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One of many messages on campus to Rogelio “Roy” Silva from his many friends.
We at The Catalyst are saddened to report the passing of one of our students, Rogelio “Roy” Silva.
Mr. Vilaubi offered these words, “The loss of Roy is truly a tragedy for his family and our school. Yet, the loving way his friends [...]
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By Mike Garza
On January 28th, 2008, a stabbing took place in which three minors were stabbed and had to be sent to a hospital. Two were sent home the following day and one was in there for a couple days.
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By Wendy Muro & Monica Plascencia
Students and teachers were given a survey on Friday, January 11, 2008. Based on this survey we learned that more than half of our school doesn’t know we have a newspaper website called The Catalyst.
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By: Yara Hidalgo
Why is it that many students choose not to do their homework? Do students realize that all they’re doing is wasting the learning environment? Teachers assign homework so that students can practice, or sometimes that piece of homework is needed for the next class time. It’s important for everyone to do their homework [...]
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By Angelica Solis
Prince William, 25, the second-in-line for the throne of England, is nervous about his first solo pilot plane flight. He will also be flying the Grob 115E (a light helicopter) Tucano T1 plane and finally a squirrel helicopter. He also is two weeks into his training at the RAF’s Cranwell School in Lincolnshire, [...]
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by An Nguyen
In Caracas, Venezuela gunmen held more than 30 people hostage, including children and women, inside a Venezuelan bank Tuesday, Jan 29 during a 24 hour standoff with police that began with a ruined robbery.
The hostage standoff began January 28th in the morning in the town in central Guarico state, southeast of Caracas. [...]
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by Alex Fonseca
Pwn is a slang term that implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet gaming culture to taunt an opponent that has just been soundly defeated. Pwn may have sprung from the similar term “owned”. Examples include “pwnage” or “you just got pwned”. “owned” was regularly used in website [...]
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by Javier Chavez
Michael Vick entered a drug treatment program at a Kansas prison, which could reduce the 23-month sentence on a federal dogfighting conviction.
Micheal Vick is at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons minimum security facility in Leavenworth.
Vick tested positive for marijuana in September after his guilty plea. If there is successful completion of the program, [...]
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by Mike Garza
Will the Giants win the Super Bowl? Or will the Patriots win? Of course we all know the answer to that question. But, is it possible for this game to be close?
It might be and could possibly be sent to overtime depending one how Eli Manning and his wide receivers play on [...]
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By Judy Chow
An innocent 10 month old infant was shaken to death by a baby sitter while the mother was at work.
On November 20, 2007, Isabel Barranco with her 10 month baby named Rodrigo and his two year old sister had moved into Angelica Duran’s two-bedroom San Jose apartment. Isabel did not know Duran as [...]
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By: Yara Hidalgo
Why is it that students, in general, don’t take school seriously? Do most of them just show up because they have to and it’s required by law? Why can’t students take advantage of the free education the United States gives us? There are many students in Mexico, as well as in other countries, [...]
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by Robert Truong and Jasper Smith
As you know, there is a presidential election that has already begun. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are democrats that are running to be the next president of the US. Here’s some background information on the candidates and what they believe in.
Hillary Clinton
Age: 60
Hometown: Park Ridge, Ill.
Current Job/Position: US senator [...]
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by Robert Truong
As most of you know, global warming has happened, and is still going on. We, of course, are part of the problem! People are polluting our air day by day without even knowing it, and it is affecting our economy. In my opinion, because of us, it’s too late to completely stop global [...]
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by Libertad Carlos
Lindsay Lohan’s punishment continues for being “arrested twice last year on DUI charges and pleaded guilty in August to misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges.”(Yahoo News. Lohan To Work In Morgue As Punishment. 2008. Retrieved 01-19-2008) She will soon be working with dead people, after spending two months in rehabilitation and has done [...]
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By Javier Chavez
An MVP award wasn’t given out after the Green Bay Packers’ 42-20 victory over the Seattle Seahawks at Lambeau Field.
If there were an MVP award, Green Bay’s offensive line would have deserved the award. The offensive line helped Ryan Grant run for a team record 201 yards. The offensive line kept Seattle’s [...]
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By Mike Garza
Have you found out who is performing at the halftime show during the Super Bowl?
To let you know, it is a group known as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Have you ever heard of this group? I kind of figured that our readers probably haven’t really been exposed to this kind of [...]
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By Libertad Carlos
To clarify the way this story is written, I wrote this story as if I was my cousin. This story is not accurate because I don’t know what exactly she wrote in her diary. However, it is very similar to her experience. I just wanted to use her story as a model to [...]
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By Judy Chow
On January 1, 2008, was the best thing that had happen to the workers in California. California minimum wage in 2007 was $7.50 an hour but, now it has raises up to $8 an hour. Which benefits workers in California by $.50 per hour and it can make a difference in their lives. [...]