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FCHS CHATTER BOX Messages of Positivity

A group of anonymous individuals has been spreading positive messages throughout the school by painting rocks with inspirational words or quotations and leaving them in noticable places or giving them to teachers. Sticky notes with similar messages have also been left on lockers.

Raising money This year’s Spread The Love Week sponsored a young lady’s wish to go to Atlantis in the Bahamas. The school raised $9,000 to send Madison and her family to swim with the dolphins by holding a dance and offering fun acctivities like DJ to the highest bidder.

Those who participated in the assembly also gave her the gift of support and entertainment as the cheerleaders and students took part in games and dancing. At one point, the crowd was even chanting her name.

Artist Recognition In Spine

INSIDE THE INK

Getting involved with marches

News 2-5

Student playwright

How slurs affect our community

Gymnast profile

Rioting for change, not profit

A&E 6-9

In-Depth 10-14

Sports 15-18

Perspectives 19-23

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How To: Spring Clean Oven:

Over time, an oven can develop a lot of gunk and sometimes emit a smell depending on how often it is cleaned. To get a good deep cleaning, sprinkle baking powder and a few drops of white vinegar in the oven and on a rag or cloth so you can get all grimy parts.

Wait for the solution to bubble before you begin scrubbing. Doing this can restore it’s cleanliness and help reduce stench.

Clubs place at regional competition, advance to next level Dalena Groen Editor-in-Chief Two FCHS academic teams competed in regionals the weekend of Feb. 10 and will be moving on to a higher level.

“Winning these types of events demonstrates how well rounded and talented our Lambkin student body is,” Assistant Principal Jennifer Roth said. “From academics to athletics we always demonstrate diverse talent.”

The Science bowl team competed in five round robin rounds and beat their rival Ridgeview. The team will travel to Washington D.C. to compete at the national level at the end of April.

Mock Trial took first place in the regional competition, besting their rival Rocky, and senior Peyton Walker was awarded best overall attorney. They will be competing at the state level March 3-4.

Windows:

Some people clean the inside of their windows but forget to clean the outside where the most build-up happens. Be sure to clean the outer surface as well to give your windows a fresh glow. This is usually best to do on a cloudy day so that the sun doesn’t bake the cleaner to the window before you’ve even started to clean it.

Closet:

When cleaning your closet, be sure to go through every article of clothing you have and put them in 2 piles: things you want to keep and things you don’t wear or want any more. After doing this, reorganize it to make getting ready in the morning easier. No more need to dig through everything to find that perfect outfit.

Conferences made to fit convenience of parents’ schedules Miles Rodriguez

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Staff Writer Parent-teacher conferences will be on Feb. 23 from 3:30-8:30 p.m.

“It’s a great opportunity for parents to meet with their child’s teachers all in one location,” Assistant Principal Emily Dunn said.

“Teachers provide feedback to parents regarding student performance and concerns or successes.”

Scheduled ten-minute appointments may be made for time slots from 3:30-4:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. If parents are not able to schedule an appointment with teachers, they are still welcome to drop in for a general conference session from 4:30-7:30 p.m. to meet with teachers for five minutes at their own convenience.

Commons to host blood drive Mar. 6 Seraphina Discoe Staff Writer The blood drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 6 in the cafeteria.

Students interested in giving blood must either be 17 with parent permission or 18 without.

“When someone gives their own blood, it isn’t only helping someone else in need of your blood, you are helping yourself by putting part of you out there,” ACE teacher Cathy Hettleman said.

Those who participate will receive small prizes such as t-shirts, ice cream, and gift cards, and friends and family of students and staff are welcome to donate blood.

Sugar beets, farmers hold historic value Molly Lubbers Sports Editor Fort Collins used to stink. It wasn’t a slight tinge of an odor but one that overwhelmed. According to “Fort Collins: The Miller Photographs,” one man described the smell as “a slaughterhouse in midsummer,” while former Colorado governor Benjamin Eaton said he smelled prosperity.

For Eaton and others, the source of this smell also meant money.

Nicknamed “white gold,” sugar beets certainly fit the title, at least in Fort Collins. They were just as precious, and they came from underground, too. But instead of being mined, they were farmed.

Sugar beets may seem boring, but the backbone of Fort Collins was built on their success. This Feb. 27 will mark the 112th year after the Great West Sugar Company was established.

While the industry isn’t so booming today, Henry O. Havemeyer, the creator of the company, held stock worth $20 million with all his factories combined.

Fort Collins’ central identity was also reliant on beet farming.

Not only was CSU a strictly

agricultural school to start, but the FCHS mascot was the farmer and beet digger before the Lambkin.

Now, according to Forbes, Fort Collins’ biggest industries are in the fields of bio-science and clean energy.

This is a far leap from what Fort Collins once was; the smell permeating the town came from waste, a byproduct of sugar production. While now conserving water is a main concern of residents, this wasn’t always the case. According to www.publiclands.colostate.edu, 70,000 tons of beet sugar were created per week in 1910, using five million gallons of a water each time.

By 1954, the Fort Collins plant’s daily use of processed water decreased from 650,000 to 200,000 gallons. But it also relied on steam, suggesting more water was used.

Though steam i s

renewable, the millions of gallons of effluent produced throughout its duration certainly wasn’t good for the environment.

This waste went into waterways through an open flume, going into ponds and then the Cache la Poudre River.

The flume still stands today, having been added to the National Register of Historic Places on Nov. 19, 2014. Just nearby is Kingfisher Point, where waste was dumped— native plants no longer live there, rather an invasive weed, kochia, because of the high level of lime still today. Slowly, it will recover. But for now, it serves as reminder of both the wealth of Fort Collins, and a warning to protect the environment even when money can be made.

While Fort Collins was built on sugar beets, it certainly doesn’t s m e l l anymore; it has grown from there into an environmentallyconscious t o w n .

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AND WE’RE MARCHING...

Political march involvement proves beneficial to students Maya Bode Managing Editor

everyone there together. The women’s march wasn’t just all about women’s rights for me. It was about my sister, who has autism, so it was really personal.”

Manyofthecausesbeingdiscussedandfoughtforare controversial or emotional, and the news notifications that come in on students’ phones can leave an impact.

“There have been a lot of times where I’ve

learned something and then I cry about it, because it’s really sad,” Mcaulay said. “Some of the things that are going on right now are really terrible.”

Whileitcanbeeasytogetdiscouragedbythemedia, it is possible to find a balance between staying healthy and being aware of what’s going on in the world.

“Stay educated within what’s going on with politics, but you shouldn’t overconsume yourself in it,” junior Aidan Murray said. “You don’t have to get involved, but you have to be aware of what’s going on. To understand both sides of the story, you really need to research what’s going on, before you make assumptions.”

Being open-minded and respectful can be key, but so can determination and confidence.

“I know my beliefs and I just stick to them, and I try to support those who have the same beliefs but I also try to respect people who have different views as me,” Mcaulay said. “You need to know what your rights are and what you believe you deserve. It’s really important to be educated about that and understand what’s going on.”

Over 100,000 people gathered at the Women’s March in Denver on Jan. 21, according to The Coloradoan. Many participants were students, such as sophomore Lily Mcaulay.

“We woke up at five and we drove down there, and it was really fun,” Mcaulay said.

“It was like, ‘Everyone here is supporting the same thing,’ and even though I didn’t know everyone there, there was just something about it that made me feel really close to them.”

Whetherit’sattendingmarches,signingpetitions,or takingthetimetoreadthenews,severaloptionsexistfor teenswhowanttostandupforthecausestheybelievein.

According to The Collegian, several events have taken place in Colorado since the Women’s March, including a march in solidarity with immigrants on Jan. 31 in Fort Collins, an immigrant and refugee community forum on Feb. 11 in Denver, and a protest to defend the constitution on Feb. 18 in Denver.

Upcoming events have also been planned, such as a march for global refugees on March 4 in Greeley, a pro-life Community Engagement gathering on March 18 in Denver, and a march for Trump’s tax returns on April 15 in several cities around the world including Denver.

In addition to being personally invested in the issues, some students participate to stand up for others.

“That’s probably the big part for me, just supporting other people,” freshman Elias Kaupang said. “It was just really cool to see Students at the solidarity march with refugees and immigrants Jan. 31 hold signs to spread positivity.

A sign held at the Planned Parenthood rally in Old Town Feb. 11 supports women’s rights to health care.

Photos courtesy of Jen Iole and Jody Snow

“Stay educated within what’s going on with politics” -Aidan Murray

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Give Next raises money for mental health organizations

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Roland Tomsic Staff Writer Give Next Service Learning, a youth philanthropy program, creates opportunities for students to provide service and leadership in their schools.

After sending out a survey inviting the student body to vote on the biggest issue in the school system, this year’s Give Next group is raising money for mental health programs.

“For the second year in a row mental health was the biggest concern of the student population and staff and parents were also encouraged to vote,” Give Next instructor Krista Taylor said. “The students in the class made the final decision, but they agreed with the student population.”

The Give Next students researched nonprofits that match the class mission statement. Then each student chose one nonprofit to present in front of the class.

Eventually, the class collectively decided if they would like to invite the selected organizations to apply for grant money. They then sent out invitation letters to the organizations.

“The students have to write those letters and email them,” Taylor said. “Then those nonprofits apply and then we read their applications and set up the site visits and the application interviews.”

