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Some exploring national push to learn computer programming Computer Code. The words can put fear into hearts of many people, but the reality is that it isn’t too hard to learn how to code. Many CFHS students are learning how to do it all by themselves.

A website called “Code. org” has started a new program called Hour of Code.

Participants in Hour of Code will spend an hour whenever they can and learn code in a fun and game-like way using familiar characters such as Angry Birds and Plants vs.

Zombies.

Hour of Code also features famous technology gurus such as Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. It also features popular celebrities such as basketball player Chris Bosh, singer Shakira and actor Ashton Kutcher, who are all there to help one learn to code.

Salman Khan of Khan Academy also has a program to help to teach people the basics of

Dwight Howard of the Houston Rockets is just one of the national celebrities promoting students to explore fun coding lessons at csedweek.org. computer code.

Science and engineering teacher Ron Hoofnagle is enthusiastic about Hour of Code.

“Hour of Code is a useful tool for beginners. It is fun, and it makes learning how to code similar to learning a new game,” Hoofnagle said. “The variety of celebrity instructors will help some people be more motivated to learn.”

Sophomore Sam Zhang said he thought that learn-

ing code would be a good choice.

“I would like to learn how to code because that is where the future is headed, and most people will need to know how to code, so it would be good to learn as early as you can,” Zhang said.

“Hour of Code does a great job of making code fun to learn.”

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DECA teams polish up at Districs A few students from CFHS are hoping to make a trip down to Atlanta, Ga., along with about 15,000 other high school students across the country this May for DECA. DECA is a marketing organization for students who are interested in business, entrepreneurship, leadership and any other thing having to do with business.

DECA is run by business teacher Matt Flaherty. Julie Cuvelier, also a CFHS business teacher, helps Flaherty with all the stuff they do for DECA. “My favorite part is probably when the kids come back after they’ve graduated and talk to me and say how much it helped them. They say they are glad they did it,” Flaherty said.

At a normal DECA competition each person takes a 100-point marketing test.

Questions on this test nor-

mally have something to do with stuff teachers have talked about with their students in business classes.

The second part of the competition is where each person or group is given a business situation, and they have to solve a problem. The group or individual has 20 minutes to prepare for the answer. Once they have their answer, they go and sit with the judge, tell them their problem and then answer a few questions.

“I do DECA because I see that there is a benefit for everyone. It takes a lot of time to do it, but the reward is worth it,” Flaherty said.

In order to get to Nationals, individuals and teams need to finish the competition in the top three at State. Before State they have Districts, which is like a practice round for State.

Districts was held at the Cedar Falls mall on Thursday, Jan 30.

At Districts, first place finishes went to Sami Schildroth in restaurant marketing, Jordan Caruso and Madison Wood in sports and entertainment team management and Austin Miller and Eli Berregaard in hospitality team management.

Second place finishes went to Caine Wildeboer and Jack Sannes in sports and entertainment team management.

Honorable Mentions went to Ross Pierschbacher and Jared Deines on the sports/entertain team, Elle Stackhouse and Ashley Holstun on the travel and tourism team and Megan Bradford and Josie Johnson in principles of business management.

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New PE electives open up Next semester, the P.E. department will offer several electives for juniors and seniors, instead of the traditional Lifetime Wellness.

Physical education will still be required for graduation, but there will now be more options to choose from. P.E. teacher Paul Elser has been leading this development in the absence of department head Jamie Smith.

Students will now be able to choose among Strength and Conditioning, Crossfit Training, Individual Sports, Team Sports and Fitness Class. Lifetime Wellness will no longer be offered.

As of right now, Elser said, only juniors and seniors can enroll in these classes, while sophomores will still take Sophomore Wellness. Sophomores may be able to in the

second semester, but that is still under discussion.

The P.E. staff has discussed moving towards electives for upper class students for a while. “When we applied for the PEP grant, one of our goals was to head in the direction of electives,” Elser said. The reason for the new P.E. classes, Elser said, was to give students an opportunity to focus on an area of fitness or sport that interests them and motivates them in hopes that they will enjoy it more.

“We also feel that this elective program will better prepare students for making choices about what activities they will want to do to stay physically active and fit for right now and the future,” Elser said.

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News Briefs Local NCTE winners picked

Juniors Agatha Fenech, Chinelo Onuigbo and Lulua Rawwas are the National Council of the Teachers of English representatives for the Cedar Falls High School this year. They were among a number of students who submitted some of their best writing and also completed an impromptu essay before they were picked by all the CFHS English teachers as the top CFHS writers. All three will apply their writing skills in the next level of the contest later this spring.

