become a classic. Years from now, film buffs will point to this movie as the one that raised the cinematic bar, even with its few flaws.

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Michigan ice hockey needed a win to keep from sinking into last place in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). Now with a 4-1 win over 18th ranked Notre Dame, Michigan looks to turn its season around in time to make playoffs.
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Nicholas Sparks is a well-known author who has published 16 different novels. One of his most recent novels, Dear John, was published in 2007. This tragic love story is about an angry young man that enlists in the army when he doesn’t know where else to turn in his life. More…

Junior Gabby George, a dual student at Community High School and Pioneer High School, takes us on a tour through her backpack.

Sonya Kotov

The dim glow of the makeshift coffee-can lantern provides just enough light for a young student in Kenya to complete her homework. It’s dark outside and her obligations have kept her busy from dawn till dusk. After walking several kilometers home from school, she must fetch water from a nearby stream carrying the full weight of the twenty liters on her back with a scarf-like cloth. She then gathers firewood to cook the evening meal, washes her school uniform, and is finally able to begin her schoolwork. This is not an uncommon routine for a student who attends Bishop Lawi Imathu Secondary School.

“Sometimes you cannot know your problem unless you go and see someone doing something in a different way,” said Moses Marete, principal of Bishop Lawi. Marete visited Community High school in late November and talked with Tracy Rosewarne’s journalism class about his experiences. He explained how he had never heard of a dishwasher before arriving in the United States but now that he has learned what it is, he has plans to go to the capital of Kenya and see if he may get one himself. “Most work is done by hand, I have never seen a machine to do the dishes,” said Gilbert.
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