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English teacher receives annual Gold Star award students and really connect with kids on a personal level. And then there Business Manager is Diane Flaherty, she is all of those things wrapped up into English teacher Diane an unforgettable laugh and rosy Flaherty was one of the 10 red cheeks. I am honored to recently chosen as a Gold work with her and proud to be Star Teacher from over 900 her nephew,” counselor Ryan applicants in Black Hawk Flaherty said.

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Administration believed “I was totally shocked. there was no better teacher to I know my face turned six win this award and were very shades of red, and I teared honored to be working with up. My 7th period had no Flaherty. idea what was going hapFlaherty has a huge pening. I was very humbled Diane Flaherty heart“Mrs. and cares about helping othby the honor, considering how Gold Star Teacher ers before herself. She is the first many wonderful teachers we person to step forward for a new challenge have here and in the county,” Flaherty said. or opportunity in our professional developFlaherty had no idea that she had won the award. Students and teachers alike believe she ment process. She always leads by example and inspires those around her with her posiis a very deserving recipient. tive attitude and work ethic,” principal Dr. “She puts so much time and effort into Rich Powers said. everything she does whether it’s involvement The Gold Star Award finds quiet role in the food drive, the numerous senior leadermodels among the crowd. The award aims to ship activities or church. She always puts find teachers who make an impact on their her whole heart and soul into everything she does. I know I can always go to Mrs. Flaherty student’s learning process and on their lives.

They look for teachers who are committed to if I ever need anything. I don’t think there their students, their school and their teachis a teacher who deserves this award more,” ing. They find teachers who love their job senior Alice Miller said. and can go to work everyday knowing they Flaherty’s involvement proves to be just are making a difference. another facet of her life that has helped her “I still love teaching. What other vocato bond with students and ultimately win the tion can you do something different each and Gold Star award. every day? When I see a student who has “Diane Flaherty is one of the best teachers been struggling suddenly understand, that I have ever seen. Diane cares about students, is like no other feeling in the world. Each sets high expectations and really goes the day is a new challenge, and I have learned extra mile for every single student. Her work so much about myself from my students and with Senior Leadership just highlights her other teachers,” Flaherty said. incredible work ethic and her commitment Flaherty said she teared up when she to students. Having hundreds of papers to found out and was honored. grade on a weekly basis gives her plenty to “Mrs. Flaherty does not teach because do, but Diane volunteers her time to spend she has to teach. Mrs. Flaherty teaches with senior leadership planning activities because it is in her heart to do so, a heart that and developing strong relationships with beats with vigor, enthusiasm and grace. She each of the members. Some teachers are truly is one of those rare people you will find extremely intelligent and know their subject on this earth that gives everything and asks matter better than anyone. Some teachers are for nothing,” English teacher Troy Slater hard working and put in lots of additional said. hours. Some teachers form strong bonds with

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Volume 49 Issue 23

1015 Division St. Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613

Nine CFHS DECA participants travel to Nationals in California Kellie Petersen Editor-In-Chief

Nine Cedar Falls High School DECA participants traveled to Anaheim, California last week with faculty advisor Matthew Flaherty for the National DECA competition.

Participants were required to have placed 1st or 2nd at state, be president of State DECA, or be chosen leaders of State DECA in order to participate.

Senior Mike Bangston, senior Tyler Brewer, junior Lizzy Christopherson, senior Dylan Deery, junior Alex Entz, senior Matt Hart, junior Alexis Rokes and junior Linden Terpstra all fulfilled these requirements. Senior Mackensie Smith also was eligible to participate with her 1st place at state in Food Marketing Services.

There are several different circumstances and competitions in which DECA students may participate. Troendle participated as the state president of Iowa’s DECA chapter, Deery and Bangston participated as a team in the Leader-

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ship chapter, Terpstra and Brewer participated individually in Entrepreneurship Franchising Buisness, Rokes and Christopherson participated individually in Entrepreneurship Written Team and Hart and Entz participated as a team in Marketing Research Project.

Rokes felt that her competition experience went well.

