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Four students serve on school board

This fall, four CFHS students are attending all board meetings to discuss school related issues and provide a student perspective. The four students are junior Alyssa Vuong and sophomores Agatha Fenech, Elizabeth Sesker and Drew Stensland.

Sophomore Drew Stensland, one of the school repre s e n t a t i v e s , explained what a school representative does.

“It’s someone who will go to the Board of Education meetings to offer the board members experiences on what it’s like to be in the high school.

Also, we take notes and offer our own input of things that matter, but we’re non-voting members,” Stensland said.

Often times, students only hear one side of the story on changes in school plans. The school representatives, on the other hand, not only receive the

students’ side of any story, but the school board’s side as well. “It kind of gives us the adults’ point of view. We understand what the students think, but now, we get a different view,” Sesker said.

Along with getting other sides to the story, the school representatives obtain a deeper look into how the school sysSophomore Drew tem works.

Sophomore A g a t h a F e n e c h thinks that it shows how complex the school system really is. “It’s a good opportunity to see how the school system functions, and it’s nice to be involved in something deeper. It makes me feel like I’m apart of something bigger too,” Fenech said.

So far, the school representatives have done quite a lot for only attending the meetings once or twice. “We’re

“We’re working with a faculty committee recommendation, which is a group of people from the district who recommended that it’s time to build a new high school. ”

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working with a faculty committee recommendation, which is a group of people from the district who recommended that it’s time to build a new high school.

Ultimately, though, the board can do whatever it wants with (our recommendations). It’s a pretty huge thing,” Stensland said.

School board president Deon Senchina agrees. “Here are just two examples. The board set a goal two years ago to offer foreign language in the elementary schools and we committed to reaching that goal within five years.

Monday, Victor Ochoa and Sara Blanco (Spanish teachers from Peet & Holmes) presented information about what various foreign language programs in the elementary schools might look like and the key considerations needed for planning this curriculum change. Your reps offered their experiences with foreign language classes and their opinions on the benefits they have received from those classes. In November, we heard a recommendation from the Facilities Committee to build a new high school. Hearing the thoughts and feedback from students currently using the building were very insightful,” Senchina said.

There are different ways that students can be chosen to be involved as

one of the school representatives. One way is to be nominated, like Vuong was.

“My guidance counselor nominated me because I’ve been involved in many different activities,” Vuong said.

There are also many different reasons why someone would want to be a part of the school representatives. “It’s cool to sit in and see how everything works. Also the title of it and how well it will look on college applications appealed to me, but mostly I wanted to see what it was like being involved with this,” Vuong said.

Another reason someone may be interested in joining is for future career plans. “I want to go into politics, so it’d kind of be a good gateway by going to meetings and understanding certain things,” Fenech said.

Becoming a school representative could impact career choices in the future. “Life experiences do impact career choices as well as lifestyle choices. My hope would be for our reps to learn more about how a district functions, see the broad range of opportunities offered in education as a profession, and someday consider giving back to the community by volunteering for the school board,” Senchina said.

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(From left to right): Junior Alyssa Vuong, and sophomores Agatha Fenech, Elizabeth Sesker and Drew Stendsland are attending school board meetings this year to help provide a student prospective. They are also excited to learn about the decisionmaking process and influence the future district decisions.

If students have questions or concerns, they should seek out one of these four students who will all help the students’ voices be heard.

Robotics team wins regional championship The CFHS First Tech Challenge Robotics team brought home two trophies from Ankeny on Saturday, Dec. 8. The team won the Rockwell Collins Innovation Award and, thanks to an alliance partner from Oskaloosa, the regional championship as well. They competed with some other 20 teams.

This is the first time that a CFHS robotics team went to a regional qualifier in Iowa. The robotics team has been

growing, and this year, due to the envolvement of a new adviser, math teacher Ron Hoofnagle, there is a new group on the team.

According to coach Joe Gitta, “They [the kids] finally got a robot that could move around quite well, and they created a lifting mechanism and a mechanism that would grab rings.”

The robot needs to start by being no larger than an 18-inch cube, but then it

has to be able to lift a ring as high as 42 inches. Gitta said it was quite challenging to get to a satisfactory result.

