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Food drive ends week three of six-week event From a student adding a can to the donations to a child receiving a hot lunch, it’s that time of year again where students and staff have the opportunity to make a vast difference in our society.

Black Hawk County Schools are going head to head in this year’s annual food drive. Last year, Cedar Falls High School rose to the top, collecting an astounding 22,000 pounds out of the total 37,000 pounds worth of food and money from the entire community including surrounding schools such as West, Union, East, Hudson, Waterloo Christian and Valley Lutheran.

“... imagine the warmth that fills your heart knowing that you helped feed a family.”

—Sara Ashar Student Senate President

In Black Hawk County, one in every five youths struggles with hunger, and one in eight individuals suffers from food insecurity in the Cedar Valley.

The Northeast Iowa Food Bank (NEIFB) has been striving to improve those numbers since 1981, with a mission statement stating: “To provide nutritious food and grocery products to nonprofit agencies and individuals in Northeast Iowa while

offering hunger education programs to the community and those in need.”

NEIFB Food Solicitor Sheri Huber-Otting has been working with the Food Bank since 2008 and has been involved in the food drive every year afterwards. Her aspirations are high for this year’s food drive, as it’s one of the Bank’s biggest fundraising events of the year, “My goal is always to

help the students reach their goals for the food drive. I am the Food Bank person who organizes it, but the students are the stars.”

These stars stand directly within Cedar Falls High School. Thankful for the opportunities of coming together to help the less fortunate, Student Body President Sara Ashar recognizes the value of the student food drive. “It’s tough to acknowledge that so many people, including students and their families who attend our very own school, go to bed hungry every night,” Ashar said.

Faced with a challenge to beat last year’s record, as well

as being able to maintain the school’s top position, Ashar and the student body are determined to accomplish each goal with a variety of events and fundraisers planned for the upcoming month such as weekly bake sales, Trunk or Treat, the new “Lights Out” school dance and many other volunteer efforts to collect donations.

“Some may chose not to participate in the food drive, and that is ultimately their own choice, but imagine the warmth that fills your heart knowing that you helped feed a family,” Ashar said.

By Staff Writer Allie

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Students explore Waterloo NASA project A group of tech savvy students got the opportunity on Wednesday, Oct. 21, to get a sneak peek at some NASA technology being made right here in the Cedar Valley as they toured Doerfer Companies of Waterloo where they were showing off their Wheelift technology. The Wheelift technology is a machine that transports massive segments of the rocket that will be sent to Mars by NASA and SpaceX in December of 2018. Doerfer also makes the machines for the Navy to aid in the construction of submarines.

The students got to see first hand what career opportunities there are in the STEM field. “We decided to host this because there are lots of opportunities in Iowa with some of our customers which are very high end like NASA,” President of Doerfer Companies Dave Takes said. “We need to get the word out to young people because we will need new talent for the future of our company with NASA. If we don’t tell them the opportunities, they won’t know about them.”

“The only person who can stop you from accomplishing your dreams is you.”

—Jim Kelly NASA astronaut

The transporters that Doerfer makes for NASA will aid in the assembly of the individual rocket segments and eventually the entire rocket for the SLS (Space Launch System), which will carry astronauts into deep space. Each transporter costs roughly $1 million for NASA. The max payload for one model is 300,000 pounds, which is much needed when NASA is constructing the “most powerful rocket in the world,” according to Senior Operations Manager for the SLS Chris Bramon. Bramon said that the rocket will be car-

rying approximately 70 metric tons of total payload.

SLS Resident Manager Pat Whipps said, “This rocket will be taller than the Statue of Liberty, 320 feet tall.”

The students were treated to a speech by NASA astronaut Jim Kelly who said in part of his message, “The only person who can stop you from accomplishing your dreams is you.” The speech was well received by the large audience of future engineers and scientists. “I liked the astronaut speech. It was very inspirational,” senior John Wagner said.

The main reason that the students went on the trip was to get a close up view of the STEM career opportunities that exist. “I hope that the students realized that learning a lot of STEM materials in high school can lead to a lot of really exciting career opportunities,” physics teacher Kenton Swartley said.

The students wrapped up the day with a ceremonial flag raising with astronaut Kelly.

By Sports Editor Jason

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AP psych students make zombie run for test review Melissa Rogers’ AP psychology classes are studying for a test in a new way. As they finish up their unit on the parts and functions of the brain, they have been testing out a technological twist to reviewing for the test.

Rogers’ is trying out the app Aurasma, which is the industry-leading augmented reality app that lets users create and share their own augmented reality experiences.

How the app works is she took a picture of something in the school, such as a bulletin board or vending machine, and she then hooked it up to the app so that once the students put their phones over those places, it showed a clue.

Each of these different clues, spread throughout the school, helped students

in reviewing for the test.

She got the idea from a facebook group of other psychology teachers, and she said she thinks it is a useful new way to actively learn and review information.

“Once I work out the kinks and figure out something that doesn’t have a glare, it will be better,” she said.

“I thought this way of studying was amazing. We got to use a real life application to see how the brain would respond in our everyday lives. Well, actually, it’s how the brain would react during a zombie apocalypse. Even though we were supposed to keep it civilized, my group ended up doing more of a zombies vs. humans, where we chased each other around the

Using the Aurasma clues planted by AP psych teacher Melissa Rogers, Vineel Mallavarapu, Bryce Kolthoff and the other students in class to review for upcoming test.

Annebeth Ahrenholz Photo school but learned first-hand how each part of the brain would work while running for our lives. Even though this was a little deviant, Mrs. Rogers managed to

teach us in a significant way because I learned so much from this experience,” senior Andrew Nurse said.

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Senior finds French clear schedules for dinner

Quote project shares many lessons Students at Cedar Falls High School this week couldn’t miss the inspirational quotes taped to every locker in the school. All 962 of them. This was done by none other than senior Daphne Becker.

What started as a simple scolarship application at dosomething.org turned into a massive project for Becker, who had to put around four hours of work outside of school to put all of the quotes up.

“For the scholarship, I only had to do two or three quotes,” Becker said. “With all of the negativity in the school recently, I thought that it should become more of a positivity thing.”

In order to spread the inspirational quotes around the school, Becker had to stay more than three hours after school on Monday, and she came in about an hour before school started on Tuesday.

Counselor Erin Gardner appreciates the positive impact these quotes could have on students’ lives.

“I love all of the positive quotes around the school.

I wish we could have things like this up all year long,” Gardner said. “They can brighten someone’s day or help them think of a negative situation in a positive way.”

While there are multiple quotes, Becker said she hopes that every student can find one to connect with.

“There are 47 different quotes, and, obviously, not every quote is going to resonate with every person,” Becker said, “but if every person can resonate with at least one quote, I think the whole school can be a much more positive place.”

If students take the time to look at the quotes from extremely successful people as they are walking to their next class, students can have a much more positive and motivated outlook on the rest of their year and can carry that onto their lives outside of school.

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Over this summer I was given the opportunity to spend five weeks in France living fully immersed with a family. In that time I double kissed everybody’s cheeks every morning and every night, ate a lot of cheese and ate every single meal with the whole family at the table, and though I remember eating as a family a lot more as a child back in America, as the years have gone on and my family has gotten busier with different activities, we just aren’t able to match that tradition I enjoyed on my five weeks in France.

To me that actually makes it feel special when we are able to sit down together as a family maybe once every one or two weeks.

There are a lot of stereotypes about French people. A few I can contest to like: they like their wine, they eat bread all the time and meals are a grand ordeal.

When we do eat dinner, my family usually takes maybe 3045 minutes tops. When I lived with my French family, dinner could take anywhere from one to four hours. The maximum was usually more when there were other guests there, but I am not kidding you when I say that I was at the table from eight at night until 12.

When it was one hour, that was like the quick meals — the ones that didn’t take very long, at least to them.

At first, dinner was something that I dreaded. I would have to try to understand what they were saying, think of a response I could bring to their conversation and worry if I was

How many days a week do you eat dinner with your family?

The Hi-Line Poll represents 10 percent of all students in proportion to gender and the three grades at the high school. Poll conducted by Staff Writer Jacob Jensen.

saying it correctly. By the time I did that all in my head the conversation had changed.

But the longer I was in France, the more I understood, and once I was able to get past being afraid of talking, I could actually enjoy the time I got to spend with them.

Now their dinner is nothing close to our dinner. Here we cook everything all at once, and then we sit down, shove it down our throats as fast as possible and go back to whatever we were doing before.

They put out pre-appetizers, appetizers, the main meal, the cheese course and at the very end, dessert.

Coming back home and spending time with my family

has made me realize that neither of these are better than the other. They are just different.

I am already so close with my family that I don’t think that we would need two hours of straight quality time to keep close, but for getting to know my French family, it was maybe the best possible thing for me. I got to get to know them, learn their culture and be a part of their lives during this time.

Both of my families are different, but, at the end of the day, they are my families, and mealtimes are a special component to our relationships.

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Do you think Hawkeye football will ‘win out’?

The 7-0 Hawkeye football team is ranked No. 12 in the nation and is in first place in the Big 10 West.

L u k e Johnson 10th “ I feel like it’s a great thing to see at least one Iowa team doing great in football. Hopefully they can keep up the good work, and I believe they will stay undefeated if they continue to play how they’ve been playing.”

