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Counselor earns top Iowa honors

Recently, CFHS counselor Susan Langan received the honor of being Iowa School Counselor of the Year.

“To receive this award is very humbling, and I am very grateful to be able to serve as a great counselor. I couldn’t have done it without the support of the high school,” Langan said.

“Many have a misinterpretation on what a school counselor actually is. It isn’t just talking to students about college. Our job is nonstop running everywhere helping students and representing Cedar Falls High School. But, I’m always glad to be here working.”

Langan has been a counselor at Cedar Falls for 22 years, and during her time, she has helped and impacted many lives.

She is well known for her persistent smile. In the hallways, she greets students at any moment she has and is always the one willing to step up and help anyone out to make their day.

Senior Matt Turcotte, said, “Mrs. Langan shows love and enthusiasm every day towards our school.”

Langan makes the transition from junior high to high

Service Salute

Students honored Veterans’ Day in an assembly led by social studies teacher and Marine veteran Kevin Stewart, “Taps” soloist junior Brenda Sevcik and many others.

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Iowa Counselor of the Year school a comfortable transition. Senior Durrell Jackson said, “She is fun to be around and always has a positive attitude. Sophomore year she was always helping me transition into high school.”

Many faculty at Cedar Falls are grateful for her works as well. Erin Gardner, another CFHS counselor, said, “Mrs. Langan definitely brings passion as she loves her job as a school counselor. I have learned a lot from her since I began my career here. Mrs. Langan lives, eats and breathes school counseling. I have not meet anyone more passionate about their career.”

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CF wraps up food drive with over 18,000 pounds The CFHS annual food drive has finally come to an end with the results of 18,674 pounds of food being provided by our own staff and student body.

All of the food collected will be sent to the Northeast Iowa Food Bank to help feed over 22,000 families in need.

The food bank was able to receive 34,346 pounds of food total from all the schools competing against each other. Cedar Falls High School collected around 54 percent of the food and gained 1st place in the food drive competition, winning $1,000 in doing so.

Guidance Counselor Erin Gardner, who helps run student senate, said she was more

“We were able to get all of the schools in our district to help us, and we are so thankful.”—Erin Gardner student senate adviser than satisfied with how much food was collected. “I think we did awesome,” she said. “We collected lots of peanut butter, lots of fruit and lots of cans of meat, which are things that are necessities. People can get food like cans of green beans and corn at the store, but that

won’t necessarily fill them up, so they need things that have more protein and are a little more expensive at the store.

We’ll be able to provide the families with those kinds of food.”

Gardner said she believes that we got as many pounds of food as we did because of how much we worked hard on promoting it. “It just wasn’t the high school. It was all of us working together,” she said.

“We were able to get all of the schools in our district to help us, and we are so thankful.”

Even with the strong lead in the contest, Cedar Falls High school didn’t manage to reach the 20,000 pound goal origi-

nally planned. Nonetheless, the school is planning to extend the goal to an even larger number for next year’s food drive in order to collect those 20,000 pounds of food.

Shortly before the end of the food drive, student senate had its own event where members went door-to-door in their neighborhoods on Halloween to trick-or-treat for food cans to help add to the CFHS collection. Senior Drew Stensland was one of the participants of the trick-or-treating event and said, “The results seemed very encouraging. Although we weren’t able to reach our goal of 20,000 pounds of food, it was still a huge outpouring of

support from the community.”

Stensland also made a point on why this food drive was so important for us to participate in. “People all over our community go hungry every day, and we have to work to make sure these people get the food they so desperately need,” Stensland said. “Some people don’t realize how important it is.

The people who use the Food Bank could be your neighbor or a friend of yours from school.

It isn’t just an issue somewhere else. It is an issue that we need to confront, and one that we have helped to confront with our work on the food drive .“

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We see the big picture; just give us time to paint it

All of us are going to be out of high school at one point or another, which means that we should all take some time on considering what exactly we want to do after we graduate. For many of us, it’s attending university or college. However, students making the decision to continue their educations should expect a huge amount of pressure from both the schools and the adults around them.

For starters, the average tuition to go to an in state college in 2014 is about $8,893, which pales in comparison to the average tuition of $30,094 to attend a private college. It would take working 19 hours a week at minimum wage for a year in order to pay for this school tuition at a state school. That does not include room, board, books or money for the other concerns of life.