Music shows coming up

Jazz I, Jazz II and Vocal Jazz will be performing on Saturday, Feb. 8 at the high school auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for students.

Jazz I and Jazz II recently earned Division I ratings at the State Jazz Festival.

There were 14 bands performing and the CFHS bands were among the only four to achieve the highest Division I rating.

The Symphony Orchestra POPS Concert is also

coming soon on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the ???????

Tickets are $? for adults and $? for students.

Course registration continues

Juniors need to return their schedules complete with parent signatures to the counseling office by Monday, Feb. 10, and sophomores will begin their course registrations in their social studies classes on Thursday, Feb. 13.

Chromebooks ready for restart

All students should restart their Chromebooks. The settings should save now and printers have also been added.

Those experiencing troubles should see media specialists Kim Traw or Kristi Anhalt in the library.

Spring Model UN gearing up

There will be a Model United Nations meeting after school in room 147 on Monday for any students interested in the Spring Model UN. All are welcome to participate; no prior experience required.

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Student makes journey to Nepal Not many teenagers have the experience of traveling to a third world country, but that’s exactly what a CFHS student did in January.

Senior Sami Schildroth made the long journey with her boyfriend, Luke Heindl (‘12), his parents, Mike and Diane, and his sister, Honor (‘07), and her boyfriend, Morey Lindquist. The Heindl family spent 10 years in the hills of Nepal as missionaries and were returning to visit old friends and see how the church is thriving. They started the trek with a lengthy 12-hour flight from Chicago to Istanbul, Turkey. The plane was outfitted with working televisions and offered decent meals, making the long flight time more bearable. After a four-hour layover and a three-hour delay, a connecting flight took them to Kathmandu, Nepal. “The second flight was awful. We didn’t have working TVs and we had to circle Kathmandu for two hours because of the smog,”

Schildroth said. “We went to Kathmandu, Pokhara, a trek leaving from Pokhara to a view of Annapurna Mountains, Baitawa and Butwol,” Schildroth said.

The culture shock was immediate. “It is so incredibly different there,” Schildroth said.

Water was a precious resource, so the travelers had to use squatting toilets, brush their teeth with bottled water, filter water of contaminants each night to avoid sickness and shower using cold water and buckets. They had to bring their own toilet paper wherever they traveled. The group also had to bundle up in layers at night because the houses were not heated.

The group was never bored: they went on a four-day trek to Poon Hill to view the Annapurna mountain range, went shopping, explored large Hindu and Buddhist temples, visited a hot bazaar filled with produce, attended a two-hour church service and rode rickshaws.

though it was tough to communicate at first. Schildroth only knew around 10 Nepali words, and the families didn’t know much English, so Diane Heindl served as the translator.

The families stayed together and gathered at meals. “They are doing so many cool things in Nepal for God,” Schildroth said.

Every day had a different experience for the group. An average day: “Get up around Submitted photo 7 at our lodge in a village, have breakfast there, walk for a The group walking from the village of Ghorepani to view Poon Hill couple hours, stop for tea in a about 45 minutes more uphill. From left to right: two porters, Morey village, walk for a couple more Lindquist, Honor Heindl, Luke Heindl, Sami Schildroth, porter, Diane hours, have lunch in a village, Heindl and Mike Heindl. walk for a couple hours, have some oranges and walk for a Food was quite a different baal, a dish made of lentils and few more until a village to stay experience in Nepal compared rice, was a staple at meals. the night. We slept in layers to American culture. Nepalese “We ate a lot of dal, chicken and in sleeping bags on the water was not always safe to curry, mixed vegetables with beds they provided. We would drink, so eating habits adaptsauce, fried pockets filled with ed. “In America we are spoiled potatoes called samosas, por- eat dinner at our lodge and go to bed around 8 since we were with clean water; we were only ridge and drank a lot of chia so tired,” Schildroth said. allowed to eat hot food and (chai) tea,” Schildroth said.

By Editor-in-Chief Martha things with peels (bananas and Schildroth enjoyed meeting oranges),” Schildroth said. Dal the fellow missionary families,

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CFHS teacher stars in local play English teacher Michelle Rathe is well known for the plays she directs at Cedar Falls High School; however, this is not the only theater she participates in. Rathe also acts in several plays done by the community theater.

