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Blooming flowers remind students and staff of retired science teacher Gene Domek Page 5

Senior Maddy Furdek argues for in-class surveillance systems to protect students Page 8

Though as exciting as original, Hutson finds 10 Cloverfield Lane unfinished subplots disappointing Page 9

The varsity baseball team hopes to earn another section title despite losing last year’s seniors Page 12

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MARCH 14, 2016 | ISSUE 9, VOLUME 14

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Special ed, foster and homeless remain without specifc allocation

MARC CHAPPELLE EYE OF THE TIGER

The district is set to approve the transition of student activities director Lindsey Parker (left) to Antelope High School assistant principal the week of April 11. Parker is the latest in an upward trend of female administrators.

BALANCING THE SCALES District nears gender equity in administrative roles

BY SAM MAILEY

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In 2007-2008, nine females occupied site and district-level administrative positions in the Roseville Joint Union High School District. At the the same time, 22 males occupied the remaining positions. Currently, however, the ratio of female to male administrators of 16:19, including at individual sites and at the district, is the tightest in at least nine years.

RJUHSD superintendent Ron Severson doesn’t credit the closing of this gap to an organized, district-wide effort to hire females for administrative positions. Instead, he cites a bump in the female applicant pool.

“We’re seeing a shift and it’s going to be reflected as administrative jobs are filled,” Severson said.

At site-level administration, Oakmont High School, Granite Bay High School, Woodcreek High School and Antelope High School have the closest female to male gender ratios of 3:2 or 2:3. Roseville High School has the widest gap in the district with 1:4 female to male admin.

Two weeks ago, student activities director Lindsey Parker announced she accepted an assistant principal position at Antelope High School and plans to leave in the week of April 11. Parker won’t upset the current ratio, as she’s replacing a female assistant principal, Martha

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BY ZACHARY CHEEK

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The after-school Tiger Tutoring program sees an average of 10 students in attendance per day.

This number troubles assistant Tiger Tutoring adviser Miguel Quiñonez to feel and has him wishing that more student would take advantage of the resource.

“I definitely feel that it is underutilized and I want to encourage more kids to come,” Quiñonez said.

According to Tiger Tutor Anuya Kamath, the program is underutilized because the program is not completely getting the word out to students who may need the help. Kamath would like to see more publicity for the program so that students know it is always an option for those struggling in class. “[The program] is probably not mentioned a lot, I don’t know how many students are totally aware of it,” Kamath said.

Sophomore Dylan Kay attends

Tiger Tutoring almost every day.

“I don’t get help. I don’t really need it. I just come to help others,” Kay said.

According to Kay, the most popular time that students rush to attend Tiger Tutoring is during the weeks of midterms and finals.

“A lot of people come right before midterms or finals, but are not using it the way it should be,” Kay said.

Kay feels that the small percentage of kids the do attend Tiger Tutoring are not taking advantage of the programs offerings.

“They just come here and sit, and not really do any work,” Kay said.

Quiñonez wants to create an environment of constant communication of students and tutors.

“I want to make tutoring that, connected to somebody that cares for you, and will be there for you,” Quiñonez said.

Quiñonez hopes to structure the Tiger Tutoring program similar to the way he received tutoring back when he was in college. He wishes that each student can set an individual appointment for the exact subject that he or she wishes to receive help with.

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BY MIKAYLA STEARNS

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RJUHSD executive director of curriculum and instructional services Suzanne Laughrea (top) was the first female member of district cabinet in fall 2013. She and RHS assistant principal Stephanie Malia (bottom) contribute to the gradual equation of male and female administrative roles around the district.

This article is the second of a two-part series about the district’s allocation of 201516 LCAP funds. See eyeofthetigernews. com for the first installment, published Feb. 22 (‘LCAP: The first year,’)

Paso, who left to become principal of Woodbridge Elementary School.

As for the gap, Parker sees improving generational assumption of gender roles as an explanation for the pattern in administrative gender representation.

“I know for me growing up I never felt like there were jobs that I couldn’t do because I was female,” Parker said. “And I know if you go back 30, 40, 50 years, that was very different.”

For at least the last nine years, there has always been at least eight more males than female administrators.

That changed in 2015-2016, but Parker feels RJUHSD

For the 2015-16 school year, Roseville Joint Union High School District spent a total of $597,765 of its $4.49 million in Local Control Accountability Plan funds on full-time counselors at Woodcreek and Oakmont, math teacher release periods, and AVID coordinator salaries, among other things. Meanwhile, foster and homeless youth and the Special Education department have not received any direct allocations from LCAP, though often their students fall into one or more of the categories specified for the fund.

RJUHSD executive director of curriculum and instruction Suzanne Laughrea strives for the district to target the students “under the radar” of typical support methods with LCAP money. The “under the radar” students include English Language Learners, students who qualify as economically disadvantaged and foster and homeless youth.

According to Laughrea, the parameters of the LCAP fund exclude justifying an expenditure solely for Special Ed, though have been widened to include intervention students.

“The discretionary funds, the money that they have, still has to fall under LCAP guidelines,” Laughrea said. “So it really has to be focused on EL, kids with families who are struggling financially, foster and homeless. And we’ve widened it a little bit so that kids who have multiple D’s and F’s who are at risk of not graduating are being monitored too. That would be a good use of LCAP money. But just to buy curriculum or books, we can’t ask for that out of LCAP discretionary.”

According to Laughrea, the district is trying to open up a dialogue with the community, asking for input and trying to make good use of the funds this year.

“As a district, we are a really highachieving district,” Laughrea said. “What we’ve realized, and what we think the whole purpose of LCAP is, is there are kids who are kind of under the radar, who aren’t succeeding, and there the kids who drop out. So the whole purpose of LCAP is how can you support those kids.”

Special Education teacher Christine Balsano, English Language Development teacher Curtis Hobbs and Laughrea acknowledge that while no money goes directly to Special Education, there are big overlaps in the all the specified categories of at-risk students – including Special Ed students who also fit into the categories.

“Special Ed and EL, there’s a lot of overlap on all of our campuses,” Laughrea said. “Our job is to serve all of them.”  LCAP | Page 2

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Tiger Tutoring looks to expand scope Low average attendance prompts program to rethink approach

LCAP: Covering program bases

ZACHARY SEMINER EYE OF THE TIGER

Chromebooks play a role in math teachers Lisa Vacarro and Levi Fletcher’s ability to provide individualized learning structures. They took on two sections of remedial Integrated Math 1 that aim to reinforce curriculum for students who failed the course their first time around.

IM focuses intervention

BY JOHNNY MULLIGAN

j.mulligan@eyeofthetigernews.com

After Integrated Math classes yielding low passing rates the past year and half, IM teachers Levi Fletcher and Lisa Vaccaro created a math intervention class which started the spring of this year. There are currently two sections of this class.

The class allows students to recover their credits from a failed IM1 class under the ideal of “reinforcing” the subjects rather than “reteaching.” The class follows a more hands-off approach from the teachers, because the class is largely based online through Blackboard.

“Rather than it being synchronous, it’s asynchronous, so one student might be working on chapter one and the other might be working on chapter two because the first might be struggling with chapter one,” Fletcher said. “We wanted to tailor the learning to each individual student.”

According to assistant principal Matt Pipitone, students who have struggled with the normal IM1 classes can often have problems even when they retake IM1, and the new class gives students a different way to advance through the material.

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Eye of the Tiger ROSEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 1 TIGER WAY ROSEVILLE, CA 95678 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Marc Chappelle NEWS EDITOR Mikayla Stearns FEATURES EDITOR Rachel Barber OPINION EDITOR Andrew Smith ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Sophia Cook SPORTS EDITOR George Hughes ESPAñOL EDITOR Madeline Furdek PHOTO EDITOR Amy Adamson Zachary Cheek Nikolay Lubko ONLINE EDITOR Rachel Barber Sam Mailey COPY EDITOR Sam Mailey Johnny Mulligan FACULTY ADVISER Bobby Ritter STAFF WRITERS Megan Anderson Jamie Bateman Blake Beaman Emily Earl Marina Efstathiu Gabi Hutson Kylie Irwin Kale Jibson Tarah Johnson Anila Lijo Jake Littlejohn Eleanor Marbella Nathan Nguyen Brian Nuevo Claire Oertly Monique Rea Cesar Sanchez Jaydynn Santos Melanie Schroeder Zachary Seminer Victoria Wilkinson CARTOONIST Viktoria Barr Taysia De Mesa The mission of Eye of the Tiger, a news-gathering organization run by Roseville High School students, is to inform, entertain and serve as a public forum for student expression.

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GENDER: Admin advocate equality as gap closes CONTINUED FROM FRONT

has been gender-supportive.

“I don’t think there’s ever been the sense or the feeling that you can’t apply for certain positions in this district,” Parker said.

RHS’ administrative staff consists of four male administrators, assistant principals Jon Coleman, Jason Wilson, Matt Pipitone, principal David Byrd and one female assistant principal Stephanie Malia.

Malia has been a part of the female statistic since the 20142015 school year, when she came to RJUHSD from Washoe County School District in Nevada, where she was an assistant principal. When Malia began at RHS, the gap sat at 11 females and 20 males.

“The year I was hired there was another assistant principal at Antelope who was hired that is a female, and Adelante’s principal is female,” Malia said. “And then we’ve had some changes midyear this year and two of them have been female.”

One of the two position changes Malia mentioned was the current director of accounting services Jeana Kenyon, who began after assistant superintendent Joe Landon left to become the assistant superintendent of business services. This is Kenyon’s first position with RJUHSD. At her previous site, Malia was a part of a female-dominated site administration in a genderbalanced district, and discounts gender bias influencing the ad-

MARC CHAPPELLE EYE OF THE TIGER

Above, Roseville High School principal David Byrd speaks at the start-of-the-year rally. For 104 years, the school has only employed male principals, and of alll RJUHSD sites, RHS has the most imbalanced admin gender ratio. ministrative gender ratios.

“It’s just this kind of trend of more female applicants and more qualifications,” Malia said.

The first woman to work on district cabinet was current director of curriculum Suzanne Laughrea.

Laughrea has been working in RJUHSD since 1989, but became the first woman on cabinet in the 2014-2015 school year when the administrative gender gap was at 13 females and 21 males.

Laughrea did not notice a gap in

gender representation upon joining the cabinet.

“It didn’t even dawn on me that I was only the female, somebody else had mentioned it,” Laughrea said. “But everybody was my friend.”

Laughrea discredits a bias in the hiring process as an explanation for the gap, rather a general lack of female applicants. The uptrend in female administrators could be indicative of a more supportive environment for females.

“I’ve had a lot of men who were assistant principals and principals and assistant superintendents and even our previous superintendent who really encouraged me to pursue positions and other friends of mine who are female to pursue positions,” Laughrea said. “So I think it’s been a very positive environment for women to move up.”

At the site levels combined, the ratio of female to male administrators is 12:15, nine assistant

principals and three principals being female, and 11 assistant principals and four principals being male.

Transferring from a femaledominant to a male-dominant administration, site and districtwide, Malia acknowledges an importance of a balanced board of administrators.

“It’s nice to have both genders on a team because it just balances things out nicely,” Malia said.

“And in some cases it’s easier for me to deal with some situations as a female, and some situations are easier to deal with as a male.”

According to coordinator of categorical programs Judy Fischer, who has held her title for eight years, one of these “situations” that a gender-equal team of site administrators would benefit is maintaining relationships with a co-ed student body.

“I think it affects students positively to have both male and female administrators as role models or as a trusted adult that is similar to them so they can seek help, advice or advocacy,” Fischer said.

Byrd, like Severson, also attributed an equalization of demographics in applications, rather than a deliberate push for female administrators to balance the ratios, to the closing gap.

“I think maybe what we’re seeing is more and more women getting into the administrative arena and when they come in and compete for a job, they’re incredibly competitive,” Byrd said.

LCAP: District funds skim over certain groups CONTINUED FROM FRONT

Balsano runs her classroom without the help of LCAP funds and finds trouble in creating material.

“I haven’t heard anything about the LCAP funds, I haven’t seen any of the money,” Balsano said. “That’s for sure. And any improvement in the Life Skills class as far as materials, I have bought or made. I have scrapped together the ‘Unique’ curriculum and I will laminate them and reuse them.”

The program receives around six limited lessons a month from the curriculum supplier Unique.

Balsano’s students’ individual capabilities vary more than the current curriculum allows for, since most of her students are nonverbal and would not be able to give the required oral presentations that Unique requires.

