n Tuesday January 26th Capital High seniors piled onto to buses, either at 8:15 or 10:15 depending on which government class they have, and were shipped off the the Historical Society to participate in Indian Education for All. This initiative requires schools to include some curriculum that deals with an understanding of Native American culture and modern practices.

These are the announcements for 1/27

The Montana Meth project came to Capital High on January 13th to launch wave 5 of the campaign against methamphetamine use in Montana. Capital Highs auditorium played host to the top people involved in the Montana Meth campaign, including executive director of the project Bill Slaughter and Secretary of State Linda McCulloch.

Anyone who is under the impression that Americans retain their right to privacy is sadly mistaken. The attempted bombing of Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has brought the debate regarding the importance of privacy and security back to the table. There are definitely some questions and debates that need to take place, but, I am not convinced that it has to do entirely with privacy.

There is an insurmountable amount of skepticism surrounding these scanners. But, how do the scanners really work? The scanners take a few seconds to analyze the persons body; any objects on the person ranging from a gun to a few ounces of powder can be easily differentiated from the body. New software can even protect travelers’ privacy by producing a stylized image of the body instead of a more detailed picture.

Everyone has seen some movie or TV show where the hero must torture the “bad” guy in order to attain very important information. Do the ends – being the information- justify the means- physical/psychological torture? Both sides to the torture debate have legitimate arguments, but, the main question seems to be can moral arguments really stand against protecting lives?

Every Christmas season I dread driving around town; the streets are packed bad drivers in cars overflowing with Christmas presents. What exactly explains this shopping fervor? Some may say it’s the joy of giving, some may say it’s a way to patch broken relationships, but I say it’s good old fashioned greed. People feel the need to spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars on Christmas presents all for the sake of giving and fixing relationships.

Many high school students, especially juniors and seniors, are beginning to worry about the price of going to college. Every year, tuition fees increase, and even public and state college tuition fees are expensive. Tuition usually increases about eight percent every year, and while it may not sound like much, eight percent is a huge increase.

A little over a year ago, Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States. His ideas were new and different, and he promised us “change.” And now after he has been in office for less than a year, some people are angry or disappointed that changes have not been made. But changes have been made. The changes Obama has executed may have not seemed to make much of a difference or were not a drastic as people had hoped, but change takes time.

So yet another year has passed, and we find dear reader that there are still those issues that we find unresolved. As many of us reflect on the events of the past 3651/4(that’s right I said 1/4) we find that there are still many causes that we, not only as individuals, but as a society may further.