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Jell-O wrestling brings statewide attention

Hundreds of students gathered at Birdsall Park to participate in the fourth Jell-O wrestling event in CF. Since then a highlights video appeared on the Web as well countless articles.

Girls stood in a sticky, red Jell-O pool trying to rip each other’s shirts off were the focus of hundreds of Cedar Falls High School students on Thurs-

day, Oct. 4 at Birdsall Park at the fourth annual Jell-O wrestling night.

Since then a highlights video appeared on the Internet.

Senior Jenna Starbeck who Jell-O wrestled for her third year in a row said, “I think the video was an overnight sensation because everyone who was there wanted to see the highlights, and also it was put on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter so the link got out there quickly to a lot of people.” The original video has

been taken off of Youtube, but KWWL news station did cover the event and included part of the Jell-o wrestling video in their report. It has 9,641 views.

According to one senior, the video that went viral is the cause for the chaos. “I have gone to Jell-O wrestling since I was a sophomore, and since I have gone I have never witnessed any real problems. The only reason why this whole issue has gotten out of control was because there was a video.

The school and the police force have been well aware that this has been going on for years and haven’t made an effort to stop it until evidence showed up on the news and on the web,” se-

nior Alaina Kittrell said.

Junior Kaz Brown has attended the event two years in a row but never wrestled anyone. She looks forward to wrestling her senior year. “I think the Youtube video was such a hit because this was the very first one. It has been seen by people all over the state now, and the reactions are either really good or really bad,” Brown said.

Once posted on the Internet, the video and comments became available for anyone to see. “When kids post things, I don’t care if it is on Facebook or Youtube or whatever, they need to be willing to accept criticism from the people who don’t agree with their actions,” guidance secretary Tracy Javellana said. “When it went viral and CFHS was named, that implies the whole school participated, not just the people who were there. Once our name was attached to it, once that’s put out there, it is reflective of everyone.”

Since its beginning, Jell-O wrestling has been organized by a group of senior males who set up and referee the event. Senior Brandon Hill bought and made a lot of the Jell-O and was a referee. “We had a total of about 50 gallons of Jell-O. Other seniors made contributions as well. A group of seniors and I set up the area in Birdsall park hours in advance. We used a gen-

erator to power the two sets of floodlights on either side of the pool. We moved a couple sets of bleachers so they were centered around the pool so that more students could get a good view. In prior years, I remember there were kids sitting in the back that couldn’t see well, so we tried to make it fair for the spectators. I think it is a fun social event during homecoming week because it gives a chance for kids to set up and run their own event,” Hill said.

Senior Walker Martinson bought Jell-O for the event and served as a referee as well.

“All that I have to say about it is people are blowing it way out of proportion. It has happened for four years. Every year the cops and the school has known about it. We aren’t breaking All photos are shots from news media coveraage of the Cedar Falls High School Jell-O wrestling event that took place Oct. 4.

any laws and everything about it is perfectly legal,” Martinson said.

Although it is legal, the question of this entertainment’s appropriateness is what has raised a few eyebrows. “I think mostly the guys enjoy it to be honest with you. It’s teenage guys watching girls wrestle and the objective being someone shirt gets taken off. It’s a form of entertainment, and it’s a way for girls to settle drama they may have with another individual. Guys love to see the girls wrestling who actually don’t like each other. Watching friends wrestle isn’t as ‘fun,’ as guys would say in the stands,” Brown said. continued on Page 2

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Continued from page 1 Javellana has advice for high school students about participating in such events.

“Would you ask your parent to go to this event? If not, didn’t that set a light bulb off in your head [that] maybe this is not what I should be doing?” Javellana asked.

Two males did participate in the Jell-O wrestling. “Everybody we asked associated with Jell-O wrestling told us that men weren’t allowed to wrestle, but Raud (Kashef) and I wanted to prove that we could wrestle just as well as all those girls, even if we were in Jell-O,” senior Evan Fairbanks said. Fairbanks acknowledged that Jell-O wrestling is supposed to be for fun. “It’s meant to be a very playful sport in a carefree environment, but I’d say a lot of people in the crowd were there to see violence and breasts. There were lots of kids there just for fun too, but I’d say the majority were there for the former reason,” Fairbanks said. Fairbanks and Kashef JellO wrestled for three reasons.

He said they aimed to make fun of Jell-O wrestling, give the students a good laugh and to “show off their hot bodies” to the females attending. “We were probably there for 15 minutes, and the first 8 or so we were waiting for two matches to end. We left immediately after we wrestled because we had done what we came to do and the whole thing was against our moral codes,” Fairbanks said. “It is interesting to note that some kids who didn’t understand our sense of humor or know us very well called us ‘gay’ for doing our joke. If it makes some guys uncomfort-

able watching two dudes wrestle in their underwear, think about how the girls must feel being watched by a hundred judgemental pairs of eyes from horny teenage boys.”