“At one lesson, I was supposed to teach them how to call people, and there are some that could do it and some that aren’t going to be able to call,” Balsano said. “So that’s where having the supplemental social skills lessons will be very nice.”

Still, Roseville High School principal David Byrd notes that the district does have other ways to support students with special needs. For example the district will pay for the construction of an Independent Living Skills lab in the 400s from a separate district

fund than LCAP. Also, according to Laughrea, while no portions of LCAP were funneled directly to foster and homeless students, each expenditure under the Intervention is effective in supporting all students.

“We are really trying to make sure those kids get served,” Laughrea said. “We have an intervention counselor, we have a learning support specialist and their job is to make sure that those kids get the services that they need. Now, we haven’t done that historically.”

However, Hobbs has not had much experience with anyone in the RHS community utilizing the counselors.

“As a school site you know we’ve paid for things like intervention and marriage and family counselors, and I don’t even think our students and teachers know how to use access that,” Hobbs said. “Does that mean that some of this money can be used for educating our population on what we offer? I don’t know.”

According to Laughrea, another expense under the Intervention category, after school tutoring and late buses, caters to every student.

“A huge amount of money is going towards intervention, and I think the cool thing about it is, it’s absolutely benefitting our kids who are in ELD, it’s benefitting our kids who have struggled with grades,” Laughrea said. “But the nice thing is that even the kids who

are C students, who could really be B students, or even kids who are B students who are struggling in AP classes, the interventions are there for them too. Those are things we’ve never had before.”

RJUHSD admin dedicated Parent’s Club meetings and surveys at each site in the district to receive feedback from the community on the allocation of LCAP funds.

According to Laughrea, the feedback was mostly positive towards RJUHSD’s current expenditures.

“I think that as a district, we’ve done a really good job with our LCAP, and we worked really, really hard at trying to get input, so much that’s it’s almost to a fault,” Laughrea said. “We have so much different input we are looking at for so many different groups.

We went out so much more this year and multiple times because we wanted to get a wide variety of people, and really hear from people about what working and what’s not.”

According to Laughrea, parents responded the most towards the allocation of money towards college visits.

“I think probably the most positive report for those college visits has been from the parents, of EL students and from El students themselves,” Laughrea said.

Laughrea cites the $31,598 towards AVID as mostly covering the payment of AVID coordina-

tors, separate from the $25,000 for college visits in LCAP. “I believe AVID has there own field trips, and it’s just been something that’s a part of the program forever,” Laughrea said. “They really believe, and I do to, that getting kids on college campuses is extremely important so they can see themselves as collegegoing kids.”

For Hobbs, the new funds for college visits offer an opportunity for his students that they rarely experienced in past school years.

“It’s creating this culture,” Hobbs said. “So the college visits are important. It’s also a rewards system.”

The ELD department at RHS approached Byrd to take out some of professional development sessions during the school year and move them to the summer, in order to keep the rhythm in the class with frequent teacher absences.

“Regarding the bootcamp it’s more or less we want to get our house in order we have the second highest EL population in the district thus we have extra amount of money that is based primarily on that EL population that comes in,” Hobbs said. “There’s this cash flow that we didn’t really know about and now it’s about how we best use that.”

According to Hobbs, there are about 28 students who qualify as Special Ed as well as ELL students. He hopes to be able to collaborate with the Special Ed

program as the ELD department develops their plans for LCAP money.

“We are looking into, through this ‘bootcamp,’ collaborating with special ed population and educators,” Hobbs said. “And at Roseville High School we have that EL population but within that population we have students who are in the special ED program.

And we are going to be talking about as a department, how do we serve our duals, those kids that are both special ed and EL? We are looking into how together we can collaborate with them and share strategies and work together.”

Hobbs wants to focus on getting the curriculum for EL classes during the ELD department’s meetings regarding LCAP. “We are currently looking at what to do for our instructional supplies, we’re looking into getting more academic toolkits,” Hobbs said.

According to Hobbs. the most important thing about receiving LCAP funds is cultivating the drive for success in every student.

“It’s tricky, because you have people who say ‘Oh look at all of the money they get,’ and it’s not really that,” Hobbs said. “This is where the government is telling us the money is going. It’s really about how we can spend and spread it out so we can impact the most. For some of these kids they just need the belief that they can do something.”

UPCOMINGEVENTS MAR

14

SPRING CARNIVAL Student government holds carnival on Campo Street during lunch with music, games and prizes.

APR 14 & 18

MAR 18

EGG HUNT Student Government holds search for eggs and prize winning during both lunches.

SBAC TESTING All juniors come to school at 7:40 to take the SBAC test. All other students come to school at 9:45.

APR 14 - 16

MAR 21 - 28

SPRING BREAK No school.

“THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM SPELLING BEE” The spring drama performance is $10 for adults, $5 for kids.

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IM: Alternative methods bring success TIGER: Advisers, tutors hope to push program publicity

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to not pass the second time,” Pipitone said Students can continue through the units at a different pace compared to the usual IM classes. At the start of each unit, students take a pretest. If they score 70 percent or better, they skip the unit.

“The students are all in here having been through the material. It’s not that they failed every chapter,” Fletcher said. “It might be that they were really good at chapters one, two, three but chapters four, five did not work. So we want to get them through one, two, three so they can focus on where they struggled.”

According to Fletcher, students can have various reasons for enrolling in the class. “[Students] may have struggled and were not successful for different reasons, maybe they were sick, maybe they never really understood how to add and subtract integers so we really wanted to give each student the opportunity to learn,” Fletcher said.

According to Fletcher, the class creates a better environment for students who only struggled with certain topics or missed units due to absence. Rather than redo each unit at the pace of the IM classes, the units are streamlined.

To get into the class, IM teachers Fletcher and Vaccaro looked through transcripts and found students who had already taken IM1 and were re-enrolled in IM1. They then interviewed these students to see if they were interested in the new class.

Sophomore Sara Strauss is one of the students who decided to try the new class.

“They told me that it was gonna be full of other kids who had already taken the class so it helped me feel more welcome to be able to not feel discouraged by other people who had never taken it and are passing it,” Strauss said. “It’s a better environment with other people who had already taken it.”

Students who do not pass the pretest for the unit go through a series of exercises, lessons and quizzes. The unit test is only available after students have worked through all lessons and got 100 percent on all the quizzes. If they do not get a 70 percent or above on the chapter test

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ZACHARY SEMINER EYE OF THE TIGER

Two IM1 sections new to this year give students who struggled the first time around a second chance at mastering the course’s content – this time using self-paced digital content as the primary teaching tool. the teachers step in and give more specific help on the parts that the student struggled with rather than retake the whole chapter again.

“We want to see where their specific struggles were,” Fletcher said.

According to Strauss, the class has a more relaxed attitude and it is more difficult to get behind than in the normal IM1 class.

“You get a chapter and are expected to finish in a week, if you do not finish it, it goes missing but as soon as you finish it it will catch your grade up.” Strauss said. “You can retake a test and not have to worry about it impacting your grade too much.”

Pipitone finds that there is a trend of students who struggled in IM1 also struggling in IM2. If a student completes the IM1 units faster than a single term, their teacher can give them IM2 material before they start that class, to give them a head-start.

“They can start working on IM2 materials cause if they struggled with IM1 the first time they probably will struggle with IM2, we can pre-teach that so they’re more prepared,” Fletcher said.

Sophomore math intervention student Danny Garcia enjoys the different style of class.

“I like it because you get to go at your own pace and you won’t be pressured by the teachers too much,” Garcia said.

Currently there is no IM2 intervention style class, but according to math department coordinator Michelle Walton, there are IM2 and IM3 intervention classes in the works. Walton expects IM2 math intervention to be available next year and IM3 the year after.

The math department has also considered making math intervention one class that can have all levels of IM in them.

According to Walton, IM3 does not need an intervention class because there are no students who are failing in this term’s section.

The students in IM3 had to double up on math at some point in order to schedule IM3. Walton teaches the sole, second period IM3 section available right now and heading into last week’s midterms, all IM3 students were passing. “[For] the kids that are in there now, [completing] up to IM2 is a requirement, but the kids that are in IM3 are like ‘I want to get done with math’ or move on to higher levels of math,” IM3 student Bhawna Sharma said. “Everyone in that class is trying.”

Sharma believes that IM3’s Chromebook-heavy instruction style can help students, depending on their preferred way of learning.

“It depends on the teacher, so if that is your style of learning and you need a different way, that would help.” Sharma said.

Any IM2 students who have

failed can either retake the class at RHS or take it at Independence High School, while students who failed IM1 have the option to retake the class, enroll in the IM1 intervention class, or take the IHS course.

According to IHS principal Debbie Latteri, the approach of the IHS classes is also alternative to what students find in a typical classroom.

“There’s a variety of methods online,” Latteri said. “We have videos and lectures and teacher voice-overs and a whole bunch of varieties.”

Many students have been going to IHS to remediate their grades for the IM1 classes they failed after their first attempts.

“The first year of IM1 we had a spike in failure relative to the last year of Algebra, in the second year of IM1 we were starting to see the rates of IM1 seem to be approximating that of Algebra.”

Roseville High School principal David Byrd said. “It is going to be interesting to see if IM2 settles into a pattern in its passing rates.”

According to Byrd, the school needs to try to prevent these trends and have programs in place after failures happen.

“But with all that being said we gotta have a plan for and continue asking, ‘What we are gonna do to prevent failure and deal with it after it occurs?’” Byrd said.

and we could plan for that, versus just kind of showing up,” Quiñonez said. “It worked, because I did not miss my appointment, because I knew that they were going to be there.”

Kay also feels like many students in Tiger Tutoring are hesitant to ask any questions and that the classroom environment is not as interactive as it could be.

“You can tell that they’re struggling, but they are too afraid to ask,” Kay said.

Sophomore Nick Chang chose to hire an in-home tutor as instead of attending Tiger Tutoring. He prefers this approach to gain a more personal, one-on-one style tutoring.

“You can get more connected with an actual tutor, instead of getting distracted by student tutors,” Chang said.

Tiger Tutoring adviser Lisa Vaccaro believes that struggling students can obtain an equivalent level of tutoring by the students tutors after school.

“Don’t underestimate the capability of the tutors, they are really versatile, and their résumé’s are fantastic. They’ve done the most challenging classes, they have excellent grades, and just re-

ally really enthusiastic, good tutors,” Vaccaro said. nez said. “It worked, because I did not miss my appointment, because I knew that they were going to be there.”

Kay also feels like many students in Tiger Tutoring are hesitant to ask any questions and that the classroom environment is not as interactive as it could be.

“You can tell that they’re struggling, but they are too afraid to ask,” Kay said.

Sophomore Nick Chang chose to hire an in-home tutor as instead of attending Tiger Tutoring. He prefers this approach to gain a more personal, one-on-one style tutoring.

“You can get more connected with an actual tutor, instead of getting distracted by student tutors,” Chang said.

Tiger Tutoring adviser Lisa Vaccaro believes that struggling students can obtain an equivalent level of tutoring by the students tutors after school.

“Don’t underestimate the capability of the tutors, they are really versatile, and their résumé’s are fantastic. They’ve done the most challenging classes, they have excellent grades, and just really really enthusiastic, good tutors,” Vaccaro said.

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Students and teachers involved with Tiger Tutoring are looking for new ways to market the program to RHS students to increase attendance and are considering methods for making the program more indivdualized.

NEWSINBRIEFS Lindsey Parker plans to leave for admin job at Antelope High

BY SAM MAILEY

s.mailey@eyeofthetigernews.com

Parker plans to leave during the week of April 11 after the Roseville Joint Union High School District approves her position transfer.

Student activities director Lindsey Parker will trade her current position for an assistant principal opening at Antelope High School.

According to Parker, her and principal David Byrd are unsure about the status of her replacement and time of departure remain undetermined.

Throughout the past two years, Parker worked on getting her administrative services credentials to open a door to higher positions.

“I started thinking about what I wanted to do with [the credentials], and the next step would be an assistant principal somewhere,” Parker said.

This will be Parker’s first position at a school other than Roseville High School.

“I’ve never known any other school than Roseville, but I think Antelope can give me the opportunity to grow and really stretch myself,” Parker said.

Parker reassured her students that they wouldn’t be left without

guidance.

“We don’t know who’s gonna be the new leadership teacher, so that’s a little concerning,” leadership student Julia Porretta said. “But she made it a point that she’s gonna have somebody come shadow, and that she’s not just going to leave us.”