After the interviews, organizations are selected and community donations begin. Donations are conducted through The Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, which allows all profits to be

Give Next class visits FoCo Cafe to interview Kathleen Baugardner for a nonprofit grant to support mental health awareness. Photo courtesy of Krista Taylor given straight to the mission. The students are about halfway to their goal of $500 raised. Donations can currently be made online at coloradogives.org/FCHS. Houska Automotive is also matching their goal of $500, and the students received $5,000 from the Bohemian Foundation.

Donations will be finished by March 15, and the money will be given to the selected nonprofits on May 4.

“The biggest challenge is funding

decisions because $6000—you think that’s a lot of money, but when some of these nonprofits want two or more thousand dollars you can’t fund all 15 so it’s very challenging,” Taylor said.

Rising to the challenges of the mission, students like senior Nate May, have been in the Give Next program for the past four years, he really enjoys it. May loves the student-centered aspect of the class because it helps with class participation, and adds a sense of leadership in the classroom.

“It’s different from any other class here,” May said. “In this class, we don’t really have a basis on how we do things. The students run the class; the teacher doesn’t run it.”

The Give Next class shows students how to lead, and help others in the community as well as in class. It involves the whole school by assisting nonprofits by donating money to bring light to issues that are not always recognized, spreading kindness to the community.

Meet Give Next

Nate May The mission of FCHS Give Next is to raise as much money as possible to donate to nonprofits to help those suffering from mental illness. Houska has agreed to match their goal of $500. They are being sponsored by the Bohemian Foundation of Northern Colorado in order to fund eligible nonprofits.

Donateatcoloradogives.org/FCHS

Final day to donate is Mar. 15 Goal

$500

Raised

$250

Senior

DOB: March 29 Age: 17 Activities: Give Next, Unified Basketball, Card Gaming Club After High School: Front Range Community College Favorite Color: Blue Favorite Food: Pizza Favorite Place: Noodles and Company Favorite Sport: Football Favorite Team: Broncos Animals: 2 dogs and a cat Siblings: 2 sisters Outside Activities: Hanging out with friends and going to the movies

Special Alternatives to Family and Youth of Colorado (SAFY) (above) and Respite Care (left) are two of the 60 applicants that Give Next has interviewed for the grant for mental health care. Approximately 5 of the eligible organizations will be able to receive money.

Photos courtesy of Krista Taylor

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In Brief ‘Mary Poppins’ cast to perform March 2-4 Roland Tomsic Staff Writer Mary Poppins, the spring musical, will be held March 2-4 in McNeal Auditorium, from 7-9:30 p.m.

The musical will star Elinor Jones as Mary, Truman McCaw as Bert, Andrew Markman as George Banks, Katherine Van Shaar as Winifred Banks, and many more.

“They started about six weeks before the winter break” drama teacher Jason Tyler said. “Doing vocals and dance work and then staging and continued vocals and dance all of January and February.”

Mary Poppins is a story about a dysfunctional family looking for a nanny. Eventually Mary shows up full of magic and wonder and ends up pulling the family back together.

Because Poppins flies, the show will make use of a fly system consisting of a series of pulleys.

Jones will wear a harness to achieve the illusion of flight, adding a little

Female deprecation restricting, negative

Remington Street Review open to submissions Joseph Vasseur Staff Writer Remington Street Review is now accepting submissions. Though the deadline for submissions has not been set, the staff expects it to be sometime soon after Spring Break.

Students can submit by emailing work to adviser Rob Schutt at rschutt@psdschools.org.

“If you’re interested in calling yourself a published artist or a published author, it’s a great opportunity,” Schutt said.

The publicationalreadyacceptsfiction, poetry, paintings, sheet music, lyrics, photographs, drawings, and anything considered art. Soon to launch a website, Remington intends to add digital forms of art, such as music videos, to the list.

Submissions are judged anonymously and can be submitted anonymously if the student prefers to do so.

McNeal to host Band Chamber Festival Seraphina Discoe Staff Writer The McNeal Auditorium will host the Band Chamber Festival on Wednesday, March 8, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Students from schools in Poudre School District will perform for judges who will watch for technique and form, along with the proper performance of the music.

“They’ve worked for months on these particular pieces,” Band Director David Miles said. “As soon as the concert is over, we return to the normal pieces.”

Friends and family are invited to attend.

Samantha Ye

In-Depth Editor Nearly a year since Kim Kardashian posted her nude Instagram selfie, as “shocking” as the photo was, the conversations it sparked are still worth returning to today.

On one side, we had the negative backlash, “women have so much more to offer than just our bodies” camp; on the other, we had the “women have a right to display their bodies however they see fit” camp.

While the third-wave feminist in me does support a woman’s right to decide her own image, when it comes to highly public figures, I can’t quiet the nagging concern of how such self-sexualization impacts the endeavors of other women.

Corrie Wang’s “The Takedown,” in its complex, fast-paced world, deals with these issues.

Kyla Cheng—popular, brilliant, beautiful valedictorian of her elite private high school—has had a video of her leaked “doing it.” One problem: she’s not the girl in the video.

The suspenseful and life-altering events which unfold helped me get to an answer in the female body empowerment vs. exploitation conundrum, making me realize I was lookingforasolutioninthewrongplace.

Rather than debating whether girls should or should not show off their bodies, maybe people could try to manage their own reactions.

For example, a major argument against revealing outfits relies on how people will not take women seriously if they flaunt their sexuality, because suddenly, their worth refocuses on their bodies.

When “Kyla’s” sex tape drops, everything she has worked for falls into the shadows.

Yet, if people are letting one aspect of a woman’s life override everything else about her, isn’t that their problem?

A fashion blogger in the novel, Bra&Panties (B&P), says about Kyla’s scandal, “How great would it be if she [Kyla] had the courage to stand up and say, ‘So what?’ Why can’t this chick be Li’l Miss Staight-A, intelligent, a real go-getter,andstill—gasp—havesex?”

Letting one trait define a person doesn’t make sense, and yet people do it to the extreme with female sexuality.

Even Kyla consistently tags B&P with the term “slut” since the blogger posts pictures of herself in lingerie. B&P isn’t a woman who has many casual sex partners; no, the derogatory word (which shouldn’t even exist with its current meaning) now encompasses all women who dress provocatively. The protagonist’s reasoning for her words is messy.

“Half the slut’s viewers are girls, not women,” Kyla asks.

“What example is that setting?”

“What example are you setting?

Maybe stop calling her a slut so much,” Kyla’s friend, Audra, replies.

“Never mind that you’re unfairly persecuting her for the exact reasons

you’re being unfairly persecuted.”

The reason being, of course, they dared to be confident in their “assets,” something which wouldn’t hurt anybody if society weren’t hell-bent on making it an issue.

AsArianaGrandeputit,“Expressing sexuality in art is not an invitation for disrespect!!! Just like wearing a short skirt is not asking for assault.”

Even if Kyla had had sex on tape, she’s not deserving of hate. The ones deserving of hate are the creeps who call her a slut, who start following her around the mall, and who go looking for her at her house.

We’reallsocaught up in restricting what girls can do with their own bodies, we forget the girls aren’t the problem.

The sexism, the contempt, the disrespect—it comes from how we react. If the reaction is negative with undertones of slut-shaming, it doesn’t further any feminist cause; it only limits women’s freedom to control their bodies.

And it’s especially sad when such backlash comes from other women.

“My whole point in trying to get you to follow her [B&P] is to prove that just because a girl is sexual it doesn’t mean she’s antiwoman or a slut,” Audra says to Kyla.

Feminists have clashed over this topic for decades, even more so when celebrities are involved, but I’m done considering “answers” which criticize the behavior of girls. We have the right to decide how to present our own bodies.

How you judge it is your problem.

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Vegan diet creates new challenges Dalena Groen

Staff Review

Editor-In-Chief Most of my meals consist of peanut butter and jelly, and I run at the sight of mushrooms. I have always been a pickyeater,butwhenA&EEditorWalkerDiscoesuggested we review veganism by becoming vegans for a week, I thought it would be easy. I was even excited to put my semi-unhealthy eating habits on hold for seven days.

Vegans purposefully abstain from consuming and using animal products. This includes dairy, leather, and eggs.Thislifestylehasbeengrowinginpopularitysince 2010 but the number of people who identify as vegan is stillsmall.AccordingtoVegetariantimes.com,3.2percent ofadultsarevegetarianswhereas0.5percentarevegan.

People are inclined to become vegan for many reasons, including treatment of animals, personal health, and environmental benefits. Our staff became interested in the effects and benefits of this lifestyle, five staff members chose to become vegan for seven days. All five of us were excited to see if cutting out the typically fatty aspects of our diets would make

For information on how to make your own vegan meal, see page page 15 for Athlete’s Fork.

us feel better. Two of the participants were already vegetarian and felt that cutting out dairy products would be relatively easy even though they both rely heavily on yogurt and other dairy products to get a sufficient amount of protein. By the end of the week they both said that excluding most of the protein they typically eat just caused them to be hungry more often and it made them Photo coutrsey of I-5 Design & Manufacture wanted a meal with some substance, you would have feel grumpy and tired by the end of the week.

Others encountered similar situations, finding to spend time creating it, even if it was just a snack. it was much harder to feel fulfilled after a meal The first day I tried to make a taco bowl and it took than when our diets were not restricted. We me 45 minutes to get it done. The vegan lifestyle is would eat more meals than before to try to feel not a quick one, and adds a level of complexity to life.