They also had to bring all of the engineering information about their project to explain its development, the process of creation and how they got to the final result.

The team has been working on this project since September, meeting once a week, so they didn’t have a lot of time

to prepare.

During the competition they had some mechanical failures, that kept them from getting a high score, but Gitta said that the team will have time to fix what didn’t work well and improve the robot to the finals now that they are meeting twice a week.

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We are truly sorry for the innocent victims, their families We at the Hi-Line, along with most of America and many across the world, commend the bravery of the staff and students of Sandy Hook Elementary School and mourn the loss of the 28 dead by the hand of a mentally ill shooter, who somehow possessed the inhumanity to murder six and seven-year-olds and those protecting them.

The tight-knit community of Newtown, Conn., has a long road ahead of them in their healing process, and we wish them the best of luck in what will surely will be an emotional battle. No community should have to bury its children, and no children should have to watch their friends and teachers die.

This shooting which has touched every corner of America like a punch in the gut is one of many mass shootings recently. These include the Portland mall shooting that killed two last Tuesday and the Southern California scare last Saturday when a gunman fired over 50 bullets in the air outside Newport Beach Mall but thankfully did not hit anyone.

Unfortunately, despite the overall support the Newtown community has received from the nation, some radicals who feel the need to burden the victims of almost every tragedy with undeserved hatred, also known as the Westboro Baptist Church, feel the need to harass the grieving during the time they need the most support. Saying it will picket the vigil for the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victims, this church is threatening to hurt the community further. They claim that God used the shooting to punish them because small children and their innocent teachers and loving community are “horrible sinners.” No. If anything can damage the mental health of the survivors and their friends and family even more than the shooting, it is this hatred. They must be protected from this group at all costs.

Ever since Columbine, something has changed in America’s cultural environment or Americans’ psychological states that has steadily increased the amount of mass shootings attempted and committed. And something must change this trend before it becomes too late. Whether the answer is stricter gun control laws or something else entirely, the government and the people must look for a solution to stop the killing. Lives depend on it.

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Facebook is watching you You are being watched. Although it is unlikely that a serial killer lurks in the bushes, and it is debateable whether or not the U.S. government monitors its people’s actions through security and traffic cameras, but a modern-day Big Brother exists where few people thought to suspect. Now, Facebook owns everyone’s souls.

Face(the site that will haunt us all)book started out as the relatively benign project of college student Mark Zuckerberg.

I remember how people sung its praises when it was first released to the public. Early Facebook users spread the good news of its superiority to MySpace due to its secure privacy policy, lack of suicidal cyberbullying cases and ability to help users communicate and stay in touch with their friends. All it took was time for all but one of these to change.

Facebook is still the best way to spam all 900 of your closest “friends” with meaningless status updates about how bored you are.

But things have really started to go sour. Because it was “free” to create a Facebook account, Facebook still needed to pay its employees; they needed a new way to create financial capital. At first, they struggled to produce income by including games with certain paid items on their site.

Then Facebook realized that they already possessed the world’s most valuable commodity: information.

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formation other than just those complained of the frequent privacy policy changes which that affect it. Facebook has made it unbelievably easy for constantly reset their settings people to post to public, things online leaving without thinkprivate ing of their inforconsequences. mation With the illuon their sion that only profiles your friends will until they see it, a person would recan easily upalize and load pictures change everyBy News Editor Katherine from last FriMayhew day’s party for thing to grandma or “private” again.

Some wishing to leave Face- one’s pastor, and possible colleges and future employers will book had already noticed the conspicuous lack of an option see it too. Even if users only post one questionable picture to delete their accounts. They could only “deactivate.” Fa- once, it can still come back to bite them. But that’s the cost cebook knew that for them to make the most money, every- of selling their souls for 900 friends. one in the world would need to There is hope, or at least have an account in which they disclosed as much information the illusion of hope. A group about themselves as possible of Austrian students is working to take down the corporato everyone else in the world. tion superpower in court. The The revelation was that with as much specialized informa- group calls itself Europe v. Facebook and created a website tion as Facebook collected for donations to challenge Fafrom its users, it could sell cebook’s policies in Ireland, the very specific advertisements.

