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Chieftain
D ECEMBER 2017
The Great Christmas Debate
No Argument:
Real Trees
Are the Best
By Sam Luttmann
Chieftain Staff
First off, this isn’t even a debate. Real
Christmas trees are far superior. This
reminds me of the “Home Alone” movie.
I’m Kevin McAllister and you’re the
goons trying to get into my house. It isn’t
even close. I’m gonna squash you like a
bug, Tommy, so saddle up.
You can’t have Christmas without a
real Christmas tree. Same as how you
can’t have Buffalo Wild Wings without
Colin Watts. It doesn’t make sense, and
there’s no science behind it. Real Christ-
mas trees give the season and the holiday
real meaning and purpose. Nothing beats
the awesome smell the tree gives the
house. It makes the whole home smell
like Christmas.
If you use a fake Christmas tree, you
might as well throw Christmas in the
garbage and burn down the tree and all
the presents because, guess what? You
just ruined Christmas. CONGRATULA-
TIONS!
To me, nothing is better than sparking
up a roaring fi re with your family and
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watching a good Christmas fi lm.
Keep Nature Where it Belongs
By D Thomas Shaffer
Chieftain Staff
I want to start this debate off by stating
outright that Sam Luttmann is not sane.
Whatever he says is invalid and up for
review at all times. Alright, so the argu-
ment that has been tossed around the
Chieftain recently is the preference of a
real tree or a fake tree. Personally, I
prefer a fake tree, and I’ll get into the
reasoning in the following paragraph,
but I feel strongly about it. Luttmann be-
rates me on my opinion daily now, and
I want to share my outlook on the whole
situation with our readers. Against the
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Farewell 2017, it’s Been a Wild & Crazy Ride
By Sante Dybowski
Chieftain Staff
As the pages of the calendar continue
to fall off, the Chieftain wants to provide
its annnual refl ection on the year that has
passed. So take a moment to step back
B R OTHE R R IC E H IG H S C H O O L C H I E F TA I N
with us and look at what happened in
2017.
Current Events
Many things happened this year that
no one ever expected to happen. We had
P AGE 1
a record number of hurricanes this year.
2017 became the fi rst year in more than a
century that ten storms reached hurricane
strength. The most notable were Hurri-
canes Irma and Harvey, which destroyed
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D E C E M B E R 2017