Hawkeye 09-2022

Vol. 38, Issue 1

04 Terrace Events Calendar

Stay current with school and community events in September and October.

05 News Update

Our staff picks for what you need to know in the world, nation and state.

06 OP/ED: Introducing...

Big 6 and administrative staff share a warm welcome to the new school year.

07 OP/ED: A teacher’s mindset

Spruce Elementary kindergarten teacher Thea Klever details her daily thoughts in the classroom after the Uvalde shooting.

08 Fresh faces, new places

The freshman class of 2026 get acquainted with MTHS for the first time at freshman orientation.

09 A word of advice

Upperclassmen share what they’ve learned during their time at Terrace for freshmen and other new students to make the most of their high school experience.

10 It’s dangerous to go alone

Take this, your own personal map of the MTHS halls. Complete with important locations and returning pre-pandemic features, you’ll never get lost again.

12 Restroom revamp

The restrooms at MTHS are set to get new features, including menstrual products and a gender-neutral restroom.

13 The matter of mental health

Schools across Washington state now allow students to take excused absences for mental health, including MTHS.

14 Meet the new MTHS staff

A least a dozen new staff members are joining Terrace this school year. Here’s a little bit about five of those new faces.

15 Style for the seasons

With a change in weather comes a change in wardrobe, and a new club to follow those fashion trends along the way.

16 Pre-season preparation

As the school year arrives, fall sports, including volleyball and football, tryout and get ready for their seasons.

17 Fall Sports Schedule

Find out when the games for each fall sport are happening so you can come and show your support in the stands.

18 A tour of Terrace clubs

Learn a little bit about some of the clubs that were featured at Hawk Walk, and join!

19 Daily dose of thought

Do you have what it takes? Solve this logic puzzle to find out.

C ON THE COVER

For the first time since September 2019, MTHS students once again got their very own lockers at Hawk Walk.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SERAS BRYNER

02 Leading the cheer

Senior cheerleader Alaya Bulatao-Quang leads the rest of the cheer team and Connect Crew in teaching the incoming freshmen Supersonic, a Terrace tradition.

PHOTO BY SERAS BRYNER

Freshman year. The beginning of a new saga. The time where you walk, stumble, trudge even into your new daily life for the next four years. All of a sudden you’re no longer surrounded by familiar faces who are the same age as you, but instead by copious amounts of strangers. You start sharing classes with actual adults who probably have jobs and bills to pay and a wife to go back home to. And we’re not talking about the teachers.

Although we’re seniors now, and we don’t have wives (we’re working on it), and only one of us has a job, we know what being an incoming freshman is like. Believe it or not, we weren’t always so old and wrinkly and decrepit and senile.

No, in September 2019, both of us came from the purgatory of Brier Terrace Middle School as baby-faced freshmen, with fear and anticipation laced in our eyes.

If you’re a freshman this year, or even just an underclassman, then you’ve probably been given generic advice reiterating “Try new things!” But don’t worry, we’re here to tell you that exact same thing!

Looking back on our freshman year, it feels as though we’re living completely different lives now. We exchanged a total of 12 words to each other and didn’t hold eye contact until about two years after those words were exchanged.

Now we run a million-dollar news business together. None of this would’ve ever happened had neither of us branched out and joined Hawkeye those fateful three years ago.

Of course it’s easier said than done, immersing yourself into something foreign and sticking by it. The early stages are always daunting and you find yourself wondering if you even enjoy what you’re doing, and sometimes you actually don’t.

But that’s perfectly fine. Discovering the things you don’t like is just as important as finding the things you do. Maybe you’ll end up playing in band for seven years only to quit your senior year and abruptly choose to join the Eco Club instead. But maybe you’ll find a club that ends up being the best part of your day, the reason you continue to go to school every day (that and fear of going to court for truancy). Maybe you’ll make friends exclusively there and end up spending your summer vacation working for it from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. every day instead of actually taking any sort of break. That’s what Hawkeye is for us, and if you take that leap of faith, you may just find your own Hawkeye! Or just Hawkeye, period… We’re open in room 130, come join us.

But what if you’re not a freshman? What if you’ve already found a niche that’s safe and familiar, but you’re still curious about other things? This advice doesn’t only apply to fresh men; you can be a senior this year and still try new things. Once the light at the end of your dark, dreary high school

experience is in sight, it’s more difficult than ever to branch out and take risks. The friend groups have already formed, and what if you can’t fit into them?

Respectfully, who cares? High school is only a fraction of your life, and a better time than ever to discover things about yourself and your interests.

Letting yourself have fun is important as well. Not every thing you do should be for academic reasons. Going to spirit assemblies, participating in spirit weeks, attending sports games and dances may not have an effect on your transcript, but they still leave a big impact. How can anyone expect to enjoy their high school career if all they can prioritize is grades? In fact, having fun can actually benefit your grades.

If you don’t believe us, just look at the science behind it. Doing something you’re interested in and being excited increases the oxytocin, dopamine and norepinephrine levels in your brain, which in turn improves learning and memory. See? Even scientists agree that you should go berserk and party every night like a celebrity.

To be honest, neither of us may be in a position to be giving out all this advice, considering we spent nearly half of our high school career online. We didn’t exactly get the chance to take every opportunity presented to us, and didn’t even before the world shut down.

However, it gave us a new perspective. We didn’t do much during our freshman year, but when we were finally able to come back, the spirit of Herkey the Hawk possessed us and we were going after everything under the sun.

We were going into our junior year still feeling like fresh men, only this time we felt the pressure of having to seem like we had this whole high school shtick figured out. Yet the deprivation of normal life left us wanting more, and we felt like we had to compensate for the growth that we didn’t expe rience.

In actuality, sometimes it still doesn’t feel like we made up for those lost times and made the most of it. But hindsight will do that. You can always wish you’d done more, regret being scared of talking to people you think are cool, and rethink every imperfect interaction over and over until you feel like everything you’ve done in life was a mistake. All you can do is make the most of life when you can, and accept the moments when you can’t. As much as we advocate for putting yourself out there and taking risks, there’s no need to berate your past or current self if you don’t.

We hope to be a positive part of whatever you decide to do this school year, whether you’re a freshman with every new opportunity available to you, an upperclassman that’s already familiar with the school, a teacher that’s been here for decades or anyone else in the community.

No matter who you are, you can still make the most of this year and take a step outside of your comfort zone, and we’ll be here to document the happenings around the school along the way. H

The HAWKEYE

The Hawkeye’s mission is to provide the MTHS community with quality, thought-provoking student produced publications. Since September 1960, we have faithfully served our audience and community as a designated open public forum where student editors make all decisions.

In policy and in practice, the Hawkeye will always be a designated open forum publication.

Co-Editors-in-Chief Cecilia Negash & Maggie O’Hara

Editorial

News Editor: Terina Papatu

Sports Editor: Jakob Nacanaynay

Op/Ed Editor: Kaitlyn Miller

Lifestyle Editor: Mika Raring

Fashion Editor: Denise Munoz

Business

General Manager: Phuong Lam

Travel & Event Coordinator: open

Distribution Manager: open Outreach Manager: open

Visual

Graphics Editor: Rodney Budden

Photo Editors: Seras Bryner & Emmalee Harmon

Design Editor: Rachel Davis

Online/Digital

Online Manager: Kaylee Miyamoto

A/V Editor: Tsu Sasai

Contributing Staff

Virginia Alsept-Beaty, Angeli Angeles, Kim Banh, Sean Brouwer, Savanah Coco-Barrett, Amelie Conrad, Seble Daniel, Arabella Devera, Curtis Gilchrist, Nicholas Iwuoha, Nathankel LeGary, Eva Madrid, Annabella Mills, Kimberly Nguyen, Hailey Rowe, Sydney Sandstrom, Zoë Teran, Sophia Vander Veer, Annabelle Westby

Support

Adviser: Vincent F. DeMiero, CTE, CJE

Co-Adviser: Christina Lewis

Journalist-in-Residence: Samantha Pak

FANs Coordinators: Carrie Lee

Printer: Pacific Publishing

Member of: MTHS ASB, JEA/WJEA, NSPA, SPLC, ESD CTE, FAPFA

Policies

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Maggie O’Hara and Cecilia Negash CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Name in bold indicates staff member of the month as selected by the Editorial Board.