Rathe previously performed in the Oster Regent Theatre’s production of “The Good Doctor” this year, and she is currently in the Oster Regent Theatre’s production of “Clue,” in which she plays Miss Scarlet.

The show is directed by Gary Baumgartner. “[Baumgartner] was one of the first directors I worked with at the Oster, and he was one of the primary people who got me acting again. I had not done much since college, and I have been back into acting [for] six or seven years. Last year was kind of crazy; I did six shows without a break,” Rathe said.

In order to secure the role of Miss Scarlet, Rathe had to participate in two kinds of auditions. The first audition was one

where the actors had to read a Rathe said. “cold read monologue,” which The cast and crew of “Clue” is when a director hands the consists of over 30 people. This auditionincludes ing actors two CFHS a monoalumni, logue that J a c o b they have H u n d not read ley and before Falken and gives Jaramillo. them a R a t h e minute said, “I or two to get to look over work with it before several acperformtors and ing it. actresses R a t h e that I have then reworked or ceived a wanted to call back work with for the English teacher Michelle Rathe before.” plays Miss Scarlet in an upcoming role of T h e Miss Scar- Oster Regent Theatre production of most diflet the Clue. ficult part following weekend, and she about acting for Rathe is time had to read several pages from management. She works on “Clue” in several different endirecting the school play evsemble groupings. “I never ery day from 3:15-6 p.m. and think I will get a part, so it is alrehearses for “Clue” almost ways a tense wait for the call,” every night from 7-10:30 or 11

p.m. She also attends rehears- ing in shows helps her better als for “Clue” on Sundays for empathize with her students. four hours, in addition to an By participating in community occasional three or four hours theater, Rathe must learn lines, on Saturdays. “Sometimes it’s blocking and characterization, hard to manage my time be- so she struggles with the same tween teaching, directing and things her students do. Howacting. Sleep sometimes gets ever, she said she enjoys every sacrificed,” Rathe minute of it. “You said. become part of Although it a family, and it is For more information is hard to balfun to develop ance her sched- on “Clue” or to buy and create a ule sometimes, tickets for the show, character who alRathe said she visit www.osterregent. lows you to take really enjoys be- org and click “Clue” off a mask and ing in “Clue.” She and “read more.” play someone “loves the sense you could never of fun in the zany be,” Rathe said. comedy,” and she likes play“Clue” will be showing on ing Miss Scarlet because of Feb. 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m., the character’s sarcastic hu- Feb. 23 at 2 p.m., Feb. 28 and mor. “The challenge for me [in 29 at 7:30 p.m. and March 2 at playing Miss Scarlet] is doing 2 p.m. All performances take a Southern accent, which is, place at the Oster Regent Theironically, one I have never at- atre in downtown Cedar Falls. tempted before,” Rathe said.

Tickets for the show are $20 Although acting and direct- each. ing are fairly different, Rathe uses her participation in shows

By Editor-in-Chief Mallory to assist her in her teaching.

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Our View In memory of CFHS soldier, pitch in on behalf of veterans Back on Feb. 17, 2007, There are roughly 400 former CFHS student Travis residents at the veteran’s Vaughn was killed in Afghan- home, around 300 males istan when his mission was and 100 females. By accancelled cident after the we often Chinook times forhe was on get that crashed t h e r e with 22 are also people on female board.

In veterans the crash, and don’t 14 were inthink of jured and s o m e eight died. m o r e Vaughn was feminine among the i t e m s eight. that they Since would apthe crash preciate, and loss of such as Vaughn, his nail polish friends and or maybe This memorial for Spc. family have s o m e started up Travis Vaughn is in front of s c e n t e d a program the gym door entrance. shampoo. that raises T h i s supplies year some and money to give to past items that they are askand present veterans that ing for donation are baare in need of basic supplies. sic everyday supplies like This is called the Shower of shampoo, conditioner, Gifts, and this year Cedar toothpaste and socks.

Falls High School will partici- Last year’s “hot items” pate in it’s third year of the were warm lap blankets. program.

It’s a group effort to From now through the help and donate to this Dance Marathon on Jan. 15, cause. These men and students can donate cer- women served our countain items to the Shower of try by risking their lives Gifts by placing the items in for our own and our fuboxes located in the library, ture’s lives, along with front office and the counsel- our freedom. It wasn’t ing office. From there the easy by any means, and items will be taken and do- it’s our time to thank nated to the Marshalltown them.

