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Volume 85 No. 3
Mary Claire Hurley
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News
Incumbent President
Barak Obama keeps his
Pennsylvania Avenue
address, but Republican
Pat McCrory takes over
the governor’s mansion
in Raleigh;. page 2
Opinion
Custodial staff deserves
respect from Whirlie
community for their
valiant efforts at keeping
campus clean, safe, and
beautiful. page 6
Features
Whirlie students enjoy
bernefits of two high
school campuses as they
study at Weaver Academy
for vocational training.
page 8
Sports
Whirlie family welcomes
two new basketball
coaches to the Athletic
Department, Gunn and
Griffis. page 10
Index
Grimsley High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, NC 27408
November 28,2012
A '
Whattmly
differentiates one student
from another is not the color
of his skin, but his character,
academic performance, and
values. Making sure there is
a certain percentage of a
particular race does not
justly insure a diverse cam
pus or student body.
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Nobel Prize winners promote peace,
excel in medicine, science, literature
BY LUKE SUMERFORD
Reporter
December 10,2012 is the date
when the Norwegian Nobel Com
mittee will host its banquet to rec
ognize individuals for their per
sonal achievements and out
standing contributions to peace,
physics, chemistry, medidne, and
literature in the dty of Oslo. Each
award winner receives a gold
medal, a personal diploma, and
approximately $1.2 million. The
committee has bestowed these
awards every year since 1901,
except from 1939-1943 due to
World War H. As of 2012, over 555
individuals received Nobel prizes.
Redpients for 2012 indude the
European Union for peace; Serge
Heroche and David Wineland for
physics; Robert Lefkowitz and
Brian Kobilka for chemistry; Sir
John Gurdon and Shinya
Yamanaka for medicine; Mo Yan
for literature; and Alvin Roth and
Lloyd Shapley for economics.
After World War II, the Euro
pean Union formed to prevent
another war of such magnitude.
For over 60 years, the Union has
maintained relative peace,
which is why it is receiving the
prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
The press release from the Nor
wegian Nobel Committee on
October 14, added that the Eu
ropean Union also continues to
do its best in contending with
current economic struggles. In
formation regarding each winner
is available at the following
website: www.nobelprize.org/
nobel_piizes.
Heroche and Wineland will
receive honors for their "innova
tive new research methods in
quantum systems for physics,"
while Lefkowitz and Kobilka will
earn accolades for "studies of
G-protein-coupled receptors"
in chemistry. Gurdon and
Yamanaka will take honors
under the medicine category
for "the discovery that ma
ture cells can be repro
grammed to become pluripo-
tent", and Yan will received
recognition for writing novels
whose "hallucinatory realism
merges folk tale, history, and
contemporary" in literature.
Roth and Shapley will also
receive honors for their "theory
of stable allocations and the
practice of market design" in
economics. This particular cat
egory did not become official
until 1968 when Sveriges
Riksbank, a bank in Sweden
known for being the third old
est bank in the world and still
in operation, made a large do
nation in order to honor its
300th anniversary. This mon
etary gift created the Nobel
Prize in Economics.
Alfred Nobel from whom the
awards take their names, donated
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Recipients of the Nobel Prize will receive their awards at a
lavish ceremony in December. The photo above was taken
during the 2011 ceremony for that year's winners. Internet photo
in his win 94% of his fortune, over
$180millionintoday'scuxrency to
create prizes "for those who confer
the greatest of mankind," accord
ing to http://www.nobelprize.org/
nobel_prizes.
Resulting from his donation
was the formation of the Nor
wegian Nobel Committee,
whose members deem who is
most deserving of each prize.
Soon after the nomination pro
cess ends, the Nobel Commit
tee prepares a report with ad
vice from experts in each field
and then gives it to the Nobel
Committee in each field for a
vote. Receiving between 150
and 250 nominations every
year, the Norwegian Nobel
Committee spends time from
February to October to deter
mine the winners.
Henry Durant of Switzer
land won the first Nobel Peace
Prize in 1901 for founding the
International Committee of the
Red Cross. Notable people who
have won the Nobel Peace prize
include Barack Obama in 2009;
A1 Gore for his efforts to inform
people on climate change in
2007; Nelson Mandela for his
peace efforts in South Africa;
Elie Wiesel for serving as
Chairman of the President's
Commission on the Holocaust,
and Theodore Roosevelt for his
mediation leading to the end of
the Russo-Japanese War.
Pakistani girl on road to recovery
after vicious attack from Taliban
News
2-3
Opinion
4-5
Features
6-9
Sports
9-12
BY ALLIYAH SANDERS
Reporter
Malala Yousufzai, a 14-
year-old girl from Pakistan,
earned international recogni
tion for promoting girls' edu
cation and criticizing militant
groups' behavior when they
took over the scenic Swat Val
ley where "she lived. She fell
victim to a gunshot wound to
the head when the Taliban
accused her of being a spy.
Two of Malala's classmates
were also wounded in the at
tack and are receiving treat
ment in Pakistan.
Pakistani Taliban told the
Reuters news agency that they
considered Malala a "spy of the
West" and "deserved to die
because infidels gave her
awards and rewards for es
pionage," according to
cbsnews.com in an article on
October 16. "We targeted her
because she would speak
against the Taliban while sit
ting with shameless strangers
and idealized the biggest en
emy of Islam, Barack
Obama." "We did not attack
her for raising voice for edu
cation," they said. "We tar
geted her for opposing
mujahedeen and their war."
Pakistani doctors removed
a bullet from her body that en
tered her head and moved to
ward her spine. Doctors and
Malala's family consulted be
fore making the major decision
to send her to the United King
dom. The Pakistani govern
ment agreed to pay for her
treatment. She was then
transported to the United
Kingdom at Queen Elizabeth
Hospital in Birmingham for
more specialized medical care
and to protect her from fol
low-up attacks that militants
were threatening.
Malala's doctors are
"impressed with her strength and
resilience," said Medical Director
Dave Rosser. British doctors
overseeing her recovery also
stated her condition was stable fol
lowing treatment.
"She was able to move her legs
and hands several days ago when
her sedatives were reduced,"
according to the Pakistani
military as published in the
same article.
Damaged bones in Malala's
skull will need to be repaired
or replaced, and she will
need "intensive neuro rehabili
tation," according to the
hospital records.