Leading the cheer

09/2022

Vol. 38, Issue 1

IN THIS ISSUE…

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

Hawkeye

Letter from the Editors TIME TO SPREAD YOUR HAWK WINGS

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 freshmen; 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 everything 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, Maggie O’Hara and Cecilia Negash but they still leave a big impact. How can anyone expect CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF 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 freshmen, 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 experience. 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

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