Parker is confident that the class can operate without her supervision. “[My students are] so capable and they’re so creative,” Parker said. “They can definitely step up to the task to getting it done.”

Parker will still remain in contact with her students.

“I’m a phone call away, an email away, I’m a text message away,” Parker said.

John Montgomery to retire at end of year

BY ANILA LIJO

a.lijo@eyeofthetigernews.com

After working in the Roseville Joint Union High School District for 30 years, assistant superintendent John Montgomery is retiring next year. During that time, Montgomery spent 13 years as the principal of Roseville High School and was an assistant principal for five years.

Montgomery will miss the people he met and working in the RJUHSD district.

“It has been a dream-come-true to work with everyone associated with the Roseville high school district,” Montgomery said. “People make the difference in any career, and I have been truly blessed.”

AP Psychology and World Studies teacher Mark Andreatta, who taught while Montgomery was principal, believes that he was instrumental in hiring a lot of the tenured teachers.

“He was great as a principal because he expanded a lot of the AP programs and even the visual arts programs,” Andreatta said. “He was exceptionally good in hiring senior staffs.”

According to Montgomery, being the principal of RHS made a big difference in the direction of his career.

“I feel like a coach of a great team that has won the championship of life and I will celebrate this moment and memories to my next challenge - grandkids,” Montgomery said.

Bus passes reduce from $225 to $50

BY SAM MAILEY

s.mailey@eyeofthetigernews.com

A Feb. 23 Roseville Joint Union High School District board meeting approved the reduction of bus fares starting in the 2016-2017 school year.

Annual bus pass prices will be dropping from $225 to $50, the first price variation in over five years.

The reduction was proposed to compensate for families who were concerned about the early arrival times for buses in northwest Roseville.

“One of the ideas that came up, I’m not sure who came up with it or when it came up, but we talked to district admin about how it would probably be a good benefit to the community to lessen that fee,” assistant superintendent of business services Joe Landon said.

After the reduction, Landon estimates the fee revenue will drop from approximately $100,000 to $25,000, which gets compiled into the annual operations budget allocations.

“We don’t generate that much money from that two twenty-five as far as running the transportation, it’s still a really small percentage of the money it costs to run transportation,” Landon said.

RJUHSD receives annual payments from the Roseville City School District for providing their schools with transportation, which also generates more money than the fees. According to Landon, RCSD provided over $1,000,000 last year.

According to junior Austin Collins, the current bus fees could pose financial burdens on students

and their families, especially for the financially struggling.

“It should be a similar program to the free lunches where you get a free bus pass to help them out in those times,” Collins said.

For parents like Rena Bonesio, who has one Roseville High School student and two incoming freshmen, an annual bus pass for all three children would cost $675.

With the reduction, the combined cost of three students’ bus passes, $150. According to Bonesio, this drop makes bus transportation a more considerable option.

“Four-hundred fifty bucks would be a really huge chunk to put out, a hundred dollars would be be much more reasonable,” Bonesio said. “In fact we’ll probably consider doing the annual pass instead of tickets.”

Seniors break Scholarship record

BY GABI HUTSON

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

This year the College and Career Center saw record numbers of scholarship application turnins from the class of 2016. Last year’s seniors turned in a record-breaking total of 1,429 applications, the current seniors surpassed that with 1,439 applications.

College and career center technician Jacquie Seider said that

last year she made an arrangement with the seniors of the class of 2015 that if they turned in their applications before the cut off date that she would help them correct them.

“I made a deal with the seniors last year in classrooms during presentations if they turned them into me the day before the deadline I would check their application for accuracy,” Seider said.

At first it seemed that the class of 2016 would barely make the average let alone break the record.

Seider was taken aback when the class of 2016 broke the record “They surprised me because on Monday, I had 50 applications and I took a look at my notes last year the class of 2015 had turned in about 500,” Seider said.

Seider thinks the seniors got motivated to fill out and submit their applications when she spoke with the counseling department and principal David Byrd, in order to allow announcements in senior classes as well as extending the application deadline.

That following Monday Seider received approximately 800 applications, which are without complications as far as accuracy.

“I received over 800 applications on monday and so far everything I’m looking at they have been turned in with accuracy,” Seider said. “So they didn’t even need my deal, the class of 2016 is rocking and I’m excited.”

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NOTICIAS Roseville busca para cerrar la brecha de género de la administración POR SAM MAILEY

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En 2007-2008, nueve mujeres ocupan sitio y posiciones administrativas de nivel distrital en Roseville Joint Union High School District. En el mismo tiempo, 22 hombres ocupaban las posiciones restantes.

La proporción actual de hembra a macho administradores de 16:19, incluso en sitios individuales y en el distrito, es la más apretada en al menos nueve años.

En administración de nivel de sitio, la escuela secundaria de Oakmont, la escuela secundaria de Granite Bay, escuela secundaria de Woodcreek y la escuela secundaria de Antelope con la mujer más cercana a las relaciones de género masculino de 3:2 o 2:3. La escuela secundaria de Roseville tiene la brecha más amplia en el barrio con 1:4 mujer hasta masculino.

Hace dos semanas, director de actividades estudiantiles Lindsey Parker anunció que aceptó una posición principal asistente en la escuela secundaria de Antelope y planea dejar en la semana del 11

de abril.

En cuanto a la brecha, Parker ve una hipótesis generacional de roles de género como una explicación para el patrón en la representación de género administrativo.

"Yo sé para mí crecer que nunca sentí que había trabajos que no podía hacer porque era mujer," Parker dijo.

En al menos nueve años, la brecha no inclinó abajo ocho administradores hasta 2015-2016, pero Parker se siente RJUHSD ha sido apoyo de género.

"No creo que siempre ha sido el sentido o la sensación de que no se pueden aplicar para determinadas posiciones en este distrito," Parker dijo.

Personal administrativo lado derecho consta de cuatro administradores masculinos, subdirectores Jon Coleman, Jason Wilson, Matt Pipitone, principal David Byrd y un principal de la ayudante femenina Stephanie Malia.

Según el coordinador de categórica programas Judy Fischer, quien ha ocupado su título durante ocho años, una de estas "situaciones" que beneficiaría a un equipo de la igualdad de los administradores del sitio es mantener relaciones con un alumnado

mixto.

"Creo que afecta a los alumnos positivamente para que los administradores masculinos y femeninos como modelos o como un adulto de confianza que es similar a ellas buscan ayuda, asesoría o apoyo," Fisher dijo.

Después de la escuela la enseñanza un recurso más debe utilizar POR ZACH CHEEK

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El programa de tigre da clases privadas después de la escuela ve un promedio de 10 estudiantes asistentes por día, según asesor de tutoría tigre asistente y maestro en la escuela secundaria de Roseville Miguel Quiñonez.

Quiñonez espera aumentar esos números al centrarse más en las necesidades de cada estudiante y atención uno-a-uno.

Quiñonez le gustaría ver el foco de tigre inclino más hacia la ayuda individual y asegurándose de que cada estudiante recibe asistencia en el tema y sección que luchan en y asegurándose de que ningún estudiante es reacio a pedir ayuda.

“Quiere hacer tutoría que, conectado a alguien que se preo-

cupa por usted y estará allí para usted,” Quiñonez dijo.

Según tigre Tutor y estudiante en su segun año Anuya Kamath, un posible factor en cuanto a por qué el programa es subutilizado por los estudiantes a través del campus puede ser debido a que el programa tiene mal publicación por los profesores, no totalmente sacar la palabra a los estudiantes que necesiten la ayuda.

Kamath le gustaría más publicidad para el programa para que los alumnos saben que siempre es una opción para aquellos que luchan en clase. “[El programa] probablemente no se menciona mucho, no sé cuántos estudiantes son totalmente conscientes de ello,” Kamath dijo.

El estudiante Dylan Kay asiste a tutoría tigre casi todos los días y siente que el tiempo de primario eso acometidas de los estudiantes para asistir a tutorías de tigre es durante las semanas de exámenes parciales y finales, para que los estudiantes pueden obtener la ayuda de último minuto que necesitan, aunque el cree que es un buen refuerzo.

“Mucha gente viene justo antes de parciales o finales, pero no lo usa como debe ser,” Kay dijo.

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REPORTAJES Estudiante de Roseville compite en competiciones de coches pequeñas POR VICTORIA WILKINSON v.wilkinson@eyeofthetigernews.com

La estudiante en su final prohibir año se llama Skylar Thompson raza los coches en su tiempo libre con el fin de obtener una adrenalina y combustible su necesidad de velocidad.

Coches de outlaw son pequeñas versiones del clásico de carreras de sprint y tiene más pequeño, motor de la bici de la suciedad.

Skylar comenzó a competir con su primer año de carrera cuando su amiga, Kolby Juárez, la introdujo al deporte.

“Iría hacia fuera y verlo y una noche me metí en un coche y trató de hacia fuera y simplemente le encantó,” Skylar dijo. “Entonces tengo un coche y comenzaron carreras.”

Según su padre Bill Thompson, ella había intentado muchos otros deportes antes de carreras pero su

pasión para outlaw racing fue evidente y llevó prioridad tan pronto como ella se puso al volante.

“Ella probé un montón de cosas antes de que y una vez ella realmente hacia fuera en la pista en una carrera de coches, no había nada que le pare,” Bill dijo.

En su primera temporada de carreras, Skylar coloca segundo en el Campeonato de Dixon. Ella ahora carreras cada fin de semana.

Su pasión fue interrumpida cuando se estrelló su coche mientras está en regata en mayo de 2014 y se vio obligado a tomar un descanso de carreras. Ella se zambulló en cuanto ella terminó con cuatro cirugías en su pierna y estar en una silla de ruedas durante tres meses. El accidente no detenerla ahora.

“Desde el accidente que he estado intentando ponerse pero hemos estado haciendo muy bien,” Skylar dijo. “He ganado unas cuantas carreras desde.”

Tras el accidente, no va volver a la competición aún no era una

cuestión de Skylar.

“Nunca sentí que tuve, sólo quería,” Skylar dijo. “Es mi vida entera y no quiero estar haciendo cualquier otra cosa.”

El padre de Skylar era renuente a dejarla volver a la competición tras el accidente por miedo a lesiones en el futuro.

“La velocidad y la adrenalina - es sólo una carrera y es realmente divertido,” Skylar dijo.

Estudiante de RHS gana experiencia con las redes sociales, videojuegos POR AMY ADAMSON

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El estudiante en su tercer año Skyler Routon, ha perseguido un interés en tecnología, incluyendo juegos de vídeo y ordenador que ha conducido a nuevas oportunidades de desarrollo.

Skyler consiguió su primer set de juego de video, un Gameboy,

cuando tenía seis años de edad.

Desde entonces, Skyler ha iniciado un canal en YouTube, un podcast y un SoundCloud conocido bajo el nombre de usuario ‘sodafountainjoy’.

“Que necesitaba un nombre de usuario de Twitter, hace cinco o seis años,” dijo Skyler.

A través de su manía de estar en un equipo profesional yoyo, Skyler ha podido disfrutar de ver la sede de un importante juego en línea desarrollo de empresa.

“He ido a la válvula de un par de veces. Son un gran desarrollador, y también logran el mayor mercado de distribución digital de juegos de computadora,” Skyler dijo. “Llego a recorrer allí cada año.”

Junto con ver válvula, Skyler ha hecho nuevos amigos a través de juegos de video.

“He conocido a muchísima gente,” Skyler dijo. “Te encuentras con un montón de gente que normalmente no cumplen, eso es cierto con cualquier hobby.”

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Los estudiantes pueden recibir ayuda en sus clases de programas como tigre tutoría. Sin embargo, muchos estudiantes no están utilizando este programa en todo su potencial, y el programa ha visto una falta de interés en los últimos meses.

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El estudiante en su tercer año Skyler Routon ha ganado experiencia en plataformas de medios sociales y juegos de video así. Su conocimiento y experiencia le han ayudado a lograr muchas de sus metas en su mundo en línea.

DEPORTES Equipo de béisbol en la caza por el Campeonato de distrito POR JAMIE BATEMAN

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El año pasado el equipo de béisbol del varsity tuvo un impresionante debut en la Conferencia del Valle de la Capital.

No sólo ganar Liga absoluta sino también ganar el Campeonato de California Interscholastic Federación Saco-Joaquín-sección División II. Este año, el equipo intentará repetir el éxito que tuvieran el año pasado a pesar de perder a las personas mayores que fueron componentes clave para el equipo.

Entrenador del equipo Lance Fisher piensa que la pérdida de la tercera edad sin duda tendrá un efecto en el desempeño del equipo este año.