“I thought our Presentation went well in general and we got good feed back from our judge so that was really good,” Rokes said.

For the most part, DECA participants enjoyed meeting other DECA participants from around the country and the general experience of the competition.

“I feel like the meetings I attended were advantageous and interesting, I had a lot of fun sight seeing and speaking with officers from other states. The best part was probably hanging out with the people from the other Iowa chapters and other officers,” Troendle said There were no participants from Cedar Falls High School who earned one of the ten places available.

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To raise money for special projects in the resource class, the resource students— including senior Tyler Nelson, sophomore Alex Graber and junior Morgan Henriksen—have been busily preparing many green items for their annual plant sale, which will run from Thursday, May 7 at 3 p.m.-5 p.m. and Friday May 8 at 7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Items include geraniums, daisies, coleus, spikes and more. Costs range from 10 cents to $6. Student-created greeting cards will also be available for Mother’s Day, graduation and more.

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Sophomore wins National Silver Key Award Monica Clark Staff Writer

Winner of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, sophomore Melina Gotera is absolutely thrilled at the honor of being chosen.

This was the first year she had entered, and all of her work paid off. Gotera entered three poems and a short story to the contest, and a few months later her Language Arts Enrichment teacher, Judy Timmins, received a letter saying that three of her poems won Reginal Gold Key Awards. Afterwards, her poems were sent to the national judging contest.

Months later, she received another letter saying two of her three poems won National Silver Key Awards.

Every year, professionals in the visual and literary arts review works of teens 7-12 all across the nation looking for the most talented teens.

More than 140,000 works of art and writing were submitted to regional programs of The Scholastic Awards.

Gotera is one out of 1,000 students to receive a national honor.

“That (means) that I (am) invited to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City this coming June.

It also means that my writing might be published in ‘The Best Teen Writing of 2009,’” Gotera said.

Her older siblings started the legacy by winning the award four years ago.

“My older sister Amanda won a National Gold Key Award and a $10,000 scholarship in the Scholastic Awards for her writing portfolio, which included short stories, essays and poetry. Her writing was then included in ‘The Best Teen Writing of 2005,’ which is basically an anthology of winning writing that is put out by Scholastic,” Gotera said.

“The following year, Amanda was asked to be the editor of that years’s ‘Best Teen Writing.’”

Not only has her older sister had an effect on her, but her family has

“At Age Three”

My mother found me under our white bunk bed one summer, in the middle of a nightmare.

My three-year old body shaking and writhing, raspy voice crying out into the darkness around me, swallowing my shape.

My short limbs were curled up and around my abdomen, (counting ribs like loaves of bread, I laid there) each tiny finger stretched akimbo across the musty blue carpet.

She remembers my legs, the same as a just-born horse’s, shivering new beneath my own weight.

My mother found me in the middle of the night one summer when I was very small.

She found me where tree branches scratch windows and things go bump in the night, where the gap between a box spring and the floor is the safest place to be.

One night my mother found me, tossing and turning, curled like a seashell in the middle of the floor.

And she plucked me out

Sara Strever Photo Sophomore Melina Gotera writes poems during her free time.

Her efforts and talent won her the National Silver Key Award.

been role models and supporters.

“Along with my dad being a writer and my mother an artist, (it) really pushed me along and gave me

an interest in the awards,” Gotera said.

Along with Amanda being published, she was interviewed on NPR.

For Gotera, she feels this would be the best thing in the world if she got the opportunity.

“She read some of her poetry and even made her interviewer cry. For me, that’s what it’s all about. I want to give a voice to people, who don’t know how or which words to use.

Everybody feels pain. Everybody feels love, but not everyone knows how to say it. I try to reach people because I want to be reached. I want to be met in the middle. When you can make someone cry, or laugh, or even perk up their ears with your words, then that’s the best it can get. When you can move someone, or help them say what they need to, simply with a bunch of circles and lines on paper, then that makes both of you not so alone,” Gotera said. “If I could read my poetry on NPR, well, that would be incredible.