Veganism is a completely different lifestyle that is completely satisfied. One person chose to eat very hard to understand in only seven days. It provides many similar dishes for most of her meals, making it benefi ts for people. Although it was hard to transition easier but the repetition became tediously boring. between the two lifestyles, it has the potential Another issue some of us faced was the required to become easier and more beneficial over time. planning that went into creating a vegan meal. If you

Somber photography helps student find balance Brooke Pippin Staff Writer The close up of a man’s face with a somber look and neutral colors is a photo that grabs the viewer’s attention. It is a picture of freshman Addie Sasick’s dad, and she took it herself, citing it as the piece she is most proud of.

A photographer, Sasick is a light hearted person who is often attracted to creating more melancholy photographs.

She said people who know her see that she is always laughing or smiling, but her photos tend to be gray or taupe, with serious moods.

“I think it’s because I am a happy person that I am attracted to those types of pictures,” Sasick said. “People have to see all types of moods. It’s a new experience for me.”

As for the focus of her images, she likes to take pictures of people, especially their faces. She doesn’t find a person first; instead, she has an idea of something she wants in her picture, and then she searches for someone who has that quality.

“I want to capture emotion,” Sasick said. “There’s stories in people’s faces.

That’s why I like to take pictures of them.”

Her medium of choice is digital.

While she finds film fun, she thinks digital is much easier to work with in

order to achieve her desired outcome.

Sasick doesn’t have one particular source of influence, though. She doesn’t limit herself to one type of photographer to pull from. She tends to just see pictures she likes in her free time and remember them.

“I don’t really have one inspiration,” Sasick said. “I’m just kind of in my head. I always know what I want beforehand.”

She knows she wants to stick to people, but she plans to include more than just the face, such as full body pictures and the person’s environment. While Sasick is going to continue photography beyond high school, she isn’t sure if it will be her career.

“I want a career in the arts, but I think photography will be a lifelong hobby,” Sasick said.

Although she has made photography just a pastime, Sasick has considered taking her work to a more ambitious level and entering it in competitions. She has entered a few pieces into local contests, but she is currently searching for larger ones.

While she has made it a goal to take a photo every day, her busy schedule sometimes distracts her. However, having a way to channel her creativity has made school easier and her more confident.

“A lot of times my ideas don’t work out,” Sasick said. “But when they do, it’s a lot of fun.”

Photo by Addie Sasick

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McCormick one of four finalists in playwriting competition Miles Rodriguez Staff Writer In a world where the floor is lava and everyone lives on floating doors, a young boy and girl happen to drift next to each other and quickly develop a close bond.

Senior Ryan McCormick’s play entitled “Spilt Lava” tells the story that unfolds between the young couple and reveals how prevalent the fear of uncertainty is in cases of love.

McCormick is now one of four finalists for the 201617 Regional High School Playwriting Competition sponsored by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He will receive mentorship from a professional playwright and have his play read at the 2017 Colorado New Play Summit on Saturday at 9 a.m.

Screenwriting first piqued McCormick’s interest after his parents divorced when he was in elementary school. On the weekends spent with his dad, they would use most of their time together watching as many movies as they could. Over time, he grew to love movies more.

As his interest in film-making was

beginning to grow, camera equipment was too expensive for McCormick, so he learned to write his own screenplays as an alternative.

McCormick started taking screenwriting more seriously in middle school.

Later on in his sophomore year, he submitted a script for a play he wrote to the 2014-15 DCPA Playwriting Competition, and made it to the semifinals of the contest.

Wanting to give himself a chance at being better than just a semifinalist, he wrote “Spilt L a v a . ” “ I submitted this exact same play last year, but it didn’t even make it to the semifinalists,” McCor mick said.

“I submitted it

again this year because I had faith. I knew this was a good play and I felt whole-heartedly this play is leagues better than the one I was a semi-finalist for.”

This year when McCormick decided to resubmit “Spilt Lava” to the competition, he looked at the formatting guidelines and discovered that in his first submission, he had not typed the stage directions in parentheses. The second time around, he put the parentheses in and now he’s a finalist.

“I learned to have faith in my own judgment of my own work,” McCormick said. “I know it’s not up to me if my work should be in the finals or not, but after winning this competition this year, I have more faith in whether I can judge if my work is good or not.”

McCormickappreciatesthattheDCPACompetition gives young people like him a source of validation.

While he believes artists shouldn’t depend on that affirmation, he does recognize it’s nice to have the extra push in order to continue and not give up.

“Just remember your parentheses,” McCormick said. “And don’t forget there is no one specific way to tell a story.”

Photo by Walker Discoe

Music allows family to bond together, create identities Joseph Mason Managing Editor CharlieMaddockspossessesanintensequality that makes him scrunch his chipmunk face into a fist, only to open it up like a magic trick. His songs have color, his vocals have life, and he exudes an addictive persuasiveness. Maddocks is the front man of the band HoldFast. (yes, it’s spelled with a period), which is composed of his cousins Mike and Tommy Maddocks, and managed by yet another cousin 2013 alumnus Jake Maddocks.

The band will hold its first EP release concert on Saturday at the Downtown Artery.

The trio has performed in numerous concerts and at several venues over the past year but it all started in 2011 in Charlie’s basement. It was Charlie’s birthday and he’d just gotten a drum set. He called Tommy down to the basement and told him to try it out. Soon enough, Mike was playing bass and HoldFast. was born.

HoldFast. isn’t the first band to emerge from the Maddocks family. Their uncles used to play in a band called Paean, which was one of the first bands to performattheannualFortCollins music festivals FoCoMX. HoldFast. has performed at this event four times, including last year when they played an hour-long set.

“I feel l i k e our first s h o w w a s 2 0 1 2

in December at Everyday Joe’s and we’ve been doing this, like playing together, for four or five years,” Charlie said. “But the band really took off at last year’s FoCoMX.” It was around this time that Jake got involved.

“I went to a lot of their shows when they were younger, and then when I went to their performance at the Artery in August of 2015, I noticed something had changed about them,” he said. “They sounded a lot more cohesive, and it was the first time I felt like they, as a band, were something special. I wanted to be a part of it, but I don’t play an instrument. I’m social and love networking, so I told them I wanted to manage them.Augustof 2015 is when I started that, and

it was rough at first. I had no experience at all and I didn’t feel confident calling myself their ‘manager.’ It took a while for me to find my footing and establish my role with the band.”

Everyone has an important role within the group, such as Charlie who is the main songwriter, Tommy who is the “personal security system” as well as drummer, and Mike whom Jake referred to as “the oxygen of the band.”

“Weneedhimtosurvive,”Jakesaid.“It’sfunny, you don’t notice it’s gone until it’s gone—every day we’re breathing air. And when it’s gone you get really uncomfortable. It’s funny because when you listen to a lot of bands the bass isn’t in front but when it’s gone you’re like ‘Something’s wrong here.’ So we need him to survive and don’t necessarily know he exists all the time.”

Mike also occasionally contributes to the songwriting process, but that duty mainly belongs to Charlie. However, the naming of the band was an entire group effort.

“We originally came up with the idea because it defined the bond between us as a holdfast structure that is solid and stable,” Mike said.

“We’ve grown up and lived next door to each other for most of our lives. So we’re family and we live next door to each other so the cohesiveness between us is unlike anything y o u see in other bands.

We don’t have problems and we don’t fight; everything just clicks very well for us.”

Photo courtesy of Charlie Maddocks

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Fashion challenges old conceptions of art Adelaide Tomsic Perspectives Editor When thinking about art, many imagine something still. We envision the unshifting gaze of Mona Lisa, Starry Night firmly mounted to a white wall, or a 99-foot-tall Abraham Lincoln looking out over our nation’s capital. But the runway challenges this conception of art. Fashion has reimagined art to incorporate human movement and form.

Contemporary fashion embraces the artistic aesthetic of clothing as past fashions have, but with its own unique flair.

“Contemporary fashion and contemporary art in general are closely related to postmodernism,” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Curator Mardee Goff said. “So it kind of rejects previous rules and is more daring, playing with patterns and materials and that sort of thing.”

One pioneer of modern design is Issey Miyake who studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in 1964. His designs reflect the colorful artistic style of the era. Miyake’s designs include runway pieces often contorted into bold geometric shapes by wire, making use of intriguing materials such as rice paper and pleating. Miyake also designs more casual pieces such as Steve Jobs’s black turtleneck. His casual designs still often incorporate his iconic pleating.

Many contemporary designers place an emphasis on a signature pattern. Take Virgil Abloh’s Off-White for example. His designs often incorporate diagonal stripes and the words “off white,” and Rei Kawakubo’s brand, Comme des Garçon, features hearts.

According to fashionmagazine. com, recent f a s h i o n appeals to youth

because of such bold designs and because it tends to be less expensive (although still sometimes pricey) than luxury brands like Coach or Chanel. The moderately high price tag is seen as an investment for many because items aren’t mass-produced in the way they may be for large corporations such as Old Navy or Target.

“I think the reason why people, especially young people,likecontemporaryfashionsomuchisbecause it allows you to be more unique and sometimes a little weird,” Tula Associate Whitney Moore said.

The contemporary era of fashion is a fun part of a fashion cycle alternating between conservative to liberal clothing. 19th century clothing was confined to rigid rules and ridged corsets and many styles resembled one another and there was little room for distinctiveness. During the roaring twenties, some began to shift away from this. Although flappers unbuckled their shoes and shortened their skirts, the cultural shift to current fashion was unhurried and temporarily slowed by the Great Depression, so many still adhered to past traditional styles until the fifties when modern art began to take root.

