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Fighting ambiguity Students, admin struggle to define consistent discipline

BY AMY ADAMSON

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For their ties to on-campus fights, several Roseville High School students alleged receiving administrative discipline, varying from phone confiscation to suspension.

Sophomore Paige Pickard edited a fight video to music and sent it to fellow sophomore Gabriella Robles, resulting in a disciplinary conference with assistant principal Jason Wilson. The two received three-day suspensions.

Sophomore Kailah Gonzales received a five-day suspension and student conduct placement for her involvement in the recorded fight with sophomore Sydney Atchison. Atchison did not receive administrative discipline.

In August, freshman Lauren Matlock and another freshman student were involved in a physical altercation.

This resulted in a five-day suspension for Matlock, who was also put on student conduct. According to Matlock, there was no punishment for the other freshman.

According to Pickard, Robles had asked her to make an edit of the video to post. Pickard said when she texted the new version to Robles, she includ-

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Senior Ralph Lualhati said administration suspended him for three days after he posted a video of an on-campus fight. He and other students alledge their disciplinary action lacks reasonable consistency.

Campus challenges hate speech

BY WAFEEQ RIDHUAN

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In the light of recent incidents with racial overtones by Roseville High School students, principal David Byrd and assistant principals Anna Marie Clark and Stephanie Malia attended RHS’ Black Student Union meeting last Thursday to hear student input on the issue.

According to Byrd, the goal of the visit was to look for ways to improve campus culture and prevent future incidents. He has also invited BSU to next month’s faculty meeting to speak to teachers.

“It seemed like a logical place to start,” Byrd said. “Our goal is just to listen a little bit. Though, we’ve got a few ideas that we want to propose to our Black Student Union That would include: them putting together a presentation about, from their perspective, what Roseville High School is like, with respect to some of the cultural insensitivity and the cultural sensitivity that we have.

Our hope is that we can convince them to take a month and maybe present to our faculty and our staff some of their thoughts and some of their ideas.”

Two weeks ago, a male student (Eye of the Tiger chose to withhold the minor’s name) posted a photo on Instagram that, according to Malia, pro-

This article is the second in a twopart series about the district measure to generate $96 million to upgrade site facilities.

BY ALEXX DOOLITTLE

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Principal David Byrd attended last Thursday’s Black Student Union meeting to field student perspectives about campus cultural sensitivity. He invited the union to speak at November’s faculty meeting.

moted racism and hate speech.

In response, administration held a conference with the student’s parents in order to discuss the incident.

According to the student, administration didn’t pursue additional consequences, other than informing his parents of his actions, because his incident occurred outside of school hours.

“It wasn’t specifically directed

at someone,” the student said.

“Plus, it wasn’t during school hours.”

Seniors Barry Lewis and Eva Lewis created a petition to bring awareness to hate speech on campus, calling for student activities director Brent Mattix to ban the student from enrolling in the spring term of student government.

“This petition is trying to

get a certain student kicked out of student government,” Barry Lewis said. “It’s because student government is supposed to create the culture at Roseville and every decision they make impacts Roseville High School students.

And we don’t really want a student who blatantly makes racist comments about other students in charge of making the culture and  HATE | Page 3

First-year circumstances erode JC transfer rate Alumni, admin cite lack of student self-direction, level of impaction

BY NATE NGUYEN

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Nearly half, 41.82 percent, of Roseville High School’s 2016 graduating class went on to attend a community college last year. According to counselor Graciela Fernandez, many of these students go with the intention of transferring to a four-year university. However, according to the California Community College Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO), only 4.2 percent of Sierra community college students enrolled in the cohort 2008-’9 school year transferred after two years of attendance, and 3.4 percent of American River college students transferred the same year. The CCCCO does not have statistics for subsequent years.

Measure D may bring “major” structural repairs

According to some high school and community college counselors, the problem stems from students inability to chart their own educational path and unwillingness to seek help.

American River College Transfer Center director Joe Rust, believes that students who don’t utilize their counselors miss out on important guidance for those looking to transfer.

“A lot of students don’t take advantage of the counselors,” Rust said. “They don’t have enough confidence going into community college and feel they aren’t transfer worthy.”

RHS counselor Graciela Fernandez said the drastic change in individual responsibility that occurs in a student’s first year of college accounts for students’

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RHS counselor Graciela Fernandez said the way first-year students “lose that counseling safety net” may contribute to low transfer rates out of local community colleges.

ineligibility out of a community to transfer to a four-year.

“Students in high school are used to having a counselor they can check in with and that will call them in all the time to say, ‘Hey I noticed you struggled in this class. What’s going on? What can we do? How can we work with the teachers who are there to support you?’” Fernandez said.

“While in college it’s really up

to the student to do that themselves. You lose that counseling safety net.”

RHS alumnus Logan Stahl attended ARC for two years after graduating high school in 2013 to pursue his passion in running.

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If Roseville Joint Union High School’s Measure D bond passes, Roseville High School will reach high school in the district is guaranteed at least $13 million in bonds.

Severson guarantees this minimum amount in case extra funds are needed to cover unexpected challenges.

Severson also considers RHS’ high demand for reconstruction and structural improvement, compared to other schools, when allocating these funds.

“RHS may get a little more because there are more needs to be met, but the goal is that there is something that would enable all the schools to make improvements,” Severson said.

RHS administration and the RJUHSD board members will decide how to allocate the funds if the bond passes in November. Administration will consult with specific departments to address their needs.

Athletic director at RHS, Emily Dodds, trusts that administration will rightfully consider the facilities that need the most immediate improvement and hopes to be allowed input if the bond passes.

“It would be nice to have [the athletic facilities] updated, but they are usable,” Dodds said. “I think once our administration and the district office decide what exactly the money will go to, then I will be brought in on the planning portion.

But I think administration and the district have seen our dire need for better sports facilities to make them equitable to other facilities in the district.”

ASB President Parker Crews hopes that administration will try to consider opinions of the student body as well.

“I’d like for the students to have some voice in where the money goes,” Crews said. “But if we don’t get that chance, I’d at least like to know where the money goes and I  MEASURE | Page 4

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Eye of the Tiger ROSEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 1 TIGER WAY ROSEVILLE, CA 95678 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Marc Chappelle MANAGING EDITOR Rachel Barber NEWS EDITOR Mikayla Stearns FEATURES EDITOR Tarah Johnson OPINION EDITOR Sam Mailey A&E EDITOR Sophia Cook Gabi Hutson SPORTS EDITOR George Hughes Jason Russell ESPAñOL EDITOR Elizabeth Ayala Viviana Gomez PHOTO EDITOR Amy Adamson Johnny Mulligan ONLINE EDITOR Adam Hagen Andrew Smith COPY EDITOR Amy Adamson Blake Beaman Nate Nguyen Jack Rosetti FACULTY ADVISER Bobby Ritter The mission of Eye of the Tiger, a newsgathering organization run by Roseville High School students, is to inform, entertain and serve as a public forum for student expression.

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Cockroaches encroach on RHS facilities

BY TRINITY COMPTON

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Roseville High School’s population continues to deal with an “abundance” of cockroaches in older and newer buildings on campus. Students and staff cite seeing cockroaches in lights, classrooms and bathrooms.

According to janitor Jake Marshall, the cockroaches are a city issue and Roseville High School isn’t the only one being effected.

“The sewage is overrun, pest control has got more jobs than they can handle,” Marshall said. “I’ve seen roaches here, we do have maintenance come and do pest control regularly to keep them out.”

According to physical education teacher Cindy Simon, she has seen an abundance of cockroaches on campus, and claims that the students help in killing them.

“In the girls locker room we have sighted several cockroaches, running up the aisles, running up the shower area, running out of my office” Simon said.

“I would say that there is a large number of roaches, since I have been teaching here for five years and I’ve never seen them until this year.”

According to junior Nate Lemos, he has no idea how the amount of roaches will be able to be cleared out.

“I wouldn’t say that there’s an infestation but I would say that there’s an amount of roaches,” Lemos said.

assistant principal Matt Pipitone.

Pipitone believes this ban should come as no surprise to students, as clothing with affiliations towards marijuana and alcohol have never been tolerated.

“It’s not so much the brands are being banned, it’s just, as it states in our dress code, any references to drugs or alcohol or weaponry is not allowed,” Pipitone said. “And since the Cookies brand and Connetic brand is connected to marijuana use, we’re saying, ‘That’s not okay.’”

Cookies and Connetic wearer senior Ashley Cayabyab believes the banning of Connetic is unfounded, but understands admin’s concern with Cookies.

“The school shouldn’t really target brands of clothes unless it shows some type of profanity, drugs or gang related things. Especially Connetic because it’s a casual brand that everyone wears, but the brand does not promote marijuana anywhere close to [how] Cookies does,” Cayabyab said.

Admin bans clothes of drugaffiliated brands

BY JACK ROSETTI

j.rosetti@eyeofthetigernews.com

Admin has announced that the brands Cookies and Connetic have been banned. Admin placed the ban upon the brands due to their “affiliation with marijuana,” according to

“It’s funny to me how they want to ban brands that they don’t understand; Connetic is a skateboard brand.”

Cayabyab has concerns about the consistency of the application of the ban, and doubts its effectiveness.

“I wear a Connetic beanie all the time and not once have I got told anything because there wasn’t anything wrong with it, it was just a flag,” Cayabyab said.

SAT Prep class caps at 40, turns students away

BY BRIAN NUEVO

b.nuevo@eyeofthetigernews.com

Two teachers held this year’s SAT prep class, Levi Fletcher and Denise Weis, for four two-hour lessons after school.

Class sign ups opened as a first come, first serve basis, with only 40 available spots. Student services registrar Sarah Carstens believes that the 40 person cap is limiting to other students who could utilize the lessons more than others.

“Some people sign up for the class just to get the booklet and not even go to class which is a shame because it’s a $30 class,” Carstens said.

With the 40 person cap, Carstens and Roseville High School counselors had to turn away students asking to sign up on the last day.

English teacher Denise Weis taught the class for the first time this year and found that the students were driven to absorb as much as they could in the class.

“Kids who are signed up for it are ready to work and are ready to put in work to improve their SAT scores,” Weis said. “I’ve been doing a lot of research on SAT prep and looked into the SAT workbook and trying to figure out what is most valuable for the kids.”

Junior Brendan Guttman, who signed up for the class and was successfully enrolled, hopes the class will prepare him for the SAT. “The class is helping me a lot, they put us into groups at first which was interesting, but it has helped,” Guttman said.

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ed the words “post it.”

Prickard said administration suspended her on the grounds of bullying, despite not posting the video herself.

“I don’t exactly feel that my suspension was justified,” Pickard said. “I understand that what I did was wrong, and I understand that I shouldn’t have ever made that video. It’s just kinda hard to catch up, just for making a video and telling someone to ‘post it,’ even though I didn’t actually say anything to anybody or post it on any social media.”

Student Press Law Center attorney Adam Goldstein advocates for the use of more evidence than an administrator’s “subjective opinion” in determining which online videos constitute bullying.

“There would have to be something about the decision to post the video that would make it possible for a student to reasonably predict that the people in the video would feel so bullied by posting it that it would prevent them from going to school,” Goldstein said.

“And that’s just to meet the definition of bullying.”

California Education Code 48900 describes bullying as “any severe or pervasive physical or verbal act or conduct, including communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, and including one or more acts committed by a pupil or group of pupils.”

Freshman Joclyn Canstancio-Loredo posted

a video of Matlock’s fight on her social media account in late August. According to Canstancio-Loredo, when the office called her up, Pipitone told her to take the video down but she did not receive any further discipline.

“It is unfair for each student that they are doing it differently, and I think each person should [be] equally in trouble,” CanstancioLoredo said. “It’s unfair because if you’re equally involved in [something], then both people should get equally in trouble for it.”

According to principal David Byrd, the school follows an outline of discipline from California Education Code, and the four assistant principals decide together on a gauge for appropriate punishment.

Senior Ralph Lualhati was also suspended for three days after posting a fight video on social media.

According to Lualhati, when brought up to the office to talk to assistant principal Matt Pipitone, he was told that his suspension was for instigating and provoking a fight.

“I think the way they handled my suspension was a little too much, being suspended for three days, because I was posting a video online about a fight, but they accused me of starting a fight or provoking a fight,” Lualhati said. “I was yelling or whatever. I did not start that fight. I was just there for the fight.”

According to Lualhati, Pipitone explained that using the phrases “swing” and “punch her” was enough to deserve a three-day suspen-

sion.

Byrd emphasized the importance of consistency from assistant principal to assistant principal.

“It’s like any legal code,” Byrd said. “There is a wide range of interpretation and hopefully it gives administrators the latitude to use their judgment to figure out what is going to be in the best interest of the school, and the best interest of the student that might be involved.”

Sophomore Santino Jordan said he was watching a video of a campus fight near its site. According to Jordan, administration confiscated his phone for five days.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union of California, a school can confiscate and look at a phone without the consent of the student “only with a search warrant issued by a judge based on ‘probable cause’ that [the] phone contains evidence of a crime.”

The ACLU website emphasizes that this requirement is true even in the case of a student using their phone when they are not supposed to, of a student breaking another school rule, of causing a disruption by using the phone, or even if the school wants to search the phone to investigate another student’s misconduct.

Pipitone refused to return his phone, according to Jordan.

Matlock’s mom Heather Christensen is thankful for the fight video taken of her daughter.

“In Lauren’s case, the video actually showed that the girl did touch Lauren

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Sophomore Joclyn Canstancio-Loreno was not suspended or disciplined for posting a fight video, and was only required to take the video down.

and that they made the wrong decision and even when I tried pointing that out to the vice principal and still would not in any way shape or form, would not admit [that],” Christensen said. “In many ways that video proved that the decision he made was the wrong one and he was not willing to admit that.”

Pipitone cites the filming of a fight video as creating a hostile educational environment for the students involved in the video.

Gonzalez said that she was not informed that she was on student conduct until she asked Wilson if she could still go to Homecoming and was banned from going.

“I feel like they wanted to rush it and get it over with because it’s probably normal, it happens all the time,” Matlock said. “I think they need to realize it’s not always just one person, it takes two to cause a fight.”

