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Former President George W. Bush... Cross Country strides along. Girls’ Tennis Team Battles at States. Inspirtational Speaker? Cross Country / Sports / PAGE 7 Girls Tennis / Sports / PAGE 7 BUSH/ News / PAGE 4 TheThe StSt.. ClairionClairion Volume 11, Issue 1 - December 2009 - Upper St. Clair High School Pittsburgh, PA All the news that fits...And then some! Obama and McChrystal both see the need for more troops in Afghanistan Upper Saint Clair Students Reach out to By: Nick Buzzelli most in the future. The two have Junior Michael Handy does without the extra troops ready Help in the Domincan Opinions Editor come close to a compromise not see the need for the extra for combat, “the war-effort will Mission Trip regarding the need for extra troops to continue the war likely result in a failure” President Obama has contem- troops. McChrystal requested effort. “There is no point risking (www.cnn.com). By: Meghan Taylor plated sending additional U.S. more combat and training young lives to continue fighting Along with the current 62,000 Front-Page Editor troops to Afghanistan within the troops, while Obama sees the in Afghanistan,” says Handy. American troops in past few months to continue Afghanistan, NATO and other On November 13, 2009, fighting the eight year war U.S. allies will send over twenty Upper St. Clair high against terrorism, and he now 30,000 more soldiers overseas. school students traveled to has approved a plan to send Despite the fact that President the Dominican Republic for a more American forces into the Obama and McChrystal believe mission trip with the Kids area. more U.S. troops are needed, Helping Kids Program. The The extra troops being the War in Afghanistan has hit seventeen seniors and three deployed are expected to be “an all-time low” regarding juniors traveled down in support forces instead of support at home (www.compos- hopes to help the people of artillery and combat troops. itor.com). the Dominican Republic. Obama has seen the need for The need for additional armed The students provided more engineers, medical spe- forces comes after an increase medical assistance to those cialists, and intelligence forces. of resurgents in the Taliban. who needed it. The students Over 68,000 troops are expect- The U.S. army commander in ed to be in the still unstable President Barack Obama (left) joined by General Karl Horst visits section Iraq, General Ray Odierno, is had raised money in order to country before January 1st, 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on November 11, also in the process of moving provide the proper necessary 20102009. Section 60 contains the grave sties of servicemen and women who extra army units from Iraq into medicine. A doctor accompa- (www.huffingtonpost.com). were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Kevin Dietsch/Abaca Press/MCT) the Afghanistan mission that nied the students and teach- Obama and General Stanley need for more U.S. support “The war has been going on for General McChrystal is plan- ers to the Dominican. McChrystal, the chief U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The extra over eight years and with no end ning. With further regiments The students also taught commander in Afghanistan, are forces will help counter the in sight. We need to withdraw occupying Afghanistan, an end lessons to some of the deciding on a war strategy that explosive threats that come our troops.” to the ongoing war may be in Domincan Children. USCHS would benefit the United States from insurgents. McChrystal believes that the near future. students traveled to an orphanage where they helped repair the school. The stu- H1N1 vaccine causes people to waver about whether or not to receive the anecdote dents helped with painting a By: Madeline Kushner nervous system is damaged spokesperson, declared that so Obama announced during the medical center and an Entertainment Editor until the possible point of far the only detected additional weekend of October 24 that the orphanage. paralysis or death. GBS is con- results of the H1N1 vaccine epidemic is officially a nation- The students of the Kids The H1N1 virus, otherwise sidered a possible threat when have been muscle cramps and al emergency. “The rates of ill- Helping Kids program stayed known as the swine flu, has receiving the vaccine because, headache. “Adverse events are ness continue to rise rapidly in the Dominican from plagued the entire nation in during the swine flu outbreak fully to be expected, especially within many communities November 13th to the 20th. addition to the halls of Upper in 1976, there was a link these mild types,” explains across the nation, and the They had been fundraising St. Clair