By Candice Lipscomb

Trojan Tribune Staff

Photo by Candice Lipscomb

    Urban Dictionary defines Senioritis as ‘a crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts and sweatshirts. This disease also features a lack of studying, repeated absences and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as Graduation.’ Continue Reading

By Joe Schartz

Trojan Tribune Staff

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   Maybe it looked like just another rock in the ground, or perhaps at a second glance it resembled the Ten Commandments. The Mexican highway construction workers were probably too focused on getting their job done to ponder over what the strange-looking symbols on the stone tablet might be.

   Actually, the stone tablet they had uncovered was far from an ordinary rock. It was a Mayan carving known today as Monument Six. Continue Reading

   Researchers say that 1.2 million public high school students drop out of school yearly in the U.S.  South Dakota’s dropout rate is 26.6 percent. If South Dakota’s class of 2008 didn’t have the 2,500 school dropouts, there would have been an additional $653 million in wages throughout these students’ lifetimes.

   As of this year, South Dakota is the nineteenth state to change the dropout age from 16-18. Legislators believe that changing the dropout age could be a boost for the economy. Less money is spent in court fees from truancy and hunting down those school-skippers. Continue Reading