Matlock does not feel that posting a fight video online should be considered

bullying or harassment.

“Everyone was there and everyone was bound to take videos and just [post] it, I don’t think it’s bullying because it’s their opinion,” Matlock said.

Pipitone, however, sees this as a violation of privacy.

“Students have a reasonable right to privacy on campus and it is rare to have both parties agree to have a video of them fighting,” Pipitone said.

According to Christensen, the school had many inconsistencies with their stated policy that could have been prevented.

“One, the school being notified. Two, the school not notifying me in a timely manner. Three, those girls should have been pulled out of school immediately.

Four, the other girl got away with bullying and taunting on campus,” Christensen said. “If the school is not going to act on cyberbullying [and] the drama that goes on behind the doors, how on earth can they only act on the physical side?”

UPCOMINGEVENTS OCT 26

Cash for college workshop Come to the cafeteria at 6 p.m. for help with FAFSA and Cal Grant applications.

NOV 3

OCT 31

SJS Division II tournament Varsity girls Golf competing at Eagle Vines golf club.

Bonfire Rally 7 p.m. on the upper fields following the freshman football game.

NOV 7-9

OCT 31 NOV 18

Canned food drive.

Bring cans to your second period class to donate.

The Katrina Project auditions Auditions will be held for the spring play at 3 p.m. in the JB Gale theater.

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HATE: BSU action, petition designed to raise awareness “As Roseville High School students, we should be better. And even though if impacting the decisions it was an accident or not, that are going to affect us we should be careful about in the long term.” what we’re saying because A week prior to the inwe don’t know who could cident, band students were be offended.” allegedly harassed by other According to the RHS students with racial slurs 2016-17 student handbook, after being moved closer to the Roseville Joint Unified the Tiger Cage. Sophomore High School District proband member Charles Henhibits “the harassment of derson felt the slurs were students of … race, color, eye-opening. national origin, ethnic“A ball came out of ity … or any other basis nowhere, and it just hit protected by federal, state, me across my face while or local law, ordinance or I’m playing so it really regulation.” A student viosurprised me,” Henderson lating this policy can result said. “So I stood up and I in “discipline, up to and said, ‘Okay, whose ball is including suspension or this? Who did this?’ And expulsion, somebody said, depend‘You better ing on go get that, the nature ‘n-----.’ And and seriI had looked ousness at the person of the and I was like, viola‘Don’t say that. tion.”

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High AdminisSchool tration was experiinformed of enced the situation a few the following forms Monday and of racial asked the band - Band member hate students quesCharles Henderson crimes in tions about the the past incident and two years offered an apoltargeted against their stuogy. Henderson said that dents, which was matched administration was sincere with a district-backed in their apology, but he cultural sensitivity training was disappointed that the session. incident that occurred in RJUHSD hosted a the first place.

“Sustaining Cultures and “I was very disapStrengthening Communipointed on what hapties” district-wide speaker pened,” Henderson said.

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I was very disappointed about what happened. As Roseville High School students, we should be better.

series initially featured at OHS and eventually opened up to the district. According to RJUHSD superintendent Ron Severson, attendance for the series was small, and the district will be taking advantage of their third professional development day this school year in order to reach a “broader teacher audience.”

“We are using our third district professional development day to examine both equity and relationship issues [also known as] Emotional Quotient,” Severson said. “It will be EQ squared. The targets are to grow everyone’s cultural literacy, to examine implicit bias, and to develop a deeper understanding of mindset. On the relational side, we will be working on how to better build trust and understanding with our students and with each other.”

Severson said some schools within RJUHSD have programs to address issues regarding bullying, hate speech, and insensitivity. The goal is to integrate an effective, far-reaching program at each school.

“Granite Bay has the ripple effect,” Severson said in an email. “Woodcreek does a whole Culture Week. Oakmont has ‘Dude be nice’ week. Most of our schools work with Point Break or Breaking Down the Walls. We have been working with a consultant for three years now who has been training staff and students on issues around cultural understanding and literacy.”

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Above, RHS counselor Graciela Fernandez helps a student coordinate their schedule. Fernandez believes the high number of junior college attendees results from an interest in a more financiallly secure option.

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ARC. According to Stahl, students getting distracted and frustrated leads to difficulty transferring.

“The biggest thing is that people get caught up and they don’t know what they’re doing,” Stahl said.

“They don’t declare a major. They don’t figure out what classes they need to take. They aren’t super active in making sure they’re taking the classes they need to. They’re not going in and seeing counselors.”

A student must complete 60 units of transferable semester units or 90 transferable quarter units, meet a minimum GPA, as well as fulfill the specific requirements for their respective desired major and/or school to transfer from a community college to a CSU or a UC. According to Fernandez, students should finalize their decision of their major earlier when planning to transfer from a community college to a four-year due to the individual transfer requirements for each degree.

“Use the time you have in high school to explore all the different types of electives and find a career choice that maybe you’ve never thought about [because] it’s that first year of community college where kids can get lost, because the safety nets they had in high school are gone,” Fernandez said.

RHS alumnus Chris Anderson discovered his passion for environmental science during his time in high school. He is currently studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

“I took an AP Environmental Science course my senior year,” Anderson said. “I really enjoyed it, excelled in it and I was hooked and that’s still my major today,” Anderson enrolled for his first year at UCSB as a junior. He completed his first two years of college at Sierra.

According to Anderson, counselors guide students in the right direction toward their education and career goals.

“I would suggest going to counseling once a semester to get help determining which courses to take specific to your major and specific to the school you want to transfer to,” Anderson said. “You just have to really utilize the resources

you have at your availability [and] at the end of the day you’re paying, with your student fees, for those counselors to give you the information you need to succeed.”

According to Anderson, the counselor at Sierra college provided him with tools and websites such as Assist.org, an online student-transfer information system that shows how course credits are transferred between California public colleges, that helped plan out his path to transferring to the school and major of his choice.

“I could use those websites and really plan out and schedule the courses I was going to take and sign up for when I had the opportunity to,” Anderson said.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ research indicates that public university tuition is up by more than 60% in California since the 2007-2008 school year.

Fernandez said students who choose community college over a four-year for financial reasons will be affected by increased tuition, narrowed course selection and higher student/faculty ratio due to budget cuts.

According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the California community college budget was cut more than $1.5 billion from 2007-2012.

These budget cuts concern teachers, students and parents considering the consistent population increase in the California community college system each year.

Fernandez said students should be concerned with the continuous growth in community college enrollment and lack of adequate funding for the growing amount of students.

“When I went [to community college], not as many classes were so impacted,” Fernandez said.

“Any time I needed to make an appointment with my counselor, I could go in that morning and have my appointment that same day, as opposed to now. Students will go in and not be able to see their counselor for a couple weeks.”

Rust hopes that California community colleges will move to a statewide assessment to further streamline the transfer process.

“We have an assessment in English, Math, ESL, and Chem, to place them in classes,” Rust said. “It doesn’t appropriately assess

them, and some students get frustrated and drop out.”

According to Rust, some UC schools look to make the transfer process for students easier and more efficient by standardizing requirements for different majors to provide more opportunities for community college students.

“For the top twenty one majors -- they’re going to make all the transfer requirements the same to streamline the process,” Rust said.

Fernandez acknowledges the appeal in students starting their post high school careers at a community college.

“There’s students that maybe they’re not quite sure what they want to study or where they want to go,” Fernandez said. “It makes sense to pursue their general education at a community college where it’s a lot less expensive than a four-year university.”

According to Stahl attending a community college to pursue a specific career is nothing to be ashamed of.

“I think there’s kind of a stigma of going to a [junior college], when all your friends are going to bigger schools,” Stahl said. “But I feel like if you’re going to a JC to do a sport you love then it’s not a big deal to focus on what you’re doing and not anyone else, JC gives you a couple more years to expand on your skills.”

According to Anderson students should not disregard the opportunities that a community college presents.

“Don’t overlook the opportunity to go to a junior college, it’s definitely a time where you can improve your situation and save up a lot of money, perhaps graduate a four-year with no debt,” Anderson said. “Even if you see your friends having a really great time and you happen to be going to a community college, just know there is still time to be able to experience that.”

Proposition 30 temporarily increased personal income taxes on the highest earners following the 2012 election and funded public schools’ goal of increasing the standard of education in the state.

The California Extension of Proposition 30, Proposition 55 is geared towards the same goal and will be voted on through the November 8 ballot.

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trust [administration] to make effective changes.”

Aging small gym As far as RHS facilities are concerned, teachers and specific departments do not take part in the allocation of the funds, but if the measure passes, Byrd will work with the athletic department to decide the most effective ways for the school to spend the money in order to benefit a wide range of athletic necessities. They will consider which facilities are the most in need of structural improvement. RHS administration plans to focus primarily on replacing the aging small gym and the girls locker room.

“A 92 year-old facility just isn’t effective anymore.

[The small gym] needs to be completely replaced,” Byrd said. “It’s got to be facilities. It can’t be stuff that’s going to be used for a year and then over with.

It’s got to be used for things that will last for 30 or 40 years, and so that’s what we plan to invest in.”

Severson believes that having the most effective facilities in place is the best way to provide both stimulating education, athletics and extracurriculars.

“In reality, the students at RHS should have similar facilities to all the other students in the rest of the district,” Severson said. “So this money would be used to take care of some major structural repairs.”

Dodds places the highest importance on the small gym and girls locker room.

“Hopefully Measure D will be used to build a new small gym and girls locker room. I would say our small gym is of most importance because it is not ADA compliant,” Dodds said. “It would also be nice to have a small gym with proper AC/Heat and an up-to-date locker room for our students.”

Cameron Anderson, a four-year basketball player, attended a city council meeting informing the community of Measure D, and was surprised to learn how in need the small gym is. Anderson was also enthusiastic to learn that the small gym is of high consideration for significant renovation or potential replacement.

“As a basketball player, I know we could use a new small gym because it’s unsafe to be in there.

The floors and the wooden walls are falling apart,” Anderson said. “So overall, even though I am a senior, I’m excited to see the new changes.”

The physical education department uses the small gym for daily games, gymnastics and other activities.

P.E. teacher Greg Granucci will be grateful for any aspect of the gym that Measure D will allow RHS to renovate.

“It is a little cramped in there so I think anything that can be done in that gym is going to help as P.E. teachers because we can utilize having our classes up there,” Granucci said.

Students reported multiple issues including cockroaches, broken benches, and lack of substantial space and air conditioning in the girls locker room.

According to senior volleyball player Savanah Smith,

her locker room offers little for sports players and P.E. students at RHS as well as visitors to the school.

“We don’t really have a lot of space, so I think they can improve on the space factor,” Smith said.

“Also, other campuses that I’ve been on through volleyball that I’ve gone in and changed in, are really nice. I feel like we should also have that available for athletes from other schools to use and change in.”

Varsity girls basketball coach Josh Errecart advocates for an entirely new girls locker room that would be built along with the potential addition of a big gym attached to the current Moeller gym.

“From a girls basketball perspective, the locker room is extremely inadequate in terms of space and quality, so we would love to have a new locker room, maybe even in this new bigger gym,” Errecart said.

Pool deck The athletic department also considers the pool’s deck and surrounding area as a possible primary target of renovation because of its decaying structure, appearance and consequential safety hazards. P.E. classes use the pool for instructional units for swimming and water safety throughout the year. More frequently, the swim and water polo teams use the pool for practices and games during each of their seasons.

Granucci is hopeful that the bond passing will also help bring the pool area up to modern standards.

“Just like the gym itself, the pool area obviously needs some updating, the deck of the pool for sure,” Granucci said. “It is safer for our students if everything out here is upgraded and modernized.”

Water polo coach Paul Stewart is a strong advocate for an entirely new pool, but is hopeful that the structural improvement of the deck will satisfy the needs that RHS is striving to meet with Measure D. “I think [it is a safety issue] because somebody could get hurt, it doesn’t look good, it’s cracked, it gets sun drenched [and] it doesn’t look professional,” Stewart said. “It’d be nice if instead of just upgrading the deck, to upgrade the entire pool. I would love something bigger and beautiful, but the only thing they are going to do with this is refurbish.”

Water polo player Kiara Felix doesn’t regard the pool or pool deck as a safety or structural issue, but is concerned about lack of organization and ample space.

“I’ve never really had a problem with the deck,” Felix said. “I think the pool is fine. It’s safe. It could be a lot bigger and we could have better seating. I guess everything would be better if it was a little bigger.”

100 wing This year, administration took action by replacing the rooftops in the 100 wing.

Byrd acknowledges that the art wing, including both the art room and the ceramics classroom, needs to be remodeled in order to conform to twenty-first century standards, but knows that the most important task currently at hand is the structural interior needing

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to be renovated for safety purposes and to introduce better equipment to improve the quality of the program.

“We want to modernize our art wing and bring it up to the twenty-first century for our art program,” Byrd said. “We did renovate the roof, but the rest of the interior underneath that needs new tables, equipment, cabinets and flooring.”

Jordan Eaton has spent all four of her high school career enrolled in classes in the art wing, frequently utilizing both the art and ceramic classrooms and equipment. Her concern for students’ safety is her primary reason for her support of Measure D. “It is a safety hazard; I actually got cut by one of the broken tables and I had a huge gash,” Eaton said.

“It was nice to have the new roofs but there are still some improvements to be made.”

Hanson Field upgrades Byrd said the football stadium area needs a wide range of improvements, from refurbishing infrastructure to building completely new facilities.

“We also have a stadium that could be refurbished,” Byrd said. “We want to improve the press box, the snack bar area, and to build restrooms for our visitors that come to our games.”

Byrd also values improving the press box above the home side’s bleachers with consideration for safety and convenience for people who frequently use it.

U.S. history teacher Ron Grove announces most of the football games held in the stadium and advocates for Measure D, in order to fund a more dependable, accessible and convenient press box.

“It’s not big enough and it doesn’t comply with the American with Disabilities Act,” Grove said. “I do feel that it’s safe but I’d like to see more room, a sturdier build and access for ADA. Air conditioning would be nice too.”

