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Snyder High School • 3801 Austin Ave., Snyder, TX 79549 • Sept. 27, 2002 • Vol. 82, Issue No. 1 Calendar 9/27 Homecoming STOKES GOES ‘DOWN UNDER’ Meal sara cantu After game dance 10/11 Pre-game Meal Matthew Stokes, senior, we did a home stay and for Tiger Mom Dance recently returned from a trip two nights we did a farm stay. 10/18 3 Weeks to Australia. Q: What types of food did 10/22 TAAS Writing Q: What part of Australia you eat? Picture Retakes did you visit? A: Chicken. Lots of chick- 10/23 TAAS Math A: Sydney and Cairns. en. Burgers - bat burgers. 10/24 TAAS Reading Snorkeling was in Cairns. Steaks… not like the ones we 10/25 Pre game Meal StuCo Dance Q: When did you leave to know… they were only like Australia and when did you half an inch thick. It’s pathetic. Personal return? The sausage was nasty; it had A: July 15 through August no seasoning whatsoever. Profile 3. Q: In case anyone decides Introduces Q: Ok, so it was summer to go eat in Australia, what are Musicians here in July. What season was your recommendations for page 8-9 it over there? good restaurants? A: Wintertime over there. A: The Hard Rock Café. Q&A Which winter over there is a The Hog’s Breath Café. cold day here. So, 60 degrees, Q: What are some ways that Q: Should Sept. 11 be 50 degrees… just enough to teenagers hang out? made a holiday? put a light jacket on. A: Surf… chat on line. Q: What organization did They were just starting school On the road again Senior Matthew Stokes and Cody, fellow trav- A: “No, but you should al- you travel with? so we didn’t see many kids. eler from Midland Lee, bid farewell to the photographer as they head to ways remember what hap- A: People to People Student Q: Is American music a a farm stay in Australia. Stokes spent three weeks this summer visiting pened.” Ambassador Program heavy influence? various points of interest in Australia as part of the People to People Student Ambassador Program. Contributed photo A.J. Frizzell, 11 Q: What was the purpose of A: Yes. Like New Found this program? Glory… there is a lot of New A: “Yes. I believe that an A: To go to a different Found Glory over there. event like this has not hap- country and learn their culture, Q: What is the worst pened in several years, mak- heritage and history. memory from your trip? ing the USA pull together and unite.” Q: What are some of the A: It got very cold at night John Bell, 12 attractions you saw? and in the hotels there were A: The Sidney Opera sheets but no fuzzy blankets. A: “Yes, because for the House, Sydney Harbor Q: Exactly how long was years to come, our children Bridge, Capricorn Caverns, the flight over to Australia? and granchildren can remem- and the Great Barrier Reef. A: Fourteen hours. And we ber and learn from the tragic Q: Out of those places, lost a day when we went over. event that took place.” which was the most inter- Q: What is the biggest Nathan Graves, 10 esting? difference between America A: The Great Barrier Reef. and Australia? A: “Yes, but I think Dec. 7 Awwww… Matthew Stokes took this picture of kangaroos at Q: I know some groups stay A: Driving on the left side Wildworld, a zoo at Cairns. Contributed photo should be too, so we can have with families when they visit of the road of course. It was a day reserved for those people who died in those at- other countries. Did you stay like going back to the sixties. back again? Q: And—the final and most tacks.” with any families, and if you There were lots of hippies. A: Yes. It was a very important question. Did you Isaac Sanchez, 12 didn’t, where did you stay? Q: So, after your expe- memorable experience. It’s see any kangaroos? A: Hotels. For two nights, rience, would you like to go worth going back again. A: Yes, lots of kangaroos. It’s All Inside Musicians........................................................................ 8-9 11 .................................... Homecoming Queen Nominees’ Bios Body Piercing.....................................................................3 3 ............................................................................Dress Code Sports......................................................................... 11-15 16 ........................................................................Photo Gallery 222 viewpointsviewpointsviewpoints Sept. 27,27, 20022002Sept. Editorial Amber Alert necessary Black Van After the rash of child abductions over the past few Lic. #824-5793 months, parents and law enforcement officers are asking 6’3” White Male the same question: How do we prevent this? One possible answer is a nationwide Amber Alert system in place of the current statewide alerts. When police are notified of an abduction, local television and radio broadcasts, as well as scrolling freeway marquees, notify the public of the abduction and any valuable “Look, honey, I information about the child and the suspected abductor. think that is the car Statewide Amber Alerts across the nation have captured the police are after. numerous kidnappers and returned children to their You know the one families, many within 24 hours of the abduction. Case in who abducted the little girl?” point: Nancy Chavez, a one-month-old, was snatched from a shopping cart at the Abilene Wal-Mart last month. Almost instantly, Governor Perry issued a statewide Amber Alert. Baby Nancy’s abductor was apprehended, and Nancy was returned to her parents, less than 24 hours later. An Amber Alert in Texas stopped this kidnapper, but what if she had left the state? Nancy’s kidnapper was arrested in Quanah, TX, near the Oklahoma border. Would this woman have been captured as quickly if she had made it across the state line? If the Amber Alert was nationwide, the public in neighboring states would already be notified and on the lookout for baby Nancy and her abductor. Opponents of a nationwide Amber Alert say that having more freeway marquees all over the nation would make the public become apathetic about the kidnappings. Seeing a news broadcast or marquee once a week about a kidnapped child would desensitize the public, making us less apt to notice a person that the police are looking for. Also, a nationwide system would be very costly. One of those freeway marquees would run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is a simple answer to all this opposition. This is the safety of our children we’re talking about. This is not a simple budget or logistics decision. This is a child, someone’s daughter, kid brother, or baby cousin. It’s very difficult to become apathetic about a missing child. Thirty-two hundred to 4,600 children are abducted every year by non-family members. That’s not even one child in every town in the country. The only way apathy could set in would be if there was an Amber Alert in a specific place every single day. Every parent, sibling, or relative who has lived through an abduction would gladly give up millions of dollars to have that child safe at home sooner. This world is not a safe place, especially for children, but things like Amber Alerts make it a little bit safer. Editor’s Note: Statistics from National Incidence studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice Stands taken in the editorial, editorial car- by advertisements. Rates are $3 per column toons, opinion columns, letters to the editor, and inch. 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Printed by Snyder Daily News Financing of The Tiger’s Tale is provided Sept. 27,27, 20022002Sept. viewpointsviewpointsviewpoints 333 Chatty Cathy Have You Noticed…? Dress code gets review Piercings? The new fad? I think not! c atherine whitworth sara cantu Every school what is offensive about a pair year begins of sunglasses.