COMING UP: SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER

By Rachel Davis and Maggie O’Hara HAWKEYE STAFF

DATE EVENT TIME/PLACE

Wednesday, Sep. 7 First day of school

Thursday, Sept. 8

Friday, Sept. 9

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Sept. 14 - Sept. 15 9th Grade ASB Elections

Sept. 16 - Sept. 17 ASB Retreat

Friday, Sept. 23 EARLY RELEASE

Thursday, Sept. 29 Curriculum Night

Sept. 19 - Oct. 1

7:20 a.m. to 1:50 p.m., MTHS

English classes, Theater

Afternoon, Terraceum

All days

All days

10:20 a.m., Off campus

6 p.m., MTHS

Homecoming Hallway Decorating After school, Hallways

Sept. 30 - Oct. 9 Homecoming Fashion Show

Saturday, Oct. 1 SAT Testing

Oct. 1 - Oct. 2 Hallway Poster Hang-up

Oct. 3 - Oct. 7 Homecoming Week

Friday, Oct. 7 Homecoming Game

Friday, Oct. 7 EARLY RELEASE

Saturday, Oct. 8 Homecoming Dance

PASS, Theater

Off campus

All days, Hallways

All days, MTHS

8 p.m., Edmonds Stadium

10:20 a.m., Off campus

7:30 to 10 p.m., MTHS

SPOTLIGHT

Sept. 8 Picture Day

Students and teachers alike will get their official 2022-2023 school year photos taken.

Sept. 9 Welcome back assembly

Executive ASB welcomes back the Terrace community with an all-school assembly.

Sept. 14-15

Oct. 3-7

9th grade ASB elections

Incoming freshmen volunteer and vote for their class ASB representatives.

Homecoming week

Homecoming is earlier than usual at Terrace this year, but no less spirited, with hallway decorating and spirit days leading up to the football game and dance at the end of the week.

Oct. 8 Homecoming dance

Students get together for the first dance of the year.

EDITORS’ NOTE: The information in this calendar is taken in part from the calendar published on the MTHS webpage. Information may change. For further information on an event, contact the organizing party. For corrections, contact editor@thehawkeye.org or visit us in Room 130.

Land Acknowledgement

The Hawkeye acknowledges that our campus sits on the traditional homelands of the Suquamish, Stillaguamish and Coast Salish peoples. The lands of these tribes were taken by colonizers using the Treaty of Point Elliott, which to this day has never been fully honored. We also recognize the 29 tribes throughout Washington state. As a local news organization, we commit to remembering the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the United States and ask that our readers take a moment to reflect on the history and land on which they stand. H

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Classified documents found by the FBI

By Jakob Nacanaynay SPORTS EDITOR

On Aug. 8, 2022, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. searching for classified documents as part of a criminal investigation.

As per the Presidential Records Act, Trump was required to return all classified documents when he left office in January 2021. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) noticed documents were missing and for months sent requests for the return of missing documents.

In mid-January 2022, Trump returned 15 boxes of documents, which included classified information such as correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. On Feb. 9, NARA sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ) over classified documents.

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A lot happens in a month. From fashion to finance, we are constantly bombarded by headlines from around the world. Here are the Hawkeye’s picks for what you need to know.

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Andrew Tate banned across the internet

Social Media

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Several meetings and claims by people familiar with the material raised concerns that classified documents were still being held at Mar-a-Lago. On May 12, the DOJ issued a subpoena to Trump for missing docu ments. In June, Trump’s attorneys sent a signed declaration to the DOJ claiming they had searched for and returned all classified documents.

The DOJ and FBI obtained a search warrant under probable cause for the Mar-aLago estate from Judge Bruce Reinhart, who was notably appointed by Trump, and with approval from Attorney General Marrick Garland.

As of writing, the DOJ is still reviewing documents obtained in the search. According to newly released court documents, more than 11,000 records were found with 18 labeled “top secret,” 54 labeled “secret” and 31 labeled “classified.”

Trump could be charged with violation of the Espionage Act for retaining classi fied documents and mishandling documents. While Trump asserts that his actions were legal since he “declassified” all the documents, due to the nature of some of the records, he did not have the legal authority to do so. Whether Attorney General Garland will press charges is still questionable given the highly political and volatile nature of the case. H

U.S. acts on economic crisis

By Jakob Nacanaynay SPORTS EDITOR

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on Aug. 16, 2022. The law includes a slew of measures meant to address a range of issues from prescription drug pricing to energy – all part of Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. An estimated $369 billion will be poured into fighting climate change, the largest climate investment in U.S. history. Measures under the new law according to the summary on Congress.gov include, but are not limited to, the following:

-A 15% minimum annual income tax on corporations with over $1 billion in income.

-Excise tax of 1% on stock buybacks.

-IRS funding totalling $80 billion over the next 10 years for services and enforcement.

-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) may negotiate the price of certain prescription drugs, starting in 2026 with 10 then increasing to 20 in 2029 onward.

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-A cap on the cost of insulin at $35 a month for Medicare recipients.

-A $4,000 out-of-pocket cap for Medicare recipients by 2024, $2,000 in 2025 (adjusted for inflation).

-Free vaccines for Medicare recipients.

-Tax credits for renewable energy sources and other related investments.

The name “Inflation Reduction Act” seems to be misleading. In an analysis sent by Congressional Budget Office (CBO) director Phillip L. Swagel to Senate Committee on the Budget Ranking Member Lindsey Graham and Chair Bernie Sanders, the estimated effect on inflation would be “negligible,” ranging from -0.1% to +0.1% by 2023.

However, other CBO reports estimate the plan will help reduce the national deficit by over $300 billion in 2031, the largest portion of which, over $287 billion, due to CMS being able to negotiate drug pricing. IRS enforcement and the new Corporate Minimum Tax is expected to bring in another $300 billion. H

Andrew Tate, a controversial online personality, has racked up attention from millions of online users in the past couple weeks, only to be banned on all major social media platforms. The former kickboxing influencer had gained up to 4.7 million followers on Instagram, according to the BBC, before being taken down, known for expressing controversial, misogynistic views. Banned on Aug. 22 on Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram, TikTok and YouTube soon followed citing a violation of community guidelines. Recently, Tate has posted a close to hour-long video on Vimeo titled “Final Message” addressing his controversy and denying claims of being harmful. H

Rising cases of new virus sprout concern

State

The monkeypox virus has been spreading throughout the country since May 18, and with medical care still recovering from rises in COVID cases, the public has been overwhelmed by the new virus. On Aug. 19, King County officially declared a public health emergency over the rise of cases in its own county, now having 375 cases, while Snohomish County has 16 as of Sept. 2.

Overall, Washington state has seen over double the monkeypox cases in comparison to two weeks ago, going from 166 confirmed cases to 474. In order to combat the spread, the state is prioritizing monkeypox vaccines to those at the highest risk. H

School lunch prices return

When Washington schools returned to in-person learning for the 2021-2022 school year, the state ensured students with economic difficulties due to the pandemic would be fed with the Community Eligibility Provision Program (CEP), which provided free meals to students thanks to the passed House Bill 1878 and COVID waivers.

With this change, over 20 million more meals were served in Washington schools and 1,200 schools were able to join the CEP.

But now as the 2022-2023 school year begins, the COVID waivers expire and students will have to begin paying for meals again. H

Summer heat hits Washington

The halfway mark of August tends to represent the end of hot and dry weather, but this summer the heat seems to never end. With the excep tion of the first week of June, this summer the state has only seen about 47% of the usual rainfall, likely due to a drought.

But as the last week of August passed by, the temperature has dropped from the regular mid-80s F to a comfortable mid-70s F, along with the lows getting lower. Clouds can also be seen starting to make their way into the sky, allowing for the air to start cooling without constant expo sure to the sun.

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Public transit free for students

Starting Sept. 1, everyone under the age of 18 in the Puget Sound area is able to use public transit, including riding the light rail and ferry, for free with a youth ORCA card.

Passed by the Senate and signed by Gov. Jay Inslee at the end of March 2022, the Move Ahead Washington bill is a funding package for transportation in the state of Washington. In section 211, the bill states that for transit agencies to receive a grant of $33 million, they must sub mit documentation of youth being fare-free by Oct. 1, 2022.

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YOUR BIG 6 GIVES A WARM WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR

By Laraine Sims BIG 6 PRESIDENT

Hey Hawks, it’s Laraine, your Big 6 President! The school year is coming upon us quickly and we are so excited to welcome our new and old students to MTHS. Even though our first week is only three days, it has a lot packed in, so read carefully!

First of all, we come back to school on Sept. 7, Sept. 8 is picture day, and on Sept. 9 we have our back-to-school assembly. We can’t do a full spirit week since it is only three days, but everyone is encouraged to wear their class colors to the assembly on Friday.

Don’t worry if you missed your chance to go to Hawk Walk. You can still get a locker if you go to the attendance office, and you will get a chance to see all of the clubs during our back-toschool assembly.

If you are an incoming freshman interested in join ing ASB, election papers are available by the activities office in the HUB. These papers were also sent to your email. I would love to see you join and work with you!