It could also even use informa- head of Facebook in Europe.

Let us hope those college kids tion users had already deleted have what it takes to reign in a or from deactivated accounts. billion-dollar corporation that Facebook, like the rest of the can afford much better lawyers Internet, stores information than them. forever. Information is power.

Until then, I advise every Privacy is publicity. Deletion is Facebook user to grow accusdeath.

This power-hungry storage- tomed to being watched. It center of information possesses isn’t that bad until you step out repercussions from its lack of of line. And remember, Faceinterest in securing its users’ in- book loves you.

Opinions from students

Senior Rachel Nurse

Senior Hanno Fenech

“I think the privacy is worse because now I get tagged in a photo, and my mom and her friends can comment on it too, and that’s kind of creepy. And I’m not going to go and block every single picture.”

“If you go on special Facebook settings, what I did was set it so that they don’t allow people to see certain pictures other people tagged of you.”

Senior Bennett Ford “I think it’s weird that for a picture that I ‘like’ of a friend, people who aren’t friends with that person but are friends with me can suddenly see that picture. That’s what I don’t like.”

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Speckerman, graduating after first semester

Volunteering in Kenya, next Senior Shirley Speckerman has big plans after graduating early in a few weeks. She traveled to Kenya in the summer of 2012 and is heading on a longer trip there in May. “[My last time trip I was in Kenya for one and a half weeks. We stayed in these little lodges, and every day we went to the community of Kwambakenya, Kenya. I sang in a church c h o i r , helped with Bible distribution and helped in a preschool [class.]

Our group brought supplies to give to the school, as well.

The men helped with building a sustainable learning environment.”

Speckerman went on this trip with an organization that worked through Prairie Lakes Church called 410 Bridge. It was through 410 Bridge that Speckerman heard about Choose to Invest, another organization working in Kenya, and she was pushed to make her life-changing decision.

“When I went the first time, I really didn’t know about this internship. I had never thought about returning to Kenya, but I was talking to the founder of Choose to Invest while I was there, and she told me I would be really good for something like this, and if I think about it I should definitely apply for this. For a while, it really wasn’t on my mind, but then my church went through a series where we were fasting and praying as a congregation, and that really gave a lot of clarity to me,” Regarding what inspired her to return to Kenya, Speckerman said, “It was something I felt I was meant to do, and when I thought about it, I thought it would be something that would tie in with my degree in social work. I love Kenya.”

After Speckerman decided that this internship, called the Journey internship, was something that she wanted to participate in, she organized her schedule to graduate early and began preparing for this major step.

“I filled out [the application,] and later [I was] interviewed over the phone for about a half hour, and then I was selected. I went through about six training lessons that were about every other week in the summer,” Speckerman said.

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Another positive aspect of this trip that Speckerman mentioned was the ties she found to her perspective college major. “One nice thing about my internship is that I get to earn a college credit because I’m going into social work, and this is related to that. At the end, I’ll write an essay or something like that for my college credit. I hope to just get a closer look at life in Kenya for people my age, like being 18 and having a family of five already.”

She is excited for the paths that this trip will pave for her career. “In the future, I see myself in a permanent position at Choose to Invest or at 410 Bridge. This will give me some insight into what that life would be like. It will help me decide if mission work is something I could do for the rest of my life.”

Beyond her career, Speckerman addressed what Kenya did for her on a personal and spiritual level. “I don’t like industrial America. I don’t really like technology, and it’s so freeing to go to a country where there are no pressures to be constantly conSenior Shirley nected. It’s a good way to cleanse.

It’s very peaceful, and you never know what time it is,” Speckerman said. “That may stress nities people out, in rural but it gave Kenya, me a sense a lot of of relief.” famiThough lies get S p e c k e rb ro k e n man has apart been acb e cepted into cause the prom e n gram and a n d is on track women to gradufeel that ate early t h e y as planned, can’t the struggle fulfill to Kenya any kind is not over. of du“I have to ties that raise my would own supm a k e port and t h e m m o n e y Senior Shirley Speckerman spent time last year do my own fundraisin their in Kenya with Praire Lakes Church. In May, she ing, which c o m - will return to Kenya to pursue her interests in is $5,800 m u n i t y, establishing community development. all together. so they That’s goleave. It’s pretty much helping with micro-enterprise. This time, I’ll be work- ing to be an intimidating number, but I know from fundraising last time that ing more closely with the young adults of the community. I’ll be working a lot it’s something that people are willing to give to.” more with kids my age in Kenya, and Speckerman said that she was willthat’s the big difference.”

