Cardinal Columns (April 2014)

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G-Money Cashes Out

Gotta Love It

Mr. Goretski heads back to the farm

ALSO INSIDE THE REAL ISSUE Bullying Censorship Depression Bullying Censorship Social Media Depression Social Media

creating the cover the idea Gabi (Feature Designer): “For this issue, we wanted to do something with the cover that would tie the serious articles together better and something that would show the harsh reality of high school. We tried to capture someone looking sad in various locations, but it didn’t work out as well as we’d hoped.” Then we tried to go for the opposite by getting a shot that was overly fake and cheesy to contrast with the serious content inside. We weren’t sure that worked, either.

GOOD SPORTS We’d like to give special thanks to seniors Simon Riter and Drew Balken and, of course, Mr. Goretski for modeling for us. We really appreciate it!

GETTING IT RIGHT In the end, we just went with one of the best photos we had. It happened to be one of Mr. Goretski, and we think it turned out just right.

How can anyone resist a cover like that?!

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Reaching For The Top Fondy High Starts Up A Climbing Team Stephanie Crook // Staff Writer

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ond Du Lac High School is home to many clubs and activities in and out of school, including the Climbing Team. The team is new to FHS and was developed in January. The development of the team was with the leadership of the many seniors in Leadership in Adventure Course.

At this point a large majority of the students are seniors taking the Leadership in Adventure Course. The team then decided that there was in need for a competing team to represent Fond du Lac High School.

“We compete once a month at Adventure Rock as well,” Climbing Team Supervisor Linda McCauley said. “The competitions are based on endurance and skill following predetermined

routes on high walls and bouldering walls.”

Practices are on Monday nights after school, and then they go to Adventure Rock in Pewaukee once a month for practice. During Cardinal Time the climbers can choose to come in and climb if they are caught up with their school work.

“Our first competition was on Fri. March 24,” Mrs. McCauley said. “We took seventh out of 11 area high school teams.”

At this time the guidelines for membership for next years team are being developed. It will be required to have passed the Adventure Education course, and taking the Leadership in Adventure course is also strongly suggested. This team will also be under the athletic code as is any other athletic team in the building.

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They Work Hard To Succeed Students Qualify For All State Band and Choir Katie Nett // Staff Writer

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his year, Fond du Lac High School has accomplished having nine students qualify for All State for band and choir. Jacob Arnold on bari saxophone, Samantha Eck on bass clarinet, Maddy Bar on trombone, Jasmine Moehn on bassoon, Sarah Amundson on French Horn and Jordan Behling on flute qualified on the All State Band. Haruka Yukioka and Cameron Shepherd qualified for All State Orchestra on violin and percussion, and Jenny Garrison qualified for Concert Treble Choir.

“It’s a pretty big honor,” Mr. Shipe said.

“There are literally tens of thousands of kids throughout the state of Wisconsin that audition for places in concert choir, treble choir, band, orchestra and jazz ensemble.”

These nine students had to practice and perfect many exercises to be eligible for being All State. They have to play a solo off of a specific list that the State Music Education Association lim3

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its them to play off of. These students also have to play an A tude, which is an exercise for specific instruments. They also have to play a series of full range scales. They are judged on how fast they can play the scale and on how accurately they play them.

“The selection process is really stiff and so is the audition process,” Mr. Shipe said.

“The things that the kids have to work up for their audition is pretty intense. There is a lot to do, and it is a very difficult audition. For us to have nine kids be selected with three alternates is a pretty cool thing” All State members have to practice extra to perfect their music. They have to work

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hard to improve their skills and be successful.

“I practice my violin for at least half an hour daily, but for the two weeks before my audition I practiced for at least an hour,” sophomore Haruka Yukioka said. “My experience in last year’s All State Orchestra was the first time I’d ever played in a symphonic orchestra (both wind and string instruments) of such a high level.

It really motivated me to practice in order to make the cut for this year’s orchestra, and gave me a chance to compare technique and trade tips with other violinists. I really recommend auditioning for WSMA Honors-even just the audition is a great experience.”

The things that the kids have to work up for their audition is pretty intense.

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Magic On The Stage Tommy Chitwood Wins Mr. Fond du Lac Tanvi Kumar // Editor-in-Chief

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t was a series of firsts for the 13th annual Mr. Fond du Lac pageant. From Noah “Keith” Cappelle’s rendition of the famous Sesame Street song, “Gotta Be Clean,” to Mitch Schmahl’s fixture shaking rap routine, the audience never had a boring moment.

However, it wasn’t always the contestants who were the cause of all the laughter. In fact, many argue that the dynamic MC duo of Hanzel, Henry Dhonau, and Klaus, Casey Wilson, were the real stars of the show. From

their opening skit to their crack at unnecessary censorship, many were led to believe that Hanzel and Klaus were the most energetic, hilarious and charismatic MCs to ever grace the stage of Mr. Fond du Lac. Ultimately, however, Tommy Chitwood became the man of the night, an outcome many had predicted before the show. Chitwood brought a unique element of class and old-fashioned charm to his performance. His unforgettable formal wear portion featured him and

his lovely escort, Alexa Bertz, dancing in the backdrop of an Italian restaurant.

To top it all off, he asked her to prom using a breadbasket. In addition to winning her heart that night, he also won the judges’.

Following behind Tommy was first runner-up, Said Mohammed. Though not originally voted into the pageant, Said showed his worth by learning all the dance routines last minute and providing many laughs during his talent and short answer segments.

Right to Write

Junior Class Trip Leads to Expulsion Hearing

Brittany Lange // Staff Writer nce again, the time has come for the annual writing contest for Fond du Lac High School. Anyone from the school is eligible to submit, and all submissions are due by April 11, 3:30 p.m. and are to be submitted to Mrs. Ruedinger via google doc or email.

Three people are eligible to win, with first place receiving $100, second place receiving $50 and third place receiving $25.

“The winner will be announced about one month later, in the middle of May,” Mrs. Ruedinger said.

The length may not exceed three pages, and it must be an unpublished creation of the student submitting. According to Mrs. Ruedinger, who is running the contest, the story will not be accepted unless it is typed in Times New Roman in size 12 font, double-spaced, and has a one inch margin. A title page needs to be included, naming the title of the paper, your name, grade and a teacher (preferably an English teacher).

Work that does not follow these guidelines will be discarded from the entry. Overly sexual or violent entries will also be removed. Entries may be a short fictional story or a personal memoir. No artwork or poetry will be accepted.

Last year, Fondy’s sophomore Haruka Yukioka came in third place for her creation, “Red,” Cardinal Columns’ own Tanvi Kumar came in second with “The Speech” and finally in first place was Dakota Vaughan for his “A Baseball Story.”

Kiana Williams // Staff Writer

Looking For Young Writers Of Fondy High

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he junior class trip to the Wisconsin Dells began with high expectations but ended with at least one student headed to expulsion hearings for possession, distribution, and/or consumption of alcohol. On Friday and Saturday, March 14 and 15, a group of 47 juniors visited one of Mount Olympus’ village hotels, where the alleged infractions occurred.

Principal Mr. Wiltzius and Superintendent Dr.Sebert both had no comment about the junior class trip incident.

“The district does not have a zero tolerance policy,” Superintendent Dr. Sebert said.

Fond du Lac High School’s student policy section 10.635 on Alcohol or other drug involvement, revised August 2013, states “All students must strictly abide by this policy. Failure to do so shall result in disciplinary action including, but not limited to, detention, referral to law enforcement personnel for possible prosecution, suspension or expulsion.”

This was the first junior class trip.. Along with the typical water park and indoor theme park, some of the students went go-karting, shopping, and eating out at restaurants such as Noodles & Co. “The water park and indoor theme park were slightly disappointing with little to offer, but we all tried to make the best of it,” junior Shania Schibbelhut said. “I would have liked to see us stay somewhere like the Wilderness or the Kalahari, even though we would have had to pay slightly more, but like I said, we tried to make the best of it.”

Mr.Wiltzius said some additional guidelines may be coming to prevent incidents on future school trips.

“We have a team of teachers and a student that are looking at ensuring we have some guidelines,” he said. “I want to promote togetherness with classes and for possible future junior class trips. It’s a neat way to promote camaraderie”

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Profile Star Artist Shines

Fondy Student Julia Schmitz Shows Off Her Artwork Brittany Lange // Staff Writer

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n the commons, you can hear students talking and see them wandering about, messing with their friends and eating their lunches, but then there’s sophomore Julia Schmitz sitting at a table with her headphones in, focused. You can see her with a Sharpie in her hand, drawing over the previous lines, dots and patterns that she had already drawn with a pencil.

Using different techniques, what once started out as just a bunch of lines and dots, is now a perfect portrait of Edward Scissorhands.

Julia has been doing art her entire life; she grew up around it.

“My mom says I was born with a crayon in my hand,” she said. “It wasn’t until middle school that I realized I want to create art for a living.”

She says she’s been told that she’s good at a lot of things, like math and science, but the only one she’s ever liked is art.

“She does a good job of taking things from her mind and creating them on paper,” junior Eli Eisberner said. “She has a good sense of positive and negative space.”

“Julia’s art is truly exquisite,” senior

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Liliana Hidalgo said.

“Her use of detail exceeds perfection.”

She draws a lot and prefers ebony or colored pencils. She’s also been getting into painting, and prefers acrylics.

She has been involved in many art classes throughout her school years. She took an extra one in eighth grade, and then when she got into high school, she took art foundations, drawing one and two, and painting one. Next semester she will be in drawing three, and in the next two years, she hopes to take drawing four and five, painting two and three, ceramics one and two, and glass and metals one and two.

In the future, Schmitz would like to become a tattoo artist. She plans on opening her own tattoo parlor in Fort Myers, FL, and has been looking into art

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schools in that location.

“This sounds extremely cheesy, but my dad [is my inspiration],” she said.

“He’s always there for me no matter what. With him and my soon-to-be-stepmom, I know where I want to open my tattoo parlor.”

“I chose [this career] because it gives people the art they like,” she said. “And they can wear it forever.”

Shine a Light The Life & Times of T-TIME

An exclusive Cardinal Columns interview with the rapper “T- TIME” Shane Fernandez // Entertainment Editor

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ot many people have heard of the rapper known as T-TIME or the rap group known as “THAGODSQUAD.” Some may know of these specific groups and rappers if they are familiar with their bandcamp page or follow them on Tumblr. Well, if you’re not familiar with them, then prepare to become enlightened.

Tim “T-Time” and THAGODSQUAD have been around for a good 3 years now. In that amount of time, TGS have managed to release more than 70 songs, and they still plan on releasing much more. THAGODSQUAD consists of Tim “T-TIME, Gary “Y2G”, C-MONEY “YUNG $KRUF,” Coil, Tim “Big D” or “YUNG PERM” and Dr. Dude. Each member of the group plays a very crucial role in making sure the songs that they release are as good as they possibly can be. Surprisingly enough, all the members of TGS do not meet each other in person due to the fact that they live at different locations in the world. However they all communicate to each other through the internet.

THAGODSQUAD take influence from The Wu-Tang Clan, not exactly lyrically, but they take influence in the way of being group such as The Wu-Tang Clan.

