We should not expect to receive rewards for good deeds

By Snehal P.

Peacock has just finished a charity drive for the Stadium school in Chicago. Peacock, however, needs to make more donations to charity. During the school year we only have one charity drive. We should have more. If we do have more food drives, people should donate for the charity and not just donate to receive something in return. Also, students should give things that are not old, rusty, or worn out. If you were homeless, you would not want or need those kinds of things, especially for Christmas. So please donate good food, clothes and toys to a charity drive, not just your discards.

Evolution is not such a new idea

By Amber S.

I believe in the theory of evolution, but, there are many people in the school that will not have anything to do with the scientific theory that was first developed over a century ago. The idea that people in 1997 do not accept the notion that man evolved from a common lower being appalls me. Other creatures such as Eohypus might have evolved into the horse and the woolly mammoth possibly evolved into the elephant we know today. Why should man be any different. To think that man is some kind of special creation (I stress creation) is absurd. If one thing evolved, adapted, whatever, shouldn't every other living thing, too? The people of today did not just pop out of nowhere (there is no "nowhere," but that is a different article entirely) and just know how to make a computer or pretty much anything we have today. They learned and evolved to their ever-changing environment.

People who believe in evolution are not necessarily atheists. Things can go hand-in-hand, can't evolutionism and religious belief go together? I will accept that many people in the school believe my ideas are radical, but there are many people in the scientific community who would support my beliefs. I can understand that when the idea was first published in the 1800's that it would be thought as radical, but HELLO, it's 1997!

The history of Christmas

By Bobby B.

The history of Christmas, so I am told,

is a story that happened many years ago.

In the hustle of the Yuletide season,

we sometimes forget the genuine reason.

The thing that started it all

was an infant born in a horse's stall.

With little to show that he was truly a king,

He caused shepherds to kneel and angels to sing.

Sent from his Father up above,

He gave us a gift that we call love.

Through the years we on earth

celebrate his special birth.

Amongst the tinsel and the holly,

the man in red who is so jolly,

we must keep in mind

the child born for all mankind.

And so, on the 25th.,

we must remember

that special time of December.

MERRY CHRISTMAS