OuRCity News Issue 1, Volume 4 Doomsday December 21st: October/November Conspiracy Theories or Reality? 2012 Written By: Anna Litvinova According to theories who believe Like us On Facebook: an alleged important to happen. River City High School Journalism based on a supposed ancient Maya should stop plot by a political, social Some reported prediction, the end of the world worrying. covert group, or economic suicides have is close—on December 21, 2012. According to organization events are the happened But could Earth really meet its end www.oglav. or, more products of because they in 2012—drowned in apocalyptic info and www. broadly, the secret plots are afraid of floods, walloped by a secret planet, mk.ru which are idea that that are largely the outcome. seared by an angry sun, or thrown sources reporting unknown to the Students and overboard by speeding continents? scientific general public. staff at RCHS Or is it a just another conspiracy research, Page 2 were asked if theory? scientists and Meeting ou[rc]ity staff Doomsday is they do believe According to wikipedia. archeologists & Editorial Policy an example of will the world org, conspiracy theory explains have already such theories. end December, an event as being the result of proven that the Presedential Election: 2012 There are some 21. world won’t end. Who would River City vote for? people who are People sure it’s going Page 4 Caption: Picture courtesy of google. Continued on page 2 Homecoming spread! Give me Music or Give Me Death Editorial Written By: Karina Bueno Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, KanyeWest, walking this campus is and they don’t realize Jay-Z. Most of these undeniable, but it seems that that’s not what all The DJ this year mainstream artists are that diversity stops at its teenagers listen to,” has given us a famous for their oh so students. Joleen Miles, senior, link that anyone inspiring lyrics about Every year stated. can click onto to having sexual intercourse Leadership hires a DJ “Yeah. And request songs that can be played at Page 6 & 7 with large amounts of to play at the dances we’re not asking for women, destroying throughout the year. hardcore screaming like the dances through Featuring: their liver with copious Though it isn’t his or what we listen to. Just the year. The Cheer takes Dedication amounts of liquor, their problem in what something different,” website is http:// Written By: JoJo Samolis accumulating money and they play, it’s alarming added senior Julie djs4schools.com/ taking drugs. What an that the majority of our Hernandez. rivercity. You can excellent example for an schools music taste Responses also find the link impressionable age group is what is constantly similar to these were for it on Leadership such as ourselves. played; not everyone overwhelming. We are page. So, go and But what about enjoys the Rap/Hip Hop a diverse school and I request the Indie, bands like Cake, Cage the genre or anything which would love to see that Country, Classical, Elephant, Gorillaz and plays on mainstream past the faces and in the Hardcore, and Jazz Deathcab for Cutie? radio. music being played on songs all you want Being a student at River “What they campus. River City! Page 8 City, the diversity I see play is so repetitive But luckily! 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Rather, cover-up are nonsense. both droughts and floods, our planet unlivable. one cycle of 144,000 days No government couldn’t it iss partly attributable Meanwhile there is (394 years) ends and the next hide an incoming planet to global warming and no known astronomical or cycle begin. or silence hundreds of has nothing to do with geological threat that could Another theory of thousands of scientists. doomsday. Our planet is destroy the Earth. People should what’s to happen is the People have behaving normally in 2012 stop worrying and enjoy their landing of Planet X, which resulted to building although we see more and lives. is said that the planet will private shelters for more news stories about Sofiya Neverov, RCHS collide with the Earth in safety, but their fear of natural disasters. student, says “We will never December of this year but 2012 is misplaced and Summarizing all predict the end of the world. It these accusations aren’t true. they are wasting their information given, the will probably happen one day, If such a threatening world money. idea of the sudden end of but when no one will be ready or existed its gravity would There has the world by any cause prepared.” be distorting the orbits of been no increase in is absurd. The Earth has planets, especially Mars and earthquakes or volcanic been here for more than Issue 5 Ou[RC]ity | October/November 2012 3 The Winding Road to River City Written By: Freshta Haidari 2009, their prayers always Here at was born, there th were answered. something River City we was in 7 grade, unlike here in America, was a great war in 7th grade is when you start high school in Her family including war have a variety of Afghanistan and reunited in America and the army. cultures that all come London, and he would run into trouble at her father sent her, school. and that’s where Overall, together; there are her mother, and she started sixth there is a lot all kinds of different her older brother grade. She went of diversity backgrounds such somewhere far away to school and in all schools as Chinese, Persian, from Afghanistan, learned to live like including River African American, someplace safe. She an American. She City. A person Mien, Vietnamese, was about 8 months found the grading may seem like Filipino, Irish, old at the time and system confusing; in they lived here Mexican, American, her older brother London they don’t in America Russian, and many was 5. have letter grades their whole life more. Most people They got on they have numbers. because of their in America were a plane and landed in “I was fluent English born and raised here; Norway, where her sad. I wanted to or their clothes others had to come a cousins and aunts be together as a but no one truly long way to get here. lived. She lived there family.”She also knows what has A student, who chose with her mother and stated “I was very happened in that to stay anonymous, brother for about happy, my family person’s life, no told their story. a year and then was reunited and we one truly knows Her family traveled to London, are all happy,” said what they went was born and where they decided her mother. through just to They lived in a bad neighborhood raised in Kabul, to live permanently. On the front get here, the where there were gangs and violence. Around Afghanistan. Her She picked pages of newspapers long journey to the time she turned 5, her baby brother was father was from up the accent and and new sites, there America. born; he was their new little light.