Dear Diary: The OMF Gods Destroyed My Car

By Bill Matson As a news reporter for the Rebellion, I am supposed to go out and find the news and report on it so my fellow classmates can hear about it firsthand from a reliable source. But for now, I’d like to talk about an issue that has always been in the back of my mind: The parking situation... [Read more]

Sarah Palin Out of Line

Sarah Palin, master of stirring up ignorant people into angry frenzies with one hate-filled word, now has an entirely new forum to do it.  Palin is now a correspondent on Fox News Channel, and apparently will get another TV show about Alaska.  Right now, she’s become the symbol for feminists and... [Read more]

Letter to the Editor: Teachers and Parking

              Every new school year there’s the one article published, normally by a senior, about the chaos that is the Senior Parking Lot. The points are always the same: The spaces are too small, the exiting process takes forever, and it fills up too quickly in the morning, etc., etc. Occasionally... [Read more]

What the Schuck: “My Government Knows and Seeks the best Possible Future for Me.”

In 8th grade I thought that I was super smart. I thought that I could go through 8th grade just like I had gone through all the other grades before it, without doing any work whatsoever. But when I got my 3rd quarter report card, things needed to change. I got straight Fs. Literally every single grade... [Read more]

Off Campus Lunch Offers Pleasing Alternative

  Over the past few years, lunchtime has changed drastically. Where before, eating in the cafeteria meant having meatloaf surprise or crusty macaroni and cheese, today it is associated with healthy choices, which means whole wheat everything.   Lunch ladies are now serving whole wheat muffins, whole... [Read more]

Dropouts and Portfolio May Be Linked

The portfolio wasn’t the main reason why I dropped out of school but it was one of them,” a recent South Kingstown High School dropout says.   Prior to the portfolio’s introduction in 2007, SKHS graduated 298 students of a class of 320. Of the remaining 22 students who dropped out, 14 got their... [Read more]

Stop Monkeying Around with the Schedule

It’s hard enough to memorize one time schedule for classes, but now the South Kingstown High School administration has us memorizing three different bell schedules. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday now have three different time arrangements, where last year there were only two.   Last year’s bells... [Read more]

Iran Starts Green Revolution

In June 2009 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  was elected for a second term. On June 12th a record number of Iranians turned out to vote for the president, thinking it would be the closest presidential race ever. Voters, however, were hit with surprise.   Shortly after the polls closed it was... [Read more]

Elimination of Gay Rights Problematic

  During September of 2009, word got out that Uganda, a country in Africa, passed a law stating that homosexuals will be killed for acting upon their orientation.  One would think this would stir up world-wide disapproval.  Few, however, pushed the African country to change its attempt to pass the... [Read more]

Opinion: Sports Radio and Politics Don’t Mix

Sports and politics are both great things.  One provides a release from the problems of the world, while the latter runs our country.  So what happens when they mix?  It’s not pretty. As both a sports fan and a politics enthusiast, the two should never mix.  When they do, the results can be disastrous. ... [Read more]

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