Clothes have been treated as an extension of one’s self throughout most of history. According to Sciencenews.org, the oldest pair of pants found in Xinjiang, China, which are dated as more than 3,000 years old are intricately embroidered with a repeating pattern around the leg showing people have always valued decorating themselves through clothing.

“The contemporary era isn’t the first time fashion has been treated as an art,” CSU Associate Professor EleanorMosemansaid.“LookatMarieAntoinette,for example. She definitely treated her fashion as an art.”

The contemporary era is a lively time for fashion. In a cyclical resurgence of artistic clothing design, previous norms are being challenged and designers are taking advantage of their artistic ingenuity. Just as Marie Antoinette was putting birds in her hair 300 years ago and horseback riders were embroidering their pants 3,000 years ago, Lady Gaga wears a dress made out of meat today.

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Fashion Fast Facts It was considered scandalous for women to wear shorts in public until WWII when more women joined the workforce.

During the Victorian Era, widows were expected to wear black until two years after their husband’s death. Any other use of black clothing was considered taboo.

The average American owns seven pairs of blue jeans.

The first fake eyelashes were made

by D.W. Griffith out of human hair to emphasize movie actress’s eyes.

Bell bottoms were initially worn by Navy sailors and were adopted hippies in the ‘60s

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Club brimming with school spirit works to spread positivity to come,” freshman Olivia Olson said. “It gets people involved in Staff Writer school and participate more.”

Through their message of unity Walking the halls exposes you to many things. Perhaps you notice a poster and involvement, Boosters aims to publicizing an orchestra event, detect promote a thriving environment.

Trivia Night is hosted by Boosters a flyer announcing the annual trivia night, or spot a sign wishing people every year during Spread the Love Week. luck on exams. These signs are not Preparing during Thursday common made by imaginary elves (believe it lunch meetings, they plan a night of or not), but rather the Boosters Club. Kahootwiththeopportunitytowinprizes.

Boosters events also impact outside Whetherthepostersareextravagantly decorated or a simple reminder, they the FCHS community. This year, they ran offer announcements for a wide a school-wide fundraiser called Pennies range of groups. Advertising various for Patients, aiding the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Members clubs reinforces the goals attended classes daily to of Boosters—diversity collect money and raise and inclusivity.

“Boosters awareness about the “School community aims to ‘boost’ this number affected by is very important because it allows spirit of community Leukemia. With the incentive of a pasta students to express themselves and within the school and party for the winning know that there are be some of the students class, they collected a total of $5,000. peoplethatrecognize While Boosters them and all of their that are always there.” strengthens the larger efforts,” Boosters —Emily Haycommunity, they also president Emily Arthur place the friendship within Hay-Arthur said. theirownclubasahighpriority.

“Boosters aims to ‘boost’ “It’s a really fun club and a this spirit of community within the school and be some of great way to meet people that have the students that are always there.” school spirit and enjoy being involved,” By sharing lesser known Lubbers said. “We often attend events activities, Boosters aims to together, so you’ll always have someone recognizealltypesofstudents. to go with whether you’re going to “While some events at our a football game or a swim meet.”

Those interested in joining school are well-attended, like basketballandfootballgames, Boosters may contact Boosters there are many that don’t often sponsor Rebecca Garrett in P205.

“PeopleshouldjoinBoostersbecause receive a lot of support,” Boosters vice president Ella Lubbers said. our club is very inclusive to all students Besides cheering on students, of any grade and we are relatively lowthe posters motivate people to commitment with no requirements to stayintheclub,”Hay-Arthursaid.“Boosters attend more events. hasgreatopportunitiestoletterandhave “We want to supporting our fun while encourage fellow students.” students to do well and people

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Editor’sNote Samantha Ye In-Depth Editor For a standard picture puzzle to work, every piece must be slightly different in shape and color, yet in the end, they all contribute to one cohesive image.

Few things could represent this month’s In-Depth theme better than a puzzle.

From the diversity of pieces comes one unified picture, a concept which can be found throughout our world. This issue, the stories for this section all involve unity or diversity or both.

On page 14, multiple clubs promoting and celebrating diversity are covered. Included is a diversity IQ quiz for you to test your knowledge of racial statistics in American schools.

Page 11 profiles Boosters, the club which promotes all other school organizations. Their work toward increased visibility of lesser known events helps unite the school with increased awareness.

Diversity might not always lead to unity, however. Bilingual students, while having access to two worlds of communication, may face certain difficulties when surrounded by monolingual peers and other limiting barriers. The centerfold story describes the experience of being bilingual, and to give you a taste of the benefits of knowing a second language, there is also a matching game with some useful words which have no English equivalent.

Not everyone will always accept diversity though, and the backlash can be harmful. Page 11 discusses the use of LGBT slurs in the school environment, and its negative impact on students.

Differences in sexual orientation, language, race, and ethnicity will always exist—in fact, the cultural mosaic of the United States continues to expand.

It’s as important as ever to learn how to appreciate our diversity and the unity within it.

Q&A with a Boosters Member Q: Why did you join Boosters?

A: I wanted more involvement, and I had time to do another club. It gave me the chance to benefit the school community while also having the opportunity to letter.

Q: How did you hear about Boosters?

A: I initially heard about it during Club Rush. Besides the candy, the fact that we could letter stood out to me to the most.

Q: What do you appreciate about Boosters and what have you gotten out of it?

A: I appreciate that we encourage school spirit. It is important to have a united school Emma Byrne community and to support the lesser-known activities in the school. The chemo fundraiser is also Junior really important, and we raised around 5,000 dollars.

Q: What is your favorite part about the club?

A: Making posters is fun, and I like knowing various school events I can go to. I also have a group to go to events with.

Q: Why would you recommend it to others?

A: I would recommend it because you get the chance to letter. It’s a chill and fun club; there aren’t a ton of obligations, and there are meaningful things that come out of it. It is a good group of kids.

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The Straight Truth LGBT slurs foster intolerant school environment Maya Bode Managing Editor 55.5 percent of LGBT students feel unsafe at school, according to a survey by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network.

While acceptance and awareness has increased over the last several years, this demographic is still vulnerable, and using slurs against them can be harmful.

In a 2013 survey by GLSEN, students heard an average of 26 anti-LGBT slurs per day, meaning about once every 16 minutes in a seven-hour school day. Granted, this number can vary dramatically depending on the culture of a community or peer group.

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between zero and seven LGBT terms used as insults. These incidents included someone accusing a girl of “acting really gay,” a group calling each other faggots during lunch, and agroupdescribingasongas“fruity”and“gay.”

“People say like, ‘that’s gay,’ or ‘you’re gay.’

It gets thrown around a lot,” junior Kiana Hooper said. “They do it because they are around it too much, and it becomes a habit.”

The use of “gay,” rather than aligning with the dictionary definition, is often intended as a general negative slang term, or said to discredit or criticize someone’s masculinity.

“I try to stay away from using it,” junior Matthew McCleney said. “I think it’s mainly used to show weakness, but it shouldn’t be.”

While correcting someone when they make such comments can prompt them to consider the impact of their actions, some students feel it is not always worth it.

“If it’s being used as an insult toward somebody else, maybe we should point it out, but if they’re just joking about it in their friend group then there’s no point,” sophomoreAndreaSchuettersaid.

While sometimes these slurs are exchanged between friends in a way that seems relatively innocent, it does not take much for these words to become harmful.

“People that say it could be hurting someoneelsethatisactuallygay,”Hoopersaid.

“They probably would feel unappreciated.”

In addition to feeling unappreciated, LGBT students may feel unsafe when these comments are made.

“Any negative remark about sexual orientation, gender, or gender expression may signal to LGBT students that they are unwelcome in their school communities, even if a specific negative comment is not directly applicable to the individual,” according to the GLSEN. Even one comment has the potential to leave a harmful impact on the receiving end.

“If it effects someone that is maybe gay or lesbian, it can offend them and make them not want to come out, and then they can’t ever get the support they need because of one incident,” McCleney said.

Some students have noticed that although these comments are still prevalent, they are becoming less common.

“I think it’s definitely getting better, because our generation is becoming so accepting and super open to each other,” McCleney said. “I think our generation is going to really help that increase.”

Hooper encourages students to consider changing their rhetoric.

“Instead of using ‘gay,’ use other words, respectful words,” Hooper said.

“Or even give compliments.”

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Influencing identity, bilingualism enables students to experience life in a different way than monolingual students.

“It helps you in a lot of stuff,” Garcia said. “Being bilingual, it’s not just knowing two languages but you have two different mindsets of what you do and what you say.”

Due to these two mentalities, a struggle of being bilingual is finding direct translations of certain words or not being able to explain something in one of the two languages.

“The thing I find hardest is when I know the word in English but I have no clue what it could be in Spanish,” sophomore Fernando Beltran said. “Like you’re trying so hard, that you just can’t remember it. It’s frustrating.”

Sophomore Helen Yoseph has a similar problem when she writes to her family in Amharic, sometimes accidentally mixing up letters. She also doesn’t have the chance to talk to her peers in Amharic.

“It’s hard mainly because not a lot of people, especially in Fort

Collins speak Amharic and there aren’t people my age that speak Amharic here,” Yoseph said.

As Yoseph grew up around peers who didn’t speak Amharic, she had to learn to accept the identity of being bilingual over time.