I guess you could say it’s a life in goal. In the long run, I just want to make a difference in my life, and hopefully I’m on they way now.”

and held me. (uncurling my fingers, untangling the white cotton of my nightgown, unmangling this mess of mine) Then she wrapped her shape around mine and cradled me, shaking, in the palm of her hands.

Today I open the fridge and look over its contents, picking at the seam of my shirt.

Today I open up the cupboard, my palms laid across my ribcage, and I count loaves of bread.

My mother found me in the middle of the day, fifteen-year old fist shaking in the air, my foot arched above the pedal on our sewing machine.

She watches as I struggle to unfurl, uncurl, to untangle.

Unmangle the mess of threads wrapped in and around each other.

Today my little brother stretches his own tiny fingers akimbo, building skyscrapers on the living room carpet, the legs of his structures shiver to hold up their own weight.

I count oranges on a table and I remember a nightmare that happened twelve years ago in the middle of the night one summer.

The shape of my mother, the smell of blue carpet, the chattering of my teeth against my bottom lip, my three-year old lungs gasping for air.

“This poem won the Regional Gold Key Award and I wrote it about a time when I was three years old and had a nightmare that I could fly and that my wings were tangled because my nightgown was tangled around the shoulders. I was so upset that I crawled under the bed and curled up in a ball, where my mother found me. This memory is vivid and something I have carried with me the rest of my life. This is about being small and the relationship between my mom and me. It’s about security, growing up and the frustration of being too young to understand your world.”

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The Gold Star Award for Outstanding Teaching is an impressive honor because, as the name implies, it awards outstanding teaching. It is even more of an honor, though, because it is the students who nominate the teachers to receive the award.

Thus, it is known to all that a recipient of a Gold Star Award is not only deemed an excellent teacher by colleagues and peers, but also by students.

The opinion of the students is truly the most important one, as they are the ones who experience the teaching. Given that students nominate teachers for a Gold Star Award, the magnitude of what it represents is well demonstrated.

It is with recognition for the importance of the Gold Star Award that we would like to congratulate this year’s recipient from Cedar Falls High School, English teacher Diane Flaherty.

In addition to her teaching activities, Flaherty is the faculty advisor for Senior Leadership. Although not all of us are affiliated with Senior Leadership, its reach extends to us all, and those involved can attest to the effort Flaherty puts into Senior Leadership projects such as the Student Food Drive, as well as the support that she provides. Her students may also attest to the similar effort she puts into her classes and the support she provides her students.

Receiving the Gold Star Award is not the only indicator that Flaherty is a meaningful person to her students. She was also chosen by Erica Scullin as a teacher that has had a great impact on her life as a part of the Iowa High School Sports Association.

It is evident that Flaherty is a teacher well deserving of this award.

Although she is humble about her impact on her students and Senior Leadership members, as well as Cedar Falls High School as a whole, she obviously need not be. In this respect Flaherty’s students have chosen to honor her.

We, too, honor and congratulate Diane Flaherty for receiving the Gold Star Award. We believe that the Gold Star Award is important not only because it honors deserving teachers such as Flaherty, but also because it shows the significance of teachers and teaching in general.

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OMG! Did you hear that Ashton above all have Twitter accounts for Kutcher and Oprah are their weather teams, on Twitter now? which can be used to Actually, I did. The put tomorrow’s forelarge LCD Billboard cast up or a sudden near First and Tremont weather alert.

Streets has a large sign Not only can proclaiming “Follow news sources use Ashton Kutcher on Twitter to get Twitter.” information out And, of course, I there immediately would want to know all and maybe find out about the latest show readers’ opinions, but he’s developing that the government can Monica Reida use Twitter to inform will probably bomb.

Staff Writer In the meantime, most people of news. For people are dismissing it example, the Centers as nothing more than a Facebook rip for Disease Control and Prevention off, which is unfortunate because un- is using the website to keep people like Facebook, Twitter has numerous informed about swine flu developpractical applications. ments.