Within your class ASB, you’ll mostly be helping your peers plan events and fundraisers in order to help raise money for your prom. You also get to add valuable input on school decisions and plan the decorations for your

Homecoming hallway. If you want to help benefit your class and school, consider running for class office.

I can’t wait to see and meet all of you on Sept. 7! I hope to see a lot of school spirit, especially during our first assembly. I wish you all good luck and a great school year. Please stay updated on upcoming events by looking at our weekly informational emails and following us on our Instagram: @ mountlaketerracehs. Go Hawks! H

By Kim Banh BIG 6 PUBLIC RELATIONS

Welcome back to school and a warm welcome to the incoming class of 2026. It’s your Executive Public Relations Officer Kim, and I’m the person behind the MTHS Instagram!

After a few years of COVID-19 being around, the school has definitely not been the same.

Big Six and I are excited about all the events we have planned for this 2022-2023

school year. We’re hoping to bring back school spirit and become more connected as a community. We are planning on bringing back school traditions that have been going on for many years, as well as having many more school events that may have not hap pened last year due to COVID-19 restric tions.

As a freshman, you may be wondering what Big Six is. Big Six are the people who over see school events, fundraisers and lead the Associated Student Body.

This year’s Big Six consists of President Laraine Sims, Vice President Ryan Daly, Secretary Davis Gonzaga, Treasurer Kaylyn Takeya, Historian Henry Obare, and me, Kim Banh, as Public Relations.

If you’re looking for any information about upcoming school events, sports games and more, you can find this information on our school IG page @mountlaketer racehs.

If you don’t find the information that you need, you can always direct message the page or message one of the officers directly.

If you personally do not have Instagram, you can either find one of the executive officers and ask or look to one of the monitors around the school that may contain information about that event. H

KATHLEEN DASPIT GREETS THE YEAR WITH A SMILE

Hello MTHS students and staff and welcome to our 20222023 school year.

It is another year for some, a new start at MTHS for others.

Familiar or not, we all start each new year with new excitement, new chal lenges and new choices. Yes, there are new clothes and new supplies, but there are also new paths to choose. New ways to set new goals into motion.

I am excited to join the MTHS staff this year. This is my first year in the Edmonds School District, but I have been a principal and teacher for many years. I love the beginning of the year because there is a unique kind of joy that resonates through the halls. I know however, that the start of the school year is also dif ficult for some. This new beginning is for everyone, and I hope that no matter who you are or where you are coming from, you make the most of this fresh start ahead of you.

For those who are new at MTHS, you are in good company. We welcome you and we are glad you are here. This year will be a year of learning and a year of figuring out where you fit in.

Remember that you are never alone, with students and staff ready to help every step of the way.

For those who are returning, you too have a fresh start. You have a chance to reset and re-evaluate. Now is the time to decide who you want to be this year and where you are heading. Set goals, make plans, and find support through staff, friends and family. Keep what was working and change what was holding you back.

The last few years have taken a lot from each of us. Regardless of where you are in your journey, what path you have been travel ing, let this new beginning be your hope and your compass for tomorrow. Look at this school year as a new way to approach your future.

I can’t wait to see what this year will bring. I wish each and every student, staff member and family all the best this 20222023 school year.

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Kathleen Daspit ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Big 6 Historian Henry Obare and Big 6 Treasurer Kaylyn Takeya tend to the ASB booth at this year’s Hawk Walk in the HUB. KIM BANH | HAWKEYE

EDITORS’ NOTE: The Hawkeye provides space on its Op/Ed pages to many groups and individuals – including school officials – as part of our mission as a designated open public forum. We encourage all of our readers to submit letters to the editor and other forms of commentary. For more information, please see our policies either online or in the staff box on page 3. H

New Assistant Principal Kathleen Daspit plans for the school year over summer. EMMALEE HARMON | HAWKEYE

“I love the beginning of the year because there is a unique kind of joy that resonates through the halls.”

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A mystery to uncover in every case

lives and others?

As time continued and I was learning about more murder cases specifically, it was those very questions that faced me. Trying to ponder about what psychologically was hap pening to these people turned criminals was so much more genuinely interesting to me than just what was going on with the case.

To me, it was like reading past a headline.

Kaitlyn Miller OP/ED EDITOR

The first cases I became aware of as a young kid were the shocking discoveries of people finding severed feet washed up onto beaches around the Salish Sea. When I was younger, these cases piqued my interest in the topic of true crime as a whole. Though this was an exciting case, upon further research, National Geographic reported that the feet were washing ashore due to the decomposition process of corpses.

It was soon discovered that the real culprit was crustaceans and other sea creatures that work around bones in a way that would sep arate the feet from the body, which was the real reason these human feet were drifting to shore for an unsuspecting person to find.

Even though I learned this new information about this case now, at the time as a kid it was compelling to think about. What could’ve caused this? Was it a killer on the water? Pirates?

Eventually, once I had access to a phone, I rediscovered the true crime genre. It yet again became one of my new favorite topics to learn about.

Whenever time seemed to slow down, the first thing I would do was open up YouTube on my phone and search for true crime vid eos. Whether it was murder cases, kidnap pings or anything of the sort, something

about how crimes went about was always very intriguing to me. What drew me in was just learning about more than the surface case, but previous life details about the people committing the crime. What drives someone to the point in

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their life that all of society’s morals fly out the window? What pushes someone so far that they find themself in a position choos ing to take someone’s life? What past trauma can lay under the surface that can affect the life-changing choices people make in their

GUEST EDITORIAL

“One person found dead in their home,” would turn into this sequence of events that led both a killer and a victim to the horrible events that unfolded.

“What could this killer have done in their life that would have resolved whatever issues that could’ve prevented this crime?” was a question I would frequently ask myself.

Yet once I got past what had happened before and during the case, one of the most interesting parts about them was what happened to a criminal afterwards. Once they’d pushed past that societal boundary, most criminals had very prominent and different reactions to what they had done.

Many pushed themselves to an extreme area of denial for what they had done, where it had almost seemed that they themself started to believe what they were saying. Others felt extreme pride for their crimes. Even if not admitting to it from the start, whenever what they’d done was mentioned you could tell they felt a sick sense of pride.

With the endless amounts of different reac tions and pasts these people have had, and finding out what truly happened to these victims, I have always been ready to dive in and learn more. H

Teaching and learning in a post-Uvalde world The harrowing thoughts of an elementary school teacher

Igot the news while my kids were at recess, and my heart stopped. I walked outside to pick them up and was immediately swarmed with hugs and little hands that wanted to hold mine. 15 little voices started sharing their recess stories with me all at the exact same moment – I held back tears. What if it happened while they were out here?

I forced a smile and walked hand in hand with my line leaders while our class followed behind us full of giggles, kiddos skipping and sneaky ones hopping out of line to pick me flowers. It’s a long way back to our room, I thought to myself. We got back to class and I closed my door, then exhaled. The kids ran to their seats excited to see their second grade buddy come in and read

them a story. I watched their little faces light up as he walked in, and I looked at our big window and thought about how quickly I could get the blinds down if I needed to.

Our buddy sat down to read and I won dered about how fast I could then get across the room to fully lock my door and shut off the lights. What could I barricade this door with? If I needed help, what KINDERGARTEN STUDENT would I ask? Of course I had already thought about this, but I was run ning through my plan again. Maybe that table over there would be better. Maybe this kid would respond quickly.

The kids asked about a picture in the book and I wondered if I’d be able to calm them down enough to sit silently with me in a corner when we needed to hide. Then I thought, I need to change where we hide in this classroom, that corner is too visible from the window. Maybe over there…

The kids asked about the picture again and I was snapped back to reality and answered their question. I watched them eagerly listen to their friend read and felt my heart racing thinking of how much I love my 15 children and the students at my school. I would do anything for them and that includes fighting off a gunman to protect them.

I went to school to be a teacher. I wanted to teach so that I could change lives and help children reach their dreams. I wanted to teach so that I could be someone in a child’s life telling them they mattered and how much they were loved. I wanted to teach so that I could create a safe place for children to learn and grow. The very fact that I have to teach my children how to respond during a lockdown by showing them how we might hide, run and barricade doors makes me sick. This is not what school should be. I should not have to do this. My children should not have to

worry about this. And yes, they do worry. 5 and 6-year-olds know a whole lot more than anyone gives them credit for. I also think through my plan way more than I care to admit, because I fear it will happen. Because it continues to happen. Because it WILL continue to happen if something doesn’t change.

I am a teacher. Not in the military. My kids are students. Not soldiers. We should not have to CONTINUALLY WORRY and prepare for an attack by a gunman. I seriously don’t get how this is still a ques tion. There are people dying left and right, and on that day 19 children and two teachers were murdered while at school. And yet, gun rights are still being prioritized?! What the hell is wrong with our country?