No girls were forced to participate. The event was completely voluntary. “It is ultimately up to the girls who get called out if they actually want to wrestle. There is peer pressure involved when their name gets called and people are yelling their name to go in, but that shouldn’t mean that they have to go in. A lot of girls who went in wanted to participate. I understand why people may oppose and see it as degrading, but to the girls who wrestled, they just saw it as something fun to do and a way to participate in a homecoming activity,” Kittrell said.

Spanish teacher Simone Sundblad said as a teacher she always tries to encourage positive, respectful relationships, and sees Jell-O wrestling as a step in the wrong direction.

“I certainly see this from a parental perspective as a mom of both a son and a daughter.

I also see it from a woman’s perspective as someone who wants to protect young women from pain and heartache.

My comments are not ones of judgement, but rather ones of sadness and protectiveness,” Sundblad said. “I find the event degrading to young women in that it puts them on a ‘stage’ that attributes no respect to them whatsoever. It all seems like ‘fun and games’ to those involved, but if we take a moment to step back and look at the situation from the outsidein, we might realize that it’s a

Most students at Cedar Falls High School know and love Bill Nye the Science Guy. But what many don’t know, is that Bill Nye the Science Guy very boldly believes in something rather controversial to both the young and the old.

Evolution.

In quite a few articles and interviews, Bill Nye came out saying that only evolution, scientific theories on how the world began, should be taught in schools rather than creationism, which is where people think God created the world.

“Evolution has 150 years of research and evidence supporting evolution whereas religion just relies on faith with no scientific evidence supporting it,” biology teacher Jeff Hartman said.

Though many say that evolution should be taught in science classes rather than creationism, there is the idea that creationism should be taught in schools, just not in science classes, but in religion classes.

“Religion and science are two different things. Religion is the spiritual world while science

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fruitless event that doesn’t help anyone, but rather encourages hatred, disrespect and violence.”

Brown pointed out that a lot of things in today’s society are degrading toward women.

“You see guys wearing shirts that say ‘cool story babe, now make me a sandwhich,’ and episodes of Family Guy and song lyrics. Those are degrading, but no one is getting overly worked up about that. If you think Jell-O wrestling gives you the right to treat girls with disrespect, then you need to reevaluate your morals and learn to be a real man. I think most girls do it all in the fun of it,” Brown said.

Females showed up just as willing to participate as the males did to watch them participate. “I don’t understand why people say it is degrading

to women when the girls at the high school were just as excited for it as the rest of the people who attended. It is completely voluntary, and the wrestlers are completely aware of what they are getting into. So if they think it is a degrading act towards women, don’t attend the event,” Hill said.

Even though the female participants volunteered, Senior Mary Khan doesn’t think Jell-O wrestling portrays an appropriate image. “Yeah, Jell-O wrestling is degrading toward women. It objectifies women.

Guys go to gawk at the girls.

How is that not portraying women as sex objects? This controversy is about more than the right to Jell-O wrestle. It is about how Jell-O wrestling reflects the values and morals of our society today,” Khan said.

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for crowd control. “I think it is good that the police had officers in the park to guarantee that everything stayed under control and that no laws were to be broken. The police didn’t intervene because they didn’t have to. Any minor conflicts that took place, the referees and other seniors that helped set up the event handled it,” Hill said.

Khan said she has nothing against wrestling in Jell-O, which in fact, looks like fun. “If girls were not pulling each other’s shirts off, guys participated as well, people did not ‘call’ others out to wrestle, students policed the event themselves and they refused to let obviously drunk people wrestle, I would be all for it,” Khan said.

is the natural world. Thus making them two different entities altogether. Religion shouldn’t be taught in science classes, but in religion classes. Science shouldn’t be taught in religion classes, but in science classes,” biology teacher Black said.

The problem with science that many have, is having a hard time finding a mixture of both science and religion.

“I’m religious, and I believe in evolution through natural selection. Pope John Paul II stated, ‘Evolutionary theory is more than a hypothesis, and is

compatible with the Christian faith,’” Hartman said.

“Is there anything to say that God didn’t create the universe with the big bang?”

Earth Science teacher Jason Steffen said.

“The YMCA, which stands for Young Men’s Christian Association, teaches to have a balanced life and to have that, you must develop three components. Mind, spirit and body and each is very important.

You must have knowledge, a healthy body and should look at the bigger spiritual picture,”

Black said.

Bill Nye, was very bold with his beliefs, thus causing an outrage, both with support and a severe backlash.

“Bill Nye didn’t say anything new. People have been saying this for years. In fact, Bill Nye has probably been saying this for years as well, and this is just the first time someone has paid attention to it,” Hartman said.

