When you get ready to go to school next semester, make ,.: sure that you're attending Lin~ colrt High. •The School Board ap•proved 11ew attendance bound~ '" · aries for the Lincoln Public .·••·•··Sc~ool District in the Sept~mber-School Board meeting. "With the building ot~two new high school~
been drawn for Lincoln's high schools (including the two new high · schools,) , middle schools, · and elementary · schools. "It was apparent that • something had to be done when the new ·high· schools were built," Horne sa:idi According to
schools are smaller than they have been in the past Some of the city
"each ·of our classes because we will be getting freshman in 2003 and we will be a four-year high school," said Wortman. According to Wortman, we now have ' abollt 700 students per grade level. · "We really do need to work it out so that at least 200 kids per grade level go to other schools , · or we're just not going to fit them in ihe building," said Wortman."That's part of the plan."
staffrecommended the new boundaries to the Board of Education and then the Board took action.
Lincoln High Principal Mike
'·.· the old bouridaties ,will no longer · Horne, · the LPS ·.. ·• distribute students properly;'' - --· : :. LPS assistant to the Superinteric dent Virgil Horne said ''.'· · According to Horne ; when both of the new high schools are open, the entire district will distribute students in schools that are K-5, 6-8, and !J~ · 12 · The new boundaries have
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Wortman said that be did not re- · that used to be in fhe Lincoln High been designed to distribute stu 0 dents· evenly in these divisionsacross the district. districtwill now be in the Southwest district and sorne will be in the North Star district.
New boundaries have
The Lincoln Public School · Dist rict will keep its open enrollment policy, so that the attendance boundaries are only useful as a.n organizational tool for the · district, allowing students to choose what high school they · wish to attend, even if it is not in their district.
·''I think as long as that hapcpens Lincoln High· will always have a good distributfori bf stu~ dents from all over the city,'' said
ally :know , how the new boundaries' would impact Lincoln High. According to Wortman, ·the boundaries for Lincoln's high "We need to reduce the size of · Wortman. ·
October2,.2001 --Volume 107 Issue 1'
avJohn-Pilcher Staff Writer
On August 25, 2001 Lincoln High School held its fourth annual
Back To School Bash. From 6 p.m : to 9 p.m. on a Friday evening, around 650 students and staff mem-
hers enjoyed a variety of activities; games, and food.
The Back To School Bash is an event held at the beginning of the - Lincoln High school year. It is the only activity of its kind in Lincoln, because none of the other highschools does such a thing for its students.
Back To School Bash organizer/ Business teacher Trudy Hines enjoys helping organize the event. According to Hines, the purpose of Back To School Bash is "to have aparty where all groups at Lincoln High can come, and to give students something to celebrate,'' she said.
The Bash is funded by the DECA Cookie Link. The profits
The Lincoln Public School District has a goal this year to raise reading scores on the ACT
from last year are shared with the rest of the student body in this oneof-a kind celebration. Each club or booth received $50 for participating. Hines feels that it's important to give something back to the students for _supporting the Cookie Link throughout the year.
_ramps for Lincoln High to have and use for the future.
This year's attendance was _ down from previous years due in part to the weather, the annual junior varsity and varsity football scrimmage, the Nebraska State Fair, _ and the absence of the skateboard
· _ There were many activities, ramps.
-ranging from various types of food This year saw fewer freshman,and games, to musical entertainment · sophomore, and staff in attendance, including kara~e. A lot of students but the attendance was the same forenjoyed the Pie in the Face booth in juniors and seniors. which staff and teachers had pies - There were numerous prizes, thrown in _ their face. The other top such as gift certificates to Target, activities were the velcro wall,lazer - Ticos, Gateway mall, and passes to tag, and boppit booth. Their was the Playmor Ballroom even a local band. - There are plans to keep this as a One event that did not occur Lincoln High tradition in which all _ this year was the skateboard and - the clubs and caucuses can partici~ biking area. In the past, the ramps pate. were provided by Precision Skate, "It will continue as long as stubut with the new skateboard park the - dents -are interested,'' Hines said.ramps -were not available. Construe_ "Usually I leave it up to my students · tion _ technology teacher _ Lin to decide." Hopefully we can look Risenhoover plans on having _ class forward to future bashes in the comprojects for his students to build 1ng years.
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· year to help students with their read- be found, almost word-for-word, in
ing and organizing skills. "These the text. _-The next kinds of quesare two pieces to help students think tions are called "Think and Search" in q11organized way and get more questions. These questions are anoutof reading arid improve their un- swered in the text, but not in one test. Though our scores _thFough- · derstanding of the material they sentedce; they are not word"for__ _ out LPS are still good, the district - read," said Wortman. word answers. The third kinds of would like to improve them. Ac- ''QAR is a reading strategy -_questions are "Author and Me" cording to Lincoln High Principal designed to help reading compre- ·- questions. Mike Wortman, individual schools ·-hension," Uhing said. -"When used These are questions where you throughout the district are respon- -· · actively, reading strategies improve sible this year for coming up with ways to increase their own ACTreading scores. ; ·- "LHS reading comprehen~ '. sion scores have consistently perd -",, rea 1ng pe1c1ormance. According to Uhing; QAR, reading classes, and graphic organizers are all being used this year, in part; to help students with readmust use the text to come up with your own answers Finally, the last questions are "On Your Own" questions. These questions require you • to think about the text and use your · own experience to answer the quesformed above state and national ing comprehension. The reading tions. averages on the PLAN, ACT, and ·• _·compreheiisiot1 skills that students According to Uhing, im.,.MAT "standardized tests; however , _ will get from graphic organizers, proving students' reading compreour scores ·o~ the ACT have de- QAR, and reading classes will also hension is not something that is only _ clined in the past years, and our help students pass the Reading useful for taking tests. Itis also es· performance h11sbeen below our scores in Math and Science," LHS ·. Graduation Demonstration Exams.The general QAR strategy staff member Duane Uhing said. · _ is to help students understand difLincoln High staff members de- ferent kinds of questions and the cided to use a system called QAR way they relate to the text. Theresentialto help students prepaiefor -secondary education and work. · "I hope that students view this as a strategy to help them rather thq11a policy or something they have (Question-Answer Relationships) are four classifications of questions to do," said Uhing. Reading com 0
to improve ACT reading scores. in the QAR strategy. The first kind · prehension is an important life skillLincoln High teachers are of question is a "Right There'' qties- _ and Lincoln High is hoping that also using ;graphic organizers thi s , - · tiou, >These are questions that c:<,ulq • QA.R will help students master ,it.
· Amigos on the corner of 27' h and E streets. There has been much controversy dealing with the pros and cons of our new. restaurant.
Some are so happy with the location, talking about how it evens out traffic between the downtown location and the new 27 th and E location. Others say now there is too much traffic around our Sunken Gardens, and zoo area.
People worried abo ut the smell, and we're
takes away from the natural look of the garden, with that big sign, ·that big billboard, and that restaurant," Patterson said. He said that they wanted to cooperate with the neighborhood, but since · it was built, "they haven't done anything to keep from detracting from the beauty of the Sunken Gardens , " Patterson said.
The opposition group that Patterson and neighbors were part of to eliminate the new Amigos were unsuccessful obviously. One main loss was that the land used for the Amigos was going to be a park to accent the Sunken Gardens. Instead the landowner, Dave Pauley,
SunkenGardens. afraid it would take over the made the land too expensive whole area. Others argued for the city to purchase it, so that the terrible smell of cars we now have Amigos. already ruined the whole area. Patterson said, "It's nothSome say the new ing against Amigos, it's just Amigos will add positive new not a good place for it." ·· business. Others say the area There was a lot of needs less business to main- worry about traffic and overtain the Sunken Garden's im- · crowding by the new restauage of a "peaceful place". · rant, but is it that bad?
· All of these assump- · Patterson said, "I tions and arguments were be- don't think they get the ing made months ago, before school business that I thought the Amigos was even built. they would get." There Now that it's built how is it doesn't seen to be much of an affecting the neighborh?od overcrowding problem ~t and Sunken Gardens? Is 1t as lunch. Patterson also said bad as some imagined, or that it might just be that studoes it have a positive effect dents don't want that kind of on the area? · food at lunch. ·"When I see Richard Patterson, drink cups and things around Lincoln High' s ·Experiential the halls, most all of them are LearningDirector,isaneigh- from Burger · King," bor of the Sunken Gardens Patterson said. area and a member of a local Apart from the look neighborhood group that tried of the building and the extra to stop the building of the bit of traffic that has been new Amigos. added ; Amigos doesn't seem "Amigos and their to be too harmful. The area sign are right there in front of isn't great, but it's not as if you every time you drive to- there wasn't already business wards the Sunken Gardfns r lt in tbat neighborhood, - •, "' ·, \f,_-'~·-.\ / .:_ ' -~ " -~'a,-,'-
Seniors; College Bound,· Here Are Some Helpful Hints
Bv KatherineShiffler co-Editorin Chief
Seniors! Welcome to your last yoar of public schooling! This is the year to slack off, cut class, and figure out what you'll be doing for the rest of your life. Yes, that's right this year you will be making one of the biggest decisions of your life: what will you do after high school?
It certainly isn't the easiest of questions· and perhaps you're still settling into waking up before noon, but there are bigger eggs to fry. Are you even going to college? If so, where? How will you pay? What kind of program? What's your major? East or west coast? State or private university? · Did you take the SAT or ACT? Early decision or regular? Admission dead-
lines, scholarship deadlines, financial aid deadlines when will the madness stop? How do you find the information?
Granted, there are some of you who choose to wait to go to a sec• \llt' d · h 1 rxnx·~trc. on ary sc oo ; •r· haven't made that II decision yet, or ii who just don't :1f · want to go. This t1i 1 I is an article to I give readers an insight on how to find resources in making a choice, also providing Ill!(
reer information. ing a university that's right A hefty load of for you. It has many categocollege info can be found on ries from which to choose the internet, including essay from, including inside infor- ' writing tips, hints for finan- rnation about student life and cial aid, as well as many pro- "recreation". Having grams that will help you find troubles writing a good es-
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Strapped for cash in the summer time, between jobs, bored, I rationalized myself into doing something deliciously irrational which I had always long to do.
I remember a couple summers ago, walking in Boulder, Colorado, I was entranced by the street performers I saw there: a mime, singing children, a human statue, some hairy guy and his wellloved guitar. It made me feel a little magical. · The most magical thing was how simple and accepted it was. Nobody thought it was odd that a man was swallowing spikes. He had to fight the juggler to get some attention, and listening, later, to the street performers talking
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of street performing I had never caught a glimpse of.
These men (and unfortunately, most of them were men) had been traveling all over the Southwest, the West, the Rockies, the East coast; it seemed like there was only one place in this world that magic hadn't reached, and it was my home. I resolved then and there to try it some day.
Unfortunately, I cannot swallow spikes. I cannot stand perfectly still for very long, and I do not know the names of all the restaurants in all the towns in the United States, as one man claimed to. I play the cello.
· I actually play it pretty well, but unfortunately nobody likes it. They don't let cellos into jazz bands, or rock songs, or marching band. It is not cool. But I
well as experience and advice. They also offer "weekly guidance news" which includes current scholarships. Just send your e-mail address to dlondon@lps.org or svasa@lps.org to get the information. It's good to get a .·head start, so get at it today. Remember that you're alone in this time consuming, stressful, relentless, tiring, and repetitive process. Your fellow seniors suffer with you, and just to prove it, the Advocate will be profiling a few select students and following them through their last year of high school, tl1e steps they took, and advice from them to give you a more personal look at the college process, and to give juni<)rs and sophomores a glimpse · into the future. Till next issue.
least pretend to.
During tl1ecourse of my street performing career, I have played in the Farmer's Market in the morning and the Haymarket at night. I have had some really wonderful moments: two lovers held each other in the lamplight while I played; somebody tossed a bouquet in my cello case; people would bring babies (who mostly were completely bored) up closer to hear my playing. People actually gave me money. ·
But the very best thing was the day that I came to the Farmer's Market and saw other street performers. It made. me feel like I had helped to bring this magic to my city. So here is my call to arms for anyone who has any talent at all: Give it a try Share your gift with the rest of the world, and be gleefully among themselves, it began like it and I very much hoped surprised when someone en-
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On November 18, a new video game system created by Nintendo® will come to the United States. Two weeks before that, on November 8, Microsoft will try their hand at video game systems.
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T h e Nintendo Gamecube ·and the Microsoft X-Box are entirely different and or even a video game about a colony of small ants on a difc ferent planet is for younger people. There are already two other systems in the market today. The Playstation 2, created by Sony, and the Gameboy Advance, created
They already have hits such as "Gran Turismo 3 A-spec," "Twisted Metal: Black," "SSX," "Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil," and "Red Faction."
Not to mention there are more then 50 other games to choose from for the Play station· 2. The Game boy Advance has a shorter amount of games in its library, since it was just released last June. But since the GBAisbackward compatible, a system able to support games from a different system, it has well over 1,000 playable titles to r'6fNintendo of America choose from are marketed very differently also. Many people would say Nintendo is gearing their system to a younger crowd while Microsoft is -----·· spann.1ng
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Color. Some titles to choose from are "Mario Kart Super Circuit," "Tony Halk's Pro Skater 2," "Rayman Advance," "Super Mario Advance," and "F Zero: Maximum Velocity."
Some games that you will be able to find on the Gamecube once it ships to the U.S. stores are "Super Smash Bros. Melee," "Pikmin," "Wave Race: Blue Storm " "Mario Sun- , shine," "The Legend of Zelda," "Super Monkey Ball," and "Luigi's Mansion." For those of you wondering what Mario Sunshine is. It's the name of the new Mario game. · And it takes place with the sun. Fun fun. Games coming to the X-Box are "Halo," "Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee,'' "Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding," "Project Gothem Racing," "NFL Fever 2002," and "Fuzion Frenzy." Personally, I feel Gamecube will be on top this time around. Don't get
me wrong though. Xbox and Playstation 2. offer many great games. · Artd if money wasn't a factor I would be buying all three systems, however, I will be spending my money on Nintendo Gamecube. Here's why. First of all there is the issue of cost. ·X-Box and PS2 are both $300 game systems while Gamecube,is only $200. XBox required you to buy a bundle from them that makes the price go from a price in between $500 and $1,000. A bundle is basically when they make you buy a video games and accessories along with your system. And the final reason would be the games on the Nintendo Gamecube. Aside from the fact that there is a new Mario game coming, a game you will only be able to play on Gamecube, there are also other great games such as Luigi's Mansion, Super Smash Brothers Melee and Pikmin. Luigi's Mansion is about Luigi, Mario's brother, who gets a mansion which is haunted. So, he has to use a vacuum to suck up ghosts or spray water. Super Smash Brothers Melee is a fighting game featuring various Nintendo characters who battle it out in a big huge melee of a fight. Pikmin is a brand new concept · by Shiguru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and The Legend of Zelda, where a human astronaut needs to land on a planet. He must fight off bad aliens with the help of a group of plant-like creatures who live underground until pulled out by the astronaut. And let's not forget about The Legend of Zelda for Gamecube. The game has been totally changed from previous Zelda games. Now Shiguru Miyamoto is creating it with a new technology that allows you to create games that do perfect 3D cartoon animation. It will be like· playing a cartoon game. I feel these· games are reason alone to buy a Gamecube. If you can afford two video game systems, get your first system of choice, if its not already Gamecube, then pick up a Gamecube as well. You won't have any regrets.
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By now many. of you have probably known about Aalyiah. For those of you who are a little clueless on Aalyiah, she is a singer/actress. She stared in a few movies including "Romeo Must Die" and she sung various hits including "Try again" and her most recent "Resolution." She was a lot of people's favorite R&B singer. She was also probably a favorite actress among people in any age group. But a sad thing has happened on August 25, 2001. Aalyiah has died. And many fans worldwide have known about Aalyiah before her untimely death. Her song, ''Try· Again," was a big hit with her fans as were all her other songs. But now people • are going to realize that the alb u m Aaliyah just released not too long ago will be her last. And fans of · her 1novies will also feel a little sad and
· a silly way to die. Which makes it even sadder. It happened after a music video shooting in the Bahamas. Aalyiah and her crew were leavipg the set going beck to America. But the crash occurred shortly after takeoff. Being a new Aaliyah fan can be pretty hard to deal with. Its like son1eone you just started listening to died. That kind of messes with you a little. It's really sad. Here was• this 22 year old woman who had a lot going on for herself. She was such a nice and wonderful person to be around. according to people she knew when she was alive, and she was such a happy person too. She would always have a nice time with the people she came in contact with they said. Surely, when you hear about people like
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doubt anticipate a movie she had been working on. That is if it is released.
Aaliyah has also been signed on to do a sequal to the Matrix but she will be cut out of it, unfortunatly. And that makes me fans and family of Aalyiah sad because they probably won't be able to see a · final movie starring Aaliyah. At first it was speculated that Aaliyah had died because of too much luggage on the aircraft she was riding in. It has now been confirmed that there was too much weight on one end of the plane. This is
Aaliyah dying, it is always · very sad because a loss of· such a nice person really gets to you. And many a lot of other people too.
All I really hope for, and many other fans worldwide feel the same way too, is that Aalyiahs family to make it through this terrible loss. Hopefully they make it through these rough times, and that Aalyiah made it safely to the other side and with people who care about her. Aaliya will forever be missed.
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Alicia Keys is a the brand new R&B artist who is out to change the music scene by combining a littl_e soul and a even rap to her music while playing piano. Don't mistake Alicia Keys for the next Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera, though. You will be wrong in comparing Alicia Keys to these 2 pop queens after listening to a few minutes off of her album, Songs in A Minor, which has her the her first single called "Fallin'."
Alicia Keys is a 19 year old woman who identifies herself as biracial and was born and raised in Manhattan. According to Alicia Keys' official website, she had a - very supportive mother who encouraged her music while growing up. When she was just 16 years old, Keys was able to graduate high school as a result of outstanding grades. She said that she had gotten away from the cliques and stuff
and was able to graduate faster that way. In 1998, Keys signed a record deal with Arista Records. Keys began writing songs at the age of 14, and in 1999, she signed on to a new label, called J Records, where she got more and more prepared to enter the music world.
Songs that Alicia Keys sings are Piano and I, girlfriend, how come you don't call me , fall in', troubles, rock with you, _ a woman's worth, jane doe, goodbye, the life, n1r.Man, neverfelt
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and loving you (hidden bonus track.) I have had the chance to sit down with the CD, which I bought a few weeks ago. Keys sings with passion and enthusium. Fall in' is my favorite trackoff the album because it is such a great song. And her passion and enthusiusm explodes while she sings it, All of the music has a special kind of ring to them which makes you want to listen -more, especially with Alicia Keys brilliant combination of R&B, Soul, Rap, and her • piano
Keys is a very promising singer. She has already won a few awards including the Best New Artist award for the MTV Video Music A wards. She will find her way into many people's CD collections. She has already entered mine.
ust recently there was a remake done to the classic song by Marvin Gaye called "What's Going On." The song was inspired by the tragic events that happened on September 11th. In October, there is scheduled to be a 5 remix CD of the song and all proceeds will go to -friends -of family of people who died.
"What's Going On" is sung by various· rtists. All the artists in the song include Jermaine Dupree, P. Diddy, Bono from U2, Gwen Stefani, Aaron Lewis from Stained, Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit, Ja Rule, NSync, Backstreet boys, Nelly, Nelly Furtado, Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Alicia Keys, Nas, Eve, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, J-Lo, Destiny's Child and more.
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Did you know Christopher Columbus was the first person to start the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?
Yet we have a national holiday in his honor. How could · st1ch a society accept a per- · son as a national hero who is known to have murdered tens of thousands of indigenous peoples in the Caribbean Sea? Many of those cultures are now extinct.
When Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Islands and met the first indigenous peoples of the America's, he and his men committed atrocities against them. Many of the facts presented here come from journals of the crew and even of Columbus' own journal.
On October 12, 1492 the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria arrived on the shores of.the Bahamas with Columbus and crew thinking they had arrived at the West Indies in search of gold, spices, and other such material items. But with his
KatShiffler CO-Editor in chillf
Mainstream media in the United States has become infamous for inadequately rep-· resenting the conflict between
''It is important that we separate our negative feelings about terrorist from our feelings about Middle Eastern people who are part of our community," -Dr. Wortman in letter sent to parents
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landing the indigenous peoples way of life in the America's would never ever be the same. The indigenous · people greeted Columbus and crew .with open arms.
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no way to fight the disease. Eventually the natives suffered and, with no cures, died.
If you think Columbus was the first person to discover the Americas, and the indigenous people who lived here, you would be wro·ng.
Some evidence suggests that na- · tive North Americans shipwrecked off the coast of advantage of the friendliness and took it for weakness. This conception would soon haunt and plague the indigenous people of the land having an effect into the centuries to come.
With the arrival of Columbus also came the arrival of guns (weapons of destruction), alcohol ( addiction), animals (pigs, rats, cows), and diseases. The natives had no immunity to the diseases, and when they came into contact with the Europeans there was usually
Holland around 60 B.C. Romans \Vere thought to have traveled to the America's many times due to the coins turning up amongst the natives. It also suggested that people from Japan came to Ecuador as early as 5000 B.C. due to similar pottery and fishing styles. Inhabitants of China and Afro-Phonecia may have visited Central America due to cultural similarities, negroid and caucasoid likenesses in sculpture and ceramics, and also legends.
Europeans arriving in 1492 introduced two phenomena that changed the
whole concept about race relation.s in the modern world. One was the taking of land, wealth, and labor from. indigenous peoples, leadi11g to mass extinctions of cultures and people; and the other is the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.
This phenomena continues to be problem for this c.ontinent especially the United States. The day after Columbus arrived he was already in a hurry to about the gold of the inhabitants and did not care as how he got it. In his journal he wrote, "Gold is a wonderful thing! Whoever owns it is lord of all he wants. With gold it is even possible learn to open for souls the way to paradise!" Columbus also wrote about his plans for the indigenous peoples. "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased."
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nalists have. been trying to clean up their acts by using equally sensitive language when referring to the opposing forces. Beyond the visible war in Israel, we as a country have a preestablished image of terrorism which encompasses both xenophobia and racism. The people who are adversely effected by these stereotypes are Arab Americans. This should concern young impressionable American youths because these media tactics can only further our country's discrimination against people of Arab descent. After the recent terrorist attacks in New York there have been many cases of threats to Islamic groups and Arab American citizens in this country. This is completely intolerable, and
an obvious result of anti-Arab sentiment in current news coverage. Our country's racial profiling of Arab Americans is an upsetting sign of institutional racism that I, as a white person, have the luxury of ignoring.
People of Arab descent living in this country are often unfairly stereotyped as terrorists andjudged harshly because of the "rogue" status of their home countries in world policy. In these times, young people must come to the realization that racism goes beyond traditional black and white boundaries. Even the leaders of this country have ceased to acknowledge racism as apart of the conflict in the Middle East. This was demonstrated in the U.S. government's boycotting of the U.N.'sAnti-Racism sum-
mit in South Africa this September.
There are many reliable sources for those who care to be well informed about current events in the Middle East. In a recent article by British journalist Robert Fisk entitled, "Murder is Murder" on Znet, Fisk makes the point that the word "terrorist" is a term that has been greatly misused within reporting. "Over the years, even CNN began to realize that 'terrorist' used about only one set of antagonists was racist as well as biased."
The power of words seems key in inadvertently swaying public opinion in this ·situation. Words like: brutal, savage, barbaric, murder, lynching and terrorism intentionally produce powerful reactions, but they are not
ducted it was estimated that at time Columbus arrived in Haiti their had been 8 million inhabitants of the island,..Within 50 years there were none.
The atrocities Columbus wreaked on the indigenous people of the islands is unimaginable, yet true. Columbus rewarded his lieutenants with native women to rape, some of whom were even killed if they did not cooperate. Native girls of 10-11 years old were especially in demand b y his
0 ffi Cers. 'Ire Spanish set up a tribute system in which the natives were supposed get a certain an1ount of gold in a specified period of time. If they did not, they had their hands, noses, and ears cut off. One of the other ways
ealways equal in their usage and context. This could potentially make people question other events an conflicts in history, and the effect that media coverage has had on our conclusions.
To be mindful of the intentions and realities of word usage is fundamental in the journey to anti• racism
We have a duty to look at what is really going on in the Middle East, and to take into consideration the interests of the United States when we read, hear or see continued coverage of this conflict. We have too much to lose by discriminating againstArab Americans.
to get the natives attention was by using the Bible and its references.
Many times when the Spanish had the killed a native they said the native was a heathen and it was in the name of God to take the native's soul. Conquerors over time have killed millions of people in the name of religion, not only on this continent but around the globe.
I am hoping that reading this article has given you a little glimpse of what a native has to deal with and be reminded of when the holiday Columbus Day comes around. For many natives this October 12'h marks the year 509 A.C.I. (After Columbus's Invasion).
I am fortunate to live in this age rather when the European's first started arriving. There is much more freedom today, and our people can now have a voice and be considered human. · This Holiday celebrates a mass murderer. We should not honor someone who has committed offenses like these against people. indigenous
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Students at Lincoln High
have noticed a change in the landscape in recent months.
This summer a new Amigos investigation, it is clear that a trend is at hand. The more affluent the neighborhood, the fewer number of billboards. Conversely, in the less affluent neighborhoods, billboards loom over main streets and shopping areas.
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drive-thru was constructed underneath an existing massive billboard at the comer of 27 th · and Capitol Parkway. Some local resident s feel that the fast food chain added to the destruction of the neighborhood's image. Actually, visually disruptive landmarks, especially bills boards ·were a debate · a few years ago in the
Starting near Lincoln High at Capitol Parkway and 27 th • streets and moving North on 27 th there are ads for everything from financial resources to McDonald's fries. In a distance of roughly · four miles traveling north from Capitol Parkway to the Sonic restaurant at 4001
Street, there are fot1r billboards at that comer , and the numbers only increase as one drives toward Lincoln High. On this str e et there are six
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billboards within a half-mile · of Lincoln High. 6th 2001, before international violence had made its mark on our live s and hearts, a hate crime in our own country made many students aware of how fragile their safety is, even in
Six states and more than i,000 cities already ban billboards, according to the previously cited Journal Star report. To much of the general public, billboards are seen as · a sign of commercialism and "litter on a stick." Citizens choose to move to new areas that are free from the s e everyc day obtrusions and find housing in orderly, "clean" neighborhoods The attractiveness of the central neighborhoods is overlooked by big outdoor advertising companies and their customers. Their attitude seems to be that selling banks and basketball tickets to commuters is much more important than preserving · one of Lincoln's older neighborhoods.
On Thursday, September
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A · small = group of people gathered for a vigil on the capital steps · whicl1 was to be echoed many times in the weeks to come.
honor and respect different ways, and also that he was Nadleeh-Two Spirit- and he could comfortably walk the path of both male and female, that he would love differently from most. F.C. also felt the pain of what come when your family is poor, but very proud. It is not easy to grow up as Navaho, Nadleeh and poor. But these are facts of life. ·
The body of Fred C. Martinez Jr. was discovered near Cortez Colo- · rado on June 21. His friends called HisuanicCommunilvGenierDireclor him Fredericka. He was sixteen years old, half NaJoelGaiardOspeaks10Iha crowdat lhe rauv in memo,v of F.C.Martinez.
tations came together to stand up against hate crimes. The Lincoln High GLBTSA was there too, holding up their banner. Katie Mason, senior, and a member of the club for the last three years said, "It was beautiful. The breezes complemented the music and the powerful message."
Also in attendance, Mem- •. hers of the Green Party were there in large numbers. Ginny Crisco, a member of the UNL Green Party said, "We want to elect people in the government who will stand up for these things.''
Her co-green, Cindy Asrir, agreed, "The green party is the only party based on social justice, diversity, and nonviolence."
Particularly distressing are the huge lighted billboards located opposite the Sunken Gardens and the teachers fountain at Antelope Park. This is a distressing example of the
vaho, and trans gender. There .is significant reason to believe that he was targeted because of his sexual identity. In a statement his mother made to the press, Miss Pauline Mitchell said of him, "F.C. had many difficult · times in his short life.
Much of this was related to the fact that he was Navajo · living in a world that does not
He was not ashamed ·of who he was, and neither was I. I no w tell you that I dearly loved my precious son and was proud of all thatbe was."
To show support for the mother of F.C. Martinez, PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) orga- · nized vigils all over the country where people of all orien-
No politicians showed up from either · the democratic or republican parties. The mayor's senior advisor on diversity was there to make a speech, but for many, including Dianna Zafke of "Stepping Out", Lincoln's GLBT newspaper, it was not
· enough. "It's almost like ·there's a war going on with soldiers like Fred (Martinez), Brandon (Tina), Mathew (Sheppard) ,Where were our leaders?" · city council.
Billboards became a hot issue after Lincoln e xperienced an explosion of new per 0 mit s in the ·last 3 years. In the years from 1991 to 1997, an average of four billboards
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sacrifice of beauty to blatant commer- My name is Helen Coo- enough, 11otacting on students ca.n be just as easily scofl'.ed
cialism. One can't per an? I am the_President to concerns, ~tc. ·~t an? shot down by adm1~c · the Lincoln High Student Let's Just take a little tnp 1stration as you can, and that s · help ·wondering Council. I am writing this let- down memory lane, shall we? a really sad state. It's somewhy it's accept- ter of behalf of Student Coun- Last year we read student · thing that I've been fighting able to destroy the cil in response to three years council members names over to change at LHS for three beauty of this cor- of being perceived as a joke the announcements, posted years now! So, perhaps we fL" 1 d by the students that we work them on Mr. Holbert's door, do need some sort of a stuner o inco n an h d M d · · d 1 k d · h k · ·so ar to represent. any an even got a stu ent oc er, ent coffiffilttee t at wor s as avoid the same · lighted monstrosity at another well traveled corner in a southeast Lin-
SCeniCViewfromRandolPh & GapilolPllW J. were built every year. According to a July 24, North 27 th • there are 16 bill~ coln location. It would seem 1999 Journal star report, boards visible from the street. that the corners of 56' h and more than 40 new billboard · ·.That is an average of four Pioneers or at 40 th and Pine permits were granted in both · huge lighted billboards a Lake Road would have the 1998 and 1999. In response mile. Heading the other di- · same high traffic as 27 th and to these permits, a seven- rection on 27 th however, past Capitol Parkway. Yet we all ·month moratorium took ef- ·new housing and Southpointe know those corners will never feet in July of 1999 follow- · Mall t here are absolutely not be lit 24 hours a day by a billing the formation of a bill- billboards. board promoting a realtor or board regulation task force. Continuing this experi- worse, a cute allusion to God Yet many of these huge ad- ment in demographics, a dif- and religion. vertisements were con- · ·ference in environment oc- The next time you pass structed because of approval curs when traveling on Nor- these billboards on the way to prior to the moratorium. mal Boulevard. On East Nor- Lincoln High ponder the clear It is apparent that only mal Blvd., (from 40 'h East to trends at hand. Think how certain neighborhoods in Lin- 70' h ) there are very few bill- ugly these landmarks are and coin are directly effected by · boards noticeable from the why our area is stuck with this widespread and visually street. When Normal turns them.
times in my Student Council a place where students could a liaison between students career we have been accused drop off questions, concerns, and administration, but I say of not ever doing anything etc. for student Council to re- · that if student council were to (except dances that is). Well, lay, all of this for the express get the respect and power that for the record we rarely throw purpose of representing the it deserves as a representative dances and we happen to · students of Lincoln High. Do of all students voices, then work our.butts off to repre- you want to try a guess at how this wouldn't even be an issent Lincoln High and Lin- many things we had dropped sue. coln High students to the full- off in the locker? One, it was So, for all of you stuest.
· a note to a member of student dents, administrators, faculty,
· Last year we raised council. Maybe we haven't etc. who view student coun1,100 dollars for the Make- done the best job of represent- cil as a joke, as an organizaA-Wish foundation, worked ing students interests, but tion that never does anything, closely with Big Brothers/Big maybe the students haven't I for one can rest assured that Sisters, did over 900 hours of done the best job of letting us I work three hours a day for community service benefiting know what their interests are. this school, this year's StuCo Lincoln High and the Lincoln I can tell you with abso- is starting a student suggested High community, put on a lute certainty that every time renovation of the auditorium, Trick-or-Treat for children a students has come to anyone and no matter how much anywith disabilities and picked in council with a concern, we · one else notices, we are p~oup trash around the school ev- have done everything in our ductive and we are here for ery week, just to name a few. power to resolve it. But it you. If you have any suggesMost of these projects were doesn't just end there. We're tions, concerns, comment, student initiated, that is, sug- students just like you, and al- etc. please take them to room gested by the students. How- though we are supposed to 117. Thank you for your ever, we have recently come stand as the voice of all the time. under attack for not repres students at Lincoln High , our senting the students interests voice is ju s t as strong as anye nough ,, nol ;being 'v is i ble one ofy oursin the sc).lool. We
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Volleyball, Football, Boys Tennis, Gymnastics, Girls Golf, Softball, and Girls and Boys Cross Country are all the sports teams that began competing Thursday August 23, 2001. ·.
the Heartland Conference is very deep,'' copUI1,entedCoachHershberger. ·· .·The Varsity boys and girls
Statemade,butthenthedistricts ship," she said. The biggest were switclied around, putting thing they need to work 9n is us in a harder di~trict, he com- · · their mental errors. ''O~e of · mented." "We got switched to ourbiggest games this year was
against Southeast, where we · .·lost both of the games. · In the · · second game, we stayed c)ose, but in one inning we had about · · three errors, which cost us the game."
The Varsity volleyball team, led by Coach NelsonHitz won their first home gameagainst Grand Island, participated in · a tournament at :Bellevue, and won both games in a triangular. They also finished second in the LPS classic losing to Papillion LaVista in the finals The returning letter winners are: senior Makyla · Lonewolf, senior 'Hannah · Mohr, senior Jen Knoll.junior Tiffany Davison, sophomore Korey Mohr, and sophomore Alissa Holland. Sophomore Korey Mohr has confidenGe in loreVMohr(10)Sllikeslhe ballagainstan0PPothe Links. ·." I think there are a • Rental IllelPSClassic lot of things we need to work · · on, but they're things thatcome gymnastics teams include Andy a district with Pius, who look to along in the season,'' she ~aid. Tafoya and George Weaver for · be State champs;and Beatrice, 'fhe next varsity volleyball · the boys and Vicki Green, who's Districts on their home · games will be at the LHS/ Mikki Mickelson, and Phylicia course would possibly come in Millard South invite on Oc- Robertson for the girls. Sarah second, and for third is us, tober 6 2001. Mckelvey coaches both teams. Millard ·South, Papillion, and , Varsity football kicked off Although, the gymnastics Millard West. The team has theirseasononAugust31,2001 teams do not practice or com- beaten Millard South this year, at Berquist Stadium against · ·. pete at Lincoln High they meet so Brady feels that they have a Omaha South. They were be~ at Lincoln Southeast on ,Octo- good chance to make it to State, hindathalf, butcamebackscor- ber 2, 2001 to competein the sinceonlythetopthreeadvance. ing two more touchdowns by · LSE Quad. .· .· The Lincoln High Softball juniorQuentinHodgesandjun~ · This year's Varsity Girl's team hopes to have agreatseaior Sam Beutler carrying the · Golf coach, John Brady, is ex- •· win against Omaha South, 30 0 cited about his team. Fifteen 20. Coach Farrand commerits, · girls wentout this year, and that "the football teain is in good is the mo~t ·ever. "I am very progress, and its wins and losses ·pleased with our team and the record is better than last year." girls ar~ doin.g very well," The returning starters for the Brady said. Thisyear the team · varsity football team include se" has played in the Kearney and nior Tarvis Banks, senior Jerry Grand IslancJ.Invitational. ''Our Thompson, senoir Andy teamdidverywellinthesetour- · Lomax, and senior T.J. Coil. naments,'' · Brady added. Coach Farrand is e~cited about Though none of them plac;ed, the rest of the season and he · he felt they gave a lot of effort. ,
·Inpracticetohelpkeepthe errors down ·and hone their • skills, they do many different drills. They practice game-like situations, which definitely help with ·their mental game. The infielders ·and outfielders are also separated and practice grounders and fly balls. Base · • running and hitting are very essential to the team.
Throughout the season, senior Crystal Daugherty and _ junior Erin Johnson, who are the team captains, hope to lead their team to victory.
Everyday after school you will find the Varsity Boys and Girls Cross Country teams either running around the track, ·mostly for warm-ups, and then they will continue with practice · and run anywhere from two to six miles around Lincoln.