In an interview with Cardinal Columns, T-TIME described how the alias “TTIME” came to be. Tim just really need a rap name, and Y2G had mentioned “T-TIME”. At the time, Tim thought it sounded like it fit him. He figured the “T” in the name would stand for Tim, and he liked how the name sounded like “tea time”. So he chose to stick with it because it worked with his name, and he also enjoyed drinking green and barley tea. T-TIME takes a lot of influence from his favorite rapper Lil B “THE BASEDGOD”, Danny Brown, Den-

zel Curry and the rap group known as “ILLFIGHTYOU”. On December 31, 2013, T-TIME and THAGODSQUAD released a mixtape called “ALL DAY ANIMAY”. Not only did A.D.A have multiple features from the members of TGS, there were plenty of various anime series that were sampled throughout the songs on the mixtape. Throughout the mixtape, you could hear verses that referenced the animes “Cowboy Bebop,” “Sailor Moon,” “Samurai Champloo” and many more. Not only were specific shows referenced, many instrumentals

used throughout specific shows could be heard in the rap beat. When asked as to how he chose on which anime to sample, T-TIME mentioned the fact that all he did was chose whatever sounded good and whatever instrumental he enjoyed.

As of February 2014, there have been more than 2,000+ downloads of ALL DAY ANIMAY on THAGODSQUAD’s bandcamp page. So far, T-TIME has only released on music video from one of the songs from A.D.A. As of April, the video for the song “#DESU” has more than 71 thousand views. The video for the song “TETSUO” is expected to

come sometime soon and is expected to get about the same amount of views as #DESU received. When asked about any future mixtapes, T-TIME says he plans for the release of ALL DAY ANIMAY V.2 either this year, next year, or the year after next. What convinced T-TIME to create an anime rap mixtape was that fact that he’s a big fan of manga and anime and decided to start rapping about those things because it was something he liked and figured he’d have a fun time rapping about it. T-TIME thinks that as long as anime continues to become more and more popular, that his music will appeal to many who enjoy listening to hip-hop and who enjoy watching anime.

ALL DAY ANIMAY is a 12-song mixtape available to download through THAGODSQUAD’s Bandcamp website. Throughout the mixtape, you’ll hear some of the freshest beats, rawest lyrics and many references to Japanese culture and anime. Not only is anime sampled, but a beat from the J-Pop star known as “KyaryPamyuPamyu” is sampled in one of the songs, making it stand out from the others. TETSUO is quite arguably one of the best songs on this entire mixtape. Tim T-TIME proves that he can make some really great music and the featured rapper “AMMT” had a really strong verse on this track.

Overall, ALL DAY ANIMAY should get some more recognition and I think others should look into listening to this mixtape and to THAGODSQUAD in general. It’s not all just anime, there are some pretty serious tracks that they’ve made and I’d recommend them to anybody. You can follow T-TIME on Tumblr at www.tlyudacris.tumblr.com and THAGODSQUAD at www.thagodsquad.tumblr.com for more information and more music!

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Sports Fore The Boys’ Golf Katie Nett // Staff Writer

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n March 31, the Fondy Boys’ Golf Team started their season. There are lots of ways that golfers can practice to be the best and have a successful season.

“I went to the indoor golf ring a couple times,” junior Elliot Jones said. “I mainly just took my clubs to get in the action of swinging to practice. Last year, it snowed a lot, so we had a tournament in hail and snow, but this year, it’s going to clear up before we start practice.”

Like any other sport, there are activities and exercises that golfers can do to help improve them-

selves to start out their season strong.

“Off season is hard with winter, but any kind of exercises like core and leg strength, hand-eye coordination and practicing in indoor golf facilities, golfers can do to help them,” Coach Flasch said.

Practicing helps golfers to achieve their goals for the season and make improvements from prior years.

While being serious, golfers learn to have fun along the way.

“My goal for this season is to make it to state,” Senior Joe Wright said. “Placing well there

would obviously be great, but just making it there and playing at University Ridge would be awesome.

I’d just like to improve overall and play better, especially in the beginning of the season. You hear some coaches say that the important thing is that you have fun, and many times we ignore that as athletes because we want to win. Golf team is always a blast, though, so if I don’t go to state, it’ll still be fun all season.”

“Like always, I hope we have a chance to win conference, place in regionals and sectionals and hopefully make it to state,” Coach Flasch said.

Going For The GOOOOAAALLL Keenan Robinson // Staff Writer

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n the past, girls soccer has been pretty good all around the field. With varsity coach Greg Winkler, the girls have always done well, but this year we will see if they can do it like they did in the past.

“I feel pretty confident this year, we have a lot of returning players,” varsity coach Winkler said. “We do have to find some more defenders because most of our defense graduated last year.

Our schedule is pretty tough this year. I think it’s going to

be pretty challenging, but it will definitely prepare us for post-season play. I’m really excited, and I think you will find the girls soccer team to be successful this year.”

Losing goalie Briana Wagner last year to a severe ACL injury and losing the defenders, will show if the girls have what it takes to pull off the wins. Returning Varsity players Kelsey Schneider, Shelby Sabel and Erica Daniels will put the team on their back and help bring the Cardinals the wins they need.

Ashley Kleimous and Abby Weinke Sport Their Jerseys PHOTO TAKEN BY KEENAN ROBINSON

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Outrageous Skiing Jeston Glish // Staff Writer

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aul Marik is an outstanding freestyle skier and a student who graduated at semester from Fond du Lac High School. Paul was featured in the December Cardinal Columns, but he hasn’t slowed down since then. He has been traveling to various places over Wisconsin, just to simply have fun and enjoy what he loves: free-style skiing.

“This season has been righteous, and it still isn’t over,” he said. “I focused mainly on filming and was able to travel a ton doing what I love. I spent a majority of my time in the streets of various Wisconsin cities doing what is known as ‘urban’ skiing.”

He and his “crew” have been finding handrails, walls, roofs and other surfaces for jumps and other tricks.

They record the tricks and edit them together for others to see. “We get some strange looks from people when we are doing it, but that just adds to the fun,” he said.

To have fun and to improve was most of Paul’s focus this year. He took a step back from competing but did enter in various types of contests.

“I did a couple of rail jams [timed competition with multiple runs on a couple of rail features], though I took a majority of my time to work

on media,” Paul said. “One major competition I did was catered to just that. Level 1 Productions has a contest that allows people from all over the world to submit a two-minute edit for a chance to film with them in the following seasons. They are one of the biggest production companies in skiing. I was able to make semi-finalist in this ‘Superunknown’ contest, which was a big surprise. We made the edit as a joke, as I didn’t expect to make it very far, considering how serious and talented the other finalists are. I think this ended up helping me, as the vibe of the video was so much different.”

Boys Going For Strikes Katie Nett // Staff Writer n February 28 through March 2, both the Fondy Boys’ and Girls’ bowling teams competed in the State Bowling competition in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin.

The Fondy Boys’ Bowling Team finished eighth with a final score of 3166, and the girls team finished second with the final score of 2900.

“I think part of our success was based on our fan section,” senior Courtney Kohlman said. “And our cheering section during all of the practices. We worked hard at every practice and put everything we had into all of the matches. At state, we bowled our hearts out and went in with a winning mentality which helped us so much.”

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“I hope we bowl better as a team and pick someone up when they’re doing bad,” sophomore Blake Schmidt said.

“Also to never give up, and make our spares.”

Along with having both the boys and the girls teams going to state, there were also three students who qualified for state singles. Junior Brittany Burgess took second, junior Brady Pantel took thirteenth and junior Josh Schneider tied for sixteenth.

“I hope to improve and work on my spare shooting,” Schneider said.

“My dad has always been a great bowler,” Burgess said. “He got my brother and I into it at a very young age. It runs in the family, and I just grew to love it.”

Pantel also achieved a skill not many bowlers do during their careers. On February 3, Pantel bowled a perfect score game of 300.

“I just bowled,” Pantel said. “I guess I just tried to ignore the crowd and everyone watching.”

Schneider and Pantel also qualified for state doubles finishing 43rd scoring 757.

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Brave Heart Maddie Supple Shaves Her Head Rachael Schneider // Editor-in-Chief

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ophomore Maddie Supple sits in a chair in the field house on Sunday March 16, 2014. She is waiting patiently and nervously. On the inside she is crying but doesn’t because of the many cameras and videos recording her. Maddie is waiting for her head to be shaved for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

That Saturday night before, Maddie, her mom and her friend Marion Uher totaled all of the money that was donated towards her fundraiser for St. Baldricks Foundation. The grand total she made was more than $1400, but all of Fond du lac who donated to the St. Baldrick’s event made a total of $25,723.30. St. Baldrick’s Foundation

raises money to find the cure for childhood cancer.

There was no specific amount of money that Maddie was asking for; she was only hoping to make $500, but once it made $500 she wanted $1000.

She was amazed when the total was $1400. Friends, family, teachers and peers all helped donate the money.

“I had originally grown my hair out to look like a mermaid, but when that failed, I decided to donate it instead.”

Maddie said. At this point in time she said she doesn’t really know what she is going to do. “I’ll probably continue to donate it, but for right now I think I’m going to keep it short,” she said.

“I think that what she did was so

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great and brave,” Marion Uher, a friend who watched the shaving, said. “She looks very beautiful without her hair, and I’m so proud of her shaving it off.

I hope the child that receives her hair really likes it.”

“I would have cried, too if I was Maddie!” Said friend, Amy Jarvis. “Our hair is part of our identity but, only our outward identity (nothing to do with our awesome insides). I hope she feels freedom and strength now. Because in the end, it’s just hair given from a loving person.”

Though Marion was very supportive of Maddie, not many were.

“I actually lost some friends because they said they don’t want to be seen with me,” said Maddie.

“I think it’s horrible that Maddie shaved her head,” Trevin, Maddie’s 9-year-old brother said.

“I don’t like her bald.”

“I heard about this opportunity to shave your head in eighth grade when I attended the event to sing.” Maddie said. “I thought it was touching and thought about doing it for awhile.

Last November, I sat down one night and told my mom that I wanted to do this [shave my head].

After I told my friends and family, at first they all said ‘No, don’t do that!’ but now they all are very proud of me and support

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me, at least those friends that stayed.”

“So proud of Maddie,” said Tina Krug “Your hair is your identity and it took a lot of courage. Maddie freaking rocks. Even more beautiful without hair.”

“I think it’s cool that my sister shaved her head to be bald.” Caden, Maddie’s 13-year-old brother said.

“She looks awesome super, mega awesome.”

“Maddie is my cousin’s daughter,” Arin Stueber, who shaved Maddie’s head, said. “I used to shave for Bald Squad, which is for breast cancer through Kwik Trip. This is the first time I have shaved for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, and when I heard Maddie wanted to do this I asked her if I could shave her head and she said yes. When shaving Maddie’s hair I was scared for her but also proud. Maddie is 15 years old; I am twice that age and could never shave my head. I am ecstatic that Maddie would shave her head and donate her hair for someone she has never met.”

Every Sunday, Maddie takes her picture to see how long her hair has grown.

“I don’t have an opinion on Maddie shaving her head.” Jenny Supple, Maddie’s mom, said. “I think it’s a very brave thing to do. Very generous and selfless act.”

“When I first woke up that Monday after, I ran my hand over my head,” Maddie said. “I screamed and my brother came running in yelling “what?” I told him something happened to my hair... then I remembered I shaved my head and started laughing.”

Maddie noticed when she showered it normally took her 10-15 minutes to shower, but now it took her five minutes to shower. She loved how soft her hair is, it’s like a plush stuffed animal.