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Math teacher runs ultramarathon Math teacher Joe Brown is bringing math and science to his love for competitive fitness.

On Saturday, Oct. 13, at 8 a.m. and starting at the Runner’s Flat in downtown Cedar Falls, Brown and others raced in the Valley’s first ever 50K Ultra Marathon The race went through the trails of George Wyth Park and the Hartman Reserve.

This was Brown’s eighth ultramarathon that he has participated in. Running 50K is equivalent to running about 31 miles. His last ultramarathon, which was 50 miles, took place three and a half weeks ago.

“I find most of my races by just looking them up but also from word of mouth and from others that I have run with from other races. I actually found out about my last ultramarathon from a guy that I had run a 50 miler with some time before actually. For this race I’m actually wearing a Garmin watch, a heartrate monitor and carrying a Flip camera with me. I’m going to use all of this and take all the data, my body weight before and after, how many ounces of water I drank, and how much food I ate and hopefully be able to use it in science and my math classes,” Brown said.

To be able to bear all of these long, intense races, there has to be a lot of physical and mental training involved.

“I’m really excited for this one because it’s the first in town, but I didn’t really train for this ultramarathon because I’m still recovering from the 50mile race which I really trained for, but I didn’t do much specific training for this one. My fastest 50K was four hours and

seven minutes. I was seventh out of 200 runners, but in my last 50K, I was 21 out of 222 runners,” Brown said.

Even when he’s not training for a specific race, Brown likes to run a lot in his free time and stay in shape for any future races that could be coming up.

“I run for the most part on my own. On Mondays there’s a group of runners that meet up at Pfiffer Park, and on Fridays a couple of people from the math department go on runs, but other than that I run on my own. When I’m really into the training I’m doing, I’ll run for at least seven miles. The farthest nonstop run for me was when I was training, and I ran 18 miles straight when I was training for my 50-mile race. I planned it so that over a three-day span I ran a total of 41 miles because I didn’t ever run more than three miles straight without walking any type of hill,” Brown said.

While training is a very important part of staying in shape and healthy to continue to run races like this, another very important thing for the body is resting and recovering, so runners have time to recharge to do it all over again.

“After this last 50 mile run, I took six days off running. Then I started running every third day, and after two weeks I started up again to running every other day. My favorite type of races are on dirt trails because they’re easier on the body and easier for me to recover from,” Brown said.

Each race is also very unique. There are many different aspects to them, and it’s more than just a straightfor-

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Math teacher and ultramarathoner Joe Brown. ward run to the end.

“During the 50-mile race, I fell and rolled a little, but it’s OK because the other runners stopped to help me up and continue. I fell before the first aid station, so not even six miles into the race. The people

I meet in these kinds of races [ultramarathons] I actually stay in touch with because at most there are hundreds compared to other [regular marathons] that have thousands of participants. The smallest race I’ve been at, it had not up to

40 participants, and the largest had well over 200. I don’t ever run the whole marathon. I walk uphill and run the rest,” Brown said. “I participated in a 38mile night run, which started at 10 p.m. where everyone wore headlamps and ran with flashlights. I didn’t finish with that until around 3 a.m. It was really fun and exciting because it was pitch black. Every race is different and every terrain is different, but it’s always nice finding like-minded people, and I love the challenge.

Brown has run many different types of ultramarathons with different experiences, but all of them have aid stations to help the runners recharge and catch their breaths during the intense experience.

“At first when I started I would spend five to ten minutes at the aid stations, but now I spend way less time there. I’m just there now to refuel and keep going. I eat a lot during the races. I mainly just carb load with anything. I want salt, so pretzels, chicken broth, oreos, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, brownies, M&M’s, pretty much anything. Hopefully, they have port-a-potty stations there too,” Brown said.

“I started running crosscountry in my junior and senior year of high school. Some people would call it an obsession or even an addiction, but the side effects of running are staying in shape and healthy. It’s good for you, and it’s a great stress reliever. I start running and forget about the day. The next thing I’m going to try is snowshoe racing,” Brown said.

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Junior prepares to organize To Write Love on Her Arms fundraiser In today’s world, depression and suicide rates are booming, and some girls are not finding ways to receive the help and guidance they might need to fight through their struggles.

Starting in 2006 from just the story of one girl that commited suicide because of depression, To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) was created as a non-profit organization that encourages, informs and inspires girls to become stronger and live on.

The knowledge of what this group did got out to people around the country, and teenage girls started speaking out

about their personal struggles and opening up to ask for the help they needed. Stories of families that had lost a loved one because of suicide got out, and TWLOHA took action to bring people together and fight as a team to save people from depression.