In the first meet, the girl's didn't place, however, sophomore · Mitchel Mernming, jun- · ior Joel Sievert, and freshman Chris Hatch all placed. On the girls side,junior Jocie Krull, and freshman Taylor Jones have · both lettered In order to letter, · you have to run 2:5 miles in the commentedonhowtheteamis This year there are five getting better play. girls with varsity experience. The boys tennis team sea- Junior Jill Boyer, senior Jenny
son is going well cormnented Gwelo, junior Rachel Wells, ·by the coach, "We had a 5To· andjuniorElizal:>ethLeearethe son this year, despite the fact time of 18:30 or less. place finish in the LHS/LNE top four golfers on the team. · thattheyonlyhavetwoseniors Thegirl'sreturningvarsity invite." Thetopplayersonthe ''Wehaveseven~phomoreson ontheteam. However,theydo runners are senior Sally varsity boy;s tennis team in-· .·the team, so that's goodforus have eight players with varsity · Schaffert,juniorMaliaGerman, elude: senior Billy Galusha, se- to have younger players so they experience on the team. ·. and junior Jocie Krull. ·The boys nior James Wills, senior Mikah can gain experience, Brady · Junior Glynna Ridge is return junior Joel Sievert, Meyers, sophomore Peter Olds, said." The State tournament is very enthusiastic about the sophomore Mitchell · and senior Ryan Voecks. "In abigtopiconBrady'smind,but · team. "Our goals this year are Memming, and sophomore the boys' conference all of their it's a little early in the year to ·to play as a team, have fun, and ·Matt Jennings. September 7 ,
sthe boys ran 3.1 miles andtlie team will letter, and we will girl1;ran 2.6 mjles. "It is a very have a great season." German hard course because it is on a replied, 'There will be a big golf course and you can see struggle on Varsity because we where you· are running and I are all so close in ability." Jack· hate that,"German replied. son added, ''We will all have to Junior Malia German,jun- battle and push each other." ior Heather Jackson, and senior Their next meet will take Janna Miller all had predictions place September28, where they for ' this season. Miller said, "I will be running at Pioneers. think most of the girls on our ·
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Top Left: Lincoln High/Arts & Hu~ mahities students l\liranda Ducey (12), ··•andAiidrea Norby (11),join demonstra~
tprs at the capitol who gathered to show
their support for peace and to protest
the use of military force against
·innocent people in the Middle East ;
Top Right: Approximately ·100 people
gathered on the steps of the Nebraska
State Capitol on Friday ; September 21
ina rally for peace. <;;enter: A protestor expresses his
position by waving an Am~n peace
Above and Right: Don Olson , B~ttom R,ight: Supporters listen as
, and Ann McShane address Nebraskans For Peace president Don fellow Nebrasltims about
Olsen di~t'.usses options to war and concerns for the safety of
call for~ace.
What do Pajamas, twins, Mimi from the Drew Carey show, red and black, and Mardi Gras all have in common? SPIRIT WEEK!
Many students and teachers dressed up for spirit week to show their school spirit This week, which was organized by the cheerleading squads, led up to the football game on Thursday, October 11, 2001 against North Platte. Then the big finale was the Homecoming Dance on Friday, October 12, 2001. The themeMardi Gras is a tradition every year in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mardi Gras is on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent begins. Mardi Gras takes place after the end
mostly in the south, specifically in New Orleans, Louisiana. The parades include large floats from where participants in the parade throw necklaces, toys, and coins called doubloons to the onlookers. The Homecoming game didn't go as well as the dance went, but most people enjoyed themselves.
Senior Jenny Gwello attended the Homecoming Dance and commented "It was pretty fun, but it
of a long carnival season that Genin'JiggyWitII: SeniorKeith begins on January 6, leading Palmerbustsoutthetraditional to the actual Mardi Gras cel- lbeadsandmask ebration. Mardi Gras means
Fat Tuesday in French and is eelebrated in many countries in Europe. The celebration was introduced in the early 1700's and originated from a custom of parading fat ox through French towns and villages on Shrove Tuesday. Today Mardi Gras is celebrated
might help if they had it some place else instead of the school gym, because it is always hot." On Friday students entered the Athletic Hall where they paid for their tickets, then walked through the doors, hung their coats up and voted for Homecoming royalty. As everyone kept
walking the athletic hall was lined with tables and food at the concession stand. The hall that led to the south gym where the dance was being held was lined with white I .·. lights, purple, gold and It green beads, and cardboard sheets cut out in the shape of buildings. Then, as students strolled down to the gym where the dance was being held, the dj was set up in the middle, and an archway of green, purple, and gold balloons floated over a black box where the homecoming royalty
Densberger;Prince,EricCurrin; Princess,JeanClark;King,Ono Thompson;Queen,KatieFinke winners would stand'------------------when they were crowned. Overall the cheerleaders felt that the dance went as well as planned. Junior Katelyn Lattimer, a varsity cheerleader, was a big help in the planning "We (cheerleaders) set up for four hours from two thirty to six thirty, and the hard work paid off."
For about a month prior to homecoming night cheerleaders were painting scenery and planning for the dance. The cheerleaders brought in approximately four thousand dollars to support their squad.
For some people the dance
lacked a musical variety. Senior Ashley Raymond felt that, "It had good music for fast dancing, but there wasn't that much slow danc1ng.
There wasn't much selection for people who like country or something else." Many students danced, ate food, or walked back and forth between the gym and the athletic hallway where the food was
Overall, both spirit week and the 2001 Lincoln High Homecoming dance were great successes.
It's official. Lincoln High students can't check their e-mail anywhere in Lincoln High. Because of new LPS District Policy, new legislation from the government, and decisions by LHS, email, interactive chat, e-games, and pornography have been filtered from our internet at Lincoln High. It is now the law to filter pornography from the internet at school. HR4577 was signed last December by former president Clinton. The law says that Public School Systems must filter the internet at school for pornographic sites, sites that can be harmful to minors, or lose government funding.
But Lincoln High did not stop there. The decision of what to filter, or block, from the internet at LHS was made by the Tech Committee at Lincoln High in consultation with the administration and the respective departments, said
Kirk Langer, the Internet Services Manager for the district. The tech committee at Lincoln High consists of 15 members: Barbara Adkins, Jason Ahlberg, J.P. Caruso, Dan Ehly, Cory Free, Alice Hillhouse, Cindy Hoehne, Susan Johnston,
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LHS decided to block interactive e-mail (yahoo, hotmail, etc.), interactive chat, and e-games from the internet at Lincoln High. The only exception to this rule is for classes who use e-mail for a practi-
cal, educational purpose.
Lincoln High School is the only high school in Lincoln that decided to block e-mail from the internet. However, many schools in Nebraska have extensively blocked internet at school. "Most school systems have heavily filtered internet," said tech committee member Dan Ehly. "We are one of the last school systems to implement it." According to Ehly, in Norris Public Schools and Omaha Public Schools, teachers can't even receive attachments with their school e-mail accounts.
"I believe in the least amount of censorship possible," Ehly said. "We need to stress personal responsibilities. Some students, however, cannot handle unfiltered internet. I, personally, see the need for the censorship of pornography, but little else," he said.
Other members of the tech committee feel that is all right to filter anything on the internet at school.
"There are too many things available on the internet that are not necessary for students to be looking at," tech committee member Cindy Hoehne said. "We are here to learn about relevant topics and to help students be-
come productive citizens in our society. Looking at these hundreds of uncontrolled, unregulated sites does nothing for this goal," she said.
Lincoln High School Principal, Michael J. Wortman, has issued a formal apology to a former student who was cut from two seperate school activities programs in the 1999-2000 school year. Mr. Wortman acknowledged that according to the guidelines set forth at the time of the tryouts, Steffen Haas met the credit hours and grade requirements and should have been allowed to participate in both the cheerleading and Pomalink tryouts for her senior season.
Mr. Wortman acknowledged it was a mistake to deny her the right to participate in those programs and sincerely apologized to her for the school's actions.
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It's a beautiful day in midtown Washington D.C., and thirteen exhausted Nebraskans are among 25,000 activists sprawling out of Freedom Plaza. Spread throughout the crowd are hundreds of leaf-
tivities around the world was planned by a newly formed coalition called International A.N.S.W.E.R., or Act Now to Stop War and End _ Racism. In solidarity with this group and others, thirteen individuals from Nebraska dared to travel cross-coun-
lets, banners, signs, and information booths as well as a few banjo players and clowns. The crowd listens to messages of peace and antiracism that come from the long line-up of speakers on stage. To end the day of peaceful protest, the mass of people march toward the nation's capitol to the vibration of hands clapping, drums pounding · and thousands of unified voices.
The evening before, the group of Midwesterners rolled off the passenger van and directly into the inner-city headquarters of the Intemational Action Center to help with last minute details for the demonstration.
Constantly addressed as "The Nebraskans," we were soon put to work making neon green signs with messages like "Racism is not the A.N.S.W.E.R."
· The demonstration in Freedom Plaza on Saturday, September 29 t h was the first national rally protesting war and racism since the violent acts of terrorism earlier in the month. This day of coordinated ac-
try, through the birthplace of Ronald Reagan and scary right-wing truck stops, to make ourselves heard. As one banner at the rally read, "This is too important to be left to politicians".
The group from Nebraska drove into D.C. not knowing exactly what to expect. Soon after our arrival we were participating in the strategical meetings facilitated · by A.N.S.W.E.R. As a coalition of people from all over the country, we met in the sanctuary of the Church of the Brethren to discuss safety with EMS workers and talk with lawyers about what to do if we were arrested. We were briefed on the behind-thescenes work that would be going on at the Saturday event.
Many of us were, as a result, motivated to volunteer working security at the demonstration. The next day we saw first hand the power of hundreds of police officers in full riot gear.
The rally itself ran smoothly with little interference by outside authorities. The crowd of all ages demonstrated peace fully in both their ac-
tions and their words. Clashes with law enforcement affected two Nebraskans only briefly as they were stopped from marching in a related demonstration with the Anti-Capitalist Convergence.
In opposition to the reactionary
On Saturday, October 13, 2001, a bus that was taking members of the Seward High School Marching Band home from Omaha Burke's Marching Competition, swerved off of the road, then landed in the Papio Creek. Passengers in the busses behind the Seward bus reported that a charter bus swerved and made the bus go off the bridge. A bus that was car-
rying band students from Norfolk was passing by and stopped to try and help the victims. The driver of the charter bus heading to Omaha has denied all allegations of crossing the line.
The tragedy took place off of a bridge in Omaha near 167 th and Dodge Streets. Among the fatalitieswere Ian Koehler and Benjamin Prescott both only fourteen years of age. " If I went on that trip I would have been sitting right next to Ian," said Seward High school freshman, James Wallace. Also was a mother
mission of President Bush to bomb the Afghan people, dozens of organizations prepared statements and responses to this popularized "war on terrorism." These were distributed all day.
People came from all over the United States, Australia, Greece, Belgium and numerous other countries.
This sense of unity was a source of inspiration for the individuals in this country that oppose military vengeance or _"Operation Enduring Freedom."
_ "I wanted to be a part of a large group of people who share the same beliefs as I do," said senior activist, Alex Svoboda. "[In D.C.] I didn't ··feel like my views were downsized and belittled like I sometimes do in Nebraska. I think we made a strong statement that not everyone is crying out for vengeance and war."
After the various speakers concluded, the march to the capitol building started. Thousands of people took to the streets. The marchers, when yelled at, and called traitors by counter-protesters, would
of another band student. The victims of the tragedy were rushed to many different area hospitals. The critical victims were air lifted. Three people have died and thirty people were injured. Injuries ranged from minor cuts and bruises, to fatalities. The bus driver regained consciousness; however, he does not remember the crash at this time. The last thing that he reportedly remembers is at band's competition earlier that evening. We may never know what really happened.
calmly hold up their hands and display the universal sign of peace in an amazing show of grace and poise. From one end of the march to the other signs relayed the group's overall convictions; "Wage Peace", "Faith Not Folly, Love Not War."
Aside from the rally and march, "The Nebraskans" got a taste of grassroots activism at its finest. The group took every chance we had to stretch our legs and flyer motorists and bikers at pit-stops along our long trek there and back. In the D.C. area, we were housed at a church in Maryland
of peace activists from Nebraska. "I think it's important that areas like Nebraska and the Midwest are represented," said local activist Ixchel Swinehart. "I think people saw that people from Nebraska really care about this issue." When we started our long
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· where we flyered the surrounding college campus with "6 Reasons Not To ride back to Lincoln, all the people in the van were left with strong connections to the national movement. Met with a new vigor and force, the group started working right away on maintaining this ·energy in our own community. While we may not have all the answers to preventing war, with continued discussion, examinationand organization there may Go To War". · While the pamphlets probably didn't change anybody's opinions, they generated a lot of interesting dialogue. It especially intrigued people when they learned we were a vanload still be hope. · ·
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Though the events that have happened in New York City and Afghanistan are tragic, they can be very useful in education. Throughout Lincoln High, teachers are using the events to provide real life examples of the subject material of the class. From Economics to World History, these terrorist events and their repercussions can be very useful in teaching ,
"Good teachers can usually somehow make a connection," said Lincoln High principal Mike Wortman. "Usually, whatever you're teaching, there's some connection there."
Wortman added that it is appropriate to interrupt regular classroom activity and schedules to foct1s on current events that provide examples of the subject matter in the class. "It's the teachable moment in some cases," said Wortman. "If you have an emotional connection, it's kind of hard to learn the parts of speech that day."
Also, according to Wortman, problem solving in real life is one of
the most important skills for Lincoln High students to learn. "You may know your math inside and out , but if you can't use it to solve real life kinds of problems , you're not going to be successful," he said.
According to Social Studies Department Chair Jack Brestel, incorporating current events into teaching is mandatory. "The state standards say we must," he said. ·. "I would guess that ALL social studies teachers, including n1yself, include a discussion of what is happening in contemporary society." Brestel added that he made sure his classes were watching ·CNN on the day of the terrorist attacks.
Though many current events are tragic, they are very useful for teaching because they make connections in real life to class subject matter. For that reason, Lincoln High teachers have used the recent terrorist attacks and the "war" on terrorism to help educate. We cari learn from- even the most tragic events.
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John Farrand was very pleased about his season. His team began their season against Omaha South and won that one 30-20. · Since that game, the Links have a record of 45, losing , to Southeast 28-0, North Platte 44-13, Northeast 21-9, Freemont 13-9, and Grand Island 27-14. They beat Omaha South, East 14-12, Bellevue East 7-3, and Omaha Burke 13-10.
· Coach Farrand commented, "The loss against Northeast really hurt, and it hurts us in the playoff points because it was a city game." It was the first time all year that they didn't play well, otherwise, he felt they have played well. The team is very focused on trying to improve play, he said. "We want to be better on all parts of our game rather than worrying about winning and losing."
This season the team has been working very hard at practice, with an emphasis on blocking. Farrand felt that the players make the right block but can't sustain it long enough. Pass protection is also improvin~, but the biggest issue is the team s mental concentration. Farrand commented, "Most of our mistakes we have made are usually fumbles, pass interceptions, and having too many penalties, and those are all from not concentrating or taking care of their assignment," Farrand said. · ·
As everyone knows starting out with a winning record feels good. He thought having a winning record would build momentum going into the playoffs. He was also very excited about the improved competitiveness of the team. "Even in the games where it has been close, our players have always played hard
all the way to the end," Farrand said "We have won a lot of ga~es where we had to come from behind."
There l1ave been some very good games played this season. He added, "I think weflayed the best in either the first hal of the East game or the second half of the Omaha South game, and there's been parts of games where I felt we played like a cha1npionship team."
On Thursday, October 11, the Links took the field against ranked opponent North Platte. Lincoln High ended up losing that game 44-13. Junior Quentin Hodies finished the game with 119 rushing yards, and junior quarterback Scott White threw for 62 yards. Junior Jake Brestel and Senior Anthony Ross led the feam with 49 combined receiving yards. Junior Darrin Fauohn said, "In the first half we played very well. At halftime the score was 16-6, but it would've been closer if we would have converted our opportunities in the red zone and took away some of their big plays." "Our defensive scheme to stop their running back was good, and we had an advantage when he was hurt," Faughn added. "We didn't convert, and that hurt us."
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On October 19, the Links traveled to Freemont. Unfortunately they lost this game, but Coach Farrand did feel that the team played hard. "We had a lot of players that had an excellent game, however, we didn't score as many points."
For their last game, the Links played Grand Island. Since they lost this game, they were unable to make it into State. Farrand · felt that it was unfortunate, but felt they had a oreat season and feels that they reafly came together. Junior Marcus Myles commented, "It was very frustrating because we felt we could have won, but we didn't play to our potential."
KatShiffler CoEditor-in-CllitJf
The cafeteria of Elliot Elementary School was abuzz with dozens of foreign languages all being spoken at once on Saturday, October 13th. Teamed with begin11ing English speakers were members of Lincoln High School's English Language Learners Friends Club. A perfect combination of picture books, Cheet-os, and cross-cultural partnership made this an extraordinary Saturday morning.
Organized in part by Lincoln High School ELL Team Leader Hilde Dale, International Reading Day was successful in creating community between all levels of English speakers. "To me [International · Reading Day] was one of the most rich, culturally accepting activities I've seen at Lincoln High," said Dale. "ELL Friends Club wanted
to make some kind of community outreach. I think this was a nice start."
The club was originally started about a decade ago to accommodate the growing immigrant population at Lincoln High. With small conversation groups between native speakers and ELL students, the club provided an outlet for con-
versation in English outside of the classroom. Today, the club continues to promote learning English in a fun, comfortable way while at the same time branching out into the commt1nitv with events like Inter• national Reading Day
"I think ELL Friends Club every year depends on the members we have," said Dale. While the group is taking a new direction with
their activities, there is some concern about the number of native English speakers in the club. One of the three native English speakers in the club is junior Co-President, Margaret Gurewitz who talked about the impact of reading day. "A lot of people showed up because a good thing was going on. It was interesting to see all the people from different cultures who all cared about
reading." Gurewitz sat at the Spanish table and was paired with a 9year-old bilingual girl named Maria "We were able to read together in English and Spanish. I think we all enjoyed ourselves." Beyond this single day of reading, the club seeks to promote this kind of cooperative learning in all of their activities.
"I love to learn about people's cultures," said senior VicePresident Sara Khalil "The games we play, the different languages it's fun." During 8 th period on club days the group meets to get to know each other's individual cultures as well as do various fun activities.
A club like ELL Friends is genuine interaction with individuals from other cul" tures. Instead of learning about ethnic groups through "multicultural" education and activities, this club is the real thing.
Friends Club exhibits an extremely important cultural exchange that is not
found many other places. Not only do ELL students benefit from speaking English outside the classroom, but native-speakers too · have an opportunity to really learn about individuals and where they come from. Beyond picture books, beyond common language and experience, the clt1b stands out as a cultural synapse; a connection between students and the real world.
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Who is protecting students' rights at Lincoln High? Tradition- ally it has been seen as the job of Student Council to serve as an in- formational link between students and administrators. The reality, however is that this _hypothetical connection hardly exists. In the languid spirit of increasingly strict expectations for students, the role of the teachers in this school seems to remain undefined.
Looking out for students is ultimately up to the administrative staff in the building, but as Associate Principal Pam Cox says, there is a lot of work to be done. "There really is not a code of conduct that says that all teachers will treat students with respect. Sometimes we expect teachers to know how to treat students I'm not sure that is always correctly addressed."
When we as students sit in classroom desks it is apparent that teachers have the responsibility of upholding moral and ethical standards of behavior. "One of the biggest things that I expect of teachers is to share respect for a student," Cox said. "On the other hand we only know what we hear from student, teachers and parent." The question is however, where can students go when they feel they are being discriminated against or 1nistreated by a teacher? Where can s tudents go with their grievances? In the only tangible teacher guidelines, the Lincoln Public Schools Teacher Performance Summative Appraisal, teachers are rated on a doze11classroom behavioral characteristics including, "the ability to deal with all students," and "sensitivity to physical development of students." An adequate teacher "affirms the rights of others to hold differing views or values," and "gives criticism which is constructive, praise which is appropriate."
Pupils in a class are accountable to their teachers everyday; in their classroom behavior, productivity and performance. Since evaluation forms like this one are not complete by students, staff
are not held directly accountable to the students of Lincoln High School.
Cox and the rest of the administrative staff seem aware of these problems. In an attempt to improve this situation, Cox hadsome specific suggestions. "We don't really utilize Student Council as far as giving input to administrator s, I think that that would be a way of encouraging more of an open dialogue," she said.
Only increasing the gap between students and administrators in this school is the inactivity of Student Council in issues of student rights. "I think sometimes the students don't take Student Council seriously," said junior Council member Camie McPhilomy. Whether the problem lies in visibility problems with StuCo or just plain apathy on the part of students is unknown. "I know there are a lot of administrative blocks," commented senior council president Helen Cooper, "but it doesn't help at all that people don't come to us for help."
As an alternate to going through StuCo, Cox suggested a more defined group to work with teachers and administrators. In an effort to increase communication beyond the walls of the classroom and hold teacher s more accountable, Cox suggested the formation of a Student Advisory Board to work with administrators and deal with the issue of student rights. Also being considered i s the possible involve-
ment of students on the tr committee for the incomi11
graders, which serves as a pivotal point of changes in discipline when
responding to these concerns in an th"' .-ii11t11kirt.<iof the, vvm !;t11rlP.nt•:i' ;ihrnl.r· hi,ililin organized and fair process. It is clear that there is a need and an opportu- _ nity for student involvement in the play ,boo th s , - :·,"-directi~n of th is school. -:"s t~e in- set up booths _ included _ Native - ether to build ~ bridge re res e nt- : Severa l g od '. qu a lit t es ,we~e the cr~ase in s~udent ~x~ecta~ions lS felt American Caucus, wh i ch "w as th e ~g each class. This b ii dg~ is n owdisplay s in :th ~ s out h gym, and the th1s year in admini st rative proce- biggest display ;-the Russian Club ;' d'isplay e d in the library on east discussions iri 6i11p erio d classes dure, we as students have the respon- _ BreJ!ch ¢ lu~, Spanish Club, ELL ,, end. _ ,, _ -sibility of demanding our equal Friends Las Raza s Unidas Chi~ There we -r e a number of rights, because it is clear that no one n e se Cl~b, Martial A rt C lu'b'. A'fri :'' peo~ -1~ __ ,, w'ho - b ¢li ev ecf th a t ' - ~; e f yc {be ',; who "· ' at t'encied the else has our same and input and insight; nobody is going to do this for us. :.,;._.,::
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· Video game developing giant Capcom is known for its hit titles like "StreetFighter" and "Mega Man." They have even just recently started a brand new game called "Devil May Cry" for the Playstation 2, which goes in the survival horror genre just like an older game series they have called "Resident Evil."
Resident Evil was first created by Capcom for the original Playstation. It is a survival horror game that is rated M for mature, only for people age 17 and over because of violence, blood, and gore. It is about a main character, u s ually a police officer, who does battle on a supernatural force that is in the form ·of a virus called the T-Virus. This virus was created by a company called Umbrella. If you catch this virus, then it is bad news, which means you tum into a bloodthirsty zombie out for some human flesh to snack on. That's where the character comes in. He or she enters Raccoon City, the city which is infected with the virus, and has to somehow stop an evil that is controlling how everything is working. The only obstacle is the zombies, which roam the streets of Racoon City until they find their prey. The game is full of many surprise elements, such as frightening the player with cheap scares. There are specific parts in the game where you can be walking a 1on g and all of a sudden a pair ofzomb i e hands burst out of hole in a wall which w a s blocked off with pieces
is loved by many people who like video games in general. Capcom has currently released 4 different versions of Resident Evil. They are Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil: Code Veronica. They are also currently making about 3 o th e r games. Re s ident E V i I ' which is a remake of the original, will be released f o r Nintendo's upcom• 1ng sys-
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Gamecube. Now, why do you suppose they are only making them exclusively for the Gamecube? The genre was born on the Playstation so it sounds pretty logical that they would put the 3 new games on Playstation 2 as well. Not too long ago Nintendo and Capcom made an agreement that says all upcoming games by Capcom that is in the form of Resident Evil will be made exclusively for the Nintendo Gamecube. That means no more Resident Evil for Playstation 2, and no Microsoft Xbox ver s ions of Re s ident Evil either. Capcom said they believe that Gamecube is going to do very well, especially with developers. Because of this, they want to make the series exelusive to Nintendo.
This might come to most of you as a big surprise since the game was basically born on Sony's Playstation. This looks to be a good step for Nintendo, especially after complaints from people saying that Nintendo 1s too much for kids with games like Pokemon.
• It will change many peoples' minds about Nintendo and how they market games to all different age groups, and that can't be a bad thing. This isn't really a bad thing for Playstation 2 buyers either. With the release of Devil May Cry, which is a little similar to Resident Evil, people who own a Playstation 2 will still have the feel of Resident Evil.
SarahBergman OpinionEditor
Walking into this movie I wasn't quite sure what I · wa s about to feast my eye s upon. A scary story, ghost story, or my s tery? Throughout the movie I realized that it had a bit of all these delightful qualities.
Nicole Kidman plays Grace, a seemingly widowed mother of two in a large home during 1945. Her two children have a case of photosensitive skin and cannot be exposed to sunlight. This s trictly religious mother al s o has problems with migraines so she allows no outside noises , such as phones or radios. The huge house with no noise or light seems like a dungeon.
After Grace (Kidman) awakes from a bad dream she is greeted at her door by three strangers: a nanny and housekeeper Mrs. Mills (Fionnula Flanagan), a gardener Mr. Tuttle (Eric Sykes), and a young mute, Lydia (Elaine Cassidy), who are looking to help around the house. From that day 011 the children A11ne (Alakina
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Mann) and Nicolas (James Bentley) and Grace hear and see strange things around the house while the three new workers don't seem to be too concerned.
Kidman was v e ry pas-
sionate with her role. At times maybe a little overly dramatic, but yet believable. The two children, Mann and Bentley, used a cute sense of humor throughout the whole movie giving you a giggle
here and there. Flanagan put on a very solemn grandmother role showing compassion and respect for the family of three. Sykes' little role was well-played, being an elderly " out there" gardener, and the young mute Cas s idy did a great job of not s aying a word and doing work she was told to do around the house.
The whole movie keep s pushing you in certain directions, and just · when you think you've figured it out, it changes. It's a mind maze of conclusions. You get clues from different reactions and facial features, then putting all your discoveries together you realize it doesn't go together. But at the end a strange twist makes it all clear, and you have to retrace your steps through the whole movie.
This is a great oldfashioned thriller, mystery, and ghost story that will make you question reality and give you a new outlook on life. I recommend this movie, but be ready to jump out of your seats at times (I know my fellow viewers did), and prepare to not be bored.
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On Wednesday October 10, 2001 three staff members of the Advocate went to eat at Buster's as a review of a good restaurant in Lincoln. Buster's is located on 48 th and Normal right next to Blockbuster and north of Hobby Lobby. The walls of Buster's are plastered with pigs of many different shapes and sizes that customers created on the white construction paper that serves as a tablecloth. The windows sills are lined with bottle caps of various drinks and there is always some sporting event on the television for customers to enjoy when they are eating. The food is the best part of the barbecue experience.
of ribs, to combinations of barbecued chicken and beef, to finger lickin' good sandwiches, to veggie burgers. Buster's provides a big taste for everyone.
These were our reactions:
Ryly:' I ordered the Buster's Ultimate which consists of three chicken fingers, three chicken wings, four jalepeno poppers, and pigtails, which are the best onion rings I have ever tasted. This was the ULTIMATE, most tasteful, sampler plate I have ever had.
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you are hungry when you when our waitress arrive, because you will brought us warm, white get a large meal for a washcloths to clean our small price. By the way, messy faces and hands the chicken sandwich was off. I really recommend only $5.95. trying Buster's because it
Sarah: During my is an enjoyable experi- · · visit to Buster's, one thing ence everyone should was obvious; they like lookinto,evenifyouare pigs. Pigs are the dominot a red meat lover. nant theme-even custom-
Cassie: I am not a · ers' original drawings big fan of red meat. I grace the ceiling. This is will eat it, but would Buster'sRestaurantat 2435 a little tough whe~you've rather have some sort of been a vegetarian for chicken instead. Busters S. 48th Street. quite a few years. I'm exwas perfect for that. cepting though; I enjoy Right away I found what I on it, but of course I could add pigs, just not on my plate. was looking for. It was a on the lettuce and tomato. From a vegetarians' grilled chicken sandwich. Since it is Busters Barbecue, point of view the menu There were literally thou- they included barbecue sauce wasn't too appealing consistsands of side orders to choose on the side. Not only was the ing of only a handful of meatfrom, and since I was in the sandwich great, the French free options, but what more mood for some French fries I fries looked like a mountain is there when you're eating at gave them a try. piled high. a rib restaurant? I could have
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When my food arrived, I I loved the taste of their eaten some jalepeno poppers was ready. The chicken sand- chicken sandwich, and it was stuffed with cream cheese, wich came with only cheese cooked just right. Make sure French fries, a salad and po-
tato salad, pig tails ( onion rings), but I decided to go with the veggie burger meal, instead. It consisted of the sandwich, a choice of fries, pig tails, com on the cob, and or a salad. I had the pigtails, because I love my onions. The veggie sandwich was a little dry and wasn't anything better than what I could have bought in a box from the store.
The pigtails were very tasty, but also greasy. I enjoyed them, but I would recommend using a napkin to dab away excess juice. I also had a jalipeno popper. That was excellent. It was fried just right with a good amount of cream cheese and a wonderfully sized plump jalipeno.
My Busters experience was overall an enjoyable time.
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November 13, 2001
Volume 107 lssue 2
Now that it has been almost 2 months since the attack on America, thoughts have been racing through many peoples minds. Especially people who are ages 18 through 2 7. Now that we have declaired war with terrorism in general, including Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanastan, people might begin to worry about being drafted.
First of all, people might not want to fight because they are religious people. Being a Christian means not to kill because it is against the 5th commandment. If people are forced to kill people and they are devoted Christians, then that probably won't go over very well with them. Some people won't mind going to war if they were drafted, but other people out there may want to stay alive. And if a draft were to happen then that would mean many people would die for America, even though they never wanted it
all to happen in the first place.
It's pretty much putting the weight of America on somebody's hands because your fighting for America and thinking at the same time that you can't let your country lose. You give them a gun and you tell them "Good luck, son. Fight proudly." And why were they drafted? Because they were between the ages of 18 and 27. The US government won't care if you're scared.
And why do you have to fight if you don't want to?
The 13th amtnendment of the Consttution says you , shouldn't have to fight if you don't want to fight. Wouldn't a draft totally dismiss the 13th ammendment if it were to go
into effect?
Having a draft would also be a burden on some people. They would have to leave their loved ones and their normal lives to go to a foreign country and live with ' a gun. And you would have
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to use that gun to kill the enemy. Kill or be killed is the slogan that you would have to live by.
Also, why would \\'e even need a draft? Aside from the fact that we already have enough people going in the services the way it is, we also don't need the ammounts of ground troops we needed back in history when we fought wars like World War 1 and 11 and the Civil War. We have greater technology now, which includes nukes, missles, tomahalks. We could just use a small handful of soldiers in this war and have them go by submarine and launch a few missiles. That would do the same work and we would even hurt the enemy greater that way.
A draft should be the peoples' choice. If you want to fight, then sign up. There , are a lot of people out there who want to fight because of the attacks we witnessed on September 11 th • A draft should be co1npletely left out of the picture. Some people don't want to die just yet. It would be cruel to , send so1neone out to die who doesn't even want to die. It would be like murder.
America is a country that has great possibilities. It is one of the few places in the world where you can be completely free, and where you are able to control your own destiny. In times of war, when the country is being threatened, a national draft may be the only way to ensure the survival of America.
Drafts are the insurance of the nation. They provide a safety net, just in case it is absolutely necessary to strengthen the military. If our nation does not have a draft system, we would be unprepared for any unforeseen threats and our national security would be compromised. To remain one of the strongest military powers in the world, we must be able to call upon a draft.
Right now we live in a very dynamic, unpredictable world. This volatile atmosphere threatens the security of our nation and other nations as well. A draft is necessary to make sure our nation is not unprepared for the
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changing world. As Americans, we are very privileged to live in a free country. Many people have died in war to give us this freedom. It is our duty then, to ensure future generations the same freedoms and privileges. In times of war, drafting Americans to fight is not violating anyone's rights. Instead, it is fulfilling a promise to our children, and our children's children - a promise of freedom and hope.
Further, drafts are consti~ tutional. According to a United States Military web site, the United States government has the right to do a draft. "The government protects its citizens from foreign threats, but to do so it reserves the right to draft young men into military service whenever it is considered necessary."
Thus far, the draft system has worked. In times of war, our country has been able to survive. Why should we try to fix something that isn't broken? We should keep the draft system we have in our great country to keep its legacy alive.
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Niki Oberheu StaffWriter
FormerLincolnHigh teacherRoss Tegeler died October 30 of this year in his Chicago apartment. Tegelertaught at Lincoln High for 25 years, and he also helped form the Arts and Humanities Focus Program.
He moved to Chicago to go back to school.. For Tegeler, learning was always a passion.
"I always think about Ross as being an advocatefor all students,but also an advocate for teachers. He was not afraid to take on some really tough issues 1nthat role of advocacy,"said English department teacher Judy Strand. Tegeler took on many leadership roles. He was the building fact1ltyrepresentative for LEA, Social Studies department chair, and a key organizer in Boys State. Additionally,Tegelerhelped create the night school program at Lincoln High.
Tegeler always wanted to teach somethingdifferent.He instructedevery class available in the social studies department except psychology.
He was also a highly renowned speech coach for the Lincoln High Forensics Team.
Avery unique aspectof Tegelerwas his ability to teach both at risk students and the highly gifted with esteem and talent. Most of all Tegelerloved kids; he had great faith in his studentsand pushed them to reach their goals.
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EntertainmentEditor
In past years at Lincoln High members of some senior classes saved up money to buy a senior gift for the school. Throughout the years, starting in 1887, we have received around 70 gifts donated by that year's seniors. In the early days the senior class gave the school art work, photographs, sculptures, or portraits. In more recent years the school has received clocks, signs, and various furniture throughout the building.
Numerous portraits and paintings have graced the halls ofI~HS, although now they are mostly in storage. The following is a list of some of the more interesting donations:
*1887 - portrait of Professor S.P Barrett.
* 1897 - painting: the Laughing Cavalier.
* 1903 - an Engraving of William
McKinley.
* 1902 - Drop Curtain for the Auditorium.
* 1905 - statue of Apollo.
* 1908 - bronze replica of old high school.
* 1917 - a picture of the sea.
* 1918 - painting: "Dance Of The Nymphs" and "Age of Innocence".
*1973-artpiece by Johnson gym called "United Globe".
*1978 ° multi-ethnic mural above main entrance: "we, the foundation".
*1980 - painting of William H. Pfeiff.
*1981 - Johnson gym wall mural.
Also, throughout the years, Lincoln High has received basic items st1ch as a podium or a clock as their Senior Gift.
* 1949 - two autumn purple ash trees and two plaques were donated.
Thismulti-ethnicmural,whichwas donatedin 1978, is called~e, The Foundation."
Thisbeautifulmosaic, a gift from the '70s gathers dust in the basement along with unused computers.
*1906 - Annunciation Arch was giver1 to the school.
* 1909 - Sun dial
*1910 - Scenerv • for the stage in the auditorium.
* 1911 - Fountain.
*1913 - clock at the head of the main staircase.
*1914- a clock in the library with brass numerals.
* 1920 - speakers stand and lamps
* 1957 - aluminum plaque over doorway that says Lincoln High School.
* 1963 - Mural on east side of main entrance to auditorium
* 1964 - The Coming events sig11 board outside
* 1965 - Mural on west side of main entrance to auditorium
* 1967 - Black lettering on Johnson activities building
* 1969 - silver lettering on east facade of building
* 1970 - Links sculpture on northeast lawn
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* 1976 - bicentennial school seal for media center-north entrance
*1982 - Links mascot was born.
* 1983 - clock for the marquee at the front of building
*1986 - Plaque for Sacred L in cafeteria
*1988 and 1993 - Concrete table and bench, an outdoor placement
Throughout the years the Senior class also donated money to LHS for either a contribution or just because they had the money.
*1922 - contribution to the fund for the grand piano
*1936$1000.00
was donated to the athletichall of fame to purchase items for the maintenance of the athletichall of fame.
*1938-Acheckfor $300 for student fund
*1974 - $200 was given as a contribution to the cancer fund.
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* 1991 - $150.00 contribution to Malone Neighborhood anti-drug wall mural and $150 to Charles Jones' memorial scholarship was also donated.
Since 1991, there have been no senior gifts. Principal Mike Wortman said that there have been discussions about new senior gifts since he came to LHS, but by the end of the year the students got so caught up in graduation and summer break that they never organized anything.·
This year there has been talk about a new digital clock for the outside or new chairs for the auditorium. One creative way to raise money was an additional $1 charge for caps and gowns in order to pay for the cost of that year's senior gift.
StaffWriter
Picture this: you and your family are on your way to the cemetery.You're havinga nicepeacefulride thinkingabout how everythingwill tum out when you arrivethere.You'regoingto the cemetery to commemoratethe 100th anniversary of your great-great-grandmother'sdeath. When you ptillup, you stare in disbelief. An anthropologistand students from a nearby universityarediggingup her grave and examiningher bones.They say they wantedto see the way in which she lived, what an everydaylife event for her was.
An unbelievablepicture?
The sad fact is that this is happening to our IndigenousAmerican ancestors all acrossthe country.
American remains that anyone knew of on or outside reservations.The land in which Nebraskansnow reside was once home to the,Omaha,the Pawnee,and the Sioux.These nationslivedout there lives hereinNebraska,leavingmanyburialsites scatteredacrossthe plains,which should have remainedin peace.