According to Byrd, administration encourages teachers to volunteer at games held in the stadium solely to help direct visitors because the only bathroom available to the visitors is the bathroom outside of stadium boundaries in the foyer.

This requires teachers like Robert Mahlman, who recently volunteered to prevent trespassers at the stadium gates, to spend time directing visitors to the correct bathrooms. Mahlman believes administration should consider new and renovated bathrooms to transform RHS’s dilapidated appearance.

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Above, staff members ready the press box before the Pink Out game last Friday. Top, students and teachers work the snack bar and ticketing area. Measure D funds would go towards improving athletic facilities, such as these, around campus.

“It was actually a very important job because the visitors had no idea where it was. I think they do this to separate the students to prevent interaction, but it’d definitely be nicer if there were visitor bathrooms,” Mahlman said. “It’s inconvenient for the visiting fans and it makes the school look outdated. If there were to be a new visitor bathroom, maybe right next to the snack bar on the visitor side, it would really be more convenient for everybody.”

Engineering/800 wing RHS’ Project Lead the Way program, with courses like engineering and biomedical sciences, has expanded and added sections since its introduction last year. Byrd hopes that funds from Measure D will assist in the structural and technological necessities to further modernize the engineering program.

“The old woodshop room is now slowly being converted into an engineering center for PLTW,” Byrd said. “We’ve got new computers in there, but behind that where they should engineer and build things are being used for storage.

We want to completely modernize that and call it an engineering lab and really push our engineering at RHS.” Introduction to engineering teacher John Fuller is content with the current path the program is following, but is hopeful to modernize and improve the engineering program in any way that Measure D will allow.

“I know that there are so many things around campus that need to be cleaned up so I’m definitely not pushing for too much,” Fuller said.

“I’m hoping the money will be used for getting some lab tables, chairs, getting extra storage facilities. Maybe even some 3D printers and mills and more things to

actually manufacture and to help turn the program into more of a functional and organized course. It’s going to be interesting to really modernize and upgrade the program.”

Sophomore Josh Rebello looks forward to more opportunities new technology could bring to PLTW courses.

“I’m taking principles of biomedical sciences right now, which is the first of four PLTW courses,” Rebello said. “I’m hoping to continue to take the PLTW classes so it would be easier for us with new equipment so we can stay up-to-date with technology that actual medical professionals use.

It would also be really nice to get new computers because they are really slow and sometimes crash completely.”

Potential new ‘big’ gym The passing of Measure D could allow for the construction of an entirely new gym, making the current Moeller Gym the new small gym. Though Dodds is currently not involved with the planning of the allocation of the funds at RHS, she is hopeful that the passing will allow her input for consideration of the new larger gym.

Errecart considers building a potential new gym as crucial to the growing success of the athletic department of RHS. “Right now we cannot hold tournaments, games, practices, because it’s extremely inadequate,” Errecart said. “If we do get a new gym on the blacktop, we’re hoping that the current Moeller gym becomes the ‘small’ gym and that would be super valuable.

Having two adequate big gyms would definitely allow us to host more events and utilize that.”

Overcrowding within the district If passed in November,

$30 million of the collective $96 million bond would go towards constructing Phase one of the sixth high school in the west Roseville area.

According to Severson, when the recession hit in 2008, the district was forced to set aside the proposal and planning of the sixth high school because of the sudden lack of real estate growth. With the recovery of the developmental growth in the area, Severson expects a higher demand for the new high school. “[The sixth high school is] about a $200 million project in total; this money is coming from the folks that live in that community through their developer fees and through a separate bond that they are paying. But we’re asking the rest of the district to contribute so we can get a school out there by the year 2020,” Severson said.

Severson believes the new school will allow for more manageable enrollment numbers in the district’s schools, and this will encourage the community to vote in favor of the bond.

“If we can’t get this school on the ground by 2020, we are going to end up busing over 1,000 high school kids to other schools in the district, which will create overcrowding,” Severson said.

According to Byrd, the last of the intended improvements include simple renovations meant to reverse the quick “wear and tear” on the cramped campus. This includes upgraded lighting on campus, landscaping, a remodeled cafeteria interior, new carpet, paint, desks and chairs.

Severson is confident that Measure D will pass in November based on feedback he has recieved from leaders in the community, both from conservatives and liberals. Roseville’s mayor Carol Garcia has also endorsed the measure.

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Junior supports father’s wrestling pursuits by jack rosetti

j.rosetti@eyeofthetigernews.com

Varsity football player and junior Deion Jennings has had the unique opportunity to enhance his work ethic while bonding with his father.

Jennings’ father, Christian Black, has been a professional wrestler for over four years now. Black wrestles for TWF, Total Wrestling Federation, and CWA, California Wrestling Association. Black also occasionally visits Roseville for fan meetups and events.

Black got his big break from a friend of his on Facebook, and saw the possibility to fulfil his passion and seized it.

“I’ve been a wrestler fan since before I was a teenager,” Black said. “I have some friends on Facebook that are already associated with it and they asked me to come out. I did some work and the owner of the company said, ‘this guy has some natural talent’ and it took off from there.”

Since then, both Jennings and his father have been helping further develop his father’s career.

“He films the promos, goes to Facebook live sometimes, he’ll run the Facebook a lot,” Black said.

So far, Jennings has attended two of his father’s events. He, along with the varsity football team, attended Black’s most recent

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COURTESY CHRISTIAN BLACK

event on Saturday.

“I like wrestling too and it’s fun to watch him wrestle sometimes,” Jennings said. “[His event was] on Saturday. The football team got tickets for it and it was a ‘fans bring weapons’ match.”

Both Jennings and his father are successful in their respective sports.

Jennings and the varsity football team are 7-1, and Black has won numerous victories and achievements.

According to Black, he feels confident in his abilities as a wrestler based on his track record.

“Being a two-time PWS tag team champion, a first time PWS television champion and a CWS champion, it makes me feel good. Like nobody in the company can actually beat

me,” Black said. “Six time PWS television champion currently and I’m gonna be defending my title this Saturday in Sacramento.”

Though this is Jennings’ first year at RHS, having transferred from Indiana, he has quickly adapted to the new school and made new friends.

“Roseville is a good school. It’s better than the last school I was at,” Jennings said. “We got great teaching, great programs and the football team is very welcoming. I really like it.”

Fellow receiver and junior Chase Baker noticed how well Jennings has adapted to the new school and team and appreciates Jennings both as a teammate and friend.

“He’s a great guy and a

good addition to the team.

Deion is fun to be around and is a cool dude to hang out with. Ever since he moved out here and joined the team in August, he has blended right in with our team,” Baker said. “I look forward to playing the end of this season and next season with him.”

Varsity football coach Larry Cunha also notices how well Jennings has adapted to the changes presented.

“He has been a total team player, willing to help and assume any role in practice to make the team better. He’s also handled adversity very well when his transfer paperwork was delayed,” Cunha said. “He has blended right in and fit in with all the guys that have been working and on

Junior Deion Jennings uses his father’s wrestling career as motivation to improve on the football field (left). Jennings’ father Christian Black shows off his wrestling belt before a match (above).

the team since January.”

Both Jennings and his father helped the football team bond by giving everyone on the team tickets to see Black wrestle last Saturday.

Black prefers staying local and impacting his community, rather than growing further and further into more out of state competitions.

“Career wise, I’m not trying to get to the WWE. I’ve talked to a few people with TNA a couple of times. I know a couple of people over there. They said I should just stay local and do an independent circuit. I walk around and people know who I am,” Black said. “I’ve been in restaurants with the wife and the family and kids will be like, ‘Hey, that’s the

Enforcer right there.’ I have to sign autographs now, which it doesn’t bother me at all. That’s what it’s all about.”

Black feels a sense of pride in his son because of the way he works and tries his best on the football field, despite being the new kid.

“I’m proud of the way he goes out there and plays, watching him in practice, puts in a lot of effort,” Black said. “Him being the new guy on the team, I’m just proud of him accepting it.”

Black is optimistic about Jennings’ future in wrestling.

“Hopefully I can get him into it, just once he gets out of school or whenever he turns 18,” Black said.

Senior twins saddle up

by VICTORIA WILKINSON

v.wilkinson@eyeofthetigernews.com

Senior twins Olivia Clouser and Alexis Clouser have devoted their time and found a passion in taking care of horses as a part of the Barn Kid Program led

by Brandi Reinert and Steven Des Jardins at Moonrock Ranch in Roseville for the past six years.

The program is designed to teach kids horse responsibilities in exchange for working with the horses and eventually learning how to ride them.

“The program is volunteer and only word of mouth. Kids who are interested contact me and we meet and I explain the program,” Reinert said. “If they are interested, they follow up and I add them to my waiting list.”

Olivia and Alexis have been intrigued with horses ever since they were little.

“I remember when I was about three or four years old and walking past the horses on our nightly walks always trying to grasp their attention,” Olivia said. “We started out shy and relatively clueless about horse care because the closest thing we’d ever had to a horse had been large dogs.”

According to Oliva, Reinert and her mother Joanne Clouser met and became friends but she and her sister weren’t accepted into the program until later.

“It wasn’t until a few years later that we finally got the call saying that there was a spot available

COURTESY OLIVIA CLOUSER COURTESY ALEXIA WADE

Juniors Emily Botnen (left), Madison Dodson (top), and Delaney Rhodes (right) model Alexia Wade’s newest addition of tie-dye t-shirts.

Student markets tie-dye shirts

by SPENCER SERRATOS

s.serratos@eyeofthetigernews.com

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At top, senior Olivia Clouser rides her horse Max at Moonrock Ranch. Above, Olivia talks to her senior twin sister Alexis Clouser during their fourth period Photography class. for my sister and I,” Olivia said.

According to Alexis, her horse Simon has continually challenged her and taught her responsibility.

“He forces me to be creative, to think in a million different directions and outside of a million different boxes,” Alexis said. “I have learned to be more understanding and empathetic as a person when dealing with others and

I’ve become much braver than before.”

Olivia’s horse Max has also given her the same learning experience as Alexis’s horse.

“Every day I would be greeted by a pair of warm brown eyes, wondering what kinds of adventures we would do that day,” Olivia said.”

Additional reporting by Eleanor Marbella

A group of Roseville High School students have taken it upon themselves to create and model their own brand of tie-dye shirts.

Senior Alexia Wade makes and ships her own custommade tie-dye shirts, while junior Madison Dodson and junior Delaney Rhodes model them. Wade is the owner of Shoplunacy on Instagram, where she posts pictures of the t-shirts along with their prices.

According to Wade, she wanted to start making these tie-dye t-shirts because the cost of a standard tie-dye shirt at a store costs too much for her liking.

“I wanted a tie-dye t-shirt and if you go to

the stores or the mall to buy one they are like $50, which is ridiculous,” Wade said. “So I just decided to make one and a bunch of people wanted what I was wearing so I decided to make much more.”

Wade sells the t-shirts for various prices, which depend on their quality and variations.

“I’m currently selling them for around $12 - $13 for just a plain one, and then with additions because I’m doing screening and stitching and different custom designs. It’s around $15 - $20,” Wade said.

Dodson respects Wade’s entrepreneurship and her new way to make money.

“I think it’s really cool.

Alexia’s a really smart person and she’s very business savvy,” Dodson said.

“She’s getting orders from out of state for her t-shirts so I think it’s really cool.

I’m pretty jealous of her ability to market herself like that.”

According to Rhodes, Wade has had a huge impact on her since she had joined modeling for Shoplunancy and her confidence has received a boost.

“You can say my confidence has gone up with the fact that my friend asked me to model for her, that was a confidence boost for me,” Rhodes said. “Also that I just get to help her with something as cool as this, it’s brought us closer together.”

Wade wants Shoplunacy to expand around the world in the future and have it trending for people worldwide.

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New long-term substitute skydives into RHS

BY VIKTORIA BARR

v.barr@eyeofthetigernews.com

Emily Hendersen, a longterm substitute at Roseville High School, has a notso-usual hobby that has grabbed the attention of her new students and even the attention of some outside of her IM2 classroom. Skydiving has been a part of Hendersen’s life since the age of 18 and continues to play a major role in it to this day.

Taking over Brian Klein’s math class while he’s is out on a hip replacement, Hendersen has established a connection with students who inhabit room 303 to learn the new integrated math coursework.

However, when Hendersen isn’t in the classroom teaching students, she enjoys spending her time engaging in an activity that many find dangerous, by continuously participating in skydiving.

“Just like most people, for my eighteenth birthday I got a tandem and I went once and had to go again, and then again, and again,” said Hendersen.

According to Hendersen, she first gained an interest in skydiving due to her older sisters prior experience.

This interest eventually turned into a reality on her eighteenth birthday when she was able to live out her fantasy.

“Well, my sister used to be a skydiver as well and she doesn’t anymore, but she’s the one that got me into it,” Hendersen said.

Through this experience, Hendersen has found a tight knit community of skydivers that have become family throughout all the years of this adrenaline-rushing hobby.

“It’s kind of a community of people who skydive, and so anytime I go out there it’s like seeing a second family, like a family reunion I suppose,” said Hendersen.

When falling from the sky Hendersen finds the most memorable part to be the time of seclusion,which she describes as an escape from reality.

“There’s a minute when you’re free falling from the sky and you get away from everything,” Hendersen said. “You get away from all of life and all you’re thinking about is that one minute and that’s why it’s so awesome.”

RHS sophomore Ari Gomez has been in Hendersen’s class for around a month and a half.

During this time Hendersen has mentioned her skydiving adventures to her students.

According to Gomez, as soon as Hendersen stepped foot into the classroom she felt an automatic connection with her new teacher and was happily surprised to find out about Hendersen’s unique hobby outside of school.

“I was a little surprised, like I didn’t expect a skydiver to be a teacher but I guess we all have our own little quirks in the things that we like to do so I wasn’t exactly judgmental,” Gomez said.

According to Gomez, she’s able to look up to Hendersen as a strong female figure and enjoys her new style of teaching.

Through this experience she has created a special bond with Hendersen and hopes to see more of her around campus.

“She’s been super supportive. Like I’ll make bad comments about myself or

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something and then she’ll be super supportive like ‘Oh no you’re super nice don’t say things like that it’s not true,’ she’s just a really caring person and I love her,” Gomez said.