“Over the years that TWLOHA has been going on, we have responded to 170,000 messages from people in 100 different countries,” the founders of TWLOHA wrote. “ We have learned these are not just American issues but the issues of humanity. These are problems of pain that affect millions

of people every day.”

TWLOHA’s vision is to make people understand that their lives matter and stories are important. They want to say that girls should never feel worthless because they were created to love and be loved. They also want girls to know that they are never alone.

TWLOHA not only inspires girls to receive help they need, but they help get the message out there. These people are known as storytellers, and they bring TWLOHA to their schools and communities to spread knowledge on mental health issues. Junior Abigail Van Pat-

ten is a future storytellers.

“It was my original plan to start TWLOHA here at the high school this fall, but with homecoming and food drive fundraisers, I decided to wait until the spring,” Patten said. “I was inspired to join TWLOHA in the eighth grade because one of my close friends was dealing with depression and TWLOHA really helped her, so I wanted to continue it knowing that teenage girls everywhere are dealing with stress and depression every day at CFHS.” There are many-step processes that Patten will have to take in order to make this fund-

raiser actually happen. She will have to find a school teacher to supervise TWLOHA and get the school’s’ approval to sell things here at the high school. She would sell things like bracelets, T-shirts, bookmarks etc. to raise money for this program.

“You are required to do two community activities in a term of two months for TWLOHA. I am really excited to get started next spring and bring awareness to students so they know it’s OK to get help and heal from depression to prevent suicide,” Patten said.

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*Former funeral home *Tickets: $13 for adults $10 for kids 12 and under *3767 Lafayette Road, Evansdale

HALLOWEEN HIKES

*Outdoor hikes through Hartman Reserve *6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 10-12 *Tickets: $5

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*dusk to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October, dusk to 9 p.m.

Sundays *Tickets: $8 *Eagle Lake, Evansdale

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*Part-indoor, part-outdoor fright at the Rotary Reserve *Tickets: $10 *Rotary Reserve, 5932 North Union Road, Cedar Falls

HEART OF DARKNESS

*Tickets: $15, or $20 for fast pass *5111 Osage Road, Waterloo

Haunted House season is here, and this year Panic Park is planning on adding many tallies to their “wet pants” list.

Panic Park is a haunted house located at the Rotary Reserve Lodge on North Union Road in Cedar Falls. The house opened on Oct. 5 and will stay open until Oct. 31.

The haunted house will be at it’s best this year according to North Unit Ranger of Black Hawk Mike Hendrickson. Hendrickson helped create the rooms and put the whole thing together. “The house will definitely be at its best this year because it is entirely new in every room we created,” Hendrickson said.

Panic Park will include some gruesome rooms this year like a room with bloody bodies on hospital beds and a hallway where actors with creepy makeup will pose in picture frames then pop out of them. Another standout hallway is one where Freddy Krueger chases people down a strobe light hall while the theme music for A Nightmare On Elm Street is played.

Lauren Nickerson Photos Creatures at Panic Park wait in anticipation to creep out haunted-house goers.

Since Panic Park is completely new this year, ideas for each room created came from many different sources. “Ideas come from a lot of scary movies and some creative thinking,” Hendrickson said.

For those who believe in ghosts, Hendrickson reported that the Black Hawk County ghost hunters spent a night in Panic Park and supposedly found activity in the house.

The ghost hunters spent the night sleeping in a room which features a murderous dentist. While in the room, one of the hunters reportedly felt his ankle grabbed by an unknown source. They also said they found orbs in some pictures they took in the house that they believe are spirits.

Panic Park is open on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and the Thursday of Halloween week this October. The hours are 7-11 on Fridays and Saturdays, and on Sundays and Thursday it’s 7-10. Tickets are $10 at the door.

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The zombie apocalypse is coming. For four nights — this Friday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, Oct. 20 and next Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27— people will have the chance to fight zombies, including some transformed members of the CFHS dance team, in Waterloo’s Riverfront Stadium.

Adrenaline X Laser Tag is hosting a unique interactive haunted house attraction. If haunted houses aren’t exciting enough for you, Zombies in the Park satiates both your craving for horror and zombie slaughter. Groups of four walk through four levels in the stadium trying to kill as many zombies as possible in order to reach and detonate a bomb to save the world from the zombie infestation.

The dance team will work as actors playing the zombies people are trying to shoot in order to raise money for expenses such as costumes and hotel rooms at state.

“I’m kind of excited to dress up and see what it will be like, and I hope it’s fun,”

Screen shot is from the Zombies in the Park promo team captain and senior Allie Armstrong said.

After putting on costumes and face paint, each zombie has a specific spot they have to sit at. They then wait for people to come so they can “attack” them (they aren’t actually allowed to touch people).

Zombies also have sensors on their heads that people aim at to kill them.