Many adults may not understand just how tired students feel about paying for their tuition since back in 1970s, the average tuition for an undergraduate school was about $2,350, meaning that teenagers back then had to work for a significantly less amount of time to pay for school. Yet adults still seem to criticize this generation of teenagers as lazy.

Another stressful part about the college process is deciding what to major in or what career to have when finished with school. Several students already know what they want to do for their futures, but the same thing definitely can’t be said for others.

Deciding what to do for the rest of life is obviously a process that takes time for many, and rushing teenagers while they try to decide only makes the process more difficult for them. They might feel so rushed that they’ll end up picking a career pathway that they don’t really enjoy because they didn’t consider their interests.

All we’re asking from some adults is to go a little easier on us when we’re applying for colleges. We’re just about to enter a whole new chapter of our lives, and it’s not the easiest thing in the world to adjust to.

We’d definitely appreciate some support and sympathy from you, but in the end, this is something that we should all be able to handle on our own like the adults we are growing into.

Many adults may not understand just how tired students feel ...

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Fantasy Football Friday, Nov. 14, 2014

Fans find lucrative thrills in following their lineups The score was 45-7, an absolute blowout. Backups were in and even die hard Carolina Panther fans were turning their TVs off as their beloved football team was getting crushed at the mercy of the Philadelphia Eagles on national television on “Monday Night Football.”

So who in his right mind would choose to watch the final quarter of this absolutely gut wrenching, abysmal, depressing Panther offense try to score against an Eagle defense that collected nine sacks, two fumble recoveries and three interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown?

Me. I laid in my bed in disbelief on Sunday night staring at my iPhone as the voices of Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth uttered commentary in the background as they desperately tried to come up with something to say as the Bears and Packers Sunday night game was finishing with a score of 55-14.

Coming into the week I was so confident with my team, a six win and three loss team tied for first place in the division.

The opponent was a 3-6 team that seemed to give up on his season. I felt puzzled, lost and let down as I gazed upon my screen. My fantasy football team wasn’t just losing to a guy who’s lethargic game plan had two players on bye weeks in his starting lineup, meaning they wouldn’t even play. I was getting blown out.

After the fantasy football gossip seeped through the hallways on Monday morning, I chalked this one up as a loss as I was down by 32 even though I still had the Eagles defense and special teams to play. My highest scorer of the day had scored 18 points, so I didn’t put much faith in getting 33 more for the win.

I got home late on Monday night and was scrolling through my Twitter feed when I saw that the Eagles had just returned a Cam Newton interception for a touchdown. I optimistically checked the score just in case

Many of the estimated 30 million fantasy football players in the United States won or lost their game on that garbage time touchdown against backups. But that’s fantasy football. there was any chance of comeback and couldn’t believe my eyes. I was down just one point 103-102. Moments later Darren Sproles returned a punt for a touchdown, and I had just done the improbable. I was winning.

I had a four point lead slashed down to one after a Newton to Kelvin Benjamin touchdown early in the fourth.

After an Eagles punt, the Panthers got the ball with seven minutes left. They were down 45-14, but my eyes were glued to the TV, hoping and even praying for one more defensive stop. Newton sat back in shotgun formation on third and 19. One more stop and I would win the game. Benjamin broke open across the middle of the field, caught the pass in the endzone and broke my heart; 40 yards through the air, his second score of the night. My one point lead turned into a one point loss, and I was devastated.

Many of the estimated 30 million fantasy football players in the United States won or lost their game on that garbage time touchdown against backups. But that’s fantasy football.

The NFL is driven by money.

The average NFL team is worth $1.4 billion, and with 32 NFL teams, that adds up to a league worth $45 billion. Millions are handed out to players, and tickets cost hundreds. For the 30th straight year, the NFL is the most popular sport in America, and a lot of that has to do with fantasy football.

How can a simple hobby have an effect on a multi-billion dollar industry like the NFL? Fantasy football is all about scoring. Now with an entire channel dedicated to watching teams score, NFL Redzone, fans have much easier access to

watch their fantasy players rack up touchdowns.

The NFL has also made the actual game more scoring orientated with rule changes that benefit the fantasy football player. Statistics have evolved to find any potential insight a player can have to help win the game.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is actually a fan of fantasy football and likes how it helps the league. “Even if your team isn’t playing well, you’re still following your fantasy league or you’re following the Red Zone or your mobile device,” Goodell said in an interview to a New York radio station. “So it has created more interest for a longer period of time.”

