![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
![Sucking in a breath of air, freshman Lily Pope competes in the 200 yard individual medley. On Oct. 25, the swim team competed in the AISD Swim Invitational. Overall, the girls team took second place and the boys team came in eleventh. “My favorite stroke is butterfly because I do the best in that stroke,” Pope said. “I feel like [butterfly] can test how [your ability] to convince yourself to keep going. The hardest part of swimming is convincing yourself to stay strong and keep pushing during a hard race [when] everything is tired.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/POPE-1200x804.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Standing in front of the field at a freshman football game, cheerleader freshman Jacob Gaudreau along with teammate freshman Bella Gibson pose for a photo during halftime of game. “[Cheer has] definitely given me a much more outgoing personality,” Gaudreau said. “I used to be very introverted, so it's definitely made me more extroverted towards people.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ingrid-204-1200x800.jpg)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president of the United States. The country now looks forward to January 20, 2009 to see what he is going to do. Often a president’s success is predicted by his first 100 days, so as the country looks on to see what Obama is going to do, speculation is arising as to what those crucial days will be like.
Obama knows that he is coming to power in a country desperate for change and hopes the people realize that it may take more like 1000 days than 100 to make improvements.
Two things are for sure, he will be replacing the Bush Administration’s cabinet with his own, and he will be reviewing executive orders. An executive order is a type of law written by the executive branch that bypasses congress; however it can be removed or allowed to remain in effect by the next elected president.
“I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution,” Obama said while campaigning. One executive order that is predicted to be overturned is the ban on embryonic stem cell research that was passed by both the Bush presidents, but was discontinued during the Clinton administration. Other orders are sure to be changed, but it is impossible to say which.
On the campaign trail, Obama advocated the removal of troops from Iraq and he will be expected to lay out a clear plan on how he intends to do so. During his campaign, John McCain said that he wouldn’t mind 100 more years in Iraq, and Obama used that to state a clear plan to exit. His website reads “The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased.”
A large part of his plan is preparing the Iraqi government to be ready to rule themselves in a fair and democratic manner, so that when the troops finally are removed, Iraq will be stable enough to support itself.
As a key factor in his victory it is assumed that Barack will do something to tackle America’s struggling economy, and find ways to stop unnecessary wastes of money. With the Lehman Brother collapse, the take over of Frannie Mae and Freddy Mac, and the 700 billion dollar bailout, Americans want a change that they hope to see soon. Obama intends to cut taxes on nearly 95 percent of all Americans, and while that may not be put into action in his first days, it is expected that a plan will come out on how to implement it.
Obama has stated that with his first 100 days he would like to produce a national health care plan. In 2005, the latest government data available, almost 47 million Americans were without health care and it is Obama’s intention to do something about that promptly. “We need a bill…by March or April…” Obama’s campaign, said. It is crucial to get it out quickly so the people can have a strong positive outlook on the future of Obama’s presidency.
As the world prepares for Obama’s presidency there is a guessing game of what will be done and when things will start to change. But with his promise for change, America is expecting to see something different in the next few months.