Although the dance team will not be the only zombies at the event, a large portion of them are excited about participating. “I’m ready. It’s going to be real fun to go out there and be a zombie. We have

about 30 people signed up, so there’s going to be lots of zombies,” senior Clint Fletcher said.

Working as zombies for Adrenaline X differs slightly from the average bake sale or car wash fundraiser. “It’s a lot more interactive. We don’t do a lot of fundraisers. We do more community service stuff,” junior Jessica Ubben said.

The event is open from 7 p.m. until midnight. One time through costs $20 and an all night pass costs $35.

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and to Panic Park The screams, the horrifying scenes and the obsidian, midddle of nowhere night: everyone knows the thrills of Panic Park, but most don’t know goes on behind the scenes of such thrills and chills.

“People have to decide what rooms to go to, where the rooms are and what costumes and makeup they’ll need. It’s all very chaotic,” senior Jacob Kottman, a Panic Park volunteer for around two years, said.

“So far, I’ve worked in the Jason room, and I’ve roamed the house to make sure people are doing what they are supposed to do and are following the rules. I’ve also worked the maze,” Kottman said.

Panic Park has many rooms which hold all types of horrifying scenes. Some are from scary movies and others have just been tradition. The Jason room is a completely dark room with glowing Jason masks hanging from the ceilings. Workers in such rooms

might have a mask on, roaming the room to scare people, and others just hide and jump out.

“I wasn’t wearing a mask once in the Jason room, and I walked up behind a group of people. I managed to scare this one guy, and he turned around and punched me in the face,” Kottman said.

Most people that go throughout Panic Park tend to freak out at the smallest of things, like a shadow looming in a corner or from a simple “boo.” For some people, though, it takes a lot more to be scared.

“When they aren’t scared, they aren’t scared. There isn’t much one can do about it,” Kottman said.

The volunteers working in Panic Park are supposed to stay in character all night, though, hard as it may be.

“I’m usually just screeching or banging on walls. It gets tiring, though, but the fact that there is food at the end of the haunted house keeps a lot of people going,” Kottman said.

And though it may be tiring, working at the haunted house can also be very exciting and fun.

“The mazes outside are fun because you are always moving, and it can take up to 10 minutes for people to get out, seeing as though there’s only one path that works. I also like the Jason room because there are so many different ways to scare people.

There’s just so many possibilities,” Kottman said.

However, the Jason room will not be up this year in the haunted house. Along with that, there are a few other changes this year that are different than other years.

“Usually, the haunted house goes from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, but this year, it’ll be on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. On Thursdays and Sundays, it’ll go from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.,” Kottman said.

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descend from scary tales Dressing up as fairy tale characters for Halloween makes much more sense than a lot of people think and can also be much more creepy.

Society has changed a lot, and today people really care about children’s innocence. That’s the reason why Disney has modified the stories so much. In Cinderella, for example, in the actual story, the twin sisters cut a part of their own feet in order to fit them into the glass slipper. The prince is alerted to the trickery by two pigeons who peck out the step sister’s eyes, and they become blind beggars for the rest of their lives while Cinderella is happy with the prince. Creepy, right?

In the original Snow White, the Queen didn’t want her heart.

She wanted her lives and lungs so she could eat them for super. And Snow White doesn’t wake up with a kiss. The prince actually finds her supposedly dead body and takes it to his castle on his horse, so she wakes up because of the jostles.

At the end, the Queen is forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes, in the Grimm version.

Red Riding Hood didn’t even see her grandmother in the original story, and there was no hunter as well. It was just a girl who went to a ride in the forest, trusted a wolf’s wrong instructions about the direction she should take to go to her grandmother’s and before she’s eaten by him. That’s it. End of the story. Some other versions have also strong sexual connotation, telling that Red Riding Hood wasn’t actually that innocent. The moral of the story is not to talk to strangers.

In Disney’s version, the Little Mermaid gets married to Eric, and they are happy ever after, but

in the Andersen version she sees him getting married to a princess, and she despairs. She asks the witch of the sea for help. The condition is that she will lose her voice and her legs will hurt like if there were a thousand knifes stabbing them and, in case she can’t marry him, she will turn into froth. She, as you can expect from a dark story, couldn’t make it, but her sisters tried to help giving her a knife, so she can kill the prince and survive. She doesn’t kill him and jump back in the sea but instead turns into sea foam. Weird.

Even more creepy is Sleeping Beauty’s story. In the original, the princess falls in a 100-year sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle due to a prophecy. She was supposed to wake up with the prince’s kiss, but in this version, the king sees her asleep, and rather than fancying having a bit, he rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children while she is still asleep. One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids. So, no prince, no romantic kiss and no happy ending once more.

Now you can understand what made movie producers and other authors change the stories. They were written in a very different reality and mentality and for different reasons. Some of them still carry the original meanings, but they are told in different ways that fit our society’s perspective of life.