Kelsie Loughren 12th “ I l o v e watching the Hawks have a great season so far. I think they deserve every bit of it. I hope we’ll stay in the top 25, but I’m not sure because we do have some very tough games coming up that they probably will lose, but my hopes are high.”

Spencer Williams 12th “I couldn’t be happier about the Hawks being undefeated. It’s also a great feeling knowing I’ll be playing there next year. I’ve been to all the home games and in the locker room after all of them as well, and the players couldn’t be happier with how things are going right now. I think them winning the rest of their games is very doable. It’s not a super easy schedule to end the year on, but it’s also not the most difficult. I would not be surprised if they accomplished that, and I can’t wait to see how the rest of the season goes for them.”

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Gun control takes weapons out of hands of citizens A crazed gunman shot up a community college in Umpqua, Ore., on Oct. 1, igniting a decades-old debate on gun rights. After every shooting, there is always the knee-jerk reaction by gun grabbers.

People will shout: “Ban assault rifles! Ban guns!” Soon you see certain types of AR15 rifles banned, you’ll see magazine caps and new restrictions on every American’s 2nd Amendment right. As Americans, we should all believe in the U.S. Constitution as the ultimate law of the land. We cannot let people trample our right to own a firearm.

On April 19, 1775, in Lexington and Concord, Mass., farmers picked up their flintlock rifles and muskets against the tyrannical King George to fight for their freedom. Our founding fathers knew how important gun ownership was because without their firearms, we wouldn’t be living in the greatest country on earth. They thought private ownership of firearms was so important, they made it their second priority next to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press and a right to peaceful assembly.

The 2nd Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The 2nd Amendment insures that we have all the other rights. People will say: “The Constitution is a dinosaur. Technology changes.” Do fundamental rights and liberties really change that much over the span of 227 years? On the technology part, flintlock muzzleloaders were the “assault weapons” back in the day. Every rifle/musket was a “military style” weapon.

Saying that the Constitution is now invalid because technology changes is like saying, you don’t have freedom of speech on social media because you aren’t actually speaking it. We have also passed many laws that already restrict us on what we can do with our 2nd Amendment right.

In 1938 the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 made it so you have to be 21 to purchase a pistol. In 1986 the Firearm Owners Protection Act revised and partially repealed the Gun Control Act of 1968. This prohibited the sale to civilians of automatic firearms manufactured after the date of the law’s passage, and required ATF approval of transfers of automatic firearms. Gun-Free School Zones Act in 1990 prohibited unauthorized individuals from knowingly possessing a firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone. In 1993, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act made it required to have background checks on most firearm purchasers, depending on seller and venue. You also have to have a permit in Iowa to purchase any gun that isn’t a “long gun,” which is any firearm under 16 inches long. The NFA is an Act to provide for the taxation of manufacturers, importers and dealers in certain

firearms and machine guns, to tax the sale or other disposal of such weapons, and to restrict importation and regulate interstate transportation thereof. The NFA makes it so you can’t purchase most type II class III firearms such as grenades, bombs and artillery. We have almost complete prohibition although you can purchase machine guns, but only after going through obtaining a signature from the Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) who is the county sheriff or city or town chief of police (not necessarily permission), pass an extensive background check to include submitting a photograph and fingerprints, fully register the firearm, receive ATF written permission before moving the firearm across state lines and pay a tax.

Unfortunately, we have had more mass shooting in schools than anyone wants to think about. That was supposed to change with the passing of the Gun-Free School Zones Act in in 1990, but it obviously hasn’t.

Gun-free zones are a good idea on paper, but if you look into it further, you realize that it is also illegal to run from police, smoke marijuana, drink under the age of 21, drink while driving, smoke under the age of 18, steal anything or be abusive towards anyone. This is just a short list of all the laws and regulations out there, but this all happens anyway. So why would criminals listen to a sign standing out in the grass that reads, “Gun-Free Zone,” especially because he or she knows that all the law-abiding citizens in this area are disarmed, so if anything, it’s a target. I hope this never happens in our town but if something did we would have no good defense in our school besides Officer Leary as an immediate response, if he was in the building, and the rest of the police department as a second response if they got there. Think for a second. We go to school about a mile and a little away from the police department. That would take them about two to five minutes to get to the school. How many rounds can you fire off and how much damage could you cause in that amount of time? Too much is the answer. If Leary happened to be here, he could stop the shooting in a matter of seconds because he is the only one in our entire building that has a firearm. I personally would feel much safer if we had at least a few trained/veteran teachers with firearms somewhere at all times, which leads into our next topic of self defense.

It is unfortunate that more young adults have no idea how to handle a firearm of any sort. This is dangerous because knowledge is the key to using a firearm correctly.

If someone were to break into your house and have a handgun, for example, and your family has firearms in the house, you could stop the situation rather quickly with your firearm and a cop on the phone.This does not mean you have to fire a shot.

Although, if said person were to come towards you threatening your life and the life of your family members, it would be an ap-

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Trigger locks are a good start In America, feeling safe is supposed to be easy. We have been taught for years that the United States is the safest place in the world, but how can that be true when the issue of guns is growing after fellow Americans commit mass murders? Why have we let getting ahold of a gun become so easy and accessible?

Twenty first graders. Nine church goers. Twelve innocents in a movie theater.

These are all just three examples of mass shootings that have resulted in a nation’s worth of grief. How many more deaths can we take before we step up and take a stand for gun control?

Many conservatives have the all or nothing thinking. They think that we who want gun control believe that we shouldn’t have guns at all, that they should all be banned, but what I’m proposing is stricter laws. Make guns less accessible, do more thorough background checks and support the invention of a “smart gun.”

This smart gun would take lots of propriate reaction to fire before you let any of that happen. Some criminals are scared away just by you saying you have a firearm.

Some are not. So if the government were to take away the right to own firearms, you would be defenseless until police arrived.

By then you could be in a hostage situation or, worse, your family is harmed.

One thing that they teach in the classes to earn your concealed carry permit in the United States is that anything can be used as a weapon. Think about it. How do people get killed in prison even with all the security that they have? The inmates are going to find one way or another to do it with seemingly harmless objects. There are stories of people killing each other in prison with pencils. You could kill someone with a spoon if you tried. Even if you don’t have an object with you, your bare hands could be considered weapons. Everything has its uses, and if not used correctly, something isn’t going to go right. If you drink and drive, you run the risk of crashing and hurting yourself and or others. If you don’t use a table saw correctly, you run the risk of cutting fingers or a hand off, and if you don’t use a firearm correctly, you run the risk of injuring yourself or others.

We blame everything on the person until it comes to firearms. Your pencil didn’t make you write the wrong answer on the test. You did. The spoon didn’t make you eat too much. You chose to eat as much as you did. When there is a car accident, why don’t we blame the car? Because politicians will always politicize the shooting and try to take away your rights. A firearm by itself will not hurt anyone. Set a shotgun down and tell it to load itself and fire a shell. It won’t because it is an inanimate object and can not function without an able-bodied person physically loading it and pulling the trigger. People want more gun control but refuse to believe that the

work and actual effort, but if we succeed, both sides would potentially get what they want. A compromise. A smart gun could be programmed to its buyer and its buyer only. After doing a background check on the buyer to determine if their records are clean, gun sellers could take their fingerprint and program the gun so the buyer’s fingerprint is needed whenever he or she wants to use the gun. This would eliminate anyone wanting to steal it and prevent everyone who isn’t authorized from shooting it.

Too many kids on the street are getting busted for having guns. What does this tell us as a nation? We need to focus more on the consequences of having illegal weapons. Instead of imprisoning people for nonviolent offenses, we need to pay attention to those who are illegally selling and harboring deadly weapons, and the trigger lock would be an effective start on which both sides should be able to compromise.

By Staff Writer Abbey

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people behind the gun are the real culprits.

Almost immediately following the Oregon shooting last week, President Obama, visibly angered, called for more gun control and restrictions. The one thing that nobody thinks about when politicians call for gun control is the fact that they all have armed guards. The White House has dozens of armed Secret Service agents protecting the president, the same president who says you don’t have a right to defend yourself, your family or your property with a firearm.

I think if someone has armed guards, and they call for gun control, they should make their security give up their firearms.

Gun grabbers will always bring up other countries and states that have strict gun regulation. “We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths,” President Obama said. Two words: Chicago, Illinois. Chicago has the strictest gun regulations in the entire country, so they should have the lowest gun violence, right? Wrong. Chicago is one of the leading cities in the gun violence numbers.

This year alone, 2,349 people have been killed in Chicago. Keep in mind they have some of the toughest gun control in the nation. They have a 15-round magazine limit.

They banned possession of “assault weapons,” and they have to report the transfer of a firearm at least 48 hours in advance.

Taking away a law abiding citizen’s right to own a firearm doesn’t make criminals harmless. It makes the good guy helpless.

If you need proof that gun control doesn’t work, then look at Chicago. When an intruder is in your house at 2 a.m., would you rather have a .45 in your hand or a cop on the phone?

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I never expected my life to be completely turned upside down when I went to bed on Sunday, Oct. 11. I nodded off as I thought about what I was going to wear the next day and what I needed to do for college applications. Unbeknownst to me, everything would change just a few hours later.

During the night, due to causes still unknown, sparks ignited and set my garage ablaze. I was the first one to notice the flames at 3:45 a.m. I must have either sensed that there was light or heard one of the loud pops coming from the growing fire. There was a moment of disbelief at what I was seeing: bright yellow and orange flames through the large bank of second floor windows in our music room.