Fantasy football has changed the game, but now fantasy football might be undergoing a change. Normally fantasy leagues would draft before the season started, and that would be your team for the remainder of that season.

Now with the emergence of daily games where you are able to choose your team for one select day, the fantasy realm is beginning to evolve. After the NHL partnered with DraftKings, a daily game website, the NBA partnered with a competitor, FanDuel.

While betting on fantasy sports is illegal in Iowa and four other states, there are players across the country who have struck it rich thanks to this “hobby.”

While the world of fantasy sports may be a fake collection of players, the millions of dollars in revenue produced are thriving and as real as it gets.

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Students exploring math in two self-paced courses

This fall, the high school is slowly starting to advance a new way of teaching math.

Some of the teachers in the math department have started using a new method called flipped math.

It is exactly what it sounds like, “flipped.” Instead of learning the lessons in a traditional class with a teacher teaching each lesson and students doing the homework on their own time, students in the flipped math classes learn the lesson by watching videos, usually at home, and then do the homework and ask questions in class the next day. It is a new way of going about learning, and so far students and teachers are having mixed feelings on it.

Kristine Urbanek is one of the teachers who has started teaching a flipped math class.

The flipped math class that she teaches is Honors Algebra 2 with Trig. She said she’s still determining if she likes it better than regular math. “It depends on the day,” she said.

Urbanek said that one perk to this new type of class is that all students get to work at their own paces. “I think I get to be a little more individualized. I don’t know if it is more productive at this point, but the information that I get from each student is better for me from my point of view. I think each student gets to see it at their own pace.”

Junior Maddy Wright sees this benefit of the class. “I enjoy it a lot more than regular math because if I’m confused about a certain part of the topic, I can rewatch the videos

as much as I want, and it personally helps me understand math a lot better.”

As of right now Urbanek said she thinks it is 50/50 if students like the class or not, and she isn’t sure if it will become more common within other math classes. “It is a videobased class, and I don’t think it applies to every class.”

Rich Strike’s Algebra 1 class is also trying out self-paced math, and so far he seems to really like it. However, Strike emphasized that his class is not purely a flipped class.

“The idea started Annebeth Ahrenholz Photo from flipped math, but that’s not what In a new algebra class, math teacher Rich Strike is able to team with special needs teacher it is at all. It’s almost Kara Strike to individually instruct each student, and math teacher Ethan Wiechmann is like a flipped class, able to quickly provide feedback to each student’s progress as every student moves an but everything is individual pace. done in class. You said.

“I think that it’s more prowatch the videos and then Weichman and special needs teacher Kara Hulse.

So far, Strike is a big fan. ductive than regular math work on the worksheets and Teachers from other de“This program has made my because if you don’t get ask questions. They can ask partments are showing interyear because I have always something, you can slow questions, and we can answer est in this new way of teaching struggled with this class be- down more if you’re not getthem,” Strike said. cause I get such a wide range ting something more than in a There is a minimum pace and could start offering more self-paced classrooms. But it of students. With a wide regular math class if you’re not that students have to meet to doesn’t work for all subjects. range of students, you get getting something,” sophopass, but many students can stuck; some are going way more Kaylee Olsen said. work ahead if they are able to Also, no changes will be made right away. too slow, and some are going Sophomore Taylor Allen learn at a faster pace. Some “I think the program needs way too fast. I really enjoy it agreed. “I like it a lot better students will complete the because we have a chance to because it’s self-paced, and whole Algebra 1 course, when to go a couple more years to help each individual student you don’t have to keep up this was a originally an algebra see if it is a true reflection of our students’ learning. That with exactly what they strug- with the rest of the class. It’s fundamentals class. There are gle with,” Strike said. easier.” also three teachers available won’t be done until some research has been proved. We Students also have an opin the classroom offering inBy Copy Editor Annebeth timistic perspective on the dividual help to the students: want to make sure it’s helping our students learn,” Hulse fundamentals class.

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After a successful season last year, the speech team is looking to have another successful campaign with the large group musical theater performing three very well known shows.

Last season, the team had 12 kids go to State, which is the highest competition for speech.

Junior Sydney Coloff enjoyed her time on the team last season and went to State.

“My group, group mime, made it to State, and so did a lot of other groups, so I think that we did well,” Coloff said.

“I love speech. I’ve been in it for three years, and I always have fun.”

Sophomore Aliya Rabune agreed with Coloff.

“Last season was awesome, and everyone succeeded in their own way,” Rabune said.

