Sweet As Honey Or Sour As A Boo-Boo?

2 Issue 1September 26th, 2012Editorial

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The purpose of this publication is to inform the students of the Scribner-Snyder Com-munity Schools, their families, and the community members of the town of Scribner, the

village of Snyder, and residents of the Elkhorn Valley about school events and news.

The Trojan Times is printed through a cooperative effort with The Rustler-Sentinel and is distributed with The Rustler-Sentinel upon each printing, as well as a stand-alone

publication on the campus of the Scribner-Snyder Community Schools.

Editorials and opinions found in The Trojan Times are those of the author or contribu-tor and are not reflective of the opinions of the administration, staff, or students of the

Scribner-Snyder Community Schools, nor of the staff of the Rustler-Sentinel.

Advertising space is available in the pages of The Trojan Times or through inserts in the school-distributed edition. Please contact Mr. Cosenza for more details or to buy an ad.

Brooke LodlJeremy Wisnieski

Alex McMillenDavid Martin

Heather Cleary and Autumn SchulenbergGarret Bertelsen, Makayla Brainard, and

Brant StockampS-S students in English 1, 2, and 3

Mr. Tom Cosenza Mr. Brad Stithem - Principal

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TLC has come out with a new series called “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and boy is it entertaining! For those of you who haven’t seen or heard of the show, you may have heard of the star of the show, Alana (aka Honey Boo Boo), from TLC’s show “Toddlers & Tiar-as”. Alana is a very outrageous, funny, crazy girl who loves chicken nuggets, mud bogging, redneck games, and beauty pageants. Her crazy family is by her side every step of the way.

Some critics disagree with the family’s lifestyle. An anony-mous source stated, “...why would you let your 6 year old daughter show off her fat and you show off your own and be proud of it...” Although this

source has a valid point, it also shows America that you can be any shape and size and still be proud of who you are. You don’t have to be a size 2 to be beautiful, or a model to win beauty pag-eants. Granted, Alana hasn’t won to many pageants, but she still has come out with awards.

In my own opinion, Hon-ey Boo Boo is insanely funny and incred-ibly adorable. She doesn’t

care what oth-ers think of how she goes about her way of life and that is something that a person should learn from her. I also admire her fam-ily. They aren’t real high class,

but they bond as a family and actually get along with each other. When someone wants to do something, such as losing weight (which they are doing on the show), they do it together as a group. Again, any family can learn from them and become a better family.

Another great thing about the show is that you get a whole new vocabulary! None of the family members go by their

actual names. Their names are “Honey Boo Boo” (Alana), “June” (Mother), “Sugar Bear” (Dad), “Pumpkin” (Lauryn), “Chubbs” (Jessica), and “Chick-adee” (Anna). They also have a unique vocabulary for terms such as face (barn). June said in one episode, “If I were to put some paint on this ole barn, I’d look perty good.” She also made a comment about beau-timous (beautiful) women and

women who let their vajiggle jaggle (fat) hang out. The most famous quote is Honey Boo Boos “You better rednecki-nize!”

The show has its pros and cons but it is nothing that is actually doing any harm to anything in America. The show is showing people how they should act and treat one another, and that’s all I have to say about that.

Sweet As Honey Or Sour As A Boo-Boo?

Seen first on TLC’s “Toddlers and Tiaras”, Alana and her family now star in their own reality-based show. Photo cour-tesy of Google Images

TLC’s newest s hit, but is it exploitative? Photo courtesy of TLC.com

Brooke Lodl

2 Issue 3October 31st, 2012Editorials

The Trojan TimesA student-run publication of the

Scribner-Snyder Community SchoolsEditor-in-ChiefSports & Activities EditorFeatures EditorOnline Content CoordinatorStaff Photographers

Staff Artists

Staff WritersAdviserPublisher

Editorial Policies and Publication InformationThe Trojan Times is a student-run publication of the Scribner-Snyder Community Schools and is produced by students in the Creative Writing / Journalism course.

The purpose of this publication is to inform the students of the Scribner-Snyder Com-munity Schools, their families, and the community members of the town of Scribner, the

village of Snyder, and residents of the Elkhorn Valley about school events and news.

The Trojan Times is printed through a cooperative effort with The Rustler-Sentinel and is distributed with The Rustler-Sentinel upon each printing, as well as a stand-alone

publication on the campus of the Scribner-Snyder Community Schools.

Editorials and opinions found in The Trojan Times are those of the author or contribu-tor and are not reflective of the opinions of the administration, staff, or students of the

Scribner-Snyder Community Schools, nor of the staff of the Rustler-Sentinel.

Advertising space is available in the pages of The Trojan Times or through inserts in the school-distributed edition. Please contact Mr. Cosenza for more details or to buy an ad.

Brooke LodlJeremy Wisnieski

Alex McMillenDavid Martin

Heather Cleary, Micah Schut, and Autumn Schulenberg

Garret Bertelsen, Makayla Brainard, and Brant Stockamp

S-S students in English 1, 2, and 3Mr. Tom Cosenza

Mr. Brad Stithem - Principal

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If you have not paid any at-tention to this election at all, you‘re in pretty good shape. If there was a way to skip all of the drama with this election and just hear about the issues - someone please tell me how.

This election has been cam-paigned on the premise that if you make your opponent look bad then it will make you look good.

To me, it kind of resembles a high school homecoming elec-tion. Like one you see on mov-ies where two girls try to em-barras eachother and then in the end, someone completely out of nowhere wins. The problem with the presidencial election is that some third party will not win.

The Romney campaign has been based on the fact that the country did not improve at all in the last 4 years. In matter of fact not much of that is the president’s fault. I know that everyone thinks that the Presi-dent of the United States is in

control of the entire world and no one has the power to control the President because of the fear of beheading.

