Riot police are standing by with tear gas and nightsticks, preparing themselves both mentally and physically for the impending riot that threatens to strike Bingham’s halls. For when students and teachers find out that this very issue of The Prospector is the last they shall see for three consecutive months, the resulting disturbance is expected to break records, spirits, several free-standing structures, and most of the A/V equipment.
But alas, Binghamites, we beg you to please try to contain yourselves. Is it really worth trampling an underclassman to be well-informed? To that I say, “Depends on the underclassman,” and “isn’t it ironic that they’re an underclassman and they’re being trampled?”
In retrospect, the past year has been a seriously eventful one. Last October, thirty-three Chilean miners (actual miners, not the Bingham kind), were pulled out of the collapsed San José Mine after sixty-nine grueling days underground. And I thought attendance school sucked.
In November, researchers at CERN in Switzerland produced a handful of antimatter for the first time in history.
As 2010 came to a close, Bingham gave back and scraped together over $46,000 for Sub 4 Santa, during what was coincidentally the longest assembly in Utah History. During the winter and spring months, the middle east saw more political riots and protests than most people read about in the apocrypha.
March’s devastating 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear emergency rocked Japan, killing over 15,000 and leaving more than 300,000 homeless.
Despite the fact that they were totally unrelated to the British regal system and its complete lack of historical importance, 2 Billion tuned in to watch Prince William’s wedding to Kate Middleton on April 29.
And last (but definitely not least), “We got ‘im!” On May 1, President Barack Obama announced that during military operation in Pakistan, American forces took out Osama bin Laden nearly ten years after his perpetration of one of the most traumatic events on American soil. Good riddance.
In just a week, we go our separate ways, and some of us may never see each other again. It’s been a year rich with occurrence. But we wouldn’t have it any other way. That’s what makes the newspaper worth reading.