“Creo que a nadie, si pierdes a chicos todos de la Liga va a tener un efecto”, Fisher dijo.

Sin embargo, Fisher que equipo que este año carece de cualquier liderazgo o talento incluso después de perder personal crucial del equipo de años pasado.

“Los chicos regresan que se

DEPORTES fueron en el circuito del año pasado y han tenido la mentalidad de ganar desde que llegaron aquí. Algunos de los jóvenes que estamos obteniendo respaldo tuvo muy buenas temporadas,” Fisher dijo.

Otro estudiante en su final año y segundo año varsity primera base Jordan Woods tiene muy altas expectativas para esta temporada también.

“Mi expectativa para este equipo es conseguir otro anillo,” Woods dijo.

Persona del equipo Ben Welker piensa que el grupo ha hecho el movimiento muy bien.

“Creo que todos hemos hecho un buen trabajo hacer la transición desde el año pasado a este año,” Welker dijo, “todavía nos estamos acostumbrando a la diferencia de velocidad pero en su mayor parte hemos hecho un buen trabajo.”

El equipo de nadar para tener Campeonatos del CVC POR JAKE LITTLEJOHN

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La escuela secundaria de Roseville se estableció en la Capital Valle Conferencia finales de la

Liga de natación reunirá este año. Sin embargo, el evento no tendrá lugar en el lado derecho.

En cambio, antílope High School llevará a cabo el encuentro debido a la insuficiencia y falta de espacio y tamaño de las instalaciones acuáticas RHS. Cada año, la sede de la CVC nada interruptores de final de una escuela secundaria a otro; este año es año asignado de RHS, pero instalaciones acuáticas de AHS son mucho más grandes y más avanzados y son los más adecuadas para grandes eventos como este. Nadador de varsity Senior Adam Botnen cree que hay positivos para albergar el encuentro en AHS, siendo una piscina AHS es mucho mayor que los RHS. “En Antelope, han reservado carriles para calentar. Tan físicamente poder calentar antes de cada evento nos beneficiará en la final,” Botnen dijo. “También es una piscina más grande. Antelope tiene una piscina de 10 carriles en lugar y nuestro piscina tiene seis carriles.”

RHS nadar será capaz de vendedores y cobrar honorarios de puerta en el encuentro este año y espera ganar más beneficios que

años anteriores debido a esto.

Entrenador Kevin Seals dijo que el lado derecho nada parece de programa para actualizar sus instalaciones dentro de los próximos años a fin de grandes eventos como finales de la liga.

Según Seals, RHS no será capaz de albergar un encuentro final de Liga CVC en el lado derecho hasta que sus instalaciones estén actualizadas y ampliadas.

Seals también cree que el interruptor en lugar de alojamiento tendrá un gran impacto de los nadadores RHS y será mucho más divertido para los nadadores, porque ellos recibirán tiempos exactos y llegar a competir en una piscina real.

“Hay una diferencia muy largo entre nuestro piscina y la piscina de Antelope,” Seals dijo.

El equipo de atletismo no tiene muchos miembros POR BLAKE BEAMAN

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El equipo de Atletismo de Roseville este año ha habido una caída significativa de los atletas

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Estudiante en su final año Will Schab nada para competir en un encuentro de Liga de la CVC. Esta temporada, equipo de natación de la escuela secundaria de Roseville acogerá los campeonatos CVC en la escuela secundaria de Antelope, por lo que puede utilizar la piscina más grande que participan. El número ha disminuido en personas que el año pasado. Corredor del equipo varsity Brayden Leach considera que la entrega de los jugadores afectará el equipo porque tienen menos atletas de poner puntos y participar en eventos.

“Que no tenemos tanta gente para poner los puntos en que cumple,” Leach dijo. “Nunca hemos sido una escuela que se gana títulos, por lo que nos va a afectar este año.”

Después de que el programa de pista quedó sin coches para esta temporada debido a un conflicto con el cuerpo técnico el año pasado, administrador fue capaz de seleccionar a dos entrenadoras nuevos, Courtney Crosta y Sandra Mays, con la ayuda de la tercera edad Brayden Leach y Megan Fereira.

“Hemos limpiado todo nuestro entrenamiento personal desde el año pasado, hay solamente un entrenador regresan,,” Leach dijo.

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Gene Domek’s legacy in continual bloom

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Former biology teacher Gene Domek (right) retired in the spring of 2014, having spent his years at Roseville High School advocating for the environment in part through the flower bulbs he planted around the 700 wing. Years later, students feel his lasting legacy.

Blossoming flowers prompt student, staff reflection

by MONIQUE REA

m.rea@eyeofthetigernews.com

Former biology teacher Gene Domek planted bulbs around campus during his time at Roseville High School. As his flowers bloom every year, students and teachers reflect upon Domek’s lasting campus legacy while he currently battles hospitalizing health conditions post-retirement.

Biology teacher Darcee Durham built a relationship with Domek during their 15 years of working together and sees the environmental and cultural impact he left.

“Mr. Domek was always planting something around campus and he was a big advocate for getting the greenhouse here,” Durham said. “The bulbs around the various trees were planted at different times by him, our TAs,

student groups directed by him or even sometimes by kids serving detention which I always thought was a great way for them to ‘serve their time.’”

Domek also contributed to RHS extracurriculars. Domek coached a variety of athletic teams. He advised Science Olympiad and co-advised Science Club with chemistry teacher Robert Mahlman. Domek and Mahlman used to visit the San Francisco Exploratorium with Science Club and Science Olympiad in the times before RHS switched to the block schedule.

“It was always a good time when we went, and I think those trips we took are some of my favorite memories with Domek,” Mahlman said.

Domek’s colleagues remember him as an adventurous person. He rented boats as part

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of a Sailing Club; according to Mahlman, Domek wanted to sail down the coast after retirement.

“He once took a sailing trip to the San Juan islands and he would have liked to sail the coast of California as well,” Mahlman said.

According to Domek’s family-run website on the CaringBridge service, he underwent a mastectomy after his cancer diagnosis and started chemotherapy in Aug. of the same year.

He was admitted to the emergency room with severe sepsis that progressed to septic shock blood count, causing further complications.

Doctors informed Domek that he was too weak to survive with his unhealthy colon without surgery in late June. Domek went forward with the surgery and survived.

The love Domek receives from the community doesn’t surprise Durham.

“I think about him every day,” Durham said. “It makes me think about how precious life is and not take it for granted. The way his family and friends have rallied around him speaks volumes about the amazing man he is.”

Although Domek is no longer at RHS, he is not forgotten.

Senior Makenna Vulgas will never forget how passionate Domek was as a teacher.

“Mr. Domek was an awesome teacher,” Vulgas said. “He really cared about everything he did and he wanted to make an impact on all of his students. I appreciated his passion for what he did.”

Senior Ashley Bertholf shares Vulgas’ sentiment.

“He worked tirelessly to help students share his passion for sci-

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Last school year, science teachers Darcee Durham and Erin Granucci made a show of support with their “Paws For Domek” initiative that regarded the former biology teacher’s contributions to campus culture. ence and also help them achieve their academic goals in and outside of classroom time,” Bertholf

said. “He is an extremely smart guy who really cares about his students and their success.”

Micah Saludares brings Muay Thai career to close

by ELEANOR MARBELLA

e.marbella@eyeofthetigernews.com

Senior Micah Saludares has been boxing and competing in Muay Thai during his time at Roseville High School. However, as his graduation from RHS draws closer, his boxing competitions are coming to an end.

“My dad wanted me to do it just for exercise, but then I started to get into the fight team.

From then on, I’ve been competing since about 10-years-old,” Saludares said. “I like the adrenaline I get from it. People can talk about how they fight all the time, but can they really get in a ring and pull it off? I like the rush I get from it and to train really hard and spar almost everyday and win, it’s a satisfying feeling.”

Saludares trains persistently for boxing in order to show improvement.

“I train almost every day. I do two sports, Muay Thai and boxing,” Saludares said. “I compete in Muay Thai to train my knees and elbows and boxing is to supplement my hands. Even when I’m not training for a match I still train like I am as to better myself for the next one.”

The training Saludares does to prepare for his matches takes up four to six days every week.

Saludares’ friends are proud of how he has been able to manage his free time and boxing.

Friend of Saludares senior Natalie Tran believes his efforts shouldn’t go unnoticed considering the schedule he juggles.

“I think it’s really great how Micah can balance school, R.O.P. and boxing,” Tran said. “He usually trains a lot, but it’s great how he always manages his time to be able to hang out with his friends considering his busy schedule.”

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Though boxing takes up most of Saludares’ time, he attempts to involve his friends in his training as a way to spend time with them.

“I’ve ran a couple of times with a friend before, but that’s it,” Saludares said. “Whenever I invite my friends to train with me they say they’re interested but they never do it.”

Another friend of Saludares, Joe Mailey, notes his dedication to keeping in touch with his friends despite his schedule for boxing.

“He’s always texting me at 5:30 in the morning asking if I want to run because he’s constantly running and running to make sure he’s prepared,” Mailey said.

As Saludares’ devotion to boxing is strong, the attitude from boxing is what keeps him driven.

“I don’t draw any inspiration from anyone, but if I had to pick I’d go with Manny Pacquiao. I really like his attitude about boxing. He’s very humble before and after the fight,” Saludares said.

“If it’s one thing I hate, it’s rude people. I like to keep in mind that if you are blessed enough to win fights, then I wouldn’t let it get to your head. Even if you do win, there is always someone better than you.”

Saludares chooses to see his matches as just regular fights for him.

“I take them as they are. My coaches and parents will always hype them up but to me the next fight is just another event I’m training for,” Saludares said.

“I have other things to worry about.”

Saludares feels a sense of accomplishment after every fight.

“My last fight was against someone around the same weight and I was just an inch taller.

He was also a little buffer than I was,” Saludares said. “Turns out he was twenty-four and in college which kind of intimidated me, but I fought hard and won.”

Saludares will be ending his boxing and Muay Thai career to focus on his future and college.

However, he reflects on the experiences and lessons he’s learned.

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Senior Micah Saludares finds the rush from fighting in Muay Thai matches and training for them rewarding. He’s trained consistently every day for the past eight years.

“I only have a couple of fights left and I think that’s it for me. I have to get focused on college.

I might just do boxing for just plain fitness and not compete, but we will see how my schedule works out after high school,” Saludares said. “It’s just an extracurricular for me, definitely not a career path.”

Saludares has received support from his friends as his final year of competitive boxing is coming to a close.

“From what I know, he doesn’t want to go pro, but he does want to have it as an artistic ability because he really enjoys it,” Mailey said.

Mailey believes that Saludares’ personality is what makes him even better.

“He’s a great kid and he’s one of those friends you don’t want to lose,” Mailey said. “He’s wellrounded and loyal and he’s one

of those friends that you hope will stick with you for a long time.”

Saludares’ next match this Saturday in Elk Grove.

“It’s a professional/amateur fight,” Saludares said. “I think the reward is going to be a trophy or medal.”

While a fight may be considered significant, Saludares maintains a calm attitude about even a big fight.

“To me, it’s just another fight coming up. It’s not really a big deal,” Saludares said.

However, Saludares’ more consistent matches over the years have affected his training.

“I’ve been training more which involves sparring everyday,” Saludares said. “I train everyday from six to eight, but sometimes I may stay later or come earlier [to the gym].”

Saludares’ coaches have also

been helping him prepare for the fight and his everyday training by padding him out and making him spar everyday.

Saludares’ father motivates him to perform well and keep improving.

“My dad is like a coach sometimes, he pushes me really hard.

I don’t necessarily like it all the time, because at the end of the day he’s just my dad,” Saludares said. “But just like any other parent, he doesn’t want me to get hurt.”

Tran admires the passion Saludares shows through training and fighting, as well as the pride he has in his sport.

“You can tell he’s really passionate about boxing because he always posts on social media and he really takes pride of what he does,” Tran said. “Boxing is such an intriguing sport and I’m really proud of him and what he’s

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Junior Skyler Routon pursues digital mastery

by AMY ADAMSON

a.adamson@eyeofthetigernews.com

Junior Skyler Routon pursues an interest in technology, including video gaming and computer development that leads to new opportunities.

Skyler got his first video game console, a Gameboy, when he was six years old.

“I kinda grew up with videogames,” Skyler said.

Since then, Skyler has started a YouTube channel, a podcast and a SoundCloud known under the username ‘sodafountainjoy.’

“I needed a Twitter username, five or six years ago,” Skyler said.