People watch Maddie as she walks around the hallways at school. Many are curious, but people don’t want to ask about it because they don’t want to offend her if she really did have cancer.

“The first time I saw Maddie’s shaved head was on facebook,” Mrs. Heitzman said. “I saw her dance coach post it. I thought it was awesome. The fact that Maddie shaved her head shows how much courage

she has to help someone else.”

“I am so proud to have her as a daughter,” Matthew Supple, Maddie’s dad, said. “She has a huge heart, and what you and all the others did that day is truly amazing. The little girl she is giving her hair to will love it. Love you so much Maddie, and keep being the great young lady you are growing up to be.”

St. Baldrick’s foundation does research for childhood cancer. Children with cancer must be treated differently than adults as they are still growing and medication could damage growth. For most kids cancer has spread to 80% of their body by the time it is diagnosed, so as you can image the worse the cancer the less likelihood of surviving.

There’s a dozen types of childhood cancer, it makes it difficult to find just one specific cure.

Maddie is somewhat prepared for the awkard stage of her hair growing back out.

At this point in time Maddie says she doesn’t really know what she is going to do. She may dye it colors and she may not. The biggest thing now is just to let it grow out.

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Mr. Goretski Goes Out

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Tanvi Kumar // Editor-in-Chief

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ractors have a warm place for me,” he says, a faraway look in his eyes. “Tractors never show off. Their purpose is always to be helpful, to always provide needs.” He taps his fingers together, revealing years of labor and a rugged lifestyle that failed to leave him even after abandoning his alfalfa fields for classrooms. A small smile plays across his lips, and suddenly he’s not in the room anymore.

Even after 24 years of teaching, Marvin Goretski is unable to estrange himself from his farm boy roots. It is these roots that have instilled in him a value for a simplistic and practical life that is as reliable as the machines he grew up working on. In a way he is the reflection of his beloved appliances, a testament to hard work and selflessness, striving toward embodying the very characteristics he uses to describe his machines.

“I would like to think that people can take from me something that improves the quality of their life,” he says. And that is exactly what he managed to do during his time at Fond du Lac High School.

Though most will remember him as an educator, Marvin Goretski has truly done it all. He has served his country, flown commercial airplanes, worked as a mechanic and of course farmed. Stories of his wild adventures are passed down from class to class, his quirky sayings are tweeted immediately after he says them and speculations about his personal life run rampant. But, alas, after 24 wonderful years, Fond du Lac High School’s most interesting man says farewell to the district to work fulltime on his family farm, leading many to wonder if they ever knew him at all.

From Fields to Field Trips

Growing up in a large farming family in Kentucky, it was only natural for Goretski to become fascinated with the practical application of items around him. While in school, he was hired by a farm service company that trained him in flight so he could become a crop

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duster. He then decided to build on his love for flying by becoming an instructor. It was during this time that Goretski realized that he wanted to teach and that he was capable of doing so.

Though the hectic schedule of a pilot had it’s perks -- for instance meeting Paula Abdul, it was time for Goretski to settle down.

He attended University of Wisconsin Stevens Point to get his masters in education with an emphasis on chemistry. Once he received his degree, Mr. Goretski was determined to make a true difference in students’ lives. He spent less time promoting the periodic table and more time promoting a time table. His battle cry being, “work, work, work.” An environment that expects hard work and demands results, to him, was the only way to truly prepare students for the future.

“I look at student achievement as being in the same context as winning a tractor pull,” he says. Days where students benefitted from a lesson or began to understand difficult concepts were “good days” to him. He believes he has had many of those.

Yet it is apparent as Goretski set forth to change the lives of his students, they have done the same to him.

“Every year there is probably bits and pieces of personality changes that you pick up. I hope by the bits and pieces that I’ve taken .... have made me a more understanding person,” says Goretski, acknowledging that his teaching experience gave him insight to how difficult some people’s lives could be.

“Mr. Goretski is a man who genuinely cares about his student,” says Mr. Alaniz, a science teacher here at Fond du Lac High School, recalling a time when Mr. Goretski and he helped a less fortunate student they barely knew move from one house to another.

Closing Remarks

“The new model of education leaves me confused about what service I should provide as an instructor, and so it’s probably time I move on,” says Goretski, a defeated look across his face. He admits he has been in disagreement with many of the school’s new policies. In fact, he believes that these new policies jeopardize the cornerstone of his educational values -- preparedness for adulthood.

“I know that throughout my time as an instructor students have always trusted me to be providing a direction for them that would

make them more confident and successful in their adult lives,” he says.

“There was a trust. What I see now is a model, that in my mind, does not support what I view as ‘adult responsibilities.’” He believes there is a lot left to be wanted from this new model that will hopefully prepare students better.

Goretski has observed a decline in the overall learning atmosphere of the school as a result of new policies. In his mind, students were more willing to go out of their way and take charge of their learning before these policies were implemented. Now he notices a general lack of effort from the entire student body, something he attributes to the retake policy. Yet, his attitude is not one of resentment but sadness.

“I think the work ethic is misleading,” he says. “I keep on hearing ‘I wish I would’ve,’ from my seniors. Now these kids are coming and theyŕe saying, ‘I wish I would’ve done something,” ‘I wish I would’ve.’ There’s more ‘I wish I would’ve’ than, ‘Hey, Mr. G, I’m in, thanks a lot.’ It is heartbreaking.

And it isn’t because I didn’t support policies; it’s because the support students were given lacked some pretty

significant features of what adult life will require of them.”

Back to The Farm

Though Mr. Goretski will no longer be teaching, he will never abandon the art of passing down lessons. With his retirement he plans on returning back to his family farm to be a mechanic and “influence the youngsters while he still can.” He has no plans to travel the world, as he believes he has seen enough of it. He has no intentions to write a book, a decision that will break plenty of students’ hearts. Instead, he will return back to what he knows -- being helpful and providing needs.

“I’ve been very blessed with the life that I have had, and I don’t take it for granted,” says Goretski. “I know that others have not had the opportunities that I’ve had. I would hope that the young people in my family would realize that the opportunities that they have had is not something that they should take for granted.”

This message is not something Mr. Goretski says for PR purposes, either, as he often neglects doctor visits

in the face of serious injuries because he is “embarrassed” that he has “the opportunity to see a doctor” when others don’t. These are the very issues he believes the current generation should be focusing on -- granting equal opportunity to those who were born with disadvantages, fixing the health care system and taking care our society. That is what he hopes to be his final lesson -- a lasting message.

The Fascination

“There’s only one Goretski,” says senior Cassi Luedke. And while there may be another chemistry teacher to fill his place, there may never truly be a man so unique.

“A man with an amazing past who rides tractors by morning, teaches chemistry by day, and flies a plane into the setting sun,” says Simon Riter. “A true inspiration to us all.” Simon is just one of many students who will feel Goretski’s absence, heavily. Many will miss being able to listen in awe to his amazing stories and speculate about his mysterious personal life, but the time has come to set the record straight.

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n March 10, at approximately 8:10 on Monday morning, Principal Jon Wiltzius came into the print journalism classroom at Fond du Lac High School with some news. Each staff member received a piece of paper stating that there would be new guidelines in effect entitled 9.1052 Student Publications. The guidelines require the class as a student publication to get the school paper approved by the principal before printing.

The principal, and later Superintendent James Sebert, said that they created the guidelines because elements of “The Rape Joke” story in the previous issue of the paper were, in their eyes, not appropriate. They also felt like some photos were questionable and that the publication was possibly disrespectful, with an editorial calling on students to question their teacher’s knowledge of their right not to stand for the pledge.

The reaction from the Cardinal Columns staff, many other students, community members and citizens around the country was swift and largely in favor of the newspaper staff. A staff member on the Cardinal Columns made an online petition to lift the new guidelines. More than 5,676 people have signed the petition on change. org. The Cardinal Columns staff has received support from the school’s English Department and many journalism organizations.

“I think that the new guidelines that are being put into place are overly controlling and fail to recognize that a large portion of a student newspaper is to afford students the opportunity to learn how to well express themselves and explore issues of controversy and interest,” former Attorney General for the State of Wisconsin Peggy Lautenschlager said.

“The [school] board must review the value of the First Amendment,” Kettle Moraine Press Association President Sandy Jacoby said. “The board of education must review policy 9.1052 established in 1988 which has continued a one-hundred-year-long history of a free student press as well as encourage thoughtful discussion.”

Most of the staff and many journalism experts have come out saying that the new guidelines are censorship or create an environment in which censorship will almost definitely occur. What do Fondy students think?

The Cardinal Columns received 210 responses to a survey on this topic. Of the 210 responses from the school, 80% said that they feel that the new guidelines are a form of censorship. Many comments on the survey stated that students feel that the paper is the student voice. Along with bad publicity, some students believe that the new policy for censorship will dismiss articles that may or may not reflect poorly on Fond du Lac High School.

Also in the survey, 91% of the students said they had read the “Rape Joke,” and 87% felt that the article should have run the way it was. Lastly, 90% of the students said they feel that the new guidelines should be removed or changed.

Some of the School Board members discussed their feelings on what they thought of the policy at the school board meeting on March 24. They gave some answers about what they think is going on with the policy, and if they think the school needs them.

“I truly believe there has to be oversight and accountability,” School Board Vice President Julie Nett said. “I know they are saying it’s censorship, but some of the language. Peggy Breister, who is an editor at the reporter, said she would not have been permitted to put that in her article.” “[Media attention] is not really the issue,” School Board Secretary/ Clerk Eric Everson said. “This type of attention is expected. Any time the word censorship gets thrown around, there is a small group

of the population where the fur goes up on their back. People get very excited about it. It’s my contention that we are not dealing with censorship, we are dealing with adult oversight.”

“A small group of people?” senior and author of “The Rape Joke” Tanvi Kumar said. “Tell that to Jezebel, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin Public Radio. Also, might I add, that to call this policy ‘adult oversight’ is disrespectful to our wonderful advisor, Matt Smith, who has received a journalism degree from one of the best programs in this country, served as a reporter in D.C. and is certainly more qualified than anyone on the board to make decisions about journalistic integrity. He and only he should be our adult oversight.”

“What I will tell you is fairly what Mr. Everson said, but I think our policy is antiquated and we need to look at it,” School Board Treasurer Kathleen Nagel said. “The policy needs to be reviewed, and it will be reviewed.”

People, not just here in Fond du Lac, but also in Oshkosh, Green Bay and nationwide are keeping their eyes on Fondy High and are trying to help the journalism students get the new guidelines changed to allow for a more open forum for student publications at the school.

In fact, there have been a few newspaper stories on the Cardinal Columns. It isn’t just the journalism students who care. Many members of the community and kids around the school also care.

“I think the article was over-due and said some things that needed to be said,” a print student’s grandmother Linda Lowry said.

“The superintendent should have responded with ‘How can I help young women at Fondy? How can I help rape victims?’ I think it [media attention] is deserved. I think he [Dr. Sebert] has made a wrong move here, and I’m hoping he will reconsider and modify his actions.”

Lisa Pauly, parent of an FHS student, said that she thinks if this were the work world, the new guidelines would be considered retaliation against whistle blowing and that it is important that something like this actually gets attention so that the young adults get recognized for actually doing an excellent job at journalism. She thought “The Rape joke” article was exceptional and well written, saying that It covered a very serious topic in a very sensitive manner. She would enjoy seeing more topics like this covered in school.