RHS sophomore Kelli Hirsch is currently a student in Hendersen’s IM2 class and was also shocked to find out about Hendersen’s outside of school activities.

“Well I wouldn’t really expect it from her,” said Hirsch. “She doesn’t really seem like the type to go skydiving, and I think that that’s pretty cool.”

Hendersen grew up in the Roseville area and later graduated from California State University Monterey Bay, where she earned her Bachelor of science degree in mathematics.

According to Hendersen, she appreciates seeing the growth of the new generations at RHS and finds it interesting to see how students today compare to those of the past.

“I like seeing the new

At top, substitute teacher Emily Hendersen (right) falls through the sky with her regular group of skydiving companions. Hendersen helps students with their homework in RM 303 (below).

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generation of kids growing up,” said Hendersen.

This isn’t Hendersen’s first time teaching longterm. According to Hendersen, she took the position of an IM1 and IM2 teacher at Adelante last year where she got the experience that helped launch her into the world of schooling.

Students rally in wake of Ortiz’s accident

need of it.

According to Hendersen, her favorite part of teaching is when she can see the spark that students get when beginning to understand the material.

“I like when I see kids begin to understand the material, or whenever I can help them,” Hendersen said.

HUMANS OF RHS Senior Abbigale Gordon was born in Jamaica and moved to America at age six in order to have a chance for a better life. Before coming to RHS, Gordon lived in the diverse city of Philadelphia.

She finds solace in the Black Student Union and hopes to run her own business someday.

BY KENZIE DUNCAN

k.duncan@eyeofthetigernews.com

Looking to support senior Oakmont High School student Julian Ortiz in the wake of a life threatening accident, RHS’s leadership class held a movie night and donated all the proceeds to Ortiz’s GoFundMe account.

The night of Oakmont’s homecoming dance, Ortiz got into a near fatal car accident. According to Oakmont principal Robert Hasty, Ortiz’s family is very grateful for the fundraiser. He also recently visited Ortiz and his family in the hospital.

“He is making great progress,” Hasty said.

“Talking, walking, and is gaining motor and cognitive abilities everyday.”

According to Student Government teacher Brent Mattix, the leadership class came up with the idea of contributing the proceeds received from the movie night to Ortiz’s GoFundMe account.

“The whole class instantly got behind it and they had a purpose for the event,” Mattix said. “They just rallied together and decided that we wanted to have all the funds that we were able to fundraise go to Julian.”

According to Mattix, all of the proceeds were donated and there were students constantly purchasing items from the snack bar.

“We were able to bring in about $300, and typically

Through this she was able to experience her passion for teaching and set her previous schooling into that of the past.

Through Hendersen’s previous experiences in the classroom, she has discovered a love for teaching and a sense of pride when helping others who are in

-Tarah Johnson

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Oakmont High School senior Julian Ortiz was in a life-threatening car accident the night of Oakmont’s Homecoming dance on October 1. RHS students came together and raised over $300 for Ortiz. we would not have brought in that much money but the students did a good job organizing the snack bar,” Mattix said. “We had a number of Oakmont students who were invited. We had over 100 students participate with the event.”

Mattix said that the overall atmosphere of the event was a positive one. According to Mattix, he is happy to hear of the progress that Ortiz has been making.

“Anytime that you have somebody that’s injured that’s not good, especially when it’s a young person that is so full of life and has a bunch of opportunities; it’s nice to hear that he’s starting to make a recovery,” Mattix said.

Leadership students have made Mattix proud

with their initiative to set-up this event.

“I think that something like this just kind of transcends between the two schools since it has a bigger purpose,” Mattix said.

According to Hasty, Ortiz has shocked his doctors with his recovery and there is hope for completing the next step in the recovery process.

“We hope he continues to move in this direction and hopefully makes a full recovery,” Hasty said.

RHS junior Jaenna Valdez, long-time friend of Ortiz, was in shock and disbelief when she received news of Ortiz’s accident.

“The first time I saw him, it really hit me, and I was so shocked and sad. I thought, ‘Wow, this is literally my

childhood friend,’” Valdez said.

Valdez has been visiting Ortiz in the hospital. According to Valdez, she visits every other day.

“He is now doing physical and speech therapy and has passed many tests that check his abilities,” Valdez said. “He remembers a lot when answering ‘Who, what, when’ and has even counted by sevens backwards from 100.”

According to Valdez, this information and other updates on Ortiz, can be found on Caring Bridge Website.

The movie night held at RHS had an emotional impact on Valdez.

“I felt very moved from the movie night and how all the proceeds were donated to Julian.” Valdez said.

“

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I was born in Jamaica. It’s a part of my life, I want to go back. I moved to America because of opportunity, money and before I lived with my grandparents. Then I moved to Philadelphia, I love Philly. The culture, the people. It’s such a wonderful place to have a little bit of each culture. So you’re really rounded as a person. The budget is failing there though.

So we moved here to Roseville and it forced me into another period in my life where I need to become more accepting. Understand that people don’t understand where I’m coming from all the time. This school has a lot of potential. The teachers care. I have so many hopes and dreams for the future. Now, I’m looking at business because I want to own properties. I also found BSU and I think it’s a beautiful thing. I really like getting in there and seeing black people that I can randomly say hi to. I really like the idea of networking with other black people.”

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Leave outside resources out of in-class lectures Online lectures defeat purpose of class time

BY RACHEL BARBER

r.barber@eyeofthetigernews.com

A

s the first quarter of my junior year draws to a close, I’m celebrating that I’ve only got one more quarter of my current four AP classes. However, I’ve discovered that there has been a common struggle within my courses of trying to balance a standard of preparation for AP exams and fully relying on outside resources to teach a class.

I was born in the year 2000. I was raised on technology. I grew up learning with eReaders and interactive computer games, but not without learning the value of a teacher.

I’m a firm believer in standardized grading and ensuring that the same course should be mapped

out in the same way, even if taught by different teachers . However, teachers shouldn’t use this excuse as a reason as to why they are using a powerpoint they found from a teacher in another state to teach their class.

As I write, I am referencing instances where students ask a question regarding the way information is laid out in front of them and a teacher has answered it with, “Yeah, this isn’t my test, powerpoint, worksheet, etc.” To me, this cannot be an excuse for improper teaching mechanisms.

I understand that a large part of the reason for the push to use outside materials in class is that some materials are made with the purpose of preparing students for an AP Exam.

I commend teachers for using outside sources to achieve this goal. And I don’t believe this decision reflects any laziness or bad intent because outsourced materials can be utilized in a classroom successfully.

However, there is a difference between using past AP exam essay prompts in class and per say relying on an out-of-state teacher’s webcam lecture on YouTube to

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teach the class.

I want my educators to be passionate and confident in the slides they’re reading from and understand the sentences on them because they wrote them – not because it was the first lesson that appeared on Google when they searched for anything that could help plan an effective lesson.

I also feel I am not alone in cherishing the importance of a human being putting the writing on a slide into dialogue for me as I listen to the lecture. I need anecdotes and analo-

gies and things that make a presentation worth listening to. I hate leaving a lecture feeling that I could have skipped class and copied the slides from Google Classroom and gotten the same level of understanding out of it.

Teachers, I am praising you for your ability to provide students with a greater understanding of a topic than a lone powerpoint ever could. But this praise is deserved only if you, yourselves, aren’t reading the slides word for word for the first time as you teach it to

us.

To a degree, I understand why a teacher would want to call upon these resources. Some are of high quality and, I assume, make lessonplanning just a little bit less tedious. And in this case, my wish would be that after you find that John Green video or find that pre-written test on the chapter we’re covering, that you go over it and make sure that it aligns with the way you teach.

It should never be the case that a teacher ever sits back and leaves a video to cover a subject alone and

moves on without ever commenting on it, period.

It should never be the case that a teacher administors an outsourced test and doesn’t go over the questions. I want the material being used to reflect you as teachers so that you can be just as passionate when you’re teaching someone else’s materials as when you’re teaching your own.

Us students are not all the same and may not learn the same way as that out-ofstate teacher’s students do.

And from my understanding of the world, as you grow into an adult, people don’t lose their diversification.

So in that way, people are not all like other people, students don’t learn like all other students and teachers are not like all other teachers. Ergo, sometimes a teacher relying on an outside source to teach their class ends up poorly for both the teacher and the students.

I praise the teachers who connect with students, the material and get into their own teaching style. And I commend all teachers for taking those responsibilities on. But teachers should teach their own material or, if not, successfully teach outsourced materials.

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Aging campus needs Measure D

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$13 million facilities upgrade plan suits campus needs

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f Measure D passes on the November ballot Roseville Joint Union High School District would recieve around a $96 million bond, $30 million of which will assist in constructing the sixth high school in West Roseville.

That leaves $63 million to the other five schools, with which the district is looking to accommodate site overcrowding, renew aged infrastructure and update facilities. It looks like the district is recognizing RHS’ age and granting us a larger portion of the bond to refurbish and update our campus. And for aged, outdated 104-year-old Roseville High School, these plans couldn’t be any more fitting.

RHS already targeted areas of improvement in anticipation for the approximately $13 million

each site will receive, areas which cater to a large span of students.

Perhaps the most prominent project is the plan to construct a new small gym and refurbish the surrounding pool area. P.E. classes and athletics use the gym and pool for class and practice, and both parties and administration find numerous safety hazards around the facilities. Between leaky roofs, slippery floors and the undeniable paranormal presence in the small gym, and the decaying concrete pool deck and limited crowd space in the pool area, these are wise expense made with the students’ safety in mind.

After replacing the rooftops on the 100 wing, or the art wing, administration is looking to continue improvements inside the 100 wing classrooms. The concrete floors, chalkboards

and paint-splattered sinks seem to match the authentic “art studio” environment, but there are other safety hazards we shouldn’t write off as replicating an “art studio.” On top of improving outdated infrastructure, which is already in the plans for the wing, replacing minor utilities such as unstable tables and cramped storage cabinets would make daily use of the facilities safer for students.

Hanson Field’s press box and snack bar area are also awaiting Measure D renovations, and for good reason. There’s no reason for any structure to be too small on the school’s largest facility, so the press box and snack bar are well deserving of the bond money.

Administration also plans to build a new restroom on the visitor side, which would not only benefit families during games but students at school.

The 800 wing is also getting updated to accomodate Project Lead The Way developments. This forward thinking is a responsible use of the funds because the facilities will not only be used intensively in the future but won’t need as much maintenance when the program grows in enrollment.

Since the measure is expediting the sixth high school’s construction, current sites using their money to refurbish the campuses instead of adding onto them or putting it into programs is the most responsible and proactive use possible.

Updating classrooms and learning equipment would be far more beneficial to students who remain after the new high school opens.

This article represents the views of the 2016-17 editorial board.

Address cultural insensitivity with bottom-up initiative Cultural sensitivity efforts need to target students

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oseville High School administration is taking steps to increase campus cultural sensitivity. This comes on the heels of similar efforts launched by the district last year. The need for further work at RHS is a telltale sign that the initial effort failed.

The workshops emerged last year after a racist prank between Oakmont High School students and a family the year prior. The work the school is embarking on here comes after an instance of alleged verbal racial slurs at the Homecoming football game and a racist social media post – RHS students were responsible for both incidents.

Two known instances of racism, both of which were relatively public, makes us wonder how much discrimination goes undetected.

Given this, it’s in every student’s best interest that the cultural sensitivity efforts make a comeback, but with a reformed target audience and approach to implementing the values they’ll teach.

Last year’s district-wide workshops were poorly attended, partially because they were held at a single site and partially because

they were after school and partially because attendance wasn’t enforced, all of which added up to produce ineffective efforts in improving cultural sensitivity.

It’s disappointing that this must remain a focus, but the district has an opportunity to reflect on and correct the original workshops’ flaws to make them more impactful. If we really want to see safer campuses, holding optional workshops at one site after school can’t be the most effective way to achieve this.

If RHS can prioritize academic intervention with a compulsory ROAR period as a part of the regular school day, the same priority should be shown on cultural sensitivity with mandated trainings. These new efforts need to engage students most importantly, but also be more accessible and convenient for families to attend.

This time around, to truly be effective, the process has to involve students, and it won’t work if its effectiveness depends on a few attendees to share the workshops teachings with high schoolers. And whether it’s holding periodic class assemblies during school, or holding the workshops at each site shortly after school or even distributing information from the meetings to students through flyers or emails, the efforts need to be geared toward directly reaching students.

Directly reaching students in cultural sensitivity

workshops would be a more impactful method than relying on staff to be in the right situation at the right time to apply their cultural wisdom. This is especially apparent considering how the two instances of discrimination occurred in settings in which teachers aren’t actively present: on social media and allegedly in the student section at a football game.

If we really want to see safer campuses, we can’t stick to this defensive effort, the passive publicity of which made it seem placative rather than preventionary. We can’t just revive these workshops with each instance of discrimination, invite families and staff and say “we tried,” because that is a cycle doomed to repeat itself.

The new efforts need to be an offensive, work from the bottom up and communicate with the root of the problems, the students, because it’s not staff being discriminatory online or in the student section or on family’s front lawns – it’s the students.

And it’s not staff who will always be present in these situations to prevent them from happening – it’s the students.

This doesn’t mean staff doesn’t have a place in these efforts, it means that whatever the efforts communicate needs to be relayed to students as well.

This article represents the views of the 2016-17 editorial board.

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EYEOFTHETIGERNEWS.COM · OCTOBER 24, 2016

Community college dilutes post-HS experience

BY KARLI DUGGER

k.dugger@eyeofthetigernews.com

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ver since last year, all I’ve been hearing from my parents, relatives, coaches, and many teachers and administrators is that I need to start deciding where I want to go to college, what I want to major in, and basically what my plan is for the rest of my life. I know I can speak on behalf of many students, because we all have a remarkable amount of pressure on us, are absolutely stressed out, and terrified to think that as a 16-year-old we are deciding our entire future and how the rest of our lives will play out after high school.