Veteran’s Home on Feb. 18.

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Activist visits with Hi-Line writer in recent Cedar Rapids visit “ W h a t ’s the point in being free?

What good is it to live in a free society, a free country or even a free world if you are such an emotional cripple that you are incapable of enjoying it? These Staff Writer Kaleb Bengston recently got aren’t just philosophical a chance to meet on of his heroes, liberquestions to tarian activist Adam Kokesh. ponder, but questions of Kokesh’s big arrest happractical relevance to anyone pened when he went to Freewho cares about freedom, who dom Plaza in D.C. and loaded I assume cares about freedom, a shotgun for a YouTube video. because it is essential to huPolice a month later raided man happiness. Many people his house with helicopters, assume that freedom should S.W.A.T. and heavy artillery. lead to happiness, but that They threw flash-grenades into does not correctly describe the his home, stunning the people relationship. The way that most inside as they rushed in. He was people understand freedom later held in solitary confineand happiness is backwards, ment on charges of owning a reverted by primitive thinkweapon while in possession of ing,” Adam Kokesh explained a controlled substance. Kokesh to a group of 30 people. denies that he ever had those Over the weekend, on Feb. drugs and insists that they 2, Kokesh spoke in Cedar Rapwere planted by police. Those ids to address his new book, charges were dropped. “‘Freedom’” and to speak I asked Kokesh to define about libertarianism, civil disthe ideals of libertarianism, as obedience, activism and the they seem to get a lot of flack benefits of complete non-viofrom media and people who lence in the face of the collecdon’t understand the movetive police force that is getting ment. He said, “Well it makes more and more violent. perfect sense that if you’re Kokesh is a political activist, a professional thief, that you noted for his blatant cynicism would like to demonize people of authority and has been arwho point out the fact that rested for a myriad of reasons you’re stealing from people, doing so. In May of 2011, he and that that is a bad thing. and a group of fellow activAnd libertarianism is that beists decided to participate in lief that you as a free, beautia completely non-violent act ful, independent human being of civil disobedience by dancown yourself: that it is thereing on the newly “dance-free” fore morally wrong to initiate Thomas Jefferson memorial. force, fraud or coercion against This turned out to be Kokesh’s another human being. It is a second biggest arrest ever philosophy based on universal done to him. While dancing nonviolence, so anybody who and being filmed, park police profits from violence, or is didecided to crash the event, luted enough to think violence telling the people to disperse is something that is necessary at threat of arrest. or benefits them, will have Civil disobedience is as it some resistance. These ideas means: you tell authority “no” that violence and coercion is in a peaceful manner because a means to an end holds us what the existing authorities back from our potential. You are trying to do is unjust. So can analyze it in a moral sense the park police swooped in, and say anything else than arrested everyone in a decent respect for fundamental and manner. Except Kokesh, who basic rights for human selfwas body slammed onto the ownership is morally wrong. ground and choked by an enYou can say that it will benefit forcer. For dancing. the whole by eliminating insti-

tutionalized coercion, which is what government is.”

Then I asked Kokesh to explain the importance of civil disobedience. This was his view on it: “When you’re a libertarian, all activism is based on trying to lower the amount of violence and coercion in society. It’s about reducing the effect of government’s control by force and the threat of force in people’s lives. So, civil disobedience can have a very important role in that because you can challenge laws as it’s set up and hope that those laws will be overturned. There’s a certain type of activism, in that vein, that is intended to reduce the amount of violence and coercion in society.

If you have a police officer in your local department who is beating up people without accountability, holding them accountable or getting them fired reduces the amount of violence in that neighborhood.

If there is a tax law in your city where your government points guns at people and says if you don’t give us this money, we’ll lock you in a cage, then getting that law overturned reduces the amount of coercion in your community. These are all very important goals, but in the bigger picture, a lot of activism is based on changing the way people think. Changing the paradigm. And while committing civil disobedience as I have, especially in D.C. for gun rights, is about asserting self-ownership by challenging said laws, that are victim disarmament laws, that promote violence and give government an excuse to get peaceful people like me with a SWAT team raid. It’s more important to me to get people thinking about self defence as a civil right; to get people to assert self-ownership. To me, the bigger picture of my activism is to inspire people to assert their self-ownership.”