Speckerman said she is excited re- ing to face any expense to return and garding this opportunity to communi- do more work in the place she thinks of cate with people who could speak more as her second home.

English and get to know people in the community on a deeper level. She will

By Staff Writer Linne HOOFNAGLE be in Kenya for 10 weeks this time. ta, Ga., and that starts May 13. I spend two weeks training there and then leave for Kenya.”

Though this trip is through a similar organization as her last trip, the idea of this mission is very different. Speckerman said the goal of “Choose to Invest focuses more on community development. In Kwambakenya and other small commu-

“In Kwambakenya and other small communities in rural Kenya, a lot of families get broken apart because men and women feel that they can’t fulfill any kind of duties that would make them money in their community, so they leave. It’s pretty much helping with micro-enterprise. This time, I’ll be working more closely with the young adults of the community. ”

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Students planning for early graduation Alexis Anderson Logan Beauregard Jenna Bundy Kale Clay Cassandra Diggins Krista Fretheim Kaylee Frost Chandal Geerdes Kayla Ginther Haley Harkless Jacob Humemuller Noah Koch Haley McDermott Jacob McDowell Deantis Montgomery Kiki Mure Kaitlyn Nielsen Shianne Rasmussen Christian Saltzman Amanda Schwab Anna Smith Elli Snodgraww Shirley Speckerman Dakota Stickfort Talia Sturm Brianna Sylcord

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Nimble Fingers, Sharp Creativity=D.I.Y Fashion The fashion students at the high school are working hard to design and create dresses of their own to add to their wardrobes. In a world where there are thousands of clothing stores to chose from, some people prefer to design what they wear instead. DIY (do it yourself) fashion is very popular with students who love to make things according to their own styles and tastes.

The students in fashion class all show a real passion and interest in fashion. “I have always been interested in fashion. I used to draw shoes and matching dresses when I was a little girl, but this is the first class I have taken in fashion. My inspiration came from my mom; she used to be big into fashion,” senior Kendra Barnes said. Barnes does see a fashion career in her future. Another fashion student, junior Jordan Caruso, has been designing for about a year and also plans on going into a fashion career. “I’m planning on moving to New York City after I graduate to go to school for fashion,” Caruso said.

Making and designing a dress in this class is a process. The students have to first make their garments based off of pattern pieces. They can then alter the pieces by adding or subtracting things. They have picked out their fabrics and gotten to work sewing.

Caruso knew exactly how she wanted her dress to look. “We started with a pattern that was just one solid layer with a lining. I like dresses that have more flow to them, so I wanted one with two separate layers of fabric,” Caruso said.

The fashion students improved their skills and learned about fashion from teacher Linda Schutte.

Sewing and creating clothing can be very difficult.

“Pleats will be the death of me, but the class has helped a lot,” Caruso said.

Barnes had other challenges, as well, while making her dress. “Putting the bodice of the dress together was the most difficult part for me. After that, putting the skirt together and attaching it to the bodice was pretty easy,” Barnes said.

Schutte’s designers love to make their own clothing and accesories for many reasons. It’s all about originality and creating a piece that is unique to their own style. Senior Madison Bradford took Fashion 1 and is now in an independent study for Fashion 2. She has a real passion for creating her own pieces. “To me, fashion is a form of art. I love how you can express yourself with clothes. So far, I’ve only made six pieces, but the thing I like about sewing my own garments is, first of all, no one will have anything similar because

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it’s an original. I also enjoy sewing and the idea of how you can transform a single sheet of fabric into anything you’d like,” Bradford said.

Senior Beth Keesy also loves to create things to add to her wardrobe. “I started making things somewhere around 5th or 6th grade. I've made a couple of dresses, scarves, headbands and bags. I also like to alter a bunch of things like jeans or painting on shoes.