To be completely honest, our president does not really have as much power as anyone may think. It does not matter what the President thinks will help our country. It only matters what the rich over-paid con-gressman think.

The Obama strategy has al-most completely focused on the fact that Romney has no clue about the middle class because he is a rich investor who thinks he is better than everyone else.

An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost, or abandoned animals. The good of the modern animal shelter is to provide a safe and caring environment until the animal is either reclaimed by its owner, placed in a new home, or placed with another organization for adoption.

Many shelters temperament test animals before they are put up for adoption to determine

if the animal is adoptable and what the appropriate home envi-ronment would be.

In the United States, many government-run animal shelters operate in conditions that are far from ideal. Many government shelters have run out of space and financial resources. Cur-rently, 64% of all incoming ani-mals left in a government-run shelter are put to sleep. Shelters unable to raise additional funds to provide for the increased number of incoming animals have no choice but to put them to sleep, sometimes within days.

In my own opinion, animal shelters should all be no-kill

shelters. There are a lot of animals out there that are in trouble. One reason being that they are abused and don’t have homes, but they are also being put to sleep because the shelters aren’t able to support them any-more. 64% is very high and I think that needs to be changed!

Animals are like people, they have feelings too. Animals want to live their lives as long as they can, just like people, but they aren’t getting the chance. The shelters need to put more advertising out and they need to be more open about if they need help supporting the animals. They need to have more com-

munication with other shelters and if one shelter has a lot of room in it then the crowded shelter needs to bring some ani-mals over to that shelter.

Many people love animals, like me, but on the other hand,

many people don’t care what happens to animals and they would rather have them put to sleep. I ask that you help out your local animal shelter by either donating money or your time towards the shelter.

2012 Negative Campaigning Diminishes Elections

No one really real-izes that Romney does know about our econo-my. His home state of Massachussetts has done pretty well. Massa-chusetts is in the top half of the states in the country and that rise started under Romney.

In the end, I think every American wants to actually

know about the issues and not so much about a candidates taxes or how he grew up. Just about every voter whats to know how their vote will affect them personally and build up our great nation.

Mercy Me: Shelter Reform Needed Now

Shelters near West Point:

Animal Shelter of North-west Nebraska - Norfolk

Puppy Love - Norfolk

Bright Futures Pet Adop-tion and Rescue, Inc. - Columbus

Shelters near Scribner:

SCLP Pet Rescue - Wahoo

Nebraska Humane Society - Omaha

Heartland Cats - Omaha

No Pets Left Behind - Omaha

Graphic courtesy of Google Images

Brooke Lodl

The Trojan Times Special Report: Trojan People

volume XII - issue 8 - January 30th, 2013

4French Fries the Competition

As you know, the winter sports seasons are in full swing. Weekends and weekdays are filled with basketball games, bowling tournaments, and wrestling tournaments. The wrestling team has been work-ing very hard this year and has had some successful duals and tournaments. I chose to inter-view Scribner-Snyder sopho-more wrestler Brandon French to see how the season is going and what he and the teams goals are for the rest of the season and for the post season.

Q: What has been the 2012-2013 season’s biggest challenge so far?

A: “Probably coming back from tough losses.”

Q: Are your coaches enthused to have so many wrestlers on the team?

A: “Yes, they are happy to have so many and they always want more to go out.”

Q: Have other teams im-proved a lot in the past year?

A: “Yes, kids from other teams have worked hard and got better.”

Q: What is your favorite thing

about wrestling?A: “Just wrestling is a lot of

fun.”Q: Do you think the team will

send any wrestlers to state?A: “Yes, I think we will have

some kids make it.”Q: What are the team’s goals

for the rest of the season?

A: “To wrestle hard and try to make it to state.”

Brandon French tries to escape from a Skutt Catholic opponent at the Trojan Duals. Photo by the Trojan Times staff.

The Talented Mr. Justin Niewohner

Justin Niewohner was born in Fremont, Nebraska, on April 20th 1996. Justin has lived in Scribner his whole life and has gone to Scribner-Snyder Com-munity School since kindergar-ten.

Justin has one brother who goes to the University of Ne-braska. Justin lives with his mom and dad.

Justin enjoys playing sports with his friends and playing school sports. His favorite sport is baseball which he plays for both the school and also for

the junior legion team. Justin sometimes even plays for the seniors. Justin also plays foot-ball and basketball for school.

Justin’s favorite hobbies are going out to the lake to hang out with his friends. He also likes to go to husker football games with all his friends. He also likes to hunt raccoons and deer when the season starts. He also likes to go 4 wheeling on the river with his friends.

Justin’s favorite food is a nice big juicy steak. His favorite restaurant is Texas Roadhouse but his favorite fast food place is McDonalds. Justin’s favor-ite color is red and he likes all kinds of music.

Justin plans on going to the University of Nebraska after

high school where he wants to play baseball and major in ath-letic training. After completing

college, Justin hopes to find a good job in the athletic training field and live in a big house on a

lake and live happily ever after.

Whether in the stands, like on Pink-Out Night, or on the football field, Justin Niewohner is an active member of the Scribner-Snyder Trojans community. Photos by Micah Schut.

William and Arlene Alsmeyer are sponsoring another foreign exchange student this year and her name is Laura Isabella Ospina Eslava. Laura Isabella Ospina Eslava is from Spain. The Alsmeyers have had ex-change students from all over the world.

Mr. and Mrs. Alsmeyer got involved in sponsoring ex-change students at a chamber picnic. At the picnic, there was a teacher that was sponsoring an exchange student and she knew of another exchange student

Mrs. Alsmeyer: S-S Host for the World

Illustration by Makayla Brainard

Brooke Lodl