Since this controversy has happened here at Fond du Lac high school the students have actually become closer together and are spreading the word around to their friends, families and social media friends.

“If we can’t put the articles out that we want to put out and help the students that need help then we didn’t do our job because we are supposed to help people through our articles,” Cardinal Columns Designer Austin Klewicki said.

“The presentation of the new policy was kind of disrespectful,” Cardinal Columns Staff Writer Caitlin Oestreich said. “They always want us to show them respect, but then without any warning Wiltzius came into our classroom and handed out a piece of paper that showed restrictions that we did not deserve.”

“Personally, I see it fits in certain areas for wording,” Cardinal Columns Editor-in-Chief Rachael Schneider said. “But, at the same time, if we aren’t bringing light to these kinds of issues, who is going to? No school is ever going to be a perfect utopia.”

“I think we have all come together to fight the same cause because of the [Rape Joke] article,” senior Shannon Freeman said. “I think that we should be starting younger, like in middle school to learn about rape awareness, because this stuff does happen.” cardinal columns.org

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Candace, her knee throbbing, begged them to stop. She couldn’t fight them off, and soon she was crying, as well. This was not the first time students had physically harmed Candace. Following this and other incidents, Candace had gone to talk to her principal, counselors and school officers. Though she went to get help to stop the bullying, she noticed that it was getting worse, and the administrators didn’t seem to be doing anything.

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Multiple times Candace said the staff that she worked with told her that they would follow up with her when they figured out what was going on. She still hasn’t gotten any contact about what has happened to her attackers.

“I feel as though they say they will help out with the issue, but the issue is never actually figured out,” Candace said. “In the office they have you fill out a bullying report, and before you leave to head back to class they say ‘everything is going to be OK,’ but I don’t believe this because I don’t feel that they understand how I feel when someone bullies me. It hurts, and they say mean and nasty things.

They make threats to beat me, and nothing is really ever dealt with.”

After the attack in the Commons, Candace chose to skip school the next day out of fear that she’d get attacked by other classmates, again. One day turned into multiple days where she missed school due to her fear.

Candace has experienced both physical and verbal bullying here at Fond du Lac High School. She’s been called names such as whore, slut, skank, etc, due to bad break ups that became public when her bullies decided to use them against her.

Candace has also been told that she shouldn’t be here, hinting that she should kill herself.

“I don’t feel safe at Fond du Lac High School, because it seems as though everything only gets worse and nothing is ever done about things,” Candace said. “It seems as though the only people that care are friends, and they can’t do anything about what is happening.”

Candace is not alone in feeling this way.

“Some teachers are better at handling bullying than others,” sophomore Katelyn Kotsonis said. “I feel safe in some parts and not others. I get bullied on an almost daily basis. It has become such a normal thing here that you have to actually think about other’s actions to see that them calling you names, telling you to shut up when you speak, and making fun of the way you look is bullying.”

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“I think they [the school] should take things up a level, like they should do more than a slap on the wrist and tell them not to do it again,” sophomore Jacob Boutin said. “It is pitiful that they don’t do a thing about it unless they are actually fighting fist to fist.”

“Bullying is a tough issue to talk about because I don’t think all students have a solid understanding about what bullying is,” school psychiatrist Allison Beyerl said.

“People think it’s ‘my friend and I got in a fight, I’m being bullied,’ but that’s not the definition. It’s hard to focus on academics.”

Principal Jon Wiltzius said some students may feel that their alleged bullies should have something severe happen. However, he said bullying occurs when a student has asked it to stop, and it doesn’t. That direction to stop sometimes never happens, he said, adding that adults in the building generally do attempt to assist students however they can.

“I don’t know of any cases where the school hasn’t responded if it’s reported to an adult in the building,” Jon Wiltzius said. “Do we have the responsibility to do so? We do. One’s perception may be that we don’t do anything, but I could caution against saying that nothing is not done.”

Regardless, Candace and many others say that they have never felt safe here.

“Unless something does get done, I won’t feel safe here,” she said. “I don’t like coming to school. In fact, I don’t come many days because I am worried something might happen. I missed a good majority of school last year and even this year. I think that is sad, and I don’t think anyone can change how I feel about coming to school because of everything that has happened.”

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Survey Says

According to Stopbullying.gov, a website managed by United States Department of Health and Human Services, “bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.”

Many students say bullying is an increasing problem here at Fond du Lac High School and that the school isn’t doing enough to stop it. According to Health teacher and Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) advisor Ms. Struck, there are more than 2,100 students within the school, and while the teachers are trying to help as many students as possible, they can’t keep up. Teachers and students alike should be speaking up when they see an act of bullying occur, whether it’s in a hallway, classroom, the Commons or anywhere else within the school.

In Fond du Lac High School, of the students that answered an online survey conducted by the Cardinal Columns, 66% of students said they have been bullied, and 77% said they have seen acts of bullying. In all, nearly a third of students said they feel either somewhat or very unsafe at Fondy High. Only 6% feel extremely safe.

“31% of students feeling unsafe is way too high,” French teacher Mrs. Schipper said. “That needs to be lowered. School needs to be a place of learning, a safe place they don’t have to be consumed of fear. That’s just way too high.”

“I believe bullying is a problem at our high school,” Ms. Struck said. “I don’t believe it’s any worse here than in any other high school, though.

“I wish that I could say that the school is going to help me, but I honestly don’t believe they will.”

It’s a national problem. Bullying is wrong, and no matter how much there is we need to work together to stop it.”

The Fond du Lac School District conducts a survey of sophomores and juniors every year to rate their feelings about how safe they feel in the school.

In 2013, 11% of respondents said they either did not attend school or felt unsafe to or from school. That’s a 4% jump from the year before. While in 2013, 73% of sophomores and juniors said they felt safe either always or most of the time.

“I strongly believe that bully prevention cannot be the responsibility of one entity or group of individuals,” Marian Sheridan, who is the school district’s Health and Safety Coordinaor and presents the school climate information to the school board every summer, said. “Bullying does not also stop at the boundaries of the school.

It also occurs in workplaces, community and homes. Our efforts need to build a strong collaboration regarding bullying prevention that address the victim, the bully and the folks that stand by and do not take action.

Students, staff and families all need to address bullying prevention.”

“Based on several years of survey data, our students do feel safe,” Mr. Wiltzius said. “I am not suggesting there are no pockets of students who do not feel safe, but our goal each day is to make it safe. It is the responsibility of all to make it a safe community and school.”

“Bullying creates feelings of hate, anger, pain, sadness, low self esteem, and many other difficult and painful feelings,” Ms. Struck said. “Sometimes students don’t even want to come to school as a result. We’ve heard of many young people taking their lives as a result of relentless bullying. It can go on 24/7 if it also includes cyber-bullying.”

According to the National Education Association about 71% of students in the United States have reported bullying incidents as a problem at their schools, 56% of students have witnessed some type of bullying, and 15% of students absences are

due to bullying. In secondary schools alone there are 282,000 students are attacked each month.

“This school is safe, but all teachers need to show initiative towards stopping bullies,” senior Wyatt Thielman said.

“I think that the school should take more responsibility for bullying at school,” junior Amber Peiper said. “I think they do little to nothing to stop the bullying.”

Don’t Be a Bully

“I develop a relationship with the students,” said Mr. Wiltzius, “so they feel comfortable reporting alleged incidents of bullying. Once it’s heard or seen we can then immediately take care of it with the victim and bully.

We have conferences, get parents involved, use mediation and collect the facts. Other incidents where it continues we report it back to the teachers. The biggest thing is educating everybody as to the fact that this isn’t a place where we accept bullying.”

Last school year the high school received 60 bullying reports. The most common type of contact is verbal, the most common time of bullying is during the school day, and the most common place was the hallway (second in the classroom).

The amount of reports submitted from students has gone up around 9% each year for the past 3 years.

Bullying reports can be found in the student services office and can be filled out by anybody (students, parents or staff) and handed in to anybody in the Student Services offices.

According to Ms. Beyerl, an investigation is started within 48 hours at the most when she receives a report.

Last year Ms. Beyerl only received four to five bullying reports, and this year she’s only received two or three so far. Whenever she receives a report, she sees what the victim wants done about the problem.

Although Fond du Lac High School’s counselors and the school psychiatrist are here to talk to students about their bullying experiences, only 44% of the students who responded to the Cardinal Columns survey were

even aware that Fond du Lac High School has a bullying report.

“I don’t know if there’s a bullying report that that exists; it might be available in the student services office,” Mrs. Schipper said. “It’s not available in our classrooms, but there should be some in each room because students go to teachers before counselors, sometimes. I’m just guessing. I might have been told about it, but I don’t know.”

“I think students and staff do know about the bullying report form,” said Mrs. Beyerl. “However, I think that everyone (students and staff) have a lot going on and aren’t always on the look-out for opportunities to report bullying. Additionally, research on bullying shows that students who bully other students do so out of sight of teachers. So the best ways to prevent bullying are (1) for other students to stop being bystanders and become activists against bullying and (2) for those students who are being bullied to come forward to adult to report the bullying.”

While the steps are about the same when an administrator or student services staff deals with a report, some teachers deal with bullying incidents completely differently.

“Some students want to work it out with the person, so in that case I talk to the students separately,” Mrs. Beyerl said. “Then I would sit in with them when they try to find a solution to the problem. Some cases the student has been bullied long enough they don’t want to be around the bully any more. That’s when the administration gives out a punishment, because I can’t give detentions.”

“It’s a really good idea [to have bullying reports in classrooms],” Mrs. Beyerl said. “Teachers will be focused on their subject, having that visual reminder could have a teacher offer it to a student when they see bullying occur.”

“The first thing I’d do is to recommend talking to a psychologist or counselor and Email the adult to let them know the student is coming,” Mrs. Schipper said. “That’s the person who should be helping the student. If

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a student only wants to talk to me, I’d call their parents so they can figure something out.”

Words Hurt Week, an event started in Appleton East High School’s GSA six years ago, has heightened awareness of how verbal bullying can hurt others, even if they don’t intend to cause harm. At the beginning of Words Hurt Week, which ran between March 24 to March 28, students write on notecards about the good and bad things they’ve heard whether it be about themselves or somebody else.

The students in Fond du Lac High School’s GSA post the note cards on the walls to show how powerful words can affect somebody, whether they’re good or bad. It’s also a way to show awareness of bullying within the school.

“We have Words Hurt Week because the amount of verbal bullying that students experience is a very big problem,” sophomore and GSA member Haruka Yukioka said. “Words truly do hurt, and we feel that not a lot of students realize the amount of power their words have. By creating awareness, we hope to decrease the amount of verbal bullying here at Fondy High.”

previous school for two weeks when the bullying started.

There had been a nasty rumor going around that her friends told her about, but she had never heard it herself and never found out the content of the rumor. A student walked up to her during passing time while she was at her locker and started yelling at her, asking her if she knew if she was an “ugly whore” and accusing her of being a whore. The student also told her to kill herself.

Hannah, like most people getting bullied, tried to ignore it by walking way. Except, instead of her bully walking away and ignoring her back, he attacked her. Her bully slammed her against a locker, causing her to have a large bruise on her forehead, cuts under her eyes and a severe bloody nose.

She went to get help from her counselors, but when she couldn’t tell them who her bully was, having just transferred there and not knowing many people, they said they could not help her.

They called Hannah’s mother, who got the police involved.