Then, adrenaline rushed through me. I hurriedly put on pants and then screamed “FIRE! FIRE!” to wake up my parents and little sister. I didn’t even think about grabbing anything in the house. My intuition to run was stronger than I thought possible.

All that I knew was that I needed to leave fast.

My sister and I ran across the street to Seerley Park. My dad paced on the sidewalk outside of the house while on the phone with 911. At the same time, my mom ran back into the house and returned with my cello in one hand and my sister’s guitar in the other. She went in a second time to grab a blanket that we could sit on.

As we sat huddled in a blanket at Seerley Park, we became spectators of our own tragic reality. It was there that I experienced the most painful moments I have ever had. I screamed and wailed at the top of my lungs and cried desperate, angry tears. The garage was a huge mass of fire and the flames were three stories high and spreading quickly to my house.

The only thing that my family could do was watch as the flames began to consume our home. Although it took eight minutes in reality, the time we sat waiting for the firemen to show up felt like an eternity.

I knew the back of the house, which the flames had started consuming, was where my and my sister’s rooms were, as well as the space where I had all of my music and equipment for my cello. However, this was a fleeting thought because the two things I was most concerned about were my cats, Sam and Freddy.

The firefighters arrived in huge trucks with too-bright flashing red, blue and white lights. Every time I saw a fireman, I yelled, with manic persistence, “Have you found our cats yet?” Every minute I pressured them with the same question, rephrased in a different way, “Are you looking for our cats?” and “Can you please go see if our cats are OK?” The thought of losing one of our cats was almost too much for me to bear. Finally, Freddy walked out of the open front door in a

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Firefighters battle the blaze at senior Olivia Martin’s home in the early moring of Oct. 12. daze. Even though we were told that we couldn’t go near the house, I ran onto the porch and grabbed him. His fur smelled like smoke, and he seemed confused, but he was safe in my arms. I held onto him and cried as I carried him over to where my sister was sitting on a blanket in the park, and then we were all crying together. Freddy meowed loudly, and huge tears spilled from my sister’s and my cheeks.

At this point, concerned neighbors and friends had started to flock to the park. Someone I had never met before came with two cat carriers, and our neighbors from across the park offered us clothes.

I was really happy that Freddy was safe, but I was scared for Sam. He is an old cat who gets frightened even by the presence of a vacuum cleaner. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like for him to be running around, trying to find his way out of our smoldering house. The moment when a firefighter stepped out of the house with Sam in his arms, my insides melted and suddenly I felt OK. The whole family was safe now, and the terrible images that had been floating around in my head of my beloved cat running around hopelessly and inhaling too much smoke vanished. I took Sam and cradled him for a long time.

Usually, he would have started squirming after a while, but that morning, he didn’t.

We needed each other.

The firefighters eventually put out the fire. The sky had changed from black to pale morning colors. From the park, the house did not look very damaged. My sister and I, both barefoot, walked across the street and followed my dad around to the other side of the house to survey what had happened. Even though I was half blind without my glasses, I could make out the damage that had been done. The garage was nothing but black charred wood on the ground, with the shells of our two melted cars sitting on top. I was horrified.

The room that I had loved to practice cello in so much was completely scorched, and the situation for my room and my sister’s

room did not look promising either.

Later that day when we were permitted to actually enter the house, all of my fears were confirmed. Along the staircase leading upstairs, a collection of our family photographs still hung, but it was all wrong. The white wall had black and gray scorch marks running up and down it. The picture frames were all tilted at different angles and the glass holding the photos in place was slightly charred. It seemed to me like a twisted metaphor for what had happened to my family. We were still hanging, but off-kilter, and a little bit singed.

I was not prepared to walk into my bedroom. The room had previously been a white-walled space with a striped pink chair, art on the walls and a bed with warmly colored blankets. It was where sunlight filtered in through the window on sunny mornings. The fire had turned the walls black, covered everything with soot and made it look like it was straight out of a horror movie. I could tell that it was still my room, but a different version. This one from a dark nightmare.

My sister’s room was in a similar condition to mine, and I’m sure she felt the same way. Our rooms had been our sanctuaries, and anyone who had ever been in them would argue that they were uniquely us.

Even more shocking was the music room just a couple steps away. The room was a shell of what it had once been. As it was closest to the garage, the fire affected it the most. It was so bad that, on that crisp, sunny morning, I could see light filtering up through the charred floorboards. Seeing the light coming through all of the blackness, I felt, somehow, like a new beginning. It was beautiful in its despair, and I remember turning to my friend and telling him, “There’s something poetic about this right now.”

There is something about an experience like the one I have had that puts everything else in perspective. Once you’ve been that close to death and have been traumatized like my family, the little things

that you used to worry about seem almost meaningless. I think that’s why going back to school was hard for me. Everyone was so consumed in their own lives still: what photo to post on Instagram, what test they had next hour, the usual school gossip. (And maybe this was my life before the fire.) Don’t get me wrong — I didn’t want the entire school to live through a house fire so that we could have common ground. But, it did hurt me when I walked into classes and no one said a word to me, asked if I was OK or gave me a hug, which is what I really needed. And so, even though my close friends and family were there for me, there was an absence of compassion at school that got to me.

There have been many firsts since the fire, but crying at school was one that I was not expecting.

Now, it has been about a week since the fire, and although the saying is a total cliché, life since waking up at 3:45 a.m. to the sight of flames has been an emotional rollercoaster. My family is very lucky because we have so many people who care about us — some people that I didn’t even know cared about us. Through this experience, we have become closer to people and (literally) closer to each other.

Tragedy does bring people together, and it’s a beautiful thing. I personally have tried my best to see the situation as a chance for a new beginning. We lost a lot, but we haven’t lost each other, and I believe that we will make it through this stronger than ever before. At least that is our goal.

Although our situation is progressing every day, I think that there will always be a part of me that is still at the park, watching my house burn down. I have never been that vulnerable and helpless before in my whole life. I am one who likes to feel in control, and to feel so desperately defenseless was awful. Ultimately, our house will be rebuilt in six to eight months. But, the effects of the trauma will be with me for a much longer time. My whole family has nightmares about what happened. At the hotel where we are staying, an orange glow radiating from the neon sign can be seen from our room window. Seeing orange light coming from the window never fails to give me a mini heart attack every time I wake during the night. We all look at life differently now than before.

This isn’t how I envisioned most of my senior year — living in a hotel or a rented house, each day reaching for something that was lost in the fire. But while the heat from the fire burned most of my belongings, it has created stronger relationships and given me a new lens with which to look at life. I’ve come out of this experience a little charred, but mostly more resilient, something that will enable me and my family to bounce back from this tragedy and keep moving forward.

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Fried Fish

Feeds: 2 people Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Needs: 3-4 filets of fish Oil of your choosing Shore Lunch batter medium sized pan Cajun seasoning

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Prep: The night before, place your fish in the fridge to defrost.

Mix the Shore Lunch with some more Cajun seasoning for more spice, then put it in a gallon bag.

Cooking: Go home during Power Hour and put a pan on the stove at medium heat.

Take your fish out of the fridge and wash the filets off.

Make sure the filets are still a little wet and put them in the batter bag.

Shake the bag well.

Cover the bottom of the pan with your oil of choice and make sure oil is hot by seeing if water will dance on it.

Put your fish in the pan for about 5 minutes on each side or until the middle is white.

Take the filets out of the pan and serve them hot with your favorite sides.

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s senior Maddy Wright walked into Sidecar on a Monday evening, it’s easy to see she loves the place.

Waving to fellow customers while walking up to order, greeting both baristas once she reached the counter, it’s hard to imagine that there was ever a time when Sidecar wasn’t a part of her life.

She first encountered Sidecar one Sunday last year driving around after church. “I was super bored, and when I’m bored, I look for new things to do,” Wright said.

Driving down College Hill for the first time, she saw a cute coffee place and decided to stop in.

“I came in, and I immediately fell in love,” Wright said.

The environment is what first drew her in. However, the people and coffee are what keep her coming back.

“There’re so many great people here. I’ve seriously met half my friends here,” Wright said.

Saying Sidecar is the best coffee around is a bold statement, but one Wright is not afraid to make. ”I just love their coffee, and I personally just love the lattes more than any other place I’ve visited. The Frank Sinatra is my favorite latte,” Wright said. “They just have so many different kinds of coffee here, and it’s so unique, and I love it.”

For coffee newbies, Wright recommends lattes.

“Ones that have lots of flavor to them are a lot more

Coffee Fundamentals

For newbies, here are some basic types of coffee you should know •Espresso- strong black coffee made by forcing steam through ground coffee beans •Macchiato- espresso with a dash of frothy steamed milk •Cappuccino- prepared with espresso and hot milk that has been frothed up with pressurized steam •Latte- made with espresso and hot steamed milk, it is milkier than a cappuccino •Mocha- chocolate-flavored variant of a latte •Chai- type of Indian tea made by boiling tea leaves with milk, sugar and cardamom.

When added to steamed milk it becomes a chai latte appetizing than like straight black coffee, which not a lot of people have the tastebuds for,” Wright said.

Sidecar became much more than a coffee shop with amazing lattes to Wright this last summer when she was diagnosed with major depression disorder and anxiety. “It was just really hard to leave my house and be around people,” Wright said. “For some reason whenever I was here, it was just so much easier to talk to people. It was so nice to just sit down, drink some coffee, laugh and talk to great uplifting people.”