Without searching too hard, you One of the great advantages of can find that several news sources the website is that people can have “tweet”—the proper term for the their accounts set up to send updates writing of something on Twitfrom certain users to their phones via ter. KCRG, KGAN, KWWL, the text messaging. For example, every Waterloo Courier, Cedar Rapids time the CDC updates its feed with Gazette and Des Moines Register all developments about the swine flu have accounts on Twitter. With this, outbreak, I receive a text message on a news story can have a link put up my phone with the message. and maybe the title to entice people With this capacity, think of the to read the article. It’s like a breakgood school districts could do with ing news alert online. In addition, it. During the winter, they could the three news stations I mentioned update their feed to have that school

has been cancelled or delayed. If parents are “following” the school district’s Twitter account, they can have it set up to receive the delays and cancellations on their cell phones.

I’d like to see Facebook do that.

With the demise of Facebook, Twitter will probably flap its little wings to glory. People claim that Twitter is a ripoff of Facebook, when in fact the tawdry social networking website has been trying to imitate Twitter.

But I fail to see how Facebook could ever be like Twitter. There are news organizations on Facebook, but they don’t update their pages as much as they update their Twitter feeds. One journalist recently commented on his Twitter account that more people followed his feed than were “friends” of him on Facebook.

Facebook is a place to sit around and go “OMG! LOL! LOOK AT THIS TWILIGHT RELATED THING!” It is silly, slight and simply there for fun. I’m sure people could use Twitter for this, but the professional aspects of it seem to overshadow the lighthearted uses.

Try tweeting and maybe see how nice it is to have news updates and find out about real things.

Obsession with social network overrated when my journalism class discovWith all the things that consume my time these days, one ered that there was a of the last things I’ve new filter blocking out Facebook, we imwanted sucking up my minutes is Facebook. mediately got to work locating a proxy that The popularity of Facebook is staggering: would let us access our beloved accounts. EviThe Facebook applicadently we care about tion available for iPhone and iPod Touch is the Facebook a lot, perhaps too much if we waste most downloaded appliour class time trying to cation of all available in the iTunes Application check if anyone wrote on our walls in the past Store. In December of Ben Sadkowski seven hours.

2008, digital marketing Staff Writer Lots of my peers research company, comconfess to a Facebook Score recorded Facebook having 220 million unique users. addiction of sorts, one that has them The popularity is not understated; checking their page at least six times

a day if they have access to a computer. Most people can agree that even if we log in just to “check our notifications” we end up clicking on one link, which leads to another, and then another.

The justification of using Facebook is often that it is a tool of communication. Why then do we have e-mail? For me, Facebook poses too much of a distraction and is completely unnecessary for day-to-day communication via the Internet. When I write e-mails I find that I choose my wording a lot more carefully than in a message over Facebook.

I’ve logged in once since April 19, and I don’t have a single regret.

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Graduate shows challenges of colleg Jillian Dally

Business Manager

Words of Wisdom

Freshman year at college can be a scary place, but what is it really like when you’re a thousand miles from home and you have to depend on yourself to make your own way? Brown University freshman and 2008 Cedar Falls graduate Briana McGeough shared how she is handling college life away from her hometown.

“I’ll confess, I was especially homesick at the beginning of the year.

It was hard to be thrown into an entirely new environment where I had never met anyone before. I actually flew home during an extended weekend, which helped me to recharge a bit,” McGeough said.

She said hanging out with your friends, getting into contact with relatives and exploring your campus are all ways that you can keep your homesick emotions in check when you’re stepping out of your comfort zone.

“Facebook is very convenient for a quick message or update. Additionally, Skype (a free webcam service) is nice because you can both talk with and see the other person, making it a bit more personal,” McGeough said.

However, homesickness is just one of the issues college freshmen may

face. Money managing skills are a must-have when you are away at college. With all the newfound freedom it is easy to be influenced by the lure of credit cards and overspending.

“I make a valiant effort to not go shopping, and that helps me to keep my expenses limited to basically toiletries, which aren’t so pricy,” McGeough said.

Having a meal plan helps keep spending down, but with all the food choices and buffets, packing on the dreaded “freshman 15” gets easier.

“Honestly, I don’t weigh myself, so I have no idea. I think I have avoided it. I must confess, though, that the allyou-can-eat buffet style dining makes overeating a pretty easy thing to do,” McGeough said.