As people change, reality changes, and due to this even fairy tales aren’t able to be the same.

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Social Media: Making life easier or more unbearable ?

Smart phones do not necessarily guarantee smart ethics or smart users. Those aren’t in their two-year contracts.

Most students at Cedar Falls High School have access to the Internet, but the number of teenagers who carry it around in their jean pocket everyday is increasing. The ease of getting on Facebook and Twitter leaves teens with a serious problem: how to restrain from posting their every thought on the unforgiving Internet.

Scroll down any student’s home Facebook or Twitter page and there will be enough revolting, hateful, cyberbullying, profanityfilled comments to make your head spin. And what is worse? Students are no longer speaking in generalities. Instead of posting vague statuses, they post comments using school officials’, specific students’ and teachers’ names. So far, they are getting away with it.

What many people do not realize is once you send a text, or command Siri to, your words can never be reeled back in. Even if you think you are just sending your opinions to a trustworthy friend, there is this abused invention called the

screenshot. Its use is apparently irresistible. Students take pictures of text conversations and social media comments to make fun of targeted individuals. By posting screenshots to Twitter or Facebook, hundreds of students have access to the posts.

The rule of thumb for messaging is never post something you wouldn’t say to someone’s face. This rule has been violated time and time again by thumbs in our high school, as texts and pictures. They are sent without even a thought of what consequences there are for these actions. Once messages are posted on a public website, anyone can access them, and they can be used out of context. College admission officials and employers can gain access to statuses effortlessly in this digital age.

Obnoxious and rude posts do not only cause harm to the individuals seeking opportunities in the job market, they also hurt other students’ feelings.

Suicides have replaced car crashes as the number one killer. Don’t let the next picture or video you post from your smart phone be the trigger. It’s just not a smart idea.

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Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012

Jell-O wrestling is safe, legal student event For those of us who were at Jell-O wrestling, we know that what KWWL depicted was not fully truthful, nor did it represent Jell-O wrestling as a whole.

KWWL made the event seem malicious and out-of-control, which couldn’t be farther from the truth.

KWWL originally reported there were no cops present; false.

At one time there were as many as four policemen present. They reported that the Cedar Falls Police weren’t even aware of the event. A student then sent in a picture of herself with a cop from Jell-O wrestling, which KWWL then used on its website. Jell-O wrestling was also characterized as girls fighting other girls with the intent to injure or cause harm to each other. The vast majority of the girls who participated were wrestling against close friends and in good fun. The girls that chose to participate did it out of free will and in no way were obligated to get in the pool. High school students designated as referees and security officials were also poolside in case of any incidents.

It was also reported by KWWL that the school was not aware of the activity; false. Everybody who has been at Cedar Falls for more than a year is aware of the homecoming tradition. KWWL interviewed Superintendent Mike

Wells, who is currently in his first year at Cedar Falls, and he told KWWL he had no idea about what was happening. Of course he didn’t know about it — why would he, but I guarantee more than 75 percent of the staff that has been working at Cedar Falls for at least a year were aware of the wrestling. Everybody and their dog in Cedar Falls knows about Jell-O wrestling.

The students also did a good job of policing themselves. In the one case in which a single student got out of control, this student was politely asked to “head out,” and then she was escorted by security away from Birdsall Park and safely delivered at home.

There were no other noteworthy incidents in which the behavior of Cedar Falls students was unruly.

It also made Jell-O wrestling look unlawful, which is far from the truth. Law says that public parks must be evacuated by 10 p.m. At 10, the wrestling was shut down and people peacefully left the park.

Jell-O wrestling is a choice.

It isn’t school-funded, and it doesn’t violate any laws. If you decide that you don’t want to go and want to have no part in it, then that’s your decision. You’re entitled to your own opinion, and Jell-O wrestling isn’t for everybody, but if you’re opposed to Jell-O wrestling, why are you

trying to get it banned? Doesn’t this qualify as one of those “If it doesn’t directly affect you, then leave it alone” situations?

If done the right way, Jell-O wrestling can be a fully acceptable and fun homecoming activity. If no laws are being broken and the event is supervised by the police, then why should Jell-O wrestling be shut down?

I think it’s a great alternative for students who don’t want to party and use alcohol and illegal drugs following coronation. Everybody knows the cops are going to show, so people avoid using illegal substances. Class of 2008 graduate Beth Harvey was a part of the students that held the first Jell-O wrestling. Harvey said the class of ’08 started it as an alternative to partying and drinking after coronation. So if a perfectly legal event that is closely supervised is shut down, will students next year then turn to what the class of 2008 tried to stop — partying after coronation?

