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The C.O.W. Started last year in the 11th grade journalism class. This year the journalism block is not until just before Christmas. Consider writing horoscopes, or a gossip column, since Gladys and Gregg have graduated.
The C.O.W. Started last year in the 11th grade journalism class. This year the journalism block is not until just before Christmas. Consider writing horoscopes, or a gossip column, since Gladys and Gregg have graduated.
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The C.O.W. Started last year in the 11th grade journalism class. This year the journalism block is not until just before Christmas. Consider writing horoscopes, or a gossip column, since Gladys and Gregg have graduated.
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The Voice of the Denver Waldorf High School Volume 2, Issue 1
Illustration by Meril Shane
Chronicles Of Waldorfia Contents Welcome to C.O.W. Version 2.1 Welcome to a DWS community, to Face- horoscopes, or a gossip col- Welcome Back 1 new year, a book. umn, since Gladys and Three Sports Changes 1 new edition, a It has been my personal Gregg have graduated to Financial Crisis Start 2 new look, and pleasure to watch the greater glories. Consider a new C.O.W. C.O.W. grow. Hopefully we contributing comics, puzzles, Letters 2 School is well can continue to milk the sports reports, surveys, quiz- Keeping You Safe 3 By John Reinhart under way C.O.W. for years to come. zes, or weather reports. now. The high This year the journalism Write up your thoughts Sudoku 3 school grew by about 25% block is not until just before about recent world events or Reinhart’s Reading 4 this year and German is the Christmas. That means the Waldorf events, recent official third language in the 11th grade will take over the books, movies, or CDs, re- Dangerous Cows 4 high school halls. C.O.W. during those four cent déjà vu, amnesia, past Sudoku Solution 4 The C.O.W. started last weeks. Up until then the experiences, or recent past year in the 11th grade journal- C.O.W. will be dependent life experiences. The C.O.W. Write for the C.O.W. ism class. Since that humble upon your contributions. If looks forward to chewing Writers needed for start, the C.O.W. expanded to you enjoy reading the over your thoughts. Horoscopes include contributions from C.O.W., I encourage you to Submissions for the next middle school students, 9th, contribute in some small issue are due October 28. Weather 10th, and 12th grade students. way. Consider writing on a Hal- Gossip Column The C.O.W. went from the Consider sending in let- loween theme. The C.O.W. Columns high school, to middle school, ters to the Bovine Bounty of is what you make it. Make it Sports to being sent to the entire Brilliance. Consider writing good! DWS News Foreign Reports Three College Football Changes Comics 1. The BCS about how unfair it is that an money, but it would also be Puzzles playoff sys- undefeated Utah team did much less annoying to Halloween Stuff! tem. not get to play in the Na- watch. Submission deadline There isn’t tional Championship game, 3. The Heisman Choice. for next issue is one, and that is while two one-loss teams The Heisman is sup- the issue. They did. October 28 posed to go to the year’s best By Hunter Curtis just choose the 2. The Oregon Ducks uni- college football player, but two teams that forms. lately it hasn’t. The award Contact the C.O.W. they think are the best and let Have you ever watched has gone to the quarterback them play in the champion- an Oregon Ducks game? It on the best team. Players on Denver Waldorf School ship. There isn’t any excite- seems like they have a dif- teams outside the top 25 940 Fillmore Street ment in that and a lot of the ferent uniform for every rankings do not get looked at Denver CO 80206 time it isn’t the best two game, and none of them are enough for the Heisman, and teams playing. They need to very good. The Ducks and even players outside the top 303-777-0531 x162 instate an eight team playoff many other college football 10 teams get less of a look. to find the two best teams. teams need to just settle on The Heisman should go to dwhsnews@gmail.com Not only would that make one away uniform and one the game’s best player, not things more exciting, but peo- home uniform. Not only the best player on the best ple would stop complaining would it save the college team. Chronicles of Waldorfia Volume 2, Issue 1 Page 2
Financial Crisis: Where it Started Letters
The current could go awry, and hyper- chased a credit default swap Letters? financial inflation could occur. pays an annual premium, Need any foreign corre- crisis has Securitization is the and if the specified corpora- spondents? been a very process of pooling assets, tion, against which the insur- Nick Anthony popular which are any things that ance has been bought, fails, Wesleyan University, CT topic lately. have worth, and apportion- the insured company re- Dear Nick, By Gautam Webb Below, I ing them into securities, ceives a specified amount. have at- which are basically certifi- However, in order to buy The C.O.W. is always in tempted to explain some cates of ownership and insurance, a company must need of foreign correspon- of the supposed causes. include stocks and mort- not necessarily have owner- dents. In particular, the These are a few examples gages, and then selling the ship of the corporation C.O.W. is interested in reports of the incredible com- securities. against which the credit de- from places beginning with C, plexities that can be found Securitization weak- fault swap is secured. A O, or W, the bowels of insur- in modern economies. ens the relationship be- company may buy a credit ance offices, or airplane bath- Quantitative easing, tween assets and securi- default swap against any rooms. securitization, and credit ties. In addition, with debt corporation. Magical Mashup default swaps are all be- assets, there is the poten- This can obviously lead HEY! I have a radio lieved to have con- to disastrous results. For show! and everyone is re- tributed to the eco- Quantitative easing, example, suppose that quired to listen. In Itunes go nomic crash. ten companies buy 2% The first is a securitization, and credit default swaps to advanced, open audio stream, and enter method of boosting an economy. When credit default swaps, against a $1 million company. Then, every http://192.101.188.47:8000 Connor Gallagher an economy begins to lag, banks often oh my! year, each of the ten companies pays a pre- Hampshire College, MA reduce their interest rates tial for default and an as- mium of $20,000, and if the Dear Connor, in an attempt to encourage sociated risk exists. These company against which the This edition of the people to take loans with two last caveats taken to- credit default swaps have C.O.W. features a state-of- them. However, when gether mean that risky se- been bought fails, then each the-art hyper C.O.W.