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High school theft at increasing rate Chandal Geerdes Staff Writer
Only two and a half months into the school year and theft is already increasing at a fast pace.Associate Principal Dr. Dana Deines has received several reports of missing iPods, cell phones and billfolds from a rash of thefts in the high school. These reports have primarily come from the men’s and women’s locker room area because students have been leaving them in the open instead of locked up in their lockers. Brady Cervetti said he wasn’t worried about people stealing his personal belongings until he got his iPod stolen last year in the locker room during P.E. “It breaks my heart when a student comes in frustrated because they trusted their classmates,” Deines said. The school policy about cell phones and iPods states that they should not be in the classrooms and should only be seen in the halls during passing periods. Students are advised to leave them in their lockers or even in their cars or at home.
Allyson Vuong Photo Illustration Some students feel opposed to this advisement. “That’s dumb. If we’re allowed to have them in passing periods, why would we not take advantage of that,” sophomore Natalie Rokes said. The reasons behind the thefts in the men’s locker room may be because there are more entrances into the room
and there is no immediate adult supervision. Unlike the women’s locker room, the men’s is tucked into a slow traffic hallway. Theft has skyrocketed to the point where three items were stolen from the locker room within three to five days. Many unusual things have come up missing.
“Even math books have gotten stolen in year’s past,” P.E. teacher Jamie Smith said. Sophomore Natalie Rokes had many of her items stolen from her on the last day of volleyball. Among these items was a brand new T-shirt that did not belong to her, but to her teammate, junior Allie Wirth. “What the crap? Why would you take that? It’s not even important,” Rokes said after the T-shirt, shorts and money were stolen. Cedar Falls High School takes theft very seriously and works with the Cedar Falls Police Department to deter any type of criminal activity. If a student is caught stealing or taking things from another student, he or she could face suspension and prosecution from the police. “We take prosecution to the fullest extent to deter from that behavior,” Deines said. If a student has stolen something, it is mandatory for them to have a conference with their parents and a principal before they are allowed back to school.
Senior participates in World Food Prize conference Noelle Konieczny Staff Writer
Senior Cadi Trask recently participated in the World Food Prize, a conference that recognizes the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity and availability of food around the world. The World Food Prize Youth Institute hosts a three-day Global Youth Institute in Des Moines, in which over 100 exceptional high school students from across the globe participate. The Institute brings in high school students at the end of the World Food Prize week, and they present papers that they’ve written. “World Food Prize is an excellent, real world application of stuff that you’re learning, and it gives students with a passion an opportunity to contribute or see where they fit in,” science teacher Debbie Paulsen said For their paper, each student picks a country or area and then one specific
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held Oct. 14-16 and featured speakers talking about the most pressing world hunger issues and the actions being taken to combat them. “One of the biggest ideas presented at the conference is that there is enough food in the world to feed everyone. It’s just a distribution problem, and that is so sad. It’s a tragedy,” Trask said. “It was really encouraging to see that people were caring about it, and to meet with those people who believed in us,” Trask said. The World Food Prize was founded by Iowa native, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman E. Borlaug in 1986. Born in Cresco, Iowa, Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world. In Mexico, Borlaug developed high-yielding wheat varieties for which many people credit him with saving the lives of over a billion people worldwide from starvation; the most lives ever saved by one person.