I don’t know what you have to do tomor row, but I know that I’ll be walking into a building where I have to think about and plan for the ways in which I will try to pro tect the lives of the children around me –and that’s everyday life for a teacher.

Thea

“I am a teacher. Not in the military. My kids are students. Not soldiers.”

Thea Klever SPRUCE ELEMENTARY TEACHER

Freshmen learn the MTHS way

By Jakob Nacanaynay and Terina Papatu HAWKEYE STAFF

On Aug. 31, incoming freshmen were given a sample of what the Terrace experience is like at orientation. Two sets of bleachers were almost completely filled by the over 420 students in the class of 2026 – easily the largest class this coming school year.

The mini-assembly that began at about 9:15 a.m. was led by ASB adviser and activi ties coordinator, Jeannie Brzovic. She started this by introducing the class of 2026 advisers, attendance secretary Kelsey Eyer and learning support teacher Jonathan Schaeffer.

As per tradition, the cheerleading team instructed freshmen on the well-known cheers, “Supersonic” and “Ice Cream and Cake,” to raise their excitement. The practice has become an informal rite of passage for incoming students. Despite a few difficulties with the music, the cheer team made their adjustments to make sure freshmen got to learn what they’ll see at assemblies. Connect Crew leaders helped demonstrate as well. Expectedly, freshmen were hesitant to follow along with the tried-and-true ritual. Brzovic noted afterwards the freshmen will have to ‘bring it on’ for the all-school assembly so they’re prepared for the enthusiasm the upperclassmen will have.

Although the release of the class schedule was pushed back for the rest of the students at MTHS, freshmen were given theirs so they could know their PASS teachers. Because of this, Connect Crew captains and seniors Luna Tewolde and Kayla Apostol, as well as all Connect Crew members, separated freshmen by their PASS teachers. Crew leaders then took small groups around the school for a tour as well as showing them their classrooms and introducing students to their teachers.

One of the activities that incoming Terrace students were most interested in was the STEM program, with many stating they selected the aerospace and biotech pathways. So much so that students from outside of the region, like Cameron Buxton from Alderwood Middle, jumped through hoops to be able to attend MTHS. Robotics class was also fairly popular among the incoming class. Along with many students, there are plenty of new and returning staff members. Similar to other schools in the district, MTHS has quite the variety of students and staff. The school community consists of those originally from other states like Texas and California, and even other countries like Canada, Norway, Micronesia, Japan and the borders of India.

Following orientation, all MTHS students were assigned lockers and given the oppor tunity to walk around the HUB and view clubs they could join. There, various displays showcased the numerous clubs at Terrace including Eco Club, HSM, GSA, LSU, Drama Club and more. One of the clubs that previous Brier Terrace student Sebastian

Bailon was interested in was Rocketry Club. Freshman and previous Madrona K-8 student, Abby Werede is looking forward to being involved in the art program as well as swimming for Terrace. The fall sports season has already begun, including women’s soccer, men’s tennis, volleyball, football, women’s swim, and cross country, with the season ending in November. Both from Brier Terrace M. S., Owen Smith is on the men’s varsity tennis team, and Christian Moore on the varsity football team.

Students of all grades were also given the opportunity to choose which hallway they wanted their locker in. Given this was the first time students had used lockers in twoand-a-half years, several had issues. Luckily, our custodians and many other Terrace stu dents did what they could to help everyone get their lockers open. After a few slip-ups, everyone managed to open their locks with minimal effort.

In line with the past few years, a general feeling of uncertainty could be felt in the air. The 2022-2023 school year will be, arguably, the first whole year without social distancing and masks being mandatory. Not to mention the middle school years and experiences that the class of 2026 missed out on.

Madrona K-8 alumni Christian Samuel said he’s “interested to see how this will go,” in a quite optimistic tone for a subtly omi nous message. Many students are excited to join clubs and make friends this year, and Brzovic noted during the assembly how high

school would be an opportunity for students to reinvent themselves. In spite of that, others are anxious about the experience, such as Moore, who expressed he’s “hoping for the best, expecting the worst.”

In spite of all of the nerves freshmen are dealing with, plenty of them, like former

Brier Terrace student Alysiah Soulisack, are excited to meet new people and join clubs instead of just being worried. Perhaps the best advice came from freshman Jason Perkins, from Meadowdale M. S. who said, “I try not to worry because I know everyone else is worried.” H

The crowd of incoming freshmen sitting in their section in the Terraceum as they’re introduced to Terrace during freshman orientation. SERAS BRYNER | HAWKEYE

Freshmen in the stands at orientation learning the Terrace cheer “Supersonic” from cheerleaders and Connect Crew. SERAS BRYNER | HAWKEYE

Advice from one class to another

By Rachel Davis and Maggie O’Hara HAWKEYE STAFF

While students across the country prepare to return to their academics this September, some go up one step in the same school, and others take a larger step into a whole dif ferent experience. Freshman year is one of those transitions. It tends to be one of the most feared, with the unknown and harsh expectations creating a terrifying view of everything that could go wrong in some one’s first year. But for every worried freshman entering the halls of a brand new high school, there is an upperclassman who is willing to offer their best advice to make the transition just a little bit easier.

No one is exempt from the difficulty of freshman year. Everyone has to either face the inevitable or already have. Those people have learned from what stuck with them the most, mistakes they made and opportunities they wish they’d taken advantage of. With that in mind, not everyone has to look back and wish they’d done things differently. For current MTHS freshmen, there’s no time like the present.

SECTION A: JOIN CLUBS, GO TO SCHOOL EVENTS

The contrast between middle and high school when it comes to extracurriculars, activities, and other ways to get involved can be daunting to say the least. There’s a club for every niche interest you could imagine, constant sports games, regular spirit weeks, assemblies, concerts, dances, events; there’s so much that it can seem easier to just avoid it altogether. However, getting involved in the community by attending events and join ing clubs can be immeasurably rewarding, even if it’s out of your comfort zone.

HAWKEYE SURVEY

We surveyed upperclassmen on their best tips for incoming freshmen. Here’s what they said were the top priorities.

When she was a freshman, senior Ishah Musa didn’t know what to expect. Her only impression of high school was what she’d seen in classic teen movies, with cliques and freshmen getting shoved into lockers. While she wasn’t scared of socializing, the first football game she attended still made her nervous.

“At first, going to football games was so out of my comfort zone,” Musa said. “I remem ber my very first football game freshman year and I was so stressed to go. I was so uncomfortable I told my sister that I didn’t want to go and she told me, ‘No, you’re gonna go.’”

When Musa did eventually decide to go to the football game she was surprised to discover that it was actually really fun for her. Instead of thinking about being crowded into a group of screaming teenagers she was able to relax with her friends and cheer for her team.

“Now I go to every single football game there is, and I go to basically all or most school events,” she said. “Because of that first football game, I now have created so many friendships through football games and through school events, so the experience definitely did come with a positive outcome.”

Since her freshman year, Musa has fully immersed herself in the Terrace community, joining Key Club, National Honor Society, the Class of ‘23 ASB, Interhigh, Connect, and Teens Against Tobacco Use. In the same way that going to school events does, participating in these clubs has made Musa’s high school experience memorable and helped her learn more about herself.

“They taught me who I am and what I advocate for, and again, they also introduced me to a bunch of amazing people who are all together as a community to make a dif ference,” she said. “Don’t be afraid to branch out, join different interesting clubs, talk to a bunch of people and go to different school events.”

SECTION B: KEEP UP WITH YOUR WORK, BUT DON’T LET IT CONTROL YOU

Procrastination is one of the biggest struggles for a high school student to face. The consequences also become greater as classes get more difficult and a permanent high school transcript follows your every action.

Senior Davis Gonzaga transferred to MTHS in his sophomore year from Nevada and wanted to practice his social game. He ended up sacrificing his grades for relationships and found himself strug gling.

“I made the mistake of focusing on people instead of my schoolwork,” Gonzaga said. “I was so overly obsessed and overwhelmed with the social aspect of high school that it was hard for me to keep my grades up.”

Even if it is over-repeated: grades are important. It is fine to mess around and have fun while you’re young, but it is important to find an equal balance between fun and work. Messing around in your freshman year may be fun at the moment, but it can hit you down the road, so be careful! There’s no shame in taking easier classes in order to keep up.

At the same time, schoolwork is a balance, and having an extreme focus on it can have a negative impact. While slacking on studies is harmful, so is revolving your entire life and self-worth on them. That balance is especially difficult to keep up with the emphasis schools put on grades.

When senior Elijah Facklam was a fresh man, he came out of middle school with the mindset that anything below perfection wasn’t good enough.