My favorite thing I've made so far is probably a yellow sundress I made a few years ago,” Keesy said. She finds her inspiration all around her. “When I see something I like, it sparks an idea. I think of how I can make something similar or what I would do differently to try and recreate it,” Keesy said.

Fashion students have been creating pieces all semester to add to their closets. Do it yourself fashion is something most everyone can do. Websites like Pinterest help provide people with patterns to make dresses, hats, scarves and much more.

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At far left going clockwise, junior Jordan Caruso models the dress she made while Hannah Glockner shows off Kendra Barnes’ creation. Fashion teacher Linda Schutte stands with senior Kendra Barnes and her garment. Jordan Caruso shares her unfinished dress. At left, articles Madison Bradford has made.

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New Life, New Family:

There are thousands of children from different countries that previously have never had a family, who now live in the United States with families who’ve gladly accepted them into their homes.

Along with these thousands of children, many reside in the Cedar Valley. This was done through the process of international adoption.

Liz Patterson from Cedar Falls, is one of the many moms who have adopted internationally. “We chose (to adopt from) Poland because we could go through a Christian organization to adopt there. We also loved the fact that if you adopted more than one child at a time, Poland keeps sibling groups together. We liked that we had options in choosing gender and age, along with having a shorter waiting period than other countries,” Patterson said.

Lisa Eicher from Texas is another mom that has adopted internationally, though instead of Poland, she adopted from Bulgaria. “I knew of an organization called Reece’s Rainbow, which is a Down syndrome adoption ministry.

I started looking at their website and following other family’s journeys, and that’s when my heart was completely stolen. I tried to block it out of my mind because I knew it wasn’t what we had talked about, but there was no escaping it. I talked to my husband about it, and he was on board. I emailed the director of Reece’s Rainbow to ask her what country would best fit us as far as length of time we could travel, cost, etc. She emailed me back and told me to look into Bulgaria,” Eicher said.

Not only can one choose to adopt internationally, but also through the foster care system. Marianne AbelLipschultz from the Cedar Valley is one of the moms who decided to do foster care adoption rather than international.

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Many families in the Cedar Valley have adopted children from all around the world

just looked at it as such a great place to the community through fostering and to help those children in need in our adopting because many people had own country, in this case, our own surhelped us heal from difficult childhoods.

We also felt grateful for the opportuni- rounding towns. All of the children we have helped are from surrounding arties we experienced after moving to eas, within 50 miles. Both Iowa in 1986 international and foster care from West adoption are very special Virginia.

We because they are all God’s had watched children. I just feel like it is ‘Iowa’s Child’ our way to give back. Foster on KWWL for care/adoption is also a lot several years. In less costly,” Hosch said.

1993, we each Both adoptions, as Hosaw a feature on a teen girl separately and came to the other to share our interest. We started the process then and had our first placement of a 10-yearold girl from Left: Archie Eicher was D u b u q u e adopted from Bulgaria to County, not Lisa Eicher. Right: Archie the one and his sister Ace doing who’d been some sibling bonding on the show.

Although we didn’t intend to foster, we fostered for six years before meeting Alyssa Jensen Photos our daughter-to-be who was 13 and in foster care in Linn County. She turned 14 a month before the adoption final- sch said, are very special and can impact the adopted child quite a lot. “We ization in 2000. And though we never help them believe they are lovable, caimagined we’d adopt again, we agreed pable, worthwhile people of faith who to foster an 8-year-old boy from Black Hawk County whom we adopted after have a special place in the world. We let them practice healthy living and sohe turned 10 in 2008. Ultimately we cial skills, and we make sure they have fostered for 17 years overall and served 19 children and their families,” Abel- several caring people involved in their lives,” Abel-Lipschultz said.

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Eicher’s adopted child has also been Another mom who decided to do foster care/adoption rather than inter- impacted by adoption. “When he first national adoption is Linda Hosch from came home, he could not sit still for Independence, Iowa. “In our case I more than a couple of minutes. Now he

can sit down and work for lengthy periods of time, and he even participates in a choir with typical kids and behaves so well and can sit through the entire class,” Eicher said.