Sidecar Specialties

Sidecar offers every drink listed in Coffee Fundamentals, but it specializes in flavored lattes like the ones listed below.

•Frank Sinatra- chocolate, espresso, milk and “piercing blue eyes” •Van Fleet- chocolate, espresso, milk and orange vest •The Optimist- chocolate, espresso, milk and blackberry •Vanilla, caramel, honey and chai lattes •White chocolate and regular mochas •Pumpkin Chai- a seasonal favorite (pictured above) Stories and Photos by Staff Writer Hannah

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Sitting down that they brew, to enjoy her Cafe where they get Au Lait on a chilly it from and that’s Friday night, junior really important Summer Pieters to me,” Pieters seems to know Cup said. of Joe like the back Cup of Joe of her hand. has new seasonWhich makes al specialities so sense knowing that frequently that her first trip to the Pieters said it’s spot was in elemenhard to choose tary school. “My a favorite. “They mom brought me have something Find a video montage of both visits at the Tiger Hi-Line Online new all the time, here after yoga one day,” Pieters said. “I but I always go had hot chocolate because I only drank hot chocolate back to, it’s really basic, but the Cafe Au Lait with from here for a long time. I got the whipped cream, Wake Up Joe, which is like their normal cup of coffee, the sprinkles and I just sat here and talked with my I would say,” Pieters said. mom. It was very fun. I fell in love with this place right With the cozy, homey environment Cup of Joe proaway.” vides, it’s no wonder why Pieters frequents the shop.

Now a self-proclaimed Cup of Joe fanatic, Pieters “I come here with my friends a lot. This is a place I especially loves coming to the Cup not only for the meet people a lot,” Pieters said. “If I come here alone, coffee, but for the atmosphere. “It’s not like any other which I do that a lot too, I usually read and get some place in Cedar Falls,” Pieters said. “There’s a lot of homework done. I’m usually distracted. I can keep character inside the shop and outside the shop. It feels busy here.” like I’m in a different city and not in Iowa.”

Coming to the Cup “a lot” for Pieters means about Of course, the coffee isn’t too shabby either. Pieters once a week. “I’m not a person who has a lot of free said she believes the high quality of the drinks has to time, so I would say I spend a lot of the free time that do with the baristas. “They care a lot about the coffee I do have here,” Pieters said. “If I could, I would be that they give you, so they pay attention to the beans here every day.”

Cup of Joe Staples

COJ offers numerous seasonal drinks throughout the year, but here are some year long staples that they offer •Smitten Kitten- mocha with whipped cream and a chocolate drizzle (pictured above) •Oregon Chai •Espresso* •Cappuccino* •Latte* •Mocha Latte* *Cup of Joe lets customers choose what type of coffee and flavor to add to classic drinks.

“It’s just like ordering ice cream,” Summer Pieters said.

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I was at the Thunder Woman Bridge in Janesville with senior Mary Ingalls and her little sister, Grace, last week.

Grace and I rushed up to the bridge to run across it, seeing how bad it would shake back and forth while Mary tied her dog, B e a r, up on a leash so he would One Tank not run a w a y because she did B Staff Writer Billie Ann not want ALBERT to leave him in the car.

When she was done, she climbed up the stairs although she was so scared because it is kind of rusty and sketchy, but she did it anyways. Bear wanted to go up there so bad, but he is just a little Pomeranian, so he would fall off too easily.

I got some pictures of the bridge and off we went towards the actual town. There is a one-car bridge heading into the town that is a little scary because it is so narrow, although some people drive on it while there is another car because it is not that narrow.

The sun was setting perfectly behind it, and the street light was also shining right on it, and I got a great picture that I love.

We went into town after that and found the local baseball diamond and a long walking bridge with big rocks in the grass around the start and end of it. It was getting even more chilly by then, so I took a few pictures and we drove the 15 minutes back into Cedar Falls.

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Thunder Woman is located near Finchford and is split into two sections by the West Fork of the Cedar River. The 96 acres is comprised of lowland forest with areas of open woods/grass where the old campground was located. The area supports plenty of habitat for non-game bird species and will provide bird watchers with plenty of opportunities to see a variety of species.

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A newly built boat ramp next to the Finchford Rd. bridge provides boaters access to the river. Hikers will find plenty of territory to explore and a wide range of scenery to admire. One of the most interesting features is an old suspension bridge, which spans the river.

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“It seems like we always follow a trail that isn’t actually a real a trail.”

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The Panthers are losing one of the most valuable and talented players in the country from last year in Seth Tuttle, but that’s not the only player from last season that has left.

They lost Deon Mitchell and Nate Buss as well, so the Panthers face losing over 50 percent of their production from last season and 65 percent of their rebounding, which was one of their biggest strengths last season.

Even with all of these losses, the Panthers aren’t starting from scratch. They still have some key players from last season. Wes Washpun will be the leader of the team this year. He averaged 7.6 ppg last season and was a key player.

They also have 3-point threats in Matt Bohannon and Paul Jesperson, and they also return a lockdown defender in Jeremy Morgan. This year’s team also has a much tougher nonconference schedule this season where they face preseason No. 1 North Carolina, which matches two Iowa high school teammates against each other in North Carolina’s Marcus Paige and Northern Iowa’s Matt Bohannon who both played together at Linn-Mar in Marion, Iowa.

The Panthers also face No. 7 Iowa State, and they could play play No. 8 Oklahoma when they take a trip to Hawaii to play in a tournament. The Panthers definitely have big shoes to fill for a team that went 31-4 last year and won the MVC Conference Championship, but with Ben Jacobson at the helm, the Panthers look to be in good shape to have a chance to contend with Wichita State to win the MVC again in 2016.

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The Hawkeyes return almost everybody from a year ago. The only key departures are leading scorer Aaron White and three year-starter Gabriel Olaseni. They return many key players in Mike Gesell, Adam Woodbury, Peter Jok, Anthony Clemens and preseason third team All-American Jarrod Uthoff The Hawkeyes were respectable last season. They finished 4th in the Big Ten and finished 22-12 as well as making it to the third round of the tournament, but the Hawkeyes aren’t looking for another average year, and this year could be the year that the Hawkeyes finally win the conference tournament or make a run deep into March.

The Hawkeyes are still looking to find their leader of the team after losing White, but the balance is there with the addition of Dale Jones, a JUCO transfer, and four-year starter Woodbury can expect to see extended minutes too. Of course the Hawks are also hoping Uthoff can fill White’s shoes from last season and put up some big numbers in scoring and rebounding.

The Hawks’ schedule has some tough games in it. They face No. 3 Maryland twice this season and play at No. 19 Marquette. They also play No. 7 Iowa State in the classic CyHawk Series.

Even though Iowa lost two crucial contributors from last year, the team has gotten deeper and will rely on an extremely balanced attack this year. The Hawkeyes will need some luck to get into the tournament this year, but if they don’t make it, they will definitely be NIT contenders.

Iowa State

Iowa State is going to be without their head coach Fred Hoiberg, who developed the Cyclones into one of best teams in the Big 12 and also brought them two consecutive Big 12 Conference championships. He left to become head coach of the Chicago Bulls and was replaced by Steve Prohm, who was the head coach of the Murray State Racers.

Even though the Cyclones have a new head coach, they are still ranked 7th in the AP preseason poll, and they are even some experts with darkhorse picks for the Cyclones to win it all.

The team got a transfer that will help improve their chances in Hallice Cooke from Oregon State, and they are returning three starters from a year ago: Jameel Mckay, Monte Morris, and 2014-15 All-American Georges Niang who is a preseason favorite to win the college Player of the Year.

The Cyclones also have two tough non-conference games to play in No. 19 Colorado, who they play at a neutral site, and No. 22 Cincinnati, who use a completely different style of play, and then, of course, they must face their Big 12 foes: Kansas, Oklahoma, Baylor and West Virginia who are already ranked in the top 25. In fact, three Big 12 teams this year are picked to be in the top 10.

The Cyclones have plenty of chemistry on this team, and there’s no question they have enough talent to win it all, but will the changes that coach Prohm brings to this team help or hurt the Cyclones?

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Top spots will look familiar in NBA

Eastern Conference The closing seconds of the 2016 drop off the scoreboard, and the anxious crowd around Quicken Loans Arena is barely able to contain its excitement. The promises of Lebron finally come true. The city’s sports championship drought ends. The Los Angeles Clippers somberly move up and down the court, in the undesirable position that the Cavs filled last year.

As the confetti gracefully drops from the ceiling, the Larry O’Brien trophy is escorted onto the court and the stage is overflowing with yellow jerseys and exhausted players filling those jerseys. With Lebron James’ sweaty hands grasping the NBA Finals MVP trophy for the second straight year, Kyrie Irving stands at his left with Tristan Thompson standing to Lebron’s right. Both had amazing NBA finals, with Thompson locking down the defensive side, along with shutting down DeAndre Jordan at the rim. The trophy gets hauled back to the locker room to get showered with champagne along with the players.