Now that most state colleges and universities have increased tuition prices, community college is becoming more and more popular and a more practical option for most students. Community college allows the student to pay less, stay close to home, and still get their general education class requirements met before they transfer to a college after two years.

But since more students are choosing the community college route due to the inflation of tuition prices at four-year colleges and universities, there has been an increase in the student population, causing many difficulties with getting general education classes because they are so full. Due to the overcrowding in the classroom, many students cannot complete their classes on time, falling into the “trap” of staying at a community college for more than two years, which most students

did not plan on doing.

Honestly, I have nothing against community college and I believe it could be a good thing for certain types of people, depending on what your degree is, what your learning style is, and how well you can handle going to school and be in large classes with possibly 15,000-30,000 students attending that school.

Community colleges do cut the cost in half and since you are close to home you also don’t have to worry about the cost of room and board, which accounts for the majority of costs for tuition.

This allows you to have less student debt when you graduate from college, but many will still have to transfer to a four year to complete their bachelor’s degree and end up paying the full college tuition price, but only for two years.

The credit from the classes you take at a community

college does transfer to your university, but since the level of teaching and classes differ in both size and difficulty at a university, it could cause problems with you adjusting to the different teaching styles.

Not only will each student then have to worry about credit, but you will have to worry about whether you can then get accepted into an university, whether you can afford to now live on your own and whether you can maintain the university or state college lifestyle.

The overall environment of a community college is much smaller and not as intense, which is fine.

But personally, I feel that community college is just a baby step up from high school. And now most high school students are fine with just settling for community college.

Like I said, community college is great for some students, but I believe

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most students that I have talked to about college have worked too hard throughout high school to be content with attending a community college, even for just two years.

As a student who has to balance out sports, a job, and difficult AP classes, I

feel like going to a university is very rewarding because I finally get to forget about high school and go to school for something I want to accomplish further on in life, making me more driven to go to a top university with classes that will benefit my future.

Pledge of Allegiance implications lost with repetition

BY DANIELLE BENNETT opinion@eyeofthetigernews.com

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f someone were to observe an average day at Roseville High School, they’d see barely-awake students muddle their way through a groggy first period and an unproductive session of ROAR before starting their second period class. And then they’d see all the students stand up like zombies to a meaningless monotone mantra. “I pledge allegiance, to the flag…”

Now, some people would

argue that the Pledge of Alegiance isn’t meaningless. They would say it’s a form of patriotism and demonstrates “love” or “appreciation” for the United States. And hey, I’m all for people showing their patriotic side. When I hear the national anthem, even my inner (and very well hidden) patriot peeks out for a couple of seconds. If the Pledge of Allegiance makes you feel something, if you believe every word with complete and total conviction, who am I to tell you otherwise?

The problem is, for the vast majority of people, the Pledge of Allegiance is meaningless. They do not think about the words that reach their ears or pass their

Minor events need equal promotion

BY NICOLE KHUDYAKOV opinion@eyeofthetigernews.com

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s a wide-eyed freshman, new to the confusing world of high school and its many intricacies, I knew the date of the spirit rally and football game weeks before it was scheduled to happen – despite never before having any interest in school spirit or football. This is because, arguably, nothing is more talked about and publicized in a high school than major sporting events and events that promote school spirit.

For good reason, of course, as they directly relate to school activities and the like.

But this also leaves more minor events from reaching out and getting into the public eye.

NaNoWriMo (an unfamiliar title to, I’d wager, many students and even faculty members in this school) stands for National Novel Writing Month and

it begins on the first of November, 12 days from now.

The event, which encourages daily writing habits by aiming towards a goal of 50,000 words by the end of the month, is available for people worldwide to participate.

It gives students a semieducational way to unwind (in the way that teachers can only dream of) and establishes healthy writing habits. And who knows, maybe the habits cultivated from NaNo will one day begin pertaining to studying and homework too.

Despite all of that, it has so far received very little coverage outside of the Writers of Tomorrow Club - the largest planned gathering of people people to participate in over 6 years, since the last creative writing club was formed.

By neglecting having the media cover this event in any way (without even any mention of it during announcements) it falls upon a few ‘in the know’ students to advertise. In other words, a group who have limited access to the rest of the school have no choice but to do so themselves, as nobody else is going to.

Because if the school re-

lips. They comprehend the lyrics to songs on the radio more than the words of promise they make everyday. And this fact, more than any other, is frightening, because they are swearing off their life and they don’t even know it.

By pledging allegiance to a country a person makes a promise to be loyal, committed, and obedient to that country. Most students are told to say the pledge as soon as they can speak, and reaffirm it every day after. Why not have students vote, drink, drive at that age too, since they are so capable of making informed decisions?

Of course, by the time students reach high school, they are probably educated

enough to comprehend what “allegiance” means, and might even be able to piece together the definition of pledging allegiance.

But the students don’t piece it together, because at that point it is so ingrained in their minds that they do what is asked of them without thought or question.

The pledge of allegiance is a rather poor attempt at indoctrinating people into loyalty. However, the students do not think about the words enough to believe them. The brainwash is only skin deep, and merely serves to put students at risk for undervaluing allegiance and wastes everyone’s time.

Then there are the actual words of the pledge.

“One nation under god” is

mains determined to focus on gatherings and competitions that draw the biggest crowds, there are very few opportunities for RHS students to learn of other existing developments. Certainly not with ‘word of mouth’ as that is the best way for misinformation to end up spreading.

Coverage of significant events occurring in the school is all well and good, especially when they affect so many students. But overcompensation and leaving these developments in the spotlight for too long blinds students to the rest of the opportunities available to them.

As it seems that the unequal levels of coverage only encourage other developments and gatherings to be forgotten or have opportunities be taken for granted, as the spirit days and football games overshadow others to the point that they are no longer visible through the (metaphorical) clouds.

Why should more events that may attract a smaller group of people, be forced to make room in RHS’ school media for those that seem to be more valued?

People gripe and argue about giving everyone equal opportunity in this school, but that looks like it no longer include events and matters that may be attractive to a smaller - though no less important - group of people.

Disrespect destroys chemistry between band and Tiger Cage

BY DEAN EFSTATHIU

opinion@eyeofthetigernews.com

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or the 2016-2017 school year of Roseville High School many new changes have been made to create a better school and fun environment for students. One of those changes is the Tiger Band being moved right next to the Tiger Cage.

The Tiger Cage has always been a crazy place during football games.

There's constant yelling, cheering and the occasional foul word(s). The Tiger Cage has proven to be one of the best places to cheer during a Tiger football game in order to get the best experience.

The Tiger band has been at this school for the longest time and is a crucial piece to the exciting Friday Night Lights. The band plays great songs and gets people in the right mood to cheer and it pumps the players up as well. The RHS band

a little presumptuous. Roseville High is a school full of diversity and the United States is a country that guarantees people religious freedom. To say we are under god is to disregard the beliefs of people who practice certain religions or are non-religious. And by having those people participate, you force them to go against their beliefs.

However, none of this actually matters because students do not have to take part in the pledge of allegiance, right? Even if all the other students stand, you can still opt to stay seated.

After all, it is a well known fact that peer pressure does not affect the decisions of high-schoolers whatsoever.

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is an important factor to the Friday games.

This year, RHS principal David Byrd has moved the section of where the band sits next to the Tiger Cage.

This has been so far looking like a great idea, because both of those sections are two of the most important factors of making Friday game nights fun.

For the past couple of home games the idea was working out. This was a good thing because other school have done this and made their school’s spirit increase throughout the game.

Though, not everything is as perfect as it seems. There have been a lot of misbehaving and inappropriate behavior occurring during the games. This ranges from the foul language to throwing things at the band section.

This is just inappropriate and sends the wrong message to the parents and our visiting team about our school and who attends it.

The band doesn't deserve to be mistreated during games by the Tiger Cage. The two sections have the same goals, to get everybody fired up and be excited for our schools team and they

pletely independent of social conformity and are not at all self-conscious. All you students who don’t want to act like brainwashed drones should just push down your insecurities and go against the social norm, forsaking the minimal effort it takes to fit in. Because that is going to happen.

The Pledge of Allegiance may be optional officially, but the rules of conformity say otherwise. And consequently, even people who do not want to participate are likely to go along with it anyway. Worst of all, the problem won’t even be mentioned, because most students don’t know it’s there. They are too busy following protocol to bother to think for themselves.

should being working together.

Byrd has hopes to have both band and Tiger Cage to work together and create cheers to make the spirit better on Friday nights. The idea of unison is fantastic, having the band play a song and then the Tiger Cage does a cheer relating to the song or vice-versa.

This would be a great idea if the two could get along. The synchronized song and cheers could also intimidate the opposing team and give our team the boost of excitement to win the game.

Students in the Tiger Cage need to set aside their differences and either work with or ignore the band. But don’t actively harass band members, because they aren’t doing anything to deserve it.

Basically everything has to fall into place for this to work, but too many students in the Tiger Cage have created tension by harassing the band and ruining the whole point of Friday Night Lights.

Until the inappropriate behavior ends, the band and Tiger Cage will continue to resist what could be a great combination.

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EYEOFTHETIGERNEWS.COM · OCTOBER 24, 2016

New support calls paid tutors into question Students should join Tiger Tutoring for experience, not money

BY ANILA LIJO

a.lijo@eyeofthetigernews.com

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iger Tutoring does not have any place this year with the introduction of ROAR and strict academic detention policies conducted by some teachers. If we do have to have it, students shouldn’t be paid for tutoring.

I have nothing against the idea of tutoring. All I am saying is that why spend a lot of money on something that kind of already exists this year with the inclusion of the priority period.

Tutors are being paid $11 an hour, which is a dollar above the minimum wage across the state of California. I’m not angry because the tutors are being paid a dollar above minimum wage, but are they really needed?

But then again this question is directed toward administration - why invest a lot of money in the Tiger Tutoring program when students are getting enough support during school hours like ROAR? Until last year, Tiger Tutoring was underutilized and there was an average of 10 students per day according to last year’s Tiger Tutoring adviser. Tutors were hard to come by as well, because they weren’t paid.

I believe that student tutors should not be paid because I feel like it should be something that the students should be interested in and money should not be a factor is any of this. In other

words, don’t do something for the sake of doing it, but do it because helping others makes you happy.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Tiger Tutoring should not exist at RHS, but I think that it should be much of a voluntary work rather than students being paid.

The district should use this money instead on developing or starting new programs in schools like starting a wood shop class or building a bigger student parking lot.

This year there was a lot more competition for the job. The only reason I can think of why that happened is because they are being paid $11 an hour.

Money should not be an “attractive” factor to do Tiger Tutoring. And I know it’s not what most people want to hear, but I think administration decided to pay for this program so that they could expand the scope of Tiger Tutoring and get more kids to be involved in it.

Rather than allow it to grow or die on its own, they forced it to grow.

More than anything, I am trying to see if the program is really helping students. I mean think about it, what’s the point of wasting a lot of money on this program if it’s not benefitting the students who attend the session? Wasn’t the program created for that sole purpose of helping students?

Yes, you can argue that it’s after school and that it provides job opportunities for students who have a hard time finding jobs. But then again, you shouldn’t consider this as a job but rather a service that you are happy to do so for students who need help.

Extra, afterschool help anything but redundant

BY WAFEEQ RIDHUAN

w.ridhuan@eyeofthetigernews.com

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iger Tutoring is an additional resource available to students seeking additional academic assistance. Currently, the program provides an average of three tutors Tuesday through Thursday after school.

First off, let’s make it clear that if the school decides to maintain an after school tutoring program while introducing an intervention period during the school day to provide even more academic support, clearly, it’d be ignorant for us to assume that

all students are receiving “enough” support.

The entire purpose of intervention period is to provide additional academic support during the school day. This implies that preceding its implementation, RHS staff had sufficient information to rationalize that the school wasn’t providing as much academic support as they can for their students.

But just because the intervention period is implemented, it doesn’t necessarily invalidate the value of Tiger Tutoring. RHS wouldn’t be “wasting” money on a program that sincerely benefits students, especially if it’s financially possible.

If hypothetically, 10 students attended Tiger Tutoring, is that sufficient reason to eliminate the program?

If you want to eliminate a

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program solely based on attendance, you’re effectively denying students an opportunity to seek additional help based on one factor and without taking into account the bigger picture.

However, attendance isn’t an issue for the program. Prior to midterms, Tiger Tutoring averaged around twenty to thirty students.

The program is effective in providing a variety of assistance to students who need it, such as varying levels of mathematics and physical science.

A part of this effectiveness comes from the fact that the program can provide an average of three tutors each day. And additional tutors during the weeks before midterms and finals. This allows students to have one-on-one access with other students who can easily offer additional academic assistance. The idea of having students assisting other students can be comforting to those who realize that they have the support

of their peers.

Tiger Tutors are provided training that covers responsibilities, professional etiquette, and methods for tutoring.

To view Tiger Tutoring as unsuccessful or even worthy of being considered for elimination is ludicrous and ignorant. Instead of asking whether the program is doing enough, why not ask, what can they do more?

RHS is clearly capable in providing a variety of programs for a variety of students. RHS has AVID for those seeking guidance for college preparation.

The school also introduced programs such as Project Lead the Way and a computer science pathway. These programs align themselves as courses that can adequately prepare students for college and career success.

If RHS is capable of providing and supporting a variety of programs, and is financially adept to do so, why would anybody want to take that away?

Students fortunate to take part in rich school history

BY JOHNNY MULLIGAN

j.mulligan@eyeofthetigernews.com

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ver 70 people during the 2016/2017 transferred into Roseville High School from other schools in the district.

This is the highest number of intradistrict transfers.

Somehow, despite the highest transfer rates, people still try to talk badly about the school. The numbers prove the haters wrong. RHS is at one of its highest points in its 100 years, almost breaking 2000 students.

After the varsity football team’s first loss against Antelope High School, two RHS students - who spent the entire game on the visitors side - mocked us as we were walking towards the locker room.

Not only would that be a poor reflection of character if you actually attended AHS, they are our classmates and they still decided

to mock us. The best part is that the following Monday one of the girls tweeted “Bella Vista is about to get murked on Friday.” Now they can be our fans and pretend they weren’t making fun of us the Friday before.