“When I came to America from Ethiopia, it definitely was really hard for me to adjust here. So it definitely isn’t easy to be bilingual, especially coming from a different place,” Yoseph said. “But I truly do feel like when you get into it, it totally gets a lot easier and you end up being a lot more carefree and open about it rather than trying to hide that identity.”

Another experience bilingual students encounter is having to act as a translator for others. According to junior Jessica Garcia, she sometimes freezes and cannot think of a word while translating.

“Sometimes some words in English are different from what they are in Spanish so you have to process it really fast to translate to the other person,” Garcia said.

While it presents challenges, Garcia has found she can help others through knowing both English and Spanish.

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“And I’ve actually done things at school for freshman orientation.

Or parents come in and they’re Spanish speakers and I can help them.”

According to Beltran, other perks of speaking two languages include better jobs and a greater chance of going to college.

However, he has also been challenged by the intersection of racism with language.

“Because I’m bilingual and I’m Hispanic, people will usually say—well not usual, but I’ve had experience with it in the past—people would call me certain names and racial terms,” Beltran said.

According to Yoseph, if monolingual people understood what it was like to be bilingual, it would promote a deeper bond between everyone.

“I think if everyone was bilingual we would definitely have more of a connection throughout the world and have more unity,” Yoseph said.

“We’d be more understanding of each other and each other’s culture.”

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Influyendo en la identidad, el bilingüismo permite a los estudiantes que experimenten la vida de una manera diferente a los estudiantes monolingües.

“Te ayuda en un montón de cosas”, dijo García. “Siendo bilingüe, no se trata sólo de saber dos lenguas, sino que tú tienes dos mentalidades diferentes sobre lo que haces y lo que dices.”

Debido a estas dos mentalidades, una lucha de ser bilingüe es encontrar traducciones directas de ciertas palabras o no ser capaz de explicar algo en una de las dos lenguas.

“Lo que encuentro más difícil es cuando sé la palabra en inglés, pero no tengo ni idea de lo que pudiera ser en español”, dijo el estudiante de segundo año Fernando Beltrán. “Es como si estuvieras intentando t a n

palabra mientras traduce.

“A veces algunas palabras en inglés son diferentes de lo que son en español entonces tienes que procesar muy rápido para traducir la idea a la otra persona”, dijo García.

Aunque presenta desafíos, García ha encontrado que ella puede ayudar a otros a través del conocimiento del inglés y el español.

“Creo que es realmente útil porque donde yo trabajo, ayudo en español”, dijo. “Y he participado en actividades en la escuela para la orientación de estudiantes del primer año.

Tambien, cuando los padres vienen y son hablantes de español yo puedo ayudarles “.

Según Beltran, otras ventajas de hablar dos idiomas incluyen mejores trabajos y una mayor posibilidad de ir a la universidad.

Sin embargo, también se ha enfrentado con la intersección del racismo y el lenguaje.

“Porque soy bilingüe y yo soy hispano, la gente suele decir-bueno, no es habitual, pero he tenido experiencia con esto en el pasado- la gente me llamaría ciertos nombres y términos raciales”, dijo Beltrán.

Según Yoseph, si la gente monolingüe entendiera lo que era ser bilingüe, promovería un vínculo más profundo entre todos.

“Creo que si todo el mundo fuera bilingüe, definitivamente tendríamos más conexión en todo el mundo y tendríamos más unidad”, dijo Yoseph.

“Seríamos más entendidos unos a otros y apreciaríamos más la cultura de cada uno.”

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Sophomore Helen Yoseph tiene un problema similar cuando le escribe a su familia en Amharic, a veces, sin querer, mezcla letras. Ella tampoco tiene la oportunidad de hablar con sus compañeros en Amharic.

“Es difícil, principalmente porque no hay mucha gente, especialmente en Fort Collins que habla Amharic y no hay personas de mi edad que hablan amárico aquí”, dijo Yosef.

Yoseph creció rodeado de compañeros que no hablaban amhárico, ella tuvo que aprender a aceptar la identidad de ser bilingüe con el tiempo.

“Cuando vine a América desde Etiopía, definitivamente fue muy difícil para mí ajustarme aquí. Indudablemente no es fácil ser bilingüe, especialmente viniendo de un lugar tan diferente “, dijo Yoseph.

“Pero, creo de verdad que al meterte en el bilingüismo, todo se pone mucho más fácil y te vuelves mucho más despreocupado y abierto sobre este talento en lugar de tratar de ocultar esa identidad tuya”.

Otra experiencia que los estudiantes bilingües encuentran es tener que actuar como traductor para otros.

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In an era with such racial tensions, many people feel excluded in their community.

At FCHS, over 32 percent of the student body is a race other than Caucasian. Over 23 percent of the student body is Hispanic, more than 3 percent are biracial, and close to 2 percent have an American Indian background.

Racial diversity clubs allow a variety of students to feel involved and represented.

Emerging ethnic clubs at FCHS work hard to eradicate discrimination and give a voice to underrepresented groups.

“In meetings, we always try to unite our school together,” freshman Bibiana Delacruz, a member of the Diverse Leaders, said.

“Regarding race, we are all the same. In Diverse Leaders, we are always looking for projects that can bring our community closer.”

Joining the long-established Latino American Student Association, two new clubs are directing their efforts toward bringing the student community closer together, advocating for all students, raising diversity awareness, and allowing all students to find acceptance in the school.

Diverse Leaders focuses on projects that highlight individuality. The “mask project” was created to help students involved in the club recognize what makes them unique.

Delacruz, who was one of many students involved in this project, described it as a national initiative that allows students to “take their mask off.” Those who participated symbolically removed their masks, and learned how to express and appreciate their true selves.

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have their voice heard if there isn’t anywhere else for them to go,” club adviser Paul Ashby explained.“Wealsolovetoencourageandlisten tostudents’ideasandvoicesinDiverseLeaders.”

The Asian Student Society takes a similar student-centered approach, according to junior Anuja Gore, the club’s president. Their hope is to celebrate Asian heritage and culture.

“The goal’s just to promote diversity in the community and raise awareness for discrimination that Asian-Americans face because a lot of times, people are in this model minority mentality where they think AsianAmericansaren’taffectedbydiscriminationbut that’snottrue,”Goreexplained.“Asian-Americans areaffectedbydiscriminationandbysayingthat they’renotisjustignoringareallybigproblem.”

In addition to working against biases, freshman Dylan Kelly sees an opportunity as a member of the club to learn and grow.

“I think it is important for students to stay involved in racial diversity clubs because it opens their minds to other cultures, which makesthemawell-roundedindividual,”hesaid.

Though he is not a member of one of the diversity-centeredclubs,freshmanZayneGarcia still appreciates their efforts to raise awareness andcreateinclusiveeventsallstudentscanattend.

“Diversity in FCHS is important for the learning environment because it allows many viewpoints in certain topics that are in classes or are going around the school,” Garcia said.

“These different viewpoints are important for everyone because from different viewpoints we can learn what others are feeling and try to understand why they feel that way.”

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How to work out while traveling During s p r i n g b r e a k , working out while traveling can be a challenge. A few simple on-the-go exercises can warm up your muscles rather than just stretching them as you may typically do during road trips.

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Keeping your hands flat against your seat, clench your abs and slowly pull both knees toward your chest while pushing your torso forward. Then release and lower your feet to the ground.

When you reach your hotel, or pull over, retrieve your suitcase from storage. Turn it sideways on the ground. Squat down, keeping your back straight. Then, holding on to the sides, lift the suitcase up as you rise from the squat.

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activates your muscles more because you must balance yourself. Raise both arms to shoulder height. Holding your position for 30 seconds, lean your hips forward and bring your left leg back. Then switch to the other side and repeat.

While waiting in line for the restroom, target your quad muscles with a wall sit.

Simply stand against a wall, placing your feet hip distance apart and about two feet out from the wall. Slide your back against the wall until your thighs are parallel to the floor.

As a passenger, you can work your core and your obliques. Sit up straight and lock your fingers behind your head. Pull your knees halfway up to your chest, and twist your torso to the left.

Resume your previous position, then repeat, twisting to the right.

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Nutritionist finds protein rich diets vital for vegans Ingredients 1 cup quinoa 1 cup vegetable broth 2 tablespoons olive oil 2.5 cups chopped vegetables of your choice 1 can (2.5 cups) garbanzo beans 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon paprika ½ teaspoon basil ½ teaspoon black pepper

Adelaide Tomsic Perspectives Editor Although not often thought of as a large source of emissions, livestock industries create 51 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas, which is one reason many choose to cut back on animal product consumption. Others may reduce for ethical purposes or to lower cholesterol. A vegan or vegetarian diet may have many benefits; however, one must consider proper balance to compensate for loss of nutrients usually supplied by animal- based foods.

“Because a vegan diet does not incorporate any animal products, it is important to remember to include protein rich foods in every meal,” Nutritionist Nicole Eckman said.

Quinoa is one high-protein vegan food which contains as much protein as a glass of milk (8 grams per cup.) Additionally, it is a complete protein, meaning it contains all nine essential amino acids which our bodies cannot produce on their own.

Steps Put quinoa, vegetable broth, and one tablespoon of olive oil in a rice cooker or on the stove, allowing it to simmer with a lid on until all liquid is gone.

Once quinoa is done cooking, sauté vegetables in the remaining oil with spices.

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Mix the vegetable mixture with the quinoa and one can of rinsed garbanzo beans.

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Gymnast gains leadership, strength after injury Roland Tomsic Staff Writer

Competing at a meet in 2016, freshman JennaSpringbergdoesabackwalkover (right) and a front handspring (above.)

