In the middle of a written test on explosives, CIA spy-in-training Lindsay Moran is suddenly taken out of class and blindfolded. An hour later, she finds herself in a car as masked men leap from the shadows and pound on her windshield, shooting off rounds from an AK-47 and yelling threatening obscenities. As one of the men starts to enter the back of her car, Moran floors it and the vehicle surges forward, smashing through two parked cars.
At first glance, senior Tu Dang's small bedroom, punctuated with framed photographs and cluttered corners, seems like that of any typical teenage girl. But wait -- there's a $600 silver Gucci purse draped over a hook on the wall. And a $1,200 Louis Vuitton purse on her nightstand. Not to mention a matching $285 Louis Vuitton belt tangled in a pile of accessories next to the laundry basket.
At first glance, senior Tu Dang's small bedroom, punctuated with framed photographs and cluttered corners, seems like that of any typical teenage girl. But wait " there's a $600 silver Gucci purse draped over a hook on the wall. And a $1,200 Louis Vuitton purse on her nightstand. Not to mention a matching $285 Louis Vuitton belt tangled in a pile of accessories next to the laundry basket.
On a Silver Chips mission to explore the contrasts between life at B-CC and at Blair, I ventured into B-CC hoping to examine the school's reputation as a world of wealth and white homogeneity. In a matter of hours, I found myself in a world of trouble instead.
It doesn't take long for James to get drunk at his 16th birthday party one fall night. By early evening, the junior is too intoxicated to hear someone calling out his name. James' mother, looking displeased, is yelling at him from the basement doorway as he staggers across the backyard patio. But she ignores the open cooler sitting just outside the sliding glass doors filled with chilled beer cans and asks instead about a string of prank calls they have gotten that evening. The beer doesn't bother her. After all, she bought it for her son's teenage party guests.