Managing your weight lacks importance when looking at the large scale of college life. There are many groups you can join, activities to be involved in and class to attend making it easier to get involved.

“I was very fortunate to find a group of friends very early on in my college experience. Interestingly, nearly all of us are from the Midwest.

We try to eat dinner together each night, and we plan to live together on campus next year.

“I’m involved with Brown’s

equivalent to a Gay-Straight Alliance.

I am a chairperson for the Model United Nations conference that Brown puts on for high school students. This means I prepare information about a debate topic for them, and I facilitate debate during the conference.

“I also am a member of an organization called the Sexual Assault Peer Education Program. We give presentations around campus to various student groups about the importance of bystander intervention and provide tips for preventing violence. I also mentor a couple of high school students.

“It is good to get actively involved to meet a lot of people. However, it is easy to get overwhelmed. I suggest two or three activities to round out your life on campus,” McGeough said.

With all the activities that go on during college, finding time to study isn’t as hard as one would think. An average student in college spends 12 to 18 hours in class, whereas in high

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Get involved. Find activities you like and do them! It is a great way to meet people and a nice break from the pressure of school.

Take time for fun. You are in a new environment—explore it! Make friends!

Learn new things. Step out of your comfort zone. Think about the things you will regret not having done in college when you are 50, and do them!

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school people put in roughly 40 hours.

“Time management is not as difficult as I had expected. I actually have a lot more free time. I try to allocate all of the 8 a.m.-5 p.m. time block to class and studying (with some extra studying thrown into the evenings), and I concentrate my extracurricular

No matter how intense academics can get, no college student should live without friends.

Forging relationships on campus is one of the most necessary and rewarding aspects of college life.

—Briana McGeough, CF Grad

granola bars, which is certainly not the most balanced diet, but it allows me to eat in my room, so I can focus on studying,” McGeough said.

According to her, when people go away to college, it is good not to leave home without their comfort items, but when they get to college the best thing they can acquire are friends.

“No matter how intense academics can get, no college student should live without friends. Forging relationships on campus is one of the most necessary and rewarding aspects of college life. I always make sure to spend a little time with friends during the school week,” McGeough said.

Whether planning to go to college just up the road at UNI or going off on a cross country adventure, McGeough said to always remember to keep in mind what one learned in high school.

“Truthfully, I had excellent preparation for college in nearly all of my high school classes. Cedar Falls High School has many incredible teachers and offers many extraordinary, challenging and fascinating classes. The four most valuable classes were A.P. Psychology, ALPHA Autonomous, Composition and Rhetoric, A.P. and journalism,” McGeough said.

She said if you are wavering on a class and aren’t sure whether or not to

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activities and social commitments in the evenings,” McGeough said.

McGeough does not recommend last minute cram sessions. With all the free time that you have, there should always be significant time to study.

“I typically try to clear my schedule the five days before an exam, so I have plenty of opportunity to study. The day before the exam, I do have a tendency to go into hermit mode and sustain myself on oatmeal, peanut butter and

Brown University freshman Bria history making story, one she wi

“Brown has a very liberal stu lutely ecstatic on election ni victory was announced, literall ran out of various buildings sc all congregated in the Main Gr on campus. The marching band st cert, fireworks were set off a We sang patriotic music and wal State Capitol Building. Around mayor delivered a speech to us. for the Obama campaign, so it perience filled with a lot of It was also inspiring to see so such intense enthusiasm

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take it. Take it. You never know what classes you are going to regret not taking in high school when it’s free.

“I made two course selection mistakes. I didn’t take any biology, and I didn’t take pre-calculus. Base knowledge in both of those areas would be very helpful in some of my current courses,” McGeough said.

When you get to college, McGeough recommends taking a social psychology class. Even as a freshman, she said you encounter some professors that think you are not as competent as older students, but bearing down and asking questions is a good way to show that you are interested and intelligent.