Unfortunately there are more remains of IndigenousAmericansin museums, universities,institutions,and private collections than there are Indigenous Americansalive.
In 1965PrestonHolder,Directorof theAnthropologyat UNL.Holderand studentswere studyingthe remainsof IndigenousAmericansthathad been dug up in partofanorthwestNebraskaburialground
After the studieshad been done Holder orderedthe studentsto take the unidentified remains to an incineratorto be destroyed.The job was carried out which
Before the 1990sthere was no law that protected the sites of Indigenous · at entrance of building.
* 1971 - a Time capsule on centennial year which was opened in 1996.
*1975 - Grandfather clock in the
just basicallyadded saltto the wound He then orderedthe studentsto takethe ashes of the remainsand spreadthem all across UNLEastCanlpus. Someof theremains were savedby studentsas trinkets.Some of the bones were never disposedof and remainspoppedin the most unbelievable placessuchas officedrawers,and old students' attics.Now 20-30years laterUNL Anthropology life seems to be turning around.
On September10,2001RalphThomas,chairmanofNativeAnlericanGuardians & Protectorsof RelativesandAncestors(NAGPRA)was at UNL'sEastCanlpus to help find remains of Indigenous Americans that were incinerated by Presto11Holder.Along with Ralph Thomas was SandraAnderson and her dog E.aglewho is speciallytrainedto find human remains.E.aglelocatedmore than 3 dozensmallfragrr1entsof human remains
in a 30 by 75ft. area.Any remains that were found at the sitewere turnedover to NebraskaStatePatrolfor testing.Thomas orderedthat the remainsnot be moved or toucheduntiltold so. NebraskaStateHistoricalSocietyofficialsdid not agree and wanted to move foiward as fast as possible.
On the Sep.I 1,due to the terroristic attacks,the testingwas set back untilHistoricalSocietywasready.Thomaswanted the areato be markedoff and protectedby UNL Police Officers but UNL Police Chief Owen Yardleyrefused.On Sep.19 theStateHistoricalSocietytriedto retrieve · the remainsbut they could not be found On Oct3 Thomas and other Indigenous peopleswere back at East Campus for a memorialceremony.A brightred blanket was draped over the 7.5 ton granite memorial.Shortlyafterorganizerspulledoff theblanketRalphThomasbent down and
spit on the memorial, saying Thomas Would have replied 'There are no relatives irt that rock" Thomas also believes that it's UNL's weak attemptto say sorry and gloss over for mishandlingof Indigenous remains. Over 800 Indigenous peoplesstartedthejourneyback to where they can1efrom: Mother Earth. Almost 500 of the Indigenous peoples were claimed by 16 Great Plains Nations and the other 330 were unknownbecause of lackinggeographiclocation.Thereare still more than 1,000individualsto be sent on the journey home. Nationsthat the individuals represeI1ted:Omaha, Pawnee, CheyenneRiver Sioux,Iowa, Kickapoo, Oglala Sioux, Ponca, Southern Ponca, Rosebud Sioux, Santee Sioux, Wmnebago, Yankton Sioux, Standing Rock Sioux, Spirit Lake, AffiliatedNations of North Dakota and the Turtle MountainBand of Chippewa
the name of Charles Jones
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$150.00 to the Dr. Charles E. Jones scholarship fund
Thisclock, a gift from the class of, 1913, hangs above the front staircase.
Earl Pilcher
*1989 - $500.00 was donated for the
December 18, 2001
Volume 107 lssue 3
KatShiffler Co-Editorin Chief
Shortly after the September 11th attacks, the Bush administration pushed through congress an anti-terrorism bill that many civil liberties groups say violates Americans' constitutional rights. This first move by the Justice Department in the ''war'' against terrorism expanded the FBI's wiretapping and electronic surveillance authority, granting government agencies the ability to eavesdrop on formerly privileged conversations be-
tween attorneys and their clients
On November 13th, President Bush extended his executive power by signing an order authorizing military tribunals to conduct trials involving non-U.S. citizens accused of terrorism. What the Bush Administration calls ''a new tool to use. against terrorism," many civil liberties advocates consider yet another challenge to the integrity of the Bill of Rights.
Section 1, Article 'e' of Bush's military order pertaining to the ''detention, treatment, and trial of certain noncitizens in the war against terrorism''
states that, ''To protect the United States and its citizens, and for the effective conduct of military operations and prevention of terrorist attacks, it is necessary for individuals to be tried for violations of the laws of war and other applicable laws by military tribunals." The executive order additionally addresses the rights and conditions of accused terrorists during their incarceration as well as establishing the authority of the Secretary of Defense as head of the proceedings.
If a military tribunal were put into use, these would be secretive trials without a jury and without the requirement of a unanimous verdict. The President's bill also makes it possible for suspected terrorists to be detained with little tangible evidence of wrongdoing. The hearsay discussed in grand jury trials, for example can now be used as evidence in court. The specifics of such a military proceeding are unclear because the last military tribunal put into use was in 1942, when President Franklin Roosevelt used this
teurs.
In a press release on November 14th, Laura Murphy, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union stated, ''It is difficult to understand how the Administration can justify the use of a tribunal when the United States has successfully tried in our courts noncitizens of terrorist acts, organized crime, and others in situations where the safety of jurors and the disclosure of government intelligence methods were at issue."
Critics of Bush's decision site the prosecutions of 1993 World Trade Center bomber suspects and the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh as examples of high-publicity terrorism cases which utilized the · traditional courtroom proceedings to obtain justice. In their statement, the ACLU continued to question the constitutionality of the government's recent actions, '' The President's decision is further evidence that the Administration is totally unwilling 'to abide by checks and balances that are method to convict six German sabo- so central to our democracy."
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Aren't seatbelts annoying?
You get in the car and you want to go to school or work or something and the last thing you want to do is strap yourself into an already uncomfortable seat. They are irritating and inconvenient. Would your opinion change if you were to get into an accident where your car flips over while you are trying to go home on a somewhat empty street going only 35 MPH? What if you weren't wearing tl1at seatbelt when your car flipped over? Would you get out of the car with a smile on your face and proclaim that it was the best thrill of your life? Or would your face be bloody and broken because you hadn't been wearing your seatbelt? You might also be dead. '
Statistics from the Nebraska Department of Roads list a total of 155 people in the year 2000 that died of traffic accident and weren't wearing seatbelts. The highest number of people killed were people in the age group of 1519 years of age. The second highest were people 25-34 years of age. The 155 people who died is com- · pared to the amount of people who died while wearing a seatbelt. 57 people were killed even after wearing seatbelt. That tells you right now that you have a better chance of surviving after being in a major car ac-
FeaureEditor
As you walk down the halls here at Lincoln High, you may notice that some people have HUGE backpacks. You might be having the same problem of an over weight backpack. I know that I do.
Some of your backpacks may weigh as much as a toddler anywhere from 25 to 30 pounds. There have been studies show that you should only carry 15% of your body weight on your back at one time. That can be a lot or a little, depending on how much you weigh.
Many kids complain, "My back hurts" "My neck hurts", and
cident. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be uninjured, especially considering that 1,107 people were injured after being in a car accident. The 155 people who were killed might seem like a small number, but it might be good to realize that a car doesn't usually flip over very often. If every car that was in an accident were to be flipped over, there is no doubt that the number of people killed would be a lot higher.
As some people may
• know by now, I was in just such an accident. The picture of my totaled car was inside the local section of the Lincoln Journal Star on Nov. 2, the day after the accident. Friends and other people here at Lincoln High have asked about it. My pastor at my church asked about it, my youth director discussed it with me, and even the receptionist at my dentist asked about it as well. I was just driving home going east on L street after school with nobody else in the car. I turned on to N 10th street and headed towards McDonalds. I was more than half way through the intersection when I suddenly found my car turning over. As it was flipping, the radio cut out and glass shattered all around me. Normally I would be screaming for joy because it felt a lot like a roller coaster, but not this time. This time I feared that I might actually die. The car seemed to flip
over at a pretty slow speed as if I were in slow motion, so I had plenty of time to say stuff like "oh my God" and "Ahhhhhh" and at the same time actually plan on surviv-
to reach up and move the gear into park and then take the keys out of the car, which was a little awkward. After the people helped me get out of the car, through the window since
Thisis the car which EntertainmentEditorJerrodWason was hanging upside down in after it flipped over on November 1st, 2001. Because of his ·seatbelt, he walked away without injury.
ing this by keeping my arms stiffwhile my hands gripped the steering wheel. It worked out pretty well. I got out of that car that day, thanks to a civilian who helped me crawl out of the car. I was j1,1stsitting there and was chilling. It was very weird being up in the air and I didn't really have any motivation to get out on my own, so I just decided to wait for people to come. When the help came, I had to unbuckle my seatbelt. That caused me to fall onto the ceiling. I then had
:ves"I have a headache". There are many different make sure that bag is not too heavy, ways that you can prevent this from happen1ng according to Phil Witt Physical Therapist
Ph.D. an asso- · ciate professor of physical therapy at the University of North Carolina, such as: wear both straps,
RachelBlack(ll) and other students volunteeredto weigh their backpacksto see how much they were hauling. Some students carriedas much as 35lbs.
and most of all , pay attention to the type of backpack that your purchase. Good characteristics are: wide straps, a waist belt, and make sure that the backpack is not too heavy before the books are placed in it. Too heavy would be more than 15 % of your body weight.People
my car door wasn't opening, I noticed that all I had was a few scratches, as a result of glass cutting me as I was crawling out, and a very fast heart beat. Thanks to the very lucky situation where I escaped near death without pain, I was able to refuse the offer made by firefighters to go to the hospital. I had my pulse rate checked and was seated in the back of a police cruiser to wait for all the police details to be settled. When I was walking towards the police cruiser, I saw the
often think that you can get Scoliosis from a backpack. That is not the case, according to the CBS Health Watch web site at www.mayoclinic.com get it's information from the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER) who believes that Scoliosis is a disease affecting the spinal column when it gets shaped like a "C" or an "S". This can be detected early if you 11otice these symptoms: uneven waist, leaning to one side, elevated hips ( 1 higher than the other), pain in the lower back, and distortion of the ribs Many students believe that the amount of homework is directly related to the weight of their back-
other vehicle. It had only a big dent in the hood. I about smacked the driver after he sat next to me in the car. He told me that I "must have been in some ride!!" Not the greatest thing to tell somebody who could have been killed. After all was said and done, I called my friend who would be able to drive me home since my car was totaled and headed for the impound lot. I was issued a ticked for "running a red light," even though I could have sworn the light was green as I entered the intersection. I had to go to the impound to get my backpack later that night and that was when I noticed the car. It was bad. So bad that the car had to be destroyed since there was definitely no way it was going to be fixed. I got my backpack, some loose change, my CD, that I didn't know was even there, and I left after cutting my finger on some glass and getting a pebble stuck in my foot.
If I hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, I could have died. While flipping over I felt my self violently jerk towards the windshield. There is no doubt that I would have thrown through that windshield and would have turned into a bloody mess. You should wear a seatbelt while driving in a car as well. Simple as that. Wearing a seatbelt won't only make you feel safe, but it might save your life.
packs. That's true. "My homework load varies from 11ightto night" senior Kristina Morgan said. Some ideas that people have had is to go to your locker more often, but that creates a problem because there is not enough time in 6 minutes to get to your locker and class at the same time. There is another side to that, if they make passing time longer, then we would have to stay longer every day. If there was a minute added on to each passing period, we would have to stay an extra 6 minutes everyday.
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December 18, 2001 Volume 107 lssue 3 ,
JerrodWatson
EntertainmentEditor I I
With the release of the Nintendo Gamecube on Sunday, November 18th there has been a lot of excitement on what games to get. Just recently, I was able to get a Gamecube and2games. One · of which 1S called Wave Race: Blue Storm.
Wave Race: Blue Storm 1s a game created by a new branch of Nintendo called Nintendo Software Technology, or NTS for short. NTS is a develop-
ment company, whose first game was Ridge Racer 64 which was released in 2000. NTS included students from the Nintendo school for video game
be as the water gets splashed, some of it will splash onto the screen causing a few seconds of water marks on the television set. Another good thing to know is that waves usually range between 1 to 9 feet in the game. That makes it a much more thrilling game than the,
Wave Race:Blue Storttlis one of the newest games to hit the NintendoGamecube. lf its a good race title that you are after and you just got a new Game cube, then it is highly recomendedto check this game out. making called DigiPen.
Wave Race: Blue Storm is a 1-4 player racing game which deals with jet skis. It is rated E for everyone, which means anyone can experience this game. Wave Race: Blue Storm is a sequal of the hit N64 title, Wave Race 64. The first thing you really notice about Wave Race: Blue Storm are the graphics. While they aren ' t as stunning as the · graphics for Star Wars Rouge Squadron 2: Rouge Leader or the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Melee, both on the Nintendo Gamecube, they are still nice to look at, especially if you look at the water. For the first time with Gamecube, developers were able to make water waves and ripples move as if it were real water. There are different variations of water movements. One example would
original because the N64 wasn't able to achieve that with the water
And you can also feel the waves thanks to the rumble motor in the Gamecube controller. The water movement is about the only thing that sets the look of Wave Race: Blue Storm apart unfortunately, but the graphics are still top notch and could only be done on the next generation game consols.
As many people might notice after they are done gaping at graphics a game might support, you start to realize that the game is actually fun. As you play Wave Race: Blue Storm, you will notice that you have to race within bouyees. Each bouyee has an arrow pointing in a direction. If a arrow is pointing left, you must be sure tq pass the bouyee in the direction it wants you to. If you don't, an error mes-
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sage will appear on your screen saying "MISS." If you get too many misses, you will end up getting retired out of the race. There are other levels that use huge rings instead ofbouyees. You must ride inside these rings. If you don't, a 6 second timer will appear on screen. After the time is up you will be retired out of the game. This makes the game both fun and hard at the same time. But, the more practice you get from the game's tutorial part, the better you might become. Just stay on your feet the whole time because one mistake will take you from first place to last place in a matter of 3 seconds.
If you were to read other reviews, you might notice that the
game wasn't given a very high score. Don't listen to those reviews. They gave the game bad scores because it is very similar to Wave Race 64 and because it is a difficult game. I don't believe that this game should get a low score because if you have never really played Wave Race 64 before, it is a treat You will have hours of fun. Despite the fact that it is similar to the original, I give this title 9/10 points because the game is great and just plain fun.
SarahBergman
Opinion Editor
About a month ago I went plant. To start out our meal we got bread sticks with mozzarella cheese. When receiving our bread sticks I was a little shocked. It was
down to Kansas City to visit a the size of a medium pizza. Then I friend. While down there I went out realized that every item is familyon the town. It was the typical din- sized. The bread sticks had chunks
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. and become a great wizard himself. Excellent performances by Richard Josh Swartzlander At the school, he meets his best Harris (Professor Dumbledore ), Co-Editor in Chief friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) Maggie Smith (Professor
The line for the seating of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" snaked through the East Park movie theater on opening Friday night, out the door, and into the hallways of the mall. Harry Potter and Hermione Granger (Emma McGonagall), Alan Rickman (ProWatson). Together, they must foil fessor Snape), and Robbie Coltrane an evil wizard's plot to steal the (Hagrid) make the experience even Sorcerer's Stone from Hogwarts. more magical. · Grint does a wonderful job Columbus did a goodjob of portraying Ron Weasley, the of sticking to the story. ·Though comic relief of the trio. Watson's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's ner, movie, and coffee afterwards dating style night. But the only nontypical part was the restaurant.
My friend wanted to take me somewhere special. I mentioned I liked Italian, so we went to Buca di Beppo, which means "Joe's basement" in Italian. Upon entering this restaurant I knew I was going to enjoy my experience Every inch of every wall was covered with a framed picture or photograph of something or someone related to Italy. The bathrooms even l1ave pictures of people of our gender, in whichever room, doing what you went into the bathroom to do, on the walls.
It was a busy Saturday night, but our seating of two wasn't but a 5 minute wait. The first thing they asked us is whether or not we have been there before. I hadn't but my friend had. So they first lead us to the kitchen for a tour. They showed us where the pizza and pastas are made and the other foods. Then in the kitchen there is a table full of people. · The tour guide says that this is our kitchen table, and all the ct1stomers sitting there shout out hello and how are you.
Every room has a different theme. We were seated in the Frank Sinatra room. The whole ceiling is covered with Frank, and dimly lit to give it the romantic effect. Around some of the wall decorations were red, green, orange, and yellow Christmas type lights. The specials and the menu are also on the walls. The only hand held menu is the wine menu, which they only sell by the bottle.
Our waitress was very kind and thoughtful. She sat down with us and explained the name of the restaurant and the meaning. Looking up at the costs I about got up and walked away because one meal costed anywhere from $16.00 to $25.00, but then the waitress told us that each meal is very large and they recommend getting one meal for two people. There were many different dishes ranging from entrees, pizzas, sides, pastas, appetizers, desserts, and options such as those.
I aimed my attention toward the entrees. That offered meals like, veal, chicken, beef, and egg-
of garlic so big, at first I thought it was a slice of mushroom. It's really good fresh, but not warmed up later as leftovers.
Before I realized how truly huge the portions were I had already ordered garlic mashed potatoes and the eggplant meal. The potatoes are in a very large serving bowl with about 3/4 of a sick of butter on top. They were very thick, tasty and delicious. The eggplant was battered lightly with a chunky style marinara sauce on top. I was expecting pasta to come with it, but still it was very good.
The bill rang up a little high, but we got a lot of food. The next day my friend and I both had a full meal with the leftovers. After
magic was definitely in the air. Everyone in line talked excitedly about Hogwarts, Quidditch, and Voldemort. A group of anticipating fans even began chanting "Harry Potter, Harry Potter." The Potter fans would not be disappointed.
The movie, directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Brothers, uses dazzling special effects, a great cast of English actors, and a delightful story, to create a terrific magical movie that will earn the approval of Harry Potter experts and novices alike.
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· For those of you who are not familiar with the story performance is also perfect, capturthat meal we both still had leftovers. of "Hairy Potter and the Sorcerer's ing the very essence of the studious Buca di Beppo's was a Stone," written by J,K. Rowling, it Hermione Granger. Radcliffe's pervery good restaurant. The food was goes something like this: Potter formance as Potter is solid, though excellent, the staff was friendly and (Daniel ~a~cliffe~ is an_11-year-old he seemed to lack charisma and sincere and the setting made the orphan living _with his aun~ and never really captured the cC?mplete ' uncle when he discovers that his real essence of Harry Potter. His great whole evenin~ very enJoyable If parents were wizards. He enrolls in smile almost made up for his peryou are ever in the Kansas City, the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft formance, however. Radcliffe will Kansas area you should defiantly and Wizardry so that he may be able certainly be an adequate Harry Potmake a trip to Buca di Beppo's. to follow in his parents' footsteps ter throughout the Potter movies.
Stone" is long for a children's movie, about two and a half hours total, the length is needed in order to get the complete story.
The special effects alone in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" make the movie well worth the price of admission. Columbus creates a believable magical world that is amazing to see. The most spectacular of the effects comes in a game of Quidditch, a soccer like game played onbroomsticks, where Potter and his teammates soar through the air, battling their arch enemy team Slytherin.
"Harry · Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is an excellent movie for kids, grownups, wizards, and muggles. Its magic is guaranteed to delight.
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"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' is now showing on two screens at East Park, Edgewood 3, and the Lincoln movie theaters.
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18, 2001
Volume 107 lssue 3
JoshSwartzlander Co-Editor in Chief
In his autobiography Black Boy, Richard Wright says, "Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife " Throughout the experiences in my life, I have observed the same trends in religion that Wright did. \'/here I see organized religion, I also encounter hate, ignorance, prejudice, and injustice.
In understanding organized religion, I think it is first important to realize why it exists. One answer is that it makes people feel better about themselves and their destinies. Organized religion is extremely powerful for the simple reason that it explains the infinity of life and death, and tells the masses how they fit into the big picture. It gives us answers to questions that humans cannot really comprehend, such as the question of the meaning of life.
In other words, religion creates uncertain spiritual and magical answers to questions to which humans don't know the answer. It is a way to make people believe they are following "God's" plan when they are actually living a life of blissful ignorance.
This means that organized religion, being the most powerful social institution, can be corrupted to control people. In other words,
Niki bberheu Staff Writer
Many Americans have become quite comfortable with the idea of finding and capturing bin Laden and other terrorists located outside of national boarders, but what about the terrorists who · reside next door? How will our freedom be protected from them? Here are some of my suggestions: First we must pass countless laws, written with pointless titles using jargon such as "freedom" or "pa-
religion is a very useful tool to pacify the masses. As • Lenin put it, "The idea of god has never bound the individual to society, but has always bound the oppressed classes by a belief in the divinity of the oppressors." Oppressed people are much easier to control if they believe that justice will prevail in their afterlives.
This concept is also applicable to the United States society and general population Though the people are not necessarily oppressed, they are easier to control if they are members of a church. "Good Christian" people are always regarded as more responsible, respectable members of society, when in fact they are simply victims of their own ignorance - their own need to understand their place in the universal continuum.
A ·perfect example of organized religion being used to control and manipulate a population is the terrorist attacks on the World Trade · Center. The Islamic religion was manipulated to make some members of the religion believe that if they killed thousands of innocent Americans, then they would be rewarded in their afterlives.
triot" to subdue that pesky congress from reading the fine print. These laws will erase certain, unimportant rights given to us by the constitution. Such as the right to privacy, who really needs this one?
The mandatory need of a warrant in searches, what a waste of time! Or how about the privilege between lawyer and client (a fundamental aspect of our judicial system), because anything that a bloody terrorist can tell his counsel, he should be forced to tell Uncle Sam by
The only way to get humans to carry out suicide missions, such as the World Trade Center attacks, is to make them believe that they will be rewarded in the afterlife for their actions
But Islam is not the only religion that has caused violence and hatred. During
the United States imperialist movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s, there began a strong American voice to Christianize the unfortunate "savage" countries in the world. Christian missionaries, along with the rest of the American way of life, went into countries and destroyed cultures.
The earliest direct example of this would have
means of wire taping and recording that was previously deemed illegal.
Further more, lets specifically look at foreigners (those crazy ascents make them oh so suspicious), even if they've called America their home for 30 years.
We' II secretly detain them for as long as we want with out consent from a judge or jury, in fact let's not release their names, not even to their family.
Here is the key part in my master plan: military tribunals. The president should
been during the Spanish American war, when the United States occupied the Philippine Islands with the intent to help its "brown little brothers." The United States planned to help them by Cl1ristianizing them and introducing them to the American way of life. Unfortu-
as evidence that slavery should be allowed in the U.S. Further, slaves were Christianized so that they would be easier to control. It was much easier to control a slave population if the slaves thought that they would enjoy paradise in heaven after they died.
The Hindu religion
also has a history of being used to control a population and to pacify the unhappy lower members of society. Around 200 B.C., a social structure grew in India that is kno,vn as the caste system. It created a rigid social hierarchy that severely limited social mobility. Every- · one was born into a caste, and men could move up into higher castes in their next lives if they
Finally, organized religion is a problem because too often members of · churches follow their religion blindly. They do not question their religious leaders and text, creating a static institution that doesn't change with the times. This results in a fear of new ideas and standards, yielding things like censorship, book banning, and a generation gap that is much harder to bridge.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I think religion or spirituality is wrong, nor am I saying that I am an atheist. I believe religion and spirituality are important aspects of life, but that they should be left as individual choices and personal practices. Each person should be spiritual in his or her own way on a more personal ba• SIS
nately, the US never thought to ask them if they wanted to do that. Today, Christian missionaries in South America and Africa continue to destroy cultures in the name of their religion.
The exploitation of the Christian religion was also partly responsible for slavery in the early stages of the United States. Southern slave owners waved the Bible followed the rules of their caste. In this way, the poor worker and peasant population could hope for a better next life if they stayed in their place.
Finally, I am not saying that organized religion is always bad or that people who belong to organized religions are bad people. I am simply saying that the good that comes out of organized religions is drastically outweighed by the bad. They are extremely powerful tools that are just too easily manipulated.
Hinduism was intimately related to this social system and was necessary for the ruling Priestly class to remain in power. The Hindu concepts of reincarnation and karma were also central to the caste system.
Organized religion seems often to lead to oppression, hate, violence, and prejudice. We should take a step back in our lives and be objective and spiritual at the same time. Organized religion is not necessary.
Consequences for the U.S .
issue an executive order (meaning that it completely bypasses a vote from congress and the constitutional separation of powers) enforcing all who are (secretly) charged with ten orism not to be tried in court but rather in front of a panel of military officers.
This plan has many perks, above all is the fact that the defendant has fewer rights, innocence before proven guilty is a bunch of baloney anyway, I mean, intelligence agencies are known to always be 100%
accurate, right?
Because everything will be done in secret, all evidence found by the prosecution will be withheld from the defendant. The types of evidence will broadly expand. Hearsay, which is not allowed in court will now be used not only to gain a suspect, but also to convict them
Also any illegally obtained evidence will be used against the defendant. And to erase pointless hours of counsel rambling on about legal mumbo jumbo, let's
say that the defendant cannot choose their own lawyer, in fact they probably don't even need a lawyer anyway. Come on, it's only their life that's at stake, seeing as though military tribunals are far more likely to issue the death penalty.
Ah, what a much safer country this will be if we just illuminate a good portion of our freedom and give more power to law enforcement and government. If only oh wait, never mind, this is already hap• pen1ng.
Graphic by Kat·Shiffler
Kat Shiffler
Co-Editorin Chief
·All students were not created equal. Discrepancies between student performance stem from many factors, including: home environment, learning style, and mental and physical development, to name a few. These differences begin to become obvious when students enter elementary school and are put into a classroom of mixed abilities and behaviors for the first time. It is during this time when many students are identified as "gifted," and as a are result given a chance to be in a classroom of similar high achievers. As time goes by, and students move into high school, learning becomes more of a chore. School tends to educate the creative thinking out of students. In this system, even the most "advanced" classes discourage coloring outside of the lines.
There are many bright students here at Lincoln High and across the country. Though many of these students may test into the gifted program, the difficulty lies in efficiently and fairly educating mass numbers of students with different learning abilities.
Gifted education contends that every student needs to be challenged, but with little deviation from the educational norm, many students are left like a square peg in a land of round holes.
1'he gifted program has long been thought of as something different; an accelerated alternative to the traditional classroom. It's services may include for example, mentoring and classes at the university level. The learning needs of gifted students can be very specialized as the curriculum of the regular high school has been exhausted and or these high ability learners evolve to need something outside of the box.
·Potter
JoshSwartzlander Co-Editorin Chief
As I walked up to the East Park mall to go see "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" on opening night, some people were handing out pamphlets about the movie. I took one, expecting to see a description of the story written by a Harry Potter fan. Instead, I found hateful words condemning the Harry Potter books and saying that Harry Potter magic was evil.
" in reality, there is no such thing as a good witch or wizard. People who use witchcraft in the real world are not getting their powever from God. The Bible tells us that any power that doesn't come God is evil. So, for our own protection, God tells us not to do these things " stated the pamphlet put out by the ATS (American Tract Society.)
That, however, was not the first time I had encountered Harry Potter dissent. I had first heard of Harry Potter magic being seen
"A small percent of students fall at either end of the learning continuum, and in a lot of ways the learning needs of high ability learners, although the antithesis, are very much the same because they both need adjustments to the curriculum; artfully designed learning programs and often need learning experience outside of the traditional building," said Lincoln High counselor Marti Oakeson.
Modem day high school has always celebrated the dutiful student. At honors assemblies we award the scholar who is hard working; the kid who has always been good at school.. In this way, intelligence appears to equate achievement in school. But there's always that innately smart studentexception-to-the-rule who just doesn't partake in school for one reason or another. Even the most gifted student may not be able to succeed without various 'special' educational opportunities.
"Some people try to draw a line between someone who's gifted and someone. who's a high achiever. I don't believe that distinction exists. Part of being smart is working hard," said supervisor of the gifted program for LPS, Tom Hayes.
Being labeled as gifted has its advantages for someone disenchanted about school, says senior Lenna Pierce, but working hard is not all it seems to be. "Being told you are an achiever is a very powerful thing.
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It makes it easier, it's like having a pass because everybody knows where you are going to end up in the end so the teachers don't treat you too hard." Pierce contends that success is only achieved by working to please authorities, regardless of whether you are gifted or not.
When Pierce was in ninth grade she was enrolled at Lincoln High in the differentiated class AmEx, or the American Exper1ence, a block American literature and history class. This sort of ac-
"I definitely think that intelligent people have special needs. I don't think that the school system does a very good job taking care of that I think that's what diff. was supposed to be for in the first place, but really the people who end up in diff. classes are the people with middle class parents who know how to advocate for them," Pierce said.
"The problem with high school is that it's a three year program and a lot of credits have to be checked off and so speed and routine and efficiency does come into play," said William Steinke, gifted coordinator at the Arts and Humanities Focus Program. The language arts teacher contends that even bright people need motivation to succeed, and this may or may not be found in so called 'alternative learning environments'.
that's something that's very difficult to deal with in large high schools, and that might be a nice thing about the focus programs. I still don't know if we have found the suitable educational answer for the very bright student who wishes to study and progress differently," Steinke said.
Seeing as schools operate by rewarding students for their conformity, it seems hard to believe that a program that operates inside of this structured educational establishment could provide adequate 'alternative' educational opportunities for such high-maintenance students. The gifted program can only go so far inside of this value system, causing even the brightest students to be left out of 'i the educational loop.
The gifted program may seem elitist to some, but to many bright students struggling to complete school, it's nothing more than an accelerated version of traditional high school, leaving limited room for individual exploration.
"I think our traditional school program can celerated learn- be a terrible burden for some individ11als and ing was beneficial for her at the time because as a natural writer she was pushed to write many papers for the class, which "felt good". Pierce has taken advantage of the program to take classes at the university level in addition to her classes at the Arts and Humanities and the Zoo focus programs. Regardless of these benefits, Pierce still has some problems with the gifted program and its limitations. "It was not the sort of experience that teaches you to be an individualist productive person because it's all about meeting someone else's expectations for your work," said Pierce. More than anything, she says, the gifted program has become an opportunity for kids who are good at school to take challenging classes and get weighted credit.
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as evil in an article I read earlier in the Lincoln Journal Star titled "Harry Potter magic angers some conservatives."
'" Satan is up to his old tricks again, and the main focus is the children of the world,' wrote Jon Watkins, a Baptist activist" in the Lincoln Jour1ial Star article. "'The whole purpose of these (Potter) books is to desensitize readers and introduce them to the occult."'
If Harry Potter is the work of the devil, then "The Wizard of Oz" · is satanic, "The Lord of the Rings" is evil, and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is most definitely of
living in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600s. I plan to read the rest of the books and see the rest of the movies as they come out. It is ridiculous to suggest that there is anything remotely evil about Harry Potter and his magical world.
"I have met thousands of· children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch,"' the author has said.
The Harry Potter stories are wonderful tales of adventure and magic. They teach good lessons to their young readers about ethics and growing up. Readers young and old enjoy the books because ofRowling's rich lanthe snake. In fact, if Harry Potter is evil, then every bookshelf in every library and bookstore holding high fantasy stories might as well all bum in hell.
This graphic appears in pamplets opposing the HarryPotterbooks and movie craze.
The "conservatives" these delightful children's tales have angered need to get over themselves and realize that we are no longer
We no longer bum .witches at the stake for being supposed devil worshippers. These "conservatives" are no better than the people of Salem. They have forgotten to grow up over the last 400 years.
I have read all four Harry Potter stories, and I have seen the Harry Potter movie. guage and brilliant imagination.
We have enough real problems in the world today, and we don't need to be creating new ones. Perhaps the "conservatives" should direct their attention to a real problem in our society called intolerance, instead of perpetuating it with ignorance and fear.
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December
KatShiffler
Co-Editorin Chief
With. a spotlight on U.S. foreign policy in recent months, a common thread of international trepidation has become obvious ·in this government's dealings with those of other countries.
The world policy of the United States remains internally warped by a fear of the unknown. On September 11, 2001, the international policy of, "my enemy's enemy 1s my friend" unfortunately materialized to ignite violent terrorist attacks within our borders. With so much violence in the Middle East, and the intense patriotism-hype at home, there is little attention focused on the powerful forces of terror in other regions of the world.
In a land far far away, Colombia has become the 3rd largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the world behind only Israel and Egypt. From 1997 to 1998, military funding increased from $89 million to $289 million.
For many, the funding given to this South American country on behalf of the United States is hardly a sign of good will. For decades, the people of Colombia have been living in extre1ne poverty.
Annually, millions of dollars contribute to the continued destruction of an entire country. This money directly supports Colombia's
ors world.
When party leaders talk about eradicating the world's terrorists, they have yet to mention the breeding ground for terrorism located in Colombia.
In June 2000, the U.S. Congress passed a $1.3 billion dollar military aid bill. This bill was just a small part of the massive $7.5 billion program called Plan Colombia. This plan, created in conjunction with Colombian President Pastrana, has been
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Colombia is known by the United States as one of the world's top producers of cocaine, and is therefore carefully monitored by the CIA and other governmental agencies. Aerial fumigation in the Colombian Amazon has affected numerous indigenous peoples and intensified the violence of the armed conflict.
other regions of the country, because the peasant farmers have no other choice in order to feed their families.
called "a rescue package for Colombia's ruling elite."
Under the pretense of the "war on drugs" and further justified as a humanitarian intervention, Plan Colombia as- · sures the U.S. elite continued imperialistic control of the region's geopolitics.
The reality of Plan Colombia is that 82% of this money goes to a corrupt police and military forces, responsible for government sponsored "death squads" and other questionable military groups.
These paramilitary death squads are used as a powerful joint U.S. and Colombian government counterinsurgency policy.
Right-wing paramilitary organizations routinely attack and terrorize the civilian population in order to• Armed Forces, one of the smother the insurgencies of 1nost notoriously corrupted indigenous people, and pregovernment agencies in the vent the support of popular
In an effort to limit the amount of cocaine in the U.S., coca crops are fumigated with chemical and biological agents which in turn destroy all food crops in the region. While eliminating only 30% of the targeted coca crops, the United States continues to successfully destroy the food supply for Colombia's large rural population. Although armed with billions of dollars, the United States will likely never be successful in decreasing overall drug population.
"Coca and opium poppy production in Colombia tripled from 1994 to 1999 despite fu1nigating over 240,000 hectares of illicit crops with more than two million liters of glyphosate," according to a news release from usfumigation.org, a website dedicated to the examination of U.S. aerial chemical eradication in Colombia and in the third world.
The attempts of the · United States to control drug production rates in this "supply-side" method is a destructive procedure that does little good to preve11t drug addiction at home.
Drug production will more than likely just shift to I
As talks of the global anti-terrorist campaign heighten, the U.S. State Department has named the government opposition parties in Colombia as a terrorist threat. Among the targeted are groups such as The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN), and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
Yet the State Department has neglected to detail the differences between anti-terrorism operations and anti-insurgency operations. With the power of a world-wide "antiterrorism" initiative, billions of dollars continue to be spent in the bloody oppression of a landless peasant population in Colombia.
It is clear that the foreign policy of the United States has the immense power to control the fate of a whole country of people. In retaliation to our own societal problems, and in defense of our wav of life, the United Statespicks its enemies while ··blinded with imperialistic self-interest. The policy and financial support rooted in this country kills 5,000 people and displaced 300,000 Colombians a year.
As the world seeks to control terrorism where it originates, we need only to examine further the foreign policies of this country to discover that the problem is very close to home.
You can choose not to have sex
You can choose to say no to drugs and alcohol
You can talk to your partner about sex and HIV
You can choose only to have safer sex and always use a condom ·
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The Winter Sports season began November 12. Basketball, wrestling, and swimming are all in action.
This year Girl's Varsity basketball began their season November 30 and took on Columbus here at Lincoln High. Lincoln High came out very strong and took control. They ended up winning 53-43.
Sophomore Jennifer Endres led the team in scoring with 17 points and senior Amy Haas 12. Makyla Lone Wolf, Jessica McKinney, and Endres all made a three pointer, and McKinney l1it a three pointer from 25 feet , seconds before half time. McKin11ey said, "I just threw it up there hoping that it would fall in." Junior Alexis Grenfell commented, "I think we started out well and played an all around game, but we need to work a little bit harder."
Head coach Bill Myers is excited about the possibilities of his team this year. "We have good players who are willing to work hard and I feel very optimistic about this season," he said. Tryouts were November 12 and lasted three days, so that left only 15 days to prepare for the first game. "The first week we worked to get players into shape and conditioned. "We also have to start working on other opponents' plays." Myers commented. Myers felt Columbus had a good team because they return many good players and we also have a tough second game against Bishop Miege from Kansas City. Last year, Bishop Miege were Kansas 5A state champions. Ashley Mefferd finished with 12 points and Lone Wolf had two big three pointers in the game, but -Lincoln High couldn't stop Bishop Miege's power and lost 60-33. Myers added, "We need to focus on our responsibilities, out of bounds plays, press break, and man and zone offense. Senior Trina Berks said, "I think we tried our best, worked very hard, but need to work on our press break more." However, there are also seven returning Varsity letter winners. They are seniors i\shley Meffred and Makyla Lone \Volf, juniors Tiffany Davison, Molly Shields, and Alexis Grenfell, and sopho1nores Jennifer Endres, and Alissa Holland. Last season, Endres finished the season averaging ten points a game. They have also suffered a big loss this season, when
in practiceabove the weight room.