Now that you know how I think about the Cavs, let’s go through my predictions for the rest of the eastern conference. The Washington Wizards. I think that this season will be a renaissance for the Wizards. The 2010 first overall pick

has slowly been progressing to an elite NBA level, and this, I think, will be when he finally crosses over the line for elite guards. With a 17.6 points per game average last season, I think that Wall with keep his PPG rising up to a 21 PPG average. With Wall constantly improving his three point shot ability and the veteran leadership of Marcin Gortat, Wall could prove to be one of the league’s most dynamic guards since Pistol Pete.

The team I have second in the Eastern Conference standings is the Atlanta Hawks. The only reason that I didn’t have them make it to the finals is because they’d have to go through the Cavs. They have an all around balanced lineup headlined by Kyle Korver, Jeff Teague, Al Horford and Paul Millsap. Their weapon of choice will definitely be the three ball, and when Korver is hot from beyond the three point arc with the rebounding duo of Horford and Milsap, nobody will be able to beat them. The only weak point that the Hawks will have this season is the lack of quality big men on the bench, but with Dennis Shroeder and Tim Hardaway, Jr., I think they’ll be able to make it up with this talented front court duo.

The Bulls this season will be rejuvenated. Derrick Rose is poised for a comeback after his seasons

of injuries. Rose will have a season similar season to his 2010-2011 MVP season where he averaged 25.00 points per game. Along with the front court power of Pau Gasol, Taj Gibson, Joakim Noah and including Jimmy Butler, the Bulls could be an extremely scary team come middle to late season. If the pieces fall right with the success of Rose, Gibson, Noah and Butler, the Bulls could really become a clutch team and run the table in the East,but only if things fall perfectly for the Bulls.

The Toronto Raptors could be a team to worry about for the top of the standings teams. A definite dark horse in the eastern conference, Kyle Lowry and the Raptors could give Lebron and company a run for their money. If like Rose, Lowry can have a great scoring season along with supporting cast like DeMarre Carroll and Demar Derozan the Raptors could be poised to be the Cinderella of the playoffs, a team that has potential similar to the Bulls could have renaissance similar to the Hawks in the previous season.

Western Conference The Los Angeles Clippers are looking like my preseason favorites for the western conference champs. With DeAndre Jordan returning, the physical presence of Blake Griffin, the skills that Chris

Paul has with passing, scoring in the paint and from midrange, and the veteran leadership plus the great three point shooting of Paul Pierce, the Clippers will stay tops deep into the season. When it comes down to the postseason, the only team that will prove a tough matchup against the Clippers will be the previous champs, the Golden State Warriors. The reason I don’t think that the Warriors will be able to handle the Clippers is because of the lack of size and skills in the front court. Although small ball worked for them in the finals, against a great team like the Clippers, I just don’t think they can pull it off.

A team that will perform at the high level like they did last year will be the Houston Rockets. With free agents returning and the addition of a much needed guard in Ty Lawson, the Rockets are poised to be the third best team in the league.

The only thing the Rockets don’t have offensively is a good shooting small forward. Even though Trevor Ariza has a good shot, he’s just not reliable and consistent enough to ride deep in the postseason.

After a disappointing season last year, pegged with injuries, the Oklahoma City Thunder might be the underdog in this year’s playoff race. Of course, all this relies on the health of their two main

stars: Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. The two have run the western conference the past three years, but with the emergence of Steph Curry, ex-teammate James Harden over-powered Anthony Davis and even Andrew Wiggins along with the Timberwolves. Demarcus Cousins has been practically promising an MVP trophy to the city of Sacramento. I think that he is right to be arrogant. I think that he can help the Kings reach the playoffs for the first time in awhile.

With the addition of declining Rajon Rondo, Boogie finally has a good teammate. Including guard and young blood Ben McLemore, the Kings could be the contender that no one is talking about. In fact, the only time the Kings have been counted as a contender is when the NBA was looking for who to send back to Seattle.

This season could be one of Renaissance in the NBA. This depends mostly on the resilience and clutch ability of the newer stars in the NBA, i.e. Anthony Davis. Or it could be continued to be run by the Hall of Fame veterans like Lebron James and Kevin Durant.

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Senior chasing title in Ultimate Fighting Championship After senior Frankie McGlaughlin saw his first Ultimate Fighting Championship, “I was instantly hooked,” and three years later, he’s undefeated in kickboxing, and he has three gold medals and two bronze medals from jiu jitsu tournaments to prove it.

His goal is to eventually become a professional mixed martial arts fighter.

He trains at least five times a week at the ROC gym in Waterloo. His mentors are his jiu jitsu coach Greg Haslor and his kickboxing coach Russ O’Connell.

It wasn’t an easy path to success. In his first boxing fight, he lost by decision, but it was only four months into his training. “It was the weirdest feeling ever,” McGlaughlin said. “I couldn’t hear anything, and it felt like a dream.”

Before his second fight, his original opponent backed out, so McGlaughlin had to change his strategy at the last minute because his original opponent was left handed, and he had to use different strategies when fighting lefthanded opponents, but he emerged victorious.

“For about a week I was nervous for my fight because there were a lot of my friends and family coming to see me and counting on me to win,” he said. “The day of the fight was weird. I just had this constant feeling of nervousness. I was about to step in a ring with someone who was trying to knock my head off.

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Senior Frankie McGlaughlin has collected two medals in his quest as a mixed martial arts fighter.

When I started my ring walk, I had this huge adrenaline rush, and it felt amazing when the fight started. I landed the first punch, which cut my opponent’s lip.

I ended up knocking him down twice in the second round and finishing him by knockout.”

The pressure to win becomes very stressful for McGlaughlin, but he has a great support team that includes his mother.

He also looks up to his heroes, Jon

Jones and Conor McGregor and said he hopes to some day be like them. “I like the way they fight. Their styles are just so fascinating, and the success that they have attained is where I want to get some day. I also emulate their styles into my own game.”

He has also met several UFC fighters such as Nick Diaz, Nate Diaz, Royce Gracie and Tyron Woodley. Gracie was the first ever UFC champ, and Woodley is the No. 2-ranked welterweight UFC

fighter.

McGlaughlin said he is very excited for his next kickboxing fight, which will take place in Mason City at the North Iowa Event Center. His fight is on Nov. 21. Contact him for tickets on Facebook chat, or find him during the school day.

Tickets are $25, but for seats closer to the ring, they are $35 and the best seats are $40.

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Men’s golf teams up against cancer This year, instead of the traditional Tiger colors, the men’s golf team went to the course in brand new pink and grey uniforms. At first glance, this may seem like a random color choice for a school whose primary colors are red and black, but the story goes much deeper than that.

Pink is the color of breast cancer awareness, and some members of the team have been greatly affected by the deadly disease, so the team decided to use pink to honor the members of the team who had been affected.

Senior Sean Fernholz had the idea to switch uniforms.

“I wanted to switch it up from having the same uniform two years in a row and so did a majority of the guys,” Fernholz said. “It was my idea to get the new uniforms, but both me and my mom had the idea of using pink uniforms.”

Golf coach Dan Hensing was also for new uniforms.

“The only rule we had to follow was that all players needed the same uniform,” Hensing said. “There aren’t any restrictions on the colors of the uniforms.”

Senior Charlie Eastman’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011.

Charlie appreciated the uniforms.

“I thought they were sweet,” Charlie

“It showed solidarity of the team to support each other through good times and bad.”

—Kristi Eastman cancer patient and mother of Charlie

said. “It’s nice to see that the team went through with this great idea, and it’s nice to see all of this support.”

Charlie’s mother, Kristi Eastman, shares his view.

“It showed the solidarity of the team to support each other through good times and bad. Sometimes, kids think that they are the only ones going through difficult situations, but in reality, everyone has tough stuff to deal with,” Kristi said. “Several boys on the team have had moms, aunts and grandmothers affected by breast cancer. I thought it was very special that the team decided to wear pink.”

Matt Bauman lost his mother to breast cancer in the spring of 2012 after a long battle that had begun years before.

He uses the uniforms to remember his mother.

“She would always tell me to have fun with everything that I do,” Matt said. “Using the uniforms to remind me of what she said, I would always apply that to golf and make sure that I have fun with it.”

Matt’s father, Mark Bauman, agreed with him.

“My son, Matthew, lost his mother to breast cancer a few years ago, and I know at least one other golfer’s mother has been diagnosed,” Mark said. “I think it’s a nice tribute to those who have been diagnosed or affected by cancer.”

Other coaches in the district thought the uniforms were a nice gesture.

“I had coaches come to me and say very nice things after meets about our uniforms,” Hensing said. “They all thought it was very admirable.”

Bauman said he hopes that the uniforms stay a CFHS tradition.

“I just think that it’s really cool to support everyone going through breast cancer,” he said. “I hope that the uniforms continue from year to year and that the wonderful support continues.”

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Little did I know that after Ekenemchukwu (better known as KC) Asiodu picked my bike, my life would be forever changed. We would grow to become closer by that one moment in Green Bay, Wisc., at Packer training camp.

“It was a dream come true. Since I was 15 years old, every decision I made all revolved around making it to the NFL, so when I got there, it was like football heaven,” Asiodu said.

He was born and raised in southern California where he currently lives. He played college football at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and University of Central Oklahoma.

He then went undrafted to the the St. Louis Rams and was also a member of the Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears.

“Now I own a fitness gym in the L.A. area where we train young athletes and everyday people,” Asiodu said. ”Mainly we focus on young athletes, helping them advance their careers. I will also be in school, getting my masters in social work as I plan to be a therapist and continue my work to help people. I have a strong desire to help people.”

