By Steffi Porter
Editor
The auditorium was packed on January 20th as Northampton High School classes came to witness the inauguration of New President, Barack Obama.
The historic event was broadcast live all throughout NHS, from classrooms to the cafeteria.
“I can't remember watching an inauguration before. It got me interested,” said School Nurse Ellen Hirschberg. “It was more interesting than I thought it would be. I watched it on repeats the next day as well.”
Hirschberg wasn't the only one to claim Barack Obama got her interested.
“I thought it was really cool. I wouldn’t have watched it if it had been anyone else.”
Merle O’Neal said. (GRADE??)
Barack Obama’s Inauguration got some high school students much more interested in politics, and also got them discussing the significance of Obama being the first African American President.
“There was a lot of hope. It was a lot like when President Clinton was elected, but I have to say this was even more positive than that occasion,” Educational Support Professional, John Lyman said.
Not ever member of the NHS community however, expressed the same opinion of the Inauguration.
will be kept on the edge of their seat by the new, harsh, but realistic judge, Hillary Clinton, after she beat out Brittany Spears on the new show, “I Want to be the Next Simon Cowell,” who finally went too far with his criticism and was tragically strangled by a contestant in season 11. Paula Abdul quotes, “My only regret about the past 11 years was that it was not I who finally ended the life of Simon. But hey, there is still Randy.” Well said Paula.
However, all that was once good and real will not be lost in the future world of reality television, because on every Friday night there will still be America’s favorite, “The Hills.”
This week’s episode has the return of LC, shown eating a jar of prunes from her luxurious, nursing home cot, while Heidi throws out her back attempting to cane-slap Spencer, after she loses a not so friendly game of Bingo.
The world of reality television is taking over the planet. Would we all be that surprised if we learned this primetime nonsense was the real reason the ozone layer is coming to an end? Don’t take that last thought too seriously. After all if our reality shows where ever interrupted to broadcast that announcement, there is a 50/50 chance that the entire country was just being Punk’d by Ashton Kutcher.
Our world is bowing down to the reality TV tyrants at the moment. If we start to find SAT scores go down, new technology comes to a halt, energy ideas are washed up, and PBS is suddenly filled with “Barney’s Quest for True Love,” well at least Paris Hilton should be having the best week ever. We played Dr. Frankenstein in bringing life to these rubbish shows, and now they will never leave us alone. That is our reality.