“I didn’t really think about it too much, but it kind of just caught on and that’s my name for everything.”

YouTube has played a huge role in Skyler’s advancements in his developing of technology along with sparking new hobbies such as making music, mastering the Rubik’s cube and furthering his yo-yo skills. So much so, that he eventually built his own computer to better suit his needs.

“Video games initially led to Skyler’s interest in computers,” Skyler’s father Monte Routon said. “Years ago, when he began to play Pokemon and needed answers, he discovered help on YouTube. YouTube helped lead him into his mastering Rubik’s Cube and his yo-yo career. Once he became interested in computers he kept learning until he could build his own PC that would meet

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focused on other things right now.

It’s been in the back of my mind and I’ll eventually work on it, but it’s not my top priority.”

Among his other hobby of professional yo-yoing, Skyler has been able to enjoy seeing the headquarters of a major online game developing company.

“I’ve gone to Valve a couple times. They’re a big software developer, and they also manage the largest digital distribution marketplace for computer games,” Skyler said. “I get to tour there every year.”

Along with seeing Valve, Skyler has made new friends through video games.

“I’ve met a lot of people,”

Skyler said. “You meet a lot of people that you wouldn’t normally meet, that’s true with any hobby.”

Monte is excited to see what what is in the future for Skyler and how he will apply his interest to his future career.

“As a parent, it’s great to see your child so interested in something that can lead to other opportunities, and for Skyler that something is technology, and gaming is a big part of that,” Monte said. “Skyler has a great start to developing his passion of gaming, computers, and technology into what could lead to a fascinating, exciting and lucrative career.”

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Junior Skyler Routon cultivated an interest in video gaming and podcasting over the years that guides his post-secondary ambitions. His father is excited to see him potentially explore a “fascinating, exciting and lucrative” career.

HUMANS OF RHS

Purvines seeks cookbook culprit

Bus driver Stuart Bailey drives route eight, transporting students to and from school each day. Born in Alaska, he moved to Santa Cruz in 1987 where he soon met his wife. Work drove him up the coast of California and eventually to Roseville. He tries his best to balance personal, family and his work. He previously spent a year in the Marine Corps and ran a pool maintenance business. He enjoys driving and interacting with young people, but is ultimately grateful that he can spend time with his kids and views bus driving as a retirement gig.

by CLAIRE OERTLY

c.oertly@eyeofthetigernews.com

Physics teacher Mike Purvines, has a so-called “cookbook culprit” on his hands. He has been receiving an anonymous cookbook once a day in his personal box in the office for the past few weeks. He and his sophomore chemistry student Jack Rosetti have been attempting figure out the identity of the mystery figure and what their motivation was to begin this tradition.

This trend started last month and has continued each day.

Purvines thinks of the books as a kind-hearted joke.

“I think it’s kind of funny.

Someone’s just playing with me a bit here. It’s kinda nice because they know I’m into cookbooks, but they’re just putting them in there, no notes,” Purvines said.

“It’s just an odd assortment of kind of some funny stuff.”

Purvines spends the majority of his time at RHS teaching, and therefore has a difficult time trying to pinpoint who put these cookbooks in his box.

After hearing about the situation, Rosetti became infatuated with the case and was determined to help figure out who’s behind it all.

“I was curious about all the old cookbooks in Mr. Purvines’ class and I just wanted to know who’s behind all of it,” Rosetti said.

With help from Purvines, Rosetti was able to formulate a list of suspects who had both the motive and opportunity to place the books.

“Only time will tell,” Rosetti said. “I just have to narrow down the list of people and hopefully by then I’ll have figured out a method to isolate one person.”

Rosetti concocted a plan to figure out which period the

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books were being delivered by staking out the office before and after each period. He then wrote the period number on a piece of paper to figure out which period the culprit had time to perform the act.

From there, he shared the information with Purvines.

“I really liked the piece of paper in my mailbox that had a one a two and a three so we could determine what period it was [delivered],” Purvines said.

According to Purvines, the list of potential suspects is longer because he has worked at RHS for several years.

“I suspect some people but I don’t know for sure and until I know for sure I don’t even know what my response will be,” Purvines said. “I’m definitely gonna have to get even in one way, shape or form.”

While Purvines is curious as to who may be behind all of this, he’s allowing Rosetti to take lead on the investigation. Purvines

assists by answering Rosetti’s questions.

“He’s not doing the ‘investigating’ for me,” Rosetti said.

“He’s just giving me answers to any questions I have. He’s a big help.”

Purvines considers the possibility of several people holding a part in the charade.

“It might be a team of people doing it or it may be one,” Purvines said.

Detective work has always sparked an interest in Rosetti and the Cookbook Culprit case is a perfect way for him to experience what he’s been interested in.

“I’ve always been interested in solving crimes – well, this isn’t a crime, but I’ve always been interested in stuff like detective work,” Rosetti said. “This is a fun little project. I just think it’s cool.”

According to Rosetti, investigating this case gave him a broader appreciation for his teacher.

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Over the past month, physics teacher Mike Purvines and his student sophomore Jack Rosetti played detective with a stroke of anonymous cookbook deliveries to the science teacher’s box.

“Mr. Purvines is a great teacher and I really enjoy being in his class,” Rosetti said.

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A lot of times [this] generation is the entitlement generation, I call it. I always tell my kids it’s all about the choices you make. If you make a bad choice you can fix it, and make a good choice.

Before I left Alaska, I was headed down the wrong road. When I got to Santa Cruz, I made a choice to change my life. I try and wake up happy and I try to go to bed happy – sometimes it doesn’t happen.

But life, you only have one. It’s not a dress rehearsal.

You only get one. I have friends that Facebook message me from when we were younger who told me ‘You talked me out of suicide, I was depressed’ and I completely didn’t realize it.

You make an impact on people sometimes and you don’t even know it. So I try and be positive around everyone. Even at work, people are always like ‘God you’re always so happy’ and you know what? Life is great. Friends of mine used to say ‘Things always work out for you’ and I go, ‘You know, those were all choices that I made.’ Everything is your choice.

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his needs.”

Skyler and junior Danny Whaley, started playing videogames together, which led to their friendship.

“Well me and Skyler have known eachother for over ten years, and we have always played video games together, but the one that we play now, probably a couple months ago we became friends again, and we both played it so we just started playing together,” Whaley said.

While in middle school, Skyler decided to start a podcast to reach a different audience with his knowledge.

“We all liked to talk about, my friends and I, about our interests and stuff, and we figured we could reach an audience with that,” Skyler said.

Whaley thinks the podcasts are still a good idea, even though Skyler doesn’t post often anymore.

“The podcast was like in middle school, and it was just something that he wanted to do, and it’s still a good idea,” Whaley said. “At the time we were really into it like every week we would get together and record [it].”

Along with his podcast, Skyler also produced his own music on a SoundCloud page.

“For my yo-yo videos that my friends and I would do, [I used] my own original music, and a couple years ago, YouTube’s policies were different, so I wanted my own music, and I got more hardware for it so I progressed with that,” Skyler said.

Skyler enjoyed working on his music, but he is not sure if he is going to continue working on it.

“It’s relaxing. I like messing around with sounds. It’s kind of like a different art form that a lot of people don’t generally do,” Skyler said. “I’ve been mostly

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Fulfill obligation to students before promotion

BY SAM MAILEY

s.mailey@eyeofthetigernews.com

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s students, we understand the ambition to climb ranks. We want to see ourselves perform and fulfill our potential and goals, and we don’t expect anything less from our teachers. If a desired next-level position opens, teachers should seize the opportunity.

Teachers deserve as much freedom to promote and shift positions as any other member of the district, as long as there is effective replacement to fill in their absence. There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of that, either, as it’s not uncommon for teachers to accept district and site-level administrative positions; in fact, Roseville High School has had three: Granite Bay High School assistant principal Mike Fisher, coordinator of instructional technology Marie Criste, and the most recent being Lindsey Parker, who accepted an assistant principal position at Antelope High School.

Before Parker, the two teachers’ position transitions were inexcusably unprofessional, unfairly abrupt and irresponsibly negligent of staff and students.

The two were teachers before becoming assistant principal and the coordinator of instructional technology, and they should have remained teachers until better planned-out replacements were in place.

In the argument of hypocrisy for denouncing teachers for leaving without a replacement but ignoring administrators leaving without a replacement, the as-

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sistant principal position opened because there were already two assistant principals on site to pick up slack while a third was found and “coordinator of instructional technology” wasn’t a real position prior. The teachers were leaving students, who need teachers, with two dysfunctional alternatives instead: a flip-flopping, teacherassistant principal who tried to juggle two positions, and a quick relay of a heavy class and curriculum unto another pair of teachers’ responsibilities – both of which are fault of the impulse and poor judgement of the district, site administration and the teachers.

The primary obligation of a teaching position is self-ex-

planatory, so incidents like this shouldn’t happen. It’s important for teachers to not allow future goals affect their current performance, to take their careers one step at a time, to hold students’ education in the highest regard and as their most important responsibility.

When teachers get distracted from their immediate students by an, administration should intervene to ensure they tend to students before moving to any new position.

The transfers bring more problems to the classroom for students and teachers than benefits at the district and site-level administration, which is especially evident

in Criste’s case. In 2012-2013, 89 percent of enrolled RHS students took the AP European History exam with a 53 percent pass rate, this percentage dropped to 79 percent in 2013-2014 with 44 percent passing, the year Criste left, but jumped back up to 91 percent in 2014-2015 and a 58 percent pass rate.

These numbers may have been purely coincidental, but the complications it brought upon students and her replacement Carol Crabtree were not. Teaching styles undoubtedly vary regardless how similar the subject matter is, and abruptly switching from one teacher to another put students and teachers through

an unnecessary learning curve six weeks before school ended – which is arguably the most crucial and intensive phase in a term.

The dire situation that required Criste leave RHS should have been recognized earlier, which would have left time to smooth the transition or even hire somebody who wasn’t preoccupied with students, who have been with her since August.

No position could hold such immediate demands that would compel a teacher who respects their responsibilities in any sense to uproot mid-year and drop their classes on the backs of unfamiliar teachers to manage just because they were called to fill in the open

slot. Even if it was Criste’s idea to jump ship, and while admin may have been on board with it, the district should have foreseen the potential consequences that ensued.

Not only was the initial action to allow Criste’s mid-year transfer irresponsible, but to couple that decision with letting other teachers, instead of hiring a replacement, bear the weight of the classes she left behind was an embarrassment to the near-sighted, systematic operations at the district office.

As a school district, the performance of students and the well-being of faculty should be the first consideration before any site-level decision is made, yet the position transfers that the district and site administration oversaw exemplified that we are, in some cases, afterthoughts.

The dramatic effects of the awkwardly timed transfers may have been avoided altogether had the district and site administration taken extra steps to find a proper replacement before allowing their faculty members abandon students, which is why we hope that two mistakes are enough to learn from when dealing with Parker’s transition from RHS to AHS. We support Parker’s decision to join AHS administration, but situations like the aforementioned make us concerned for the students. With a readily open assistant principal slot awaiting her arrival, Parker is planning to leave the week of April 11, as soon as the position transfer is approved by the district, but we urge proper preparation on admin’s part to make sure her classes won’t endure what Criste and Fisher’s classes went through by finding a replacement before she leaves.

And we urge Parker to stand by her word that she won’t be abandoning her students and find a qualified supervisor in the case that a replacement isn’t hired by the time she leaves.

Maintain equal gender representation in admin

BY MIKAYLA STEARNS

m.stearns@eyeofthetigernews.com

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efore talking to the superintendent, I imagined that the gap in female to male admin was similar to the lack in racial diversity that Robbie Short highlighted last year:

large and (not) in charge.

I assumed they were going to be relatively the same story, in terms of the data.

I first contacted the superintendent to “look into the gender discrepancy,” but I was corrected with a beautiful statement: “At the sites currently, there are 14 male and 15 female administrators. Not sure what discrepancy you are interested in.” Never was I happier to be wrong.

After Lindsey Parker announced she’s leaving Roseville High School to become an assistant principal at Antelope, the district remains at a solid ratio of

16 female administrators to 19 male administrators (the superintendent’s statement didn’t include some of the directors at a district level).

This is so much more than I was expecting considering the 3:1 ratio of male to female administrators at Roseville High School.

In 2007-2009, the number of female administrators in Roseville Joint Union High School District was completely dominated by male admin, 9 female administrators to the 22 males.

Though district admin can chalk up the jump in representation to a larger pool of female

applicants, at some level whether conscious or unconscious, the higher-ups in the district acted to get more women into positions of authority. Do I even really need to say “finally”?