-link that rates become so low that curities are not traded as insured company receives $1 will direct all readers to your the banks become no such. People begin to trade million. This leads to the radio show. Early reports on longer willing to finance simply to make money, payout of $10 million upon the show suggest it may be loans, a problematic situa- without regard to the back- the default of a $1 million detrimental to zombies. tion develops. ing of a security. dollar company. Fe-el Classy This is what happened As an example, Fannie If the institution which How do you do Dwhog- after the stock market Mae and Freddie Mac owe must supply the $10 million berg? Everyone wants to look crashed in late 2008. the government many bil- cannot do so, and if it then and feel classy. Wearing ex- When this occurs, a gov- lions of dollars. However, defaults also, the possibility because the government is pensive looking watches will ernment will sometimes exists that other companies employ quantitative eas- supporting these two insti- have credit default swaps give you the feeling of being ing, by creating money tutions, people buy their against this second failing gorgeous. She won't be com- and using it to inject stocks even though they institution and that large petent to take her eyes off money into the economy are effectively bankrupt. sums of money will have to your wrist! by enabling banks to sell People buy based on their be paid out as insurance Lizzie Numbers assets to the government. analysis of others’ inten- against this institution as Spamville The hope is then that tions, and not based on the well. Therefore, a large Dear Lizzie, banks will be less reluctant underlying asset. chain reaction which leads to Competent, what? Con- to lend and that the econ- Credit default swaps huge amounts of debt can sider your word choice more omy will repair itself. are insurance against the occur. carefully, please. However, a possibility failing of a corporation. A then still exists that plans company who has pur- Chronicles of Waldorfia Volume 2, Issue 1 Page 3
The C.O.W.— Keeping Your Community Safe
By Ajo Yddet
From the desk of Waldorf School, a school
C.O.W. Director, John that follows the teachings of Reinhart. one Rudolf Steiner. Efforts to This is a communica- make contact with Steiner tion sent to all heads of have proved fruitless, and we the different departments can no longer justify spend- of the U.S. government ing government funds on concerning the suspect séances to attempt to speak Theodore Oja. Herein is a with Steiner. After a thor- brief summary of the ough and tiring search, few C.O.W.’s efforts to appre- results have turned up in re- hend and rehabilitate him, lation to the Denver Waldorf as well as progress re- School. Questioning Denver ports. The dates have residents has proved to be been removed for reasons Theodore Oja is on the run from the C.O.W. Information about his pointless, as not one of the of National Security. whereabouts, activities, or shoe size should be sent to numerous wire-taps or inter- dwhsnews@gmail.com. All leads will be kept confidential. rogations has turned up re- To all those who sults. Clearly this place is the have been sent this mes- two of which are watch- Teddy’s family moved to the perfect hideout for Teddy, sage: Warning! A warrant ing TV and lip-syncing as Highlands district of Den- where he can continue to has been issued for the ar- best he can, and adopting ver, where he currently re- practice his skills of trickery. rest of one Theodore Mi- as odd of a demeanor as sides. It is believed that chael Oja. The suspect is a he can imagine, which is Teddy attends the Denver 5’9” tall Caucasian male usually derived from a with light brown hair and fictional character he has blue eyes. He is wanted on come into contact with Sudoku suspicion of stealing the through some form of me- By Emma Franklin identity of another to con- dia. His federally funded fuse potential enemies of a profile paints the picture social nature. Investigations of one who has striven to are underway to ascertain deceive the unlucky souls the true identity of this 17- around him. year-old male, who has When Teddy reached been masquerading as an the age of 6 months, his outgoing, bro-tacular young family relocated to High- man. lands Ranch, Colorado. The following is from While he was there, the director’s personal Teddy was forced to at- notes. tend several public Theodore Oja, who schools, which he de- shall henceforth be referred spised. Who knows what to as “Teddy,” was born in he has in store for these Santa Fe, New Mexico on unlucky neighbors and August 3rd, 1992 to Margue- sadly misguided public rite McCormack and Mi- institutions of learning. chael Oja. From a very early After a short time spent in age, Teddy has enjoyed a house rented from a masquerading as others. He landlord who can best be does this in several ways, characterized as creepy, Solution on the following page. Chronicles of Waldorfia Volume 2, Issue 1 Page 4
mediately recognizable as the stal- wart defender of free association Write for the C.O.W., man! who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Commit- DWHSNews@gmail.com tee in 1949. He defended his right to sing with and for anyone and