Grenfell tore her ACL in a summer basketball game. She missed the first three games, but;,it may be more, depending on how it heals. Myers felt Meffred has worked very hard in the off season and has gained a lot of strength from being in the weight room.
The team goals are to improve, play very competitively, play hard, smart, and be successful at the end of games. Myers said they had a lot of strength with seven returning varsity players who have all had key experience. "I feel we
They are seniors Keith Palmer, Tarvis Banks, and T.J. Coil, and juniors Zach Coffin, and Marcus Myles. They are coached by Jim Baker, and assistant Dave Medina.
Senior Jon Clay feels they have a very strong team this season. "I would like to make it to state this year, not necessarily place, but I hope our team does very well," Clay said. "We have a lot of team goals such as being in shape, trying our hardest, co1npeting well, and gaining a lot of points in tournaments." The
they will have to travel is to Maryville, Missouri where the meet starts at 10:00 am.
The tryouts for boy's basketball began on November 12, 2001 and led to final cuts on Wednesday November 14, 2001. Head coach Russ Uhing commented on tryouts, "Each year tryouts are difficult, you only have so many spots that can be filled. For instance, this year we had 124 people tryout, and we can only keep about'60 to 62, so it becomes real difficult, we can't keep everybody that we want to, but we feel good about the young men that we have." The 20012002 boys basketball team inc elude seniors, Tyler Payne, Tyler Hehn, Bobby Martin, Choul Laam, Andy Lomax, and juniors, Tyron Canby, Jake Brestel, Collin Hute, Steven Lancaster, David Crabtree, and Quentin I-lodges, and one sophmore, Seth Sharpe. Unfortunately, senior, Bobby Martin tore his ACL, and will be out for the season. "So we rely on the team to pick up the slack and do some really important things for the team to be successful," coach Uhing comments. The varsity boy's basketball team is coached by business teacher Russ Uhing, · and assisted by physical education teacher Sam Sharpe.
The team made goals for the weekend, which were, " to come out and to play as hard as we can, play together, compete, and then we will see where we are at after this weekend."
men he spoke so highly about, "we shoot the ball well, we have a little bit more height than we have had in the past, and our real strength for us is the fact that we play together well."
One of the biggest city rivals will be December 13, 2001 when the Links meet up with the Rockets in Johnson Gym at Lincoln High at 8 p.m.
Tyler Hehn thinks that there is no problem getting to state and taking it all home, "I think that we are going to be better than last year, mainly because we have been together as a team longer and
Junior Claire High feels confident about the swimming teams especially the girls, "the girls team is definitely better than last year, were doing really well because, it is the biggest girls team I have ever been on, and they are very enthusiastic."
The Cotter Invitational is the biggest 1neet of the year because, Lincoln High hosts it. The meet takes place on,
have good outside shooters and can run the floor well, plus be able to fast break and press well," he said. "We lack in post experience and will need to shoot outside more and the posts will need to get comfortable on this level." He also thought they have a tough schedule and will need to be ready every night.
This season the Varsity \Vrestling team will began Friday, November 30, when they traveled to Freemont at 3:30 pm. They scored a total of 58 team points at the meet. There are many people out for wrestling this season and they return six Varsity letter winners.
. Andy Lomax (12) shoots a layup.
team has been working very hard at practice, especially to get in shape. "We work very hard, and its not always about losing weight," Clay added. Some of the things that are being worked on in practice are conditioning, getting into shape, many different drills, such as take downs, stand ups, top and bottom positions, and speed drills. Practice is everyday and usually lasts until 6:00. There are fourteen different weight classes ranging from the light- • est, 103 pounds to the heavyweight category, 275 pounds.
This season the Varsity team only has four meets here at Lincoln High. The farthest
Although, the weekend did not tum out the way it was expected to, losing to Creighton Prep on .the road and losing to towering Bishop Miege from Shawnee Mission, Kansas at home, the 0-2 varsity boys team has Fremont at home on Friday, December 7, 2001 and the following day at Norfolk.
Coach Uhing has plenty of confidence in his 12 young
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played together, I think we're going to win state."
The Lincol11High Varsity boys and girls swimming began on November 12, 2001.
Sixty boys and girls tried out for swimming this year, wllich is a lot more than the past years. Coach Condradt felt, "more people tried out because, they realized swimming was a great sport." Conradt was very pleased with the effort given in tryouts although; they were not allowed to swim the first two days of the scheduled tryouts due to difficulties with general operation of pool facilities.
The key swimmers for girls include, junior R;ichael Wells, and sophomores
Friclay January 11, 2001, and Saturday January 12, 2001. The boys are defending champions and the girls have won before so they have a good chance of winning this time.
Four girls already qualified for state by meeting a specific time in the Millard South meet, which both boys and girls won.
The state qualifiers are sophomores Ashley Henry, Marisha Lenz, and Samantha Staley, and the freshman qualifier is Sarah Costello.
All four girls combined in the 400 freestyle relay to achieve a specific time to make it to state. Good luck to boys and girls swimming.
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Ashley Henry, Marisha Lenz, and Samantha Staley. The key swimmers for boys include, seniors Scott Rutz and Reed Pierce, and junior Sean Brozek.
_January22 , 2002
Volume 107 l sst1e 4
Kat Shiftier
Co-Editorin Ch1tf·
tl1e answer is a bit murky, Bad language was identified as an isst1e by the committee by looking at and surveying a represenAmidSt Lincoln High 's tative 1>aro 111e of the stt1dent populavast system of staff organization, ·tion. In turn, this vvas pronounced there lies 011e s pecific group that the focu s of the year W11en leaves trails of evidence wherever comhati na cn, --'--o ·"" "'~ they go. Neat po s ters anrl ,,, ,-"' ~v 1 rogatory language, teachers buttons h¼,c oeer1 sighted along with wore buttons with exple" ·briefings from teacher s intended to ·. tives cro ss ed out. Hot , draw attention to s pecific tasks. Ap- pink posters covered the propriatel y called th e School Im- school proclaiming that provement Co1nmittee, this group "Re s pect is Not a 4-Let- f 1nade up of 10 to 12 teacher s from ter Word! ;' various departm e nts e valuates the For seniors who weaknesses of the scl1ool and then were around when lanatten1pts to prod the population into guage wa s a~1is s ue , the proaction. paganda has 1011gsince di s-
Three years ago the school focused attention on wiping out bad language. This year it's QuestionAnswer Relation s hips (QAR) that is mentioned periodically in classrooms and on wall hangings. Sl) v1hat's all the f11ssabout? Are thes e image-improving trial s of any use?
In the case of the anti-swearing campaign in the 1999-2000 school year,
eappeared , and so it seems has any concern for cutting out the bad talk. "I mean, you can walk down the halls of Lincoln High and hear inappropriate language," said Russ Uhing, Head of the Improvement Com1nitt ee , "\\ / hat fee dback we had from teachers was that since it was a goal it w as easier to talk to students about it. It was easier to ex-
pect appropriate language and s tt1dents for the most part were very good about that, " Uig
said.
Recalling the campaign three ye ars ago , can1 1-"lu s security advisor Dave Medina said, "I think · it reminded s tudents. I think it al s o reminded us a little bit how to ap-
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Guest Speaker Tackles.Hate Crimes.
Micah Stege-Tompsett
· Feature Editor
'' In the beginning, there was the word, and the word was used to do good. But the word could also be used to do evil." This message was repeated tlrroughout a speech by Dr. Jack Kay, professor of Co1nmunication from Wayne State _University in Detroit, Michigan, in an assembly held here at Lincoln High on December 17, 2001 as part of the Dr. Jones Lecture Series.
Kay, who is also Associate Vice President for Global Education, has done extensive research in the language of oppression and the com1nunication strategies of hate groups, including going undercover to investigate KKK and Arya11 Nation
When hate groups first got their start, they met in the houses of townspeople and most of the time in secret. However, since 1985, the groups have spread to the Internet. Access to these
you are.
Kay gave some rather startling statistics. Every hour in the United States, someone commits a hate crime. Every day, eight African Americans , three Whites, three gay people, three Jewish people, two Arab Americans, and one Latino are brutally victimized by hate crimes.
Words have been used throughout time to 'dehumanize' people of different races in order to op 0 press them. Hitler labeled Jews "vermin", Native Americans were labeled "savages" which made it easier to round them up and put them on reservations, and African Americans were referred to as property to justify slavery. An example that may be more familiar to people today would be calling women "chicks" and "babes". meetings.
The 'word' of hate ha s spread in different forms , st1ch as selling newspapers filled with hate propaganda
Dr. JackKay shareshis knowledge of 'Cyberhate'at an assemblythat was held on December 1 7th
sites has been ea sier to get to over the years. In the early days, you had to have a password to the sites. Now, you can just type in the address and there
"We are not born to hate ," Kay ·said. "Hate is constructed through symbols and words." He encouraged the peacemakers in each and ever;-
proach students, so yeah, I think it s been helpful " "I think it depends on , vhat context they're u s ing it in," s aid junior Margaret Gurewitz abot1t inappropriate language. "I mean if it's being used to !1arm other people, that 's bad. Other,vise it's just a word.· If bad · words ·are directed toward people then I think it's the sc hool's job to step in. " For so me s tudent s however, tackling inappropriate language i n school seems a bit futile. "If you see people cussing each other out, then that's kind of ridiculous, and something should be done, but I mean every 011ce in a while it slips out," junior Sarah Ga ti e l sa id , "T think te ac her s do it
too 1 mean , if s omething h app etts they ' ll j11st blt1rt out'#@$ %! '" s e nior Sara Noble added.
While the anti-sw ea ri rii,; ,,. initiative of year s past may n ot t'JC a great success, the School Impro
ment romm-itt i=ar:>-,,.,.,.._.,.....f
goals stud e nts and staff. But
that time , the Com1nittee ha s rr:c,ci e some procedural changes addr e ss:r:,g how issue s are identified f o r i ,11proven1ent Instead of issue s br1se(1c 011opinion, the group L1sesstati stl-1 'd .d h ""' ca ev1 enc e to gu1 e t em. 1 1.11 :; 1neludes scores from ACT, l'•lff\:f, PLAN and reading and writin g dernonstration e xam s Ul1ing and otl1ers on tl1c Improvement Committee are n o ,,,; focusing their attention on somew ha t more founded and realistic goaJ ,; such as QAR . Said Uhing,"I th i ,11': it just makes common sense that yo u try to identify tl1e areas tl1at need i n1provement and then you focu s you r h " a ttenti.on on t P ITI ,
one of us to come dt1t and stop the hate. If even once a week we could do something to stand up for tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, the
world would soon be a far better place , free of the hatred that encouraged the Oklahoma City bombing or the 911 tragedy. It is our responsibility.
EarlPilcher StaffWriter
It's 7:15 a.in., and you're getting dropped off at school or walking from your car to school. On 2 2 nd & J the first thing you notice is that kid s are all on the corner puffing away at their lives. Smoking cigarettes or cigars that is
The environment around this area i s horrible. Tl1e people who s mok e should feel some sympathy for those who live in the apartments.
The apartment resid e nts have to live through a hi g h school hangout spot, litter , cigarette bt1tt infested areas, annoyi11g graffiti , and a loud rucku s for a home.
Ev e ry p e riod of the day there is someone on tl1e corner, snow or rain. When the clock hits 11:39 a.m., it's a rush to go to your car for lunch or maybe ju s t stand in li11e.
Bt1t for other s it' s a ru s l1 to go light up a cig ar etle a ,,u li a 11g out with friends on the corner of 2211d a11d J street s When asking school resource officer Rich Hubka if kids
should be ticketed for loitering, s moking, tre s passing he said
kids how much a cigar or cigarette i s really worth.
JoshSwartzlander
Co-Editorin Chief
Crimes and parking violations have been creating a me s s in some of the Lincoln High parking lots.
Stolen and vandalized items in Lincoln High lots are becoming a major problem for some s tudents.
Kelly Gregg, a junior at Lincoln High, says that he has gotten some dings and scratches in the Lincoln High south parking lot. His chrome valve cap covers for his tire also · di s appeared when he parked at Lincoln High.
Tom Hilsabeck, a Lincoln High sophomore, walked out to his car parked in the Lincoln High south lot after school on the day of s tate volleyball , ·and f o und his diver ' s side wind o w br o ken into and th e fac e of hi s s ter e o gone.
" They tried to take the actual s yst e m , bu t the y c ouldn't get it out of my car," Hil s abeck s aid · Ill eg al park:ing has a l s o b ee n c a usin g big probl e ms in Li11coln
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Lin co In High students, some smoking cigarettes, stand at the corner of 22nd and J street and talk with their friends after a long day of being in school. "Smoker's Corner" has been a concern for area neighbors.
that arrest s and ticket s don ' t happen everyday because the police are a s kl11.5 fur cu111plia11c e fi-0111 the student s If this vvas to happen everyday it "could become kind of e x pensive," Hubka s aid. But s 01ne think it would teach the
esome of the Lincoln High parki11g lots are dotted with red parking ticket s Jay Beermann, a Lincoln High junior, has gotten at le ast six parking tickets this semester in Lincoln High lots. "It frustrates me because ther e is not enougl1 parking," Beermann s aid.
Beermann also says that the Lincoln Police have been overzealous in their ticket writing. "They assault students with pink envelope s when they could be stopping real crime, " he said.
A ccording to campus supervisors, Lincoln High's reso11rce officer, Rich Hubka , goes through the Lincoln High lots to make sure no crime s are being com1nitted and to make sure that everyone is parked legall y about tw o to three time s a week Campus superv iso rs a ls o go through th e lots durin g the sc hool day to mak e sure they ar e saf e U s uall y, ille ga l par k:er s get t w o t o thr e e warning s befo re trie ir c ars a re to w ed ' 'W e don't play f av or - · ites, " cam p us superv is or David Med i11a sa i d
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they're supposed to be in school, we'll deal with them. " This ·might result in a referral, s uspension, or detention for s kipping or truancy, but that's as far as the school officials will go. If there were no area for kids to smoke they probably would go in the street or another block away and it would mo s t likely cause more trouble with other land owners, Wortrna11 replied. Every s chool experiences s imilar problems \vith smokers, Officer Hubka said. East is different because of how their parking lot i s situated but Northeast and S o uthe as t "both have residence s around tl1e ir place more than we do," he said.
· Is anything being done to preve11t student s from being over there now? "It' s ju s t a matter of campus s upervisor s remindi11g kid s they ca11 ' t leave the building during th e school day s , " Wortman s aid. " If kids want to go over there a11d stand
a11dw ait for their rnom or dad to plch. lll c
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stand over there and be sa f e."
This does in a way affect the school environment. Because of the high vi s ibility of the corner, some people have the perception that all Lincoln High kids smoke , which is far from the truth.
When asked about the s 1noking situation, students Tasha Brewer and Gabe Long Soldier both felt that the at1no s phere was " nasty." When I ask e d Brewer if she would want her front yard looking like this, she replied " No , it's a gros s environment. " Long Soldier doe s n't b e lieve kids s hould be tick e ted when s moki11g at the corn e r, though " It' s s chool property it is a designated area for kids to smoke," he s aid.
Tl1e i ss ue i s having re s pect for the neighbor s who liv e ne a r the corner , but many smok e rs do not under s tand t hi s Thi s h as caused 1nany proble1n s
llJ · School officials who w ould rather the s mokers be i11 sch()Ol, but in general the kids r e all y rr1ean no n a rri1.
is a seniorpoliticalscienceru1dhistory
1najorat the UniversityofNebraska-
· Lincoln.Sl1e'salso one of only 80 students nationwideto be
a,vardeda TrumanScholarship.This prestigio11Saward recognizesoutstanding potentialleadersin publicservice."It's for. idealistic,I-want-to-save-the-worldtypes of people,"saysAngela,and she11be taking that spirit fromthe campusto the natio11in the years al1ead. If youwru1tto make a difference
.ote of the· month
''We may never know why he turned his back on our country and our values, but we cannot ignore that he did. Youth is not absolution for treachery, and personal self-discovery is not an excuse to take up arms against your country.''
-Attorney General John Ashcroft speakingabout captured Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh
Kat Shiffler Co-Editor in Chief
crazy over-achieving student would do that?! Well, it wouldn't have to be like study-hall or anything, and maybe students would like this idea better if the en-
Public school shoi1ld be a lot of vironment were right. While many may things that it's not. Ideally, our educa- not care one way or the other, students tional institutions should be well- should be given the option to lounge beequipped, well~staffed, and well-ser- fore or after school in an assuredly safe viced. Above all they should provide a space. All I'm saying is that it is in the safe environment for students. At Lin- best interests of both students and the coln High we are provided a top quality community as a whole if an alternative academic education; one with all of these to being on the streets is offered. characteristics. The only problem is that In years past here at Lincoln all of this ends with the bell at three High a student lounge was open to hang o'clock everyday. Schools should be a around in. Not only would this create a sanctuary, before and after class hours. real sense of community (and a pleasant
We are required to sit in class for break from the seven different 49-minutesix or seve11 hours a day. Some students · assorted-learning-modules thrown at you may stay longer for sports or other ex- all at once), a space like this would give tracurrict1lar activities, but hangi11g us influential youngsters a sense of ownaround at school without a purpose is ership of our school. disco11raged, and the doors are locked at But maybe I'm just crazy. I know certain times limiting student access to that if it were up to me, all of the walls, a public institution which otherwise has ceilings and lockers would be painted in great potential. blinding color and psychedelic patterns.
The fact is that students in this Realistically though, this could work. Inage group make stupid decisions every- stead of being herded in and out, we could day. Acting out of boredom or maybe to choose to stay and socialize or work in a impress others, students get into trouble. student lounge. (Whoa, ,space to learn Most juvenile crime occurs between 3 and play?!) And wh1le we're thinking and 6 pm, the time when students are outside of the box, we should open up the most likely unsupervised and looking for courtyards as a space for students as well. something to do. This makes the idea of It's all about a safe and friendly a curfew seem really pointless consider- environment to foster community and ing that the majority of crime commit- school pride. We should make this place: ted by youth occurs in the afternoon. We our own. We should be able to be in our can either enforce a really early curfew own building even when school's not in (which probably wouldn't go over too session. We should be able to have crazy well) or give students an outlet; a space get-togethers in a student lounge and be that is open for their own use after the able to frolic in the courtyards of our end of the school day. school. Public schools should be a lot of
What am I insinuating by this? things that they are not, but that doesn't Am I suggesting that we stay in school mean they dori't have great potential for longer than required?! What kind of change.
By MatthewLefeber
I am writing this article in response to the article "Organized Religion powerful tool for manipulation" published in the opinion section of last month's Advocate. First off I would like to say that my intent is 11otto disrespect this article or the author. My intent is just to share another person's point of view on this subject.
1'here was a statement made in this article that read, "Where I see organized religion I also encounter hate, ignorance, prejudice, and injustice." At first wl1en I read this I was a little upset and confused. Whenever I have encountered organized religion I have encountered the exact opposite of this. This is wl1ere misconceptions and confusion first set in. He is basing this statement off of people like the KKK. The KKK tries to pull people in by saying "If you're a good Christian then you should hate minorities." But anyone who knows any thing about the Cl1ristian faith knows that this is completely h,irk"1",-r1~ frnn1 thf' Rihle So thf' KKK is manipulating the Christian faith for their own hatefL1l ways, right? So the11 it's not the Christia11 faith that you are encountering with this hate, prejudice, and injustice. But it's the KKK you are encountering with this. So it is very unfair to associate the world religions with hate groups or extremists like this. The world religions of today and its followers cannot be responsible for the actions of these ec(treme irrational grot1ps. Wl1enever I encounter organized religion in its truest form I encounter not hate and prejudice but love and understanding. It's very important to separate those ,vho are preaching the religion from what the religio11 actually stands for.
Another point that was made read, "Today Cl1ristian missionaries in South America and Africa continue to destroy cultures in the name of their religion." He is getti11g at things like industrializing of third world countries, and believes that Christian missionaries are at the front of this (I know this because I have spoken with hin1.). I think
tl1at this is another misunderstanding. Tl1c point of Christian 111issionaries is not to change the culture but to be part of tl1e cuiture and help out in anyway possible, and i11 the process of understanding their beliefs ar1ci ways, the Christian missionaries also share their way of life with the people of that cu1lture. It's a situation where both groups beriefit. But still people consider this changing or destroying their CL1lture.But in some tribes if you just walk into their village you can change their culture. Granted there are so1r1e cases where there are individual people along with the US government going in to thircl world countries in an attempt to reshape their culture in to what they see as right. So it's very important to try and separate those who are acting in the name of their own greed fron1 those who are really acting in the name of thei1r religion.
One thing that I do happen to agree with, although I don't think tl1is was the inte11tion of th0_ 5)r,tl~nr_ T ·t11h~n. he st:=ited, "Org~nl~".P:d religion powerful tool." I would have to agree. I am going to go back to the Christian faith, because I am n1ost familiar with this. In the Christia11 faith going to church and reading Bible are indeed very powerful tools for living in my opinion a good life. A life full of understanding and love for one another. But for me it is the model that Jesus set that I try to live everyday. I believe that Jesus was the Son of God and that he died on the cross for my sins. So for that I will live my life or1this earth doir1g \'!hat I think l1e woLild do (based off the records of him in the Bible.) So yes i tise religion as a tool to better understand myself and this world. But I don't get so caught up in the religion to the point where I lose site of Jesus and what he has done for all of us.
I say thank you to the author for sharing his views and allowing this to be brought out in the public to be discussed. I encourage people of all other faiths to write in and share their beliefs on how their religion is practiced and betrayed in our society today.
You can choose not to have sex
You can choose to say no to drugs and alcohol
You .can talk to your partner about sex and HIV
You can choose only to have safer sex and always use a condom
Jerrod Watson EntertainmentEditor ,
There is a brand new gan1e on the Nintendo Gamecube which is a smash of a game. Sl1per Smash Bros. Melee shipped in stores and were grabbed by eager Nintendo fans on December 3 rd 2001. The game Super Smash Bros. Melee is a sequel off of another hit title for the N64 called Super Smash Bros. It began on the N64 in 1999 as a simple fighting game that pits several characters from Nintendo made franchises in a one on one duel with moves such as kicking, punching, throwing and hitting with objects. The main part of the game is about throwing. That or smashing somebody off of the screen. That's how you beat the character you are fighting. Now, after 2 years have enjoying the game on N64, you can now enjoy it on the Nintendo Gamecube with added features that will make you totally forget there ever was an original for the N64.
The new features in Super Smash Bros. Melee come after Hal, the comaker of this game along side with Nintendo, noticed the problems with the one player mode in
the N64 classic. They felt it needed a bit more variety with tl1eir 011e player mode so they recreated the original mode, and 1nade a brand new Adventure mode to go along with it for the sequel. The Adventure mode is kind of like the one player mode in the first game, but in between the fights it has mini adventure tasks you would find in a typical Nintendo made game. Some areas include a 3D version of a scene you would probably find in a level from the original Super Mario Brothers game for the NES. There is also a stage you would probably find in a Legend of Zelda video game and, for all the Metroid fans, you can now escape brinstar with a time limit just like in the original.
All of these stages lead to a fight between the characters related witl1 the stage you are playing in.
If you are playing in tl1e Mario stages, you will fight Mario and Princess Peach and then go on to figl1t tl1e Koopa l(ing hi111self, Bowser.
Another thing that sets Melee apart from the original are the new characters and stages you can unlock and the 1nany new moves you can execute while in game. The characters in the N64 version only
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with comfortable, home-style furniture. Our table \Vas very large, and provided us with plenty of eat1ng space.
Brightly colored walls, hanging chili pepper lights, and traditio11al paintings decorate Lincoln's only Salvadorian restaurant. Open since 1998, Restaurante El Salvador was previously located on 11th St. between A and B Sts., where they only had eight tables. It has come a long way. Now located at 1501 Center Park RD, just off of 14th and Highway 2, this family-owned restaurant has made a statement. It is known for its authentic food.
To begin, we were served chips
efeatured 8 characters. Mario, Link, Samus Aran, Yoshi, Pikacl1u, Fox McCloud, Donlcey Kong, and Kirby. Along with the 8 character were 4 hidden characters which you could unlock. Ness, Luigi, Captain Falcon, and Jigglypuff from Pokemon. Now, in Melee, you already have all the original characters, including tl1e secret characters, already unlocked except for Luigi and Jigglypuff. There are 11 other characters which you can unlock after completing specific tasks. The characters name are Jigglypuff, Pichu and MewTwo (all from Pokemon), Marth and Roy (from a Japanese-only video called "Fire Emblem"), Mr. Game and Watch, Luigi, MewTwo, young Link, Dr. Mario, and Ganondorf. Other then the new features, the game looks like a basic ordinary sequel. You be the judge of that if you decide to rent or buy the game. If you are looking for a top notch video game that can be enjoyed by c·,cryonc, get Super Smash Bros. Melee. It is a must have.
I give it a perfect 5 out of 5 because the game is good, the graphics are excellent, the sound is the best you will ever find in any video game from a Nintendo system.
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bought kind because it was very thi11 and did11'thave the usual large sized vegetables. It tasted very good and. ,vas seasoned perfectly with the flavor of cilantro. When we were
JerrodWatson EntertainmentEditor
Do you know Wesley Willis? He's an African American citizen of the Chicago area who was diag11osedwith chronic schizophrenia in the late 1980s and he sings whatever is on his mind. With a wide range of topics such as a
terrible. His voice sometimes squeaks if he goes too high, and he often just screa1ns his chorus lines. He doesn't even do very imaginative choruses. He just uses the name of the song and repeats it four ti1nes. It is the same for nearly 100% of his songs. B11t, if you were to sit down a11dlisten to his music, you might see the talent he McDonalds in has. It might not be apparent at first, but he has great song-writing talent. He says it like it is and does it successfully. Chicago called "'Rockon London, Rock and Roll 1 McDonalds, Rock on Chicago. his fans eagerly IWhea-Mes,B eal,.P.... eat up the al- ,ll! • f ,NOOL. bums he re-lof champions." leases. And there are many I-Wesley albutns he has
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were painted with bright colors such as red, green, yellow, purple, and orange. There were large area rugs with mild and hot sauce along with marinated cabbage. The salsa was different from the traditional store-
handed the menu, everything was in Spanish with the English translation below. I ordered the Pupusas de Queso for $1.50, which was a grilled tortillas with cheese. The pupusa was about a quarter-inch thick filled with cheese. I added a side of
beans and ended up dipping the pupusa into them. It tasted like a plain tortilla and it needed a bit of salt added,
And when he out, including 30 different albums sings his songs, which is usually that he did in a years time. just a spoken poem he writes, he · Willis often sings with does it with style and rhythm that profanity. He also sings about you like listening to him. And, at things people might find sick or dis- the same time, he makes people gusting. So1ne titles of his songs laugh with his silly topics. are so bad that they can't be printed If you're still not interin a school publication, but, others ested in Wesley Willis, that's all are okay. Since he sings whatever fine. He's not for everybody. is on his mind, you could end up When he sings he sometimes hearing anything. He sings about swears and, on a rare occasion, his favorite rock bands, life stories uses sexual themes in his music. dealing with his chronic schizo- If you don't like that, then don't phreriia or people he hates, such as buy his music. But, if you're inthe 1960s murderer Richard Speck. terestecl in an artist who is bad, yet He also sings about people he en- very good at what he does, then I joys having in his con1pany, and suggest going down to Homer's silly things like beating up Batman, Do\vntown or any other n1usic how Kris Kri11gle was a car thief, place that 1night carry Wesley the chicken cow, and how the vul- Willis albums and buy one. You tures ate his dead body up. And so 1nost likely won't be disappointed much more. and will, perhaps, have a good
When you first hear laugh.
Wesley Willis, you might find him which quickly solved the problem.
My mom l1ad the Carne Asada (Steak Top Sirloin) for $8.00 and it came with rice and beans. She commented, "It was perfectly cooked, and the seasoning was great." For my dad, he ordered the Plato combinado (Combination Plate) for $5.00 which contained a pupusa, taco, tamale, and beans. "The tamale was very good, because it was stuffed with sweet baby com and flavored with cinnamon."
The prices were very reasonable and there is nothing over $12.00. In fact, most of the meals were under $9.00. All the food is authentic to El Salvador, such as empanadas and yucca, and is not easily found in other restaurants in Lincoln. Some
of the specials are Carne Guisada (Stewed Meat), Camarones Rancheros (shrimp in a sauce containing tomatoes, peppers, and spices) and Chicharrones eri Tomate (Fried Pork Skin with Tomatoes).
Our food was served within fifteen minutes from when we ordered, and the staff was very friendly and willing to answer any questions we had. It had a very cheerful and uplifting atmosphere and was kept spotless.
This was a memorable experience for me because all the food was new and delicious. I would recommend this restaurant to everyone and would suggest that you come in and give it a taste, especially if you are into trying new and unique foods.
Cassie Willis Sports Editor
My parents and I went out on a Wednesday night. It wasn't very crowded, but there is usually quite a wait on the weekends. The walls
RestauranteEl Salvadoris the only restaurantin Lincolnserving authenticfood from El Salvador. lt is located Justsouth of 14th
January 22, 2002 -Volume 107 lssue 4
' Sarah Bergman Opinion Editor
The much-anticipated "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring " has finally arrived, and it fit s i11 well with th e theme of th e season; my stic a l, magical wizardry. _ T\1e other of course " Harry Potter and the Sorceres s Stone." Th e "Fe llowship of th e Ri11g " wa s stra ngely released on a or s 0
Wednesday, but for a full ti me student and employee, that did11 't fit my sche dule. I went the following Saturday. I figured it would be busy but not too bad - The _long line wrapped all around East Park Mall, down the hall and out the
wait.
Unlike Harry Potter, "Fellowship of the Ring" had far fewer previews at the beginning, which was great. Th at way an a lready long movie isn't even longer b e cau s e of a fifteenminute chain of trailer s Based on th e tril-
Bilbo's l1eir. Frodo now has to go on a quest to get rid of the ring for good, so no evil cr e atures will have th e power over Middle- e arth. It is a very beautift1l and magical adventure film The actors all worked out very well with the roles they were
seexciti11g non-stop adventure, which also has qualitie s of a l1eartpounding thriller.One of the best parts of the "Fellowship of the Ring " was the beautiful po e tic scenes and special effects. The land s that Frodo and his company traveled through were breathtaking. It not onl y ha s a great plot a11d good actors , it was fun to watch.
"Lordof the Rings"is a movie based on the firstvolume of a series of fantasy books by J.R.R.Tolkien. The film is currentlyplayingin theaters.
door. I attempted to buy tickets for the next showing at 5: 1 Opm but _ they had been sold out for quite awhile. I lucked out and got tickets for the 8:45pm show.
The ticket seller told us to arrive a half and hour earlier and I ' m glad we did, because the line was already out the door of th e theat e r. With all th e fans and viewe r s you wo uld think that they would have put " Fellowship of the Ring" on rr1ultiple scree ns at o ne theater like they did with Harry P ot ter , t1ut th ey did11 't do t hat with this ma g i-
ogy by J.R.R. Tolkien , thi s movie starts with a dark and detailed introduction of v1hat has happened before the s tory and a little bit of what might l1app e n during th e movie. "Fellowship of the Ring" is about an allpowerful ring that was owned by the dark Lord -Sauron who wanted to take over the realm of
given. I was afraid Elijah's fake English accent would be the last of the movie, but he did an excellent job. Liv Tyler also had a part in this movie as a half elf, half human named Arwe11. Though a small role she made a gorgeous portrait of a goddess like elf. I was pleased with all the actors.
Middle-earth. I11 a battle Other actors a human cut off Saurons' Sean Astin as Sam, finger with the ring on it Do1ninic Monaghan as It the n ended up wit h a Merry, Billy Boyd as hobbit named Bilb o Pippin, John Rhys-
I only had two complaint s about this movie. First it is too ! 011g. It 's a great movi e and at first you never v,1 ant it to end, then after about three hour s, approximately 178 minutes, you ar e relie v e d to .see some cr e dit s. - Bu t just when you ' re ready for the movie to be over, you 're left u11happy. A s the c haracters are about to move to the next land, the movie ends. N o ending results or slow goodbyes. I couldn't believe it ended so abruptly, but I gu es s in about a year I can pick up wh er e it left off. Then i11 a year after that they will s how the final film of the trilogy. That is the future plans of th e Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The second installme11t will be released next year around the same time of "Fe llow s hip of the Ring," and again with the final book.
- Baggins (Ia n H oln 1). Davies as Gimli, ViggoI - re co mmend this movie to everyone. It i s ,ve il worth th e time and money. I'm about ready to go again If yo u' ve got th e time run ott t and se e wl1at I thinl c is the best movie o f th e year, L o rd o.f t he Ri11gs: r"e llo1A;s/1i p of t li e Ring. c al m ov ie It 's olc, be e cause tl1i s 1nov i e i s wel l v1orth the trouble and : Baggins' wizard friend Mortensen as Aragorn, Gandalf (Ian McKellen) - Sea11 Bean as Borom ir, recommends he rid him- Cate Blanchett as s el f of the ri11g. Tl1e next Galadriel, and Hugo ho ld er of the ri11g i s Weaving as Elror1d. Frodo ( Elijal1 Wqod) , 1' hey all are p a rt of th is
Earl Pilcher Jr. Staff Writer
The primary missio11 of the Hip-Hop Culture Club is to educate the students of Lincoln Hirrh col,oal Vll Lne or1gi11s,styles and influence of Hip-Hop c11lturein our society
Other organizational goals include: ( 1) To challenge all stereotypes concer11ing Hip-Hop. (2) To acknowledge and celebrate the rapid growth and popularity of Hip-Hop i11American culture as well as its influe11ce on the rest of the world. (3) Reveal how Hip-Hop has impacted clothes, lang11age, advertising, self-expression, and attitudes of the youth of our "Hip-Hop Generation."
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RylyZetterman
7 BusinessManafier
Have you ever wondered what it wo11ld be like to leave your family for six months and go to a different country? Jounior, Catharina Abs is a foreign exchange student from Bonn, Germany who is staying with me until January 21, 2001, when she departs for her home in Germany.
Why did she want to come to the United States for six months? "I wanted to leave home for a while and see other cultures, try new things, and experience a different education." I asked her what new things? Why a different education? What was wrong with a German education? Abs said, "I really wanted to try new things in school, and see school life here. I wanted to learn totally different stuff like photography and interior design. I like the United States' classes better· than Germany's because you can choose what you want to do and you have a variety."
Catharina also really likes the teachers here she co1nmented that, "they are
Hip-Hop C11lture may seem to many people as a generation full of violence and explicit language. On the other l1and this club is trying to see the better side of what this culture can be abont - l,uvi11g many groups of kids i11a safe environment where everyone ca11get along in a goon positive atmosphere.
An e11viro11ment where every race and culture can come together as one and start their own new era of a cult11re. They want to have a positive atmosphere full of young people with lots of energy who all share the same common interests a11dto live freely and without any types of harassments to bond and get along with one another. Hip-Hop Culture is not just about violence and explicit language.
ace,
Hip Hop Culti.1reClubhelps educate LincolnHigh about the origins and influences of the Hip Hop Culture.
Catharina Abs (11),a foreign exchange student from Germany,develops film in Photojournalism.
really nice and funny." She said in Germany teachers aren't as friendly and there is no student-teacher relationship.
Outside of school
Catharina likes to go to movies and eat at her favorite fast food restaurant, Amigos. She likes Amigos so much because they don't have Mexican food in Germany, but she
wishes they did, especially if it was Amigos. She also likes to hang out with friends and go shopping, which has almost robbed her of her money. She bought more clothes here than she brought because, she knew that she would buy clothing here because it is a lot cheaper than Germany.
January
22, 2002
A for1ner Lincoln High student by the name of J\/[arcus Mason from the rap groc,p Wildcrr,css Boys, thought of tl1e Hip-Hop Culture Club and enabled it to be in the place it is today.
The Hip Hop Club's spo11sors are John Good\vin of the campus sec11rity and former LHS teacher Giovanni Jones. The club's preside11t is Chantal Af11hand the Vice President is Kemari Shinall and those among the chair-
ace
She also has to save room in her suitcase for drawi11 gs and pictures from school.
Catharina also mentioned that it was11't as easy to malce friends here, but 110w it is coming along when she is getting ready to leave. I asked her if it would have been the same way to make friends if an exchange student was to come to Germany, and she said that yes, it probably wouldn't have been as easy to make friends.
She also commented about coming here and what other kids would ask her. She thought they might say stuff to her about Hitler because he was from Germany, and give her crap for that, but she was surprised, and no one even mentioned Hitler to her.
When I asked her if she liked Lincoln she said, " I don't think Lincoln is too small. It is a nice size for families, and it is not too big to be too dangerous." She likes her room at her host house and says, "It is enough. I don't need anymore. It is messy, but tl1at is my own fault."