A young girl surrounded by all male teachers, and to a lesser extent a district’s male-dominated admin, won’t thrive at the same level males will.

This is especially true when you think about that young girl’s expectations for herself as a woman: seeing no representation for people like her in authoritative positions early on in her life could jeopardize any possibility of see-

ing herself in those positions in the future.

I’m glad we are making improvements happen, but we have not yet achieved some glorious stage of equality. And needless to say, this should’ve happened a long time ago. I applaud the district for making these strides, but what was the roadblock in the past?

Sure, you could try to make the argument that minute situational things or a “too small” pool of female applicants prevented RJUHSD from hiring more female staff, but for a hundredsomething years?

I have a hard time believing that for that many years, we couldn’t find more women candidates for administrative positions.

There should have been an active search for women to place in administrative positions.

Additionally, for a hundredsomething years, RHS has yet to have a female principal. Is that because no qualified women have applied for the job? I doubt it.

The district needs to continue this uptrend, and though it was “coincidental,” it needs to be purposeful now. I need to be able to see my aspirations realized in female role models close to home.

Expulsion process should consider student circumstances

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xpulsion can be a valuable means to an end in some situations. It can be used to further secure the welfare of the student body as well as protect teachers and staff.

However, as two Roseville High School students are currently in the expulsion process and with punishments as significant as this, this is a good time for the district to think carefully about its expulsion policies and consider the net benefits.

It needs to consider what is best for all parties involved - including the students facing expulsion. This is especially true if the students are not a threat to the welfare of fellow students and school staff.

BY AUSTIN COLLINS

opinion@eyeofthetigernews.com

Many students’ issues stem from their home lives and sending them to these environments may not be the best course of action for a student’s future.

Treating all students as equals would be a mistake, because students come from different backgrounds and different walks of

life. It is beyond their control, yet it can have a direct impact on their academics as well as their behavior.

It could prove beneficial for administration to intervene and make an effort to help their students when it’s evident that their home lives aren’t providing sufficient or healthy guidance.

Before being expelled, most students receive a multitude of suspensions. The same logic applies here – as if sending them to the home environment that likely led to their unpleasant behavior will solve anything.

If a student is exhibiting misconduct that could be a result of a bad home life, it seems a logical step would be to for administra-

tion to deal with them on campus or send a professional to investigate, such as CPS. After the event or action which warrants the expulsion, most students are forced to find a new school to complete their education. Which could result in transportation conflicts and other problems, and for many seniors over 18, expulsion would simply mean that they are done with school.

One can only think that this extreme reaction is more likely to cause harm than good. Sure, the admin gets a problem off their backs, but it could drastically alter or damage a student’s path to success.

Other routes should be considered in situations like this, such

as therapy, rehabilitation or even probation, which would actually help fix the problem at hand.

Like I said, there are situations where expulsion is justified and appropriate, as concerns about keeping a campus free of drug traffickers and creating a safer environment is understandable.

But expulsion doesn’t mean abandonment.

The public education system is probably the best place for kids who need help to get help.

Schools are full of mentors and positive role models.

To remove a student from the one place they are most likely to receive help and grow as person, seems like a bad move. It fails that student and does not help them

develop into a positive contributor to society.

Again, safety for all students should come first.

But the district should not consider expulsion unless the student is a threat to those around him or her. Otherwise, it is just retribution or an attempt at deterrent that sacrifices one student to send a message.

Admin should still make an effort to reach out and guide students who are expelled, to ensure that they are not left behind academically. Whether it be helping them plan out the remainder of their high school career at a new school, or help them pursue alternative routes, like obtaining a GED.

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In-class recordings hold teachers accountable

BY MADDY FURDEK

m.furdek@eyeofthetigernews.com

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alifornia state law prohibits the recording of a conversation unless both parties have given their consent.

This law also applies to classrooms, where students are not allowed to record video or audio of other students and teachers without consent – no matter the situation.

As a result, this law prohibits citizens from recording unlawful or unethical occurrences without consent from the party at fault.

With this rule, students have an uphill battle ahead of them if they want to validate their version of events that occur could in classroom. If students cannot legally record their teacher to balance the playing field of teacher vs. student credibility, then there is no way a student can verify any form of teacher misconduct in a

classroom.

Teachers can send a student to the office with a referral off nothing more than than an accusation from them. Their word is rarely questioned and they do not need to provide concrete evidence to get a student in trouble during class.

A student’s accusation of a teacher, however, hardly carries the same weight, and time and time again these students’ concerns are brushed aside by those receiving their worries.

While I understand that an employed adult is a significantly more credible source than a hormonal, emotional, potentially irrational teenager, that does not mean that the adult is always right or that student voices should be ignored.

The law in place that states that I could not legally record a teacher in the midst of a misconduct to prove my validity leaves me to question – what are my rights as a student, really? Why is it that a teacher could leave a stain on my permanent record solely off of an assumption or accusation, yet I cannot even legally obtain tangible evidence of a teacher’s misconduct?

It seems like our school system is an incredibly uneven playing

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field if students’ complaints are disregarded and who’s evidence can be turned around on me to get me in trouble.

I recently read an article that argued against the use of camera surveillance in a classroom, calling it too “Orwellian-esque.”

However, I feel that the use of cameras in classrooms could help to create a checks and balances system, as cameras could justify both teacher and student accusations.

Surveillance wouldn’t be used to monitor daily interactions or

necessary for constant justification of teachers’ punishments; but would provide needed references for more serious and significant cases which have conflicting testimonies.

Without cameras implemented to allow legal justification of

students’ accusations, our complaints will continue to be ignored and potential injustices will still be tolerated.

When a family member of mine was in college, she was sexually assaulted by one of her professors while she made up a test in his private office.

Shaken, she left the office and refused to attend class for the rest of the semester, but she kept quiet about the incident. He even let her enter her own grade for the entire class so long as she did not speak of what he did.

When I asked her why she did not tell the Dean or any other university staff member, she simply told me, “Nobody would have believed me.” That professor continued to teach at the university for years to come. She kept silent after the assault because she believed nobody would take her claim seriously.

This was decades ago, but the odds are still just as stacked against students attempting to achieve justice over a teacher’s inappropriate actions. Our accusations are brushed aside as an outburst of teenage angst. Our videos and pictures send us to court for an invasion of privacy.

We cannot stand up for ourselves under the state’s law.

Limited range of AC insufficent Later start would

only caters to lazy students’ needs

BY BRIAN NUEVO

b.nuevo@eyeofthetigernews.com

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he limited range of temperature control has made classrooms hot and significantly more uncomfortable than the temperature outside.

Both teachers and students deal with stuffy, warm classrooms which they have no control over.

It’s an everyday dilemma that goes on, especially in the 900s.

Comfortable temperatures outside almost never lead to comfortable temperatures inside the classroom.

Classrooms do have individual temperature control for unseasonably warm winter days or cold summer days but these temperatures can only be changed within four degrees.

The air conditioning system begins operating depending on the weather outside. The cooler will kick in between 66 and 70 degrees and the heater operates at 74 and 78 degrees.

Just walking around campus

BY JOHNNY MULLIGAN

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you see more than half of the doors open.

Everyone is trying to cool down the classrooms with the mildly nicer weather outside, bothering the teacher to ask “can we crack the door open?” Without any other windows for ventilation, opening a door is not enough to make any difference, and classes get bothered by noise outside from

passing students.

This problem is most prevalent in the 900s buildings. Just walking around upstairs it is easy to feel the warmth all throughout the building.

These upstairs classrooms have no openable windows and the doors only open to a hallway.

Add 30-something bodies in a classroom and it’s about 10 de-

grees hotter than it is outside.

These are not isolated issues – multiple students I have talked to complain or comment about the problem.

Classrooms need to be allowed more freedom of use with the AC. Just because it isn’t over 80 degrees doesn’t mean that classes are comfortable and don’t need AC.

Scheduling easily derails TA policy

Limited applicants may shortchange teachers

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oseville High School’s new policy on teacher assistants is designed to lower the number of TAs and, in most cases, allow teachers just one TA per term. The policy also requires students to fill out an application and only allows two applications per teacher, unless the teacher requests for additional aid.

While motivations for changing the policies are understandable, the limited number of applicants creates unnecessary hurdles for students and teachers, and could

BY JAKE LITTLEJOHN

j.littlejohn@eyeofthetigernews.com

potentially leave teachers without a TA – a situation most would rather not risk.

Students have no guarantee of fitting in a period for being a TA, having to be outside a teacher’s off period and while alongside students required classes for graduation. If the schedule doesn’t work out, then the TA selection

will simply be replaced by an alternate selection.

This could mean if just one of the two allowed applicants has their schedule changed a teacher could be without a TA for an entire term.

With a scenario like this in mind for teachers, I do not see why they would not request for more TAs, trying to get some extra room for error and if it all works out fine, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind having some extra TAs around their classes.

Motivation for the policy came after discussions with staff where they agreed that there was an excessive amount of TAs present to fit teachers’ need in classes.

While there is a portion of TAs who take advantage of the situation and do little work, that comes

down to their teachers. I think a majority of teachers do a decent job keeping them occupied.

While the teachers teach the class, they can have an assistant do work for them. TAs accomplish a lot while the teacher is currently teaching. Instead of the teacher making their way to the office to do copies, the TAs can do this for them, which will save them a ton of time.

Although most students pick their favorite teachers to TA for and are looking for a more relaxed class, they still usually get a lot accomplished for the teacher in a period.

For the most part TAs do work that rewards themselves and helps out the teachers. I’d think most teachers would prefer to keep their aid.

very Monday during first period is the same. Alongside the lesson, there are consistent complaints about the early hours for school and how much better off students would be coming into school a hour later.

Quite simply, this change could not happen because sports – especially during this time of year – would run out of daylight. Not all sports are able to turn on lights to extend practices and specifically spring sports which already struggle because of the short day.

And even without the limitations from sports, the school should not simply cater to lazy students who complain about the early hours – especially when it is almost always self-imposed sleep deprivation.

The sun is down by 6:00 p.m. every night and spring sports would be unable to complete a full practice if they started at 4:00 p.m. rather than 3:00 p.m. Spring sports would have to lose a third or more of their practice time.

Students who complain that they do not have enough time to sleep are liars unless they play sports, have a job and are enrolled in a rigorous schedule. I do sports, have a fairly rigorous schedules and every night am ready to sleep by 10:30 p.m.

Pretending that you do not have enough time to do your homework after school is an illogical excuse for your procrastination.

Even students who have extremely hard schedules have enough time to complete their homework if they get home, put their nose to the ground and just work.

Sure, I miss the good ol’ days at Buljan when school started at 9:05p.m., but that is just an unrealistic schedule for RHS to adopt.

The “extra” hour in the morning only takes an hour away from yourself after school and forces students to stay awake later into the night which just exacerbates the problem. Studies show that students who wake up early have higher grades than students who stay up late.

The only students who can benefit from this new system would be kids who do nothing after school and they do not take workintensive classes and honestly the school should not be catering to these students. They inflict their own fate by staying up too late even without a reason. They have no room to complain about these things .

This change in schedule would also causes problems for students who do not have a ride to school in the morning. Many parents start work before the current time of school and wouldn’t be able to take their children to school with the later hours. This would unnecessarily force students to find other means to get to school which in some cases would be impossible because they have no other options.

Another thing is that we are growing up and preparing for the real world but we still try to complain about how terrible it is waking up at 7 a.m.

All four of my siblings have gone through college, and they have all had early morning classes. And even after those morning classes ended they got jobs that, surprise, started at 7:30 a.m. I am sure there is some way to craft a schedule without having morning classes but none of my siblings have managed to and future students probably won’t either.

And unless you are planning on being a night-time security guard you will be at work by 8:00 a.m. at 90 percent of jobs.

Just go to bed earlier, simple as that. Students who stay up all night on Twitter and Instagram deserve to be tired in the morning. Do not blame the system because of your lack of sleep. And if you really are staying up too late doing homework – that is tough but you chose your schedule and deserve the fate you brought upon yourself.

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10 Cloverfield Lane rivals predecessor

BY GABI HUTSON

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

The spiritual successor to Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, upholds the intensity of its predecessor – to an extent.

Technically, it’s a sequel to the 2008 sci-fi flick Cloverfield, but it is more of a “spiritual sequel,” which is a new addition to the franchise but it does not add to or continue the story.

This movie is intense but not in a way that makes the movie some grand, edge-of-your-seat thriller.