High School. A letter between the distributed vac- Hartl (www.msnbc.msn.com). potential exists for the pan- for this trip for many months was sent home during the cines and the increased number Because there is not a proven demic to overburden health and were very excited to help month of October to all parents of people diagnosed with GBS connection between GBS and care resources in some locali- as many people in the and guardians informing them (www.thedailytelegraph.com). H1N1, fifty-two percent of the ties,” stated the President dur- Dominican Republic as pos- of the drastic drop in atten- Despite claims of GBS being American population stated ing his declaration. sible. dance throughout the past few a result of the they In addition, by declaring the weeks due to sickness. H1N1 vac- plan to outbreak a national emergency, In order to raise money for The Health Department in cine, scien- get Obama has allowed healthcare their trip, the studens hosted the United States has predicted tists have no vacci- companies to begin attentive a varitey of fundraisers. The that over the course of the next physical nated. distribution sites, such as students hosted the popular two years, nearly forty percent proof of a More school gyms or parking lots pickelball tounament. All of Americans will suffer from connection specifi- (www.surgistrategies.com). proceeds went to the the trip. the infection. The U.S. Health between the cally, Even so, the H1N1 virus can In addition to the tourna- officials also estimate that swine flu sixty- be easily avoided by taking a ment, the students raised more than a few hundred thou- vaccine and two few precautions. Dr. Donald money at football games by sand people will lose a life GBS. percent Kushner, a physician for selling shirts. from H1N1 if the vaccine is According to ofPreferred Primary Care Emily Roarty, a junior at not helpful sources from adults Physicians, states that there are (www.cnsnews.com). But the Daily Telegraph, scientists ages sixty-five and older plan a few easy steps that one can Upper St. Clair who attended some are pondering the deci- are working on a flu vaccine to visit their physician’s office take towards the prevention of the trip, explained before sion of whether or not he/she that will also attempt to protect for the swine flu vaccine, while the swine flu: “Just continue to leaving for the should get the vaccination. against GBS, as well. only forty-five percent of wash your hands with soap and Dominican:“I’m excited for One concern physicians and Despite possible threats of Americans in the range of water as often as possible. If a this life changing event.” distributors have when dis- GBS, those who have been eighteen to twenty-nine years sink is inaccessible, use a lim- The students had the cussing the vaccine is the fact given the H1N1vaccine this old are planning on receiving ited amount of hand sanitizer opportunity to reach out to that vaccination can lead to a year have experienced only the vaccination that you should carry with you the less fortunate and explore disease known as GBS or minor side effects, if any. (www.msnbs.msn.com). at all times. Also, avoid touch- the different ways in which Guillain-Barre syndrome. GBS Gregory Hartl, the World In order to make the vaccine ing your face at all costs.” people live around the world. is a sickness in which one’s Health Organization more accessible, President Page 2 Opinions December 2009 Panther Desk of the Editor Predilections The Congo is proving to have the worst human rights What are you doing abuses in the world today over Thanksgiving break? By: Marni Schreiber ing the minerals. Congo is also the “worst place tronic companies, such as Editor-in-Chief These armed groups “control in the world to be a woman. Motorola, Apple, HP, and mines that generate an estimat- Used as a weapon of war, rape Nokia, have been taking some Every time a student buys a ed $144 million to $218 mil- in Congo exists on a scale seen measures to stop this supply new cell phone, computer, or lionnowhere else in the world. chain. iPod, he or she is helping to each”(www.money.cnn.com). Often successful in its intent to If more companies took a support one of the worst human The money raised, destroy and extermi- stand and refused to buy goods rights abuses seen in the world however, does not nate, rape as a that are drenched in the blood today. The Democratic go to the enslaved weapon of war is of the dead Congolese citizens, Republic of the Congo, people digging the causing the near the abuse, the murder, and the throughout history, has been minerals; instead, total destruction of rape may come to an end soon- “I am visitng my family in eaten up for its natural the money goes to women, their fami- er.