My question for the parents that were outraged with the YouTube video is: Would you rather see your kid participating in a legal event being monitored by the Cedar Falls police or going to an out-of-control party and drinking?

Sports Editor Jared

HYLTON

Jell-O event leaves bad taste in many mouths Tongues hanging, students screaming, Jell-O splattering and high school girls taking each other’s shirts off. That was the scene at Birdsall Park on the night before the homecoming game in Cedar Falls. For years, students believed this event was all in good fun. This unofficial tradition shattered after a YouTube video exposed the event to the public.

A local news station, KWWL, quickly found out about the event. Many Cedar Falls High School students grew furious after watching the story on KWWL. According to them, the news report didn’t have the facts straight.

They made phone calls, tweeted and facebooked KWWL and demanded that the “true story” be reported. After KWWL added to the story, students were still angry and would not stop. They thought it was completely unnecessary for the news to even report the story. KWWL responded to the student frustrations on a facebook wall post. “We reported it because some parents who think it’s inappropriate brought it to our attention. We asked police and school officials for comment, and accurately reported what they told us. As we received more information last night (like the picture of the police), we added that to our reporting. The

fact that it’s generated the discussion above shows there is public interest, which is why we thought it was newsworthy,” KWWL said on facebook.

Despite KWWL doing everything it could to make its reporting as factual as possible, students were proud of how they handled the situation, #cfpride, #classof2k13,#jellowrestling, #wearecf dominated Twitter for the days to come. Not only do students see no wrong in Jell-O wrestling, they are proud of their behavior. Proud of letting 60 seconds of fame on KWWL explode into days worth of controversy because they couldn’t let it go.

Proud of taking on KWWL for “making our school look trashy.”

Wrong, Jell-O wrestlers, you made yourselves look trashy.

There is nothing classy about Jell-O wrestling. The controversy was bound to happen someday, especially after an explicit video was posted online.

The central issue of this controversy lies with misuse of social media. If the YouTube video never would’ve been created, posted and shared, life probably would’ve gone on as normal.

Girls would happily continue to take off each others’ shirts in pools of Jell-o for years to come, and few critics would really know

or care. KWWL just did what they are paid to do: report what people care about. Clearly, people care. So, why aren’t students angry about a video being posted on the Internet that made them look bad and exposed an unfavorable side of CF students?

Students shouldn’t be proud of “taking on KWWL” or a bad video. Throughout this whole mess, Jell-o enthusiasts cheered KWWL’s story on with all the attention they gave KWWL on just about every public forum imaginable while simultaneously sharing the video and making it go viral.

They essentially gave KWWL a pat on the back for a newsworthy local story.

The worst part of all of this is, students names and faces are out there forever and perhaps someday they won’t want to be attached with this silliness when it comes back to them as college boards or employers come across their old, passionate posts about Jell-o pride and find nothing else of real importance.

Rather than searching for someone else to blame or fishing for excuses, class of 2013, maybe it’s time to find something that truly matters to be proud of.

Staff Writer Amanda

HARWOOD

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Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012

Austin Mennen named Academic All-American It’s not everyday that a Cedar Falls student gets named to an AllAmerican team.

Junior Ross Pierschbacher has done it multiple times at Cedar Falls. Now, senior Austin Mennen is getting his shot.

Mennen has been named to the All-Academic FBU International All-Star team. He will play in the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Jan. 5.

“I’m so excited for everything with the trip. It’s going to be a lot of fun to play in the Alamodome in front of thousands while being televised on NBC,” Mennen said.

Mennen’s 3.6 GPA and 29 on the ACT helped catch the atten- Senior Austin Mennen spends just as much time studying as he does tion of the FBU Manager. The next day Menscouts. Mennen also stood out Scouting.

The 6’2” 210 lb. FB/TE is nen awoke to a phone call from at numerous camps over the a converted center. Although, the director of the All-Amerisummer. “Mennen first caught Mennen says the transition can games telling him he had our FBU instructors’ eyes at wasn’t too tough. “It was actuofficially been selected to the FBU Wisconsin. He then carally pretty easy.

I picked it up USA All-Star team. “The FBU ried over a great performance and just went with it,” Mennen International All-Stars are beto Top Gun. said. ing selected not only for their He is a big, physical fullMennen found out he had outstanding performance on back/tight end that gets it been selected when he rethe field, but also for their acdone in the classroom as well ceived a Facebook message complishments and dedication as on the field,” said Erik Richfrom Don Britt, the Regional in the classroom,” FBU said in ards, FBU National Director of

Athlete of the

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Allison Gregg Women’s Cross Country

playing football. an official press release.

Mennen is one of 30 players to make the USA All-Star team, and the only player from Iowa to be a finalist. There were over 1,000 nominees for the USA team. “I feel honored to not only represent my school and state, but also my country and the game of football,” Mennen said.