If you can’t handle us at our worst, you don’t deserve us at our best.

All jokes aside, RHS is the best school in the district, but always gets made fun of by people who have never even been on campus.

They know RHS through the people they met and they are only talking to the kids who hated RHS, the select few who hate RHS and did transfer out.

This is like asking a group of protesters how they feel about something, obviously the results will not be representing the general population.

We have an extremely unique campus that is shaped by 100 years of development on the hill. Just the location is better than all other schools - we are sandwiched between the train tracks, which the entire town was built around, and the 150 year old cemetary in which the first settlers of our beloved town

were buried in.

Downtown Roseville is a short walk away with fantastic restaurants and events.

Everyday after school we see the elementary school kids walking home. I went to Spanger and it always reminds me of the simpler times.

We embrace the community having our Homecoming parades go through local parts of the city. Most schools’ never leave campus. On top of that, if you ever drive by campus, there will be something happening.

The school is never silent.

Little league at Richards after school and water polo before school, there is never a dull moment.

On campus RHS is, again, unique to say the least. The population is the second most diverse of the district and even then our students can gel with each other.

People who come here almost always speak of how cliqued their old campus was and how much better RHS is in that respect.

We have a cement amphitheater showing where the original football stadium stood and buildings ranging from 90 years to 10 years old. Even though

the small gym is fairly wellin a row. Girls volleyball is used and really old, it shows having a stellar year once the change in generations. again. Tennis has had major They used to have bleachers success this year making it lifted above the court, and into playoffs. Boys volleysoon we will have a new ball dominated last year, gym with bleachers differalong with boys golf. ent than even the big gym’s.

In the last 10 years, RHS If you look at who buildhas doubled the passing ings are named after they all rates of socioeconomically date back to the distant past, disadvantaged students with the excepand AP passing tion of some rates have reof the newer mained strong I promise throughout AP buildings.

RHS has you’ll miss the classes even like a hundred with the addipeople, the tion of many clubs, from Brony Club teachers and and the proto Conspiracy of all especially the motion Club there is students to try muffins. at least one AP truly something for every single class. student on campus.

Students who do not go And many of these clubs to RHS can’t possibly judge are based upon improvthe school when they’ve ing their classmates lives never experienced its glory. rather than a shared interStudents who have bad est. RAMI wants to support experiences are isolated students with mental illness examples and maybe had and Tiger Pride strives to run ins with the few people include all students in acat RHS that I wish would tivities. leave.

People also try to bag on Does your school have our sports teams, but this an alma mater? Does your year we have been kicking school have bomb shelters? ass and taking names. FootYou can see the different ball is set to go 9-1, which generations in the develhasn’t happened in over 20 opment of the school. Go years. Girls golf is league to the library and look at champs for the second year the yearbooks. You’ll see

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the hairstyles change and the school. Just looking up in the gym the history of sports can be seen. Football all over, Badminton in the 80s and maybe skiing in the future.

My parents graduated from RHS about 30 years ago and have been around it their entire lives watching it grow and help shape the community. From when my dad snuck into the pool on a hot summer’s day to when my mom cheered at her last Homecoming game, they have nothing but positive memories.

RHS is a pillar of the community around it and even though the school has changed through the years, it remains a welcoming school. We are happy to welcome anyone into our arms to replace the wolf ears with tiger claws.

In the end, if you really hate RHS that much and complain about the school around the district, just leave. Plenty of other people want to be here and be spirited and be a Tiger.

Make room for the kids who want to be here and do everyone the favor of leaving. I promise you’ll miss the people, the teachers and especially the muffins.

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Band starts off season on high note Lopes places second in competition at Del Oro by sam toomey

s.toomey@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Roseville High School band placed first in their division in each of their first competitions this season.

Although the band dropped to A division this year because of a drop in band members, their scores surpass those of larger bands in higher divisions.

Tiger Marching Band drum major Amanda Lopes also placed second out of 22 drum majors in the band’s competition at Del Oro, scoring a 90 out of 100.

According to Lopes, her second place rank in the competition was unexpected and inspired her to strive improve even further.

“It wasn’t [my] cleanest performance personally,”

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Tiger Band ended two competitions placing first in their divisions. Drum Major senior Amanda Lopes attributes the band’s success to hard work, confidence and motivation. competing, and their unity boosts their performance.

“I see them looking up at me and I can feel the energy in their excitement, and that boosts my energy and my performance, we

just feed off each other with our energy,” Lopes said.

According to Lopes, the dedication of the band enthusiasm of the band is what she depends on to

compete.

“Without them and their hard work and commitment to the band program itself, we would be nowhere and I would be nowhere,” Lopes said. “I definitely rely on

them.”

Lopes also attributes the time she has spent practicing and learning from experienced Drum Majors to her success this year.

Lopes pursued camps

and outside practice to become a drum major.

According to Lopes, being in an environment with skilled and professional drum majors is inspirational.

“I’ve gotten feedback from people who’ve professionally done drumming majors and who are judges and so I just try to take all of the feedback I get and keep pushing myself,” Lopes said.

According to RHS Band director Matt Koutney, Lopes’ work ethic and and dedication to improvement is what makes her a stand out drum major.

“She’s really great, she’s aware of all the small details that we talk about and she takes it to heart and she practices it and she’s a perfectionist,” Koutney said. “It’s never quite good enough for her.”

According to Lopes, her success in the band’s last performance gives her the confidence and motivation to continue to succeed and improve at the band’s final competition is at Folsom high school on Oct. 29.

Junior entertains friends with original anime recap act by blake Beaman

b.beaman@eyeofthetigernews.com

Junior Tyler Sackett, with his interest in both graphic novels and performing, has started his own act which is known as Longbox of the Damned.

In his performances, Sackett plays a ghoul by the name of Morate and reviews horror comics.

Sackett bases his performances off of his favorite YouTuber, Louis Lefebvre.

“This is based off an Internet show with the same name, which was created by a guy called Louis Lefebvre,” Sackett said. “I commented on one of his videos asking ‘could I do this for this month because I love Halloween?’ and he

said ‘go ahead.’”

Sackett has put in hours of preparation for his performances, many of which come at home after school hours.

“I also walk around my house and perform Morate’s voice in a European accent,” Sackett said.

“I got myself a top hat, a cloak, made my own black box, and got a bunch of horror comics that I have.”

Sackett’s hard work has paid off, as he performs at lunch every Tuesday-Friday and has gotten a lot of positive feedback from his peers and teachers - especially from drama teacher Ashley White.

“A lot of people loved it, Ms. White especially loves it,” Sackett said.

“They like how energetic

I am, how I talk about the comic and how I express it.”

A few of Sackett’s performances have influenced his audience members to check out and read some of the comics that he retells. Freshman Tanner Beasom was introduced to the anime graphic novel Death Note from Sackett’s performance.

“I started reading Death Note. [I was intrigued] by how Tyler presented them and gave the back story,” Beasom said. “The personality he conveys on stage made it interesting.”

This is an accomplishment for Sackett and makes him proud that he can share his enthusiasm about Halloween and his interest with others.

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Junior Tyler Sackett performs during second lunch in the JB Gale theater in front of friends and audience members Tuesday through Friday. Taking on a charater of his own creation, Sacket reacps and gives a synopsys of his favorite anime novels while encouraging others to read them.

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Student rocks alternative punk looks

by gabi hutson

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

What would you say inspires your style?

Well I used to be pretty goth as a lot of people know, but that just got really time consuming so I started taking inspiration from the “tumblr grunge” scene.

I’ll admit that there is nothing I want more than to be a tumblr kid honestly.

I really love fall colors and plaid flannels and ripped jeans and beanies, just basic alternative kid stuff.

Besides just tumblr what else inspire you?

I really like the pop punk style a lot, the almost lazy style of alternative is

my biggest inspiration.

What exactly draws you to the alternative aesthetic?

The aesthetic of it I think.

There’s something really just euphoric about the image of alternative people and alternative music.

It reminds me of coffee and rainy weather.

Your friends all also very alternative. Do you guys bond over it or empower each other?

Yeah my friends are all “edgy teens” which is pretty cool because we all like the same music and I always borrow my friends clothes.

Funny enough my guys friends borrow clothes from each other which isn’t common for some reason.

Yeah but we all kinda

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Dodson ebraces gruge asthetic in her fashion choices, inpsired by “Tumblr grunge.” and alternative pop punk styles. like the same things and the same style.

It feels like I belong and I’m not judged for the way I look or the music I like.

What sort of advice would you have for some-

one who wants more of an edgy style but is afraid to do something that’s kind of out there?

I would say just to go for it.

Even if it strays from what you’re used to, as long as you think you look good.

Ghost Story Podcast intrigues listeners

by SOPhia cook

s.cook@eyeofthetigernews.com

If you're anything like me, you love hearing about people paranormal experiences. There's something extremely fascinating about listening to someone recount a haunting and give their interpretation. That's precisely why I love listening to Real Ghost Stories Online so much. This podcast airs daily and consists of the two hosts Tony and Jenny Brewski reading emails or listening to call in stories sent by listeners.

The stories encompass all types of paranormal phenomena; supernatural, demonic, possessions,

ghost investigations, haunted houses, shadow people, unexplained and more.

I personally think this is one of the best paranormal podcasts out there. If you're someone who enjoys discussing the paranormal more than hearing about it, after every story the hosts discuss the possibility of it being explained my natural events, the causes, if they believe it, and overall just give their thoughts on the specific story.

I enjoy having this podcast on sort of in the background while I do work, clean, get ready etc.

Its nice white noise but the kind that you actually pay attention to.

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Halloween TV specials invade screens Scream Halloween special sets stage for next season

Rocky Horror remake takes modern twist

BY NATE NGUYEN

n.nguyen@eyeofthetigernews.com

BY GABE TOWNSEND

g.townsend@eyeofthetigernews.com

Last week, FOX aired a Rocky Horror Picture Show special that allowed us to do the time warp again. The TV special is a remake of the classic cult musical. Going into this I did not think that I was going to be very thrilled but to my surprise I was pretty impressed.

Considering that the original had people flocking to theatres weekly in costume as the characters and standing up mid film to perform the song and dance numbers it makes it seem as if an equally good remake would be impossible but this remake is oh -so-close.

I only found a few errors but the cast does an extraordinary job at portraying the characters and every scene felt like an update to the classic. The sets, camera shots, musical performances, everything was fresh but not unrecognizable.

Former Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice gave an exceptional perfor-

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FOX’s remake of The Rocky Horror Picture show feautured a stellar cast with Victoria Justice, Adam Lambert and Laverne Cox. This remake was a modern twist on the classic, cult - followed picture. mance as Janet and Ryan McCartan served a great performance as the nerdy and spazzy Brad. One thing I found very entertaining was Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

She played the character very well and really put through what Tim Curry showed as the original Frank-N-Furter. Not to mention she is a transgender woman playing a transgender roll. Tim Curry as well made a guest appearance as the criminologist.

I think the lowest part of this was how Hollywood it was. It sometimes felt like things were too overdone.

For example the scene when Eddie, played by Adam Lambert, comes back. His performance felt very flashy and wasn’t super similar to the original.

The story of Rocky Horror Picture Show is an odd one. If you’re into horror movies and musicals then this movie is for you.

It’s a perfect mix between the two. Another thing I found to be a

problem was the remake being kind of too cheesy at some points. It feels like parts that should have been more serious or frightening is kind of made out to be funny or not serious.

I understand that Rocky Horror is a campy film but sometimes it felt s if the remake was straining itself to convey that aspect of the original.

I think this is a good remake. They did a good job at transferring an original and classic musical into modern times.

DireWorld merge proves successful by claire oertly

c.oertly@eyeofthetigernews.com

Each October at Roseville’s Placer County Fairgrounds, Callson Manor had been the top notch place to get scared and in the mood for Halloween.

This year, Callson Manor has joined with and been renamed DireWorld.

In the past I have been to Callson Manor and the haunts from DireWorld this time around seemed similar to last years. Having gone in them before, they were a bit predictable but still remained just as bone-chilling. The layout of the scare park was also familiar to years before but the scenery was haunting and Halloween-esque as any horror junky would hope for. They had a lot of people dressed up and scaring random people

who were either waiting in line or just in their sight. The key to avoiding contact with them: show no fear. The same rule applied in the houses because in the haunts they are much more talkative and do not try to scare you as much if you don’t show fear.

Malice was the trippiest one of all, as it comes with 3D glasses to enhance the black light glow in the dark setting that is similar to Alice in Wonderland.

It used to be clown based, but this year it had a variety of creatures like a venus fly trap and rabbits coming out of the depths of the 3D haunt.

Dark Realm was one of the scarier ones in which you start by going through a blown up balloon-like hallway that was pitch black with very close walls. They ask you

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Callson Manor has joined with DireWorld to create a haunted attraction extravaganza featuring the famous hawk bearing women (above) and other character employees this Oct. if you’re claustrophobic before entering though which is quite understandable. The rest of the haunt remains pitch black and they give you a tiny flashlight to see while people hide in the shadows.

This year a new attrac-

tion, Panic, featured an interactive escape puzzle room where you work as a team. DireWorld is a good local place to get spooked and scared by strangers in costume and enjoy lots of food and drinks throughout the night.

DUST OFF THE REEL

by gabi hutson

g.hutson@eyeofthetigernews.com

I believe Alfred Hitchcock was deemed The master of suspense after his 1960 slasher flick Psycho.

For anyone who is familiar with Hitchcock and his style you’d agree.

There are so many things that make this movie iconic. The shower scene with Marion Crane that still makes me afraid to close my eyes when I wash my hair. Or the “Norma Bates is dead??” Scene.

Anthony Hopkins as Norman Bates is one of the best on screen performances I have ever seen. He made a mad man lovable. I

Psycho (1960)

mean it couldn’t have been just me that felt a little bad for him in the end? I also have to give props to Freddie Highmore who plays Norman in the spin-off series Bates Motel.

And don’t get me started on Janet Leigh as Marion Crane.