I had a small bit of anxiety for the first couple of minutes because of the moments of high anticipation. It’s more intense in the way it utilizes eery music to make you high strung while you wait for something very abrupt to happen. Mostly there was very many loud, sudden noises that made me jump a little bit out of my seat. Most of them are just false alarms though as nothing too dramatic or scary happens.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was phenomenal in her performance of the movies heroine, Michelle.

She was marvelous as the badass leading female who new exactly what to do and when to do it, I must say that I do adore strong women in thriller movies. John Gallagher JR. also did a fantastic job in his part of Michelle’s bunk(er) mate, Emmit. He adds the perfect amount of comic relief when it is needed and is partly what makes the movie.

Afterall, I do believe that any movie needs a mix of an opposing genre in it to make it good.

John Goodman does as well as he always does; playing a dominating man with a short temper suits him well.

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Disney’s Zootopia offers nuanced humor along with cute and kid-friendly characters that makes the movie appeal to wide audiences.

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The cast altogether was extraordinary in their parts and worked well together. The movie is good and keeps you interested, however I feel that director J.J. Abrams maybe got a bit lazy with this movie. I don’t blame him for this as he was making Star Wars: The Force Awakens around the same time. Anyone would probably lag on their other projects if they had such an ambitious venture at hand.

I would say, though, that the only part about the movie that I felt was a bit drawn out was the ending, which is deplorable since the movie was good and kept me attentive up until it’s last few moments. It feels as if it was cheap in a sense; it was like Abrams tried to throw a curveball that flew straight into the dirt. I suppose the ending wasn’t what I was thinking but it’s not like I couldn’t have guessed it.

Another issue I had was with

Zootopia restores old Disney spark

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10 Cloverfield Lane succeeds in creating chemistry between characters and meets anticipated levels of intensity the original installment, Cloverfield set. a subplot that was started but never finished. I think I had more questions about that than anything else in the movie. It’s easy to assume how the subplot ended, but I didn’t particularly like that I was never given a straightforward or an absolute

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answer. Despite it’s last disappointing moments and the inconclusive subplot the movie was pretty good and did live up to the expectations Abrams has set for himself in the sci-fi genre and the cast did great with carrying out the script.

Zootopia, Disney’s newest film, offers a youthful experience with a hint of reality.

It would be easy to assume this movie was going to be just another corny, predictable movie, however that is not the case.

Disney has done it again.

The film centers around a female rabbit who is determined to prove that she belongs in the police force, no matter her size or background. Throughout the film, she is constantly undermined and ignored by other characters.

Zootopia is filled with innocent adult humor, surprises, diversity and many likeable characters. Every second of the movie you’re either smiling, laughing, crying or feeling every emotion you can imagine. Disney is able to capture your heart, further immersing and investing you into the story. There is not one

second that causes you to feel bored while watching it. Young or old, viewers will definitely feel the joy of the “Zootopian” world.

Zootopia brings a thoughtful and knowledgeable lesson to its audience. It tells a story that reflects how ugly our world can get. Zootopia addresses issues of race, stereotypes, and gender all while remaining entertaining for any age of viewers.

The plot is not like any other – it is full of surprises and turns.

One second you feel like you know what’s going to happen, but then a plot twist turns your predictions upside-down. Disney proved to us that they are still able to create interesting and exciting twists and turns, keeping you on your toes.

Even if you do not like Disney, this movie is extremely good. This movie is for all movie watchers – young or old, pro or anti-Disney, it is for everyone.

Lamar’s album blends old freestyle with bold lyrics

BY PRESTON WALTER

p.walter@eyeofthetigernews.com

ZACHARY CHEEK EYE OF THE TIGER

Junior EJ Susbilla shows off a casual yet unique style. Rap inspirations help him achieve a clean and urban street style.

Rap culture inspires clean style

by Gabi hutson

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

What inspires the way you dress?

Just how I feel in the morning, like when I wake up and look in my closet. I pick whatever I want, how I’m feeling. Like today it was kind of gloomy so I put a black sweater on and some black pants on to match the weather.

How would you describe your style?

I’m just influenced by what I think is cool, like if something’s cool I’ll just buy it.

Also wearing kinda rare things; I don’t like looking like everyone else.

What are your favorite brands/favorite places to shop?

My favorite brands are probably

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Bape, Stussy and Supreme is cool too. My favorite places to shop are probably outlets and very lowkey places, online mostly.

How do you accessorise?

Well I always wanted the grill because I listen to rap music and I thought that sort of thing was cool. So yeah my grill and

earrings.

What makes an outfit?

I say shoes make your outfit pop more because you look at someone head to toe and see the shoes.

I’ve always been into shoe collecting as a hobby since like middle school so I’ve definitely built up a collection.

On March 3, Kendrick Lamar dropped a surprise album titled Untitled Unmastered on iTunes, Spotify, Tidal and Google Play Music.

This album, which marks Lamar’s 5th studio album, is a compilation of all his untitled songs that never reached his albums.

This is extremely unique because not many artist have a whole list of songs that they produce that never make their albums, and they almost never have those songs released into a full-fledged album. The album consist of eight songs, all titled “Untitled” one through 8 and it brings back that traditional Lamar freestyle flow that fans have loved.

The songs are very unique, with up tempo and jazzy beats, reminiscent of Lamar’s Grammy-winning album To Pimp A Butterfly, because these songs were made around the same time Lamar was making the album.

It’s evident that Lamar had fun making this album, which contributes to producing a genial and enjoyable listening experience. For example, in “Untitled 7 2014-2016,” you hear Lamar say, “this song gonna be 15 minutes” as he jokingly laughs with his friends.

Lamar also brings forward the racial issues and poverty which his tracks concentrated on in To Pimp a Butterfly. Songs like “Untitled 3” and “Untitled 5” carry the lyrics of minorities and black rights which is something Kendrick has been known to advocate for a lot, the vibe he gave us in his show-stealing

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Kendrick Lamar’s newest compilation album features tracks of diverse intensities that didn’t make To Pimp a Butterfly back in March of last year.

Grammy performance. In this album Lamar dives into the racial discrimination in songs like “Untitled 3” saying how the “white man” always has control of the minorities.

My personal favorite songs from the album are “Untitled 2,” “Untitled 7” and “Untitled 8,” all of which provide a great range of powerful lyrics from Lamar and showcase the black excellence for which he strives.

What’s interesting about the album is that Lamar has teased some of these songs for a while.

For instance, even performing them on The Tonight Show with

Jimmy Fallon and The Colbert Report. Lamar debuted what was formerly titled “Untitled” on The Colbert Report and “Untitled 2” on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. These songs ended up having different titles on the album with “Untitled” being “Untitled 3” and “Untitled 2” being “Untitled 8.”

While, this is not my favorite album from Lamar, it’s a very good one to say the least.

I thoroughly enjoyed every song on the album, and I will continue to play it in my car for a long time. I think it’s safe to say that Lamar is still running the rap game and I think he’s going to have it for a while.

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Japanese flavors arrive

Daiso touts Japanese convenience

BY MARC CHAPPELLE

m.chappelle@eyeofthetigernews.com

Daiso gives me a reason to go to the Galleria.

Before the Japanese onedollar-fifty store migrated from the bay to the suburbs, my Galleria shopping experience extended only as far as tropical fruit smoothies (judge me) from the Orange Julius or boba from Quickly. Daiso encourages me to take what little cash I have and put it down for something that won’t end up as an empty cup or wrapper in a trash can. Daiso products live forever (in my heart).

Daiso proves endlessly useful for niche things, but once you start roaming around the store, those niche things become perfectly universal. This isn’t just my experience, the vibes of

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Daiso carries a diverse set of Japanese products, ranging from anthropomorphic pouches (above) to office and beauty supplies. The store’s opening brings the convenience of well-established urban chains right around the corner. the store and cutesy merchandise have this ability to make shoppers justify buying every last ceramic duck, sushi-shaped eraser, and striped chair sock.

Daiso also provides an easy channel for bottled Japanese soft drinks, like Calpico or Teas-tea.

The shop arranges its merchanidse by aisle, and each aisle serves as a window into different worlds of possibilities. The oil

blotters in the cosmetic aisle will, from what my friend suggested, turn some away from their goto online vendors and toward Daiso’s cheaply-priced wares.

Although the Galleria shop stands relatively small (all hail the mammoth Kinokuniya store), having a go-to shop for cute and practical doodads just around the corner can always come in handy.

Roseville Umai improves upon Natomas

BY JAYDYNN SANTOS

j.santos@eyeofthetigernews.com

Umai Savory Hot Dogs, which began in San Jose, now has two locations in the Sacramento area. One in Roseville and a new one in Natomas. Umai Dog is an Asian fusion hot dog restaurant that serves over 25 unique flavors, and customers can even build their own.

Once I heard the second restaurant opened in Natomas, I knew I had to go there. Unfortunately, I had too high of expectations, which left me disappointed. At the Umai restaurant in Natomas, I had to wait 45

hot dog, on the other hand, had minutes for a hot dog that barely an odd flavor and all the toppings had any toppings on it and to top were really bland, plus the servit all off, it didn’t even taste that ing itself was fairly small. The good. inu rangoons were really good.

There, I ordered the Banger + The inu rangoons are wonton Mash ($7.00) which had mashed wrapped cream cheese with hot potatoes and caramelized onions, dogs and cheese . and the Tokyo inu On the rangoons. other hand, I Customers had a slightly can choose better experifrom 5 different ence at the restauflavors of $3.00 rant in Roseville. inu rangoons: The wait time was Yokohama, Tokyo, SapSeoul Storm shorter and the food was poro, Tijuana or Berlin. $5.00 better. Overall, there’s I’ve only tried the Tokyo flavor but, I was very satisnothing too special about fied with the inu rangoons. The Umai to go back for.

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Swim to host league finals at Antelope

BY JAKE LITTLEJOHN

j.littlejohn@eyeofthetigernews.com

Roseville High School was set to host the Capital Valley Conference swim league finals meet this year. However, the event will not take place at RHS. Instead, Antelope High School will hold the meet due to the RHS aquatic facilities’ inadequacy and lack of size and space.

Every year, the host of the CVC swim finals switches from one high school to another; this year is RHS’ assigned year, but AHS’ aquatic facilities are much bigger and more advanced and are better suited for large-scale events such as this one.

Varsity swimmer senior Adam Botnen believes that there are positives to hosting the meet at AHS, one being that AHS’ pool is much bigger than RHS’. According to Botnen, this will provide swimmers with multiple benefits.

“At Antelope, they have reserved lanes for warming up. So physically being able to warm up before each event will benefit us in finals,” Botnen said. “It’s also a bigger pool. Antelope has a 10

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Swimmers stand together on the Roseville High School pool deck while other swimmers compete in the pool. RHS is scheduled to host the Capital Valley Conference league finals meet this year at Antelope High School because its own aquatic facilities are too small and inadequate to host such large meets. lane pool rather than our six lane pool.”

As well as having a bigger pool,

AHS’ aquatic technology will allow for more accurate race times.

“At Roseville, we rely on man-

ual plunger times, while at Antelope, it is more official because they have censored accurate

times,” Botnen said.

RHS swim will be able to bring in vendors and collect gate fees at the meet this year and expects to earn more profit than previous years because of this. Coach Kevin Seals said that the RHS swim program looks to upgrade its facilities within the next few years in order to host larger events such as league finals.

According to Seals, RHS will not be capable of hosting a CVC league final meet at RHS until its facilities are upgraded and expanded. Seals also believes that the switch in hosting location will be much more fun for RHS’ swimmers because they will receive exact times and get to compete in a real pool.

“There is a huge difference between our pool and Antelope’s pool,” Seals said. “The swimmers now have the satisfaction of staying in the pool to cool off after they swim or compete. At Roseville, the swimmers have to get out of the pool and wait for other swimmers to compete in the meet.

I just want the swimmers to swim confident wherever they swim and just have fun.”

Football players attend SPARQ to bond, test skills

BY MEGAN ANDERSON

m.anderson@eyeofthetigernews.com

Twelve varsity football players got in a van with their football gear and made the seven hour drive to Los Angeles after school one Friday to attend this year’s Nike SPARQ Combine on Feb. 27.

Juniors Tanner Johnson, Nico Andrada, Jeriah Crawley, Joseph Flores, Hayden Simpson, Jay Razzano, Brendan McMinn, Chad Stamas, Nick Martig, Trevor Glenn, Jackson Knapp and Josh Clark all went to down to LA for the event. Of the 12, only 11 participated; Clark could not compete due to a knee injury.

