Hello readers! Welcome to the second edition of “Big Questions for a Little Man”, a Q&A Column for Westerner World (our student newspaper). This column in particular is a weekly news story where I will give my unwanted two cents and support for anybody who has some questions or situations they want opinions on. Make sure to tell your friends about Westerner World. For anybody reading this, you can have your chance to be featured next week by filling out the following form!

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Sophomore Tony Maldonado asks, “What is the best lego theme?”. Stellar start, that’s a wonderful question. Given the insane prices of legos in the modern era… NONE OF THEM. Just kidding, just kidding! Star Wars is the best one because I have lot of memories attached to it.  Like the classic video games, the ones where they don’t talk, I remember playing those with my brother. Or at least watching him play while the cantina band music played in the background. Although, when you really think about it, while Star Wars has its qualities that make us all love it, Lego City is a classic. A classic that cannot be denied. I mean, we all know the

Junior Gabrielle Codding asks, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?”. This is a valid question that has plagued us as humans for millennia. I think it’s a very philosophical question ha ha! It’s like asking who the first human being alive was. However, I did some research and some really cool journalists down at The Guardian have been able to answer the question. They had this to say:

Because birds, which all lay eggs, go back a long time in history, many millions of years, whereas chickens, according to DNA studies and archaeological evidence, have been around for less than 10,000 years. So the answer to the paradox is a simple one. Egg wins. By a country mile.

 

So I hope that answers that question. I wasn’t expecting this edition to require research, and I never imagined someone actually would dedicate research to this. Well, you live and you learn ha ha! Before we move on, I’ve noticed this editions questions are really like thought provoking and serious ha ha! Let’s see where they lead us.

Senior Adrian Castillo asks, “How much money did you spend on off campus food this year?”. Another really great question that causes me to reflect on my spending history ha ha! Well, for any administrators who might be reading this, let me stress I don’t eat off campus! Period! Even if I had a car I wouldn’t, I’d rather make my own lunch. But, the way I interpreted this was just food in general. So, if I had to take a wild guess it might be in the neighborhood of 50-85 dollars in total. Again, I have a small body and don’t eat it out a lot. When I do, I usually get the same thing. You can ask my family, it bounces between burritos (from Taco Villa), Burgers (fast food and sit down restaurant style), Chicken (canes mainly), and Soups (usually from sit down restaurants because I don’t have the confidence to try McCallister’s Soup, I don’t trust it for some reason).

Junior Nick Fenwick asks, “What do I do if I’m failing all my classes?” To start, it’s unfortunate that you’re failing all your classes and my first suggestion would be to just turn in your work. You need to turn in your work to make good grades, which is the most obvious thing to say to you, which makes sense and I’m sure everyone’s told you that. I would also ask, what happened? We’re not even done with the first nine weeks? I don’t wanna turn this into an attack on you, because that’s not my job here, my job is to help the best I can. So, I conducted some interviews, and my Newspaper/Yearbook teacher Mrs. Garcia and she had this to say:

“Appropriately communicate to your teacher the missing assignments or failed assignments, put your phone up in class, find the missing assignments, and do them.”

We all find work very boring, but unfortunately this is what you have to do if you wanna pass. Nothing is difficult, not really, only challenging. And it doesn’t help with your other distractions. Phone’s are the devil, not like a demon, but they suck. They’re good communication tools and helpful to pass the time, but when it comes down to it, you’re not working if you have your phone with you.

Alright readers, we’ve reached the end of this week’s edition. So to finish, a question that is rather… interesting. So interesting, in fact, I had to go and conduct some more interviews with a science teacher and a couple of IB kids I found in the library just studying away. Senior Javier Martinez asks, “If we discovered intelligent alien life tomorrow, how would it change the way we teach history and science in schools?” See? Interesting! Silas Washington, Matthew Herrera, and Max Williams were the kids I interviewed and they had this to say. Silas said, “I think if we discovered it tomorrow, it would probably take a while for us to incorporate it.” Another thing we discussed was taking into consideration the communication between the aliens and us. We have no way of knowing if they’re going to be friendly or if we’re going to be friendly. “Nothing’s gonna change immediately, Different religion believe in alien life […] Research is making your best scientific guesses until somebody comes along and disproves it. We’d have to see the social interactions first.” says Pre-AP chem. teacher Mrs. White. So all of this to say, your question would take a couple of years to answer if hypothetically we discover alien life.

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