The police looked through the video footage and claimed that there was nothing on the tapes that they could find. Her counselors told her mother that Hannah had obviously lied, and since there was no evidence, and she didn’t know who it was, they couldn’t do anything about it.

“The school should do more,” Hannah said. “What do they do? Nothing. There should be a bigger discipline than just talking to them. I don’t think schools realizes that bullying is an issue.”

Hannah’s bullying experience caused her to have to transfer from her previous school to Fond du Lac High School, which she believes to be a big improvement, since she hasn’t been bullied here yet, and she hasn’t heard of any rumors. Unlike Hannah, who has been able to escape those nasty rumors, other students find it harder to escape such persistent, nasty rumors.

“I think that the school [should] let everyone know that counselors are available to talk and listen to you if there is something going on in your life.

They won’t judge you at all if there is a rumor going around about you.”

The Rumor Mill

Senior Carol Madsen has had bullying experiences that have been following her since her freshman year at Fond du Lac High School. There were rumors spreading around the school about her being pregnant, when she wasn’t.

When Carol spoke to counselors at school, they also had heard the rumors going around. When a random student who she didn’t even know asked her if she was pregnant, it really hurt her and her self-esteem.

“With the advent of social media, it’s escalated the levels of harassment and bullying,” Mr. Wiltzius said.

“Some [rumors] have legs, and others don’t, and people seem to thrive in our society on rumors. Hurtful things can be said without social media as well. The majority are from miscommunication or from people who feel hurt and take it out on others. Bullies have been victimized in their lives as well.”

“I think that the school [should] let everyone know that counselors are available to talk and listen to you if there is something going on in your life,” Carol said. “They won’t judge you at all if there is a rumor going around about you. They will simply be there to listen to you and try to stop anything that they can.”

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Is There a Solution?

“There’s always room for improvement with everything,” Mrs. Beyerl said. “The biggest deterrent is other students standing up. The one thing that could be better is if students took a more active role. If they spoke up and asked what their problem is or tell them to leave the victim alone.”

“We as a community and school will not accept or condone behavior that inhibits rights of others and is harmful in nature,” Mr. Wiltzius said.

Candace’s bullying increases and decreases depending

on what is going on in her personal life. She says that when things in her home life are rough that school seems to be fine even though school is never easy for her. Everywhere she goes there are people that she feels are going to be rude to her.

She has not had any feedback as to what has happened to her bullies, which she had reported earlier this year. She feels that the administrators have pushed it aside and claimed that it’s unimportant.

“I wish that I could say that the school is going to help me, but I honestly don’t believe they will,” Candace said. “It has been going on for so long, and if nothing has been done yet, then I’m lead to believe that

nothing will ever get done about it.”

Candace wants to let other victims of bullying know to never let the bully make you feel that they have power over you, because you have the power to be who you want to be. She wants victims to know that you should never let the bully win, “don’t let them feel like they are better than you or stronger than you because you can be equally as strong yourself.”

“Hold your head up high because someday in life you will make it farther than them and become more successful, and try not to let it bother you,” Candace said. “I know it’s hard, but just blow it off, make it seem like you don’t care what they are saying

about you. For students who witness others getting bullied, don’t keep quiet about it. Report it to someone who can help or even you can ask what’s going on. Make that person feel like someone is on their side for once. Make them feel like they are not alone.”

“I’m not really sure what the teachers and administration could do more to end bullying because I believe they’re doing their best,” Ms. Struck said. “I know that what we’re missing is more students helping.

We all need to work together, and if students would join us to stop it, I think we could make a difference.

Ask yourself, ‘What have you done to stop bullying?’”

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Into The Dark Side of Social Media

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hile volunteering at an event last summer, Fond du Lac High School student, Liz, whose name has been changed for this story, was paired up to work with an older guy. They spent a few hours together, and they eventually exchanged phone numbers.

As soon as she got home that day, she received a text from him asking to hang out.

She was kind of uncomfortable because they had just met, but she accepted the invitation.

He continued to text her during the next few days asking to hang out. Liz was flattered but became uncomfortable as his texts became more urgent. He began to get jealous of her other friends and tried to convince her to quit playing sports.

When the school year came around, she didn’t have as much time to text because she was in school. The man became very frustrated with Liz and started continuously texting her while she was in school, not understanding that she was busy, yelling at her for not answering him. One day, she received over 50 texts, all just minutes apart.

“I was freaked out,” she said.

“That sort of obsession was not okay.” When she finally did reply to him, they argued. Every

day that week, she received multiple calls and texts from him, apologizing and begging her to be his.

Liz decided that it was time to blacklist him so that he couldn’t bother her anymore. Still, he found a way to contact her, and that was through Facebook. He bombarded her with messages.

After blocking him on Facebook, he began messaging her friend, begging her to tell Liz to un-blacklist him. She refused.

“I didn’t report it because I felt like it was my fault for putting myself in the situation,” she said. “I know that isn’t the case now, but I would still rather not report it because of everything my sister and my family went through when she went through a similar situation.”

She spent many nights awake and cried so hard that she vomited. Her anxiety levels rose, and she constantly felt uncomfortable, resorting to self-harm. When the harassment finally ended, she stopped the self-harm. “I realized that I was surrounded by some of the best people in the world, and I didn’t need to do anything but stay around those who I did feel comfortable around.”

In January, Liz received eight phone calls, all within 20 min-

utes, from a strange number. Since she had gotten a new phone number since the situation occurred, she had a feeling it could be him again, so she didn’t answer. Liz still receives random phone calls from that number here and there, but she never answers in fear of the person that might be on the other end of the line.

The Facts

Looking around your classroom, you may see some peers on their chromebooks, some on their phones and some with their ear buds in. The use of technology is increasing more and more in our daily lives, as well as in our school.

This gives even more of an opportunity for students to attack each other online or through text messages.

The number of Facebook users is three times the population of the whole United States, according to socialmediatoday.com. With that

amount of people, there is more of an opportunity for someone to be targeted for online harassment.

In an online survey conducted by the Cardinal Columns, 50 percent of Fondy High students said they have been a victim of cyberbullying. In addition, 63 percent of students said they believe that the school should be more involved in these issues.

“It seldom gets reported, and a lot of [cyber bullying] escalates into physical or verbal confrontations at school,” said Fond du Lac High School assistant principal, Peter Snyder.

“Online harassment is completely wrong,” sophomore Alyssa Godfrey said. “Kids harass people to the point where they want to kill themselves, and they do it.”

Suicidal thoughts and actions nearly double in people that are victims of online abuse, according to the Cyberbullying Research Center online. Un-

like the stereotypes, male victims of cyberbullying under the age of 20 have reported to have suicidal thoughts and even attempted suicide slightly more often than females under 20. The Cyberbullying Research Center states that between 19-21 percent of people that have been victims of online abuse have these suicidal thoughts or attempt suicide.

Another Fondy High student, Jane, whose name has also been changed, has experienced online harassment here at school. Last school year, someone hacked her friend’s email and sent her messages calling her a “ho” and telling her that she drinks bleach.

This was right after the story came out about Amanda Todd, a girl who drank bleach in a suicide attempt after being bullied and tormented for many years.

Jane reported the incident to the school and even showed them the messages she had received. She said

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that they said they would get it all sorted out but that they never really did anything about it. Although she blocked the girl on Facebook, and doesn’t get harassed by her anymore, she still gets occasional dirty looks from her in the hallway.

“If someone harasses you online, communicate to them that they need to stop,” said Snyder. “If they ignore you and continue harassing you, do not try to instigate them. File a report and get help. Don’t let the problem escalate. We will address the issue and try to put a stop to it. Punishments have gone from detentions, to suspensions, and even referrals to Officer Vokes, which means involvement with the law.”

School nurse, Sarah Kirchhoff says online harassment is a huge issue. She said she knew of a study done where they experimented with kids to see if they would bully on the computers, which they did.

“There is a bullying policy, and kids just have to be willing to tell,” she said.

The procedure at Fondy High for cyberbullying is similar to the face-toface bullying report procedure. “Talk to a staff member--any staff member--in the building,” said principal Snyder. “You should be instructed to fill out a harassment form in the main office. When submitted, it helps us document and process the situation. Using our professional judgement, we determine the severity of the case. We try to find out past history between the people involved to better understand the situation.”

“I’ve seen students who have lost privileges of chromebook usage, and the only way they can use it is if they get permitted by a teacher,“ school psychiatrist Allison Beyerl

“If they ignore you and continue harassing you, do not try to

instigate them. File a report and get help.

Don’t let the problem escalate. We will ad-

dress the issue and try to put a stop to it.”

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said. “With the increase of technology, it has gotten worse. Now every student has a technical device.”

On the Attack

There are thousands of organizations on various social media sites whose only purpose is to attack or harass people. One that was well known among students at Fond du Lac High School was The Ratchets of Wisconsin Facebook page. The group posted images sent to them by anonymous people and labelled them as “ratchet,” which is a commonly used insult among teens. It often lead to arguments in the comments sections. It has since been shut down for violating Facebook’s terms of service policies, which no longer allow harassment/bullying groups, physical threats or groups using Facebook to organize any physical attacks.

For people who wish to use the internet to attack others, there are many other ways for them to do so.

Another popular way to harass students and teachers in Fondy High is to create fake twitter accounts, since this is one of the very few social networks that isn’t blocked on the school’s internet. Many of these have already been created, such as Fondy Swag, Fondy Gossip and Joe Wiltzius, a parody account claiming to be an evil version of our principal, Jon Wiltzius.

Many Fondy High students are also familiar with the hashtag “#LetsMakeItAwkward” on Twitter. This is typically where someone tags two people who have had sexual relations. This is a form of harassment called “slut-shaming” and has become popular in our school recently.

“Being able to reach out and hurt someone anonymously and from a long distance is cowardly,” Sue Heitzman, a teacher here at Fondy High, said. “I suggest to everybody, that before you hit send, take a step back and look at what you’ve written.”

School Board Policy 10.22 does specifically address cyberbullying. It says that cyberbullying is prohibited in the following circumstances: 1) when going on, making, and communicating using a school-owned electronic device; 2) when sent through a device while on school properties (such as; activities, school-wise, or given transportation); 3) Any threat meant to be settled on school property.

“Parents should remember that even though children are sixteen to seventeen

they should have their limits,” Beyerl said.

“It is important to supervise that technology.

Also, it’s important to keep in mind from a very young age to respect other people.”

There have been many movies created about these types of events, and although they may be a bit dramatized, it isn’t completely fictional. These things really do happen. It could be easily spotted if someone you know shows you a text message, tweet or Facebook response to a status that is rude, mean or insulting. Sometimes it’s unnoticeable. Someone could have a false account and be posting personal information, images and videos, and other people may not know that they aren’t who they say they are. This leads into another popular form of online harassment called catfishing.

Online Anonymity

According to urbandictionary.com, catfishing is the phenomenon of internet predators that fabricate online identities and entire social circles to trick people into emotional/ romantic relationships (over a long period of time). It is very common in social media that false information is presented in order to make yourself, or the person you are betraying, look better. Using technology in any way to cause harm to anyone else can be classified as cyberbullying. It all really comes down to your intent. Are you changing your identity to protect yourself or to cause harm to others?

Popular MTV show, Catfish, states that there are eight kinds of catfish: opposite gender; right gender, wrong face; right picture, wrong bio; one of your friends who means well; pick up artists using the web for game practice; catfished is also the catfish; revenge seekers or they are exactly who they claim to be. Most people that are in most of these categories can be considered online predators.

