Editorial
The Stang
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How should Homecoming proposals be done? Should girls expect a boy to go over the top when they ask them to homecoming? # Ehmry Ritsco & Hope Cubbler Stang Ehmry: Every year, football season begins in the fall, which means that it’s time for Homecoming. All over Instagram, Twitter, etc. one can see examples of homecoming proposals. These proposals range from wild stunts to simple posters. Football and homecoming are a huge part of high school social events all over the United States. These things are often looked forward to with high expectations from both students and parents. Since these standards having been set so high, girls often expect over the top homecoming proposals, but is this something that should be the norm? Guys should put thought into the way they ask girls to homecoming. It should be special since it is a special day, but girls should not always expect
something over the top. If a guy puts thought into asking someone, just the fact that he chose to ask them should be enough for a girl. The girl should be flattered and excited no matter what they receive. It is not okay for a guy to text a girl in order to ask her to homecoming, or for any date. It is only acceptable to let them know that they intend to ask, so the girl does not get asked by someone else before. Boys need to be mature enough to ask someone face to face, if they think they are mature enough to attend a dance in the first place. Hope: Another issue that many face during homecoming season is rejection. A girl should not reject a guy simply because she doesn’t
feel he put in enough effort into asking her. Just because she thinks it was not enough effort does not mean the boy did not give it his all. He might have tried very hard to come up with something sincerely amazing, but it did not turn out as great as he intended. It takes a lot of courage to set oneself up for either acceptance or rejection, so girls should be respectful of feelings. Overall, girls should expect thoughtful proposals when being asked to homecoming, but not over the top. If a girl thinks she is a getting a personalized blimp just for homecoming she needs to rethink what she really wants out of this occasion. Homecoming should be a flattering and fun event for everyone who attends, with or without a date or over the top proposal. Also girls should respect boys in the way of rejection, just
like boys should respect girls when they ask them which means: no texting the question and no unfair
HOMECOMING DATE? Many like to ask a person to
homecoming in the most creative way possible. A student asks a fellow student to homecoming in a sweet and thoughtful way.
If I were president... October library contest winner # Laura Kobs If I were President, I would do everything in my power to get impeached in the most ridiculous way possible. I know I cannot make laws, but with the power of persuasion I would do everything in my power to make life, not difficult, but at definitely less fun for everyone. If you think I can’t do it just ask LBJ. He sent us to Vietnam just by berating Congress members in the bathroom. Have you tried saying ‘no’ to the person outside your bathroom stall while you have no toilet paper and they have a nice, soft roll right there. Thought not. My Vice president would be Vermin Supreme. He has been running every year as a third party candidate since 2004 and he is known for wearing a boot as a hat and carrying a large toothbrush. I need a man with a good history of politics by my side to help me. His policies include that everyone will get a pony, whether they want one or not. It does not matter if you can or cannot care for the pony. You will get it bucko! And like it! And you are expected to take care of it. Or else you will be taxed. Horse taxed. Horse taxes is a real a thing, that I just made up. My President cabinet will be all cast members from the movie Space Jam (Get Slam!) Even the dead ones. And I don’t mean the voice actors of the Looney Tunes, I am talking about the Looney Tunes themselves. Michael Jordan will be shooting hoops in my court. Daffy Duck can be head of Homeland Security. And Porky Pig as Secretary of State. My first act as President, would be to ban Doritos. Everyone loves that stuff. Imagine the public’s reaction. Hilarious. Well, not for you, but for me. I’ll probably
put some fake science research up saying that they are the leading cause of cancer. I would ban Starbucks, but I don’t want to be assassinated. Second act will be to go to war with North Sudan. Sounds scary? Well it ain’t. In fact some guy just bought the land for his daughter so she could be a princess. We are going to war with a seven year old. The population is literally three people. Oh man, I would be a jerk to go to war with a little girl. But it would be worth it. I would just waste our military uses on it too. Get the Navy Seals with their armor and helicopters to just bother them. No guns of course, but like, using Nerf and water guns. Just set a huge base there and waste money like we already do with our military program. Fourth act would be to replace all our paper currency with bees. Just bees. Like a dollar is eight bees and a twenty would be forty bees. And they have to be alive or it doesn’t count. I don’t know whether to have little leashes for them or to just put them in jars, but I’ll let the Supreme Court sort out the details. Fifth act will be on our school system. I know for years that we are not reaching our full potential, so I propose a way to reach beyond ourselves. Under the science that we humans have five senses, I plan to let American children study their sixth sense. That’s right. A sense of humor. From now on all children are to have three years of clown college under their belts in order to graduate from any college. You’re welcome. You know what? All movies are banned for being inappropriate and offensive. All movies. If it has any sign of creativity, originality, or life, it will be considered offensive. So that is why only Adam Sandler movies will
be allowed. You might be wondering, Putin. Also make prank phone calls on ‘Why are Adam Sandler movie the phone. allowed?’ Well, my young walnut, it “Hi who is this?” is because anyone in those movies are “This is the President of the already dead in their career and are United States.” creatively washed up. “Very funny and I’m the Then, I shall change the Queen of England.” national anthem from the Star “Oh, sorry I thought I put you Spangled Banner to the 10 hour Nyan on hold.” Cat YouTube song. It seems befitting But yeah, I would be like the Internet in a way, wouldn’t you agree. Also Obama but like, ALL the time. anytime someone wants to sing “Amazing Grace,” they will have to In conclusion, vote for me, I’ll waste sing “Mr. Sun” instead. But with the your time. With Love. same amount of passion. Like those ladies before a baseball game. Truly Your President. beautiful. Also the new, and first, national language of the Editor-in-Chief-- Spencer Osato United States Co-Editor--Hope Cubbler will be… puns. That it. Just Co-Editor--Jasmine Mata puns. You can Stang Staff say them in Hope Cubbler, Jasmine Mata, Brittany McVaugh, any language, Spencer Osato, Ehmry Ritsco, but as long it 2016-2017 Emily Villarreal, Sara Wray is a pun, that’s the language. I don’t care if Adviser--Heidi McCurdy it is more of a dialect. It. The STANG is published 8 times per year online at www.houstonchristian.org, and is free to the Will. Be. Puns. student body, faculty and staff. Advertising is available to businesses, parents and students, but Let’s The STANG reserves the right to refuse advertisement based on appropriateness for HC Students. For advertising information please contact Heidi McCurdy at see, what else 713-580-6044 or email at hmccurdy@houstonchristian.org. can I do to be an annoying The STANG is a student run newspaper and the views and opinions of The STANG do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the faculty, staff and Board of president? Houston Christian High School. Ban memes. Like, Letters to the Editor: Please email your comments to hmccurdy@houstonchristian.org. I won’t do The STANG reserves the right to refuse or edit inappropriate content of comments. anything to try to get Mission Statement: The mission of The STANG is to inform, entertain and encourage the readers by providing rid of them, insight through school, community and global affairs, in order to raise questions and provide but I’ll just answers. To obtain the truth, which is the basis of our paper, we will incorporate research from a wide variety of sources. Although we write to entertain, we will balance our humor say it and let with real information about the world around us. In all we do, we promise to uphold our that become a Christian values by writing with quality and integrity. meme within itself like with
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