From the archive, reader favorites

ThreeSixty has been publishing a news web site since November 2007. We bring you some of our reader’s favorites.

Pressured to Play

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

By Paris Porter

Back in the spring I was listening to my cousin’s phone conversation with a girl who just told him that she was pregnant by him. Five minutes later, he was on MySpace trying to get a number from another girl.

This got me to thinking, why do so many young men like me and my cousin feel they’ve go to be players and have a lot of girls? And what about the consequences?

Kenny, a 17-year-old senior at Johnson High School in St. Paul, has a steady girlfriend. Still, he finds it easy to get caught up in a player mentality.

“It’s a game, you just gotta play it right,” he said. “It’s like a game to have and hit the most girls without them knowing.”

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Drink Knot

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

By Tanya Bui

It was like a flag exploding, an electric mesh of red, white, and blue lights reflecting in the rearview mirror. My friend pulled his car over, seatbelts clicked, sweatshirts tossed to hide the evidence- the two cases of beer beside me in the back seat. I imagined I heard the policeman’s footsteps as he approached the car, ballpoint pin clicking ready to write a ticket and perhaps to take us to jail.

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Religious teens balance beliefs and pop culture

Monday, December 1, 2008

By Tiffany Trawick

When Tiffany Trawick arrived as a freshman at DeLaSalle High School from a strict Christian school, she found so many things offensive: twerking, swearing. But she quickly understood she couldn’t reject all of her peers’ culture without them rejecting her.

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