Kokesh runs an Internet podcast, man-on-the-street interviews and media website called Adamvstheman.com, and he is coming out with a book called ‘“Freedom”’ on Independence Day, and it will be free on eReaders and other forms of electronic reading. He said that he has so many translators, it may even “be translated into Klingon for intergalactic reading and education of the libertarian ideals.”

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Basketball manager rebounds from fight against rare cancer

People relentlessly try to see the glass half full whenever possible but few succeed like Dominic Cipressi. The CFHS junior has turned this old time adage into his lifestyle.

Most people will know “Dom” from his cheery face around the halls, his active involvement with Scouts or from his job as the student manager of the men’s basketball team.

What is not as apparent, however, is that Cipressi is a cancer survivor.

In December of 2011, Cipressi’s freshman year, he discovered a lump located in his armpit that was causing him pain. Not thinking much of it, he kept going about his life until his mother forced him to pay a visit to the doctor. The doctor discovered that Cipressi’s blood cells were three quarters the regular size, meaning he was anemic, and sent him down to Iowa City for further evaluation.

Throughout the process of multiple doctor visits, Cipressi was still able to participate in basketball and be a part of a team that he loved.

In January of his sophomore year, Cipressi was tested at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for internal bleeding, but nothing turned up in the test results to explain it. Instead, doctors discovered Cipressi was also suffering from a kidney malfunction but were unable to locate any kidney-related disease. This left the doctors dumbfounded as their patient had a golf ball size lump under his arm that seemed to be outsmarting some of the top pediatric health care physicians in the country.

He underwent a biopsy that

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Using his characteristically upbeat and optimistic spirit, junior men’s basketball team manager Dominic Cipressi is recovering from a recently successful fight against a rare form of cancer. turned out inconclusive and caused four months of bleeding, which led to a correctional surgery.

Approaching two years of confusion and frustration, Cipressi made the trip up to one of the most well known and prestigious medical practices in the world, Mayo Clinic located in Rochester, Minn.

After re-doing every test, it became apparent that a second biopsy, without mishap and

bleeding, would be necessary.

A tumor was discovered.

He had argio matoid fibrous histiocytoma, a form of cancer so rare that there are less than 100 documented cases known to man. “My parents cried and cried, but I kept calm. Everyone I told was freaking out, but I’ve had worse,” Cipressi said.

The case is so rare that there had never been a case study done on it before.

Cipressi agreed to be the first

case study to help further research this incredibly rare disease.

A week later, the week of homecoming, Cipressi returned to have the tumor removed, which they did successfully. Three months of physical therapy followed as he returned to full strength. “The surgeries really wore me out more than the cancer did,” he said.

Adding to his battle against cancer was a battle he wasn’t able to fight, a battle on the hardwood with his Cedar Falls Tiger teammates. After surgery and rehab there was no way any doctor was going to let him play even if he was somehow able to muster up the strength.

That’s when the idea sprang to become the team’s manager. “I enjoy basketball, but it’s not just the game,” Cipressi said. “I love being a part of the team more than anything, and I love being around so many great guys and building great friendships.”

Even with missing nearly two months of school with his surgeries and going under the knife for the final time just one week before the start of basketball, Cipressi stayed upbeat and positive. “It was really a wake up call. The physical therapy helped me get back in shape and helped me realize that I needed to start working out again.”

He even had to cheer up his friends and family at times.

“Life can be unexpected, but you can make it through anything,” he said.

Dominic Cipressi certainly has.

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Senior captain Daniel Reinart is helping lead the Tigers to State. He currently participates in the 200 back, 200 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay and the 100 back.

How is the team doing so far?

It’s going really well. We’re showing lots of improvement throughout the guys, including myself.

How did you get into swimming?

I just tried it out when I was young and have loved it ever since.

What are your goals for the rest of the seaon?

To make it to State in the 100 backstroke and hopefully the 200 freestyle.

Do you want to continue with swimming?

Hopefully someday I will be a swim coach for a local swim team.

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Men’s Basketball Feb. 7 Home vs Waterloo West 6p.m.

Women’s Basketball Feb. 7 Away Waterloo West 6 p.m.

Wrestling Feb. 15 Districts TBA Men’s Swimming Feb. 8 Districts

Hannah Brummel UNI Diving

Jared Farley UNI Football

Alex Gary Wartburg Football

Kelsey Hansen UNI Soccer

Michael Kuntz UNI Football

Ross Pierschbacher Alabama Football

Bowling Feb. 7 @ Cherry Lane Away 3:45 p.m.