The main goals for the team are very different from what one may expect.

Assistant coach Natalie Lourens said this season she hopes to have her students trust themselves and the risks that the coaches ask them to take.

“I think young people today

Speech team warming up for another successful season are so afraid of making fools of themselves or too concerned about what others think, and, in my opinion, it is the biggest thing holding our young performers back,” Lourens said. “I hope to help our students gain that confidence that I saw last year.”

Coloff said she hopes this season is similar to last season.

“Since I made it to State last year, I’d like to go again,” Coloff said. “But more importantly, I want to have fun and meet new people.”

Lourens also said she hopes that her students get a better

feel for the music this season.

“If you don’t believe what you’re singing and if you don’t believe the musicality that is paving a road under you, your points will not come across to your audience,” Lourens said.

“I want all my students to fall in love with what they’re singing.”

Coloff is amped for the upcoming season.

“I’m excited to see what this year will bring and to get to know everyone else in speech,” Coloff said. “We lost a lot of amazing seniors last year, but there are a lot of new students this year as well, and

I think we’ll have success at State.”

Rabune said that speech has touched her life in many positive aspects.

“Speech is a great way to meet new people and get involved. It has changed my life in many positive aspects,” Rabune said. “The thing about speech is that no one cares if you act super goofy and weird, which makes it a whole lot easier to show your true talent and be proud of it and not be ashamed.”

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Look no further to end your search for tempting treats.

Latest Highlight: S’mores Dip.

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Courtney will show you how to move your plants to the center of your plates.

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On this show, Jackson will take you on a visual tour as he offers his opinions on a wide range of topics.

Latest Highlight: The Seven Cardinal Rules

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8 Swimmers claim third place at State SPORTS

Friday, Nov. 14, 2014

The CF Tiger swimmers competed hard and fast for every single race and soon enough, proudly held the team title of third at the state meet in Marshalltown on Nov. 7 and 8. ¨I was really excited to swim my last meet with some of the best people I know,¨ senior Brittany Moffat said. While it was a bittersweet moment for her and a few others, for some the meet was just a grand jump in the pool. ¨It was just so much fun,¨ junior Kailie Valentine said.

For the overall meet stats, each swimmer had been ranked accordingly for each event they’ve swum. In the 200 medley relay, the group made up of Samantha Hall, Natalie Shimp, Meghan Hackett and Madison Hall was able to place second in that event. The individual 200 freestyle that Moffat swam gained her a position in third. In the individual 200 IM Olivia Clark, a freshman straight from Peet Junior High, was able to place eighth.

Along with Clark were Hackett,

who earned 11th place, and Jade Jacobs, who placed 12th.

Madison Hall earned 10th place in the 50 freestyle.

With Kelly Olsen diving a total of eleven dives, she was able to place 26th overall. The event for the 100 fly finished with Hackett, who was able to land in ninth place. Both Katherine Wikner and Valentine swam in the event also, taking the 19th and 23th spots.

In the 100 freestyle, Madison Hall gained 13th. The 500 freestyle with Moffat earned her

a position in third place. The 200 freestyle relay with Clark, Shimp, Madison Hall and Moffat finished in fifth place. In the individual 100 backstroke, Samantha Hall finished off the race in 15th. For the 100 breaststroke, Shimp finished in 13th and Clark in 19th. The last event of the 400 freestyle relay with the four girls Hackett, Clark, Martee Grainger and Moffat ended in fifth place.

Besides being good at writing proofs or solving quadratic functions, many of the math teachers at the high school have no anxiety about facing another test that they have in common: a passion for running.

Whether it be running a few miles a week or running a 100-mile race, this department is filled with teachers who love to race down the path. To Joe Brown, running is more than just a hobby. It’s a passion, a love and a challenge he puts himself up to.

Brown ran two years of cross country in high school, swam in college and restarted his running career one year out of college when a buddy of his pursued him for help on training for a race. They trained together for six months for a marathon, which then ended up being canceled. They signed up for a second marathon, which also got canceled.

At this time they both read a book called “Tales of an All Night Runner.” After reading this book, Brown’s friend immediately signed up for a 50-mile race. Not wanting his friend to run this alone, Brown quickly followed and signed up as well.

About half way through the 50-mile race, Brown’s calf cramped up, but he said his buddy kept him going and he finished the race. “After that it was just a sense of accomplishment that kept me going until I found the next challenge,” Brown said.