The SPARQ combine took place at the Veteran’s Memorial Stadium of Long Beach City College. The boys were amongst many other athletes who were also being tested in different aspects of athleticism. They competed in a timed 40 yard dash, a vertical jump, a timed 20 yard shuttle run and a power ball throw.

The boys’ individual scores for each event were then combined with their heights, weights and positions to make up their

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Eleven of the 12 football players who attended the Nike SPARQ Combine pose for a photo after receiving their overall scores. The group had an average rating of about 55 which, according to junior attendee Chad Stamas, is pretty good. overall scores. Crawley, a safety, received the highest rating of the 11 that competed with a score of 87.12. The boys averaged a rating of about 55 which, according to

Stamas, is pretty good.

Some of the boys, including Stamas, participated in the combine last year and had such a good experience that they decided to

go back with more of their teammates this year and compete again.

“Last year we did it and honestly we did it to have fun,” Stamas

said. “We had so much fun and we all did better than we thought we did. This year we were like ‘Let’s get as many people as we can in the van and go down to LA and have some fun.’”

According to McMinn, the event really tested the athletes and taught them a little bit about themselves as players while competing.

“It helps with the season because we know where we are at; who’s fast, who can run, who can jump, who can be an athlete,” McMinn said. “The specific thing I learned is I need to work harder to get better at what I need to do.”

Varsity football coach Larry Cunha is glad that the boys made the trip because they learned a lot in terms of what they need to work on for the upcoming season and were able to bond together.

“What it does for them is it allows them to gage their improvement over previous years so I think it gives them a baseline of where they’re at,” Cuhna said. “[My favorite part of them going] is the fact that so many of them went as a group; the team bonding part of it is the best part of it for us.”

Performances of the Week FEB 22 - 28 Cheer team defends Nationals title in Las Vegas JAMZ comp

BY MEGAN ANDERSON

m.anderson@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of Feb. 22-28 was the competitive cheerleading team’s win at JAMZ’ Nationals competition in Las Vegas. The girls traveled to Las Vegas with hopes of defending their Nationals title from last year and came home with a first place in sideline cheer after competing against seven other teams. This win marks the team’s second victory in consecutive years.

According to senior cheerleading team captain Sachi Aguillio, the girls were anxious to defend their title but were excited when they did. Aguillio also said that it was also a good feeling knowing the freshmen on the team had the

chance to win during their first year and the juniors have the possibility of getting one more title before graduation.

“It’s honestly such a great feeling because there is so much anticipation and pressure building up to it because you have to defend that title and when you actually do it, it’s great,” Aguillio said. “For the new freshman on the team, they start off with a win so they come into the program with a really great feeling. The juniors for next year, it gets them pumped to try to go for a threepeat for their senior year.”

FEB 29 - MARCH 6 Varsity boys go undefeated in Placer Tourney, place first

BY JAKE LITTLEJOHN

j.littlejohn@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of Feb. 29-March 6

was the varsity boys volleyball team’s play in the Placer tournament at Placer High School where the Tigers received first place after steamrolling their way to the championship matchup undefeated. The Tigers have yet to drop a set in the season thus far and beat six teams 3-0 in the tournament.

In pool play, the boys beat Golden Sierra, Nevada Union and Vista Del Lago and defeated Pleasant Valley, Granite Bay and Whitney in bracket play.

According to junior outside hitter Jeffrey Oh, every player on the team has improved a lot since last year which is one reason why the boys are undefeated at this point and look to remain unbeaten for the remainder of the year.

Oh believes that all of the boys are playing at such a high level because they have additional experience from club volleyball outside of school.

Junior libero Tommy Morin received the Most Valuable Player award from the Placer High School coaches and staff. Juniors

Neal Reilly and Zack Mancha and sophomore Jacob Cole received the All-Tourney award. Oh said that all of the team’s players put out their best efforts to achieve the win.

MARCH 7 - 13 Freshman baseball sails past Vista Del Lago 12-2

BY JAMIE BATEMAN

j.bateman@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of March 7-13 was the freshman baseball team’s 12-2 victory over Vista Del Lago last Wednesday. The game sealed up the boys’ preseason with a dominant win.

Freshman infielder Jordyn Berry thinks that the team will be able to carry out their offensive momentum from the win into league play which begins today

against Del Campo.

“I think this win comes at a perfect time for us, because league starts [this] week,” Berry said. “Now we are going into league off a very good win and that should boost our confidence a lot.”

Berry also thinks that it is a good sign that the team scored a season high of 12 runs and shows off the boys’ offensive capabilities.

“We had been struggling to score runs this year so I think it’s a really good sign that we scored some runs,” Berry said. “If we can score half the runs we scored on Wednesday per game, we should have a very good year and hopefully win league.”

League play starts today against Del Campo and Berry thinks that it is important that the team gets off to a hot start.

“It’s a lot easier to start good and then coast to the finish than it is to have to grind towards the end,” Berry said. “Hopefully we start good and finish strong.”

RHS aquatic facilities deserve to be upgraded

BY KALE JIBSON

k.jibson@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Roseville High School swim team will be hosting the Capital Valley Conference league finals this year at Antelope High School in May. The reason the team will be hosting at AHS is because RHS’ facilities are inadequate and too small to host anything as big as league finals or another big tournament.

I believe that the RHS water polo teams and swim teams should get money to update our pool because, despite what everybody thinks, a lot of people in the community actually care about things like like water polo and swim.

They are not sports that are boring and that nobody cares about. They are sports that are very entertaining to watch.

If we actually had money to upgrade our pool then our school would be more professional. Now don’t get me wrong, I think our school is fantastic, but if we had a bigger and better pool, RHS would be comparable to some of the newest schools in the district and we would be able to host things such as league finals and other tournaments so we could actually raise more money for RHS aquatics.

RHS should get a new pool because it could turn into a community pool just like that of Woodcreek High School and it could raise money for the city.

The community could use another pool because there are only three in Roseville and the city could always use the money the pool would raise for other city-wide projects such as a new building or a new park.

Hosting at Antelope will allow the team to charge parking and entry fees. All of those proceeds will fund the swim team for later years. The swimmers that will be swimming in the meet will also get their split times and will get a more accurate time than they would if the meet was at RHS. This is because AHS’ facilities are more up-to-date in comparison to RHS. As well as more advanced equipment, AHS’ pool has 10 lanes compared to RHS, which only has six.

However, AHS only uses eight of the lanes for the swimmers to swim in and the other two are used for swimmers to warm-up and cool down after their swim is over or before their swim has begun.

However, the cons to this decision are that the RHS swim team will have to set up and take down before and after the meet. Hosting at AHS also makes the team look unprofessional because we couldn’t host the tournament at our own pool.

This decision will also make it so that the parents of the swimmers will have to travel a little bit farther to watch their kids and watch their school compete.

It has become evident that the RHS swimming facilities are inadequate and behind newer schools’ swimming facilities.

When it comes down to it, RHS aquatics has no money so the team can not receive the benefits of a new pool without raising the money themselves.

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Boys look to repeat CVC debut success

BY JAMIE BATEMAN

j.bateman@eyeofthetigernews.com

Last year, the varsity baseball team had an impressive debut season in the Capital Valley Conference, not only winning league outright but also winning the California Interscholastic Federation’s Sac-Joaquin Section Division II championship.

This year, the team will try to repeat the success they had last year despite losing seniors who were key components to the team. Coach Lance Fisher thinks that the loss of seniors will definitely have an effect on the team’s performance this year.

“I think, for anybody, if you lose all-league guys and the MVP of the league it’s going to have an effect,” Fisher said. “The guys we lost all had really good years last year and they really helped us.”

However, Fisher does not think that this year’s team will lack any leadership or talent, even after losing crucial personnel from last year.

“The returning guys we have were in the loop last year and have had the mentality of winning ever since they got here. Some of the juniors we are getting back had really good seasons,” Fisher said.

“Some of them got honorable mentions in league last year, so we are getting some really good players. They all were leaders last year and we should be fine if they continue to be leaders.”

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Returning varsity outfielder and 2015 CVC honorable mention recipient senior Ryan Sleadd agrees with Fisher that the players lost from year will hurt the team but still feels confident in the team’s ability to achieve the title of CVC champions again.

“We lost a bunch of really good pitchers from last year’s team who really helped us,” Sleadd said. “I think this team still has the potential to be a really good team.”

Fellow senior and second-year varsity player Jordan Woods has very high expectations for this season as well.

“My expectation for this team is to get another ring,” Woods said.

“Another championship should always be the goal and I think we can achieve that.”

Both players played important roles as juniors last year and now

both have taken it upon themselves to be leaders this year.

“We are seniors this year and we need to be leaders on this team and be role models,” Sleadd said. “We have to show all of the younger kids what to do.”

Woods agrees.

“My thing has always been lead by example,” Woods said.

“If we play hard then hopefully that rubs off on everybody.”

With only seven seniors on the roster this year, the transition that the current first-year varsity players made from the JV team to varsity is going to be very important this season.

Junior catcher Ben Welker thinks that the group has made the move up nicely.

“I think we all have done a good job transitioning from last year to this year,” Welker said.

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Varsity track runner junior Maddie Meade (above) has run track for Roseville High School since she was a freshman.

Meade returned to the team this year without hesitation and feels that the new coaches have settled in well.

Track and field experiences lack of athletes, adjusts to new coaches

BY BLAKE BEAMAN

b.beaman@eyeofthetigernews.com

The track and field team has seen a significant drop in participants this year.

According to senior varsity track runner Brayden Leach, there are roughly 80 fewer athletes on the team.

Because of a conflict with the coaching staff last year, administration was forced to find two new coaches, Courtney Crosta and Sondra Mays, to coach the team.

Leach feels that the lack of familiarity with the new coaches caused some athletes to become hesitant about joining or returning to the team.

“We wiped our entire coaching staff from last year, there is only one returning coach,” Leach said.

“When you have no more attachments to your coach, you’re not going to have the same desire to come out and compete.”

Although they are new coaches, sophomore runner Jake Provins thinks that Crosta and Mays are doing a great job coaching the team so far.

“There are a lot less less familiar faces out there for us to communicate with, which is the main cause for the drop,” Provins said.

“The new coaches that we have this year are very nice and friendly and I think they’re doing a great job so far.”

Sophomore runner Blaise Carson also thinks the new coaches are doing a great job despite being thrown into their new positions.

“I don’t think it’s their fault. It just kinda happened,” Carson said.

“But they’ve been doing a good job and they’ve been helping more people get out there. They bring a new team spirit.”

Carson thinks that the team will not suffer from the drop of players but will struggle during the beginning of this season because of the adjustments they have had to

make to the new coaches.

“I don’t think it will affect us at all, only in the beginning,” Carson said. “Adjusting to the new coaches is the only thing we have to worry about. We have some pretty good athletes on our team, so I don’t think it will affect us much.”

Leach thinks the drop of players will affect the team because they have less athletes to put up points and participate in events.

“We will not have as many people to put up points in meets,” Leach said. “We’ve never really been a school that has won titles, so that will affect us this year.”

Freshman runner Ana Alexis sees the drop of players in a positive light and thinks it will provide more opportunities for other athletes on the team.

“I feel like there are more opportunities for people now,” Alexis said. “I feel like it’s also affecting us as a team because the family atmosphere is a lot better.”

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Junior left fielder Nick Tucker (left) and senior pitcher Andrew Hansen (above) compete in the Tigers’ game against Woodcreek last Tuesday. Hansen is a returning varsity player and hopes to lead the team to another CVC title this year using his experience from last season. Tucker is new to the varsity team but has high hopes for this year.

“We are still getting used to the speed difference but for the most part we have done a good job.”

Welker thinks that the practice regime the team goes through has really helped the juniors get more prepared for their first year on varsity.

“We practice a lot during fourth period and sometimes we get to practice for three hours,” Welker said. “We get a lot done and we have less people on the team than

we did freshman and JV year so we get way more reps then we used to.”

Junior outfielder Nick Tucker agrees with Welker that the juniors have done a good job transitioning and that the speed of the game is the biggest difference between this year and last.

“I think all of us are doing really good,” Tucker said. “As the season goes on we will get a better representation of how we are

doing, but at varsity the pitchers throw a little harder, the ball is hit a little harder and the runners are a little bit faster.”

Fischer has seen continuous improvement from the boys so far this year and has high hopes for the season.

“From scrimmage week 1 to scrimmage week 2 we got a lot better,” Fisher said. “If we continue to get better each week we should have a really good year.”