“[I] spent all of my time on school and basi cally made sure I got 100% on everything,” Facklam said. “I stressed over getting 90% on a test and it didn’t give me a good mental space.”

Over time and his experience in classes, he grew to create a separation between him and his grades, and learned that it’s okay not to get a perfect grade on every single assign ment.

“I know I can fail a few tests and still get an A. I now know I don’t have to be perfect,” he said. “Don’t worry about the little things.”

SECTION C: NO ONE IS SUPERIOR OR INFERIOR

It is no secret that new freshmen tend to be regarded as annoying at first, and while it’s not all warranted, there are a few points that can be taken away as actual advice from upperclassmen’s grievances.

There are the basic tidbits of advice that almost anyone will give: don’t block the hall ways, don’t scream in the hallways, don’t be overly distracting during your classes. But one of the most important pieces of advice

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(for anyone honestly) is to be humble. No one is above or below anyone else in our school, regardless of how old or young one might be. There’s no excuse to treat someone else differently, and there’s no social hierarchy.

“Coming into high school, a lot of people think that it’s like the movies where there’s a popular group and everyone has to bow down to them, when in reality it’s not like that at all,” Musa said. “Everyone respects each other and there is no ‘popular category,’ we all are a community and it’s really amazing to see the things we can achieve when we realize that.”

The best way to not be targeted is to just stay in your lane. The upperclassmen prob ably don’t know what kind of a person you are yet and the only thing they know is that you’re new and inexperienced in high school. Go ahead and don’t draw too much attention to yourself, but reach out to those you feel could become good friends with.

SECTION D: BE YOURSELF!

Another one of the most reiterated pieces of advice is to never change yourself for any one else. Freshmen tend to follow the trends in their high school in order to fit in more with the community, but that isn’t neces sary. Everyone has a place that they can fit in without the need for changing.

Even if changing yourself may seem nec essary to make friends or socialize with a specific group, if you have to change yourself for them, they may not be the best people to hang out with anyway.

“I went into high school thinking about how all these other people will perceive me. In fact, it’s only natural to want to be liked and to stay out of the spotlight of embarrass ment,” Gonzaga said.

“There were many times in my freshman year where I made the mistake of choosing what made me look cool over my own morals. Personally speaking, peer pressure can be elusive; it’s jarring to realize all of a sud den that you aren’t you.”

The reality is, there is a place for you, whether or not you’ve found it yet. It may take a while to figure out, but no one has to change themselves for others.

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UPPER LEVEL

ASB

NO FLOCK ZONE

To prevent traffic during passing periods, there is a “No Flock Zone” located at the top of the main stairway. This is an area where you are not allowed to loiter and must keep moving.

GENDER-NEUTRAL RESTROOMS

New this year are the first gender-neutral restrooms, which can be found in the music hallway. To learn more, turn to page 12!

HEY HAWKS!

The Terraceum is the school’s main gym and where most of our assemblies happen. For some assemblies, each of the class years get a designated area to sit on the bleachers. The color-coded bars represent each class year and where they sit.

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EYE VIEW

TO HELP YOU

A RETURN TO LOCKERS

For the first time since before lockdown, we will be able to use lockers again. It’s rough having to carry all of your stuff to each class, so being able to store things will lift some weight off of your shoulders. If you still need a locker, visit the attendance office!

COUNSELING OFFICE

Under the main office, you’ll find the counseling office. This is where you’ll be able to get in touch with your counselor about schedule changes, classes, credits and more.

WEIGHT ROOM

MULTIPURPOSE USE

An area which is heavily traversed through and used is the school HUB. This is where you eat lunch, where events are hosted and can also be a work area. In the HUB, there is also a place for chromebook help.

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GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOMS COME TO TERRACE

By Kaylee Miyamoto ONLINE MANAGER

Walking down the music hallway, the bathrooms by the entrance to the wing are much different than they were last summer. What were previously women’s and men’s bath rooms side by side are now two gender-neutral bathrooms. As the district is taking initiative to build more inclusive and safe spaces for transgender students at our school, this change takes the shape of one of the first movements.

This is just one step the district is taking to be more inclu sive for LGBT+ students after many voiced the need for bathrooms inclusive to all genders.

Terrace, like many schools around the nation, has changed bathrooms to make the school a safer and more comfortable space for students. Talk of the building getting an all-gender bathroom started last school year after it was voiced to the district that they were needed.

“We want to do some small physical changes to the bath room,” Principal Greg Schellenberg said. “We want to communicate it out to folks adequately, so my hope is as soon as possible.”

MTHS is one of two schools in the Edmonds School District (ESD) installing gender-neutral bathrooms for the 2022-2023 school year, the other school being Lynnwood High School.

“The district is trying to do this as a pilot project at a few schools to see how to best implement this,” Assistant Superintendent Greg Schwab said, explaining why just two schools have participated in the change so far.

Due to the fact that the schools in the district were all built at different times, they all have different layouts, which com

plicates the new additions and construction as it’s not one size fits all.

“Each has some unique things we need to work through in order to implement this well,” Schwab said.

However, the different times of construction will have a benefit going forward. Newer schools and future schools are beginning to be built with gender-neutral bathrooms in mind.

“Madrona School is a good example of this new construc tion approach,” Schwab said. “It was built with gender-neu tral bathrooms in mind.”

The gender-neutral bathrooms have few alterations from the binary men’s-women’s bathrooms, though. Currently, the established changes being made to both Lynnwood and Terrace are extending the stall length to the floor and higher up to provide more privacy. For now there are no other dif ferences, as so far, there has been no opportunity for stu dents to give feedback.

“I expect that we will get some feedback on this as we implement the pilot. It is still new enough that there hasn’t been much of a chance to get feedback, but we expect to gather feedback this year,” Schwab said.

In the coming years there will be added changes upon receiving feedback to improve the privacy and inclusiveness of people’s needs while using these bathrooms. Providing feedback to the district and overall need for changes allows the district to make changes to be more accommodating for students and families.

While these bathrooms only have one big change so far, future feedback will not only allow the schools to change the existing all-gender bathrooms, but also influence the imple

mentation of gender-neutral bathrooms at other schools.

“For gender-neutral bathrooms we are working with individual schools initially,” Schwab said. “We are trying to do this as a pilot project at a few schools to see how to best implement this.”

These bathrooms, as well as all of the girl’s bathrooms, are also expected to provide menstrual products, after Washington State passed legislation to require schools from grades 6-12 for the 2023 school year and beyond to provide menstrual products for students.

Prior to this, MTHS has only provided menstrual products in the women’s bathroom under the gym, which has often had the problem of being ill-stocked. As Terrace and Lynnwood H. S. are the only schools piloting this, in addi tion to Madrona K-8 school already providing one, other schools in the district have had to make accommodations for students who feel more comfortable using a different bath room other than the binary restrooms. Many schools have their own way to help students who would prefer to not use the binary restrooms and locker rooms.

The more common approach is “providing students with access to more private restroom facilities,” according to Schwab.

“While it is not ideal, it is a temporary solution while we continue to work on addressing this as a system. For those who are feeling like we are not moving fast enough, I under stand and we are working to correct many years of construction that did not take this into consideration when schools were previously built.” H

The former men’s restroom in the music hallway, is one of two new gender-neutral restrooms. SERAS BRYNER | HAWKEYE

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The former women’s restroom in the music hallway is one of two locations for the new gender-neutral restrooms. SERAS BRYNER | HAWKEYE

STATE LAW SUPPORTS MENTAL HEALTH

By Maggie O’Hara and Cecilia Negash CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Starting this school year, students in Washington State will be allowed to take excused absences for mental health reasons without needing a doctor’s note or medical diagnosis. This change comes as a new law, House Bill 1834, went into effect on June 9, after Governor Jay Inslee declared a youth mental health crisis in March 2021.

With the increase in poor mental health conditions due to the pandemic, Washington lawmakers wanted to prioritize mental health support for youth in schools. The law recognizes the damage done to students’ ability to learn and overall wellness that poor mental health can cause, and aims to allow them to take breaks and care for their mental needs as needed.

The official Washington state legislature for excused absences now states, “Absences due to the following reasons must be excused: physical health or mental health symptoms, illness, health condition, or medical appointment for the student or person for whom the student is legally responsible,” and includes “mental health wellness” as an example.

In simpler terms, this means students at MTHS, as well as students across the whole state, are allowed to take excused absences for mental health reasons as easily as it is to call in sick.

Although the law is new, high school students are no strangers to mental health issues. In past years, students would often lie about being sick to get an excused absence when they needed to take care of their mental health, or just skip altogether.

“The fall of junior year I took three or four mental health days. I wouldn’t really plan on it but the morning of, I would just not be able to wake up,” senior Rahel Gujo said. “It would be extremely exhausting to even function as a normal human, let alone be at school trying to consume material from my classes. I just couldn’t do it, so I would tell my mom I was sleeping in and staying home from school because going to school would’ve done more harm than good.”

