U. City High School 7401 Balson Ave. University City, MO 63130
NEWS MAGAZINE
U-Times October 2012 Volume 24, Issue 1
HOMECOMING ISSUE
INSIDE THIS ISSUE...
Homecoming week packed with festive events By Lily Lewis-Stump Co-Editor
After a week of theme days culminating with Spirit Day and the pep rally on Friday, the district-wide homecoming parade took place on Sat., Sept. 29. The day started in the Delmar Loop in the early morning. From there, the Disney themed parade continued into the high school football stadium. Spectators enjoyed the annual homecoming football game between University City and Rockwood Summit, which ended in a 49-12 loss. Later that night, students dressed their best for the homecoming dance. (see pages 4-7)
-Cell Phone Policy -New Teachers Page 2-3
The field hockey float (shown) took top honors at the parade with boys swim and boys soccer teams taking second and third places. PHOTO BY KAICEE WOODS
EDITORIAL
-Homecoming Dance -Spirit Week Page 4-5
-Homecoming Pep Rally -Marching Band -Homecoming Parade Page 6
-Seniors on JV -Field Hockey -Homecoming Football Game Page 7-8
Presidential election: experience vs. unknown By Carl Sechrist Staff Writer
Barack Obama, the Incumbent This presidential election is very similar to 2008, in that the choice of candidate will play a large role in setting the course of the nation for many years. Unlike ’08 though, one of the candidates has been presidentially proven. Incumbent Barack Obama has shown us over the past four years who he is and what he is capable of in office. This makes the choice for whom to elect a little bit easier. Although his first months in office were a bit shaky, Obama has shown the nation a decisiveness and direction that is an unknown with respect to his competitor Mitt Romney. A common complaint is that the incumbent has not accomplished what he had said he would accomplish. “To expect Barack Obama to have repaired, in four years, what took 30 years to undermine, is simply absurd,”
states an editorial in the Saint Louis PostDispatch. It is difficult to dispute that he has had a large amount of opposition in getting almost anything done. What has been able to be passed in the last couple of years, however, has had great benefits. Nobody should argue that “Obamacare” is a bad thing – for the middle class it has made medical bills more manageable and should continue that trend as more of it gets instated. “[Obama] approved the SEAL mission that killed Osama bin Laden,” says the Post-Dispatch, and that was no milk run. And, although the progress has been slower than many would like it to be, Obama has played a key role in reducing the unemployment rate and could, with more support, have a hand in reducing the national debt. Mitt Romney, the Opposition Unlike Obama, Mitt Romney is a presidential unknown. Everything that the nation does know about him as a politician and leader stems from what has been given out in campaign speeches and from his time as Governor of Massachusetts. The key question that potential voters need to ask themselves is “which Mitt Romney are we talking about?” says the Post-Dispatch. Romney has been known to change
his words and what he says he believes in on a frequent basis, often as a way to cater to his audience. That is one thing Obama absolutely cannot be accused of. Because of this “flip-flopping,” Romney does not even convey to his base what he may be liable to do if he makes it into the oval office. One week he states that “47 percent of Americans are moochers,” and the next week, after finding out that that did not go over well, that “that’s not what he believes,” according to the PostDispatch. The nation’s voters need to consider these facts when they step up to the voting booth on Nov. 6. Will you choose an incumbent who, despite his several shortcomings, has helped move the nation in the right direction after the downturn, or a presidential unknown who so far on the campaign trail has changed his platform on what seems like an almost weekly basis? If you are a senior, you could be one of them – choose wisely.