“They portray themselves in a fashion that will entice young women or young men to reach out to them,” Detective Dan Wilson said. “Eventually, it leads to the perpetrator coming or having the unsuspecting victims meet them somewhere. [Catfishing] is definitely a problem and an issue we can’t ignore, but it is not as common in Fond du Lac, which is good.”

Popular State Farm commercial shares an example of how the internet can be deceiving. A man is talking to a lady about how he is using the State Farm Pocket Agent App. The lady replies saying she didn’t know that

they had an app for that and “they can’t put anything on the internet that isn’t true.” Then a rugged man walks up and the lady claims he is a French model she met on the internet.

He clearly is nothing of the sort. Anybody can put things on Facebook and change things to make themselves look better.

“You’ve got to realize some things you put online needs to be private,” Detective Wilson said. “By opening yourself up and friending whoever without actually knowing who it is, you’re opening yourself up to some potentially bad things happening. Homicide, abduction, ransoms and extortion are a few reasons why people need to be careful online.”

There are multiple ways to obtain deleted messages from social media to prove catfishing or cyberbullying: screenshots and reaching out to the social media companies. All things posted online are stored in a server. Police can send a subpoena or warrant to retrieve that information to help support their case.

“Absolutely, I would consider catfishing cyberbullying,” Detective Wilson continues.

“It’s not the traditional type of bullying we see where someone calls you names and want to pick a fight with you. Pretending to be someone you’re not in order to get information or to get someone vulnerable and open up to private matters because they are gonna use it against you at some point is bullying.”

Detective Wilson said if someone tries to contact you and you don’t know who they are, there should be a red flag that goes off. Even on sites such as Facebook, you should be wary about who you add and talk to. You might know the name to be familiar, but if that person has never talked to you before, why are they talking to you now? When talking to new people online you should always be careful.

The Future

Living in a world seemingly run by social media, issues and faults caused by these websites are inevitable, but is online harassment (cyberbullying) getting more popular?

“Over the last few years, it’s pretty stable,” Principal Snyder said. “It’s definitely a problem, but I don’t think it’s getting worse at Fondy High.”

Detective Wilson provided some final, overall advice. “If you wouldn’t say it to their face, don’t put it online, because it’s only going to cause issues,” he said. “Anybody can be Hulk Hogan sitting behind a computer, but as soon as you get face to face, the majority of the people wouldn’t say the same things.” cardinal columns.org

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t o r n down Confronting Teenage Depression Samm Nelson // Staff Writer Chey Thorp // Staff Writer Stephanie Crook // Staff Writer

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eenage depression is more than just a passing fad, in fact in many cases it can be a life-and-death situation. Most people don’t know that suicide is the third leading cause of death among 11-18 year olds in the United States. In Wisconsin, suicide is the second leading cause of death in the same age group.

Overall, according to the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, 14-20% of youth experience mental, emotional or behavioral disorders.

“I think that the issue of depression is very important, and it should most definitely be discussed,” junior Zoe Brown said. “There is a stigma that having a mental illness is trendy. There is a difference between asking for help and consistently seeking attention. If you’re talking about how school, activities, work, family, life, and so on, affect students’ mental health, anxiety is a very important issue. Seeing that I’ve dealt with depression and anxiety for a

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number of years now, I know that all of these pressures can be exceptionally taxing.”

According to the Fond du Lac School district Student Health Survey in 2013 there is a statistical increase in the overall percent of respondents feeling sad, blue or depressed since 2002. When they asked students, “During the past year, about how often would you say you felt sad, blue or depressed,” 18% of the Fond du Lac respondents reported always or nearly always, while 14% of them seriously considered suicide in the past year.

A survey sent out by Cardinal Columns garnered 271 responses. The survey showed there are about 79% of Fond du Lac High School students have a friend that is depressed and 23 percet were depressed themselves.

“Even though I’ve tried to explain a countless amount of times, adults still think that I’m a ‘whiny teenager who’s being dramatic.’ Brown said. “As a result there are a lot of unrealistically high

expectations put on students. I firmly believe that adults in our educational system as a district and as a nation do not understand this. The whole culture of comprehending what it means to have a mental illness needs to be clarified.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depression, major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-today activities, and depression may make you feel as if life isn’t worth living.

“School became a really big roll in my depression.” Brown said, “From being in school, and wanting to keep up with grades, with balancing friends, throwing a job in there, it’s a very hard thing to deal with.”

“I think stress is becoming a bigger issue every day.” Junior Hannah Roberts said. “As we get older, we have easier access to stress relievers. Whatever those may be. People then start to rely on the ‘relievers’ on a daily basis. This has happened to me.”

“Depression is not always brain based.” Fond du Lac High School’s Psychologist Mrs. Beyerl said, “It could be situational, also. They can both be

treated by therapy, medication or the combination between the two.”

Fond du Lac High School has offered emotional health screening (YScreen) since the 2002-2003 school year. Since that time, more than 3,000 students at Fond du Lac High School have been screened, and more than 400 students have been connected with services.

YScreen uses the Pediatric Symptom Checklist – Youth Report (PSC-Y), which is an established and recognized screening tool. The YScreen is mostly offered to the ninth graders in the school, and currently about 60% of them take it.

“Teens do a lot of internalizing,” YScreen Operator Mrs. Tagliapietra said. “They tell people more about the physical side effects more then anything, like having headaches, stomachaches and not being able to sleep.”

Nearly two-thirds of young adults do not receive treatment for problems with depression, and Columbia University found that parents incorrectly believe that they would be able to tell if their teen was depressed. In reality, one-third of teens with mental health problems suffer without parents or any other adults even noticing.

“People need to know that there’s support, and for the longest time, I didn’t,” Brown said.

Community Mental Health Providers Agnesian Healthcare Behavioral Health 920-926-4200 Aurora Behavioral Health 920-907-7000 Fond du Lac Psychotherapy & Psychiatry 920-923-9054 Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255 cardinal columns.org

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Movies Rad Movies Movies comming out this summer Tatiana Bell // Entertainment Editor

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elcome to the summer movie preview where the majority of the upcoming mentioned movies are box office hits and a few are bombs (even though they aren’t expected to be). The most anticipated films of this summer include a web-slinging teenager, a giant lizard, a group of mutants from both past and present, cops pretending to be college students, and a former rapper filling in Shia Labeouf ’s shoes as the lead alongside an alien race. So, for those of us who aren’t too busy working to save money for tuition and preparing to make the big move for college, here is a list of films you should see this summer (and no, I am not including Zac “AA” Efron’s Neighbors or Megan “Frozen Face” Fox’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).

The Amazing Spider-Man 2-Peter Parker must face new enemies in this film that include The Rhino, Electro, and the uprising of the Green Goblin. Paul Giamatti plays The Rhino, a Russian Mobster name Aleksei Sytsevich with a pretty hammy accent.

Dane DeHaan, star of last year’s Kill Your Darlings opposite Daniel Radcliffe, is also introduced as Peter’s friend Harry Osborn (it still might have been better if they kept it in the family and signed on James Franco’s little brother, Dave).

Godzilla-sixteen years after the mediocre American version starring Matthew Broderick, this remake features a younger cast consisting of Aaron-Taylor Johnson from the Kick-Ass franchise, Bryan Cranston, and 29

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Elizabeth Olsen. This time, Godzilla is pitted against creatures that threaten our very existence, created by arrogant scientists (I know it’s not much to go on, but the plot has been kept a secret on an Inception protection level).

X-Men: Days of Future Past-in this sequel to the 2011 prequel, the characters from the original X-Men film trilogy must join forces with the members of the first class in order to win the war that is raging across the two time periods. To do this, they must change the past to save their future.

Edge of Tomorrow-Tom Cruise stars as a soldier who plays a major role in a war against a hostile alien race. He becomes stuck in a time loop in which he keeps returning to the same fatal battle and dies, but each time he starts learning the weaknesses in order to find a way to kill them. But can he do it without dying in the process?

22 Jump Street-Schmidt and Jenko go undercover at a college in order to bust a crime ring within a fraternity, but the duo soon begin to question their partnership and whether or not they can have a mature relationship like real men.

Transformers: Age of Extinction-this sequel takes place four years after Dark of the Moon after the invasion of Chicago.

Featuring an entirely new cast, this sequel also introduces the Dinobots and the return of Transformers Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Ratchet.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes- featuring an entirely new cast, this sequel takes place a decade later and Caesar (the incomparable Andy Serkis) and his ever-growing nation of genetically evolved apes are being threatened by a group of human survivors of the virus that was unleashed in the first film that starred James Franco.

The Purge: Anarchy-in this sequel to the 2013 sleeper hit, a couple (played by Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez) attempt to race home to get to their kids. Unfortunately, they are forced to get out of their

car when it suddenly runs out of gas and the radio announces the beginning of The Purge.

If I Stay-based on the novel

by Gayle Forman, Kick-Ass star chloe Grace Moretz plays Mia, a gifted cellist who has everything she could ever want when her life is suddenly disrupted by a car accident that leaves her in a coma. As her spirit roams the hospital, caught between life and death, Mia watches as her friend and family come to visit her and must make the most critical decision of her lifeslip away and die, or live a more difficult life than she could have ever imagined.

Let’s Be Cops-two friends (played by Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans, Jr.) make a plan to impersonate police officers but find themselves way in over their heads when they get mixed up with a real mobster and have to find a way to get out of the situation before it costs them their lives. Also co-stars The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev.

The Fault in Our Starsdespite a miracle medical procedure that has shrunk her tumor and bought her a few years, Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) has always been diagnosed as terminal. Her life is suddenly changed when she meets Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort, who also plays Woodley’s brother in Divergent) at a Cancer Kid Support Group.

The plot has been kept a secret on an inceptionprotection level.

THE ACTORS BOTTOM TO TOP MARK WAHLBERG (TRANSFORMERS), FRANK GRILLIO (THE PURGE), AARON-TAYLOR JOHNSON (GODZILLA)

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Music Drake Drops Decent Album than the one before it. The most popular song “Started from the Bottom” has one of the catchiest sounds on this album even though lyrically the song is garbage. In this song, Drake raps about how difficult it was for him growing up, even though many people are convinced that he did not have a bad upbringing. “Worst Behavior” is quite arguably one of the best songs on this album. Worst Behavior might have one of the strongest sounds on the album, but it still fails when it comes to lyrical content.

Nothing Was The Same OVO // YMCMB Overall, Nothing Was The Same isn’t a terrible album. This was actually the first time I’ve listened to

BY SHANE FERNANDEZ an entire Drake album and I’m not too sure if I really want to hear anything

On September 24, 2013, hip- else from him. He obviously proved hop’s softest rapper out there, “Drizzy” that he does have a place in the hipDrake, released his third studio album. hop world as hip-hops softest, and The standard edition of Nothing Was that’s really not a bad thing. While The Same features 13 songs while the listening to NWTS, I could tell Drake deluxe features an extra two songs. The put a lot of work into this album when instrumentals in NWTS are all pretty it came to sound and production. solid although in some songs, the lyr- However, when it comes to the lyrics ics are lacking heavily. Before NWTS he chooses, he does not do a great job. released in stores, Some of the softthere were plenty er songs on this of singles to keep album weren’t Drake fans exall too bad but cited for more. they are not “Started from the something I’d Bottom,” “Hold listen to on reon, We’re Gopeat. In the end, ing Home,” “The I think Nothing Language” and Was The Same “Wu-Tang Forever” were just a few deserves a strong 3/5. The reasoning of the singles that released prior behind the rating is the fact that Drake to the albums release and most re- had some pretty good sounds on this ceived mixed ratings and reviews. album but in the end, he did not have

The opening track, “Tuscan good lyrics to go with them. The lyrLeather” starts the album off with a ics weren’t exactly terrible but they really pumped up sound where Drake definitely were mediocre. Anyways, arguably raps his best. Tuscan Leath- it’s a somewhat alright album, and if er goes through three beat/sound you’re wanting something new to lischanges and each transition is better ten to, this might be the album for you.