Alternatively, other students would end up skipping classes and having unexcused absences when the pressure of school and life became too much.

“I knew that if I asked to go home, it wouldn’t be excused. And I wasn’t going to lie about being sick, especially with the pandemic. So I would just end up skipping classes if I needed time for my mental health,” senior Penelope Goodwin said.

The addition of excused absences will allow students to be honest about their reasons for needing time away, and hopefully encourage them to take the time they need. Now when they’re struggling mentally, they won’t have to lie or feel guilty about needing a break for a reason not recognized as legitimate.

“It allows students to not have to be dishonest about their reasons for missing school,” MTHS psychologist Julie Schwab said. “Previous to this, if a student was struggling with mental health, they would often have to call in their absence as illness. By making it an allowable excuse from school, it legitimizes mental health as a valid reason for missing school.”

In the midst of an ongoing pandemic that’s been affecting everyone for almost three years, mental health has become more important to focus on than ever, prompting the law’s enactment. After students and teachers alike spent the 2020-2021 school year learning from home, many in dif ficult household situations or struggling to learn remotely

regardless, coming back to in-person school last year was a difficult transition.

Gov. Inslee addressed this when Washington schools start ed going back in person. On March 15, 2021, Inslee declared a children and youth mental health crisis in an emergency proclamation.

“…many of Washington’s children and youth are experiencing a significant mental and behavioral health crisis as a result of the ongoing pandemic, which has been exacerbated by continued isolation, difficulty engaging with virtual learning, and lack of regular in-person interaction with edu cators, school personnel, mentors and peers,” the proclama tion stated.

Both in academics, social and personal lives, the pandemic took a toll on everyone.

“The pandemic has been a lot on my brain. It changed how I socialize, how I perceive the world,” Goodwin said. “I also have a lot of family that have been diagnosed with COVID. It’s very stressful for everyone in the family.”

With the difficulty, it’s even more obvious how necessary it is to take care of mental health, especially in school settings.

“I think our state realized a mental health crisis is just as much of a liability to our students’ education as a physical health crisis is. The COVID pandemic brought both to the table, in extremes. Students who need mental health days won’t have to lie about being physically ill, which can make the situation more difficult,” Goodwin said.

While there are concerns about those using the mental health excuse as a way to skip school and avoid school work, they don’t compare to the concerns about the wellness of students. It’s not uncommon for students to call in sick, saying they have the flu or food poisoning, when that’s not really true. Yet that’s not used as a reason to prohibit students from taking time for their physical health.

“There is always the potential for students to use this as a reason for missing school when there really is not a mental health issue.” Schwab said. “However, this was also the case with students who called in sick, when maybe they weren’t really sick. I think that concerning ourselves with a small minority of students who may abuse the attendance system misses the point that many of our students do exactly what we ask them to do and this provides them with another rea son to legitimately excuse themselves from school.”

Some also believe that students shouldn’t be allowed to take excused absences for mental health because they don’t believe it’s a serious enough reason to stay home unless in extreme circumstances. However, if a student’s mental

health is suffering, they won’t be able to focus on schoolwork, and it’s important for students to take breaks as needed before their mental health reaches an irrecoverable point. Forcing students to go to school while struggling mentally only adds to the issues they’re already dealing with.

“Mental health has as much significance as physical health in impacting each individual’s overall functioning,” Schwab said. “If a student is continually anxious, overwhelmed, angry, sad, etc. that they cannot focus on anything else and it interrupts their typical daily routine, they are not coming to school ready to learn.”

While attention on mental health has increased over the years, there’s still stigma surrounding it. Those dealing with mental struggles often feel as though their problems aren’t valid, and others often don’t take them seriously.

“As we continue to remove the taboo or stigma around mental health, it benefits us all. If some one broke their leg and it was swollen and they couldn’t walk, they wouldn’t hesitate to go to an emergency room to receive treatment. However, many often believe they must suffer in silence to be ‘stronger’ or for fear of being per ceived as weak regarding our own thinking errors on mental health.” Schwab says. “Caring about our own and each other’s mental wellness is as important as seeking help for a broken bone; it’s simply a different type of help or assistance.”

Despite the mental health crisis that’s been very apparent in today’s youth and some progress towards aiding it, it has been said that schools usually don’t do enough to support students’ mental well-being. Although progress has been made, work still needs to be done in order for mental health to be treated as seriously as it should be in school settings, and the more the better.

“I don’t think mental health is taken that seriously, I think it’s mostly just all talk. There are some really good teachers that really do help you through things, but MTHS overall is just ‘mild’ about topics like this.” Gujo said. “Something the school could do to better support mental health is to have teachers build a relationship with students that’s more than just teacher-student but something stronger. If I feel like I have a good bond with my teachers, I would feel good enough to come to them with any mental health problems that could arise at times.”

In the district, some meaningful steps have been taken to increase mental health support, such as increased social workers, therapists to work one on one with students and surveys given to students to assess how staff can be more supportive. Even with some progress made at addressing and helping students’ mental health, the same sentiment was shared by others that not enough is done.

“I really don’t think that mental health is treated as it should be at MTHS. Last year, we had hundreds of kids flunking classes, we had drug problems, we had fights, we had students skipping classes in bathrooms for a break,” Goodwin said. “This law would only be a small piece of what we need to treat mental health in our community. There is still way more to be done.”

Schools have a responsibility of making sure that the student body feels safe enough to express when they feel as though they need help, and not just academically. They have a role to create and sustain an environment where it’s normalized to seek guidance for when they are struggling mentally.

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TERRACE GREETS NEW STAFF FOR THE ‘22-‘23 SCHOOL YEAR

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When Joe Voirol entered university, he didn’t plan on becoming a teacher. And when he did start teaching social studies, he didn’t plan on instruct ing math. Nonetheless, Voirol will be teaching world history 10 and Algebra 1 this coming fall. Voirol moved to Washington from the midwest in 2018. After finding difficulty getting jobs in social studies, he decided to start teaching math as well, and last year he taught at College Place Middle and EdmondsWoodway High School. While seemingly a “strange combo,” becoming a math teacher was a simple transition for Voirol: he originally majored in engineering before he switched to teaching. In his free time, he likes to play video games, spe cifically made by Riot Games, like League of Legends and Team Fortress 2. At one point, he became one of the top 500 players in TF2. As a fellow introvert, Voirol already knows most of his students will be nervous. But, he says that in this atmosphere, he’ll be loud and “out there.” H

Coming to Washington from Texas, Jessica Jacobs is the new office manager at Terrace. Her reason for moving was because of a visit to her brother, when she realized that she loved Washington and took the opportunity in 2020 to move. In past years, she was an assistant director at a preschool. As office man ager, Jacobs takes care of the school budget, admin schedules and in short, keeps everything in the office running smoothly. As a mother, Jacobs spends a lot of time at soccer games, play ing with legos and more. When she has time, Jacobs loves to sing and play acoustic guitar. She loves swimming in natural bodies of water like lakes, oceans and beaches. Jacobs began learning guitar almost 20 years ago, growing up in a musical family where her father taught her how to play. Even though she’s spending most of her time in the main office, with her love for music, Jacobs can look forward to the pep assemblies as well as musicals! H

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Throughout the past few decades, English teacher Susan Mortensen has taught as an eighth grade teacher. She also tutored her children and their friends. Growing up in Chicago as the youngest of eight extroverted siblings, when she couldn’t express herself through speaking, Mortensen found her outlet in poetry. After a teacher took notice and published her work, Mortensen was inspired to take up writ ing, leading to today. In addition to making poetry, she loves reading as well. From Homer to Roald Dahl, she appreciates all corners of literature. Because of her teacher’s notice of her poetry, she felt seen and makes a point to make her students feel the same. Outside of school, Mortensen loves going outdoors, having been a wilderness trip leader for seven sum mers. Her garden, in a word: prolific. This year she grew 21 pumpkins and 100 pounds of zucchini. Mortensen loves high school activities, like band, cheerleading and theater. This year, she is looking forward to seeing the level of school spirit at MTHS. H

Being born in India and moving to Maryland at a young age, English is Vaishali Bhatia’s second language. It is also the subject she will be teaching this year. She decided on teaching literature because she loves getting to know people through stories. When she started teaching, she was a student teacher at Loyola University Maryland. Bhatia and her husband wanted to move to the west coast for a long time because of their love for nature. They moved to Washington last spring after her husband got a job offer here. In her previous English classes she taught at Brier Terrace Middle school, one of her favorite lessons was letting her students teach her for a day. When she’s not teaching, Bhatia loves introspective writing. She also loves sleeping, reading, and playing Stardew Valley for a sense of nostalgia and hanging out with her two cats. Bhatia is looking forward to seeing her previous students learn, change and grow as people and collaborating with her colleagues. H

Kathleen Daspit is the new assistant principal at Terrace. A Southern California native, she moved to Washington in the early 2000s. Her varied background includes institutions from elementary schools to universi ties, public and private, both Montessori style and traditional teach ing. Beginning as a teacher, she taught social studies, language arts, social studies and drama. Her previous job was principal of a pre-K-8 private school. When she was younger, the elementary school she attended was in a lower income neighborhood; yet, it was filled with teachers and staff that gave time to students and families who needed it, inspiring her to take on a career in education. When she’s not working, Daspit loves to read, play ukulele and bake. Taking a liking to Russian literature, her favorite book is “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For the 2022-2023 school year, Daspit plans to get to know her way around the school and interact with the stu dents, so when you’re going about your day you will most likely see her.