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After years of working at a passion, suddenly something went wrong and progress was set back two years.

Freshman Jenna Springberg had been a gymnast for seven years when she broke both of her wrists doing a beam routine at the age of ten.

Springberg is a gymnast currently on the FCHS gymnastics team. Springberg has been doing gymnastics since she was in kindergarten. She started at a gym called Aerials Gymnastics in Colorado Springs.

Springberg moved in first grade and her passion for the sport came with her. She then started at a new gym called GK Gymnastics and began competing. She practiced for threeand-a-half hours every day. A few years later, Springberg moved to a higher-level team, practicing more days and more hours.

Practicing longer and harder caused her bones to break. She ended up breaking both of her wrists. She returned to the sport in 2012 after healing but they broke again in 2014. This past season she returned once again feeling strong.

Her current coach Laura Slocomb

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was amazed by how quickly Springberg regained her skills and stepped up as a team leader.

“She has actually worked really hard, got her skills back, and maybe learned a little more, which is pretty rare for not doing the sport for two years and being a teenager when yourbodyisgrowing,”Slocombsaid.

To help with her wrist injury, Slocomb came up with a plan to slow Springberg’s practice time if her injury began to hurt her. But as the season went on, Springberg’s wrists gradually got stronger and her injury never returned.

This past season, Springberg qualified for the state

gymnastics competition as a freshman and ended up getting one of her best scores to date at the state competition.

Springberg qualified in beam floor and vault.

Female gymnasts compete in four events: beam, floor, vault, and

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Technology influences daily fitness, sports Joseph Vasseur Staff Writer Technology continues to evolve as the years pass, and it’s making our lives easier.

Technology can help us find a restaurant, navigate to our friend’s house, and can help people with maintaining and watching their health. All kinds of apps, bracelets, and gadgets, have been innovated in the past few years to help keep people exercising and healthy.

“As time progresses the amount of technology in everyday life increases, and that includes sports,” freshman Teagan Janssen said.

Teagan uses her FitBit to help her track her sleep, and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The FitBit is a prime example of how technology has evolved to make maintaining good health more convenient for everyone. Students can use the

FitBit and other similar bands like the Apple Watch to track running distance, time exercises, and of course, track sleep.

But physical devices like the FitBit aren’t the only aspects of technology helping make health easy. Health and lifestylerelated apps have also been popping up around the world.

Brian Lackey, a 1992 graduate, is the owner of a soon-to-be app called TrailMate. TrailMate is an app that will be used to track and monitor biking trails around Colorado via a newly developed technology called a Geofence.

“The Geofence is a virtual line that’s GPS coordinated, that puts a box around a trail essentially,” Lackey said.

When people cross the boundary of a trail, the Geofence can determine whether they are bikers, joggers, or hikers.

The Geofence then puts the information into a database

to track trail use. This will help communicate how crowded a trail is to someone who is looking to go to a trail.

Technology in high school sports has grown exponentially since the late 20th century. The integration of technology in sports has made getting better even more convenient for the athlete.

“When I ran track here, in high school, in the late 90s, we didn’t have iPads. You weren’t getting any video feedback at practice,” Track Coach Laurie Rice said.

The track team is now employing video to point out flaws in running form and help athletes fix them. Coaches are equipped with iPads, and use them to video-record starts or other technical aspects of track.

Rice said, “When you’re looking at revolutionizing the sport, it’s just the added ease of what we can do, and the feedback we can get—that’s valuable information.

uneven bars. Springberg’s passion is floor. Floor exercise involves a series of flips and tumbles to put a routine together, and it can take up to 7 hours to prepare a routine for competition.

“When I was younger, I never thoughtIwouldbeabletoaccomplish the skills or dedicate so much time to one thing,” Springberg said.

Entering the sport once again after her reoccurring injury Sprinberg showed leadership and confidence.

S h e came back helping o t h e r s and getting better herself.

“She was probably one of the actual leaders on the team,” Slocomb said.

“She was in the gym every day working hard and cheering for her team mates and encouraging people. She was a pretty important part of the team, not just for her skills but what she brought to the team with her work ethic and leadership.”

Springberg plans to continue gymnastics through high school and hopes to qualify for state all four years. In her senior year, she would like to see the team compete at state. Eventually Springberg would like to become a college gymnast if offered a scholarship.

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Swimming Sisterhood

Girls swimming team encourages sense of community, support Brooke Pippin Staff Writer From bonding activities to new rules, support and care for each other is mandatory on the girls swimming and diving team.

“The team is very accepting and friendly,” sophomore Danni Wang said. “You make friends in the team that become friends in your daily life.”

The support is needed for the rigorous practices and meets.

The swim season lasts from the end of November to the beginning of February. Practices run from 3:15 - 6 p.m. six times a week, and two are morning practices. Each can include a variety of swimming exercises.

Sprints and streamlines are a constant, and mixed in are workouts such as bungees, where the swimmer has a harness tied to her and has to swim against it.

“The workout is always hard, even if the coach says it isn’t,” sophomore swimmer Ashley Lambert said.

These strenuous practices are showing results, too. This year the team has moved up to class 4A, meaning they are able to compete against faster teams.

To solidify the bonds between teammates, every weekthereisateamdinner.One

of the member’s parents cook dinner for the girls, and they talk about swim and tell each other jokes, helping everyone get

Betsy Rogers makes it a priority for the girls to be all on deck and focused on meets. They have to always be with their team, loudly supporting their team members.

The “no boyfriend rule”issomethingcreated

by Rogers to instill even more team bonding.

It’s not that boyfriends aren’t allowed; it’s that the girls can’t sit with them at meets. This is so the team can focus solely on cheering for their fellow swimmers.

“It’s a good way to supportyourteam.”Wangsaid.

“It’s not a problem if you need to talk to your family or friends.

“There are some friend groups, but everyone merges for meets.” Ashley Lambert comfortable with each other.

Another way they get close is by constantly cheering. Coach

They allow you to do that.”

The powerful alliance formed between the girls transforms into friendships that help further establish the team.

“I was nervous in the beginning, but because of friends, I got used to it really easily,” Wang said.

As the girls swimming and diving team climb the ladder, they haven’t lost what is important to them: each other.

“The team is very accepting.

There are some friend groups, but everyone merges for meets,” Lambert said. “If someone is going through a hard time, we support each other and get through it.”

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Kevin Costner has something about him. He’s not a terrific actor and sometimes he can be downright annoying but there’s something about him.

He doesn’t put on any panache and he’s primed, he’s nimble, and he’s proficient. He consistently delivers a processed movie star charm, and there’s no better example of this than his performance as Ray Kinsella in the Oscar-nominated baseball picture Field of Dreams.

Now Costner didn’t earn an Oscar nomination for Field of Dreams but the movie earned a Best Picture nom which basically means Costner was nominated for his performance because he is this movie. Ray Liotta doesn’t do anything as Shoeless Joe Jackson, and Amy Madigan goes 100 mph when the speed limit is 40, but James Earl Jones does a good job in his supporting role as a JD Salinger archetype.

I honestly don’t know how this movie sneaked into the Best Picture pool in a year when Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (also known as the second greatest film ever) was snubbed as well as Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything. I’m not saying it’s a bad movie. I deeply enjoy this picture and I’m complacent with the movie’s nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score. Legendary composer James Horner does wonders showcasing his dreamy, ethereal acoustics. And I can’t complain about Phil Alden Robinson’s work adapting WP Kinsella’s novel to the silver screen. It’s a movie James Stewart would star in: What a Wonderful Baseball Field.

Baseball movies that actually know their baseball give me great joy. This is the case for Field of Dreams as well as Moneyball. Moneyball handles two things that always appease me: baseball and baseball statistics. But Moneyball does everything possible to get your blood pressure up.

Moneyball is the product of an increasingly alien art form: good writing. Aaron Sorkin has an uncanny ability to mine a smart script from seemingly unfilmable material, this time being Michael Lewis’s baseballmanagementbestseller.Sorkinknowsconflictandhow to set his characters on collision courses to confront it.

Brad Pitt is the best Sorkin actor since Tom Cruise, and he nails the feel of a failed ballplayer.ThePitt-centricscenes sing in a way only a movie star can make possible; he even makes the act of turning on the radio mesmerizing.

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While Pitt is a great solo artist, his scenes with Philip Seymour Hoffman create a new sound; no longer is Pitt a solo act. With Hoffman, he’s Pavarotti in Sorkin’s opera. Hoffman makes so much out of a small part and nails every nuance of Art Howe (other than Art Howe’s being 190 lbs).

The electricity Pitt and Hoffman effuse make this the greatest sports film of the century. Pitt lost the Oscar to Jean Dujardin of The Artist in a horrible decision by the Academy. Dujardin hardly talks in his performance and if Singin In the Rain taught us anything it’s that miming isn’t acting.

But perhaps some movies would be better if there were less talking. This is the case for Chariots of Fire. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleston) is a devout Christian and we’re forced to listen to his non-stop sermons coming rightfrom-the-heart TM. This is all due to a sloppy script which resulted in a sloppy film.

The movie has no rhythm and its narrative structure is deeply flawed.

It jumps from the past to the future more than Back To The Future II and its reason for doing so is ineffective. It does nothing to make us believe the two protagonists have a connection so when they finally race in the 1924 Olympics, there are no stakes.

Director Hugh Hudson tries to engross his audience with a ridiculous amount of slow-motion and it works.

