The topic of hunting has long been the subject of heated debates and criticism.
In this day and age, it may seem that hunting is unnecessarily cruel, but hunters are actually helping the environment in more ways than one.
The first and most important way that hunters are helping the environment is through the regulation of animal populations.
It has not been a good summer for movies.
Aside from very limited exceptions, audiences and critics alike have yawned at the numerous, average-at-best adaptations.
Yet something glimmered in the far-off reaches of July. That movie was “Inception,” an original summer blockbuster brought by the same director of “The Dark Knight,” Christopher Nolan.
Underclassmen, have you looked forward to becoming a senior and wielding ultimate authority over those younger than you?
You may never get the chance.
Those who have happened to read the New York Times magazine lately or seen the relevant article will already know what I’m talking about – consideration has been given to the erasure of senior year.
As I sit at my computer, clacking away at the keyboard while my bright lamp illuminates a few items on my desk (red pen, reporter’s notebook and recorder) I am reminded of the many times I have been in this deadline situation.
However, this time is different. This is my last edition in as Editor in Chief, the last time I will be pressured by the infamous deadline and perhaps the final words I will ever publish in The Roundup.
I don’t mean to be melodramatic and count “lasts”; it’s just interesting how journalism can correlate to life in general.
As the year comes to a close once again, another group of seniors departs from Brophy.
Unfortunately, it is my class’ time to leave Brophy, and the administrators were right when, what seems just like yesterday, they said that Brophy would be the fastest four years of our lives.
I still can’t fully grasp the idea that this “group of seniors” is my class; the guys I have gotten to know so well during my time here.
Attention all students: Summer vacation is not too far away.
The days of seemingly endless school days and countless hours of homework are soon to be over—at least for a short time.
If you are taking summer school, then you may face homework filled afternoons but definitely not like those of the regular school year. With one or maybe two classes, there will still be free time in the summer and after summer school there is still a month of school-less-ness.
As people begin their explorations of high school, they are exposed to many new people and ideas.
This can lead to serious re-considerations in a person’s mode of thinking. This is especially true at a school like Brophy, which encourages us to think and discover new ideas.
According to a Roundup poll of 70 students, about 21 percent of seniors had changed their faith over their four years.
All of Brophy was stunned by the cold hard facts that Jim Keady, the founder of Team Sweat, revealed March 1 in Robson Gymnasium.
Keady shared the knowledge he has learned over the past 13 years with the Brophy students during the Summit on Human Dignity, and many were shocked by how much they did not know about Nike.
Apparently, the Indonesian workers for Nike are extremely underpaid and can barely make enough money to purchase the absolute necessities for survival, including food and water.
This year’s Summit on globalization spoke about how we must be citizens of the world and how we must help those who are oppressed by big business, though doing this may conflict with political ideas.
It is important for one with strong views who may oppose the suggestions presented by the speakers of the Summit to remember that the Summit is not on globalization; it is a summit on human dignity through the lens of globalization.
The main focus of this Summit, and the ones of the past, was to realize that there are people all over the world being robbed of their dignity.
As I was watching the Spanish news on TV recently, I saw with my own eyes the devastation the people in Haiti suffered after the earthquake on Jan. 12.
Similarly, I saw the news of the disastrous earthquake in Chile on Feb. 27 and realized that there is a need to help a fellow American country.
According to The New York Times, the first Chilean earthquake on Feb. 27 was at an 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale. CNN stated about subsequent quakes on Mar. 15 and 16, “A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later.”