Asiodu confessed that it was a very hard decision to stop playing, and it’s a process. He said most guys are forced out or are pushed out or their bodies just doesn’t do it anymore. He experienced a number of injuries; two torn hips, two torn pecs, a torn shoulder, back problems, neck problems and series of concussions.

“It came to the point when I was just constantly trying to rebuild my body, and it just became too much,” Asiodu said. “I didn’t really quit. I didn’t decide to walk away. My body was unable to perform at that level due to all the injuries and all the blows it’s taken. I was forced to make the decision not to play because of my numerous injuries.”

According to the NFL Players Association, the average length of a playing career ranges from three to about six years. For a player who is a first round draft choice, the average

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Former NFL football player KC Asiodu and sophomore Tehya Tournier hang out at a UNI Panther tailgating party on Saturday, Oct. 17. Asiodu has become a close friend of Tournier. He played for the Rams, Dolphins, Saints, Packers and Bears in his five-year career. would be close to nine years. Asiodu played in the NFL for five years, and he said that he would have loved to play until he turned 32, but, sadly, that wasn’t possible.

“Do I miss it?” Asiodu asked. “Of course, every day. I do not miss the

uncertainty and the unstableness of being a player on the bubble, but I miss the competitiveness. I miss competing and physically dominating people. I miss the workouts of pushing yourself to your limit and past your limit. What I miss most though

is the brotherhood. People don’t understand how close you can get with the guys you play with. And the locker room. It’s a unique place. It’s like a sanctuary of men. We just talk, trash, gossip, hang out, tell jokes, bag on each other, play the best music. I remember that like it was yesterday.”

Asiodu shared since he isn’t playing anymore he is working really hard at his gym and is ready to go back to school. He also said in his free time in California there are endless opportunities for someone to do. Asiodu goes to the beach a lot, works out, hangs with his friends, listens to and collects vinyl records, spends time with his girlfriend and drives his cars around.

Asiodu is planning on building up his gym Kilfit Athletics and having a few more within the next couple years.

He is the director of athletic development and specializes in speed and agility, sport-specific athletic training.

He also looks forward to getting his master’s and being a licensed therapist and being a family man with his now girlfriend.

Asiodu’s visit to Iowa was a funfilled weekend that consisted of scary movies on Friday night along with ice cream from the famous 4 Queens and pizza from the OP. We then tailgated at UNI until the game started.

On Sunday we attended church, and then I took Asiodu to lunch downtown at the Pump Haus followed by a tour around town.

“Well, I love it,” Asiodu said about his stay in town. “I love hanging out with you. I love your family. I’m a California boy, so I’m a big city guy with a small town heart. I love smaller towns. I love the people. I love the feel and the sense of community. I have a small town heart in my opinion, and I love genuine people, and I think sometimes you find that more here than you do on the West Coast.

It’s nice when everybody knows everybody, and that’s what I like about Iowa.”

I never expected to meet someone like KC when I lined my bike up to the rack that day four and a half years ago. Soon after, we kept in contact with emails a couple times a week to texting and phone calls daily. This was his second trip to Cedar Falls, and I hope he had a wonderful time. I wouldn’t trade last weekend or the last four and a half years for anything. He has helped me grow as a person, in my faith and helped me look at the world in a different light.

A lot of people don’t understand or simply don’t know our story, but I’m very blessed and thankful to call KC Asiodu family.

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Cheerleaders capture first at Hawkeye Spirit Invitational A nervous sweat trickled down the palms of the competition cheer team as they intertwined each other’s hands, eyes clenched shut, craving a successful victory. Locked in suspenseful anticipation, a dead silence filled the gym as the team waited for the announcing voice to proclaim each triumph.

With no mention yet of a Cedar Falls win, the girls assumed a second place sweep.

“Runner up goes to Mason City!” declared the announcer.

The team shot up from its position, and members looked into each other’s eyes in awe. “And lastly, first place winners, and grand champions goes to Cedar Falls High School!” Cheers, tears and smiles echoed across the gym. An unexpected win and a grand champion performance shocked the crowd.

On Saturday, Oct. 17, the team took first place and the grand champion trophy at the Hawkeye Spirit Invitational, its first competition of the season, against six other high schools.

After bringing its skills, the team decided not to back down.

“It’s always pretty exciting when you hear your team’s name announced in first place.

I felt very proud of all the hardwork that everyone on the team put in,” senior Valentine Komen

Senior linebacker Adrian Diaz is defying all the odds.

Growing up in one of the most dangerous countries in the world, Honduras, and moving all across the country with an unstable home life, he should not be where he is at today, but Diaz does not let the doubters define him. He is a flourishing athlete both on the pitch, the gridiron and in the weight room.

Recently, Diaz broke the all time school squat record with a superhuman 515-pound squat. As a comparison, the average ATV weighs around 550 pounds. The previous record was 510 pounds set by Dylan Bane back in 2008. “It felt great because it shows that the hard work I’ve been putting in the weight room paid off for me,” Diaz said.

Diaz also plays outside linebacker for the football team. Diaz’s power and aggression give him the ability to lay the hammer down on opposing players. Diaz has tallied up an impressive 74 tackles and 13.5 tackles for loss on the season, two big reasons why he is in the lead

Hammer is a symbol of pride for the winner and gives the underclassmen something to look forward to competing for.

Diaz fits the mold of past Golden Hammer winners like Jared Halterman and Jared Farley. He is an impact player on the defense and has the will and determination to go after the award. “He has a huge impact from Tiger Hi-Line Online News Story on the game. He alSenior Adrian Diaz is the lead candidate for claiming the ways makes big plays Golden Hammer, the award for this year’s top contribution to when we need them,” defensive efforts on the football team. See the video of this sophomore defensive tackle Keegan Larson story on the Tiger Hi-Line Online website under the Videos/ said.

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Diaz is the fuel that for the team’s Golden Hama solo tackle, four for an asdrives the tradition of previmer award. sisted tackle, 10 points for a ous Tiger defenses. “I credit The Golden Hammer, sack, 10 points for a fumble God and all the coaches and which began in 1988, goes recovery and 10 points for an people he has put in my life at to the most outstanding deinterception.

Cedar Falls. Coaches like Dirk fensive player on the team.

“The system motivates Homewood, Will Carter and A player accumulates points players to make impact plays Brad Remmert,” Diaz said. He based on certain statistics, within the team concept,” is beating the odds and makand whoever has the most head coach Brad Remmert ing the most of his outstandpoints at the end of the seasaid. “It encourages players ing high school athletic career. son wins the award. Players to get around the football

By Sports Editor Jason RATHJEN are awarded seven points for to make plays.” The Golden

The competition cheerleaders captured first place among the six teams at the Hawkeye Spirit Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 17. said.

With several girls out due to injury, the team struggled as it made efforts to work together.

“We had to work with what we had and really come together as a team,” junior Rachel Eastman said.

Not feeling as prepared as usual, and even though they were named champions of their performance, the girls feel there’s a lot to work on. “The performance was far from flawless,” coach Tami Doyle said. As it’s very early in the season, the team agreed there’s lots to do.

“We have lots of difficulty to add and just the cleaning up of technique,” Doyle said.

With regular practices on early mornings, after school and late at night, the girls are not shying away from the competition. “Our coaches are preparing us really well for State this year. Even though it’s really busy, the practice always pays off,” Eastman said.

The team’s next competition is the Tiger Invite this Saturday, Oct. 24, at the high school. The cheerleaders hope to use the competition to further improve their skills for future performances.

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Junior runner Sam Schillinger has been is currently on his second year as a varsity cross country memeber, and was a State alternate in his freshman year. He is ranked seventh in the state going into the district meet.

Do you have plans to run after high school?

Yes, I plan to run in college. At a Division 1 school if I can. If not, I will still definitely run after high school.

What will it be like next year without the seniors?

Well, they will be missed a lot for sure. They are a great group of leaders and really push this team to be the best it can. Not to mention those are the guys I run with every day, so I’m going to miss them a lot. They are also my close friends. We will find a way to adapt and overcome and there will be other guys that step up to fill their shoes.

Do you have any pre-race traditions?

I have specific warm up clothes that I wear before every race. I also have a lucky pair of socks that I race in . As a team, we like to crinkle our race bibs right before the start. I also like to listen to music and relax before a race, but I keep it chill and don’t get tense and stay as calm as I can.

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Lost to Linn-Mar 21-7 Next up: Playoffs TBA on Oct. 28 at 7:15 p.m.

Volleyball (34-4)

Won 3-0 vs. W’loo West Next up: Regionals @ Fort Dodge on Oct. 29

Women’s CC

Districts on Thursday, Oct. 22 Next up: State Meet @ Fort Dodge on Nov. 1 at 11 a.m.

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Districts on Thursday, Oct. 22 Next up: State Meet @ Fort Dodge on Nov. 1 at 11 a.m.

Women’s Swimming 1st Place at Super Meet on Saturday, Oct. 17 Next up: Regionals on Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. for diving and on Oct. 31 at noon for swimming

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The volleyball team raised its record to 34-4 after dominating Waterloo West at home on Tuesday, Oct. 20 in three straight sets: 25-9, 25-12, 2521. Playoffs begin on Oct. 29 against Fort Dodge. Pictured here are 1. Alicia Harrington, 2.

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by Fleetwood Mac “Stevie Nicks is my favorite artist.