He shoots the races like poems of the runners’ strain and agony as they collapse. We see the runners flat on, coming at us, and we don’t know who is ahead until the winner hits the finish ribbon. That’s when Hudson seems to get interested—at the finish.

Thefilm’sendingdoesn’tland,though.Butsomehow it landed Best Picture at the 1982 Academy Awards.

That’s the Oscars for you—there’s something about bad movies and performances that appeals to voters.

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Butting Heads Group work teaches cooperation Thien Le Guest Writer Everyone has encountered the dreaded group project during which nothing seems to go right. Paired with your rival, others who don’t want to contribute, too many egos—these are the common scenarios each of us finds all too familiar. Yet, these miniscule details tend to misguide and interfere with the reality of the situation: group projects are incredibly valuable.

The lasting benefits of group projects are numerous and are often overlooked. One such reward yielded is experience in a collaborative and cooperative environment. With upand-coming generations largely emphasizing hard work, responsibility, and motivation as qualities of the “ideal” student, teamwork and people skills are not prioritized. Group projects at schools are implemented to resolve the situation and provide students the abilities they require. In addition, many (if not all) jobs in society require a basic understanding of collaboration due to the commonality of teamwork in a work setting. Without social skills being taught to students today, the role of a group project becomes invaluable to their education.

Teachers often implement group projects into their plans and schedules to ensure that their reinforce such skills. students “I teach business and marketing and ble that’s what lua a v e e it is all ovid ativ

about,” business teacher Cindy Berg said. “Group projects build team skills and get students excited.”

The benefits do not end there, however, as group projects promote unity to students.

“It’s really a matter of communicating and helping others to collectively achieve the team goal,” Berg added.

Furthermore, group projects also guide students toward mastering people skills by sparking interaction.

“It gives you experience with working with others, and allows you to improve your social skills,” freshman Eddy Lim said.

In other words, such projects help students to be socially and emotionally aware of their peers and how they should interact to achieve a goal. They acclimate us to the realities of working together and collectively succeeding where individuals would have failed.

And although group projects may be tedious and one of the most frustrating parts about one’s schooling, they are the foundation for success in the future. For that reason, people shouldn’t perceive group projects as useless, but instead see the irreplaceable value of such practice. The reality is that group projects are important and deserve the same attention since their value is truly limitless.

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Group projects create frustration, confusion Seraphina Discoe Staff Writer Group projects can cause complications for both students and teachers. Teachers have to organize who works best together and no matter how it ends, students often groan when the words “group project” come up. Instead, students could work alone, with additional help from the teacher.

Students can have a hard time when it comes to group activities, according to buzzfeed.com.

Students aren’t born knowing how to function as a group; it’s a skill that can be both taught and learned. Without this knowledge, students can have the feeling of vulnerability and frustration. Unless group roles are clearly defined, and there is ongoing discussion regarding progress, it can quickly become unclear who is responsible for what.

Freshman Truman McCaw agrees group projects shouldn’t carry on in the education system.

“They can give people who don’t want to work the excuse to mooch off other’s work,” McCaw said.

When students are assigned group projects, controls and regulations in the project can throw off the natural

thought process, according to “Surviving Group Projects” by Ashley Paskill. Most don’t pull their weight, or become overwhelmed because they must do everything.

If one has trouble being open about an opinion, it can lead to complications, especially when the project is struggling.

“It’s almost better to just work on your own and ask your teacher for help when you need it,” McCaw said.

Teachers also have difficulties with group projects.

“I really dislike setting up group projects,” Language Arts teacher Mitch Schneider said.

“I struggle when deciding who works well together and dividing the projects evenly are a hassle.”

When the project is one final grade, teachers can have a hard time identifying who did what.

And when everyone gets the same grade, some can either take over the entire project, or heave the responsibility all on the partner.

Working with a group can help in certain situations, but when it comes to school, it is better to ask for help when you need it, and work independently.

Communication can be difficult in a group project. Trying to get everyone’s opinion and ideas out can lead to complications.

Dividing the project evenly is something that most groups struggle with.

One student is often left in charge of the final assignment.

Students are known to procrastinate.

That can often leave the project until the last minute having the group turn in an assignment that is not their best work.

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Riots raise awareness of injustice, inspire conversation

Brooke Pippin Staff Writer Flashing clips of thrashing crowds, screaming citizens, looted buildings and confrontation with police are all images associated with riots.

The media has often simplified riots, presenting them as Ex criminal gatherings, including p dis ress violent attacks and looting. can cont ing However, such acts are not lea ent always synonymous with c ha d t the idea of riots. These ng o activities occur in some, e. but not every riot.

Riots are simply bigger and more noticeable protests, and sometimes the peace must be disturbed in order for progress to be made. Historically, they have been effective in gaining media attention and pushing for reforms. If the riot is in place to push society’s boundaries, to bring attention to the wrong, then it can be justified.

Riots are a large gathering of people with some violent act attached, but this doesn’t

mean people are always being harmed. Yelling and minor property damage are negligible considering the bigger picture of society being changed.

According to the Legal Information Institute, rioting is not a felony unless there is property damage of over $1,500 and/or serious body harm. While these things tend to happen, they often occur when there is conflict between authority figures and rioters. Harm should be minimized and gravely considered, but the effectiveness must be weighed against damages.

Awareness of an issue is the first step to solving it. By this logic, the most important thing to do is to spread knowledge about a problem. Small protests happen all the time but rarely do they make national news. When a large, rowdy demonstration is created, the media then respond by investigating. When something i s on the news for an extended period of time, i t

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becomes a household conversation, causing people to think about the subject.

Rioting has changed the course of history before. It has become a way of expressing discontent with society and unfairness. The Rodney King riots are arguably the most famous in American history. On April 29, 1992, Rodney King, an African American, was beaten by police officers on camera. In the following six days, riots racked Los Angeles. Admittedly, there were numerous damages and these riots edged on taking it too far, yet it resulted in the police chief resigning and efforts were made to recruit minorities to the police force. Race then became a hot topic due to constant media attention to these riots.

Another successful example is the French student riots of 1968. They were so large and demanded so much attention that the French economy was brought to a standstill. These had to do with political unrest, mainly against capitalism and repression. They briskly spread between groups of people, from students to factory workers. It became so serious that the National Riots Assembly was dissolved, the don’t need to president momentarily fled and re elections were held, be resulting in an opportunity violent. for things to be changed.

Riots should not occur if they are for superficial gain rather than basic human rights.

If a riot is brash and not for the general improvement of society, such as riots after sporting events, then it is not necessary.

Risks are attached, and sometimes they are even fatal, but it is better to face the consequences of a riot than to exist in a stagnant, flawed society.

Riots have garnered public attention and pushed for progress.

When violence is minimized and people come together to show their anger and dissatisfaction, society is forced to face its flaws.

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Trump team biggest perpetrators of ‘fake news’

Joseph Mason Managing editor It was springtime. The park’s grass was green and the air suffused with honeysuckle and lilacs both. The angle of the sun made the water of the shallows look dark. It would soon turn red. This was the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack of the century: the Bowling Green Massacre.

Of course, this “massacre” is completely fictional, made up by counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway. Creativity is a strong suit of this new presidency; they’re basically a modern-day Shakespeare. It’s a conglomerate of people making up words and phrases and creating fictional tragedies. Of course, the difference is Shakespeare was good at what he did.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, spends most of his day readingabigotedwebsite,yelling“fakenews!”andtweeting.

Trump has ruined an abundance of things over his lifetime, and this tendency has accelerated since January.

On Jan. 10, BuzzFeed released a dossier tying Trump to

Russia. In response, Trump repeatedly used the phrase “fake news”—occasionally tweeting in all-caps, in an attempt to make people less suspicious of his rumored golden showers with Russian prostitutes—thus, the term “fake news” was propagated to mainstream punditry.

You can’t call the BuzzFeed dossier fake news, even if it isn’t verified and may contain false information, it is news.

The term “fake news” has become a catch-all for anything people want to undermine or discredit, and it’s almost become a meaningless term at this point. Trump and his team relentlessly use it to deny actual news. They act like the Ministry of Truth from 1984, they alter historical records to match their ideal version of past events.

But we shouldn’t be surprised by this. Trump’s chief strategist is former executive chairman of Breitbart News Steve Bannon, which is just an elongated way of saying Trump is being controlled by a racist propagandist. Bannon ranthefollowingstoriesduringhistimeatBreitbart:“Political correctness promotes rape culture,” “Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy,” and “Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?” These are headlines from the man who is running Trump’s administration.

Meanwhile, Trump is tweeting, “The failing @nytimes writes total fiction concerning me. They have gotten it wrong for two years, and now are making up stories & sources!”

Trump has constructed an alternate reality for himself where one of the world’s most prestigious and respected news outlets The New York Times is not be trusted while the

anti-Semitic, misogynistic, and racist Breitbart is a principal resource.It’snowondertheWhiteHouserollsoutSeanSpicer every day to yell at the press—they all have no idea what real journalism is or how to talk to the media. Spicer talks like he recorded all his answers in advance, programmed them into a soundboard by phrase, and is just mashing the buttons.

It’s similar to how Trump speaks; Trump takes on an abrasive tone with the vocabulary of a fifth grader and the short-tempered anger of a first grader. This was on display when he repeatedly yelled, “You are fake news!” at CNN and refused to answer their questions. Calling outlets like CNN “fake news” is like if I were to call Donald Trump “an intellectual” or “a good person”—it’s a ridiculous lie.