Brown’s biggest accomplishment yet is finishing a 100mile race last April. In training for the 100 miler, he ran a 68mile Georgia death race only three weeks before on the Appalachian Trail.

But his push for the 100mile race came at a cost. “As soon as I got done, I could not get across the room without

help,” Brown said.

He ended up on a cot for fivesix hours, with medics trying to get him re h y d r a t e d .

At one point he tried to stand up and blacked out right in the middle of everything.

Math teachers Joe Brown and Anna But he Staudinger are just two of the math slowly re- teachers passionate about running. gained everything, and eight ions through his journeys, but hours after the race, he was he isn’t the only teacher on with it enough, and he went to lower floor of the west wing his hotel room. For him, getting that enjoys running. His math through the race was as much teaching neighbors Kristine mental as physical, if not more.

Urbanek, Briana Goodenbour “I was lying down on my bed and Ethan Weichman have all in my hotel room and could not enjoyed some running in their lift my leg enough to prop it up. lives, usually of shorter, quicker I couldn’t mentally do it. During distances. Others such as Rich the 19 and a half hours of the Strike and Shari Neese have race, I didn’t have a problem pushed themselves to run marwith moving any part of my athons. “I mostly do it to stay in body, but when it was time for shape and for some ‘me’ time,” my body to take over because Neese said. my mind didn’t have a goal to Dirk Homewood ran proaccomplish, I couldn’t do it. fesionally and in the Olympic That is what I physically put my trials and currently coaches the body through.” track and field team at the high Another big accomplish- school. ment for Brown was completAnother big runner from the ing a 209-mile relay, which is ranks of the math department usually accomplished with a is Anna Staudinger, who enjoys team of 12. But instead of split- running half marathons. She ran ting up the 209 mile run with a cross country in high school but team of 12, Brown competed in said she never really took it sea team of three, so he and only riously or was very good at it, two other runners split up the but towards the end of college, whole 209 miles. she picked up running again as His interest in running has a way to exercise. “The more opened to the door to many I started running, the more I new relationships. “The run- loved it,” she said. ning community in the ultra Staudinger said she loves running is very unique. I have running because it helps her done relays with people I have stay in shape and is a good met from it,” Brown said. stress reliever. “If I have a bad Brown has met many day, I will usually go run it off. friends and running compan- Even if it’s just running a few

sprints in front of my house to burn off steam.”

Her biggest accomplishment yet is running two back to back half marathons. She completed a half in Kansas City on a Saturday morning, and then a half in Des Moines the following Sunday morning. Her time in the Des Moines race was her third fastest time ever. As of now, Staudinger is training for the Living History Farms race on Nov. 22 with special needs teacher Kara Hulse.

Staudinger loves running for many reasons, but one of the biggest reasons she has such a strong passion for it is because of her health. She was born with a heart condition, causing her to have surgery on her heart three times. The doctors originally told her that she would have to have another surgery around the age of 20, but with her being as healthy as she is, she has had no need for a surgery yet. “Running has kept my heart healthy, and I have been doing better than my doctors ever expected,” Staudinger said.

For the math teachers, perhaps the biggest attraction to tying on their running shoes is just the thrill of pushing past the limits.

“I love running, and I love the feeling of accomplishment after you finish a big race or training run,” Staudinger said.

Brown described running as a personal challenge that he puts out for himself to accomplish. “In our society, there is no struggle. We all have houses, clothing, food. There is no sense of having to work for something; there is no challenge. Back then there was a challenge. Now there is none.

This is my version of finding that challenge,” Brown said.

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Meghan Hackett Swimming

Junior Meghan Hackett was a crucial part for the women’s swim team collecting a third place finish at the state swim meet in Marshaltown on Nov. 7 and 8. She swam the fly on the school record breaking 200 medley relay, which is under consideration for All-American, meaning it could be one of the 100 fastest times in the country. Indivudally, she also broke the school record in the 100 fly. She is planning to swim in college but hasn’t made a decision on where.

With multiple records being broken and a top three finish, would you consider this a successful season?

Yeah, for sure. We just really worked together great this year and really did it for the team and not ourselves.

What’s the best part about being coached by the legendary Coach Marcussen?

He’s a really good coach. He understands us and how to get us working together and working as a team.

With already being a school record holder, what are you hoping for next season?

I still have the 200 IM record that I’m looking at, but it’s kind of a weight off my chest that I broke the records this year, so I don’t have to worry about it next year.