Before Cathaiina leaves she wants to get her driver's license, because she failed the first time, and is hoping to pass this time.
man board i11clude Linda Dawson, Nuru Roach, myself, Matt Eskra, Anthony Jackson.
This club is trying to establish a 11ightonce a weekend for all youths of the HipHop Culture to con1e together as one. A big kick-off party was planned to be in Jant1ary, b11tdue to complications of the club for1nally know11 as Studio 14 switchi11gow11ers,the date is hopefully to be set i11late February.
Some of the big entertainers going to be involved are D.J. Finesse of New York City and a few other big surprises rnay be i11volved. Other schools that are involved or have established a cl11b are Northeast and Southeast. One of the pro-
posals was to raise money from tl1e lcick-off party and to reach out to the community and start tutorial programs and have a job shadowing progra1n. The ages that are going to range in the participation are anywhere form 15 to 18.
One ()f the biggest goals tl1at has been accomplisl1ed by this clt1b is writing up a proposal for companies or corporatio11s to get involved in this cult11re.
Does this culture l)enefit anyone? "Any time sttidents feel like there's a group they're a part of and there are other kids that have common i11terests I think that's a pl11s where they feel good about being part of Lincoln High," principal Mike Wortman said.
The sixth ranked, 6-3 Varsity Boys Basketball team is on a roll, starting out with two early upsets against Creighton Prep and Bishop Miege and six more victories. A strong leader on the aggressive basketball team is Ty !er Hehn, a six three-185 pound senior whose last high school basketball days are con1ing to an e11d. Hehn has played for Lincoln Higl1 si11ce he was 011 the fresh111an l\ tearn. He started out as a shooti11g guard,
then as l1is high school years progressed l1e ,vas a pov,er forwarcl 011the junior varsity team for two years, sw1ng1ng to varsity his junior year. Novv, as a senior he plays the ce11ter position, a positio11 where a player he has to be strong and aggress1ve exactly what he has grown to be.
TylerHehn (12) shoots the ball in the game against Kearney.
At the moment, Hehn is not starting because of a knee injury over the holidays, but his replaceme11t senior, Choul Laam has filled his spot well. Head Coach Russ Uhing, told Hehn that he has to earn his starting position back because he missed a few practices and or1e holiday tournament game. The Links didn't take the holiday tournament, but they finished third defeating Lincoln East in the consolation game. Luckily, Hehn was able to suit up for this game.
Hopefully, Hehn will regain more playing time by this weekends' matches at Columbus on Friday and at home on Saturday with Keatney. The Li11ks beat Colu1nbus on Friday,55-38 , and 011 Saturday the Link's trounced the wildcats,74-38. Hehn did start in both games and played much more.
Hehn wouldn't change anything about tl1e basketball season, players, or coaches. "Coach has been doi11g a good job 011 work:ing on \Vhat we need to get do11e," Icfeh11com1nented. When he Vias asked about changes or improvements he would make on
himself, he responded, "I could be more aggressive towards the ball, like diving, and getting offensive boards." At this point, Hehn is focusing on his game, and is not too worried about not being ranked higher than fifth. "It depends on \Vhat we ;ire rank-eel hy thP Pnrl of the season," Hehn comments.
Hehn is a senior and a oositive leader , on and off of the basketball cot1rts who thinks of his team as family, and agrees that senior year is a rnore ernotional year. "It is rny last chance
Senior wrestler Keith Palmer has only gotten better since he began his freshman year. He has learned a lot from when he started including how to gain strength, which he na~ done. He feels he has what it takes to go to state becat1se this year he is prepared and knows what he has to do to get the job done. He often , refers to that as l1is goal. Wl1en it comes to n1eets, I he goes through 1 his usual routine. "I usually will do my warrr1-u1Jand : right before the Keith Palmer (12) Vtr""'restles at practice after school. n1atch I will start getting angry, a11dwill thi11kof songs to pump me up. I lik.e to practice my moves and that is a big part of getting ready," Palmer said. He hopes to accomplish a lot this year, such as placing first and going to state.
Girlsat swimming practiceget ready to dive into the pool.
to get what I have wanted since I came here, a11dI would like a state cha1npionship."
Sophomores on the 4x4 relay team: Ashley Henry, Samantha Staley, and Marisha Lenz were quite satisfied with their seasor1 so far. They mentioned that eight girls have secondary qualifying times for state, and they were all really close to automatic qualifying times. There have been 1nany i11juries on the swim1ni11g tea1n, but the girls are strong and work throt1gh the pain to compete i11 each meet. Ashley Henry commented on the i11juries on the swimming team, "through all of the injt1ries they l1ave all pushed through to swi1n their best."
The relay tea1n has been satisfied with the effort put out by the girls in the season so far. Staley con1mented, "we have girls with a lot of natural talent and they are hard workers."
1'he girls all agreed that the attitudes need to change witl1in th.e s\vimming tea1n. People need to be more positive vc;ith themselves and others. They said that everyone needs to gi·,e it their all i11 each practice a11d competition.
On a brighter 11ote Marisha Ler1z said, "It's tieen really fun. So far tl1e girls have been doing really well." The girls swimming team is no,113-2.
"Since we have a you11g and inexperienced team, I will hopefully show them extra things that I've leatned and get the1n to step tip and eventually become leaders." He feels that
the team needs to work on team unity a11d discipline, but feels it will take time to eventually become a strong team. , Keith has a large advantage when it comes to his size because he _is only 5' 1". Palmer said, "I have good size, good position, and it helps so guys can't get a hold of me." He feels that his weakness would be that he spends too much time setting up his shots and not enol1gh time shooting. His most memorable experience came this year when he placed first in the Sot1th Sioux City Tournam e n t where there were SIX t e a m s com pet1ng.
Senior Ashley Mefferd
h a s worked very hard to get wl1ere she 1S now. When sl1ev1as a freshrnan, she
was on the reserve basketball team, and also her sophomore year, however, she did svvii1g and play a little bit on JV.
During her junior year, she 1noved up to varsity, and played a few ga1nes with JV. Now that she is a senior, she is starti11g for Varsity. In the s11mmer she was dedicated to getting better and stronger. She spe11t her mornings in the weight room, she attended many camps, and she went to the Nebraska Sports Acceleration Program to help her gain speed. Coach Bill Myers saw the improvement in strength. He said, "Ashley worked very hard in the weight room." Mefferd commented,
"I feel that the team is performing very well and that we have a lot of potential, but I think that a lot of people don't actually know how good we can be." She thought the team needs to work on playing as a team, and preparing better before games, such as focusing on tl1e game more.
"I want to work on improving my rebounding and scoring," she added. When Mefferd prepares for a game, she will usually concentrate 011the team they are playing· and know what her role is for that game. She thought the teams stre11gth would be that everyone contril1utes.
"Last year we depended on one or two players only, but tl1is year, we are more a tea1n," she said. Ashley hopes IO be rated at least 5th or better and definitely go to state, and beat Southeast and Northeast. After l1igh school sl1e may want to play at a sn1all college and continue with baslcetball.
These are all athletes tl1at their coaches felt were working very !1ard and deserved to be recognized. To each of these athletes you ,vere commended by yo11r coaches as a positive leader and role n1oclel. rfhe Advocate l1opes that each athletic team l1as a great season.
Ashley Mefferd (12) plays basketball for Lincoln Hlgh.
February 27, 2002
Volume 107 Issue 5
JoshSwartzlander Co-Editorin Chief
On January 8, 2002 President Bush signed a Federal Education Bill that will, according to the pre s ident, reform our nat i on's public education system.
The landmark education reform , called the No Child Left Behind Act of 2 001,
was passed with an overwhelming majority in both house s of Congress. President Bush just signed into law the education legislation that promotes educational excellence for America's public schools.
"These refo1ms express my deep belief in our public schools and their mission to build the mind and character of every child, from every background, in every part of America," said President Bush.
According to the president, the edu-
Lindh's (] ¥alties ln Doubt
BryceNielsen
Co-PhotoEditor
What is a traitor, and how do we classify one? What makes someone treasonous? Is it standing up for what you believe in, speaking out, or sometimes, eve11acting out against your government? Perhaps you have to be a citizen. This is the dilemma that comes up with the John Walker Lindh situation: is he a citizen, and if not, can he or should he be tried under the charges brought against him ?
The problem with citizenship is that it i s conditional right, not a guaranteed one. Without knowing it, each and every p er so11 w ho i s born in the U11itedState s of America has taken an implicit oath to uphold th e standards and values of our society.
Therein lies the tricky part, what are the standards and values of our society , and how do we know when they have been , ,;,,_\"tod?
O,,c "urcfire sign would be v; hen one of our O'Nn citizens joins the army of another nation and starts shooting at our army.
But is he a citizen? Well , how did he get to Afghanistan? Wh e n he frrst converted to Islam he went to Yemen to study and explore his new found faith. Almost right out of the box he was not s atisfied with his school's lack of fundamentalism and tried to join the militant Muslims in the mountains ofYeme11. Eventually he ended up fighting for the Taliban, having trained in al-Qaida training camps.
How did he get into Yemen in the first place, though? Well, perhaps you have heard of a little thing called a passport. That's right, he had to use a pas sport to get into that country, and in order to use his pas sport he had
to sign to all of the term s of agreement set forth by the government. One of the cla11sesin this agreement was that a forfeitl1re of citizenship would result if the person using the passport "enlists in the military of a foreign state"
This passage is not just to be some flitty comment in passi11g. It is a simple way of stating Section 349(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Before 1967, violation of this law ha s almost always meant the immediate relinquishing of citizenship. That year the Supreme Court handed down its de ci s ion in the case of Af ro yim v. Rusk , which found that the provi s ions of Section 349 (a) , which ref e rred to the lo ss of nationality as a result of voting in a foreign election , giving us , th e citize11smor e l ee way, in the area a of nationality , bec a use it show s that w e have a con stitutional ri ght to citizenship unless we voluntarily hand it ov e r. Since this decision the emphasis on enforcing the law ha s been pl aced on Afroyim v. Rusk. As a r es ult of thi s , military service i11 foreign countrie s usually doe s not end in the lo ss of citi ze nship, b ecau s e there is usually a lack of evidence to prov e that a person is willing to give up their citizenship. John Lindh on the other hand, seems to have given sufficient evidence that he did not de sire to be a citizen any more. Based 011 the evidence thus far, he willingly participated in armed conflict against United States military forces. Due to this evidence, many people feel that he should be charged with conspiring to kill U.S. Nationals abroad and providing services and material support to terrorists, as well as firearms and conspiracy charges, which is what they are going to do, they should declare what should be an obvious fact: He has lo st his right to be a citizen and should be treated the same as all of the other detainees.
Ccation legislation is the re s ult of a bipartisan effort that resulted in freedom and flexibility for America's schools.
Based on President Bush's priorities for America's public school s , the U.S. Department of Education's estimates, and The Department's National Center for Education Statistics, the Leave No Child Behind Act promote s the s e reforms:
>Stronger accountability for re s ults
>Offer school districts powerful tools to provide the best education for all children
> Tru s t local parents, e ducator s, and school boards to make the be s t decisions for their children
>Free local school districts to sp e nd up to half
tl1eir federal education dollars how e ver they see fit
>Expand options and choices for parent s
>Empower parents by providing t1nprecedented federal support for children from disadvantaged backgrounds
>Inform parents by requiring states to provide annual r e port cards of school performance and statewide progress ·
>Emphasize teaching methods that work
>Support reading instruction based upon re-
>Boost
Julie Kilzer Co-Photo Editor
Club day has returned for the month of February after being canceled in December. It is a11important day for many students. Club day was first began many years ago by the associate principal Mr. Uhrmacher and some other teachers. The idea of Club Day is to get students together who are interested in the same thing. Sometimes it is hard to get students together outside of school due to rides, jobs and other activities. By letting clubs meet during the school day everyone has an opportunity to attend. Clubs also give you a chance to meet people that· are not in your classes. Even if you are not aware of it, a lot of learn-
•ing goes on during club days. Students learn a lot from guest speakers, the sponsors, and each other.
Some changes have been made since the very first Club Day. Teachers used to be able to decide if they wanted students to go to a club during their class period. Now as long as a student makes up all the work that they miss it is their decision. The attendance system has also changed. Now the club sponsors take attendance to make sure that everyone went to the club they were supposed to be in. Over the years many more clubs have started, now with all of the clubs everyone who wants to be involved should be able to find a club tl1at interests them. As long as everyone follows the policies and acts responsibly, Club Day should remain at Lincoln High.
Eddie Leon News Editor
Does anybody ren1ember about four or five years ago ,,1he11alternative music was popular? The average alternative band co11sisted of a dru1nn1er, a gt1itarist, and a skinny little white guy, sometimes bald, who sounded really intimidating, but he wore a dress. Most of us probably thought "hey, it's a free country " and tt1rned the radio down, but apparently, the country isn't that free, and that little white guy, can't wear his dress, at least at Lincoln High.
The problem here is expressio11. A small ti1ne before the Switch Rally, some people, including a few performers who would be in the switch rally, mentioned it would be funny if the guys wore dresses. The teacher of the class asked another member of the faculty if it would be okay, not that it would actually happen, the switch rally was too close for changes to be made. When the answer came down from on high, it was a resounding NO. This would h"''c been the end of it, hut a few people started asking questions and here we are with a story in the Advocate.
After reading through the student handbook (that thingy in the beginning of your planner) and interviewing a student involved, it would be reasonable to assume that wearing a dress is not prohibited. The 'dress code' has about six points, though the book does say it isn't all inclusive. Here they go: 1. No clothing or jewelry that is gang related. 2. No clothing which shows an 'inappropriate' amount of bare skin or underwear. 3. No clothing or jewelry that advertises beer, alcohol or illegal drugs. 4. No clothing or jewelry that could be used as a weapon. 5. No head wear including
esses n on
hats, bandannas, and scarves, and 6. Ne clothi11g or jewelry which exhibits nudity. makes sexual references or carries a doublt meani11g. Pretty comprehensive, but I don', see 'no male student is to vvear a dress.'
Now, we should know that there are li1nits to our first amendment rights ir school. Not that it's 100 percent right, bui there are some legitimate reasons for it, like dist11rbing the learning environment. However, shouldn't a guy be allowed to wear 2 dress if he wants to? My source, who will remain anonymous, thinks so. In response to a question about whether or not guys should be allowed to wear dresses at all, my source said, "definitely, I think when you separate what guys can wear and what girls can wear it prolongs sexism." Can the school policy really prolong sexism by not allowing guys to wear dresses? (Probably not, but the 1st amendme11t entitles him tc that opinion) The first amendment does protect this right, but the schools have and will continue to stifle expression. I asked my source ifhe felt the 1st amendmPnt "Dnlied He believes that 'it's differpnt in <chools, hut coc:1ety 1s changing and so should the schools'.
That's a good point. The schools should change. This generation, like generations before it is a product of the society it lives in. How are we, as products of this society supposed to learn in a school that is teaching with the values of a different society. The fact of the matter is, we live in a much tougher and open society than our parents did. Things are different for us, and society is such a large influence on people that it's difficult to come to a place to learn when your culture isn't seen there.
In the end, this is just about expression. What we can and can't wear, say, 01 do.
nEddie Leon News Editor
Martin Lt1ther King Jr. Day has been a national holiday since 1986. In 1999, the last state to recognize the holiday was New Hampshire. Since its creation, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has had a great rise in popularity. It has turned into a commercial holiday of sorts, with some areas of the cou11try having Martin Luther King Day sales. These are signs Dr. King is becoming more lcno,vn, but what do we really know about hin1?
Since the holiday has become more high profile, so has Dr. King's portrayal in the media. When one watches the news around the holiday, the media bombards the public with comme11tators, historians, and associates of Dr. King so the pt1blic has information regardi11g King's life. Although Dr. King is becoming a larger figure in history, his treatm en t h), the media is dqwnolaving what Dr. King was: a ma11 VVlu., lived by his principles and strove to help others, even if it cost him.
The media often portrays King, accurately, as a civil rights leader, preacher, and the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but this is not enough information on Dr. King. Like many people in history, Dr. King has been simplified to the point where he's almost mythological. In
Paula Reyes Web Editor
Re·cently an economic crisis exploded in Argentina. In December they had four presidents in less than 15 days, and in February the Economic Minister Jorge Remes Lenicov said " Argentina is broke." .Lincoln High counselor Virginia Saporta said "This crisis has been building for a long time" about the problem is affecting her native country and her family. "I worry very much for my family" who so far have been lucky, although they have been affected by the crisis in one way or another, like the insecurity that the une1nployment is making." Saporta left Argentina 30 years ago, and she would love to go there again when tl1is crisis is solved.
It's n1ainly an economic problem that involves many aspects extremely related ainong them. First the
erresponse to a question about Dr. King, Edward Rice, aju11ior at Lincoln High, had this to say, "He was a great man that bus boycott was really successful." This isn't much i11formation, especially for a high school student. Rice actually attended this year's youth rally, and that was all that ca1ne to mind. This is11't Rice's fault. He
n e
are holding rallies a11dkeeping Dr. King's message alive, the younger generation isn't learning about him at all. What youngsters do learn is pretty small. Thev are tci,,ght i,1 ,.;liiSS what they could learn by watching television. Many things are left out abo11t Dr. King's teachings. l'Jot only did Dr. King believe in racial equality,
awell 11nder 50 percent of eligible voters actually do vote while everybody else stays home and complains about politics they won't get in""''"'1 ,,:,,d. -. ;.i-1.-. Many things are left out about King. Most people don't know that when Dr. King was assassinated, he was directing a garbage strike so the sanitation workers could get a fair wage. When Dr. King took a stance against the Vietnam War, he was called unpatriotic. It also cost him political support from some of the white media. Don't expect to learn this unless you pick up a book on your own.
Lincolnyoutl1 cclehl'ate the teachings of r,"Lc1rtin Luthe!' King by attending the sixth. ant111alRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Rally and March to the capitol building.
isn't stupid, but something is wrong. Why aren't people learning more about such an importa11t historical figure? In polls taken by major magazines, first grade children know little to nothing about Dr. King other than what they might see on television. So while the older generations
Crelation between the dollar and the peso, which devalued 30% as a result of the necessity of the internal economy, suffered big damage when countries like Brazil and Chile began to devalue their own peso. They began to export to Argentina their less expensive products, affecti11g the internal economy and creating the necessity for the peso from Argentina to be devalued (to revalue their ov1n products). The second main problem there is the huge external debt in dollars with international banks like the IMF(lnternational Monetary Fund) that now considers Argentina as a risky country influt;ncing the opinions of many 1nvesrors. These last crucial months have left Argentina in such a crisis that they have four presidents i11 less than fifteen days; three of them had to quit due to the discontent and reiection among the people , until the last and actual one Fernando Duhalde,
which he outli11ed in the 'I have a dream' speech, but he also believed in non-violent protest, citing Gandhi as inspiration. His teachings also included economic equality, which is a big problem in the United States, and his belief in civic responsibility, which is obviously lacking, because
nwho is trying to recover a country that literally doesn't have money. It even has to pay people who received their incomes from the state, like retirees and government employees with IOU's Those months have left Argentina with high rates of unemployment and inflation, and with suffering people who don't have money. Due to that absence of money the government made some rules with the objective of avoiding tl1e capital flight, those were intended to leave at least some money for the country bt1t that is also limiting the access from the people to the money, leaving more discontent.
On February 3, the government announced new measures that are going to be applied in the next two years. 1'hey have two directions: first to make work the production process to slowly solve the unemployment, and second to defend the people and the financial, and produc-
Why more isn't taught abotit Dr. King is 11nknown. He isn't a controversial figure and even southern states have observed the holiday (well, kind of). For such a great man, one would expect more to be in the history books. However, even though we are not taught about Dr. King, therp -i(..;no excuse to forget his dream. Lots of commentary has been given, saying we have achieved Dr. King's
dream. While the country has made strides, it's obvious that with recent events, we can't be living his dream. What this generation needs to do is strive for King's real dream of equality amongst all people, both racially and economically.
tive sectors.
The plan consists first in converting all the economy into pesos, second to unfreeze the money of the people ( salaries and pensions, all the rest still have some restrictions) and third to control in the demand of dollar. This is mainly the last plan created to solve the actual crisis in Argentina.
The United States has encouraged that plan. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil said, "We are encouraged that the Argentine Government is takii1g substantive steps to address its economic problems" but the U.S has been also under criticism by some for the little help it has provided Argentina.
All this shows that in the economy nothing is certain. The economies of most of the countries of Latin America are managed by investors ,vhose only interest is obviously their money and not the secondary effects tl1at they can have on a country.
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Katshlffler· Editor-In-Chief
A new sort of schedule will debut along with the newly constrt1cted Sol1thwest High School. Due to ope11next year to students, Sotithwest will go wl1ere no "regular" high school program in Lincoln has gone before \Vith the introduction of block sched11ling. This schedule can vary from school to school, but in general is an arrangement that allows more consecutive class time for each subject, with each class meeting only a couple times a 'Neek.
The science focus program at the zoo has had the block schedule si11ceits opening in 1997. At the zoo school the block schedule, which allows each class 80 minutes of class time, seems to be workir1g out ,;vell for students and staff.
TheArts and Humanities program too, is hip to this trend, recently making the transition to the block schedule this semester. With this new setup students have the humanities block in the morning with studio time and 80 minute sectionals that meet twice a week in the afternoon. The program's schedl1le is flexible however; changes are often made to accommodate speakers and outside events.
Withthe block schedule students end up committing more time to a subject, and missing one class period ultimately means you miss two days of work. In the case of the two snow days, students and teachers struggled to make up the equivalent of four days of class instead of two.
Students at Arts School seem to enjoy the extra time used to paint and discuss. "Sometimes its hard to sit in one class for over an hour. But I don't have as much homework to worry about," said junior Art School student Brad Pearson.
"It's good. It gives you more time to work in a class. You don't have to hurry to clean up in art class and it's an opportunity for uninterrupted working," said senior Stewart
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Most students at Arts agree tl1at longer classes and less classes in a day are reall'/ a good thi11g with only a few disadvantages. "I like it better tha11 the regular schedule, bl!t it depends on the class," saicl junior Katy Childs.
"Sometimes I have to pee muJ. tiple times," added junior Pau) Rapki11. "Usually the classes are so sho1t that I'd only have to go to the bathroom once, but now the classes are so long triat I can seriot1sly pee twice iri one period."
At one time, the switch to block scheduling vvas being considered by Lincoln High. Several years ago a committee was formed to consider the possibility, but the staff vote ruled out the change.
"In order to change a schedule there has to be a vote and we did a preliminary survey of the staff and decided it wasn't enough. After all the information we gathered, after we dispensed all the information our staff was just not ready to make that kind of change," said teacher Shirley Rine.
"We also said that i11 maybe a couple of years if somebody wanted to look at it again, and pursue the block scheduling at Lincoln High we would certainly be glad to open it up again. We have all the research and documentation that teachers from other schools gave us." added Rhine.
While Lincoln High didn't rush at the opportunity to reorganize their schedule, the newest Lincoln school will adopt the plan from the get-go. Next year at Southwest a "four by four" block will most-likely be used, said Rine. This means that four classes will meet four times a week with quarter courses or "skinnies" meeting for a shorter time eacl1 day.
Block scheduling isn't right for everyone, but it has distinct advantages that ma11y I:,incoln students feel 1nalces learning easier. But those at Lincoln High will have to wait a couple years for this option to be reconsidered.
Earl Pilcher Graphic Editor ,
"They're on Fire" that's what would be said if the Links Boys Basketball team was on Super Nintendo's :t-tD.,\._I AM. The Lin!(s started out the season not eve11i11 u.c class A ranking but climbed up as far as 11umber3 in the rank1ng.
After coming off a lose i11the 2nd round in the state playoffs last year the boy s sure made a good impression this year Returning s tarter Junior Tyron C a nby showed what his gaine is all about. Leading the Links to a fantastic season.
A look at the state chan1pionsl1ip i s what the team has in their ey e s 1958 is when Lincoln Higl1 had there last touch of the Class .A. Boys Basketball Trophy. Canby and company came to far this season to let it go s 0111ewhere else.
l'his years basketball schedule started off with the first game at Creighton Prep which the Links were the losers of the first two games. The seco11d game was versus Bishop Miege which is an out of state team at Earl Johnson Gym.
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The Pomalinks season has been going, "AWESOME" so far comments junior captain Lindsay Lundgren. People seem to really enjoy them more than last year. Maybe it is because there is a bigger squad with stronger dancers tha11 last year, or could their improvement be because they push themselves to work harder this year becali s e they ha,,e 1nore talent? Junior Lindsay Lundgren and senior Alyssa Hart are the basketball season captains for the 2001-2002 Pomalinks.
This is Hart's second year being a captain for the Pomalinks during basketball season, and Lindsay's
The first win came from Fremont with the score 73 to 45 at the end of the game. Norfolk was the next opponent the Links when on to win this game too. Cross town rival Northeast showed up at Earl Johnson G~,no looki11g like the , gaine was 1n tl1eir l1ai1ds. ,, This was a very sloppy game but the boys pulled it off witl1 a close one the score 38 to 33. 1'his had
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61 with the final score at the end of the gaine.
Links now rated fifth in state played a very slow processing Columbus team coming out with a strong win 55 to 38. Kearney also made the season look
a win at Lincoln High over then ranked number 6 Omaha North. A very good overtime win with the Links winning by 6 at the er1d the score in overtime was 73 to 67.
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easy, g1v1ng up a win losing 73 to 44. Class B ranked number two Pius X pulled off an upsetting win at their home court Bishop Flavin Gym winning by 11 points 70 to 59.
to 3 and 2 on shoots the ball in the Grand Island stayed home to beat the season Omaha Northvictory.
The following day they showed l1ow much skills this team really has with a very easy looking win over then ranked number 3 Omaha Central. Omaha Central looked over rated when coming to Lincoln High with a very bad lo s s 61 to 40 This win then put the boys basketball team in the ligl1t for the state trophy raising their rank to number 3 in state which has not bee11 sho,vn in too long of a time.
The 11ext three gaines out our Links v,ere in the LPS Holiday Tour- with a very hard fought lucky nament which was over the win. Christmas break. The Links last game in tl1e toun1ament was versus East they pulled a slick one by only winning by 3 points. The final scor e was 68 to 65. The Links now had improved the record to 6 and 3 on the year.
January 5th was when North Platte showed up in town to take a beating 71 to
first. Hart believes she has had a positive impact on the squad as a leader because she is always in a good mood when they practice everyday, and she is always happy and excited to be there. Hart be1ie v es her motivational attitide gets everyone in a pumped mood to dance. Hart thinks that the school could help support the Pomalinks in a more positive way rather than sayi11gthey suck, and 11ot cheering for them because they do practice for halftime shows just as the boy's and girl's Varsity basketball teams would practice for their ga1nes. "If everyone respected what each other was doing more it would make everyone happy because even if you don't like plays, volley-
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Dave Oman piclced up his fourhundred and first win versus the Links At the e11dGrand Island survived to hold their Island with the final score 68 to 65 Now the next two games put the Li11ksback in the spot light with wins over 2 ranked Omaha Teams.
The first coming with ball, etc. , everyone brings something for the school."
As a whole the sqt1ad shows great dedication and hard work while having fun. Although the major fun was on February 1, when the Link's boy's basketball team took on city rival, Southeast at Lincoln High. The half time show was one of a kind. Choreographed by Lundgren, junior Ashley Tolle and senior Stacy Loos, the dance music was a mix of Missy Elliott, Mr. Cheeks, ODB, and Pink. However, the music wasn't the best part. The three talented dancers brought back old moves like the C-walk in the half time show. The Pomalinks are now wrapping up their season, but finishing strong.
· But before the Links could look for the glory city rival #1 Southeast Knights had their own say so Soutl1ea s t rnay have won the game but due to the fact th e y won it at the free-throw line. Making alrnost all their free-throw chances hitting -i4.5% fro1n the line. Links losing in a freetlrrow game 57 to 44.
1"his plit one more loss on the Tink8 roc c nu 110w reaching 10 and 6 on the year
The last three games of the regular season all involve away games starting off with On1aha Benson, Lincol11 East which the Links once beat before and Millard South ending the regular season.
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They won a big competition on February 10, in Grand Island, and they danced their last dance at a Lincoln High basketball game for the year. This didn't end the Pomalink season They had a competition on Sunday, February 17, in wt1ich they didn ' t place in the top three, but preformed well, and they will preform at Joynite in tl1e Spring.
As the Pornalinks continue to work hard, come and st1pport them; they have a lot of talent that has consisted of effort put in each day to make each dance 1nove pe1fect. So, don't be afraid to cheer for them afterall, they contribute a lot of fun times to our school.
Senior Tarvis Banks is a varsity wrestler who has only lost two matches the entire season; one to Papillion and one to Kearney. Banks commented, "I should have won them, but I did good in districts so, I hope I have better luck in state."
Banks won districts by beating out Columbus in the finals. Banks went to state on Thursday, February 14, at Devaney Sports Center and two other wrestlers joined him , seniors: T.J. Coil and Keith Palmer. Banks has no regrets on his wrestling season he comments, ''It is going pretty good except for the two losses that I should have won." Banks ended up making it to the fmals in consolation on Saturday, February 17, he lost in the championship to Jason Gable of Papillion, but wa~ rewarded with fourth place in the state.
After high school Banks will attend the U11iversityof Nebraska-Omaha where he will major in Crinlinal Justice, and play
football. He is very excitoo to go because, he likes the, "academics "
Coach Jim Baker considers this season as a growth season for the Links. Baker commented, "We have a young · team tl1atneeded to gain experience on the mat, and that will help them for next year."
Overall, the season went pretty well, · Baker commented, "the wrestlers seemed to do very well, especially when we had touman1ents "
This year at state the Lincoln High wrestli11g team contributed three out of four seniors to the state tournament and have been very proud of them. Some wrestlers were close to state, bt1tdidn't make it Baker commented "We had some kids improve as the year progressed such as, juniors Marcus Myles, Steve Amos, and Zach Coffin, and they will have all year to prepare for state next year "
Good job and good luck to all of the wrestlers who contributed to the wrestling season.
RylyZetterman
Players Take e orld By Stort11After Years Of Vll!i Goodness
JerrodWatson EntertainmentEditor
At home people originally watched movies on a film projector before people began watching VHS movies back in the 1970's. Now,
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after almost 20 years, a new machine has been created called the Digital Versatile Disk player. Or, DVD for short. DVD has been quite the popular one sii1ce it's release. Just in case you havn't owned a DVD player, or you're planning on getting one soon, maybe you won-
a buttoi1 you can push that allows the DVD player to memorize where you were at. DVD movies are set up by little chapters. It depends on what movie you're watching, but sometimes chapters can last from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. So all you have to do is push the chapter but-
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tons and you can fast forward through that whole 3 hour movie in less then 5 seconds.
One thi11g that is a shame about a DVD player is the recording feature. There simply is no feature to allow you to record on most DVD players. It's too hard to do and would be too expensive Panasonic is starting to make DVD players which can record programs off of the TV, but be sure that it will be pretty expensive to buy it.
DVDts now the big thing when you want to movies at home. lt' s slowly starting to replace VHS because of Detter Pictu1·e. Thev are sold at almost Electronic stores, der what the big deal about the DVD player is. The difference between VHS and DVD is huge. The pictt1re and sound quality is very much improved over that of a VHS. That is because the machine plays a new type of forn1at, called a DVD, that looks like any ordinary music CD, but has more layers on the disk so it can hold more storage than any VHS cassette. This allows people to add numerous extra features and other versions on that particular movie onto the disk. The disk is set up to allow a menu to pop up when you play the movie. Instead of going right into the 1novie, the menu comes on with a list of options. You can play the movie or you can change the settings or watcl1 the extra features. This is a good change in the home movie market. Sometimes when you go into the extra features menu, you can find behind the sce11es info on that particular movie. It depends on hov; many extras it has. It's all up to the company who is making tl1is DVD. You can watch extra features which may include a behind-the-scenes documentary or outtakes and deleted scenes, or a cast list.
Another function of the DVD player that makes it a must l1ave is the rewind and fast-forward feature. It has been virtually eliminated. S11re, there is a re,vind dial just in case you vvant to slcip parts of a movie or go back: to a previously seen spot, but if yol, wa11t to re\vind tl1e whole movie, all you have to do is turn the DVD player off. If you do tl1at, then the movie will start at the very bcgin11ing. If yo11\Vant to save your spot, tr1ere is
There are so many companies out there that are making DVD players that it can be pretty tough to figure 0111 which one is the better buy. The more expensive DVD player developed by one of the most popular companies is probably the best. I chose a $240 Panasonic version because the company was really popular. I personally was11't disappointed ,vitl1 1ny purchase. It is all up to yo11, though. It might not seem like a big deal right now. A movie player is a movie player. VCRs are cheaper. Why buy a DVD player that is more expensive? Well, that's up to the person. VHS movies are still alive today so it probably won't matter much if yo11 keep that VCR. It's easier to use a11yway. You can throw your VHS cassettes pretty much anywhere and it ,vill be safe. You're free to damage the outside of the movie, and the n1ovie ,vill probably still vvork perfectly. You can't do that with a DVD, thougl1. You have to ha11dle them like vou handle a music CD, Also, it's cool to k:eep a VCR around just i;o case you have a football game or a favorite TV sr,ow that you war1t to record.
Imagine blue pants and white shirts everywhere you turn. The same two colors filling the halls everyday. It could become the nightmare you never wanted here at Lincoln High. The idea of uniforms is unpleasing to students who are fortunate to be happy with the clothes that they are able to wear.
"Timeforkids.com" polled 3,000 kids to respond to the question, "Are uniforms a good idea?" The results flew off the walls with 69.8% strongly responding NO, and 30.2% responding yes. Kids these days that are strongly against uniforms let people kno\v and they have support behind their decisions of why uniforms should not be a part of their own school.
Uniforms in the school buildi11g really could be of benefit, though even if you do not get to
BrittneyHodges JournalismStudent
When we were in elementary school, we learned the color wheel, which showed that black is the opposite of white. We have also been taught that opposites attract, but is that really true? In the past 10 years according to the Current Population Survey (CPS), interracial marriages have sky rocketed to 1.3 million in the United States. Out of that 1.3 million, 296,000 of them are marriages between black man and white women. That is a very high number, considering that number does not count unmarried interracial couples.
As a result of those unions and relationships, there are a growing number of biracial/multiracial childre11born as well. Knowing this, why has it tak:en the U.S so long to acknowledge that not everyone is just one race. It wasn't until the 2000
choose what goes on your back. The largest school districts, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Houston have noticed an incredible drop in violence and theft. The violent behavior coming from gang members at school brings about suspensions, with the uniforms in place suspensions have dropped among these groups. The school system of Long Beach California, are seeing less gang members fighting within the school because of the new uniform policies. The rate of suspensions there has also declined. Teens are able to resist peer pressure by what types of clothing to wear because they do not have a choice. Equality is spread among the school building because nobody is wearing a better brand of pants or shirts. Teasing and competition for the hest clothes is just u11known at these schools.
The uniform policy nullifies attention to the clothes, and students become more involved in what they actually are at school for: to learn. The issue of safety is also addressed by the uniform policy because intruders would be noticeable to administrators. Beyond the fact that they are safer, they save money, too. The uniforms will be more cost efficient task. On average, parents would save. about $200 every year on average compared to the schools that do not require students to wear uniforms. No more morning scatter to fi11dsomething to wear; your clothes are already picked out. With uniforms in effect you will not have to decide on what to wear because the school administration has already been chosen.
On the other hand somebody picking your uniforms could be a negative thing. Students will not be able to express themselves as
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individuals, it is easier for students to express themselves when they don't have to worry about what they are wearing. What about those people who need to wear particular clothing according to their religious beliefs? School systems don't think about the effects of those who believe in a certain way to dress. What about the comfort? Not everybody has the same comfort issue with their clothes and the uniforms could be a disturbance. What about the families who cannot afford it?
Families who lack financial security are not being helped by the uniform policies. The uniforms are costing more to those families whose clothing is cheaper than the uniforms. Some are not being helped out. If the focus is away from the clothes, then there are other places people are gong to have more focus on. Girls are going to be more outrageous with their make up, even more
than they are today. Students are going to wear more jewelry that could be more of a distraction than clothing. They will be spending more time trying to be an individual when they don't get to pick their clothes than being an individual wearing their own.
Could it be these uniforms or the policies behind wearing them? It may not be obvious, but it is the policies behind the clothes, not the actual clothing. Who says that a certain type of clothes is going to change the attitude of students? Does society really think that just because you have your shirt tucked in and it is a certain color that you are ready to learn? It might suggest that, but that is really not the case. Lincoln High is one of the many schools that are proud of its diversity and style, so uniforms at this school will hopefully take a long time to get here
U.S Census that a person could check all that apply to their racial ethnic background. And even then, they are finding complications with identifying people because of the wide variety of racial combinations. I am the product of the most common interracial group, a black father and a white mother. Interracial marriages are a good thing if parents take the time to educate their children. For instance, when a biracial female is walking down the hall and socializing with a group of white females, what race is she seen as being? Black. Because of the fact that she may have a darker complexio11of skin color than others, it does not give the right to another to judge her. Even though biracial children may be just as white as they are black, their white half is never acknowledged. I have never been called a "cracker" or a "honkey," but I have been called such things as "nigger" and "coon."
