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High Life Wednesday. February 4. 2004 News .a ^ TWIRP to be held in early February TWIRP, Grimsley’s annual Valentine’s Day dance, will be held on February 7 at the Brian Park Enrichment Center. The dance will start at 8 pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased the week before the event. Teacher Workdays February 16 is a Guilford County Schools teacher workday. School will be held on February 17 because of the day off last fall due to Hurricane Isabel. IB Informational Meeting Students interested in participating in the International Baccalaureate Program should come to a brief informational meeting to be held Febmary 24. The meeting will be held in the Media Center at 6 pm. Drivers’ Education Schedule The next session of Drivers’ Education will take place from February 23 to March 8. Interested students should sign up in the main office 10 days before the start of the class. Donations for Women’s Golf Team The Wom'en’s Golf Team is collecting old cell phones, ink jet cartridges, and laser cartridges. Drop them off in the main office or in Coach Franks’s room (522 in the Home Economics Building). New teachers and adnninistrators arrive for second semester w Four new staff members have come to Grimsiey. They will each work in a different area; one with Mr. Gasparelio, one in the math department, one as a Student Intervention Speciaiist, and one in the Exceptional Children Program. By Sarah Hampton Cheatham Copy Editor Second semester brings several new faces to the faculty: Ms. Michelle Thompson, Ms. Angel Thurston, Mr. Mark Headen, and Ms. Erikka Lynch. Ms. Thompson will spend a se mester as an intern on the adminis trative staff as part of the North Carolina Principal Fellows Program (PFP). According to the official PFP website (http://www.ga.unc.edu/ PrincipaLFellows/), the program is a scholarship opportunity de signed “to ensure that the best, most highly-qualified students are able to earn the Masters of School Administration degree in two years on a full-time basis and to provide a cadre of well-trained administra tive candidates to all NC public school systems.” While interning, Thompson will 'If m Cooper photo Ms. Angel Thurston instructs a group of teens during Student Intervention. Ms. Thurston replaced Mrs. Callaghan, who worked with students in SI until 2003. assume many of the same duties as regular administrators and deal with students on an everyday basis. Though many faculty members are grateful for the help the new staff will provide, some students have reservations about the additions. “I think it would be difficult for a new administrator to get accus tomed to life here at Grimsiey,” said junior Haley Booe. “It might be hard for them to gain the respect of the students this late in the school year.” Ms. Thurston will replace the Student Intervention (SI) Special ist, Mrs. Callaghan, who resigned in 2003. Thurston will focus on helping students make the transi tion from being suspended to attending school regularly. She will also work with their counse lors to set plans for improving aca demic achievement. “Ms. Thurston will work with our SI program to help students who are having problems and get them back on track,” said Principal Rob Gasparelio. As a result of a math allotment granted over the winter holidays, math specialist Mr. Headen now joins the math department. He will pay special attention to furthering the academic success of students struggling in their math classes. “[Headen] will work closely with Mrs. Rohan and the rest of our math department to come up with a vari ety of different ways to help any math students who need it. He’ll also be here on Saturdays to help out,” said Principal Gasparelio. The last of the new staff addi tions, Ms. Lynch, will be the new assistant for the Exceptional Chil dren (EC) program. Lynch is re placing the former EC assistant, who resigned last year. Her main goal will be ensuring that every EC student makes the most of his or her high school experience. mnilS from around no NOfU “Spirit” sends home pictures from Mars NASA’s $400 million dollar rover, named “Spirit” and launched months ago, began sending pictures of the red planet back to earth on January 5. The robotic explorer is also equipped with scientific equip ment to help researchers deter mine whether Mars has water and was once a warm planet. The most significant technological advance made by NASA scien tists when designing “Spirit” is the robot’s high-powered an tenna, which allows it to beam images and messages directly back to earth without the use of Martian satellites. The rover is scheduled to explore Mars for a total of 90 days. North Korea offers new nuke deal to US Pyongyang has offered to stop testing and producing nuclear weapons and stop oper ating its nuclear power industry in exchange for several conces sions from the United States. North Korea wants the US to take Pyongyang off its terrorism list, I, lift economic, politi- cal, and military sanc tions, and supply oil and other energy re sources. The US government has re fused to accept simi lar terms in the past, saying that they want North Korea’s nuclear arms program abolished completely instead of just frozen. Representatives of the US, China, Russia, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea held talks on the sub ject in August over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. At present, more talks will not be held until Febru ary at the earliest. North Korea formerly insisted on a nonaggres sion treaty with the US before halt ing its nuclear program; however, they are now willing to end their program if the US agrees to their terms. Chicago study reveals that US teens are heaviest in the world. The study of nearly 30,000 youths ages 13 to 15 revealed that the obesity rate of teens in the United States is higher than that of 14 other indus trialized coun tries. About 15% of both girls and boys in the US are obese, and about 30% are consid ered “modestly overweight.” Teenagers in this country are more likely to eat fast food, snacks, and sugary soft drinks that those in other coun tries and are more likely to exer cise less. Among other countries in the study, Greece, Portugal, Denmark, Israel, and Ireland were the heaviest besides the US, and Lithuania was the lightest. Mad cow turns up in United States On December 23,2003, mad cow disease was detected ih a dairy cow in Washington state. The dis ease, technically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), caused more than 30 coun tries to ban US beef. The infected six-year-old cow is thought to have entered the United States from Canada in 2001. After the dis covery of the afflicted cow, the US government banned the use of cattle too sick or injured to walk as human food. The USDA also instituted a national animal tracking system so that diseased cows could be more easily iden tified. America’s $40 billion beef industry is expected to suffer tre mendously from loss of revenue, although these effects have not yet begun to be felt. Parmalat: the Italian Enron Parmalat, based in Italy, was a food company founded by the formerly well-respected Calisto Tanzi in 1961. On Dec. 27, Tanzi was arrested as Italian prosecu tors tried to discover his role in an alleged $8.8 billion fraud scan dal. As of now, he remains in a Milan jail. The Parmalat scandal is the largest corporate scandal ever seen in Europe; it is on the scale of the Enron and WorldCom scandals in the US. Seven other Parmalat executives were also arrested, and the company has filed for bankruptcy.
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