She had about 30 minutes of screen

Following the cult classic film franchise Scream rebooted the slasher in the form of a two season series. The show felt more like Pretty Little Liars with gore, more than an adaptation of of the iconic Scream. The show relied on nostalgic references to classic horror films, provocative scenes, and high school drama to draw you in just enough to care when a character was killed off.

As the story unfolded the series became more and more predictable, and began losing what attracted people to watch the show. Most episodes had a clever and convenient monologue by one of the main characters Noah that acknowledges the viewer, why the show is intriguing, plots holes, and predictions backed by catchy music that is reminiscent of classic horror movies that provides a subtle break of the fourth wall that makes the show different from the cheesy horror flick.

The two hour Halloween special premiered

on October 18, and did disappoint. The show lost everything that made the show bearable to watch.

The first two seasons felt like Pretty Little Liars, and the Halloween special felt like a live action ScoobyDoo. The entire plot, besides 5 minutes of the two hour special, was irrelevant to the characters and the plot of the story.

The Lakewood crew travels to an island for a getaway that happens to have, get this, a murderer who is conveniently obsessed with the main character. Viewers predicted right off the bat who the killer was, and made many viewers realize that since the end of season one, the only characters that die are characters that have been recently introduced.

The special made viewers worry about season three, considering the original show runners are withdrawing from the show before they begin filming the third season.

Season three is set for only six episodes and is likely the final season.

time (scream time?) and yet she is still the second most iconic character of the film.

Now Rihanna is playing her in the final season of Bates Motel.

If that doesn’t say iconic I don’t know what does.

Speaking of Bates Motel I think it’s safe to

say that it’s one of the best shows on TV currently.

Watching the movie after having a deeper knowledge of Norman’s mind makes Psycho that much more thrilling. But I feel as if the show lacks authenticity.

Vera Farmiga plays a very loving and understanding Norma Bates and had that actually been the case I feel as if Norman wouldn’t have become the enigma he is.

What’s really so odd about Psycho is how it’s terrifying with a minimum of jump scares and slashing for a so-called slasher flick.

It gets to you in a psychological manner which I suppose the names suggest.

Student broadens audience with gigs Junior Alyssa Abbot has been playing the saxophone and participating in school band for six years. She also performs outside of school.

by SOPHiA COOK

everywhere and thats why I really enjoy playing.

Did anything draw you specifically to the saxophone?

To be honest with you my fifth grade teacher sort of asked if I wanted to play the trumpet or the sax, so I just said the saxophone.

You played gigs outside of school, how long have you been doing that for?

About two years, it’s becoming to be more professional as I play around.

My latest gig was at Copper for K_ids which was a charity event, it was very formal but very fun.

s.cook@eyeofthetigernews.com

Do you ever regret not choosing the latter?

Honestly I’ve always wanted to play a brass instrument but that’s only because we don’t have a lot of brass instruments in our band, but not too much because I consider saxophone one of the most versatile out of all the instruments.

Because you see sax players playing jazz, you can play classical pieces, full ensemble stuff so saxaphone is pretty much

So what’s the difference between playing with the band and doing formal gigs?

I personally enjoy doing gigs more. Obviously the one main difference is the money involved but that isn’t a big deal to me.

When I go out to gig it’s a personal thing and I’m getting myself out there but when I’m with the band I’m getting us out there, doing gigs is much more flexible.

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ESPAÑOL NOTICIAS Lo que es considerado bullying de acuerdo al código de California POR AMY ADAMSON

a.adamson@eyeofthetigernews.com

Tres estudiantes en Roseville High School fueron suspendidos en las primeras semanas de este año escolar por el acto de intimidar a alguien mentalmente y la investigación de una pelea. Los tres estudiantes y los padres, se están preguntando acerca de la falta de la política de suspensión, también se preguntan lo que RHS considera bullying.

Estudiante en su tercer año, Paige Pickard fue suspendida por tres días y fue puesta en conducto para el resto de este semestre después de editar un video de una pelea con música y mandandolo a un estudiante en su tercer año, Gabriela Robles, quien lo puso en el internet, que también resultó en una suspensión de tres días.

De acuerdo a Pickard, Robles le preguntó si ella podía editar el video para poder ponerlo en el internet. Cuando Pickard le mando la versión editada a

DEPORTES Robles, utilizó la palabras, “publícalo,” que es considerado un acto de abuso, de acuerdo a Pipitone.

“No siento que mi suspensión fue justificado. Yo entiendo que lo que hice fue incorrecto y entiendo que nunca debí de editar ese video,” dijo Pickard.

“Es difícil recuperar de mis acciones, solo por editar un video y mandandole a alguien que lo publique, aunque la verdad es que nunca le dije a alguien que lo suba.”

El código de la educación de California 48900 describe bullying como, “cualquier acto grave o penetrante o conducto, incluyendo comunicaciones realizadas por escrito o hechas por un aparato electrónico.”

De acuerdo al Director Byrd, la escuela sigue un resumen de disciplina del código de la educación de California, y de alli, los cuatro asistentes del director deciden cuál es la consecuencia apropiada para el estudiante dependiendo en el caso.

“Tenemos que tener un tipo de regla, y el Código Educacional de California provee estas reglas,” dijo Byrd.

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KALE JIBSON EYE OF THE TIGER

En la foto de arriba se encuentra la sala de prensa en que si la medida D se aprueba, la sala será renovada.

La nueva propuesta de RJUHSD para las escuelas del distrito POR ALEXX DOOLITTLE

a.doolittle@eyeofthetigernews.com

Medida D fue una propuesta del distrito de Roseville Joint Union High School para la votación en noviembre del 2016. Si la medida es aprobada, el distrito espera recaudar fondos para reparar y mejorar preparatorias locales y construir la nueva preparatoria en el oeste de Roseville.

Esta medida pide a los dueños de casas en el distrito, que esten de acuerdo con pagar taxes basados en los impuestos del valor de sus hogares para poder ahorrar

$96 millón de dólares.

Superintendente en Roseville Joint Union High School District, Ron Severson, cree que sobre población, infraestructura vieja, y la incorporación de instalaciones educacionales del siglo 21, son los problemas más importantes que la medida se dirigirá.

El distrito lo hace claro al público que, si la medida aprueba, todos los ingresos se quedarían dentro de la comunidad. El dinero no será quitada por el estado ni será utilizado para los salarios de los administradores.

Si aprueba, cada preparatoria en el distrito está garantizada por lo menos un $13 millón de dólares, para las escuelas locales.

POR JACK ROSETTI

j.rosetti@eyeofthetigernews.com

El profesor de Biología y Ciencias del Medioambiente AP en Roseville High School, CJ Addington, ha tenido su tortuga, Jeffrey, en su clase por más que 20 años.

“Cuando yo comencé a enseñar, hace 24 años, había un profesor que se llama Bob Vlasic. Supongo que sus hijos tenían la tortuga y por cualquier razón, no lo pudieron mantener y el me preguntó si yo estaba interesado en tomarlo como mascota,” dijo Addington. “Años han pasado y la tortuga es todavia nuestra mascota de clase.”

Jeffrey se interactúa con los estudiantes en las clases de Biología y Ciencias del Medioambiente AP. De acuerdo a estudiante en su último año Haley Littlejohn, Jeffrey es el sugeto de nuestros laboratorios.

“Nosotros usamos su tanque de pescados y sacamos datos para nuestros laboratorios. Lo usamos cada otra semana,” dijo Littlejohn.

La conexión entre los estudiantes y Jeffrey es evidente por la participación y vitalidad de Jeffrey, de acuerdo al estudiante en su

POR GEORGE HUGHES

g.hughes@eyeofthetigernews.com

El equipo de fútbol americano aseguró un lugar en los playoffs con su victoria por 57-0 contra Bella Vista.

Desde entonces, el enfoque ha estado en los tigres de seguir ganando con el fin de luchar por una mejor siembra en la postemporada y quedar en una posición buena como para pasar a la final.

Esta motivación los empujó para superar a Whitney High School, que fueron previamente invictos en la liga, con un resultado de 35-14.

Poniendo la mira a los finales, los jugadores se sienten seguros de sus habilidades. Con la excepción de su partido contra Antelope que siguen invictos, los jugadores se han destacado por el lado ofensivo y defensivo del balón.

Estar en 7-1 en general, tienen el segundo mejor ataque y defensa en toda la CVC, en términos estadísticos, después de tener una marca de 283 puntos y sólo permitiendo 133. Esa marca los hace estar solo un poco atrás de los Titans.

Los Tigres continuarán jugar para una mejor posición en los playoffs.

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REPORTAJES Jeffrey, la mascota de profesor Addington y sus clases de ciencias

FOOTBALL

VOLEIBOL

último año Sean Granucci.

“Yo pienso que Jeffrey es una gran parte de nuestra clase,” dijo Granucci.

“Nuestra clase tiene buena química con Jeffrey.”

POR KARLI DUGGER Y KYLIE IRWIN

sports@eyeofthetigernews.com

Estudiantes de intercambio son bienvenidos POR JAKE LITTLEJOHN

TARAH JOHNSON EYE OF THE TIGER

j.littlejohn@eyeofthetigernews.com

Este año, varios estudiantes de intercambio han llegado ha Roseville High School. Estudiantes en su tercer año, Javier Jasso y Alberte Schaeffner, han llegado desde otros países a los Estados Unidos para aprender ingles y ganar conocimiento de los estudiantes en América.

“Estoy definitivamente aprendiendo ingles mas rápido aquí en América que en España.” dijo Jasso.

Jasso se va quedar aqui por diez meses y eventualmente está planeando asistir la universidad aquí en los Estados Unidos. Durante su tiempo aquí, Jasso se han quedado con una familia por esos diez meses. La familia que tendrá a Jasso en su casa por esos diez meses es la familia Reilly.

De acuerdo a Jasso, escuela aquí en América es diferente que en España.

Jasso le gusta el horario más en España que aquí en los estados Unidos.

En la foto de arriba se encuentra estudiante de intercambio, Javier Jasso y Kate Reilly con quien Jasso vive.

“En España, tenemos ocho clases cada día en vez de cuatro,” dijo Jasso. “Yo pienso que tener menos clases en el dia permite más tiempo en la clase y ayuda del profesor.”

Jasso cree que hay mas cosas diferentes en América, fuera de la escuela.

“Todo aquí es diferente, todo es mucho más grande comparado ha Espana,” dijo Jasso. “La comida, la escuela, los edificios, todo es enorme.”

De acuerdo a Jasso, muchos de los estudiantes han sido muy amigables hacia el. Estudiantes de la escuela de Roseville High School se han acercado a el en una manera que lo hace sentir como en casa. Otro estudiante de intercambio que ha venido a América es Alberte Schaeffner, estudiante en su tercer año.

Schaeffner se va a quedar con tres familias durante toda su quedada aqui, pero

a este momente, ella se está quedando en la casa de estudiante en su último año, Sarah Fong.

De acuerdo a Schaeffner, la escuela en Denmark es más diferente que aquí en los estados porque estudiantes no cambian de salas de clases, más bien los profesores son los que cambian. Esta técnica es utilizada para que los estudiantes puedan estar juntos todo el año escolar.

“En Dinamarca, solo tenemos una clase en que nos quedamos todo el dia, los profesores son los que se mueven de sala a sala, no los estudiantes,” dijo Schaeffner.

De acuerdo a Schaeffner, estudiantes se han involucrado con ella durante su quedada aquí y la han hecho sentir bienvenida.

“Personas aquí son muy atrevidos, y curiosos, quieren saber cosas acerca de mí.”dijo Schaeffner.

El equipo de voleibol de mujeres está empatada con Cosumnes Oaks por el segundo puesto en la conferencia de Capital Valley.

Con el puesto de desempate en vista.

El equipo está listo para enfrentarse con los Ponderosa Bruins, quienes están empatados con los Bella Vista Broncos por el tercer puesto, esta noche, y si les

je a la postemporada.

Estudiante en su tercer año, Jessica Donahue, siente que el equipo ha estado jugando muy bien y va necesitar jugar igual para continuar a la postemporada. “[Necesitamos] continuar a hacer lo que hacemos, contra los otros equipos competitivos,” dijo Donahue. “Hemos hablado mucho en equipo y vamos a hacer nuestro trabajo de jugar como equipo y no individuales.

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GOLF

POR BRANDON DEL ROSARIO

b.delrosario@eyeofthetigernews.com

El equipo de mujeres de golf ha alcanzado el juego de desempate por la segunda vez, consecutivamente.

Con el primer puesto en el torneo de la liga en Capital Valley, el lunes pasado.

Entrenador Corey Fukuman celebra el equipo y sus esfuerzos durante el partido de dieciocho hoyos.

“Las chicas se merecen

mucho crédito, como todo las puntuaciones fueron altas y ellas se mantuvieron en forma debajo de presion,” dijo Fukuman La ganada también les dio la oportunidad de colgar su segunda bandera de liga.

Fukuman dice que la meta de las chicas es avanzar al torneo del estado como un equipo, o por lo menos mandar chicas individualmente, pero por ahora se están enfocando en el torneo de hoy.

UPCOMINGEVENTS OCT 26

Dinero para la Universidad Ven a la cafeteria a las 6pm para recibir la ayuda financiera

NOV 3

OCT 31

Torneo de SJS División El equipo de mujeres de golf asistirá un torneo en Ealges Vines Golf Club

El Rally de Fogata Empieza a las 7 p.m.

NOV 7-9

OCT 31 NOV 18

Semana de Comida enlatada Trae comida enlatada para ayudar

Audiciones para un teatro Las audiciones para el proyecto de Katrina empieza a las 3 p.m.

SPORTS

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8-0 JV Tigers steamroll competition

BY DOMINIC TAYLOR

d.taylor@eyeofthetigernews.com

With a 35-19 win over the Whitney Wildcats last Friday night, the JV football team improved to 8-0, a streak the Tigers have not been able to achieve in years.

The boys led the Wildcats 14-13 heading into halftime after sophomore quarterback Alex Nicholas ran in a late first-half touchdown to give them the lead.

They managed to pull away in the second half, outscoring the Wildcats 21-6.

“At halftime we had a long talk about the mistakes we had made in the first half,” Nicholas said.