By Sports Editor Jared

Hylton

Anna Love photo

What has been the best part of cross country season so far?

The majority of the girls setting personal records.

How has the weather affected the training?

It’s made the team more mentally tough and prepared us for anything that might get thrown our way.

What are the team’s goals for Districts and State?

We want to place second at Districts and top five at State.

Do you think the team is working better together this year than in past years?

Yes, because everyone has positive attitudes and the determination to get better.

What do you think about on long runs and during races?

Honestly, I think about how much homework I’ll have when I get home and what I’ll have for dinner.

Tigers in

Action

Football (7-1)

Lost to CR Xavier 24-7 Next up: DBQ Hempstead on Oct. 19 at 7:15 p.m. away

Volleyball (26-10)

Lost to Dbq. Hempstead 2-0 Next up: Waterloo West on Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. home

Women’s CC

Next up: Regional on Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m. at Marshalltown

Men’s CC

Next up: Districts on Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m. at Marshalltown

Women’s Swimming

Next up: MVC on Oct. 20 at 9:30 a.m. at Dubuque Hempstead

Kayla Gardner photo

Austin Mennen makes a catch against Xavier.

Austin Mennen (26) and Jake Buck celebrate a touchdown.

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Senior Brianna King enjoys a nutritious homemade meal for lunch on Sunday, Oct. 14. She has modified her diet considerably since freshman year because she wants to feed her body all the fuel it needs to run fast. Pictured starting at the top (and moving clockwise) are some of her favorites: beet juice, noodles, turkey and spinach sandwich, cucumbers and red peppers with dip and quinoa.

Healthy eating paves successful course for women’s varsity runner Senior Brianna King will help lead the team through Districts this Thursday as a fourth year women’s varsity cross country runner. As a captain, she is proud of the girls who have worked hard all season and is excited for the state competition.

“I think everyone’s a lot stronger this year (mentally and physically). We have a lot of good younger girls that haven’t been at State before. This will be a good thing; they’ll get to see some big PRs (personal records),” King said.

Besides putting in consistent mileage day after day, King has a few other secrets to her success as a runner. “I eat healthy. I drink beet juice, I drink cherry juice and I take iron every day. This started during my sophomore season,” King said. Two nights before each race, the team has a spaghetti dinner for a carbohydrate load-up. “On race day, I eat chicken such as marinated chicken or roasted chicken,” King said. She drinks a full water bottle during school, and on the bus she drinks a Gatorade.

King, who brings her own lunch every day to school, packs a variety of healthy choices per meal. “It takes a lot of calories to sustain my energy for four to eight miles a day, six days a week,” King said.

Not to mention the abs and arms workouts she does at least every other day. One way she gets protein is from quinoa, which her mom makes with corn, black beans and cilantro. She also loves breads; apple zucchini bread is her favorite. Her mom bakes it using wheat germ, flax, whole wheat flour, applesauce instead of oil and chia seeds.

“I try to make it as healthy as I can get it,” King’s mother Cheryl King said.

King likes supplementing her meals with red peppers and cucumbers. She uses spinach instead of lettuce on her sandwiches because it is more nutritious.

Dedicating herself to this healthy lifestyle, King has had to give up some unhealthy habits. “I haven’t had pop in over three years. I used to eat poptarts

a lot, but now my breakfasts are really healthy. I have protein: eggs or a spoon of peanut butter,” King said.

King has also had to give up her social life on weekday nights. “All I have time for is working out, showering, homework, dinner and going to bed. I have to be really organized to get it all done,” King said.

Last Thursday’s race was her favorite so far of the season. “The course at Dubuque was a good course, just flat enough with a good amount of turns. It [the race] was a good confidence booster for our team because everyone had good races,” King said.

She has a specific strategy for racing. “I try to go out hard in the first mile and then I just focus on competing and surging the second mile,” King said.

Her individual goal for State is to make All-State again (comprised of the top 10 runners) and to get a four-year PR. Cross country coach Don Williams has had a positive influence on King.

“He is always so encouraging and is one

of the nicest coaches I’ve had,” King said. King’s past track coach Troy Becker has also been a role model to her. “He is really inspirational and motivational.

He always believes you can do more than you think you can,” King said.

King will run in college. She has gone on official visits to Grand Valley, Central Michigan and Iowa State. These visits have specific rules, such as the recruits can only be on campus for 48 hours.

“College visits are really fun. I liked all three colleges, which makes it harder to choose, but more exciting,” King said.

“It’s cool to meet the other recruits on the visit and see how many dedicated young runners there are.”

King’s hard work and dedication have certainly paid off. “I had no idea when I started long distance running as a freshman that I would be going through this process. I didn’t know I would be on varsity, even,” King said.

By Editor-in-Chief Maya

AMJADI