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surveys combined, more than half of the biracial children who were half black and half white, were identified as being black. This is in part due to the parents identifying their children with one certain race. Most surveys will allow you to mark other and ask you to fill it in, but they usually only accept the first race you put down. Take LPS for example. One of their choices is white/other, and if you end up checking other then you end up being counted as white. Is that really identifying who you are? It is not. Where does that leave 11s when it comes to a biracial children? Lost. Not saying that all childre11who are biracial are lost, but i11 some instar1ces they have trouble with their racial identity. Before 1989, according to the N atio11alCenter for Health Statistics (NCHS), if you were a biracial child born to a white mother and a minority father, the birth certificate would identify you as the father's race. This was a problem for
some, and was later changed because 15% of all of those birth certificates did not contain information on the father.
Up until even the 1960's in the south, law defined a Negro as anybody having 1/16 black in them(this was referred to as the one drop rule). Even if a person was 15/ 16 white blood, they could not marry a white person because they still had that 1/16 African blood.
Laws clearly prohibited anyone of color marrying a white person.
Studies showed that men are more accepting of interracial relationships than women, and blacks are more excepting than whites. Why is that, when statistics show that white and black relationships are the most common of all interracial couples?
Even though people have problems with interracial dating, the children get the best of both worlds. In my experiences, the child is able to interact with one race as much as the other and should therefore have
more life experiences than your typical white or black child. By having a combination of races, a person is should naturally have better people skills by being more open to trying new things. Tl1ey are more apt to being understanding when something goes wrong, and will want to explore who they truly are. Since they hopefully have had time to communicate with both sides of their family, they can get an idea of how certain races differ fron1 others and can relate to either race. Even if this is not so, they should be able to feel a little bit more comfortable around others because of the fact that they have more than 011e race in them, and may know how it feels. Today's society is forcing biracial children to identify with one peticular race, and depriving them of their other half. In today's world, we put too mucl1 emphasis on what color a person is rather than who he/ she really is inside.
Sometime during the year 610 A.D. a young shepard from tl1e city of M e cca in Hijaz, and the tribe of Qurayysh and the clan ofHashin1 started spreading his me s sage of a new religion called , I s lam. His name was Mohammad and Muslims believe tl1at Islam was sent by God specifically for Moha1nmad' s tribe. The teachings were revealed , or actually recited, to him by the holy spirit Gabriel for 23 years The words of God were, for tl1e very first time spoken in Arabic, and the scrip•· tures that God sent to Mohammad and his people would be called the Qura'an (the recitation). Since Mohammad was illiterate, the Qura'an was recited to him bit by bit, line by line and verse by verse, and that took 23 years to complete.
Qurayysh at the time was making its own religion out of wealth and n1oney. They even created their own gods. They didn't care about each other, and tl1ey constantly tried to challenge each other to the point of death. Mohammad was aware of the consequences of that wealth and that religion, and he also knew that they might tear his tribe and even l1is own cla11a11u family apart. Since that day Islam has alway s been unfairly criticized, judged, and misunderstood especially after lVIohammad's death, when Muslims started to divide to two different beliefs. One was the Shiah and the other was the Sunnah. Shiis believe that Ali ibn Abi Talib (the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet
.eMohammad) and the Imams, his descendant s, should lead the Islamic community. Sunniis are the majority group of Muslims whose Islam is bas e d upon the Qura' an, and Mohammad's teachings rather than upon the devotion to the Imams as e x pressed by Shiah. Also a lot of people began to have their own ideas about the Islamic teaching s and actually made some really strict rulings and beliefs of their ow11to get power or wealth out of people A good example would be the Taliban and all these so called "Islamic" parties and groups in the Middle East. Most of them practice a form of Islam that doesn't even exist. They use Islam as a s hield to stay alive and s afe because most of them are actually criminals. They tell people that they are going to make "Jihad" to kill the "Westerners" who hate Islam and want to kill Muslims.
First of all Jihad means, "The effort of all muslims to save their religion from a great danger." Jihad is something very, very serious in Islam and can be made only when the entire muslim population is in danger. The one billion Muslims in this \.Vorld would all need to be in danger in order to make jihad. It can't be made by any one person. Even then, only a great religious person whose real gual i s Lu s ave 1ne livt::, a1n.l tl1c 1cll~iu11 or Muslims , not to save his life and wealth, can make it after getting the accepance and the will from all Muslims, n1eaning Muslims have to vote for him and for the Jil1ad.
Another thing that usually makes a lot of Muslims upset is the constant, untranslated saying of the word "Allah". Al-
anAmnia Elbasheer Journalism Student
Islam is 011e of the fastest growing religio11s in the world. According to statistics, rr1illions and millions of people are converti ng to it every year One of the major things in Islam is the Five Pillars of Requirements:
1 The Testimony, (Al Shahada) i s ,vher e to acknowledge that Allah is god and the Mohammed is the official prophet of god.
2. The five daily prayers
3. To visit th e Holy mosqu e in Mecca , note that if for any reason s omeo11e can ' t go, you ab s olutely do11't have to
4. To give money to the poor, thi s i s required every year after Ramadan.
5. And finally to fast in Ramadan.
Because Am e rica's current bombings of Afghru'1istan, it was a gre a t c ontroversy for weeks her e in the U.S. Most non-Mu s lir11 s do not understand why it is a bad idea to go to ,var in the month of Ramadan The bombing of Afghanistan is considered a cruel punish-
ment to the innocent citi z ens of that country Ramadar1 is the ninth month in the I sl amic calendar. Fasting is ba s ically, po s tpo11ing all pleasures, which include eating, drinking and r11any other phy si cal pleasures from s11nrise until sunset for about thirty day s This 1night seeni r1ard to do, but once you get used to it is very easy. I do it everyday, and I try to obey all the rules. Praying everyday is also very important , but it is most important in Ra1nadan, because yo u get more credit for it. It is al s o expected that you recite a lot of the Quran , (the Hol y Book) during this time Usually in Arabic countries, Ramadan is a month of fun. Families and friends get together and ea t together and have a good time after th e s u11set. They resume fasting the next morning Also people tend to help e a c h oth e r out n1ore in Ramadan It i s ba s icall y a month of peac e.
It is believed that the hol y Quran was sent down from heaven dur i ng this month. Ra1nadan i s a time when Muslims all over the world concentrate of tI-1eirf a ith and s pent less
lah i s simply the Arabic word for God, but a lot of people believe that Allah i s actually a different God that Muslims wor s hip. He i s act11ally th e san1e God that Chrisitians and Jewish people worship and believe in Discrimination against \\'omen , the Islamic dre s s, not being educated if you're a woman: these are also issues created by those Islamic fendimandilists who know nothing about the real peacef11l Islam that a billion people believe in.
Since the September 11th attacks on the TJ.S. many Americans started taking negative actions towards Arabic people, Muslims, and even people who look like they're Arabic. Some resulted in n1urder. One a Sikh man, who was wearing his traditional Indian clothes and was thought to be Arabic, was killed. An Arabic man who was actually Christian was also murdered. There have been many other acts of discrimination towards the Arabic community in the U.S. since the attacks. Despite all these problems some 24,000 Americans converted to Islam since the attacks and many others are trying to learn more about Islam, the different Arabic cultures, and even the Arabic language itself.
Islam is a religion that cares about the simplest issues in life and teaches the best manners, but many people around the world link Islam to issues like wars and terrorism. These people don ' t really take the time to go deep and discover it and learn it correctly. Muslims everywhere, especially in tl1e west, always face the harsh misunderstanding of their religion and they have to explain it constantly. If people make an effort to learn more
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tim e of the concerns of their everyday life It i s a tim e of worship and contemplation. According to the holy Qu ra n, it is believed that tl1e goods of your fasting ca n be destroyed, if you eat and drink during the da y light, if you lie, s lander, talk bad about people behind their back , s wear , or if you give a fal s e oath Also according to the Quran, pregnant v1omen, women that are on their period, sick p e ople, old people, children, and people that are traveling are not supposed to fast, and if they do, it counts again s t them, and I think this kind of shows that Islam is an understanding religion. It i s common that most Muslins spent most of the morning hours in the mo s que , After e ating there i s a special Ramadan prayer , (Taraweeh) that Muslims n1us t practice in the n1osqu e, and this i s one thing that all Afghanistan citizens are deprived of during tl1is tin1e " Should we have bombed Afghanis tan during the month of Ramadan or should we have waited?" Thi s vvas the question for we e ks in the U.S. as to wh e the r to g o to war with the Taliban or not. Pe rso nally , I feel to
about Islarn and Mu s lims they ' ll feel muc h better afterwards because all their question s and misunderstandings will be answ e re d They vvon' t worry about the consequences of having a Muslim friend , a Muslim neighbo r or a l\1uslim co-worke r Non-Muslims have a lot to ask abo11 t I s lam. When you have a question and want to ask it , don't go and ask just anybody , because not all Muslims know Islam perfe c tly A lot of people are sensitive about thi s sub ject, and also keep in mind that not all Arabi c p e ople are Mu s lim. Some are Christians and some have different beliefs. Also try asking questions about the Arabic culture first because asking about the culture will fill in some gaps for you. Especially that most of the Arabic culture is based upon the Qura' an and it's teachings. Don't ever ask questions like "Have you met Bin Ladin?" or "Why do some Arabic people join terrorist networks?" or "Would you ever do something like this?" or even simple questions like, "Do you like the U.S.?" are offensive and they hurt a lot. Instead of asking questions like these make it easy for yourself and for the person you're asking, Say "Tell me about Islam a little bit". That question will lead you to the answers you want, a11dit won't upset the other person. Don ' t be afraid to ask questions. Importantly, don't believe everything you hear, see, or read. Go check for facts and get the real picture instead of relying on the first answer you find from a person, a book, or a T. V. show.
sorry for the people of Afghanistar1. I know how it feels to fa s t for a whole month. In my fa1nil)', by fiv e o'clock, everyone would be rushing to the table to eat, but the peopl e of Afghanistan don ' t ha v e food to be ru s hing to for 1nealtime. The U.S. should have postponed bombing them for that month Some people have argued that the Taliban wortldn't have hesitated bombing the U.S. during Christmas for example, well people are calling them all s ort s of names, like terrorists and evi l do e r s Do we v1ant to be terrorists and evildoers , too? The people of Afgl1ani s tan do not deserve any of that. It is all the Taliban's fault. So why are w e punishing the people for what th e ir government is doing?
You know why I think you should try fasting for a day and also try to go with all the rules. It is a great way to gain understanding wh a t fasting is all about, e s p e cially considering the millions who will be starving so on.
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This country wa s founded on the p r in c iple s of liberty and freedom, but lately, whether or not it continues to operate on tho s e principles has c ome into que s tion. Sinc e the terrorist attacks on September 11th , the great legacy of the United State s and it s laws, founded i11freedom, have been reduced to waving a flag and blind faith in an inexperienced leader.
Our patriotism has been so simplified by the media and sl1ort- sighted individuals that anyone who even hints at having a negative view of what is happening is labeled a freedom-hater, America-hater, or whatever other type of negative label these supposed patriots can come up with. Meanwhile, while most of tl1e country has blindfolded itself with a flag, President Bush is hard at work putting the Constitution of the United States through a paper shredder, by initiating a military tribunal. A military tribunal is where three military officials decide the guilt or innocence of the suspect, 11ot a jury, like in a criminal or
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After reading il1rough the C on s ti t ution (and man, is it thorough) I ju st couldn't find any part of it that s a id the President c ould void rights guarant ee d in the Constitution. I did find the s ixth amendn1ent, thougl1. "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an i111partial jur y of the State and di strict wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall ha v e been previou sly ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witness es against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the as sistance of counsel for his defense." Make any sense? Sure it does, you can face your accuser, receive legal assistance, have a speedy and public trial, be told about what you are being tried for, obtain witnesses, and be tried by a jury.President Bush swore to uphold the sixth amendment, as well as the rest of the Constitution, which he is now tossing out the window. This executive order Bush created is unconstitutional.
The president should be expected to uphold the Con s titution and have a certain reverence for freedom and lib erty. Instead w e ha v e Bu sh , who, in r efere11ceto web sites that gave negative criticism to him before and after his c ampaign for presid e nt, was once quoted a s saying: "There should be limits to freedom." Thi s i s the man upholding our Constitution? Thi s i s the man waging a war in the name of liberty and freedom? Anyone familiar with Bush , the real Bush, not the rootin' tootin', hat-wearing cowboy who live s on a rancl1 (or a s the rest of us call it, a farm) that the media portrays him as, knows he cannot be tru sted to uphold our Constitution or the civil libe1ties granted by it. It's simply not high on his priority list. Don't believe me? 152 people died by Bush's signature when he was governor of Texas. He even signed the death warrants of mentally retarded people! The death penalty will probably be administered in this new court system Bush has set up for suspected terrorists (that's suspected, not proven). Should we be afraid Bush will designate the same incompetent defense lawyers that he encountered in Texas? What rights do
the def e 11dantshave exactly? People ca n now be pull e d of th e street and tossed into some hold i ng cell to await a trial by a military tribunal w ithout any evidence or f om1a1charges. The actual text of the executive order i s as ominou s as Orwell' s 1984 Tl1e langt1a ge is very vague, containing many instance s where he and people he d es ignate s will make the deci sio ns; with nobody else to make sure people are g e tting a f air shot There is 110jt1dicial review set up to even see if there was an adequate attempt at justice. What if one of these guys has a bad day, and decides to take it out on the defendant? In section 1 of the military order , he says that the military tribunals don ' t have to recog11iz e procedures and laws that are "genera1ly recognized in the trial of crin1inal cases in the United States district courts " Put simply, these guys make their own rules. With the Constitution being mistreated like this, and with some of the media looking the other way, one has to wonder if the Constitution will be gradually chipped away until we have a 1984-like nation. It looks like Big Brother finally got here, and he's from Texas.
Holly Knust JournalismStudent
Since th e t e rrori st attacks there has b ee n more concern about tl1e w omen in Afghanistan They may get their rigl1ts back since the Taliban has fl e d. Before the Taliban women were educated and employed. In Kabul 50 % of the students and 60 % of the Tea c hers at Kabul University were women Aiso in Kabul 70% of th e sc hool te ac her s , 50% of the civilian gov e rnment workers and 4•0% of the d o ctor s were women. It is hard to b e lieve that the Taliban thought that they were m aking i\fghani s tan a better place when they went and destroyed what the women had.
Wh e n the Taliban was in power in i\.fghani stan, won1en had no right s. Th ey were unable to go to school, receive medical care, or show their face s. Th e Taliban took away everything that the women ever had. "Life under the Taliban is hard and repres sive, even sm all di splays of joy are outlawed," First Lady Laura Bu sh said in a radio addres s in Nove mber. "C hildren aren't allowed to fly kites. Their moth e rs face be at ing s for laughing out loud. Women cannot work outside their home , o r e v e n leave their h o mes by thems e lv es ." Bu sh sa id. It i s to t ally wro n g to take away all
of someone's rights to make yourself feel superior to another person. The fact that the Taliban did this wa s wrong and immoral.
Th e U.S should have gone and helped the women in Afgha11istan a long time ago. The fact that it took a terrori s t attack to make us finally go do something and get involved with what' s going on in Afghanistan is s ad What's going on in Afghanistan may s eem l ike it is not our busine ss, but it is If I were a woman in P..fghanistan I would wa nt people to come help me. The fact that we knew about th e situation for years and did nothing i s even wor s e.
The U.S should hav e stepped in sooner
The women of Afghanistan may ha v e a say in the new g overnment that is b ei ng developed by the Northern Alliance. It i s important that the women in Afghanistan have a say in the new changes that are goi11gto be going on. " Women ar e n't workin g in th e gov ernment · yet because we have not s et up our government offices yet Bt1t th e y will com e, " a Northern Alliance Foreign Ministry spoke sman sai d in a N ewswe ek: article in N ovember. It i s important that women have a s ay because women .' s opinions are just as important a s men's op i nion s The only way that the Taliban gained control is becau se they were v e ry forceful and the wome11 \vere afraid to
fight back The women were afraid to figl1t b a ck for fear of getting stoned, beaten or worse. The women in Afghanistan will certainly hav e good ideas for the new governm e nt
There are similar situation s happening to women being abused in Nigeria. The African traditions and culture s that the Nigerians practic e give reason for violence to be inflicted against women. According to the Women ' s International Network N ews even though the women in N igeria don 't have it a s bad as the women in Afghanistan, the conditions ar e still terrible. They are allowed to have jobs and earn money, but they s till can't make enough m o ney to support themselves. So tl1e women have to li v e with men and the men abt1se them. Other women in Nigeria try to report the abus e , but the police say that matters that ar e in the home should stay in the home so they don't do anything to he lp the women.
If the U.S. can help either Nigeria o r l\.fghanist an, then we should The U.S. should go o ve r to Afghanista11 and Nigeria a nd try to make the m e n see that abu s ing their women is wrong. Tho s e women hav e just as good ideas and are not inferior to men. The me11just ne e d to b e i11formed on how wife abuse i s wrong
and how they can live with their wives and not feel like they ar e superior to them. Th e U S has tried to help the ,vomen and the people in Afghani s tan before. One organizatio 11that ha s b e en figh ti 11gfor the right s of women in Afghanistan is t he o r gani za tio11 WAPHA that st a nds f or W o men's Alliance f or Peace and Human rights in Afghanistan. WAPHA is a nonparti sa n , nor1p rofit and independent organi zat ion Its main goal i s to promote awa r ene s s of the tragic human r ight s situation inAfghanistan. In 1998 WAPHA t estified for the right s o f the w omen in Afghanistan three times to the United Sates Con g re s s. Just montl1s befo r e the t e rrori s t attacks in March of 2001 the WAPHA o rganization called fo r an international tribunal to bring ju s tice to the Taliban 's war crimes, crimes against humanit y, and gen o cide.
Although the terrorist attacks weren't a good thing for th e U.S. they w e re a good thing for the wom e n in Afghanistan. It brought more attention to w hat was goi n g on, buy making people more awa r e of what the Taliban had been doing to wom e n. It i s important that the U.S. d o e s take some action t o help o ut the women in A fg ha11ista n s o t hat no 1nore unnecessary harm i s inflicted on wo men
Eddie Leon ournalismStudent
February27, 2002
Volume 107 lssue 5
iHola! i.,C6mo estas?Thatis about all of the Spanish I know after two years and approximately 175 hours of class. I started learning Spanish in ninth grade. My teacher was having family problems and wasn't in class a single day of my fr eshman year , so I am sure having a variety of substitutes (one being a French teacher) didn't help. But in 10th grade I had two good teachers who put in extra tune to help me. I was determined to learn Spanish and I tried really hard. I went in for extra help almost every day and studied at night. But matter what I did, I couldn't learn Spanish.
Later I found that I wasn't
taught in elementary school for an hour a week, that is not enough to learn the language and be able to understand, speak and write the language fluently. By the time children are in junior high scientists say it might already be too late. To help students from struggling later in life foreign language needs to be taught in 5th or 6th grade and students should continue to practice in junior high and high school.
Right now Lincoln Public Schools does not require a student to take any foreign language to graduate from high school. However, depending on your major, four years of foreign language
guages are offered; Spanish, French, Chinese, and German. While this i s more that some other high schools in Nebraska is four languages really enough? Bill Zuspan, a social studies teacher at Lincoln High and sponsor of the Russian Club said, "While other languages are important, I think Lincoln High offers the four most popular languages in our area. If you lived somewhere else other languages may need to be taught." He also mentioned that as a school we probably could not afford to pay teachers to teach other languages.
Maestra Birky Rios brought up the point that in most countries language is taught in school much earlier. If you lived somewhere alone. There has been else it would not a lot of research about be uncommon the brai11and how the for you to know brain learns language two or three landuring different stages guage s by the of life. Language de- time that you are velopment starts when seven or eight you are about four · years old. "I months old. If a child hope I"PS would is not exposed to lan - integrate foreign guages by age two MaestraEricaBirkyRios and her Spanishclass practice l~guage at earthey may never talk at · lier levels, but all During the first Spanishby eating at a Mexicanresturantin Omaha. the funding is a few weeks of life a baby babbles al- are needed to graduate from college. big issue," Birky Rios said. most every sound of e very language. It is wise take the classes while still in The world is changing very Later as a child masters a single lan- high school because college classes quickly and the need to kno\v more guage the ability to make some sounds move much faster and are much more than one language is increasing. Only vanishes. That is why some Japanese difficult. To have a foreign language knowing one language could handicap adults have trouble learning the sound class be requu·ed in high school may you in a job or in your everyday life. "l" and "r" in English, for example. benefit a lot of students. If a student is So what can you do now if you are Brain researchers call this "pruning." exposed to a foreign language they struggling in your class? First, study Dr. Kathleen Itzen has done may decide t.'1atthey enjoy it a.'1duse every night. You need to try to retrain a lot of research on the brain and how the language in their career. If the class your brain to be open to something difit develops at different stages of a was not required the student may never ferent and remember and understand person's life. For most adults learning have thought of taking the class at all. what you are learning. Ask for help if another language is not the hard part; For those students who decide not to you need it. Overall we have great speaking is. "Adults speak with a go to college knowing a second Ian- teachers here at Lincoln High and they strong accent if they learned that Ian- guage may gives them the advantage are more than happy to help you if you guage later in life. But a c11ild'sbrain to a job over some ask or come in for extra help. Underdoes not hold onto accents when speak- one who can only speak one la11guage. stand that learning a new language is ing a different language," Dr. Parents can also help their very difficult for many people. You are Itzen, said. children lJy exposing them to other lan- not alone. Don't get frustrated. Hang
After about age 11, the formation of guages while they are very young. in there. new neural counection s slows down. Even if a parent would teach a toddler
So while it may be easy for a child to the alphabet or a song in a diff er ent learn several languages without speak- language the neural connection s are ing with an accent , it is not so ea s y for forming and the child would most adults. This is because a child's cere- likely remember it when they are older. bral cortex is growing rapidly in their Parents could also let their children brain. watch movies or cartoon s ma differ-
So what can we do? In Lin- ent language. Not only would this coin Public School s a student does not amuse the children, but it would also go to a foreign language class every- help introduce their brains to a differday until 8th or 9th grade. While a little ent language.
Spanish or Sign Language may be At Lincoln High four Ian-
That is about all we can do until the school sy stem starts listening to tl1e brain researchers and discover that we need to be taught other languages much earlier. Hasta luego.
February
27, 2002
Volume 107 Issue 5
Josi•Swartzlander
Co-Editor-in-cl-,iof _____,,_
I love to read. For me, reacting ,o not only an academic and essential skill, but it is also a simple pleasure. Reading can take your mind off of your problems and transport you to any i1naginary world that you desire. Without reading in n1y life, I would not only be e :'ltremely bored, but I would feel empty. It always amazes me when I talk to students at Lincol11 H i gh who say they never read. Either they do 11othave time, or they just don't enjoy it.
I do11't buy it. Readi11g ca11be fun for anyone It just take s practice, patience, and less television
If you watch TV during tl1e day, and almost all of you do , the11 you have time to read Turn off the television
.ore
and open a book. Books are not only more mentally stimulating than television, but, based on studies involving more than 400 , 000 students, television is actually bad for academic achieve111vi,, " too many c11i1d,.,,n are spending too little ti111e reading and too much time watching mind-numbing television," former U.S. Education
Secretary Richard Riley said According to Real Vision, an initiative to raise awareness about tl1e impact of television that sponsors the national TV-Turnoff Week, childre11 spend more tin1e in fro11t of the tube each year than they do in school. Al s o, children who ,vatch six or more hours of televisio11 per day score sig11ificantly lower on reading proficiency tests than those who watch one hour
or less.
Kasandra Smith
Opinion Editor
High school stude11ts live hectic lives, a11doften their lives rnay interfere with school. They work, participate in school activities, keep on top of schoolwork and spend time with their families and friends Having to tackle so much at one time can leave a student feeling tired, unmotivated and likely to become ill. In theory there is a chance that a student may miss some school due to the occasional, oversleepi11g, illness, injury, or ev e n a family con1mitment. T WotJDtR
Lincoln I-Iigh has cut the students a little slack, by allowing them to have 15 absences in one class before they have to face any consequences, but the student that slips up and exceeds 15 absences automatically receives a letter grade of an "F" ir1the class, and may have to retake it. The only way to get the abse11ces cleared is to be granted an appeal. If a student is granted an appeal they receive the letter grade that they have earned in the class. Some students are eve11 granted what is called a conditional appeal, which allows the student to move into the second se1nester portion of the class, and receive the earned letter grade for both semesters as 1011gas they pass and do not reach 15 absences in the second semester class The question that many students ask is, "Who is more likely to get an appeal granted?" Does it really help if you are wellknown to the teachers who are on the committee, or does the appeal process treat every student with the same fair tactics?
The appeal process is very long, a11dtime-consuming. It starts out with the student obtaining an appeal form that is normally sent home with a letter infor111ingthe student, and their parent/guardian that they have reached 15 absences. The biggest mis-
take that the student could make is not filling out the appeal form. The form is not very hard to fill out It asks for simple student i11formation , the class you are appealing , a parent/ Q11ardiansi!!nature. and oroof or rea~oning as to vvhy the student missed school on the back of the form. If a student were ill or injured it would be good to attach all doctor notes to this form to prove that the student really had a reason to be absent. Some students who attend Lincoln High may have ill-
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According to Real Vision, many children are growing up hooked on TV, with poor readi11g skills and little interest in books. In fact, this year American children will spend four times as · many hours watching TV as lv d,nc;: for pleasure.
Reading is ex(rt:111vlJ 0c pntial to academic success and success in life. Successft1! readers have strong vocabularies and are often good writers. TV is usually all talk, without many useful words. Moreover, the act o f reading fosters l1abits of analysis, questioning, comprehension , and ratio11ality. Television, on the other hand , puts emphasis on emotion , i1na ge, a11d speed, and fails to contribute to the d e ·velop1nent of these other key skills.
eAccording to Real Vision, you can take action to become a better reader and less of a TV addict by setting limits about watching TV every day to lower your daily TV watching. Don't have a television set in your bedroom. Always make sure you have books available that you like, so you · won't l1ave to watch TV as much for t:iiu..,,, : '"'nt Go to the library Give boolcs as gifts. Try new books, new genres and 11ewwriting styles. Also, find your favorite authors and stock up or1 their book s Even, God forbid, consider living without a TV
Everyone has time for reading, and if you find the books that are right for you and turn off tl1e t e levision, reading can b e an outlet in your life to relieve stress and to e11tertain. So tt1r11 off the TV, and open a book.
the stude11twent on a trip, or a memorial card if the student attended a funeral.
After tl1e student has co1npleted the form, the teachers are contacted and asked for their opinions about the st11dent Manv students believe this is where favoring steps into the pictt1re. The teachers are asked if the student has met the requirements of the class to date, the current grade of the stude11t, if the teacher feels the grade could change, and information that specifically addresses the
It is very simple in theory. A student who expects to miss a lot of scl1ool needs to get on their teacher's good side According to Jurger1s the teacher forms that are filled out ''!,-et ;i bunch of consideration", enough to determine in the end who gets their appeal granted, and who doesn't An example that Jurgens gave me to shovv how the opinions can affect the outcome, regards a student who missed a lot of school for n1aternity leave. The teacher forn1 that every teacher has to fill out if their class is getting appealed carries so much weight, that it can override a passing grade for a student even if the student took maternity leave. In theory the teacher can recommend denial even though a student was pregnant, and she still attained a letter grade of a "C". If the teacher requests that the student should not get their maternity leave accepted for an appeal, because they didn't do anything while in class, is very likely they will not get the appeal granted because the teacher's feelings are still at a higher consideration than the current letter grade in the class, even tl1ough they had a good grade, and had missed so much school. Therefore showing that if a teacher truly dislikes a student, they could think of an excuse of why the student does not deserve to get their appeal granted
nesses that they can treat themselves, such as diabetes. In this case a student wot1ld not need a doctor's note, but they would need their parent/guardian to indicate the days missed. It may be hard for many people to give reason why they were gone, and some may even take offense. According to attendance coordinator Dr. DeAnna Jurgens the school may even ask to see plane tickets if
student's status in class. The teacher's comments on this part of the form are essential to the final decision of the appeal. Sounds like typical questions to be asked to teachers regarding the classroon1 behavior of a particular student, but after speaking with Dr. Jurgens I started to think of how the "liked" students, are more likely to be granted an appeal.
It is hard to understand how a student can miss 15 or more days of class, and still manage to keep a passing grade. The majority of students with this many absences do not have a passing grade but, there are a few that do and even some with "A's" or "B's". This seems to show that these students are putting in a lot of work outside of class to make up work which shot1ld have more consideration in receiving an appeal than the teacher's personal thoughts of a student. A person could come to the conclusion that a stude11t that is not a favorite of their teacher, may be more likely to not receive an appeal, which they truely deserve.
KatShiffler
Co-f=rlitor-in-Chief
l1nagine for one moment the follo,ving scenario: Lincoln, Nebraska is a self-dependant nation-state. With an extensive and rich heritage in this area, the citizens of Lincoln have always felt an attachme11t to the land. J\Aany locations in Lincoln have an important religious significa11ce for the people of the city, and beautiful monuments mark tl1ese places to ren1ind tr1e people of Lincoln of their heritage.
Several decades ago, the independent territory of Lawrence was wiped out by a huge tornado that ripped through Kansas. The city of Lawrence also has historical roots in the land called Lincol11, Nebraska. As a result, many of the people of Lawrence decided to rnake a mass exodus to their "homeland" in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Lawrencians and the Lincolnites never really got along because of their religious differences, but when the population of La,Nrence started to develop independent settlements and competing businesses inside of Lincoln, the situation became even more confusing.
Lincoln is now divided up into separate settlements for Lawrence and Lincoln neighborhoods. The original settlers of Lincoln are forced further and further from their city start to de-
velop new neighborhoods on the outskirts of town. The land is a confusing map of exclusive territories and roads leading to the old city. A very long a,-i.rl
bloody
war erupt over who had rights to the "holy"
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Other big cities in tf1e U11ited States start to get interested in the Midwest a11d Graphic
Lincoln, and for financial and cultural reasons, the majority of the country choose to side with Lawre11ce. The commtlnities of Lincoln and Lawrence cannot live peacefully together, and a11 uprising er11pts as citizens of Lincoln are continuously discriminated against in their daily lives. Eventually the people of Lawrence gain control of the old city and most of the surrounding area. With the unmatched military force of the Lawrencians, sponsored by a giant outside force, all of the Lincolnites are pushed into the area of Pioneers Park to live in crowded housing developments.
No Lincolni tes are allowed to
JoshSwartzlander Co-Editor-in-Chief
I enjoyed the school pep rally, but only because I remembered my Carl Hiaasen novel. Without my trusty book, I'm not sure I would have survived the experience.
Let's just say the spirit rally, which \Vas mostly a mixture of bad jokes and mind numbing skits, did not exactly captivate my attention.
I might be in the minority in Lincoln High, but I do not particularly enjoy watching many of my fellow students embarrass themselves in front of 2,000 people
Watching our school's elite "cool kids II frolic to the tune of pop songs by distinguished artists like Brittany Spears does not give me school spirit. Instead, it almost drives me insane.
I don't mean to be down on school spirit. I think it is important to support our school's various clubs, organizations, and sports teams. But I don't think that the kind of pep rally that was held in Lincoln High's Johnson Gym on January 25th is the way to go about motivating people.
Frankly, I feel sorry for groups like IIG that put on quality performances at the spirit rally. IIG was fun to watch. The show they put on was entertaining, well prepared, and obviously took some talent and hard work. That is more than I can say for most of the other groups that performed during the spirit rally. Most of the performances at the rally were embarrassing and done in bad taste.
Shauna Meyer, a Lincoln High teacher, thinks tl1at the pep rally was a lesson in gender socialization. "I think society first has confined girls to particular roles then guys dress up like
adrive into the city because of the roadblocks and "cl1eckpoints" set up by Lawrence. At these military checkpoints the cars with bright yellow and
orange license plates are stopped, and the drivers harassed. The people of Lincoln cannot leave tl1eir settleme,,ts in Pioneers Par1, to go to their jobs or to their places of worship. Tl1e houses that their
families had lived in for generations are now inhabited by the Lawrencians.
Tl1e government of Lawrence has many strict rules to dehu1nanize the Lincolnites. They require permits for new buildings and freqt1ently bulldoze people's houses witl1out any notice. The borders around the Lincoln settlements become more and more restricted, and the area in which Lincolnites can live is limited to only few square n1iles. As time goes by, the government of Lawrence establishes territories in the middle of Pioneers Park settleme11ts and encourages citizens from other states to occupy the land.
Violence comes to a boiling
girls, demeaning themselves and making fun of the role girls are labeled with", Meyer said.
According to Meyer, we have labeled guys with the dominant role and girls with the recessive role in society. "Guys are the doers, and girls are the sideline cheerers in life," said Meyer.
For this reason, when guys dress up like girls, it can seem funny because
arpoint fro1n both sides, but the government of Lincoln is no match for Lawrence's armed forces financed by military-giant New York City. When La\vrence attacks unarmed people with tanks and helicopters, the young people of Lincoln rally togetl1er to defend themselves.
There are years of uprising by the Li11colnites, i11 which people blow themselves Llp out of desperation and the belief tl1at their side is right. The people of Lincoln are continuously denour1ced by tl1e country for being terrorists becatise they demand equal rights a11d and tl1e return of their land back Tl1e death tolls in the region are conti11uously distorted by the media to reflect the country's cultural pl1obia of the I~incolnites.
The leaders of Lincl1ln and Lawre11ce both talk about peace for a long l{)ng time, but r1othing is really resolved. Many people 011 the outside see this conflict as merely a land issue, but long-lasting prejuclices and religious co11tinue to be the largest deterrent of peace in tl1e Mid\vest. There is not an ending to this storv because the future of this seenario is yet unknown. If you think any of this is a stretch, then think again. This situation as you might have guessed was n1eant to describe the situation of the Palestinian people in Israel. Like in tl1is little story, the death and destruction in the region is immeasurable, and the prospect for peace is yet unclear. they are actually lowering their position in society.
If Lincoln High does hold pep rallies in the future, I hope that the performances that are given during the rally are well prepared and thought out, instead of mocking and embarrassing.
I found the last Lincoln High spirit rally a waste of my time. Thankfully I remembered my book.
February 27, 2002
Volume 107 lssue 5
Earl Pilcher Sta-ffWriter
In many churches you receive all types of kr1owledge bt1t from only one person. Most of the k11owledge comes from a book that 011eother has believed and written. You lea_rna lot about so1ne nther person's \Vay of thinking and thoughts of how we came to be just like l1istory books. A collection plate is passed around for people to donate money. Who does the money benefit or heal? Are sacrifices made so some others will benefit? Are there mass gatherings of churches so people can think as one and be united lil(e we stand?
Tl1e Native American Church is like no other cht1rcl1.111 tl1is church you receive all knowledge that comes from your culture and history. Nothing is written down where you read from but it's about what you know. Elders, adults even people the same age as you teach you new knowledge every time you walk in. You come out a different person. You learn more about yourself: who you are,what your purpose of being, here is what kind of heart and mind you have. The biggest exception of all you're i11vited any time, it doesn't matter who you are feel free walk in because God does not
discriminate. Our church is not
walked across a land bridge millions of years ago.
In the Indigenous Church we are taught to be the followers of Christ you can say tl1at is our religion or beliefs. There are several major people involved i11our church. People such as Road Man, Cedarer, Drun1mer, Fire Man, Door Man, Sponsors. The church
only on Sunday but everyday These are Instrumentsused in traditionalNative somewhere across this small turtle Am.ericanchurchservices island (USA).
"You have noticed that everything as an Indian does is in circle, and that is because the Power of tl1e World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in it's greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest is circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves." (Black Elk 1863-1950 Oglala Lakota)(Sioux)
Indigenous Americans'lives run in fours or circles. Fours because of the four directions, the four hills in life, the four winds. Circles are so the society of many nations is equally divided not a society based in triangles. Everything we do seems to be evolved around our mother earth. Nature is our number one source in life. It seems to be unbelievable that one animal gave us everything we needed a home, food, clothing, hunting materials. Indigenous people believe we evolved from the ground or came out of caves or even evolved from water. Others say we
is set up by the sponsors who give tobacco to the Road Man, who is the spiritual leader.