Drake drops his third studio album which describes the way his life is and how his past romances have been.

Drake

He obviously proved that he does have a place in the hip-hop world as hiphops softest, and that’s really not a bad thing.

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Reccommendations XXX // Danny Brown

One of Brown’s best works. Great sound and lyrics throughout.

Worth a solid 5 out of 5 stars. A must listen.

Wolf // Tyler, The Creator

In all honesty this was one of Tyler’s best albums. Unique sounds throughout and good lyrics earns it a 4.5/5.

Because the Internet // Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino’s second album has plenty of great songs and fantastic lyrics and deserves a good 5/5. good kid, m.A.A.d city // Kendrick Lamar Lamar’s debut album topped charts and wowwed many. With deep lyrics and sounds, this album doesn’t disappoint. 5/5 Straight Outta Compton // N.W.A.

One of the classics.

This album has left a mark on the rap game and will forever earn a 5/5.

Channel Orange // Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean’s debut album has a very mellow sound and has very relaxing tunes. It earns a 4.5/5 stars.

Blue Flame // Lil B “THE BASEDGOD”

One of Lil B’s finest works. With good songs and lyrics, this mixtape earns a good 5/5.

ScHoolboy Schools You On His Past ScHoolboy Q drops his third studio album which tells the story of his addictions with drugs, gang life, and more.

ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron TDE // Interscope

BY SHANE FERNANDEZ

On February 25, 2014, the rapper known as ScHoolboy Q released his third studio album, Oxymoron.

The standard edition of Oxymoron has a tracklist of 12 songs while specific deluxe editions (through iTunes and Target) include some extra songs. Oxymoron is the first album that ScHoolboy Q has released through a major music label while his previous albums were released digitally. Oxymoron has a pretty solid sound throughout, some songs are a bit mellow while others are all-out heavy hip-hop songs.

Oxymoron features some of hip-hop’s best throughout multiple songs. Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz and Tyler, the Creator are just some of the fellow rappers that help ScHoolboy Q bring Oxymoron together. The songs “Yay Yay,” “Collard Greens,” “Man of the Year” and “Break the Bank” were the only singles that released prior to the albums release, and all of them were met with good ratings and reviews.

The main themes throughout Oxymoron is ScHoolboy Q’s history of dealing drugs, being addicted to drugs, his responsibilities of being a father, and the history of the Crip lifestyle.

The opening song “Gangsta” has a very repetitive chant of “Gangsta” but also has a very good beat, and ScHoolboy does not disappoint when it comes to

the flow of his lyrics. “Collard Greens” has been highly praised as being one of the best songs on Oxymoron. Kendrick Lamar’s verse on Collard Greens is what really makes the song stand out from the others. “Hoover Street” starts off with a rock sound but a minute and a half in, it transitions over to a dark and gritty hip-hop beat. “Prescription” tells the story of ScHoolboy Q’s difficult time of being addicted to prescription drugs. In Prescription, ScHoolboy’s daughter is featured in the song being heard attempting to wake her dad up from a drug comatose. When asked as to why the album is named Oxymoron, ScHoolboy Q says “The oxymoron in this album is that I’m doing all this bad to do good for my daughter. That’s why I’m robbing. That’s why I’m stealing.

Whatever it is that I’m talking about in my album that’s negative, it’s always

for a good cause, for my daughter.”

Overall, this album is good for hip-hop fans. Oxymoron is definitely one of the best hip-hop albums released this year so far. I think one of the best things about this album is the fact that ScHoolboy Q rapped about really personal things and that some of his lyrics were genuine. This was the first time I’ve ever listened to ScHoolboy Q but after listening to Oxymoron, I’m going to have to consider listening to his older albums. In the end, I think Oxymoron deserves a strong 4/5.

The reasoning behind the rating is the fact that some of the features on this album were really lacking and that a couple of songs felt as if they didn’t belong at all. Anyways, it’s still a terrific album and if you’re a hardcore hiphop fan and wanting something new to listen to, this is the album for you.

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Tv Lights, Camera, CUT! Cancelled Television Shows That Shouldn’t Have Been Caitlyn Oestreich // Staff

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irefly, a space western drama directed and written by Joss Whedon, aired from 2002 to 2003 before being cancelled by Fox mid-season. Fans, devastated by the early cancellation, were able to feel closure when Whedon aired the movie, Serenity, a film-sequel to the series.

Though the series was cut almost 11 years ago, it has one of the strongest fan bases yet.

If you like pie, drama, crime solving, and people being brought back to life, then Pushing Daisies is the perfect show for you. Unfortunately, it was cancelled after it’s two season run in 2009

by ABC. The network didn’t think the fast-paced dialogue, romance, and quirkiness could fit around the more serious shows at that time, such as Castle and Lost.

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celled, Pushing Daisies fans still push through the surface every once and a while.

Go On starred on NBC for one season, and it probably was because the world wasn’t ready for a sitcom that was picking a little fun on serious situations (such as death). Throughout the season you see how tragedy affects people, friendships being made, and you can see how everybody grows from the beginning to the end.

Crime, action, comedy… Leverage had all of that. After a great five seasons, the TNT network cancelled the show in 2013. Though it had falling ratings, it won Favorite Cable TV Drama at the 39th People’s Choice Awards. When we learned that the show was going to be cancelled halfway through season five, the directors admitted that no matter what this was the last season of the

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show. So there was absolutely no point for the cancellation from TNT whatsoever.

Arrested Development is a sitcom that aired for three seasons on Fox before it’s sad cancellation in 2006. Ratings were falling, the show was losing viewers, so Fox cut the cord. Five years of complaints brought a fourth and final season of the show to be specifically aired and available on Netflix, so loyal fans to the Bluth family could get the finale they really wanted.

Reviews Curse Breaker

Divergent Broke The YA Movie Curse Tatiana Bell // Entertainment Editor

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ince the end of The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games franchise has been the best replacement for it. Aside from that, there have been a few attempts at another franchise between the release of the Hunger Games films to start another young adult franchise that can match the earnings and fanbase.

The following films are were box office flops that were expected to launch the next big franchise: Vampire Academy (luckily, they took Blood Sisters out of the title because of feedback from fans), Beautiful Creatures (too many changes to plot and characters), The Host (release of next two books in the trilogy is still unknown), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (by a strange stroke of luck the film is still getting a sequel, but it will take longer to make because they want to make fans happier with the next installment), and Ender’s Game. Luckily, Divergent has managed to break that curse (Anyone who has not read the books really should before they see the films).

Taking place in the future in a dystopian Chicago (even though it isn’t known under that name anymore), Divergent tells the story of a society that is separated into five factions: Abnegation (selfless), Amity (peaceful), Candor (truthful), Erudite (intelligent), and Dauntless (brave). The choice of which faction to join is based on an aptitude test they take when they are sixteen. The film opens with a narration by Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley, A Fault in Our Stars), a member of Abnegation, on the day of testing. When Beatrice takes the test, administered by Tori (Maggie Q, Nikita), a member of Dauntless, she finds out that instead of receiving the standard result of fitting into the faction you were born in and one other, Beatrice’s personality contains traits that allow her to be eligible to join multiple factions. Tori tells her that she is what is called Divergent and she can’t tell anyone because the Divergents are considered a threat to the society by the Erudite. Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce), the leader of the Erudite faction, believes that the Divergents have to be killed because their personalities do not allow them to conform to just one thing and therefore they are uncontrollable. Jeanine is also trying to discredit Beatrice’s father, Andrew Prior, (Tony Goldwyn, Scandal) one of the council members of Abnegation. Jeanine believes that Erudite should be primary faction, not Abnegation, and in order to make people believe this she creates numerous articles that smear Abnegation’s reputation

as selfless and always thinking of others by saying that they are actually selfish and greedy and Andrew and Marcus Eaton, another fellow council member, are not fit to run it.

As Beatrice makes her decision on which faction to join, she befriends fellow initiates Will (Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Al (Christian Madsen), and Christina (Zoe Kravitz; daughter of Lenny Kravitz, who plays Cinna in The Hunger Games franchise). Beatrice also loses her brother, Caleb (Ansel Elgort, Woodley’s love interest in The Fault in Our Stars) when he joins an enemy faction (Again, you should read the books because I am trying to avoid spoilers).

Now, I will admit that I thought Divergent was very well-adapted, but there were a few things that were changed or not included. Peter (Miles Teller, Woodley’s love interest in The Spectacular Now) isn’t as mean in the film as he is in the book; one thing taken out was his attack on a fellow initiate in which he stabbed out his eye. The attack on Tris is tamed quite a bit, not including the comments of a possible rape. Uriah, a fellow Dauntless member that Tris meets during the zipline scene is missing from the film. The character Jeanine Matthews receives more screentime in the film. When Tris is going through her fear landscapes, the one including Four is made out to be a bit more disturbing than in the book. Aside from a snarky remark

by Peter during the rooftop scene, Tris is not sexually harassed in the film. Although the chemistry between Tris and Four is enough to satisfy some fans, others probably would have felt better if some of their more personal scenes had been included. The final showdown in the film directly involves Jeanine Matthews and changes the ending completely.

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Editorials Fear Sells

How The News Is Making You Fear Erica Albrecht // Staff Writer

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any Americans consider the news as a trustworthy source, yet it has a powerful influence on its viewers. The stories do catch your attention, but is it worth feeling anxiety and fear of the world around you?

Why does the media use fear?

The media uses fear because it sells. It gets your attention, and in some cases it can bring on other emotions such as anger and anxiety. A good example of using fear to draw attention comes from the news, whether it be local or national.

National news has 35 million viewers and is considered a trusted source by many.

Crimes are the most common topic on the news and even that can bump the more important stories off of the news. A study done by Professor Joe Angotti from the University of Miami shows that 30% of news air time is spent on crime, 15% on the government and politics, 7% on medicine and health care and 2% on educa-

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tion. Since crime is the main topic that is being covered on air, it makes people fear crime more than they should. The more violence people see on television, the more they will perceive the world as violent. With these negative images of violence, the news spreads false information about the world to the audience.

Since the news has the power to choose what the public sees, they get to decide what stories and victims get air time. Caucasians are a group that are mainly perceived as victims on the news, while African Americans are most often reported as the perpetrators and not the victims, even though that may not be correct. A good example of the slanted coverage of crimes is African American victims in the Kent State shootings versus the Jackson State shootings. At Kent State, police shot at a crowd of anti-war protesters, killing four and wounding nine. At Jackson State, a historically black college, police

shot at anti-racism protesters, killed two and injured twelve. The Jackson State shootings were only ten days after the Kent State shootings, and they are very similar. Unfortunately Kent State got much more media coverage than Jackson State. The problem with this is that news anchors tend to focus on one race being the perpetrators.