“The fact that they don’t think you have as solid of an understanding provides an excuse to go to their office hours, time when professors are guaranteed to be available to talk to students, and ask extra questions. This allows you to get extra help and actually learn more, and it allows you to express interest in their class, which, honestly, can pay dividends in terms of your grade,” McGeough said.

Overall, McGeough suggests to stay safe, have fun, get involved, go to class, get extra help and study. Making it in college will give you that edge you need to succeed.

ana McGeough shares her ill most likely never forget:

udent body that was absoight. As soon as Obama’s ly thousands of students creaming and cheering. We reen, a big, grassy area tarted an impromptu conand a parade commenced. lked to the Rhode Island d 2 a.m. the Providence . A lot of us had worked was truly a magical expassion and enthusiasm. o many young people with m for politics.”

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CFHS Staff Share Their Tips For Making It Through College With Flying Colors:

G a y l e Bruene 1. Eat nutritious foods—a diet of junk food and beer won’t feed your brain.

2. Get enough sleep—all night parties before a test don’t make for good grades 3. Learn to manage your time and make good choices 4. Learn to budget your money—it doesn’t grow on trees.

5. Learn to do your own laundry—having enough clothes for a semester and taking it all home to Mom may not be appreciated.

K i m T raw 1. As college students, you will be required to write research papers for many of your classes. Many of your professors will tell you that you cannot use all (or any) internet sources. You must learn to use your college’s library. Large college libraries can be very intimidating, so find out what kind of instruction your college offers on using the library and take advantage of it. Some colleges offer a one credit 4-week course on using the library; some offer a 3 hour workshop; some may just offer tours. If you need help finding information, ask a reference librarian. That’s what they’re paid to do—to help. Becoming comfortable using the library will help you succeed in many of your college classes.

S u z a n ne Gettman 1. Find out resources through the college and/or community as to where you can go when you are not feeling well and need physician evaluation-know the hours they are open and whether or not they are covered by your insurance plan. Check into this before you are actually sick and need to be seen.

2. Make sure you have a copy of your health insurance/dental insurance/vision insurance cards with you when you go to college.

3. Pack a small first aid kit with gloves, bandages, tweezers, antibiotic ointment, tape, scissors as well as general medications such as Tylenol/Ibuprofen, Benadryl, Calamine lotion, cough drops etc.

4. Hygiene is a must—wash your hands, cover your cough, don’t share drinking/eating utensils—those things you learned in kindergarten really apply now!

5. Make good choices—moderation is everything is an important thing to remember- Keep this in mind with regards to your daily practices of eating, exercise, socializing etc.

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N eW Rel eases

Music:

•Ciara Fantasy Ride •Ziggy Marley Family Time •Conor Oberst Outer South •Elliot Yamin Fight For Love •New York Dolls Cuz I Sez So •The Dangerous Summer Reach For The Sun

Movies:

•Star Trek •Next Day Air

F eature Pod cast

This week’s feature podcast as well as eight others that are updated every other week can be found on The Tiger Hi-Line Online (http://www. cedar-falls.k12.ia.us/buildings/cfhs/ journalism/index.html) by following the podcast links. Internet Explorer does not work for viewing this site.

Use Safari, Firefox or Opera for best results. The website is also linked off the high school’s website.

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Much-anticipated Wolverine movie entertains fans, movie-goers alike Will Zey Staff Writer

X-Men Origins: Wolverine begins in 1845. It tells the story of how James Howlett (Hugh Jackman) first found out that he was a mutant. It then goes on to show him and his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) fighting in the Civil war, WWI, WWII and the Vietnam war.

They then join a group with other mutants.

These mutants include Fred Dukes (Kevin Durand) who is super-strong and invulnerable, Jon Wraith (will.i.am) who can teleport, Chris Bradley (Dominic Monaghan) can control machines, Agent Zero (Daniel Henney) who is and expert marksmen and Wade Wilson (Ryan Renolds) who is a mercenary. Together they go through so much, but after an incident where there were too many senseless murders, James realizes that this is wrong and quits

of the mutants that will be shown in the other movies. An example of this would be Scott Summers “Cyclops.”