Listening to her made me open my eyes about life and how we interpret things.

She made me want to be my own strong person.”

Check out Lexbot for costume ideas

Halloween is coming up and many people want to go for the scary look to frighten the young children that come up to their doors at night, but what should you be? A zombie?

A witch? A character from American Horror Story Hotel?

No, let’s give these things an interesting twist with the help of Lexbot, a makeup artist on YouTube, and her amazingly creepy channel called Madeyewlook where viewers can watch her transform her body into many characters that may fit your particular interests.

My favorite videos were her horror-type designs. She is pretty creative, though I sort of wish she would do more designs that were more of her own creation.

Lexi does a lot of inspired stuff and has a cool voice. She likes a lot of the new TV shows that are going on and likes superheroes. Also, her intros are really cool; she acts or moves like the character she is portraying, along with fitting music. Her humor in the videos is pretty funny too.

Overall, I definitely recommend this channel for when you need to use makeup to transform yourself into a character of the unimaginable.

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Players choose touching storylines in free game, ‘Katawa Shoujo’ Upon hearing the confession of his long time crush, Hisao’s life changed forever. His heart was beating like a drum, and soon he felt it stop. With a sudden realization, he fell to his knees as his life went black.

When he came to, Hisao’s vision was filled with light while he smelled the sterility of the room and heard the soft beeping of the heartbeat monitor.

The doctor walked in to inform him of his life-changing news: he had been diagnosed with long-dormant cardiac arrhythmia. Hisao’s eyes widened when he was told that he would be changing schools to Yamaku Academy, a school for the physically disabled. From that day, his life was never the same, and now your job is to help him decide which path will be his future.

“Katawa Shoujo” is a visual novel and game developed

by Four Leaf Studios, a group that was originally from 4chan.

The game is completely free for download straight from the website. Though it does have some sexual scenes, they can be disabled straight from the menu for people who do not want to see them.

“Katawa Shoujo” is centralized around a young man named Hisao Nakai who transfers to Yamaku Academy after his dormant cardiac arrhythmia acted up upon hearing the

her characteristics throughout the player’s choices. The game is a choice-based visual novel, so every once in awhile a decision needs to be made by the player. Each decision is vitally

confession of his high school crush. After his recovery, he meets a variety of characters, the main five girls each having various disabilities. The game handles the topic of disability very respectfully, and there is no joke that is made that is in bad taste for each character’s unique background.

The story depends on which girl players decide to go with on a route, each character having her own struggles that she has to go through, developing

important; each one leads to either a bad ending where the relationship goes badly, a neutral ending where they remain friends or break up or a good ending where they live happily and the relationship blossoms.

The characters are each very realistic, each one having his or her own flaws regarding different things. They fight through trials and become stronger characters as a result of those struggles. It’s a very large strength of the game

that makes its characters very relatable and brings a strong emotional connection to each character.

The soundtrack is absolutely beautiful with each song bringing a deep impact to each area the player is located in. Most of it is piano music, and it really brings out the emotional side of “Katawa Shoujo,” and sometimes the game is very sad, guaranteed to make almost anyone cry.

A negative of the game is the lack of animation besides the cinematic introduction to each route. It’s an absolutely spirit-based game, with art being displayed for a beautiful effect at times. For someone who needs great animation to be immersed within a game, it’s definitely a drawback to this game, but for a visual novel, it can be excused.

This visual novel is a highly recommended, if not required, read. It blends excellent writing with well-developed characters and a story that can move anybody. Each route is impactful, leaving the player with haunting feelings.

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‘Hikaruo No Go’ delivers Characters in ‘Graceling’ intense quest of contests No Go” in the an- later. Overall, the artwork for this discover hidden talents ime“Hikaruo form is a very intense but manga is very nice and compli“Graceling,” a book by Kristin Cashore, just left me at WOW. Just WOW! This book has everything: love, action, betrayal, sword fights. There are seven kingdoms, and in those kingdoms are people who are different. Yeah, I know.

Everyone is different, but these people are really different from everyone else because they have these things called Grace. It’s kind of like superpowers. Some may have mind reading or really good fighting skills or the power to tell something to someone and have them believe that’s the truth.

Kasta thinks that her Grace is just a fighting Grace, but she soon learns that it is way more than that.

I had mixed feelings when I read this book.

Whenever there was a major point in the book, I freaked out. That’s what happens when I read a book that I’m really into. This book made me upset and happy, but that doesn’t mean that you are gonna be that way.

The Gracelings in the book have different colored eyes. Most people just have blue or green eyes, but the Gracelings have one green and one blue. I love how the main character, Kasta, thought she knew what her Grace was, but after she meets Prince Po, she finds out her Grace is more than what she thought it was, and, of course, I love to watch her trying to save everyone from a madman king.

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inaccurate portrayal of the man- ments the story very nicely. As for ga. In the anime, several events the story itself, it is very intense, happened in a certain order that and the manga and the show folthey don’t happen in the manga. low very close to each other.

In the show, we join As I said earlier, the Hikaruo, an everyday manga and the show Japanese 6th grader are close, but not extrying to make a little act. In the show, Hikacash. He stumbles ruo only gets sick once upon a Go board because of Sai. Howand in doing so, has ever, in the manga, obtained the spirit Sai is able to get Hikaof Sai inside of him. ruo sick several times.

Now with the spirit Manga Master Noah Secondly, Hikaruo FORKER faces his grandfather of Sai driving him, Hikaru strives to find in the manga, though out if playing Go is really what he he loses, but this does not hapwants. As he searches for his own pen in the show. Finally, several goal, he also helps Sai achieve small changes like using differhis goal: to play the divine move. ent languages, a different order In the manga of “Hikaruo of events and other such things No Go,” we start off in the same vary when the show was made point as the show, or as I should based on the manga. say, the show starts off in the Personally, I like the show same point as the manga. As better, as perusal, because the the manga progresses, there show represents the Go matches are very small things to note in very well and they really help indifference, but those will come tensify the boring Go matches.

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A Closet Full of Costumes Friday, October 23, 2015

With little money but lots of creativity, clever creations can be yours

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a great costume for Halloween? You probably have, right?

And you’re thinking, “It would be way too expensive.”

Well, it doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, I’m here to tell you that you can create amazing costumes without spending more than a few dollars.

Left to right: Alumnus Sarah Weber as John Egbert, Senior Kayla Wolter as Meulin Leijon, Senior Mia Blair as Rose Lalonde

Tip #1: Raid your closet! Look for basic items that could be modified, such as dresses, skirts, pants, jackets, hoodies, hats, shoes, anything! Pictured at right is my Maka Albarn cosplay.

I found all these items (a collared shirt, tie, sweater, skirt) in my closet. (The tie is a slytherin tie I made for a Draco Malfoy cosplay.

You can either find a pattern for a tie and sew it, which is what I did, or repurpose an old tie with acrylic paint.)

Tip #2: Acrylic paint is your best friend! When making props, there’s not much it can’t do. Here I made a pair of wands, called “The Thorns of Oglogoth” for Andrew Hussie’s Rose Lalonde. I made them out of chopsticks, clay and acrylic paint. I also made a Grimoire (pictured above) out of an old black book with a stencil and acrylic paint. If you don’t think you’re artistic enough for that, you could always print out a picture of the book’s cover and glue it on. (Not pictured) I also decorated the shirt with a little skull, with acrylic paint. The nails are fake nails from Wal-Mart. Eyelashes are Harajuku Honey, from Dolluxe. (Of course, nails and lashes are optional, but I like them.)

Tip #4: Have a lot of reference handy.

Never go out shopping without pictures of your character and his or her props. It makes it a lot easier to find things when you can remember what you’re looking for. I drew a picture of Fionna before shopping, and I took it to the store with me. This also comes in handy if a friend or parent volunteers to help, especially if they don’t know who the character is. It also helps to make a complete list of what you need.

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Tip: #3: If you’re running out of time, try to pick a character you most resemble. For instance, I have blonde hair and wear a lot of blue and green. I was reminded of Fionna the Human (Adventure Time). In 2014, it was already Hallow’s Eve, and I had no costume, so I raided my closet, found a blue skirt and shirt, and then paid a quick visit to Wal-Mart for knee high socks and mary-janes. I sewed the hat myself with a pattern from the Internet and a sewing machine. I spent $6 dollars on this costume.

Tip #5: Don’t go to Halloween costume stores unless it’s for accessories like fangs, nails, fairy wings, swords, pointed ears, etc.

Everything else they sell tends to be of poor quality (specifically clothing items), especially if it’s in the low price range. I bought my wig online for my Marceline the Vampire Queen (also from Adventure Time for $20) cosplay, and again, I raided my closet for the outfit. I made the guitar out of cardboard and acrylic paint.

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Move aside, costumes.

For some, Halloween ensembles are just too expensive, too bulky or too flashy. Opting out of the traditional get-up, face painting is a fun and cheap alternative to get into the spooky spirit.

You can get face paint almost anywhere you look. Halloween stores may have special packages that come with tutorials and a costume to go along, but stores like Walmart and Target have face paint that will work just as well.

Here are some ideas that may inspire you to create your own masterpiece.

To create the spooky skeleton above, just follow these instructions: 1. Sketch out your bone structure in eyeliner. You can feel all of the bones stick out and sink in. Draw in the eye sockets and the hollows of your cheekbones, the lines on your lips for the teeth and a kind of upside down heart for your nose.

