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PUBLISHER: J.BERMUDEZ FORMATTER: M.Khanali (The Prophet) Inside this issue: Guns N’ Roses 4 Volume V, Issue vi Wednesday January 11th, 2012 In the Presence of 4 Kings Standing up for love by Taryn Audet Fight Club Review 6 There are people in this world. There are blonde people, bru- 5 Scary Movies 6 nee people, red-haired people and even some pink-haired Bookface 7 people. There are black people, Starting the New 8 white people, brown people and Year in Style every colour in between. There are shy people, happy people, Astrology Jones 9 arsc people, romanc people, and intelligent people too. But Sabre FM: Ingrid 10 I'm sure you already know that. Michaelson A Cheesy Delight 10 Everyone is a person. Everyone is equal. And yet, some people A Greek Goddess 11 can't seem to accept that. Guide to Good Grub in the City When a teen commits suicide, The sign says it all.. an outcry can be heard from the convey them to you. In Oawa, Jamie Hubley, an openly gay figure- town or the city or even the Comic 11 skater, had baeries stuffed down his throat on the Grade 7 school naon. And every few weeks, a bus because of the enjoyment he took in skang. Not every form of Sabre Poll: New Years 12 story about a severely bullied sexual orientaon bullying is so extreme, but o en instances are Resolution openly-gay student who took even worse, and it leads to young teens taking their lives. his or her own life grabs head- A look on a different 12 lines and front pages world- So why does it keep happening over and over again? Regardless of culture: Persian New wide. how many rallies the LGBT community holds or how many signa- Year tures they have on their peons homophobia runs rampant In my research for this arcle I How annoying are you? 14 through the streets of the world and especially through the hall- found so many heartbreaking ways of high schools. And I, along with many others, struggle to stories that I'm struggling to History in the Making 14 understand why. Connued on p. 2 Mother’s Basement 15 Anti-Awards of 2011 Glee k-ed Out by Derrick Gravener Glee , it used to be the show we Athlete of the Month 18 your morning orange would skip our homework to juice. The characters all Feelin’ the Pump Part II 19 watch because it was smart, fun- had interesng sub- ny, mely and original but some- Twist, Twirl and Tum- 20 plots and the songs where its yellow brick road faded ble made sense with what to the pavement black that en- was happening to Skiing for Dummies 21 compasses what are TV’s saddest them. Neil Patrick Har- shows. ris added a parcular Sutherland Junior Boys’ 22 high for the season and Basketball Season 1 was fresh, bright and oh, I forgot to menon, original. It was something that Santa’s Breakfast 23 became part of your roune, like - Connued on page 2 A Letter from the Jour- 23 Someone needs to ship Lea Michele away pronto-Toronto! nalism Team Page 2 Sabre Trooth Standing Up for Love - Connued My queson is, why is To those who say homosexuali- someone's sexual orientaon, ty is "against nature" and or their want to get married, therefore disgusng and unnat- cause for such hatred? It ural: Homosexuality is well doesn't affect anyone besides documented in more than the pares involved. A third 1,500 species - everything from World War will not break out. lions to penguins have exhibit- Terrorists will not win. Zombies ed homosexual behaviour. won't rise out of the ground. Peer Bockman, a scienfic The plagues will not erupt. Gay advisor, has been noted as men and women are sll peo- saying that "no species has ple: that is what some don't been found in which homosex- seem to grasp. They breathe, ual behaviour has not been eat, love and sleep just like us. shown to exist, with the excep- They simply love the same on of species that never have gender. It's not a choice, but sex at all." Homosexuality is even if it was, would that natural. Backwards thinkers, think again. maer? Why can't they be free to love and marry whomever To those who say children lazy ovaries, etc). Should they not be allowed to marry on they want without harass- adopted by gay couples will that basis? Not be allowed to be together? Of course not. ment? have a horrible life or be raised incorrectly: Children of homo- All this said, Sutherland Secondary has o en surprised me While this arcle is not a What sexual parents are proven to be with its high level of acceptance and credit has to be given Grinds My Gears piece, it may more accepng of others, less where it's due. In fact, when I asked an anonymous, gay as well be. I can't stand any likely to get into fights at student what the worst instance of bullying they had been sort of prejudice; whether it's school, and all in all end up subject to was, they had this to say: based on one's skin colour, being much beer behaved. gender, sexual orientaon, or "Well, that's the thing I like about Sutherland, compared to religion is irrelevant. But homo- To those who say gay couples other schools we are a very accepng and tolerant. I have phobia hits me especially hard, cannot reproduce and there- never been harassed by someone about my sexuality. In my as I've had friends whom this fore homosexuality is "wrong": point of view, we don’t have physical bullying at our school. I has been severely affected by Millions of couples around the have to say we do have many circumstances of verbal bully- this. world - heterosexual couples - ing, luckily I haven’t had to experience it myself." cannot reproduce due to mul- ple factors (low sperm count, Glee k-ed Out - Connued Season 1 was laugh out loud Charice wasn’t enough, they got show. Its wring was funny! Jane Lynch’s Sue had Britney Spears for the next epi- seriously going south purpose in the first season, she sode and it was then that we (they dropped almost all was a source of conflict and her saw the revelaon that was Brit- plot in one episode for punch lines were absolute ney (played by Heather Morris). their Rocky Horror show) knockouts. Sadly, someme It was then we also figured out and it was running out of a er it went on a sort of “mid- Lea Michele (who plays Rachel) mely songs. Season season break” its quality kind can’t dance to save her life. The two’s peak was in “The of dipped and it was then that I Britney Spears episode was Substute”; it featured should’ve started running. prey dance heavy and it be- an Emmy-winning guest When Season 2 returned I was came prey obvious that she star performance from ... Glee k-ing out hard! The season couldn’t dance when they didn’t premiere was a welcome re- film her legs at all during the - Connued on the Next turn with singing sensaon “dance” scenes. Page Chris Colfer is never dull in Glee. Charice guest starring. If Glee’s cracks were starng to Volume V, Issue vi Page 3 Standing Up for Love - Connued The goal of this arcle is to over whose going takes the married. exnguish all remaining forms kids to soccer pracce on “Because when of bullying, or just to make one Wednesdays. To get married Not allowing these people to person stop their bullying or and sele down with a partner marry will not make homosexu- a lesbian eats stand up for anyone being is a human insnct; it's some- ality go away, so why fight it? It physically or verbally harassed. thing people just do. Now, doesn't do anyone any harm. lunch, it's As a whole our student body is where is the crime if a man Just let people be free to love. so impressive I know this mes- wants to marry a nice, funny It is, besides eang, breathing, called lunch. sage might seem moot - but it's guy, fight from me to me and sleeping, the most basic not. There are always bullies with him, worry about money human insnct - why should it Not gay lunch.” that need to be stood up to. with him, and discuss who will be denied to anyone? take the kids to soccer prac- A quick note on marriage: Gay ce? Marriage is a constuon The journalism class of 2011/12 marriage is a topic very dear to between two capable, con- does not and will not condone me; or, as I like to call it, mar- senng adult human beings - homophobia. If you ever see riage. Because when a lesbian whether those two people are any form of harassment or eats lunch, it's called lunch. Not male or female, female and bullying due to sexual orienta- gay lunch. female, or male and male, it on, please sck up for the shouldn't maer. A corpse, a vicm(s). We all know it isn't I'm a heterosexual female. I toaster, or a child, are not be- right. Don't let it go unchecked want to get married someday. ings capable of consent or and unpunished.