The rivalry between Wolverine and Sabertooth has not always been there. They are brothers, and they have taken care of each other through many times. Sabertooth has always tried to be the best, always tried to be like Wolverine. After Wolverine sees that Sabertooth is becoming a ruthless murderer, he disowns him as a brother. This is where the conflict really starts, and it is explained in the movie.

The film has made around $87 million in its first weekend, and around $35 million of that was from the first day. photo from nerdles.com Overall, this movie is really In the new movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, viewers learn more great. It does a great job bringing all about the iconic Wolverine’s mysterious past. the loose ends together, and the special effects are really great. I would the team. to have the adamantum in his bones. recommend this movie to anyone This movie fills in a lot of the It also tells you why the rivalry bewho is a fan of the X-Men series, or gaps that were in the other movies. tween Wolverine and Sabertooth exanyone who likes action/si-fi movies.

It explains on how Wolverine comes ists. The movie also introduces some

Do You Have A Favorite Poem?

“Dejeuner du Matin” Jaques Prevert

“Dreams” Emily Dickinson

“Funeral Blues” W. H. Auden

“The Raven” Edgar Allen Poe

“It’s a very very simple poem with a cute meaning. It’s a perfect rainy day poem.”

“It has an excellent message! It has a positive, hopeful message.”

“It’s beautifully written and powerful.”

“I don’t know.

I just like it.

[Poe] is out-ofthe-ordinary.”

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Political Scoop with host Tony Wright

Every other week, I will check in with the latest developments in the world of politics and offer my own thoughts about what I find.

April 24/ Episode 14 There have been some interesting twists in both state and national politics in the last couple weeks, and I’ll pick up a few these threads.

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Stepping stones lead to fitness, health Sports Editor

With warmer weather, the excuses for avoiding a healthy lifestyle are fading each day, and, according to CFHS fitness fans, success isn’t rocket science.

Assistant principal Troy Becker is also the head coach for girls track and field and the boys cross country team. To get back into the fitness groove, he suggested, “This depends on how out of shape they are and how overweight they are. In general, I recommend that they start easy and build up to where they want to go. That way they don’t end up getting too discouraged. And, they need to decide what type of exercise they want to do. And most important, they need to have a set time in the day that they exercise. It needs to be treated like a job that absolutely can’t be missed.”

Knowing that having a well-balanced diet is also important in order to lose weight, exercising is usually forgotten in the midst. There are so many diets out there that guarantee weight loss, but one misconception is focusing more on having a healthy diet than exercising regularly.

“I like people and athletes to think about exercising other than just eating right. Eating the basics like fruits and veggies. In other words, just a well-rounded diet is important.

Athletes who do endurance events longer than one hour should think about more carbs, but, for most of us, it is just a matter of having a well-balanced diet without a bunch of junk,” Becker said.

On an athlete’s point of view, sophomore Cassie Crotty said, “I try to eat everything in moderation, but I try to get some kind of protein every meal, so I don’t get to the point where I eat more than I need to.”

She also points out that drinking pop is bad for anyone. “I believe that pop is one of the worst things that anyone can drink — even if you’re not an athlete,” Crotty said.

Another thing Crotty said is “eating heavy at night” can be another problem people have trying to lose weight, because people aren’t usually active late at night.

Exercising is the key factor to losing weight Becker said. “All the research I’ve seen recommends at least 20 minutes of cardio Eileen Crotty photo at least three times a week. That’s the Sophomore Cassie Crotty enjoys a day at the minimum. ObviDrake Relays in Des Moines. She was the lead ously, if you want off leg in the 4x100 meter relay for the Tigers. to be in the best intake. It’s good to eat the right shape, you need things, but constantly counting to commit at least five to six days a calories and not eating small snacks week with different types of workthroughout the day will not help lose outs represented to target what event weight any faster. you’re going for. An example would “Being obsessed about counting be a runner needing at least one long calories is the biggest problem I see. run each week and some intervals to If you simply eat proper portions of go with their normal running.” food and exercise, your body will go Some runners like Crotty triy to to its most natural state of health,” stay in shape by cross training in Becker said. sports such as cross country in the He also said, “If you want to lose summer and basketball in the winter for when track season starts up in the weight, you have to burn more calories than you put in your body. To spring. lose weight properly in a way that According to Becker, another it will stay off, you should do this thing that people have misunderslowly over time. Once you get close stood to get back in shape is calorie

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to your ideal weight, you can simply focus on a well-balanced diet and let exercise help your body go to where it is most natural for it to be.”