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ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

FALL FASHION TRENDS FOLLOW WITH THE CHANGE IN SEASON

Story by Denise Munoz and Sloane Andrich Graphics by Rod Budden HAWKEYE STAFF

Fashion has always been an interest to both of us because of the deep connections it has. It has the power to transform and influence lives. Since we all need to wear clothes, and each item we purchase is a reflection of our individual preferences, fashion is inherently human and thus societal. Whether you spend an hour each day perfecting your outfit or just throw on whatever’s most comfortable, everyone is affected by fashion.

Did you know that the time of year will change the way you dress up for each season? Seasons of living change in the same way, along with the winds, rainfall and extra hours of sunlight. Your wardrobe must adapt to the changing cli mate, and every new season ushers in a fresh sense of style and fashion. Trends and colors are introduced. Your cloth ing feels like it needs a makeover at the end of the previous season. The change through one season to the next always profoundly affects our thoughts and emotions. In response to the onset of new seasons, we constantly alter our behavior.

Creators from everywhere in the world produce clothing for the four major seasons using a variety of styles and mate rials. When the winter months arrive, retailers frequently change their strategies and stock their shelves with jackets and sweaters. The impact of the seasons on our mood has been the subject of numerous studies. Studies have revealed that the brain is most active in the summer and, unexpected ly, least active in the winter. But what does this reveal about luxury consumption outside of the fashion sector?

We spend more money during the summer than we do during the colder months of the year because we are often in a better mood and are more sociable. The summer season, then, leads to an increase in demand for numerous products,

including apparel. Fashion displays like London Fashion Week are only one example of events and shows that are only available during specific seasons of the year to show off these changing trends. Seasonal changes have an impact on our spending patterns as well.

Of course, the changing of the seasons has an impact on our entire society in addition to our mindset and cloth ing selections. As we approach fall you will see a trend of boots, coats, and “fall colors.” The color trends for fall 2022 will be royal purple, jewel-tone teal and burning red, reflecting the colors of the world around us. One thing for sure is that everyone will need a coat! With autumn starting in Washington, the warm sun will appear less and less and gray rain clouds will take its place.

In our three years of high school, we never noticed any one doing a fashion club or fashion writing, and we want to change that. We know many high schoolers express themselves through fashion and we want an area in school where people can confidently be expressive. Last school year, there was a trend among students of different studentcreated MTHS Instagram accounts frequently popping up, one of which included pictures of students strutting their best attire and being at ease in their own image. By enabling the community to take part in activities and their passions, we hope to build on this concept and broaden it. Along with writing about different fashion trends and topics, we are also going to start a fashion club. In it, we’ll do fashionrelated activities such as making cheaper alterna tives to looks from celebrities, taking tips from fashion influencers and much more to come. We are looking forward to the opportunity that the Hawkeye as well as FCCLA has given us to help encourage students’ interests in fashion.

We hope with this new fashion club, you can find a place within our community. H

Hawkeye staff models examples of fall fashion - scarves, corduroy and a jacket to stay warm.

THAT COMES FROM WITHIN YOU.”

LAUREN

| HAWKEYE

HAWKS THUMP T-WOLVES 39-13

Terrace tops 4A powerhouse Jackson on the gridiron for the first time ever

The Hawks took an early lead and never looked back, leading from start to finish over the Timberwolves Friday night at Edmonds Stadium.

The 1-0 Hawks will travel to Snohomish for their second game of the season 7 p.m. on Sept. 9. to take on the Panthers.

For a complete story about the game, go to the sports section of the Hawkeye's website – TheHawkeye.org.

ABOVE: Junior quarterback Matthew Meadows sets the offense with running back Zaveon Jones in the backfield. Junior offensive lineman Adam Wallis (51) and junior center Cameron Merkle (54) prepare to block on the play.

LEFT: The T-Wolves had no answer for the power running of Zaveon Jones (12) as the Hawks trounced the T-Wolves 39-13 at Edmonds Stadium.

Hawks prioritize a change in culture, mindset

By Jakob Nacanaynay SPORTS EDITOR

As teams across the state gear up for fall football season, head coach Archie Malloy is locked and loaded for his second season coaching at Terrace.

Malloy began coaching at Terrace in 2021 with excitement as a former University of Tulsa player and 19-year head coach in Colorado Springs. After a rough 1-7 record his first year, he’s back with a new outlook.

“I learned that this is a special place,” Malloy said. “It's full of a lot of great people that are inspired to do a lot of great things. The first thing that I wanted to do is come in here and change the culture; change the mindset. And not just my student athletes,

but all the students that walk the halls of Mountlake Terrace High School. And this is a special place, a special community. [They] hold their heads up high and they're doing great things here.”

After COVID took a caustic hit to Terrace’s football program, coach Malloy is working on rebuilding the program from the ground up, doubling his coaching staff from last year.

“They’re great coaches but they’re also great leaders in the community,” he said. “I expect my coaches not to be role models but to be real models, because they model reality for our kids and the reality of things as you work hard. And sometimes things don't go

your way, but you keep persevering.”

Fans may also notice an oddity in the lineup – a staggering two-thirds of the varsity roster consists of juniors.

Regardless, athletes have been working hard, attending practice every day from 3:30 to 6 p.m. since Aug. 17.

Every drill tests the players’ physical and mental strength, conditioning and preparing

them to face their next opponent.

“I'm excited about everything. We get a chance to test all the things that we put in over the past year. And when I say all the things, I mean football wise, but I also mean overcoming obstacles, facing adversity, what it means to be a part of a team, what it means to be a part of something that's bigger than yourself,” Malloy said.

“I'm looking for all that to be on this to be on display next Friday, because you know what? When you play the game of football, everything doesn't go right all the time. And I expect these kids to be a mirror image of this community. Play hard; work hard. I'm feeling great for the game,” Malloy said. H

"This is a special place, a special community. [Student athletes] hold their heads up high and they're doing great things here.”

Archie Malloy

HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

TOP LEFT: Junior linebacker Zaveon Jones raises his finger in celebration as junior linebacker Bede Bresee returns a turnover for a touchdown against the T-Wolves.

TOP RIGHT: Junior receiver Logan Tews speeds past the Jackson defenders en route to a score.

Hawks look to make progress on the volleyball court this fall

By Terina Papatu NEWS EDITOR

Bump, set, spike! Since the fall sports sea son starts before school, tryouts for sports teams are held much earlier as well. From Aug. 22-25, volleyball tryouts were held in the Terraceum.

During tryouts, all of the athletes were tested based on their volleyball skills and the coaches also observed how the athletes got along with one another.

“We go through every type of technical skill that we have in the game of volleyball, and each skill, depending on how the girl does, is given a point system,” varsity coach Sharalee Mathews-Malloy said.

“That allows us to track data as to how every girl is doing in each skill throughout tryouts.”

When making the final decision of who makes each team, Mathews-Malloy, JV coach Jean Kellogg and C-team coach Kelsey Eyer look at the strengths and weaknesses of each athlete.

Data from tryouts helps them determine which team would fit each player best.

“It’s based on the strengths of each girl and how they fit into each team. How they fit into each team dynamic, is kind of like putting a puzzle together,” MathewsMalloy said.

“We want to make sure that we're not only hitting the fundamental skills, but we're hitting the emotional and attitude type aspects of each player.

We also want to make sure that we have fun.”

Sharalee Mathews-Malloy VOLLEYBALL COACH

“Putting pieces together based on what the girls could do.”

During practices, all three coaches go through the fundamentals of the game, each athlete’s skills, gameplay and train the athletes to play in any volleyball position.

As a coach, Mathews-Malloy knows that every year the students change along with the way they need coaching. She also does what she can to help the volleyball team improve their strength in the game.