Not only does adoption impact the child, but it changes the family that has adopted as well. “I can’t say that it is easy, but I wouldn’t change a thing. We love the way the kids have just given our lives vibrancy and how life in general is much more fun and exciting because we have our children to share it with,” Patterson said.

Hosch agrees. “Positive impacts on our family are that we now do foster care and have fostered 12 children. The normal stay for the children averages around six months. We once even fostered a sibling group of three,” Hosch said.

All the families that have adopted, whether it be international or foster care adoption, recommend it for other families as well. “Many kinds of people are successful because there are many kinds of children and families who need assistance. Iowa provides good training, great support networks of licensed and capable families, and subsidies to share the higher costs of raising some of our most vulnerable children. It’s not for everyone, but if you feel a tug on your heart in this direction, it’s worth pursuing,” Abel-Lipschultz said.

Patterson agrees that it has been important and other families would benefit from adopting. “Any adoption is recommended since both international and domestic have pros and cons. Any time we can talk about the process with families in the hope that children in this country or others can one day find a forever home is always our goal,” Patterson said.

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Recap Four Top Albums of 2012 Sleigh Bells became huge this year as the smashing, crashing, screaming noise-pop duo to end all noise-pop duos. When I was first introduced to them, my friend described them as “the only band that makes me want to just punch a wall for no good reason.” I can agree with that statement. Though the vocals are often soft and pop-like, nothing similar could be said about the rest of the act. Distorted guitar and electronic beats drive energetic songs like “Crush,” “Demons” and “Comeback Kid.” With a band so off the beaten path yet so infectiously catchy, you only want to turn it up.

Out of the electro-pop woodwork comes this cute but macabre number.

The vocalist has a childlike voice akin to that of Grimes, and can make you nearly dismiss the dark, chilling lyrics. A wonderful example is the second track, “Fineshrine,” where she speaks of cutting open her chest and pulling her ribs around someone, presumably in some kind of unpleasant embrace. Other fun must-listens include “Saltkin” and “Lofticries.” Definitely a spontaneous and unique act that you shouldn’t miss.

This intensely driven, happy-themed indie dance pop act has hit the stage this year with this long-awaited album. Though everyone was both excited and frightened to see what would happen after their previous album, “Manners,” the reaction was overall positive, and with good reason. The single released, “Take A Walk,” was upbeat and surprisingly political for a band of Passion Pit’s regular stature and voice. Though still bouncy and incredibly giddy, this album goes deeper with lyrics than albums previous. The entire album was well worth the listen, other definitively excellent tracks include “Carried Away,” “Cry Like A Ghost” and “Where We Belong.”

After 13 years of absolutely nothing out of this artist, she comes back with her most multi-faceted album yet. Her silky voice paired with punchy percussion makes this album both folky and sassy. Beneath her great folkpop sound lies dynamic lyrics. “Hot Knife” is certainly my favorite track, as she sings one line, then another, then another, and finally piles them all on top of another for a tribal sound. Two other tracks akin to this one include “Werewolf” and “Periphery.”

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College football bowl predictions Cedar Falls Co-Head Coach Brad Remmert and football players predict this year’s bowl games BCS National Championship Discover Orange Bowl AT&T Cotton Bowl Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Allstate Sugar Bowl Rose Bowl Notre Dame vs. Alabama Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma Oregon vs. Kansas State Louisville vs. Florida Wisconsin vs. Stanford Northern Illinois vs. Florida State

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Bowling teams set sights high, look to keep improving Many people think that Valley Park Lanes, where bowling is easy and not even a the team have held practice sport at all, but this year’s team in the last years, unfortunately is planning on proving those closed recently, so the teams people wrong. have had to make different ar“Bowling is definitely not as easy as everybody thinks, and there are a lot of techniques to learn.

I thought it was going to be easy, but it turned out to be hard, and I really want to get better and keep up with my teammates,” senior Ana Cunha, who is playing on the girl’s team for the first time this year, said. “It is the first time I’ve played for real, and it’s still really fun for me. I don’t view it as too much of a competition because Junior Jessica Hinz takes a shot at Maple I just want to have fun with it and do my best rangements, and it has proven for the team.” to be a pain.