Another issue where specific races get targeted is with the law of Stand Your Own Ground. According to PBS.org there are 350 cases that are “white on black.” Yet you don’t see that in the news. You only see it in the news when it goes to court; “whites are 250 percent more likely to be found justified in killing a black person than a white person who kills another white person; in Stand Your Ground states, that number jumps to 354 percent,” pbs.org reported.

Next time you watch the news be wary of the prejudiced coverage and the way they sway you with fear.

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Goretski’s Goodbye

Some Final Words of Wisdom from G-Money, Himself Marvin Goretski // Guest Columnist

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uring your academic years you will always receive praise for your class’s accomplishments. You are usually told that you represent the best and are the world’s hope for a better future. I have heard young people categorized as multitaskers and computer savvy and that these skills are superior to anything that has

come before. These casual accolades can sometimes go to your head, so let me set the record straight from my perspective.

The patterns I have seen through my life would suggest that you are actually no different than the classes who preceeded you. There is a high probability that you will affect the world by the same amount as millions of average citizens. You will find comfort in knowing that your family loves you, and you love them. You will have a job that sometimes you will like and sometimes you will hate. You will loose more often than win, and one day you will be a memory.

The most you can expect from life is that you were happy more

Be kind to each other, and when you get a chance to buy an old tractor DON’T TURN IT DOWN. times than not. Smile, laugh alot and do things to brighten each others’ day.

Have a getaway for some quiet time to think and remember. Be satisfied that your needs are being met, and don’t cut yourself down when you don’t have all that you want.

With all of its disappointments having lived is still wonderful, and having it said that the world was lucky to have you is a great compliment for a life lived.

Be kind to each other, and when you get a chance to buy an old tractor DON’T TURN IT DOWN.

Goretski Quiz Answers (from page 14) 1) True! During his time as a pilot for Wausau Insurance, Mr. Goretski was in an authorized area when Paula Abdul and three others joined him. He didn’t know it was Paula at the time, but had a conversation with the entire group during which he offered them the cheetos he was eating. “Some people did take some cheetos, but I don’t recall the actual issuing of those chips,” he said.

2) False! It was actually Mr. Goretski’s friend who was driving, and it was not the Gulf of Mexico, but a body of water very close to it. On a road trip to Alabama, at 2 AM, Mr. Goretski had just dozed off as his friend took the wheel. He awoke later, finding himself and his ‘69 Ford Fairlane in a body of water. The accident minorly injured his friend, but being as indestructible as he is, Mr. G was fine. “There was an Alabama State Patrol that stopped to help us,” said Goretski. “And he said the funniest thing, ‘now you boys gotta remember something -- you got to take a left at the end of the continent.’”

3) False! Mr. Goretski is one among twelve children in his family, but he does not have a twin brother.

4) True! When Mr. Goretski was kid, he skipped school to go hunting. While out, his friend saw a rabbit and chose to shoot at it.

Instead, he shot Mr. Goretski’s sunglasses off of his face. “If you want to know good lookin’ it was me in those sunglasses,” said Mr. Goretski, who was upset about the destruction of his glasses more than anything. “They were expensive,” he adds. “I paid five dollars for them.”

5) True! Mr. Goretski threw out his back and was forced to see the doctor, something he avoids at all costs. “I can carry two hundred no problem,” he said. “I was just sitting in a chair and something weird happened.”

6) False! No one actually knows how that rumor got started. cardinal columns.org

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Editorials Tough Guy

Micheal Sam May Be Changing The Future Of Sports Jeston Glish // Staff Writer

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ichael Sam is likely to soon to be the first male NFL athlete to announce that he is gay. This had to be a tough decision for Michael due to the possible negative effects it could have on him and the stress it could put him through.

An athlete coming out as the first homosexual football player is a big deal. Michael could easily have an effect on the sports world nationally and even locally. But the real question is how would a gay football player be accepted here at Fond du Lac High School?

“Honestly it wouldn’t bother me” senior Marcus Johnson said. “At first I’d feel a little awkward around the guy, but I don’t judge teammates on sexual orientation. I base it off of if you can do your job along with the other teammates. With that said, this is high school, so a gay athlete is going to get picked on a lot just because of the immaturity of teenagers.”

“He would have many supporters, I think” junior Kyle Pierce said. “There probably have been other gay players, but never admitted it cause of fear of what others may think. He may help other people come out, but probably not out of fear.”

Gay athletes for the most part seem to be accepted.

This can not be said for sure, though. An athlete like Michael Sam has never put themselves under the spotlight like this, so will people’s opinions and feelings change towards gay athletes now that they are actually knowingly present? This situation is being thrusted upon adult athletes that have dealt with many problems that have been blowing out of proportion by the media in the past. An example of this was when NBA athlete Jason Collins announced he was gay. The media took this and followed Collins situation very closely throughout the whole NBA season.

In a locker room filled with teenagers in a high school atmosphere, where numerous immature actions and decisions are made, this situation could become a very big problem. In the NFL the general manager has the option to put the athlete on his team by either drafting or signing the athlete, whereas the head coach of a high school football team does not have choice. Or do they? What does the coach do if the athlete’s sexual preference is separating the players on the team? Do the straight high school athletes have the right to say that they feel uncomfortable playing with the gay athletes? These are the unanswered questions that will be answered more and more with

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gay athletes becoming more open to their sexual preference.

“It would shock me, but I would be okay with it as long as he didn’t let it get in the way of the team” Jacob Baus said. “It would help if he was open with the team and willing to joke about it in the locker room to relieve any anxiety. I would treat him the same on the field. We have already played against girls on the field, and this would be similar. You can’t change your play habits just because of one person.”

No football coaches at the school agreed to comment on how an openly gay player would impact the Fond du Lac football team.

Michael Sam’s announcement created an uproar throughout the media during the 2014 NFL scouting combine.

Nothing has created a distraction at the combine in the past like this besides when Manti Te’o became known to the public to have a fake girlfriend.

Sam’s performance at the combine was nothing special at all. His 40-yard dash was only 4.91 seconds; his bench press at 17 reps of 225 pounds was one of the lowest amount of reps among defensive lineman. The average performance by Michael most likely has a lot to do with all the attention he has been getting about coming out. There is definitely still hope for Michael to land on an NFL team during the first half of the draft.

A year ago, Manti Te’o was going through a similar situation with his “girlfriend,” which lead to an enormous amount of attention and a lot of stress. Even though Te’o was not at his best at the combine, he came back on Pro Day as a completely different player and put on an athletic display. There is definitely hope for Michael Sam to do the same thing Te’o did a year ago.

Some people may be concerned by whom Michael Sam is drafted. It would be unfortunate for Michael to be put on a team where he feels unwelcomed but great if he is drafted by a team that just looks at him as another athlete. This will be a topic that will be interesting to follow throughout the NFL draft and into the NFL season. How this situation plays out will decide whether or not gay athletes will be accepted into the sports world. At the end of this upcoming NFL season this topic will be mostly forgotten about, and gay athletes will be for the most part accepted among professional sports.

For /Against Chromebook Controversy Limitations on Access

Simplicity of Work

Caitlyn Oestreich // Staff Writer

Rachel Schneider // Editor-in-Chief

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he school may have thought they were saving time and money when they got the Chromebooks, but they did the exact opposite. Chromebooks have wasted more time and money then the regular computer labs we used to have.

Chromebooks are a huge distraction. In one class students could be listening to the latest album by Beyonce.

In another, students could be watching their favorite movie or television show on Netflix. Games are played. Some hack into Facebook, and don’t forget the possibilities of being on one of the inappropriate, “mature content” websites, that aren’t blocked for some reason.

Every time something happens to these Chromebooks you have to pay a fine to get it fixed whether or not it’s the fault from the manufacturer themselves or yours because of you throwing them around and being reckless. Most of the problems are from the old, outdated Chromebooks everybody except the Freshman have.

There’s some that are falling apart at the seams, and you have to practically glue the thing back together. There are also times when you can’t charge them because of a faulty charger port. Or, you lose a key because it was loose, or it freezes up constantly or whatever the ridiculous problem is that’s happening for the tenth time.

The worst part about the Chromebooks is that not only do they fall apart when you basically look at them, but the internet connection turns off at least once a day. Sometimes you can’t get internet connection because of where you’re located in the school.

During Cardinal Time is the worst, though. Everybody’s trying to sign up for classes at the same time every Monday and complaining about how they can’t get on. Teachers are upset because they can’t do attendance or check grades because students are on YouTube or other websites.

And speaking of websites, everything is blocked.

Now, that makes sense for some distracting websites, but when you’re looking for something to help you with your homework, it’s blocked and you’re stuck in a dead end.

Nobody has the patience to deal with Chromebooks anymore. Why even bother with them? We were better off taking our mini field trips to the computer labs where everybody had computers that didn’t break apart, nobody got mad that the internet wasn’t connecting and there were fewer distractions.

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orrect, chromebooks do cost money, pretty much anything does. Do you even know how much money was truly spent on Chromebooks?

Time? Time has actually been cut down a lot on things. If you are saying you don’t have time to get your homework done, I hope you have no internet at home. Go to the public library or something. Time has been reduced a lot on what it takes do a project or assignment.

A computer is only as smart as the user. If a chromebook is distracting you, that is your doing. Chromebooks were implemented as a learning device, not your personal music or social media dispenser. You make the choice to search inappropriate “mature content” or social media or whatever it is. The computer does not search things such as that on its own.

Yes, you must pay for any damage done to the chromebook. Who’s to say you did or not? If you didn’t do it, who’s going to pay for the problem to YOUR chromebook. Not everything on a Chromebook is going to be perfect, nothing is. We pay $50 for rent in the beginning of the year to use them. Be more careful with them. It’s quite a bargain for what we get them at for usage.

The internet not working on a Chromebook is mostly certainly not the problem. There are about 2,100 students in the school, and at one time there could be 200 students on one Wi-Fi server. That’s a lot for only one thing to handle, so it’s going to be slow. If getting stuff done is such a problem, then do it at home. Hence the term “homework.”

Just as you said, “Everybody’s trying to sign up for classes at the same time every Monday,” it’s very true. So that’s 2,100 students plus about 180 teachers and whoever else is on Wi-Fi in the building (iPods, cell phones, other administrators, etc.) that’s a lot of Wi-Fi attention for only 45 minutes.

If it’s such a struggle, sign up over the weekend. Don’t click submit until you show your homeroom teacher Monday morning, and things should go a little better.

Obviously the district is doing it’s best when it comes to blocking websites. Numerous accounts of bullying occurred on social media, so those are blocked. Mature content is a biggy that’s going to be blocked.

Google Hangouts was a HUGE distraction and needed to be blocked. You can’t control everything. So, you must block certain websites because of certain situations those websites may possess.

Although chromebooks have their problems, you fail to share their upsides. If you were lazy and didn’t do a project or type a paper up you can still get it done during Cardinal Time, study hall or a brief moment during the day that is available. You can sign up to go see a teacher and get help or improve your grade later that week. You can have almost constant contact with a teacher or principal at all times. Talking to partners for a class project is nice. Google Share for documents is good. Being able to do a presentation and have it work on a school computer unlike Microsoft Word, is good.

There are countless more great abilities. As I stated earlier, a computer is only as smart as the user. cardinal columns.org

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blast from the past

From THE HI-EYE MAY 31, 1945