Another thing people try to do is stay away from unhealthy foods altogether for specific reasons.

Some foods that Becker tries to stay away from are, “candy, chips, cakes and any drinks that have high fructose corn syrup in them.”

Ingredients like high fructose corn syrup are hard to stay away from or spot most of the time because they are in most food and drinks that people consume on a regular basis.

Things like pop most likely have this ingredient in them, but things like cereal bars and chips are not so apparent.

Popular food items like granola bars, cereal, chips, muffins and pop tarts may seem harmless, but when looking at the ingredients, high fructose corn syrup usually is one of them.

But, that doesn’t mean that one has to be driven away from food items such as granola bars altogether.

There are healthy substitutes like searching for granola bars that are organic and making sure to look for other empty calories.

“Eating right and working out go hand in hand. If you don’t eat right, workouts are harder,” Crotty said.

She also added, “I don’t eat many sweets or eat things like potato chips or drink pop. The only thing that tends to be my weakness most times is chocolate. Eating chocolate in moderation is what I focus more on than not eating it at all.”

So cutting out unhealthy food altogether isn’t necessary, but focusing more on how much unhealthy food one eats and maintaining a consistent exercise routine is key to losing the weight one wants to lose to get back to being healthy and fit.

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Athlete Week of the

Alexandria Judisch Women’s Golf Junior

Junior Alexandria Judisch has been in golf competitively for three years and has played junior golf since fifth grade.

1. What do you enjoy most about golf?

I love the girls in my team and the girls I play with.

2. How do you prepare before meets?

Warming up with the team and a little pep talk prayer.

3. Who do you look up to? Who and why?

My dad because he does everything a hundred percent.

5. Do you have any memorable memories in golf?

State is always fun especially when we are on our way to meets the whole team sings in the van.

Tigers in Action

Men’s Track 2nd at the Big 8 Classic Next: Divisionals 5/8 (5 p.m. @ Waterloo East) Women’s Track Won the Big 8 Classic Next: MVC Divisional 5/8 (5 p.m. @ Linn-Mar) Men’s Soccer Beat Dubuque Hempstead Beat Dubuque Senior Next: Iowa City High (4:15 p.m. @ Away) Women’s Soccer Beat Dubuque Hempstead Lost to Dubuque Senior Next: Waterloo East 5/12 (4:15 p.m. @ Waterloo East) Men’s Tennis Lost to CR Prairie Next: Waterloo West 4/5 (4:30 pm @ Waterloo West) Women’s Golf Next: MVC Super Meet 5/4 (9:30 a.m. @ CR Prairie)

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A Night on the Pier

Highlights from the Elegant Affair

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May 5, 2009

(Left) French manicures & sweet shades were a popular musthave at this year’s prom.

Ali Stoddard (’09) keeps her lovely locks in place in preparation for the big night.

"being in the arms of my date during a slow song & singing that song on the top of our lungs with some of the people around us."

—Alex Dally (’09)

“Three words: Jay Brummel dancing.

There is nothing like it.”

—Blake Ruane (’09)

"my ‘favorite’ memory is probably my zipper splitting open, me running to the bathroom holding up my dress, & Cara Strike's mom saving the day & fixing it."

—Alyssa Beckman (’09)

Seniors Eleanor Poe, Amanda Hosper & Natalie Severson look pretty with Nat’s kitty.

Looking like a princess, Sydney Good gives date Shane Fuller a kiss.

Looking gorgeous as ever, Ashli Schultz (’09) & Alissa Llewellyn partake in prom festivities.

"being with everyone & taking pictures. It was also neat to see all of my friends & their dates." ­—Haley Voss (’10)