“I know that as a coach, I increase my knowledge of the game by doing coaching clinics, making sure that I am reaching out to other coaches to get information on what's changed, what's getting better, and how we

improve ourselves as coaches,” she said.

The key to a suc cessful team is communication and trust.

In addition to that, Mathews-Malloy said she believes that a way to make a good team is to care about the emotional and physical strength of each player.

Although the teams are competitive, the goal that the coaches have is to make sure every athlete has fun. "We are competitive, but in the long run if a player wants to be here and have fun, they're going to come back,” she said.

Since rosters change every year, MathewsMalloy researches ways to mentor athletes and different perspectives on coaching.

“I do a lot of reading up on volleyball books and philosophies and things like that,” Mathews-Malloy said. H

HAWKS 2022 FALL SPORTS CALENDARS

WOMEN’S SOCCER

DATE TIME OPPONENT

9/3/22 3 p.m. Ballard

DATE

FOOTBALL

OPPONENT

9/2/22 5 p.m. Jackson

9/9/22 7 p.m. @ Snohomish

9/16/22 8 p.m. Shorewood

9/23/22 8 p.m. @ Shorecrest

9/30/22 5 p.m. Monroe

10/7/22 8 p.m. Lynnwood (Homecoming)

10/15/22 7 p.m. @ Inglemoor

10/21/22 5 p.m. @ Edmonds-Woodway

MEN’S TENNIS

DATE TIME OPPONENT

9/6/22 3:30 p.m. @ Arlington

9/8/22 3:30 p.m. Monroe

9/12/22 3:30 p.m. Marysville-Pilchuck

9/14/22 3:30 p.m. @ Marysville-Getchell

9/16/22 4 p.m. @ Bothell

9/19/22

9/21/22

3:30 p.m. Shorewood

3:30 p.m. @ Cascade

9/26/22 3:30 p.m. @ Edmonds-Woodway

9/28/22

3:30 p.m. Meadowdale

9/29/22 3:30 p.m. @ Shorecrest

10/3/22 3:30 p.m. @ Lynnwood

10/5/22 3:30 p.m. Archbishop Murphy

10/7/22 3:30 p.m. @ Meadowdale

10/10/22

10/12/22

3:30 p.m. @ Stanwood

3:30 p.m. Mariner

9/8/22 7:30 p.m. @ Snohomish

9/10/22 1 p.m. @ Cascade 9/13/22 7:30 p.m. @ Marysville-Pilchuck

9/15/22 7:30 p.m. Marysville-Getchell

9/20/22 7:30 p.m. Everett

9/22/22 7:30 p.m. Archbishop Murphy

9/27/22 7:30 p.m. Lynnwood

5:30 p.m. @ Edmonds-Woodway 7:30 p.m. Cedarcrest

7:30 p.m. Shorecrest 7:30 p.m. @ Meadowdale 7:30 p.m. @ Monroe

7:30 p.m. Stanwood

7:30 p.m. Shorewood

7:30 p.m. @ Arlington

WOMEN’S SWIMMING

TIME OPPONENT

4:30 p.m. @ Shorewood

9/20/22 3:15 p.m. @ Kamiak

9/22/22 2:45 p.m. Shorecrest

9/29/22 2:45 p.m. @ Meadowdale

10/4/22 2:45 p.m. Mariner

10/11/22 2:45 p.m. @ Edmonds-Woodway

10/13/22 2:30 p.m. @ Jackson

10/18/22 2:45 p.m. Lynnwood

10/22/22 2:45 p.m. ESD District Meet

M&W CROSS COUNTRY

SPORTS SEPTEMBER 2022 | 17Hawkeye Compiled by Jakob Nacanaynay Graphics by Zoë Teran HAWKEYE STAFF

DATE TIME LOCATION

3:45 p.m. @ McCullom Park

10 a.m. @ Sehome Invitational

3:30 p.m. Ballinger Field

2:45 p.m. @ Cedarcrest Golf Course

3:45 p.m. @ Kamiak

10/13/22 3:30 p.m. ESD Meet @ Ballinger

10/22/22 10 a.m. WesCo @ Arlington Airport

VOLLEYBALL

DATE TIME OPPONENT

9/8/22 7 p.m. Redmond 9/13/22 7 p.m. Marysville-Pilchuck 9/15/22 7 p.m. @ Marysville-Getchell

9/17/22 3 p.m. Mariner

9/20/22 7 p.m. @ Lynnwood

9/22/22 7 p.m. Edmonds-Woodway

9/24/22 8 a.m. Glacier Peak Tourney

9/26/22 7 p.m. Stanwood

9/28/22 7 p.m. @ Archbishop Murphy

10/3/22 7 p.m. @ Cedarcrest

10/5/22 7 p.m. Snohomish

10/11/22 7 p.m. @ Meadowdale

10/13/22 7 p.m. Monroe

10/18/22 7 p.m. Everett

10/20/22 7 p.m. Arlington 10/26/22 7 p.m. @ Shorecrest 10/31/22 7 p.m. Cascade

For the latest info and exact address of locations, go to mthsathletics.com

Sophia Pigott serves the ball during tryouts two weeks ago for her second year of volleyball. SERAS BRYNER | HAWKEYE

CLUB FEATURES

GSA

Visit the Gender Sexuality Alliance for a safe place to hangout and have fun! They'll be planning parties and fundraisers throughout the year so keep an eye out.

Check them out in room 226!

If you're looking for an exhilarating place to meet new people and develop all kinds of skills, Theater is just right for you! If you don't want to be front and center, you can also join stage tech. Coming up soon , they're planning the fall musical and have more shows to follow.

Art TheaterCome check out the Art Club for a nice place to chill after school! You can do a variety of art ranging from painting to 3D printing. No prior experience necessary. Also, look out for the Art Show in the upcoming school year. The rooms can be found in STEM hallway.

Look forward to more club features in the next issues!

Stories & Graphics by Arabella Devera Photos by Seras Bryner HAWKEYE STAFF

September’s Logic Puzzle

CAN YOU FIGURE OUT THE BOARD'S CONFIGURATION?

Created by Jakob Nacanaynay SPORTS EDITOR & PUZZLE MASTER

The Scenario

I have a 4x4 chess board on which I arranged chess pieces in the following manner:

• Black’s only pieces are a rook on c2, king on d3 and a bishop c4

• White has eight pieces including exactly one king

• Black’s only legal move is the bishop capturing a knight on b3

• White’s three legal moves are taking black’s rook and king to a3

• Ranks 1 and 2 are fully occupied

• The pieces on a1, c1, d1 and d2 cannot move

• The piece on c1 is a bishop

• White has only one rook, knight and pawn

• Neither side is currently in check

Your Task Determine the arrangement of the board.

Your Deadline

• 9/30/22

Swag for the Winner

Write your name and your answer on this page and bring it to Room 130.

We’ll randomly select one correct entry and the winner will receive some HSM swag and a shoutout in the next issue! H

TRADITIONS

By _____________________ POTENTIAL HAWKEYE STAFF MEMBER

Hear that Hawks? It’s the bells in your back-to-school nightmares reminding you it’s almost that time of year again! After a long ________________ months away of a ________________ summer vacation full of ________________ and ________________, the familiar ________________ halls of MTHS are on the horizon for the 2022-2023 school year. This fall is sure to be ________________ as ever, with classes, clubs and sports to fill your schedule.

As you can see from the schedules on page 17, the first ________________ game will be on ________________ at ________________ Stadium, so come show your support! Watch the players ________________ their hearts out, hear the pep band play ________________ to excite the ________________ rooters, and maybe you’ll even spot Herkey the ________________ himself!

Head coach ________________, who also teaches ________________ class, has high hopes for the game.

“________________!” they said. “What a team!”

On top of sports, classes will also be interesting this year. After the incident last spring in ________________’s ________________ class, when ________________ ________________ managed

to escape from containers in the classroom, students are now required to bring ________________ every day to protect themselves. Though no students were seriously injured, it was a jarring experience for all.

“One almost bit my ________________ off!” ________________, a student in the class, said. “I didn’t think I’d make it out alive.”

Life-threatening events aside, the 2022-2023 school year is sure to be as smooth as ________________. Once classes start on Sept. 7, don’t expect to get a wink of sleep, because the days will be filled with activities faster than you can say ________________. Picture Day will be on Sept. 8, so bring your best ________________, and an assembly will be held on Sept. 9 to welcome students, both new and returning, to MTHS. Though we’re not sure what the assembly will entail, we hope to see the cheer team perform “Ice Cream and ________________,” or “________________-Sonic,” two beloved Terrace traditions. Rumor is that the one and only ________________ will even be there to give a motivational speech. We can’t wait!

No matter who you are or how you’re feeling going into this September, we wish you luck on starting your journey into the 2022-2023 school year.

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