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| March 2006 |
| Two seniors accepted to West Point |
| Joe Saia |
Forget Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. They may require good grades and high SAT scores, but they sure don’t require you to do 75 push-ups in two minutes. Ivy admissions are overrated; the prestigious and esteemed United States Military Academy at West Point is arguably the most selective school in the country.
“Admissions at other top schools can seem like a cakewalk [in comparison to West Point],” says the Princeton Review. Over 11,000 hopefuls apply to West Point every year, but only about 12 percent of them are admitted. From the entire state of Massachusetts, only 16 highly qualified students who have demonstrated exemplary academic and leadership ability, passed muster in a grueling physical test, and manage to obtain Congressional nominations will be offered admission. And this year two of those 16 are from King Philip. |
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| Roberts, Alito join US Supreme Court |
| Elizabeth Kent |
For the past few months, the United States Supreme Court has been filled with turmoil.
In September, Chief Justice William Rehnquist died. Around the same time, Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor decided to retire from the Supreme Court. President George W. Bush was faced with the decision of who to choose as the new Chief Justice and Associate Justice. As the new Chief Justice, he appointed John Roberts, a decision that was supported by conservatives but was met with some skepticism by others, as he is new to the Supreme Court. The current debate going on in the Senate is over who should replace Sandra Day O’Connor. At first the decision was Harriet Miers, but she ended up withdrawing from the candidacy. Now, Samuel Alito is being considered. When Harriet Miers was nominated as the new Associate Justice, she was asked to fill out a questionnaire. However, she failed to fill out this questionnaire adequately and was asked to redo it. In order to get more information about her, the Senate sought documents about her service in the White House, and she was asked to testify about her service to demonstrate her experience and judicial philosophy. |
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