While sponsors give the tobacco they must tell what they want from the church why the church shall be held. For examples so111emay want it for good life, good health, to help heal a sick one, for everyone's well being, or to bring someone in this world or take someone off to the other world life after death. Sponsors provide the money for the food for tl1ose who walk in. This is a sacarfice that must be made. After this has been set up the Road Man then calls l1is people for help. He finds a drummer, cedarer, and fireman. When this is done the church is preoceded onward. The Road Man is the main person who takes everything and puts it together. Now the Cedar Man is the one who gives out all the blessings. He puts cedar in the fire so it will bum and the smoke will go above so God may hear our prayers. The Drummer is the one who drums for people while they are singing he gives out the heart beat of life. Fire Man takes care of the fire so it will not bum out and fixes it to the right design at the right time of the night. The Doorman is honorable seat for the one who is in grief or the one who greets everyone for coming in. Orphans, 'leterans or rep-
resentatives from other Nations are the ones to mainly take this seat. For they are the ones to take the first blessings. This church is 011 the avpr:2gc is a 17 hour process which ~ta,,s about 8 o'clock: at night and d0c" not end until about 2o' clock in th" ,,ext day. It starts out with the seating of the people who are going to be i11volved. Every perso11 i11volved has a special seat. The tipi entrance always faces where the sun rises for the new day (east). So111eNations ,vork i11 a clockwise fashion v;ith others work in a counter clock-wise fashion. We'll start from the seat south of the entrance that's the Doorman's seat. Moving clockwise then is the sponsor from there is the Drumn1er then it is the Road Man and to the left is the Cedarer. The three Main people sit next to each other with their backs facing west so they ca11watch the new day come. On the north side is anyone who participates in the church. When leaving to the north of the entrance is the Fire Man. Before entering there is a big wooden pole standing straight up approximately l 6feet from the entrance. When entering you must leave all your problems from there on behind you and enter with a clear mind. Some say that if you do not obey this that you will in a way get sick when you are in here. Everyone must walk around and enter to the south of the pole. When all this has taken place the ceremony precedes When the church first starts off at 8:00 everyone is greeted and a small dinner is provided with com soup and fry bread. The Road Man then says his prayers for everyone being involved and that everything falls into place for the night. These teachings are handed down from generation to generation. The Drummer then provides his own prayer for the sponsors and the drum. Tobacco is then passed out to everyone who chooses to make prayers for the sponsors, there loved ones and whatever else reasons are provided. Tobacco is rolled up in comhusks and the tobacco is burned while saying prayers. This process approximately takes up to an hour and a half but there is really no time limit. Since this all has taken place the11the real process gets started. The drum then goes around to everyone who chooses to sing. While the drum is passed around along come a gourd and the Road Man's staff. Peyote is then passed around every once in a while. Everyone just sings well in to the morning. At the first sight of the new day is when the Road Man's wife comes into the church. Along with her come the sacraments. After this about 8:00 is when the second breakfast comes to be served. When done eating you are dismissed. Most of the time socializing may occur well into the day. This has been my experience of The Native American Church.
Oh one of the sweetest day s of the year it is. Yes that's Valentines Day. People grab the one close st to them and show them how much they appreciate your love and passion for one another. Everything during the whole day seem s to be like a dream that som e may never want to wake up from. The v;hole day is fiill of the color red. Red roses, candy hearts, red clothing, te ddy bear s, red rosy che eks f rom p eople blushing so much. Lo ve letters are sent t o one another from their lover or m aybe that secret adnlirer. Romantic evening s are already planned out for 011eanother Some m ay eve11pop one tl1emost unexpected que stion s of a lifetime fuat is ''Will you marry me? " Even the younger kid s have fun passing small love cards and candy out to one another in their cubby boxes Whatever is in the air at this time sure is one pleasurable smell.
Love i s one of the greatest sentimental values a person can have. It shows how much anotherperson cares for you that wants to be clo s e to you and experience all the adventure s in life as you do. Some may even start their new life with that special person and experience the whol e new adventure. Othe r s 1nay want to put the adventure to a stop and call it quit s or say that the game is over. Teenagers may not know what the full meaning of love is. Therefore they have the whole lifetime ahead of fuemselves to find out.
On this journey one might get hurt so bad that life mu st not go on and commit suicide. Others though may find that it i s ea sy to find the meaning and there quest starts from fuatpoint. This 4-letter word can make a big difference in any people's world. The true rr1eaningof love according to Webster' s N ew World College Dictionary; a deep and tender feeling of affection for or attachment or devotion t o a per s on or persons. , The American Heritag e Dictionary says lo v e i s an inten s e af fection and warmth fo r another. Love really cannot be described but only on a personal basis you will b e able to fmd your own real meaning of what love is. So I leave you this question to be answered can you de s cribe, explain or know what fue true meaning of love is ?
Yeah,yeah, love, cheesy sonnets, tiny little guitars, whatever floats your boat. I just want to know where all this seasonallove can1efro111.Boxes of candy shaped like a heart and balloon..;; that say "be 1nine"come but
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once a year,but really,how classyis it to routinelypurchasecandy or flowers on one specificday of the year for that special someone?That' s not veiy specialat all! How channing is it to wake up on the 14thandexpectrecognitionfromyour steadfastbeauby sometokenof whatcorporateAmericacalls tradition? It really makes me sick. Hallmark and flower shops all aroundthe country depend on theholidayfor theireconomicwealfu, so banning it due to stupidityis out of the question. But a redefinitionof so1tsis definitelyin order.Valentine' s Day should mean something beyond blushes and crushes.
Now, contraiy to popular belief,I am not completelyheartless This year, my petit arni and I successfully avoidedthe holidayby spendingit in the very city of love, Paris, France. Yes, though dirty and rude, Parisians somehow claimto be the prosperouspioneers of everythingdealing with love, sweet love. I have no quarrelswifulove itself, I just want to find a reason other th ::,11 routineto recognizewhat St. Valentine's Day really stands for What about the mysteriousSainthin1Self?February 14 wa s dedicated to Valentine by pope Gelasiusin 4% AD in honor of his mai·tyrdom, but today, the Catholic churcl1 recognizesat least t1Jreedifl:erentSaint Valentinesor Valentin11sfium that time period,all of who1nwere martyred.Ar-
chaeologistshave uncovereda Ron1an Catacomb,and an ancientchurch dedicated to him, so we know that he did exist, but the true story of Valentineremains a mysteryto this day
One common legend is that he was a Roman priest who refused to giveup his Christianfaifuagainstthe decree of Emperor ClaudiusII. Claudius thoughtyoungsinglemen shouldbe preservedforthe war,sayingthattheymade better soldiersthan those with families. Valentine,vouldmarry youngChristian couplesin secret,beforehe was arrested and held pri soner under the eye of Claudi11 s Rumors suggest fuatwhile in jail, Val- entine fell in love with thejailers daughter,sending!1er secret ' 'ettersandalwayssigningt:11em} ·''yourValenti11e''anexpression usedto thisday. Valentinewas beaten with clubs and stones fueneventuallybeheadedwhenhe tried to convertthe Emperor
Now, that' s a great story, slightlywanningmy cold-heartednanire, but I still am not satisfiedwith the 20th centuryinteipretationof the holiday. I don't know what you did to celebrate thisyear,but next yearkeepin mind fuat Cupid is only Roman Mythology,not the founder of Valentii1esday, and that you don't, by any means need to buy into all fue holiday commercialismthat our lovely country sets up for us. Let your loved one know yo11love him/her in ways that don't requiretackyjewelry or restricteddates. Maybeyou coulddo somethingcrazy like spend some quality time togefuerdoingabsolutelynothing. Love is a pricelessthing,cherishit everydayof fue year.(--Is what I would say if I had a heart.)
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The sw ich-rally a t Lincoln 1-Iigh has been around for ov e r 30 ye ars It ha s c han ge cl tr em endously ov er time. When the first rally started the guys chosen to participate irt it ,x;ould put on cheerleading sk:irts, little shirts, wigs ancl even soc k: stuffed bras. They would run around the gym floor yelling and jumping, instead of trying hard to learn and preform a dance and a cheer They would be making fur1of cheerleaders and what they do. As yot1 can see a lot ha s changed " Tl1e point of the switch rally is to have fun and involve the guys," senior Stephanie Hile said. Senior Bailey Ta) 1lor added, " and make them see how hard we work." Each Cheerleader a11dPomalink chose one partner. The partners are usually either boyfriends or good friends of tl1e girls. Ju11ior Jacob Absalon and Hile agree that waking up for 6 a.m. practices before school was the hardest part. "Dancing in f ront of everyone was kind of relaxing and exciting. The time and effort they (the Cheerleaders/ Pomalinks) put forth every day of the ,veek impresses me," Absalon said. Great job to all cheerleaders, pomilinks, IIG, partners and everyone else who preformed or was recognized at this year's switch rally.
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April 1, 2002
Volume 107 lssue 6
Daniel Mallou (11)joined with 22 other LHSrefugee students from Sudan in a gathering on March 21with community members and business owners who have offered jobs, support,and volunteer help. The reception was organized by LHSWork Study Coordinator Dick Patterson.
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Lincoln High ' s Student Council succes sfully organized an underwear drive from February 25 through March 1 to benefit The Friendship Home.
The Friendship Horne offers a place to stay for wome11 and children who have had to leave threat-
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Bill Wallen
Journalism Student
Lincoln lligh received the Good Sport s man Award at tl1e 2002 State High School Boy s Ba sketball Tournament at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Saturday, March 9th. a11
eight-judge panel for Class A teams gave tl1e awaJ:d to LHS fans w ho showed better sportsmanship than th e ening situations in their homes. other high schools.
During the drive, in which the Lincoln High got the award seniors, jt1niors, s ophomore s, and mainly fro1n the Thursday 11ight fac11lty competed for the 1nost ar- game when the team caine back from ticles donated , Student Council re- a six-point deficit to send the game ceived approximately 530 articles of in to over-time against Omaha Cenunderclotl1ing to be distributed tral. I~incoln lligh beat the Eagles. among th e famili e s of The Friend- Friday' th e Lincoln I-iigJ-1fa11 s sh ip Horn e al so stayec(calrn ,vhen the teain l1ati Juni( )rs do111inated ti1e c o111pe - th e lead ov e r South e ast and ke p t t he ir tit i on by donating o,1er 34 0 art i cl es co o l ev en \,vl-,en the Kni,ghts carne \Vitl1 se r,i ors and f act tlty tra il ing at lJackto ,vin the garne. The awar.: l is a ··
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April 11, around 120 LHS stu·de11ts from 5 classes of "Animal Behavior" are going to spend a night at the Zoo in Omaha. It's a really interesting experience that Science teacher Barb Saathoff does almost every year since the class started.
This trip is a way to sho\v the kids the nocturnal and diurnal ar1imals.
The behaviors that an1mals exhibit during the nights are very different than what people usually get to see during the day; like the peacocks who fly up into the trees at night and make really loud noises and scare the students. "I think that's probably what I like the most is watching the kids get scared from something" Saathoff said.
It's called the nocturnal visit, and it enables the students to see the animals more closely too, because the animals are more relaxed during the night and they usually come right next to the fence.
Kat Shiffler Co--Editor-in-Chief
A small gro11prallied at the State Capitol on February 25th in support of a legislative bill to stop new liquor stores from opening in Whiteclay, a dusty Nebraska town bordering the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
This bill stems from a long legacy of alcohol abuse and heated controversy about the legality of alcohol sales in Whiteclay.
Legislative Bill 1306 was presented by Senator Don Priester of Omaha to prohibit sales of alcohol within five miles of the reser-
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The students ,.vill !1ave an assigr11nent a11d part -of this is going and spending the 11ight at the Z()O. Once they get there, they will have to do an exuerirnent research • project and they have to observe the animals.
They can choose· which animal to work on first for the project, work in groups, a11d once they are back they will correlate all the information that each one has collected and write a report about it.
Students usually do a fundraiser to pay their way in and they' 11 spend the whole night there.
They'll have Valentino's food delivered through the bars because the gates are all locked up, after a 9 p.n1. walk.
After that, the students will talk and get into groups. They'll alsoha,,e a TV so they can watch a movie. "It's fun," Saathoff comrnented.
Animal Behavior is an elective course that Lincoln High offers. The only requirement for the class is to have previously taken Biology. There are students from all years of high school in Animal Behavior.
vation. If passed, the existing businesses in Whiteclay would have their liquor licenses grandfathered in and could still sell booze.
The town of Whiteclay, Nebraska is comprised of four liquor stores which gross $3 million a year in beer and malt liquor sales from the residents of the Reservation.
Strangely, the liquor stores make millions off of the impoverished Indian patrons, even though consumption of alcohol is
prohibited both in Whiteclay and on the "dry" reservation.
· "This is a case of lawlessness
within our own border," said Carol McShane, president of Nebraskans for Peace. She and other proponents of the bill spoke briefly at a rally before a committee hearing on Priester's bill.
In February, the state legislature was presented with the impassioned testimony of Indian activist Frank LaMere and others affected by the alcoholism that is prevalent in reservatio11life.
He described a hope for the young people of the reservation. Maybe the next generation will not have to live through such adversity. "We need to put this sad legacy behind us," LaMere said.
This issue is not a high priority for Nebraska lawmakers, and the bill
is unlikely to be debated in the legislature.
Activists familiar with reservation life know all too well the urgency of this situation. Pine Ridge is the poorest area in the country. Unsolved murders have plagued the reservation in the last few years. Women desperate for booze sell their bodies to bootleggers.
Even if this bill were to be passed, the five-mile buffer zone is unlikely to eliminate the illegal consumption of alcohol or the problems that come from a long, sad history of alcohol abuse.
Raising awareness of these problems among Nebraskans seems to be the first step in a long recovery process on the reservation.
Activist PrankLaMereexpresses support of LB1306, a bill to limit alcohol sales around Pine Ridge.
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ByMicah Stege-Tompsett Feature Editor
Imagine sitting on the floor of Johnson Gym with a group of your peers, getting ready to perform. Well approximately 200 extraordinary kids from the elementary schools in Lincoln got to do just that on March 11. Being a part of the sixth grade band, you are automatically chosen to attend All-City musical performance.
"I really like getting out of normal school day to go to a practice," said Fredstrom sixth grader Luke Stege-Tompsett. This event is always held in the month of March because March is "Music in our Schools" month. The public has always been welcome.
A music teacher from one of the middle schools in Lincoln will conduct it at one of the three sites, the sites being Lincoln High, Northeast, and Southea s t. In the pa s t , one of the conductors was Teresa Lenz
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~"W, A11 Eventful weekend took pl ace o n March 14-16; thirty six Li11col 11Hi g h DECA meinber s attenc!ed DECA state along with tl1ot1sands of other DECA s tud e nts fro m ar o11nd the s tate. Sttid en ts gather e d at the Cornhusker Hotel On Thursday Morni11g to get acquainted with each other, unpack, and prepare for an educational ,veekend.
At DECA state, students compete in an area of their work. They take tests and form role plays in · front of a judge. The areas of choice are: Apparel and Accessories, Business Services, Food Marketing, Full Service Re s tat1rant, Marketing Management, Retail Merchandising, Quick Service Restaurant, Vehicles and Petroleum, Sports and Entertainment, Hospitality and Tourism, and Travel and Tourism.
DECA is sponsored by Trudy Hines, the Marketing teacher for Lincoln High. She has sponsored DECA for nineteen years She also organizes LHS students' favorite school s nack, the cookie link. Otis Spunkmeyer cookies !1ave bee11 at Lincoln High for eight years, and in last five years Lincoln High has b ee n in the top fiv e in the nat i on for sel ling tl1e mo s t Otis Sp unkmeyer co oki es. Tl1is year vve wi ll riot be in tl1e top fiv e bec ause o f the inva s ion of vend i ng mach ine s. Stt1der1ts fro111 Scott s t,luff. to Orr1r1ha pile d t heir s ui te a s es a t t11.e '
efrom Goodrich Middle School. This year, the conductor wa s Gary Jungck from Park Middle School for Lincoln High, and for the Northeast portion, the conductor was Mary Pfoltner from Mickle Middle School. For Southeast's portion, the conductor was Susan Hottovy, from Irving Middle School. String specialists were Rhonda Neely for Lincoln High, Huadong Lu, for Northeast's part in this, and Kristin Rangel, for the Southeast portion. There are a total of forty elementary level bands in the city of Lincoln.
It is not only the performers of wi11dinstruments and percussion, but there is also an orchestra, which i11cludes string instruments, wl1ich will also perform, making it a two-group performance. However, it i s not a competition
The idea for this s howcase of bands was thought up in 1948. Since there are a large number of elementary s chools here in Lincoln, there had to be three different sites for the performance. One is a11nually held
here at Lincoln High, one is held at Northeast, and the other is held at Southeast. ·
The musical selections are picked out for the level of music ability that has been attained by the students with their two to three years of playing.
This year's musical selections were "Somerset Overture" by A11ne McGinty, "Two Canadian Folk Songs" also by Anne McGinty, "Yorktown March" by John Edmundson, ·and "Rockn' Robin" by Jimmie Thomas, and arranged by Gerald Sebesky
The Orchestra played the songs "Fiddling - A - Round" by John Caponegro, "String Fever " by Lennie Niehaus, "Rhumbolero" by John Caponegro, and "Happy Blues" by Robert S. Frost.
Together, the band played "The Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key, and at the concl t1sion of their performance "America the Beat1tiful" by Ward, arranged by Hascall.
TrentBlackwell(11),Billy Galusha (12) and Sam Beutler (11)display their awards from State DECA.
drop off oh the s outh s ide of the Comhusker then checked into their roo1n Candidate s running for state officers set up their campaigning booths in the atrium.
Then at 1:30 p.1n. the opening ceren1onies began. All nine hundred contenders in DECA state listened to loud music and watched two large sc reens with excited students cheering. The State officers were introduced one by one followed by a speaker, Chri s McCoy and his, Road to Life speech.
After the opening ceremonies everyone went to their rooms until their sc heduled briefing time any time after four. Then ev eryone beg an role playing an d te st ing Friday was li s te11ing day. Some s tudents atte11ded t\VO speaki11g ses ~ s ion s at the Un i on Au dit or iu1n in th e U 11ion building on Nebraska city ca mJJ US a n d otl1ers liste ne d to spe akers a t t h e Cornl111 s lcer. · A f ter tl1e fir1al i sts p e rf or111ed ye t
anotl1er role play, a full attend preliminary award s ceremony was held in the g ra11dballroo111.Tl1e finali s ts were announced the following day.
When Saturday n1or ning came around all of the D ECA s tude11ts packed i11 the gr an d ballroom for the last ev e 11tof the weelcend. · The finalists were announced, and the winner s are: senior Jen Knoll , Advertising Campaig11; senior Lara Cahan, Bt1siness Services; se nior Janna Miller, Retail Merchandising; se-
nior Bill(y) Galusha, Apparel and · Accessories; s e nior Grant Rodgers placed first in the math test in Busi- · ness Services; seniors Jared Larkin and Dan Babcock placed third in the written test in Sports and Entertainment Marketing; juniors Sam Bet1tler and Trent Blackwell, Sports and Entertainment; juniors Gabe James and Jacob Absalon, Sports and Entertainment; and juniors Nolan Day and Guy Perkins placed third in the role play for Sports a11dEntertainment Market1ng, Other awards won were junior Ab s alon elected State Officer for Bu s iness and Industry Relations, and Jessi Wolf e will participate in the Lead e rsl1ip Academy at th e Na ti onal Con fe re11ce All of th e wi1111ersw il l attend na tio 11al s in Sa l t L ake Ci ty , Ut a l1 ii1 A pril. Con " gr atul atio ns to e, 1 eryo11e wh c) partic ipa te cl in D EC A, an d th ank you i\ 'H' L!i_ rs ,. 1ne s.
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Dear Advocate Editor,
It's too bad your co-editor in chief is so ignorant about school activities. · The cheerleaders and poinalinks are two of the hardest working organizations at Lincoln High, and are responsible for the majority · of support for other school activities.
Concerning Josh Swartzlander's article on the Switch Rally, it is apparent that he is uninformed. Every single participant in the rally was voluntarily performing and no11e haq any sentiments of embarrassment of humiliation.
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The idea behind the Switch Rally is to · lighten the mood that winter and finals project it's not supposed to be serious. It is unfair and subjective to say that the roles of the boys i11the rally is to demean the girls and mock their role in society. In fact, the boys/the routines mock the perception of these performing groups by society. Both the pomalinks and the cheerleaders are talented groups who recog11ize that they are not always take11seriously.
Furthermore, to say that ·the routines performed at the S\vitch Rally (other than IIG) were t1nprepared and didn't have hard work. Both the cheerleaders and pomalinks and their partners spent weeks preparing, teaching, and learning their routine s. All the routines required approval by the administration, and had to be original, entertaining routines. Not to mention the fact
that the week of the rally itself, the groups were practicing at 6 am nearly every day. Few · people at this school can say that their day at LHS begins with heavy physical activity.
The comments that the performances were embarrassing is for no one to decide but the performers themselves. Also, the suggestion that everything was in "bad taste" shows that the writer obviously has not seen current music videos and movies, since all routines had to be approved, it is impossible to say that any of them were of performance quality.
"Watching our school's elite "cool kids?"'
Send me a list and let me know who they are.
The performers were picked to be either a cheerleader or a pomalink based on tl1eir level of talent. The girls had the option to pick an person willing to participate to be their part- ·· ner.
Obviot1sly, your co-editor in cl1ief is too insecure to have respect for the kids who can get out there and just let go. The boys that performed are the ones that ki1ow how it really works be confidant and have fun.
The Switch Rally is not about gender socialization or 1nocking the roles of women in society it 's entertainment that appeals to the sense of humor (even if it i s considered by some to be slightly non-PC) of the student body.
Next time Josh Swartzland er write s an opinio11article, make sure it's an objective one. The piece he wrote de1near1s hin1 1nore than the Switch Rally ev e r could.
Thanks,
·Lara Cahan (12), and Stacey Loos (12)
·The Goldenvears
Dear Advocate Editor,
Thank you for the article in the most recent Li11coln High Advocate, it brought a different view to the annual Switch Rally. Could you please step off that " I am uninformed, but I am going to open my big mouth anyway," and get the facts that you lost in the process of expressirig your opinlOn.
The afte1noon on January 21? I was working, not at my job, but at school. Switch was being held that Friday and we needed to start working on the dance we were going to perform for it. What a better day to get things started than on the days that we had off for our semester break. Don't worry though, because lea1ning a dance for close to three hours wasn't hard work. According to your article the only performing act that worked hard was IIG.
The remaini11g four days that lead tip to Switch Rally tl1e Pomalinks and Pomahu11ks were in the gym. bright and early at 6:00 am.,but you were probably at home asleep. On to talent. The Pomalinks came back from a competition in Grand I s land with high rankings. Their hours of work at school a11d at dance studios for all hours of tl1e night couldn't be hard work. The Pomali11ks are chosen based on talent and the hard work they put in. Now if everyone was the way your article was, then none of the Po1nalinks have talent or put hard work into the squad. An interesting thought that you brought up in your article was that the Switch Rally was embarrassing and distasteful. You stated it was e1nbarrassing to Lincoln High and the students in it. The stude11ts that were involved were asked by their partners, not · forced to embarrass themselves. In an indi- · rect way you are saying the administration · is inadequate, because they approve of the · Switch Rally activities.
Recently the cheerleaders came back fro1n a competition in Chicago, with a first place ranking. Now if they did not have talent then how did they rank so well. nstead of starting practice on Monday as the Pomalink s did they started on Saturday. So what did they do during that time , perhaps they worked hard. ·
The Po1nalink squad is mad e up of \Vomen. The program was created by wo1ne11,a nd i s appro ve d by th e admini s tration No guys dre s sed up like girls and 110 girls dre ss ed up like guys, it is funny, and comedy. The sc hool k11ows about tl1ese rallies ahead of time so plan 011 not attendi11g to spare yot1r v alt1able time.
If your goal is to get tb.e rallie s stopped fo r goocl, you a re fighting a battle y ou w ill not wi11.This is a prime event for botl1 the Cheerleaders and Po1nalinks. Stude11ts lc)ok forward to th i s ev e 11tto cel e l-irate tl1e b eg inning of the wi11ter sp clrts. · The best y ea rs of your li f e are spent in high scl1ool. Do11 ' t 'waste these golden years looking down 011 high scho ol , because you are only hurtir1g yo ur se lf. l applaud yo11for the position you have earned on th e school newspaper. Promote your school and use your po sitio11to prolong tl1e pr i de in hi s tory and tradition of Lincoln High School. Appreciate your school for what it is and th e many traditions it has. Don't waste valuable and historic paper space telling the school the negative s, of a small 111inorityof the student body. Tha11ks Ron Leach (11)
Pep·RalliesForAll
Dear Advocate Editor,
In last month's advocate, I read an article about how the Lincoln High Switch Rally was an embarrassment. After reading this article, it made me think about Pep Rallies in general.
· Why is it that when sports make it to state, we are allowed to miss 30 -minutes of our morning classes to go outside, usually freezing, just to listen to people talk about who-knows-what because everyone else is in their own conversation that no one can hear anything anyway.
How about pep rallies for tl1e things other than sports!?! God forbid our school has any other extra-curricular activities! What about "Tl1e Rememberer"? Our Theater Departme11t has worked hard to prove that Lincoln Higl1 is the best. We did it so well, we made runner up IN Tf-IE STATE! Yes, we made it to state, but where was our pep rally?? Oh wait, I forgot! That "Optional" pep rally for "The Ren1emberer " (we mustn't forget that all sport related pep rallies are always required!) that, what, 4 classes went to. Oh yeah! We can really say we support our school! NOT!
"Oh, that's only one incident," you 1nay be saying, but I can give you more:
Our Lincoln High band, the group that is at every game and pep rally, are always winni11g awards because they are the best. Wl1en do we give them their Pep Rallie s to · show our support?
Our Cheerleaders went to Chicago! How cool is that? Now, did we take 30 minutes out of our day to show these girls how 1nuch we support them? They are cons tantly showing their "spirit" for Lincol11 High. Where is ours for them?
Our Lincoln High Co11cert Choir, Jazz Cl1oir, and Sopl1omore Select will be going to Chicago in April to co1npete with other choirs. How big of an honor is that? 1'111 g ue ssi ng not big enougl1 to recei ve a pep rally for , once agai11,provi11g that Li11col11 High is the best.
Does a11yone even know that ,ve ha, 'e a Speec11a 11dDebate Tea1n? Why do11't we g ive pep ra llies to the n1ore "academic" activities, rat her tl1ar1a ll our attentiori to the "a thl et ic" activ iti e s \Ve aren't Soutl1East, or a t least 1 t l1011gh t , ve ,v er e11't.
Takin g a ha lf l1ot1r out of ou r day to s ho ,v 011r supp or t i s11't going t(, i11terrupt our le arn i11g When my 1nom wa s in high school, tl1ey had a Pep Ra lly ev er y Friday, l\1y mon1 do esn't see1n t o be "laclcing in education."
If we say we have sc hool spirit, a11d we l)rag to Li11coln SouthEast, Lincoln NorthEast, and Lincoln East that we are the best, sl1ouldr1't we be showi11g our support for all of Li11coln Hi gl1, 11otjust the sports? Thank you for yot1r time, Arr1anda Ly11nGrimsley (12)
April1, 2002
Volume 107 lssue 6
JoshSwartzlander Co-Editorin Chief
In my history class last year it was assumed, as a generalconsensusof the studentsin the class, that sciencewas a religion. I regret now not having said anythingto refute this lie.
Scienceis not a religion. In fact, scienceand religion are as differentas knowledge and ignorance, as differentas logic and magic.
While science proceeds to describe natural phenomenon,religionproceedsto manipulatethe world to supportits own conclusions.
The scientificmethod is simply a process of hypothesis,observation,analyzation,and conclusion. Science is always ruled by logic and constant examination. In the scientificcommunity, everythingis open for inspection. Questionsand constructiveargumentsare encouraged. The scientificmethod actuallythriveson debate.
Contrast this with the religiousworld. Religious texts are often consideredthe word of God and are ultimatetruths. Knowledge,then, is dealt withby authority,not througha deductiveprocess. Questioningof most items in religionis very limited. Mostly, stepping out of bounds is discouraged and even punished.
Religion very often condemns heretics. In
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Recently, while watching television, I saw a commercial. Yeah big deal right, we all see commercials, we're inundated with them. This one was different, this one scared me. It was an ad saying that people who do drugs contribute to terrorism.
This dido't scareme in a way that would make me not want to do drugs; I was scared because I finally realized what our government would do to get rid of drugs.
For years now our governmenthas been bombarding us with subtle signs that are intended to show us that they think drugs are bad. They've even gone so far as to come up with "clever" little catch phrases like "Just Say No." They have also been using more overt methods of curbing the drug trade, such as making penalties for using, selling and trafficking drugs much harsher. Some states put people away for life just for sell1ngmariJuana.
The drug they are trying to attribute to terrorism,as seems most obvious to me, is heroin. Heroin is a drug derived from the poppy plant, one of Afghanistan's largestcash crops. The problem with this statement is that heroin use in the U.S. constitutes one of the smallest percentages in the drug world with, according to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, only an esti-
contrast,the best way to 1nakea 11amefor yourself in the scientificcommunityis to successfullyoverturn longstandingdoctrines.
For example,Einstein showed that space and time were not absolute. He was heralded by the scientificcommunitythroughouthis life.
Unlike the scientificmethod, religions don't often analyze data. The hypothesisis absolute. The observationsand analyzation can be ignoredif they yieldinconvenientresults.
Science,therefore,is somethingthatcanbe trustedor not trusted; religionis something that can be believed or not believed.
'Scienceis not a religion, although it ' may be a child,pemaps an illegitimatechild,of philosophy," author of "Perspectivesin Biology and Medicine"Elwin Chargaffsaid. "One can, therefore, not 'believe' in science;but one can trust or distrustthe scientificmethods or the results of scientificresearch."
Scienceis not a way to live life; scienceis life.
mated 130,000users in the year 2000; this represents only 0.1 percent of the population of the United States. NHSDA statistics show that the average heroin addict spends roughly $200 a day to support their habit; at that rate they spend about $9.49 billion on heroin each year. Bear in mind that this figure comes from saying that the 130,000 users of heroin are all addicts, which in· reality isn't true. Statistics from the DEA (Drug Enforcemente Agency) have shown that about 65 percent of all heroin seized by law enforcement officials originates in South America. Af- · ghanistan was never mentioned as having much of anything in the way of productivity compared to other countries.
Now I'm not trying to say that heroin use is good, far from it. I do think however, that itis very cowardly of our government to tell drug users they are contributing to terrorism, and not to tell the rest of the oil-usingcitizensof this country that they are too.
"The vast majority of all terrorist funding comes from the buying and selling of oil. If we estimate that there are 200 million cars being used in America right now, the average tank for those cars being about 13 gallons, the average price per gallon being $1.20, and people refilling their tanks completely about once every two weeks, we can safely estimate that Americans spend somewhere around $81.12 billion on oil, most of which goes to OPEC countries. (These figures are very conservative, the numbers for tank size coming from my own car which gets 30 miles to the gallon. This certainly doesn't ac-
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Science is observing, and because the scientific method is simplyan applicationof reason and logic to the phenomenaof nature,it must be true untilit is disproved.Scienceacceptsnothingwhich is not either directlyor indirectlyobservableand subjectto analysis. Becausescienceis observingand analyzing nature,unlessour surroundingsare not real, science is the truth.
Science has two goals: describe and explain. The methods of science are logicallysound. Unlike religion, scienceseeks not to assignsignificanceor meaning, but only to describe. While religionoften attemptsto answer the impossiblequestion of Why?, (Why does life exist? Why do scientificprincipleswork?) scienceinstead explainsHow. The scientific method only seeks to explain how things work, not why they work.
Further,religion is uncertain and uncorroborated comparedto science. Religiousbeliefs often came from stories passed down verbally through generations. Then, these stories are fmally written down as if they are directobservations.Science,on the otherhand, clearlydefines what is a theory and
on·count for all of the gas chomping SUV's terrorizing the streets,or for the fluctuationin gas prices, which more often than not goes up and not down.)
The,reason that this is dangerous to us is that OPEC, the coalition which distributes · most of the world's oil, is comprised of many countries that the U.S. is on very shaky ground with. Countries such as: Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Algeria. Other members include: Indonesia, and SaudiArabia, whose governmentswe are on good terms with, but our standing with the citizens may be a little bit questionable.
Our government seems to only want to intervene when we have something at risk. This isn't necessarily a bad thing given our current situation, we should want to end terrorism for .. good. The problem is that other countries experience terrorism much worse than we could ever hope to.
Americans have known for years about the terrorist problem in Colombia. They have had possibly the worst history of terrorism ever. I'm not just talking about the kidnapping of American nationals either; the problem goes much deeper than that. With the advent of the burgeoning drug trade (which is a direct result of the American government putting a ban on all substances it deems "illicit"), certain people sought to seize control of the power and money that was to be had. One of the most infamous and violent folks to take part in the trafficking of narcotics, especially cocaine, was Pablo Escobar. Escobar is basically the mold maker for the modem drug kingpin. His biggest claim
orwhat is an observation. Nothing is uncertain.
Religionand scienceare not completelyunrelated, however. Really, religion is an inverted science. While science draws conclusionsfrom observationsin nature, religion supports its hypothesis with findingsin nature.
Youwill hardlyfind one amongthe profounder sort of scientificmindswithout a peculiarreligious feelingof his own," Albert Einsteinwrote in a short essay. "But it is different from the religion of the naiveman.
For the latter God is a being from whose care one hopes to benefit and whose punishment one fears; a sublimationof a feeling sinlilarto that of a child for its father, a being to whom one stands to some extentin a personal relation,however deeply it may be tingedwith awe. But the scientistis possessedby the sense of universalcausation."
Many s-cientistswho value scientificdeduction rather than a traditional religion believe in a certain natural religion. For traditionalreligions, the concept of the allapowerfulforce is scary and detached
But for the scientist, the spiritual force is in nature,and in the natural logic of the universe.
Science is not a religion. Scientific logic is conclusivelysuperiorto religiousuncertainty. Our lives should be dictated by reason and rationality, not superstitionand religio1isrierarchy.
andto infamy among the Colombians and their government was a little thing called narco-terrorism. Narco-terrorismis an act that drug producers take part in to scare their adversaries into submission. It consist of car bombings, assassinating journalists, and politicians including senators, and even presidentialcandidates. He even had a plane blown up killing all 101 passengers on board. Basically he was going to get anyone out of the way that he felt was a threat. At one point during this reign of terror,roughly 10people were dying each day in Colombia as a result. Our government could have stopped them.
We didn't though. We just sort of sat idly by as thousands of people were slaughtered. It wouldn't have benefited us to get rid of Escobar, Our government says that it wants to get rid of drugs, but drugs also support one of America's fastest growing industries: prisons.
I want to reiterate that I don't think that the war on drugs is inherently bad, it's just misguided. Instead of sending sick people to jail we should be treating them for their illnesses. Instead of using scare tactics to get children to not do drugs, we should educate them about drug use and the dangers We do educate, gut in a patronizing manner.
We assume that they know absolutely nothing, and that is simply not true. To associate• J;heuse of drugs to terrorism can be a dangerous thing. Let's face it, being linked to terrorism in this day and age is like being marked as a communist by Joe McCarthy in the fifties, you just don't want it to happen.
,ore Kat Shiffler Co-Editorin Chief
A slip of the tongue or more arrogant accusations? This question popped into my head (along with numerous four letter words I cannot print in this paper) when I heard President Bush address the countries of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the "axis of evil" in the State of the Union address. As I continue to ask questions, I see the potentialfor more senseless violence against "rogue"
a people who are essentially held captive by their oppressiveand corrupt government. Does this make us a more civilized world?
When I was in Washington D.C. in October at a national anti-war rally, I saw a sign that read, "Fighting for peace is like making love for virginity.'' Throwing bombs into a country which is known to have nuclear weapons is a bad idea We cannot call ourselves humanitarians and promote violence in the interests of money or power or reputation. Bush in his address categorized the citizens of · Iraq, Iran, and North Kostates.
Threats and namecallingof this kind make me disgusted that the leaders of this country are knowingly jeopardizing the future of U.S. foreign relationsfor generationsto come. It's sickening to think of the arrogant and
''FiehtingForPeace isLikeMaking love forVirginity.''
self-righteous sentiment that has appeared in this country since September.
I am not naive enough to think that the bombing will not eventually extend the borders of Afghanistan. Ultimately if the powerful leaders of this country get their way, this anti-terrorismcampaign will as Bush put it, attempt to rid the world of states who give terrorists "the means to match their hatred" (and as an added bonus the U.S. expands control of foreign oil). Bush sees this as a justification for bombing dozens of countries, but where does it stop?
rea as less than people, as if they are not worth saving. The axis of evil as Bush says, "aims to threaten the peace of the world". It is not only these countries that we are separating ourselves from with this sort of malicious accusation.
--Anti War Slogan It is not only these three countriesthat we are separatingourselvesfrom with this sort of maliciousaccusation. Countriessuch as the Phil]ipines have officially denounced these threats and the tactics of the United States in fighting terrorism as "baseless" and arrogant." Many countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere have held huge rallies to pretest this country's arrogance. Though it may seem threatening to see pictures of people burning American flags in the streets,we should react with some thought of ''why?'' instead of acting out of hatred and contempt.
"North Korea is a regime arming with missilesand weapons of mass destruction,while starving its citizens," Bush said in his speech to the nation. As for Baghdad, the President stated, "Iraq continuesto flaunt its hostilitytowardAmerica and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade This is a regime that agreed to international inspections, then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world."
