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10 Years Since O’School Basketball Feathered Dinosaur Electronica’s Subculture Obama Fires GM’s Columbine Team Found Surfaces CEO Page 3 Page 9 Page 17 Page 15 Page 16 Volume 4 Summer School Begins Issue 6 JUNE 8, 2009 By Alan This summer, the Ortho- genic School curriculum is going to be quite extensive. It will include classes like Vocational Horticul- ture, Literary Magazine Art and Writing, Journalism, Cycling, Civil Rights Study, Drivers’ Ed, Psychol- ogy, Basic Computer Skills, Digital Photography, and a class studying and enacting the play Much Ado About Nothing. Summer school starts on June 22nd and lasts for eight weeks. It begins each weekday at 9:00am and ends at 1:00pm. There are two classes per day, lasting one and a half hours each. This allows for longer discussions in class, and for other material to be explained that would not normally be able An Empty Classroom to be covered in the typical forty- the option of choosing what class- able to them, especially since many five minute sessions. The extended es to enroll in, which is taken for students come credit-deficient class time also enables the school granted by most high school stu- and need to focus on core classes to meet minute requirements for dents, but is only given to Ortho- rather than electives that might be full semester credits, which would genic School students during the offered at other schools. However, otherwise be impossible due to the summer. This is mainly due to the the lack of selection is more than short duration of the classes. small student body of around fifty made up for by the quality of the In addition to having students. With fewer students and courses available, especially during extra class time, students also have teachers come fewer classes avail- the summer, when there are more Continued on page 11 Pink is the New Orange By Brooklyn Imagine having to wear a pink jumpsuit in prison. In Norman, Okla- homa there has recently been a change in uniform color for the inmates in local prisons. Sheriff Joe Lester decided to make the uniforms be pink versus the typical orange for inmates. According to an article by Gan Matthews for News Inmates in some correctional facilities now wear pink. 9, the switch from orange to pink uniforms started County Sheriff Joe Arpaio other states that now in- in Arizona with Maricopa and spread to a handful of cludes Oklahoma. Accord- Continued on page 6 2 Photo Credits Page 1 Page 5 Photo taken by Michelle Z http://upload.wikimedia.org/ Inmate in Pink How the Economy Affects Pets Page 10 wikipedia/commons/3/3d/ Google Images, 2009 http://mctcampus. 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Taser Gun Page 14 Page 18 php?id=200905132326MCT_____ Google Images, 2009 Jim Thome Disney XD Logo PHOTO____US_NEWS_ Chicago Police Car Google Iamges, 2009 Disney.com OBAMA_1_ABA&type=prevPic Google Images, 2009 Page 15 Page 19 © 2009 McClatchy-Tribune Page 9 Electronica’s Underground Cup of Coffee Information Services O’School Basketball Team Subculture Surfaces Google Images, 2009 Photo taken by Alan Chemical Formula for Caffeine Staff Profile: Omid Google Images 2009 The student newspaper of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School SEnioR ADvisoRS InvoLVEMENT EDITOR Michelle Pegram Kayla B. Michelle Zarilli PHOTO EDITOR AssisTanT ADvisoRS Alan Geoff Keegstra CopY EDITOR Jillian Swinford If you are interested Brooklyn in contributing to our STAFF WRITERS ConTENT EDITOR paper, please submit your Alan, Brooklyn, A. James Natalie articles, poems or artwork N, James N., Justin, Kayla CORE LaYOUT DEsiGN to Michelle Pegram or B., Kayla V., Natalie P Michelle Zarilli. Ryan Your work will be The Yellow Door Chronicles and the YDC logo are copyright © 2005-2009 by the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School. All rights reserved. reviewed by the YDC All text not covered under the above notices is copyright of its respective author and is used under permission. team for future issues. Volume 4 Issue 6 3 10 Years Since Columbine By Kayla V It was April 20, 1999 when the terrible tragedy hap- pened at Columbine High national & world School in Littleton, Colo- rado. Two teenage boys went to school carrying guns and started shooting. They left thirteen dead, and twenty- four injured. According to the Chicago Tribune, records show that Eric and Dylan boasted in their diaries that School continues on as usual for Columbine, the boys picked on the fresh- despite tragic past events men and called other students who were different from them was pretty shocking to a lot the anniversary of that day in derogatory names. There is of people for a couple reasons. memory of those who died. still a debate as to whether or One being that Littleton was Those who were injured or not the gunmen targeted cer- a nice suburban town, and the witnessed the whole thing are tain people or just anyone in other reason being it isn’t an still haunted by that day, espe- general. area with a high crime rate. cially on the Columbine anni- Since Columbine It has now been ten versaries; it brings flashbacks High School is in a subur- years since the incident; Col- about that day. One teacher ban area called Littleton, this umbine high school closed on remembers having to try to Continued on page 4 Obama’s Big 100 By A. James N. President Barack Obama has completed his first one hundred days in the Oval Office. There is almost no doubt that our president’s first hundred days will be remembered alongside anoth- er historical hundred. The reference here is to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who, in his first hundred days as president, not only declared a four-day bank holiday in order to help rebuild our economy during the Great Depression, but also created the New Deal and started the historical “fireside chat.” People today can see President Obama’s version of Roosevelt’s chats on YouTube.com. Creating the “YouTube-side chat” isn’t all that President Obama has done during his first hundred days. According to a Jan- uary 29, 2009 New York Times article, the new president passed his very first law. Said law is known as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The bill’s namesake is an Alabama woman who had been a supervisor in a tire factory for nineteen years, yet had made less money than the men working with her. Ledbetter had brought the case to the Supreme Court, but America’s highest court ruled against her. After this ruling, Congress relaxed the statute of limi- tations by approving a legislation expanding workers’ rights to sue Continued on page 4 Our 44th President, Barack Obama 4 Obama’s Big 100 By A. James N. continued from page 3 in similar cases. While this bill questions people asked and The president wants to place Mr. Rosen’s May 1st 2009 blog, does not guarantee equal pay voted on. more strict standards on Wall President Obama made one for men and women, it is one Over 100,000 ques- Street investors as well as banks big mistake in his first hundred step closer to that day. tions were asked and voted on in order to avoid financial melt- days in office, namely the ap- “It is fitting that with regarding the economy, the downs in the future. He also pointment of Treasury Secretary, the very first bill I sign – the legalization of marijuana, and wants to encourage Americans Timothy Geithner. “Here’s your Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – everything in between. Appar- to use renewable energy, build assignment,” Rosen says in the we are upholding one of this ently the favored question of stronger education, create more blog. “You’ve just been elected nation’s first principles: that we Americans was on marijuana’s support for immigration ref- President of the United States. are all created equal and each possible legalization. “I’m not ormation, and begin to reduce Your most urgent Cabinet ap- deserve a chance to pursue sure what this says about the our reliance on oil. Last but not pointment is Treasury Secretary, our own version of happiness,” online audience,” the president least, President Obama wants the person who will lead us President Obama said in the said jokingly during the meet- to fix the already overburdened out of the worst financial abyss New York Times article. ing. He then told the viewers healthcare system, which may since the Great Depression… Even Ms.