“We came together as a team and discussed how much this game means to our season. Everyone took that into consideration and we started the second half executing on every small thing we did wrong in the first half.”

Nicholas specifies that the boys put an offensive focus on making key blocks in order to turn small, basic plays into big gains and a defensive focus on correctly positioning themselves on the field to successfully counter the Whitney of-

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Sophomore quarterback Alex Nicholas powers through the Whitney Wildcat defense into the end zone for a touchdown. The Tigers beat the Wildcats 35-19 last Friday afternoon and extended this season’s undefeated streak to eight games. fense. He feels that this was one of the most important wins of the year so far.

Sophomore linebacker and captain Jordan Susbilla feels that a variety of the team’s characteristics have combined together to make them successful this season.

“Our coaching staff keeps us on track everyday, nothing really changes there,” Susbilla said. “It is different schemes that work

for every team. It’s just been teamwork throughout.

We have eachother’s back everyday at practice and we keep each other going.”

Susbilla also sites the boys’ success as being shaped by their commitment to conditioning and weight training. Not particularly striking in natural size, the boys compensate for what they lack with sheer strength and physical-

ity.

“It has helped us big time,” Susbilla said.

“Strength is what we have strived for since the beginning, and we knew it was going to help us week in and week out during the season to beat teams.”

According to Nicholas, even after months of strength training and conditioning, the most effective way of keeping the chem-

istry and the success of the team going lies in the relationship the players have with each other off the field.

“Even outside of practice, we have a good relationship,” Nicholas said.

“We hang out a lot and we just get stuff done as a team, together.”

The team is unbeaten, but that does not mean that the Tigers have not faced any challenges this year.

“Getting past River Valley [High School] was a challenge, they had guys that were huge,” offensive lineman Colton Lieburn said. “They had guys bigger than all of us, as they beat us last year in our freshman season, so that was the biggest challenge we overcame.”

Not only did the Tigers beat a River Valley team that they failed to defeat the year before, they have beaten three other teams they lost to last year: Chico, Rio Linda and Antelope.

Despite their dominance so far, the coast is not clear for the Tigers. The biggest game of the season will be the week 10 showdown against the so-far undefeated Ponderosa Bruins, who defeated the Tigers last year as freshmen.

Ski team continues adviser search

BY BLAKE BEAMAN

b.beaman@eyeofthetigernews.com

Last year, the ski team made its debut season at Roseville High School, marking the first time that there has been a ski team in school history. This year, the team is in need of a coach or advisor in order to make a second season possible.

Placer High School’s winter sports coach oversaw the team last year, but now the team is in need of its own coach or advisor.

Senior Juliette Oliver, this year’s only returning skier, praises the work of last year’s coach but hopes the school can find a replacement.

“We had a surrogate coach from Placer High School. He was kind of our mentor and really helped our team grow,” Oliver said. “We’re looking for a

teacher from this school to help us out and be our official coach.”

According to RHS athletic director Emily Dodds, the leading candidate for the position is special education teacher Randy Wright, who is an experienced skier. However, because RHS is the only school in the district with a ski team, there is not a stipend available for a potential advisor.

“I sent out a staff-wide email asking to see if there was any interest and Mr. Wright was the only one to respond,” Dodds said. “Mr. Wright is an avid skier and would be an awesome candidate if it works out.”

However, Wright’s recent bicycling accident will most likely hinder his ability to coach the team. Unless someone else is found, or if Wright is unable to coach, there will not be a team due to the fact that the ski team is technically a club.

In order for a club to exist, there must be a teacher advisor.

Dodds is actively searching for a teacher advisor in order to make this year’s team possible but has not come accross any other potential candidates.

Regardless, Oliver is still excited for the season and what it could offer.

“I’m super excited for how the season is going to turn out this year,” Oliver said. “Hopefully we will have a great snowfall like last year, and hopefully more people come out and see how fun the team is.”

In its first year, the team only had four members: Oliver, junior Jamie Bateman and seniors Marina Efstathiu and Madison Palubicki, who both graduated last year. This year, Oliver expects more participation, but still wants to keep the team relatively small for now.

COURTESY JULIETTE OLIVER

From left: Alumni Marina Efstathiu and Madison Palubicki and senior Juliette Oliver, three of last year’s four ski team members, pose for a photo during one of thier practices. The team is currently searching for an advisor.

“Last year we really wanted to keep it small because we weren’t sure how things were going to work out,” Oliver said. “I’ve already had confirmations from about ten people who show a great interest in joining the team this year,

but I would still like to keep it under 20 people.”

In future seasons, Oliver expects the club to expand and add snowboarding and cross country skiing to its offerings and is proud of the pending development of the team.

Performances of the Week OCT 17 - 23

Girls golf places first in final CVC tournament

BY BRANDON DEL ROSARIO b.delrosario@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of Oct. 17-23 was the varsity girls golf team’s first place finish in the second annual Capital Valley Conference league tournament.

The win also granted the team the first place spot at the top of the CVC rankings to close out the league

season for the second year in a row.

The girls shot 466 as a team. Seniors Kayla Kwong, Abby Hall, Anna Ostrom and Sydney Ferre shot 74, 93, 103 and 104, respectively, and junior Carly Nicholson shot 92.

Kwong’s score, the lowest score in the entire tournament, earned her the medalist award.

The girls’ scores allowed them to defeat the Ponderosa Bruins and the Whitney Wildcats, their closest competitors this year, by 11 and 13 strokes, respectively.

Coach Corey Fukuman praises the girls’ ef-

forts throughout the 18 hole match.

“The girls deserve a ton of credit as scores were high and they hung in there under pressure,” Fukuman said.

OCT 10 - 16

JV boys basketball extends win streak to 37 games

BY JAMIE BATEMAN

j.bateman@eyeofthetigernews.com

The Performance of the Week for the week of Oct. 10-16 was the JV basket-

ball team’s 4-0 finish in the Cosumnes River College Tournament.

The Tigers beat Weston Ranch, Bradshaw Christian, Whitney and Liberty Ranch high schools on their way to their undefeated first-place victory.

The team’s dominant play earned them the top spot finish and also extended their active win streak to 37 games.

The streak started at the end of lasts year’s JV season, when the team finished the year with six straight wins, but the rest of the victories have come from this year’s team.

Along with the six league wins from last year, the win streak has consisted of 20 AAU game wins, eight summer league wins and three summer playoff game wins. According to sophomore guard Miles Judd, the win streak has built up a lot of team chemistry and confidence for this year’s league season.

“I think that we’ve all become closer as teammates because of it, and teams with good chemistry always play better,” Judd said. “We play with more confidence because of it and I think it will help us in the regular season.”

Playing sports should fulfill PE credit

BY MIA BARBOUR

sports@eyeofthetigernews.com

At Roseville High School, participating on a sports team does not fulfill any of the physical education credits required to graduate.

This must be changed.

Students experience mass amounts of discipline and hard work, multiple hours a day almost everyday a week by playing on a sports team. The hour and a half spent daily in PE during which students are not constantly working pales in comparison to this hard work.

In my experience, PE is not as rigerous as particpating in a team or individual sport.

In reality, students in PE ofetn just walk the mile to get it done within an adequate time period and run around with basketballs or volleyballs doing whatever they want with them as opposed to doing what the actual sport entails.

At my old school, in Texas, I played tennis and soccer, which meant that I did not have to take PE. I spent hours working out and running almost everyday of the week for months at a time.

Other school districts in California also award PE credit for school sports.

During this time period I got more toned, fit and I improved my self discipline more than I did in my full year of PE as a freshman, in which the hardest activity we did was our mile test at the end of the year that we had to do within 15 minutes.

Throughout my team sports experience, I had become part of many teams where I have learned important team building lessons and experiences that I did not experience in a PE course.

After I transferred to RHS, I found out that team sports do not count for PE credit and that right now, as a junior, I have to take PE 10 in order to fulfill my two PE credits required for me to graduate.

The policy of having a student’s PE credit required solely through PE courses 9 and 10, and not through team sports, is completely unjustified.

It is also irrational, as there are plenty of alternatives that would allow for students to have a greater high school experience while also being physically educated.

Changing this policy would allow student athletes to have more room in their schedules, further enabling them to strive academically.

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BY GEORGE HUGHES

g.hughes@eyeofthetigernews.com

The varsity football team secured a spot in the playoffs two weeks ago with its 57-0 blowout win against the Bella Vista Broncos.

Since then, the Tigers focus has been on continuing to win in order to fight for a better seeding in the postseason and to possibly be in a good enough position to host a playoff game.

Last Friday, this motivation pushed them to overcome the Whitney Wildcats, who were previously undefeated in league play, with a score of 35-14. The Wildcats led the Tigers 7-6 late in the first half when senior quarterback Nick Martig launched a pass into the corner of the end zone where senior tight end Jimmy Jaggers, who caught the pass with one hand, was waiting.

The team then decided to attempt a two-point conversion pass to Jaggers, which was also successful, giving them a 14-7 lead at halftime.

In the second half, the offense scored three touchdowns and pulled away from the Wildcats for the win.

“Every game is a big one,” Jaggers said. “But this one definitely felt bigger because of playoffs in mind and the opportunity to host a [playoff] game.”

Looking ahead to playoffs, the boys feel confident in their abilities. With the exception of their game against the still undefeated Antelope Titans, the boys have excelled on the offensive and defensive side of the ball.

Sitting at 7-1 overall, they have the second best offense and defense in the entire Capital Valley Conference in terms of statistics, having

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scored 283 points and only allowing 133. These numbers display why they are ranked second in the CVC standings, sitting only behind the Titans.

Although excited for the postseason, Jaggers is cautious about looking too far ahead. He said that it is more beneficial to focus on the end of the season gameby-game, trying to rack up another win each week.

Even so, he believes in the team’s ability to continue its success.

“We have a really tightknit group and I think our success this year has added to our confidence and our bond,” Jaggers said. “We all trust each other to get the job done and that allows us to focus on winning as a team.”

The Tigers next game is this Friday at Ponderosa High School against the 2-6 Bruins.

ANDREW SMITH EYE OF THE TIGER

BY BRANDON DEL ROSARIO

b.delrosario@eyeofthetigernews.com

The varsity girls golf team has reached the playoffs for the second year in a row, rounding out league with an important first place finish in the final Capital Valley Conference league tournament of this season last Monday.

The Tigers entered the tournament tied for first place with the Whitney Wildcats and had to beat them outright in order to claim the sole first place spot atop the CVC leaderboards. The girls did just that, edging out the Wildcats by 13 strokes by a score of 466-479.

Coach Corey Fukuman praises the girls’ efforts throughout the 18 hole match.

“The girls deserve a ton of credit as scores were high and they hung in there

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under pressure,” Fukuman said.

The win also granted the girls their second consecutive league title banner. However, the team still has a ways to go in order to surpass last year’s achievement of reaching the SacJoaquin Section Masters tournament.

The girls compete in the SJS Division II tournament today at Eagle Vines Golf Club against teams from the Tigers’ division, including the Whitney Wildcats and the Ponderosa Bruins, who finished in second and third place in the CVC, respectively.

A win today would be the first step on the road to a section banner, the girls’ next goal, and senior golfer Kayla Kwong, who was awarded with ‘CVC Most Valuable Player’ for the second year in a row, believes that consistency will

be key to the girls’ success.

“We are just going to try to keep shooting what we have been shooting and just try to stay consistent with all of our scores,” Kwong said.

Although they have been playing well recently, finishing first in the tournament and winning their last two dual matches with some of their lowest scores of the season, Kwong recognizes that the girls will have to post even better scores in order to advance far into the postseason.

“We would have to lower our average by a lot, but it’s definitely possible,” Kwong said. “We were really close last year.”

Fukuman said that the girls’ ultimate goal is to advance to the state tournament as a team, or at least send individuals through, but for now they are focusing on today’s tournament.

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The girls volleyball team is currently tied for second place in the Capital Valley Conference with the Cosumnes Oaks Wolfpack and has a playoff spot in their sights.

The Tigers played Whitney High School last Monday, handing the Wildcats their first league loss of the season in four sets in a very crucial win. Their chances of making the playoffs are high, but everything depends on their final two league matches.

Tonight, the girls take on the Ponderosa Bruins, who are currently tied with the Bella Vista Broncos for third place, and if all goes well it will guarantee the Tigers a trip to the postseason.

The girls cross country team will compete in the sub-section event this Friday. Depending on how they do, the entire team and specific individuals have a chance to go to sections.

The team consists of approximately 30 athletes, which is down from previous years. Senior runner Maddie Meade believes that the team has been able to overcome the lack of runners due to their increasing levels of performance in its recent events.

According to Meade, the team has a good chance to advance to sections and possibly even further.

The boys cross country team will compete in the subsections event this Friday in order to determine whether the team, or individuals from the team, will advance through to the sections event.

Senior varsity runner Ellis Shaw has seen vast amounts of development in the boys’ times and running abilities since the beginning of the season.

According to Shaw, the fact that the team experiences various types of running courses during practices has helped them this season and could help them advance on to sections.

-Karli Dugger and Kylie Irwin

-Nolan Frame

-Jackson Esparza

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COURTESY KAYLYNN JIBSON

The boys varsity water polo team’s league season has come to an end. The boys ended their league season with a record of 3-4 and an overall record of 13-14.

The team has an opportunity to extend their record to 14-14 tomorrow afternoon against the Kennedy High School Cougars.

Junior goalie Peter Edmondson believes that the team had a good season and successfully set a good foundation for next year.

“We had a solid season and have built a solid program for our school,” Edmondson said.

-Kylie Irwin

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The varsity girls water polo team came up short of their playoff goals this season, finishing Capital Valley Conference league play in fifth place with a record of 3-3 with wins over Ponderosa, Antelope and Del Campo.

Coach Paul Stewart believes that although their record may not show it, the girls had a successful season with a few close games in which they were just edged out by their opponents.

-Kale Jibson

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After two tight wins over the Ponderosa Bruins and the Oakmont Vikings last week, the girls tennis team has secured a spot in playoffs.

Junior Hailey Jensen said that she is confident as the team enters the postseason, which begins on Oct. 31 when the team faces Mira Loma.

-Elena Bateman and Emily Wright