If anyone should be condemned for making up stories, it’s the Trump team. The ability to lie seems to be a prerequisite for joining the administration. Vice President Mike Pence spent an entire debate lying about his running-partner’s vitriol, Conway has been trying to justify Spicer’s fibs by callingthem“alternativefacts,”andTrumpspenteightyears spreading a falsehood about Barack Obama’s birthplace.

The Trump presidency is breaking new metaphysical ground in the mechanics of untruth, and we can’t let it infiltrate our lives. To combat the land of lies, we need to look into our social media. Whenever we share a story, we should verify its legitimacy first. We need to permeate the White House with actual news and truth.

If we don’t, more tragedies like the one at Bowling Green could happen again. People’s lives are at stake.

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Small positive changes have great impact

Human-Caused Emissions Break-Down

If you look outside, the world appears moderately healthy. Maybe the sky is clear, maybe a few leaves are starting to reappear, but severe damage is being done.

According to the NASA Global Climate Change administration, the “current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely humaninduced, and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.”

The rate they reference is an almost 123 percent increase in carbon dioxide level in

of gas. While cars may be warm, fast, and relatively safe, long-term they do massive damage to the environment.

One step people can take day to day to reduce their environmental impact is ride a bike.BikeshaveanalmostincoSnsequential impact on the environment, cyclists don’t burn non-renewable fossil fuels, and they don’t produce air pollution or other harmful emissions. The U.S. Census estimates that about half of all Americans live within five miles of their workplace.

If half of all Americans decided to bike those five miles every day rather than driving an average car, we could reduce total household emissions by six percent.

While it can be difficult, uncomfortable, and sometimes a little bit cold to be more environmentally responsible, learning to look past our own comforts and desires, every step we take towards a more environmentally responsible lifestyles are hugely impactful.

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our atmosphere since the late 16th century.

“Global warming is no joke,” science teacher Enrique Blas said. “We’ve got so many people running around burning fossil fuels that now we’ve got a serious problem on our hands. And it’s a problem with no easy answers.”

But looking beyond your own personal wants and realizing the much larger, far more delicate world out there that needs your help can make all the difference.

Taking time to recognize our day-to-day actions and how we can change them over time means that our environment can improve and re-gain its footing.

Small sacrifices on your part can mean huge positive impacts for everyone.

Our personal vehicles are a major cause of global warming. Collectively, cars and trucks account for nearly onefifth of all US emissions, emitting around 24 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases for every gallon

Remember to turn off lights not in use.

Electricity: 30%

Industry: 21%

Walk or bike whenever possible.

Transportation : 26%

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Agriculture: 9%

Why is it important to go green?

Phoebe Anderson Freshman

“To save the environment.”

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“Because that’s what helps save the Earth.”

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Extracurriculars should not distract from regular school work

Emily Kleckner Guest Writer Sports, clubs, academics, volunteer work, jobs—in high school all these things seem to pile up to an almost unmanageable extent. Some students handle it well, meeting deadlines and maintaining grades; others struggle to keep up as the expectations become more and more intense. Whether or not this is necessary or healthy for teens has been discussed endlessly and from many

different perspectives, but how it should be handled is a slightly different conversation.

When entering high school, it seems the only advice anyone has to give to students regarding the upcoming four years of our lives is “get involved!”. It seems as if extracurriculars aren’t so extra after all. It’s almost expected that we throw ourselves into something other than our required classes. This is not necessarily a bad thing; it’s only becoming more and more relevant to the daily life of a modern high school student. It requires effort to remain well rounded and set ourselves up for the future.

In such a worthy pursuit, it would certainly be helpful for students to receive extra assistance in the form of flexibility in academic expectations. In the words of freshman Aliyah Kirkes, “School is hard enough, and when you add more responsibilities on top

of that it can become super stressful.”

Unfortunately, this is unrealistic and not at all how the real world works.

Since students make the conscious choice to commit to clubs, teams, and outside programs and activities, they are solely accountable for maintaining their own responsibilities.

While there are some exceptions, special treatment in academics is not given to students for the reason of a heavy workload created by extracurriculars.

Any involved student can speak in-depth about the difficulty of the expectations, but it’s easy to avoid these things overpowering your life and spare time: if you can’t handle it, don’t do it.

Motivation is key to being successful in high school, and it all comes down to our own willingness to try.

One place to start is by narrowing activities to those most important to you.

Kirkes suggests basing decisions about what to be involved in on the level of interest. “I feel like if you want to do certain extracurricular activities, you should be passionate about them,” she argued.

Still, it can be easy to let the difficulty overshadow the benefits of extra involvement.

“I think it’s really hard with the pressures of school to enjoy extracurriculars because of all the stress,” sophomore Grace Maher said. “But it’s been really good to help with my time management and balance my life.”

Balancing for yourself is part of the goal. While helpful, it is not expected of teachers to give students extra leeway for their full plate. This is all for good reason, however. Scheduling efficiently is a lifelong skill that is much better to learn at this point in life rather than later, and staff are simply

Senior Desolina Fletcher, junior Xutao Ho, senior Matthew Liu, and freshman Peter O’Hare practice with the Debate team on Thursday, Feb. 16. In addition to competing in Public Forum debate every weekend, Liu plays piano in several music groups and works as a research assistant outside of school while maintaining honors-level grades in nine classes, including three AP courses. Achieving balance between academics and extracurriculars is a matter of passion and priorities for him. “What’s important is to do what you enjoy, and you’ll always find time for it. Do what you enjoy,” he said. “I think you just have to weigh the benefits of each activity that you may want to do and just allocate time to that. It’s easy to get distracted, but sometimes you just do one small thing that you personally believe is productive and you’ll be able to get on track.” Photo by Adelaide Tomsic.

Slurs inspire negativity, prove destructive to self-confidence Slurs can be hurtful and cause permanent damage to the psyche. All types of slur, whether they be racist, homophobic, or of another kind, can seriously hurt someone’s self-confidence. Slurs create a bad environment for learning, and when a student hears a slur, confrontations can occur. Instead of slinging slurs at each other, we should embrace our differences and make our unity as a school even stronger.

Slurs are becoming increasingly common in today’s social climate, especially with everything going on in the political world. The political environment today has made slurs seem acceptable, and as a result our country is more divided than ever.

Everyone has been taught that discrimination is bad, and slurs are essentially discrimination. With slurs being tied so closely to discrimination, they should not be

allowed in our school environment, or anywhere else.

Lambkins are supposed to be a community of love and Currently, though, our school seems to be following the unity, and slurs just break that down. Even if a slur does national lack of standards regarding slurs, and the only way not personally attack you, hateful language doesn’t make to keep us unified is to eliminate slurs from our culture. anyone feel good and creates more negative actions, which no one needs in life.

We’ve all heard the saying, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” This might be overused, but in reality it can be really helpful in uniting us all and ending discrimination for good.

Slurs point out our differences School is commonly considered a casual environment, and degrade others, and our differences should be but even so, it’s against most morals to use slurs about celebrated. To eradicate slurs in our everyday environment, someone or their religion, race, or gender. Such words we all need to work together to call out people who use divide us and weaken our unity as a school. FCHS is an them, and explain why they shouldn’t. And if you ever environment that should not allow violent language, catch yourself thinking of using a slur, realize you may and should be a safe space for everyone attending. harm someone personally and stop yourself before you do.

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Feb. 23, 2017

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PDA disrespectful to peers, inappropriate behavior for school PDA: Too hot for the halls

Grace Hach Graphic Artist Traffic was slowing in the spine and the warning bell sounded, so I craned my neck forward to see what the problem was. Ahead of me a couple was plastered to the wall, making out. While public displays of affection (PDA) are often harmless, the schoolwide ban seeks to prevent exactly this kind of behavior.

Nearly everyone has witnessed it at some point, whether it’s a couple tucked away in a corner or proudly making out in the middle of the spine, blocking traffic and giving an uncomfortably intimate view of both tongues. The difficult part of this issue is not all PDA is equal, so absolute enforcement seems unreasonable. For example, a couple hugging, holding hands, or kissing briefly isn’t equivalent to a graphic make out session, with kissing so loud it’s audible from 10 feet away.

In addition to being all-around gross, graphic PDA certainly isn’t appropriate for school. Some types of affection aren’t a good idea to show off,

and may make others uncomfortable.

PDA is also widely considered a form of sexual harassment toward those who witness it; yet despite some discomfort in onlookers, no one seems to care enough to stop, most likely due to the lack of enforcementpolicy.Whilesomepeopleare more comfortable than others witnessing thiskindofdemonstration,aggressivePDA isstillunwarrantedinaschoolenvironment.

“I don’t think it should be against school policy, but I think people should have some respect,” junior Audrey Smith said. “Rein it in for sure.”

PDA doesn’t have the same urgency as more severe forms of sexual harassment, but it’s still profoundly annoying— and a little gross—when traffic flow is stopped by a couple who can’t save it for the basement couch, and clearly don’t view what they’re doing as harassment.

“I know where the school is coming from saying that, but I disagree with that,” junior Jordan Greybar said. “I don’t see it as sexual harassment.”

When deciding what’s appropriate for the halls, consider whether you would do it in front of your mother, or possibly grandmother, if your mother is particularly liberal. If there’s any hesitation, it’s not something your fellow students, or teachers for that matter, need to see.

Holding hands, or sharing a quick goodbye kiss is harmless, but there have to be limits for what is and isn’t appropriate for school.

Comic by Grace Hach

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