Out of the four meets “Having Valley Park closed played so far this season, the has changed a lot of things for girls have defeated Waterloo us. Now varsity only gets two East and Dubuque Senior. days of practice, whereas last “I’m happy with the results year they had three, and junior because we’ve started out re- varsity only gets one and had ally well this season, and we two last year. We also have to hope to continue winning a share Maple Lanes with [Wafew more meets,” junior Jes- terloo] West and Denver. It’s a sica Hinz, who has been on the big change for us, but we’ve team for three years, said. managed to work with it,” Hinz

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The team has managed to make it work and pull it together. Having these small challenges has helped make

bowls frames 1 and 6; player two bowls frames 2 and 7, and it keeps going on like that.”

Aside from winning and losing, Cunha said it is important to have fun and enjoy the sport and improve as you go.

“I do enjoy bowling.

Mr. Baker, our coach, is really nice and I think a lot of people there are new at bowling, and he does a good job encouraging us to get better.

He is really committed, and that makes us have a good time too,” Cunha said. “My main goal is continuing to have fun and get better at the sport.”

Hinz also said having goals is important to improving her performance on a team such as bowling.

Lanes, where the teams now practice.

“My performance is going players stronger and come toreally well. I have increased gether as a team. my average by about 30 from “As a team, we have imlast year. I started practicing a proved a lot. Our Baker games month before actual practice are becoming a lot better. We started so that I could become are all getting better at picking a better bowler,” Hinz said. up spares and keeping each The team is next in action other in a good mood and not on Friday, Jan. 4 at Linn-Mar. getting upset when we have a bad shot,” Hinz said. “Baker Staff Writer Karly games are where you have five IZER bowlers that come together to play one game. Player one

Emily Neff

Women’s Basketball Senior Emily Neff leads the 4-2 women’s basketball team in points this season with 74. She’s also shooting 65 percent from the line.

What are your goals for this season?

To have a winning season and grow and improve as a team.

What did you do to prepare in the off-season?

I didn’t go out for a fall sport. I shot and lifted in preparation for the season.

How is the team bonding, especially with a really young team?

As far as chemistry goes, this is the best team I’ve been on at Cedar Falls.

Do you plan on playing in college?

Yes, I have decided to take my talents to Central in Pella, Iowa.

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Action

Men’s Basketball (3-2)

Next up: Waterloo East on Dec. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at East

Women’s Basketball (4-2)

Next up: Dubuque Wahlert on Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Wahlert

Wrestling

Next up: IC High and LinnMar on Dec. 20 at 5:30 p.m. at Linn-Mar

Bowling (2-6)

Next up: Linn-Mar on Jan. 4 at 3:45 p.m. at Linn-Mar

Men’s Swimming

(Left to right) Senior Devon Mettlin, sophomore Elizabeth Gerstenkorn and junior Eric Simmons prepare for Linn-Mar.

Next up: Cedar Rapids Washington on Jan. 3 at 6 p.m. at Washington

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At top, sophomore Addison Long wrestles with Iowa City West’s Mikaela Morgan in a loss on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at home. At right, senior Brendan Alexander takes control of a Cedar Rapids Jefferson opponent on Thursday, Dec. 6. The Tigers took both dual titles that night from Cedar Rapids teams.

Peeking in on the Week Grecia Diaz Photo

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At top, senior Jacob Sund strokes to his 1st place finish at Waterloo West on Tuesday, Dec. 11, where the Tigers tied the Wahawks, 85-85.

Below that, juniors Collin McIntyre and Srinivas Dhanwada put their puzzle solving skills to the test in the new Rubic’s Cube club that met on Monday, Dec. 10 in math teacher Rich Strikes’s room. At right, senior Talia Sturm and the rest of Gayle Bruene’s food nutrition students hosted guests to sample their skills.

Autumn Timm Photo

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At top, sophomore Adrian Amjadi and the rest of the orchestra performed holiday selections in the auditorium on Thursday, Dec. 13. The band performed on Monday, Dec. 17 and the choir’s holiday show is Thursday, Dec. 20.