2. Paint around your eyeliner with white face paint.

3. Fill in the blank spots with black face paint. To make it even more realistic, you can shade around the black in dark grey to make it pop out more.

4. If you want to take it even further, paint your chest. Draw lines across your throat in white for the spine, and you can feel out the other bones. Fill in around the bones with black paint. (I ran out of black paint for these pictures).

5. The last step is optional as skulls don’t usually bleed, but add some fake blood. It’s Halloween, so why not?

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and scary, demon makeup is much more impressive and inexpensive than a plastic mask from Party City.

Impress everyone and release your monster alter ego with this makeup illusion.

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FACE PAINT If you’re not into the traditional witch, skeleton and zombie face paint, try making your face into a literal piece of art. I love Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” and decided to recreate it, which ended up being easier than I originally thought. The best thing is that it’s comprised of lots of little lines, which eliminates the need for perfect strokes and gives off a very artsy vibe guaranteed to wow all of your friends.

This familiar figure is a simply spooky way to show off your face painting skills, even for beginners. Here are the steps to achieve your own Jack O’Lantern look: 1. Paint your entire face orange, extending as far down the neck as you wish to go.

2. Take your black paint and paint two eye sockets. These can be in any shape you want — after all, you’re the artist. Try some triangles for the classic look or make up your own shape for a more unique approach.

3. Draw the black lines that give the pumpkin its shape. Pumpkins have ridges, so you just need to draw a few lines to show that. Draw the eyebrows for a more expressive look.

4. Paint the mouth. Here you have freedom to do whatever you want for the mouth as Jack O’Lanterns are all unique. I chose to go for the classic jagged look.

5. Add some lines on the bottom to show more ridges.

6. Voila! You’re done. You can add leaves if you wish, or you can keep it as is.

If you don’t want to go out and buy a masquerade mask, you can make your own. This is an excellent way to use creative freedom. You can either freehand the mask like I did, or you can look up images online to go off of.

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Going With The Flow “The Troy Bolton”

Senior Noah Hermansen’s long flowing hair is exactly why people today are calling this new look “flow.” As our generation has grown up, it has been commonly known that girls have long hair and boys have short hair. As the years go by, however, more and more guys have started to try out the lucious locks. Famous celebreties like Brad Pitt, Chris Hemsworth and in Noah’s case, Troy Bolton have tried out the new flow and inspired guys all around to let their hair go free.

What’s the hardest part about having long hair?

“Probably working out. It gets in my eyes a lot, but once it gets sweaty, I usually flow it back, and it’s fine.”

What’s the best part about having long hair?

“I don’t know what else to say besides I just like having flow.”

How long did it take you to grow out your hair?

“It has always been pretty long. I decided to start putting it back one day and started to wear hats. It slowly but surely just started to turn into flow.”

When do you think you will go back to short hair?

“I’ve thought about it a couple times recently but can never get more than a trim. The only time I may change to short hair is in college.”

What inspired you to grow out your hair?

“It all started when ‘High School Musical 2’ came out. I wanted Troy Bolton’s hair.”

“The Flippin’ Swag”

Senior Conrad Nichols has been blowing the minds of his peers for years with his stunning good looks and wise advice, but one life-changing day last November, Conrad decided to take it to a whole new level. He grew his hair out into a beautiful flow and pulled off what every man wishes he could do: the man bun. Ever since pulling off the man bun, Conrad’s family and friends have feared, respected and looked up to him in a whole new way.

What’s the hardest part about having long hair?

“When it is windy outside.”

What’s the best part about having long hair?

“It looks flippin’ swag.”

How long did it take you to grow out your hair?

“I haven’t had it short since the end of last November, but I’ve had it trimmed a few times since then.”

When do you think you will go back to short hair?

“Not sure. Maybe at the end of the year.”

What inspired you to grow out your hair?

“I thought man buns were cool, so I was going to grow one for prom.”

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“The Womanizer”

Senior Connor Houlihan makes it hard for the ladies to stay away from him. Not everyone can pull off the flow as well as Connor.

With his hip attire, charming personality and beautiful locks, keeping away the girls is one of his most challenging tasks.

What’s the hardest part about having long hair?

“Beauty is hard.”

What’s the best part about having long hair?

“I feel majestic, and I stand out.”

How long did it take you to grow out your hair?

“Six months.”

When do you think you will go back to short hair?

“I’m planning on cutting it either in November or December.”

What inspired you to grow out your hair?

“Soccer season. Everyone decided to start getting the flow going, so along with Conrad and Blake, I started to grow mine out too.”

“The Personal Statement”

Senior Nathan Doyle has been pulling off the flow for quite a while now. His dark, beautiful hair gives him that unique look where everyone will know who he is. Nathan’s bright, joyful personality is just complimented by the long, soothing flow he has going on.

What’s the hardest part about having long hair?

“I would say washing it, taking care of it and the maintanance is probably the hardest part.”

What’s the best part about having long hair?

“You feel unique. It’s definitely a personal statement.’

How long did it take you to grow out your hair?

“Six months.”

When do you think you will go back to short hair?

“Possibly my sophomore year of college. I say find a length and keep it.”

What inspired you to grow out your hair?

“Elliot Tensen.”

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Junior, Nathan Hoy finds ultimate thrill in unique hobby of skydiving

The wind bites junior Nathan Hoy’s neck where his helmet ends but not yet where his jumpsuit begins as he opens the door of the plane, revealing nothing but a vast passage of air below.

His altimeter fastened to his wrist, his 30-pound pack secure, he leans closer to the open plane door for the countdown. 5,4,3,2,1. The descent begins.

There is no one to turn to now. Completely alone, 14,000 feet above the ground, the responsibility of surviving this jump lies solely on the shoulders of a 17-year-old boy.

Hoy has a hobby a little bit more dangerous than skateboarding, a little bit more involved than video games and perhaps more terrifying than any physical contact sport. Since age 10, he has spent his weekends skydiving alongside his father, and recalling his first jump, a smile instantly stretches across his face. “Nov. 27. It was out of a [hot air] balloon,” Hoy said.

“I was nervous, but [once I jumped,] I was addicted right away.”

“When you’re jumping you forget about everything else.

It’s my high; nothing else compares.”

He has the great opportunity of learning from his father, who works teaching instructional courses and taking those participants on skydiving ventures. Growing up, he would sit in on his father’s classes, picking up the technique at an early age. He highly anticipated the day he would finally be old enough to pursue his official skydiving license and jump solo. “It was always my dad’s dream for me to jump, and to teach me,” Hoy said.“The first time I went solo, I was confident, but it was different. I didn’t know what to expect; there were a lot of unknowns.”

Much of Hoy’s training was done jumping from hot air balloons. He favors this more than planes, even

though balloons offer 4,000 less feet for descent. According to Hoy, the reduced speed of the jump gives a lot more depth to the experience. “Balloons are a lot more eerie, so it’s more like base jumping,” Hoy said. He tilts his head as a smile creeps to the corners of his

to grab onto one another and create formations while airborne. There are even competitions for four-person jumps, which Hoy has considered pursuing in the future.

While jumping with other divers, Hoy also does Canopy Relative

all week long.

Very few minors hold skydiving licenses. Last fall, the United States Parachute Association revised the requirements for receiving a license, raising the starting age from 16 to 18 years. Seeing his window quickly closing, Hoy worked all of last fall to successfully complete 25 solo jumps and receive the first level of four diving licenses, license A. Thanks to his hard work, he was grandfathered into the Association.

“I definitely want to continue this in the future.

I want to do it my whole life, teaching and helping out on the weekends,” mouth once again.

“That’s when you get that feeling in your stomach. There are seriously no words to describe it. You just keep falling. When you’re jumping you forget about everything else. It’s my high; nothing else compares.

Don’t be fooled, in the midst of all the excitement, skydiving requires a tremendous amount of focus and discipline. “During the jump you have to think about body position, how you fly, keeping up with each other, the altitude, the people around you. You don’t just fall; there’s a lot more to it,” Hoy said.

Whether alone or in a group, each jump is carefully planned. In a group, the divers decide what they want to accomplish during their jump, then reenact their movements on the ground before embarking on the jump. The grippers on their jumpsuits allow them

work.

“I like canopy work because I get to sit on my dad’s parachute and mess around with him in the air,” Hoy said.

However, it requires careful execution to avoid being caught in a whirlwind of nylon.

“You don’t just fall; there’s a lot more to it.”

Thrill seeking does not end here for Hoy. “This [skydiving] is definitely the highest adrenaline rush, but my dad and I love to do other crazy things,” Hoy said. He and his father have climbed Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, as well as a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado. The Hoy duo also took on RAGBRAI for the 11th time this year, riding

Now, Hoy is working to apply for license B, which requires 50 jumps,10 of which must be consecutively landed in a marked area. License B will also require Hoy to receive water training, perform a canopy course and take an exam. “I definitely want to continue this in the future. I want to do it my whole life, teaching and helping out on the weekends,” Hoy said.

As Hoy reaches the ground, completing his jump, reality wraps itself back around him. His list of 17 year old- responsibilities ever growing; school, homework, working at Menchie’s frozen yogurt the next day. But looking out at the expansive drop zone before him, he pushes all these thoughts aside. He savors the adrenaline lingering in his body; a familiar, yet never mundane sensation.

Another 14,000 feet in the books, and another 7 days until he can do it all again.

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