In doing this Bush is attempting to prepare publicopinion for anew aggressiontowards places like Iraq, where we would be ·-vagingwar against
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In his address Bush categorized the citizens of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as "evil" and as less than people, as if they are not worth saving. While holdingourselveshigh on a pedestal,our country contradicts itself and what it stands for with every bomb dropped. The "axis of evil" as Bush says, "aims to threaten the peace of the world." I cannot stress enough that the United States is actually personifying this definition of "evil" hot only because of our current glam-war,but because we are the same "evil" that funds right-wing paramilitary squads in Latin-America. We are the same "evil" that has been developing biological, chemical and nuclear weapons for decades. We are the same "evil" that starves a child each time we increase the billions in military aid shoveled into "promoting peace."
RachelBeddes StaffWriter
If you go out with your friends for a cup of coffee, you're probably not thinking about what may be in your cup that is harmful to you, though perhaps you should. If you are a customer of Starbucks, pay attention, I'm talking to you. Recombinant Bovine Growth hormone(r-BGH), also known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (r-BST), is a genetically engineered version of a growth hormone taken from the pituitary glands of a cow, used to increase the output of milk by as much as 20-30%. Starbucks injects this hormone into their dairy cows to produce the some 32 million gallons of milk per year that is shipped throughout the country and used for coffee, ice cream, cheese, yogurt, and milkshake products, and never labeled as such.
The FDA approved this drug in 1993, after a long battle with activists and small dairy farmers who opposed the drug due to health and safety concerns. When tested on lab rats the FDA said that they found no significant side effects that could pose a threat to the general public. Contrary to this, Canada's Heath Protection Branch found hard evidence of the adverse effects on those rats, that
the FDA had seriously overlooked and possibly even suppressed. A 90 day study of the rats showed that the orally taken hormone did absorb into their blood stream, and produced anti-bodies and lesions, as well as weakening the rats immune systems, which the FDA said didn't appear to be related. Other studies have shown that insulin, like growth factor- I (IGF1), a protein that is present in milk in higher levels in the hormone treated cows versus natural or organic milk, has been linked to cancer. This protein could also enhance diabetes in people prone to the disease. Based on those concerns, Canada rejected the approval of rBGH in 1999 after veterinarian and Health Canada reviewer Dr. Margaret Haydon testified to a Canadian Senate Committee that files on rBGH were stolen from her office. She also alleged that Health Canada had been offered $1 million in research funding by Monsanto (who makes the drug) if rBGH were approved. Activists and organizations like "Your Environment" are attempting to spread the word about genetically engineered dairy products to consumers, and to organize boycotts on Starbucks
You can assure your own coffee drinking safety by only drinking organic coffee, and encourage others to do the same. You can learn more about this fight and how to get involved at the website: • www.organ1cconsumers.com.
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Eddie Leon News Editor
Can someone tell me what's so attractive about the new soda machine? I just wanted to know because there was all types of drama when it was installed. Was the new machine that big of an event? Come on. We got a soda machine. Woopdy-doo, somebody start cheering for the new Coke machine. Now don't get upset, I drink Coke too, and I can tolerate the small corporate presence this brings to the school. I'm just saying, there was way too much drama.
Let me just give you an example. Picture me, Eddie, heading to the cafeteria to sit at my table and socialize with my friends. All of a sudden I nearly catch an elbow from an overly excited kid, asking everyone he knows ifhe
you is this: calm down. This year we got a new president, the Twin Towers fell, war was waged, and the Wu- Tang Clan released another album. Was that not exciting enough for some of you? Or do we need the added mystique of a new Coke machine?
I don't even blame the students for all the nonsense. The way I figure it, if the city would get off the university's jock and lend a hand to the public school system, we wouldn't need that machine here in the first place. Maybe I'm the only one who noticed, but the public school system is getting nailed raw and dirty in the monetary department.
A lone Cokefalls from this mystical dispenserof sugar-water.
as you thought." The university then made a big stink about getting less of a raise. Come on, your still getting a raise! Can I get a raise? It's depressing how stupid the city's logic is. Give more money to the colleges, but don't support the schools that get them to college in the frrst place. Whatever man.
Last year the school asked for more money and the city told us no. Fine, but this year, with all the economic badness we've been experiencing, the most the city tells the university is: "The raise you get this year won't be as big can get a buck to buy the carbonated treat in the soda machine. I'm hoping not everyone who noticed the machine reacted like that. As a matter of fact, I'd bet a few kids didn't notice it was there when they first passed it. This editorial is aimed at the ones who didn't stay calm. My message to
KasandraSmith Opinion Editor
Throughout the past school year the Lin c oln High Cheerleaders have been trying to show their peers and their community what makes them the spectacular s quad they are.
· The cheerleaders practice every day on cheers , chants, and routine s in an attempt to get the crowd involved in the ga1nes tl1at they love so much. It has been hard · to earn the respect they de s erve. Their effort s
w e re overlooked and th e ir down f alls were the only thing that received
att e nti o n. Now .the t ime
ha s c ome , and all the hard \Vo rk that the cheerle a der s put in finally paid off.
The cheerleading ·comp e tition squad made a trip to Chi c ago on March 1, to p a rticipate in the Wi11dy City Classi c , a con t est betwee11 other high school, and clt1b squad s from across
throwing my arm s around like that, but I would say hey man it' s 1ny performance." Caskey was one whose experience will n e ver be forgotten.
Although it was her first time competing she wants to do it again. " I would do it right now if you a s ked me to, it was so fun," Caskey stated.
After making our way through the airline security, and through downown Chicago I thought it was time
does it bring out everyone's features were one of the only squads that for the judges, it also gives each · could not s tunt. Lincoln High is a cheerleader a bond with one another. ground-bou11d squad meaning they
Finally it was ti1ne to make the are not allowed to do stunts. A stunt trip to The Navy Pier where the com- could be considered simply buildpetition was held. ing a pyramid, picking someone up,
Everyone was very nervou s at or throwing a cheerleading into the this point, including me. It is very air, to do some sort of jump and then easy to get involved with the squad's catching them without getting in- ·. emotions during such an event. The · jured. auditorium at Navy Pier was huge, · Due to the fact that they could and full of cheer- · not stunt, they were ranked on an leaders, fans, and eight-point scale instead of a tencameras point scale. Even without the stunts
It ·came time to the cheerleader s still got scores high perform and time enough to receive the first place for one last boost championship. "I was so proud of of confidence; the ·
rest was up to the cheerleaders.
While waiting, the girls got an encouraging ·pep talk , from their coaches, and did to the ritual cheer of "fire up." The cheerleaders huddled into a large circle wrappi11g their arm s around one anot her and quitely, but confidently
Uncoln High competitionsquad cheerleaders,and coaches show off championshiptrophy. chanted out the word s to "fire up". Gathering in a circle before games to participate in fire up is a ritual that is done before
the country. They were kind enough to relax , but I wa s wrong The night to let me follow along to s e e what was just starting. It was kick e d o f f really went on at this years national with a 30-minute practice, and then competition. Having participated in followed by a huge din11er at th e the Windy City Cla s sic once before, Rainforest Cafe.
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the girls watching them before a11d after they performed, they cheered every squad, and told them good luck, and congratulations" Brady said.
The Lincol11 High Cheerleaders brought home a three-foot tall trophy, champion sweatshirts, a nd the pride of being the champions that ·Lincoln High desperately needed. The morning practices and weekends spent at school are only one thing that helped them earn what they de s erved
The rest was dedication, motivation, and s upport from the ones who cared about them most.
I had an idea o f what to expect, a nd After dinner I got a glimp s e of could lend a h e lpful hand to some the dedication of the cheerleader s, ·of the unexperianced cheerleaders. coaches, and parent s They held a The cheerleaders are now coached meeting in one room that everyon e by Nicole Brady. Brady graduated attended, during which the coacl1 e s from Lincoln High in · , and is a · wi s hed them luck, and gave them e x -pomalink. Brady atte11ted coll e ge the confidence that the incredibly at UNL and ma- • ,1 < nervou s cheerjored in danc e '·•··•·•·· ····' leaders were lookBrady had the ing for. I w a tched cheer I ea de r the tran s ition fro1n practice every- che e rleader to Naday f or a mo11th tio11al Champio11 s and a l1alf prio r be g in. The chee rt o th e competi- leaders dis c uss e d ti o n The y held 1
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· every varsity activity that the cheerleaders cheer at, and this competition was no exception. Everyone wa s nervous but they could nothide the excitem e nt that they had about getting to go and perform in front of the hundreds of people that were there. " Once we got there (Navy Pier) I got really nervous and excited waiting for them to go on, then during the performance I got a little t e ary eyed because they were doing so well, " Brady s aid. The trip wa s al s o Brady 's f irst high school cheerleading competition. So p homor e ch e erl e ad e r , J essica Lozum stated , " I thi11k
e 11ough.
RachelBeddes Staff Writer
Graffiti is a rarely recognized art form in America, most likely because of its illegalities, and its obscure placing throughout city streets, ally ways, underpasses, and train yards.
Despite controversy and spontaneity, graffiti is a legitimate, expressive art form. Around the world images from random artists color the streets in spray paint.
Most people attribute graffiti designs to punk kids, hoodlums out to cause trouble, and though sometimes I'm sure that is correct, graffiti is art for all ages, from menacing teens to daring old men.
If armed with the tools necessary and an imagination, anyone can be just another anonymous street artist out to make the world · a more beautiful place.
The difference between useless vandalism, and graffito, (as Webster defines it; an
inscription or drawing made on a rock or wall), is aesthetic value or meaning. Graffiti ar.t should make people stop and look, appreciate wI:iat is there.
Bubble letteri11g of some guy's tag name or random gang insignia is just vandalism, as well as putting shame to the word graffiti, and the artists who try and make something worthwhile.
There are unfortunately many down April1, 2002 Volume 107 lssue 6
sides to being a street artist. Most stores have alone those different caps. And of course there an 18 year old age restriction on buying spray · is that whole thing about it being illegal, with paint, which they say is because of the dan- possibilities of fines and minimal jail time, gers of huffing, not because of vandals. causing most artists to create in secret, usu-
With this in mind, one n1ight ask why someone would risk it to paint something that the city will most likely paint over in a few months?
What is the attraction to this type of art?
One local artist, who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous, said, "It al1nost forces the public to look at it." He likes the knowledge that more people see his art daily than in a gallery. He adds, "Looking over n1y shoulder for evil spectators gives me a buzz."
Another artist claims she releases all her tension with graffiti, "It takes out something inside you, like throwing up all over cement."
She also like to "make beautiful things in ugly paintings," a theme prevalent in her paintings on canvas as well. Both artists agree that graffiti is indeed fun, and that appreciation is long overdue. ·
So enjoy the spontaneous art that you see throughout your day, because it may just be • the work of the worlds next Picasso.
And you never k:now, maybe someday you'll see that train car in a museum in London. Spray paint itself can get expensive, let ally at night.
JulieKilzer Co-PhotoEditor
Yot1 are what you eat, isn't tl1at what the old sayi11g says? Well if you look around at tl1e food available at Lincol11 High, or ask students vvl1attl1ey eat for lunch, tl1e a11swers you receive ,vill n1ost lik:ely not be the 111ostnutritious. Acc,1rding to tl1e International Food lnforr11ati(J11Council F'oundatior1, teenagers need extra nutrients to support the adolescent growth sptirt. Approxin1ately half of adult bone structure is deposited during adolescence. Last year three vencling machi11es were added to tJ-1ehalls ofLincol11 High. They were filled witl1 chips, ca11dy,doughnuts, cookies and pop tarts; all the basic· necessities of course. While I understand that these things sell, (no one can resist a good snicker bar af-
Band roon1 trash cans are littered with vending machine wrappers.
ter lunch) but what about healthy snacks? The United States in ge11eral is getting fatter. According to the Southwest Youth and Family
Services, the nt1mber of overweigl1t children, adolesce11ts, and adl1lts has risen over the past four decades.
I a1n not saying that the tl1ree vendi11g machi11es at Lincoln High are the source of the nations problems but tl1ey can't help 1nuch. · In Spa11isl1 speaki11g cot111tries tl1ere are also ve11di11g n1act1i11es i11 schools but they are filled viith fruit, sa11dwiches and healthy snacks. It wo11ld. be a good idea to have at least 011eof the three vending macl1ines filled vvitl1so111efoo,:i th.at lias at least a little bit of nutritio11al \·alue.
As students we l1ave few options for lu11ch. vVe could walk Ollt to our cars and drive to the closest, cl1eapest fast food restaL1rant we can fi11d, run in, eat half of our food there and shove the rest in our n1ouths on the way back to school trying 11otto be late to our next
class. Or you could eat in the school cafeteria, which has planned out lunches to be nutritious bl1t after hot1rs of microwaving, ancl reheating 1nost of the nutritio11al value has probably disappeared. Or ,ve could bri11g your own lunch frorn r1ome whicl1 is definitely the cheapest option l,ut n1ay 11otnecessary be tl1e easiest. Your lL1ncr1options are severely lirniteti without a n1icro,vave or refrigerator l1ei11gavaible for stude11t 1.1se.
So ,v}i.at do yot1 do? Act11ally, l an1 not sure if I should be the one giving y{)U this advice. It might be a little hiJJicritical si11ce everyday you can find me buying a bag of cookies fro1n the Cookie Link, scarnpering out to n1y car for fast food at lunch and usually buying a box of Che,vy Gobstoppers once I rett1rn to school. But I am going to try to follo\v n1y own advice. Bringing your own lunch to · school is
definitely the best option; it is cheap, it can be healthy, and you know you are going to
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Jerrod Watson EntertainmentEditor
Supe r Mario World ha s been a well known gan1e since the beginning of the l 990s. With it s debut on the Super Ni11tendo in 1991 , people couldn't have enough of it. It is even now said to be the best Mario game ever made. Now, after 10 years, it has finally been remade for the Gameboy Advance. Not much is being changed with the game except now you get to choose either Mario or his brother Luigi whenever you feel like it. And there _ are added voices to the characters Mario and Luigi to give it a little extra fun for players. You can also now link 4 Gameboy Advances together and play multiplayer mode in the classic Mario Bros. arcade game. Everything from the SNES cla ss ic is still there, too.
Tl1e ga1ne Super Mario World has tl1e basic storyline that follows all Mario games. Princess Peach Toadstool is kidnapped by King Bowser and it is up to Mario and Luigi to save her fron1 Bowser's wrath. The game begins where Mario , Luigi, and the princess are taking a vacation over at Dinosaur Island. Bowser even manages to capture all the Yoshi eggs,
is ther e. You can hit yo ur e nemi es wit h f ir eballs lik e t1sual and yotl ca11 fin d t l1ose mu s t1rooms that w ill ca use yot1 to grow bigger. You can climb walls, fly around the area with a cap e , dodge falli11g stuff, or ride Yoshi You nan1e it, it's tr1ere. The thing that sets this game apart from the other Mario games is the use of Yoshi. You can hatch Yoshi out of an egg and ride him around. That can be good if youwant to protect yourself from harm, because if you get hit by any enemies, then the oi1ly one who will get hurt is Yoshi himself. You will have to rtin and catch him if he gets
i s th e secoi1d Mario remake for tl1e Gameboy Adva11ce Wl1en I s at dow i1 to play I noticed how n1ucl1 easier it see1ned fo r me than the SNES version. I never had th e SN E S version as a child, so I bought it about a year ago at Gamer s But after playing the Game boy Advance version, I noticed how much better it was to play. I also liked the added voices that Mario and Luigi have and I really liked how the Gameboy Advance wa s able to make the graphics look exactly like the one s on the SNES version. I personally didn ' t care much for the multiplayer mode. It was the exact same game they put in Super Mario Advance back when Gameboy Advance debuted ii1 June 2001. One cool thing is that you can play multi player with friends even if you don't have Super Mario World. You can hook up Super Mario Advance and St1per Mario World together and play.
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H av e you e ver se eri , " Who 1( 110\,1s t h e Ba nd?" It' s a r athe r co rny sl1ow on MTV wh er e three co i1testa n ts ans, ver qtt es ti ons aboL1t a11d artist or band that th ey k11ew back b e fore they were fan1o t1s On tl1is show t,vo of the tr ee contestants are lying and the object of the show i s to ·determine which perso11 really went to day care, 2nd grade or dance cla ss with this person who now shows up on MTV every other week. You alway s hear of the person who used to take swim lessons with Adam Sandler or
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SuperMarioWorlddebutedon the SNES a decade ago and has been released on the GBA lt's availablewherevergames are sold.
so Yoshi also has a reason to fight this battle. The game features all kinds of things imaginable to the iv1ario universe. There are the enemies, such as the Goombas, and the Paratroopers. Pretty much everyone
Eddie Leon News Editor
Falafel. A funny word. Sort of rolls of the tongue. Fa la fel. A falafel is like a middle ea s tern soft taco. Well , not exactly, there are a few ways to make falafels, and you can also end up with a falafel sandwich or a falafel pattie. I'm more familiar with tacos, so let's stick with what sounds familiar.
The falafel is a middle eastern food and i s also called Ta' amia. I had never had a falafel up to this point so I didn't really know what to expect. Once I had my first falafel, it tasted pretty good , although it was kind of dry and fibery. They put all kinds of stuff into -
hit though, because he will run away 1n serious pain.
I was able to sit down with this game, called Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, about 2 days after its re-release. It
falafels, and you would expect it to taste like muk, but it ends up being not so bad. The recipe calls for ' amoi1g other things, bulgar. Does anyone know what bulgar is? Despite the odd names, it still tastes alright. _ If you
want a falafel of your own you can get one by going downtown
In the end, I feel this game is just great. It has the classic sidescrolling that everybody ha s to love, it feels just like the original, and in my opinion, it is a little better than the original. -This game is a must have to anybody who has never played the SNES version. If you have already played the SNES version and beaten it, then you might want to hold off and buy something else, because -there is not much difference besides the multiplayer mode.
As _ a person who has never played through the first world of the SNES version of this game, I will rate this game a 9/10. The only thing wrong is that the game is pretty much identical to the SNES version.
Gyros. I went there with my brother Chris. He had a cheeseburger, so if ·· you' re i1ot into middle eastern food you canget a burger. Chris would like me to let everybody know the bun tasted good. He didn't comment on whether he
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sand in a LincolnHigh students MattEskraand choir once with Britney Joey Navis, both seniors, make up the long before they were back in the studio putting together their second CD c alled Spear s but 2 person rap group Escro. yot1 never think that h ere in Lir1coln Nebraska we could ever know anyone even remotely famotis. This thought, however, may change in the years to come.
Joe Navis and Matt Eskra are seniors at Lincoln High, as well a s signed rappers with a company called UndagroundRecordings. Joe and Matt have known each other since second grade when they went to Fredstrom Elementary, but they did not begin rapping together until they got to Goodrich. "Show choir was what really started it," Navis said. There was an amp. with two mies attached to it. One would start ot1t with a beat while the other one rapped over the mic. They always
Falafels:
1 cup dried garbanzo beans, soaked in water and cov ered overnight
1 cup dried shelled fava bean, soaked overnight
1/2 cup peeled and finely chopped yellow onions
3 cloves garlic, peeled and cru s hed
1 cup water
1/2 cup ses ame seeds
1/2 cup garbanzo flour
1/4 cup finely chopped parsley
1/4 Tbs. salt
2 tsp. ground cumin
2 tsp. ground coriander
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. cayenne powder
1/4 tsp. freshly ground black pepper oil for deep frying Pita bread
"Esera " "1'he first CD was a compilation of everyone on the label, th e styles switched a lot. This CD i s just us so it flows real nice," Navis said. A s far as the ft1ture is concerned, "It's just up in the air," Eskra said. Undaground Recordings i s going to have a number of CD 's coming out. "There's a lot of thing s in the mix." Navis said. "We hopefully will make another compilation like last time." Well good luck to Matt, Joe and Undaground Recordings. If you are interested in either · of their CD's you can get them at Homer's music stores. Remember to keep your eyes open because you never know when you could say that you "knew the band."
Drain the garbanzo beans and the fava bean s. Pretty simple fron1 here, blend everything you got (except the pita bread) until you have a falafel smoothie kind of thing and pour it into a large bowl to stand for 1 hour.
Make patties out of the mixture about 1/3 inches thick and -1-1 /2 inches round, or about the size of walnuts. Deep -f ry in 375 degree oil until toasty brown and crunchy on the outside, It should take about four minutes.
Fill the pita bread with your falafel and, if you want, sliced onion, lettuce, and yogurt.
Makes about 24 patties, enough for about 6 falafel sandwiches or wrap s
Musical Oz Sto· in Contempora
Kat Shinier Co-Editorin Chief
Okay, so beside tl1e fact that the Lincoln IIigh production of The \Viz did not feature Micl1ael Jackson or Diana Ross I must say that I enjoyed dancing in my seat to the snazzy, almost funky musical numbers of the evening's performance. The theatre department's musical this year featured some unexpected stars, and then the same actors that appear in just about each show since I can remember. I have to say that I was at first hesitant to see this show because I have a long-standing bias against musicals. For me, it does not seem natural for anyone to burst out in song amidst dialogue with other characters, but with that aside I tried to enjo)' the show as objectively as I could.
Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", The Wiz was originally a soulful Broadway show set in Harle1n in the seventies and comprised of an all-black cast. Included in the original were many references to drugs, crime and prostitution:If you saw the Lincoln High production you might have noticed that all of the fore 1nentioned things were not included in this particular play. In the school's version, Harle1n was modified to Kansas and most drug references and such disappeared in the interest of keeping tl1e show "high school appropriate".
I noticed right away the bright
student musicians. Such musical steaaof the occasio11al feel of high numbers as "Ease on Down the schoolers on stage acting like misRoad" and "Slide Some Oil to Me" placed singers i11 weird costumes. were funkful and fun to wiggle Aside from the fact that none of these
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the stage in LincolnHigh's spring musical "TheWiz" around in my seat to. "Everybody Rejoice" featuring the "Friends" and "Winkies" was an innovative variation of Luther Vandross' music and lyrics, The musical had an extremely large cast but there were definitely some standouts that I was impressed by. The four main actors: Becky Erickson as Dorothy, Jon Clay as Scarecrow, Tyreece Burton as I,ion, and Chase Marsh as Tinman were
actors were alive in the seve11ties, I thought the cl1oreography and acting in the show did an okay to good job representing an extre111ely tricky stage show from this era eve11 without the sex and dr11gs. I cannot truthfully say that my distaste for musicals was washed away after seeing this performance, but I can say tl1at all the long hours of rehearsals paid off in creating a f11nand entertaining show.
"The Time Machine" started off as just a simple science fictio11 story writte11 by H.G. Wells· in 1895. The story is about a man wl10 goes into tl1e far distant future only to fi11dthat humans have evolved into a much lesser being then they are today. They pretty 1nuch live like humans lived back in the early days. The people who rule earth and the other humans live underground and dwell there. The humans don't like them and are scared of them because they are always attacking
them. The man who travels to the future then tries to figure out how to help the h11man race get back on its feet by defeating the people underground.
This story was very popular and
played by singer Samantha Mumba and l1er young child. A few others speak some English too, but not many do. He finds a world totally different from his own.
It was as if he traveled back i11 time to the beginning. All is going good wl1en he encounters the Morlocks. A species of people wl10 live underground.
The Morlocks are swift as greased lightening, and they are giant brutes who come up to kidnap
Munchkins·dazzle the crowd with the help of the Good Witch of the North, Kelsey KoenigSinan(11). costumes and props, without which the show would have been extremely bland. The choreography and m11sical accompaniment were interesting to say the least. There were a lot of interesting ideas portrayed some pretty tripped-out dance routines.
I can honestly say I've never see11a group of dancers embody the yellow brick road with such soul. And those "tomado/poppy/winky" people did a nice job at portraying a ratl1er ambiguous part. Interestingly, 1nost of the sho,v was n1ade uo of tl1ese sort of 11a1neless back" grou11d dancer parts.
;.\t s1J1netimes I thought the orchestra/l1or11 ensemble to be a bit sloppy sot1i1di11g,but overall I enjoyed listening to our school's ow11 '
excellently cast for their strong singing ability and i11 some cases the willingness to fall clown over and over again as with tl1e Scarecrow. James Allen did an excellent job as the Wiz and proved l1is ability to belt out those solos even without a r11ic sometimes.
Also Sarai Douglas as Glinda the Good \Vitch blew me away with her renditions of "A Rested Body is a Rested Mind" and "Believe in Yourself'.
I remarked to some friends after the sl1ow that I had that so1ne songs sounded slightly similar to the theme from "Shaft".
If anything, I tho1ight the n1usical could l1ave used rnore of this "Shaft-ness"; the shovv co11ld've used s01r1eadditio11al ftinkiness ir1-
Alex, played by Guy Pierce, gets ready to go on a date in the park with his girlfriend Emma in the movie "TheTime was eventually Machine.,, n1ade into a movie in 1960 ,vhen it took l101ne an Academy Award for its special effects. Now, witl1 the help of H.G. Wells' great-grandson, director Simo11 Wells, "The Time Machine" has beer1 re1nade. And it has surpassed the special effects that were used in the earlier versio11.
Tl1e new version stars an Australian actor 11amed G11yPierce who plays Alex. He is a professor and really likes to come up with math problems. Alex wa11ts to propose to his girlfriend Emma, bt1t after a sad tragedy in a park, Em1na dies.
Alex \Vants to fix this problem, so 4 years later he attempts to save E1nma fi·om death. Wl1en he fails, he has a whole 11ew objective i11 rr1i11d.
So he goes forward in time where l1e fi11ds the world is being destroyed by natural effects. He nearly escapes death when he jumps into the machine and goes forward 800,000 years, ,vhich was cc)mpletely by accident,
He finds a whole ne\v race of h111nan bei11gs ,;vho speak a differe11tla11g1Jagear1d car1., t 1t11d_erstrtr1c1 English. The only fJeop!e wl10 ccu1 speak, E11glisl1 is a Y0\,~11g.'fo1nan.
people by attacking them. Alex resists this and avoids being take11 himself. He goes 11nderground to figure out how to stop the !viorlock:s and their evil ways. Everything folds into place after that.
Watching this movie was actually a real blast, as I thought it ,vould be when they started previewing it back i11Ja11uary.
T'he one thing about the 1110•1ie that 1nakes it a total gem is the special effects. Sure, s1Jecial ef:fects can be nice, but this is one of the few 1novies that act11ally require special effects to pull it off nicely. And ,vith the writers grandson being director, this is done perfectly. Tl1e best part is watcl1ing the world ending and reforming ,vhile traveling 800,000 years in time.
If this movie \Vas to flop badly, which it doesn't, tl1en I would recommend people to \Vatch it based off it's special effects. And, with that, I require you to go to the plaz:1 theater or Sl1utl1poi11teto watcl1 this n1ovie. If yoti clon't, tl1e11 l,u.Y it \Vl1er1it comes (Jn D'i/D ar,d VI-IS, ,.f f" ~· lt is ·-1111,st1s_pe:r1se·111'..•ar1c:.rt e,,e11ricts , l , scf:11estnat ea v'es 'fYU s1tt111gon t.l:Je ecJcrel'f vo11r "eats · t> · - '-'- ,r - - · J--'.•
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On March 14th Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev appeared at the Lied Center to a nearly full crowd.
Some in the audience had been awaiting Gorbachev's arrival since his visit was canceled last year. Many waited outside of the Lied for hours, and when the doors opened at 9 a.m., the line stretched back three blocks to Love Library.
Curious Nebraskans listened to the words of the man who is u11iversally acclaimed for ending the Cold War and allowing the spread of democracy to Russia and parts of Eastern Et1rope.
Gorbachev \Vas here with the assistance of the Russian Farm Community Project in association \Vith a Nebraska farm gro11p.
D11ri11ghis lecture as a part of the E.N. 1'hompson Forum on World Issues, Gorbachev talked of Russia's history and future as well as about contemporary American foreign policy.
Born in a small town in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev told the crowd he was "a farmer at heart."
In an animated voice he spoke in Russian with an English translator to give a firsthand view of the refor1ns he initiated while in power of the Soviet Unior1.
Along with the successes he also acknowledged his own "mistakes and miscalculations" at a time ,vhen
0the Russian people turned against him at the end of his office.
Gorbachev talked of Russia today under the control of Putin and also of the rest of the world. He denounced the Bush · administration's plans to develop a missile defense systern saying, "This is not the right way to go."
Instead the world leader proclaimed the environment as "the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century." After his formal speech, Gorbachev answered several questio11sin which he expressed his opi11ions about the missile defense shield and tl1eUnited States' embargo on Cuba. The audience applauded after he co1nmented that the embargo is only slowing Cuba's transition to becoming a democratic 11ation.
Gorbacl1e,1, novv 70 has achieved m11chin his lifetime. He is the founding president of Green Cross Internatio11al, an organization devoted to enviro11me11talissues.
Since 1992 he has been president of the I11ternational Fo11ndation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies, also known as the Gorbachev Foundation.
Gorbachev has received many honors including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor and the Badge of Honor.
As a part of his appearance at the Lied, Gorbachev was presented with an honorary doctorate from UNL along with the Willa Cather Medal.
Top•Left:An almost capacitycrowdgathers outside the LiedCenterin eager anticipation waiting to hear fonner Soviet PresidentMikhail Gorbachevspeak. Top Right: Gorbachevand hiS entouragearrive. Middle:Speakingon many world.issues; Gorbachev'sspeech was well received. Bottom Left: Gorbachevreceives an honorary Ph.D. Bottom•Right:The mighty leader speaks
Mav 3, 2002
eJerrodWatson EntertainmentEditor
After almost a whole school year of hard work, Scribe 2002 was recently put out, witl1 almost 100 poems written by people here at Lincoln High. The book was directed largely by Deborah McGinn, who was an English teacher here at Lincoln High.
The book, which has a long history that began back in the 1930s, also had help from seniors Abby Fleming and Jared Sheare r Fleming was the Literaiy Editor, which meant she was in charge of typing and writing poe1ns as well as editing poems for gramn1ar, and advertising over the sound an11ou11cements.Shearer was also in charge of typing and writing poems. He also worked with the technical aspect of the publication on the computer. Shearer was also responsible for creating the back cover for this year ' s book, a depiction of the World Trade Center before the September 11th attacks.
The people who designed the front cover were senior Kellen Love and junior Stephanie Bittinger. The front cover says Scribe 2002 and has a cartoon ill11strationof Wink the Link, our oh so beloved school mascot.
The process of choosing what went into each issue was based
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on the opinions of each student in McGinn's classes, which inclt1ded Writing Lab, Creative W1iting, and Advanced Creative Writing. McGinn begru1at the beginning of the year by telling students and staff of the whole school that they had a few months to st1bmit some of their favorite pieces of writing that they might have done in Writing class or in their spare time
Once poems were submitted, then they were photocopied with the names covered so students wouldn't k11owwho had written the poem just in case there is a little bias floating around. After that, McGinn gathered
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KatSmn1er Co Editor-in-Chief
Seeing the statue of the Southeast Knight decked out in stri11gs of light and a pink feather boa, Pride Prom 2002 looked like yet another successful event put on by the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered Straight
Alliance. It was in fact the people, and not the mascot, who made this tradition a good experience for all 125 students i11attendance.
Many a spirited high school student frorn all four high schools showed up at Southeast on Saturday April 6th to dance the night away to flamboyant tunes such as "It's Raining Men" and other funky-fresh favorites. The theme this year was "Imagine"; an appropriate message for the whimsical and dreamlike setting. The three hour dance party was a chance for gay, lesbian, bis ex u al, transgendered, and straight individuals to have a safe place in which to bust a mov e together. This was the seventh or eighth consecutive Pride Prom , according to Lincoln High sponsor Ruth Kupfer. The dance originally began as a safe alternative
her stt1dents and put them into a large circle so they could read aloud each piece. Each piece was read twice, and afterwards, the students voted on whether it had what it takes to be a part of this years book. Once all of the poems were selected, McGinn, Fleming, and Shearer began working on the book by typing up each piece and using Adobe PageMaker to put each poem on the page.
This year there were rnany great pieces that made it into Scribe 2002. There were many varieties of poems. Poems with sad issues or ju st regular feelings. There was a short narrative piece from somebodies life. 1' her e ,vere a few pieces that rnade you laugh, a11da few that rnade you feel angry. There were rnany types of pieces of writings in this years book which 1nade it a total success.
You might have noticed a few changes with Scribe 2002 if you were at LHS before this year The book now has red spirals keeping the book together. Changes to scribe include price and publishing. During previous years , Scribe was always done by Augstums Printing Service Inc., but this year there was a budget cut. And the $3,000 Augtistums cl1arges would not be affordable. So, McGinn had St1eO'Brian of the LHS media center do the printing while Kinkos did the covers. That came to the total price of $1,496. The budget cut also meant that Scribe 2002
had to cost $3 this year, while previous years it only sold for $1. Changing the price was necessruy for keeping Scribe alive in 2003. If you are wondering about the history of Scribe, it began back in the 1930s by the LHS writers club. Throughout the years, the book was pt1blished because of success, and it ran all the way through until 1972 when the name Scribe was changed to Image because of de sires by the school to let the Art department take a piece of the cake Image was a good idea to rnost because it fit in with both writing and art. Image was p11blished until 1997. Prod11ction didn't begi11 again until 2000 when l\ilcGinn decided to bring the poem book into production once again with tl1eScribe nrune. A little change that took place was the decision to include the year behind the word Scribe. It began again with the narne Scribe 2000, tj;len Scribe 2001, and now Sctfbe2002. There were various tirr,s :during the years when there were insufficient • funding, so the book couldn't be made. But l\!IcGinn plans on using all proceeds used by selling the current book for the next year. "We feel Scribe offers LHS a mea11ingful,creative and applaudable pait of history, " McGinn said.
If you still don't have a copy of Scribe 2002, you can buy it for $3 in the media center, rnain office, or in room 223.
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to traditional prom for those who wanted to bring a sames ex date. The anr1ual dance has become more integrated over the years, and is now a welles tab li s hed dance of its own, and a crazy good tirne for gay and straight alike.
A t five dollars a ticket, the money ben-
KylieMagnuson(ll) and Hannah Voelker (ll) dance togethergracefullyat PrideProm. efited the _ host school's Gay Straight Alliance, and will help to pay for next year's dance.
The highlights i11cluded the crowning of this year's queen and queen, king and king, and king and queen -the honors going to several young men and women at the end of the night.
The event was beautifully decorated and extremely energetic, with hardly a dull mon1ent. Though ma11y people
were spotted around the punch and cookies during the countrywestern songs, almost everyone danced to the DJ's all-request playlist. Quite a few people dressed their best - sporting everything from formal wear to a Wonderwoman costu1ne (killerboots, girl!). Love and respect were definitely in the air of thi s special evening under the stars (of a Southeast hallway).
Kat Shiffler Co Editor-in-Chief
It started out as a mere brain child of The Nebraska Coalition for Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered Civil Rights. On Wednesday April 10, the Human Chain for Equality-the frrst of its kind in Nebraska since world war II- became a refreshing reality, connecting around the state capitol in a visible statement for state lawmakers. The Human Chain was a chance for concerned members of the commu" nity to protest the discrimination of non-heterosexual people in Nebraska, and join and identify themselves as visible, positive role models.
"It's really hard to discriminate against a face," said Michael Gordon of Citizens for Equal Protection. ":Bevisible," he said to the audience. As state workers looked down on the Capitol grou11ds, about 650 men, women
litical message.
"You're personal views will translate into political actions, which will eventually affect others," said organizer Stacie Schultz of Lincoln.
''We must evaluate our beliefs so as not to suffocate our abilities to reason what is just and fair and rational."
The sole protester of the event was a man holding a whiteboard that read, "What a shame to define one's life by how they perform sex." When Pat Tetreault of the UNL
she agreed. "This is one of our biggest challenges because people who do not know us, who do not see us, who do not understand us, define us
dividual and societal revolution for LGBT rights. "The revolution will not be televised," he said. "We are individuals working for changes in o u r
Demonstaratol'Sshow supportfor LB19,a legislative bill proposedby Sen. ErnieChambersthat would make it illegalfor employel'Sto dlscrlminate based on sex11al.orientation.
by sex When it is really about love," she said.
lives. W e \'/Ouldn't care if as i n d ividuals w e weren't affected by homophobia, but we are," he said to an excited audience. "We are not asking for so mething,
we are
Although the rally was a fun and lively community event and reunion, a certain seriousness was displayed in support of important initiatives currently on the table in the state legislature. Senator Ernie Chambers of Omaha appeared at the end of the rally to speak in support of LB 19, a bill to prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation, which is to be voted on either this year or the next.
The highlight of the afternoon event occurred when everyone dispersed to link hands and spread out around the capitol sidewalks. When all the gaps were filled, and the afternoon sun cast hundreds of dark shadows onto the grass, the assembly stood in relative silence for 15 minutes to commemorate those with no voice. In celebration of awareness and acceptance, a large and hopeful crowd gathered on April 10th to continue the work of others in making revolutionary change toward equal rights for all; and in doing so, made some Nebraska history.
The LGBTcommunityhas Health Center took the many straightallies, like mic she re, this young activist. minded the and children rallied to listen to speakers and link together in solidarity with the T ,incoln LGBT conununity, making both a personal and poaudience to thank the man for his message even if he did not understand his words.
ie Leon News Editor
"Because it is a shame to define people by who they have sex with,"
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Citizens nationwide are expressing outrage and disapproval of the clergy in response to the recent sex scandal involving priests and children within the Catholic Church. Though there have been reports of pedophilia witl1in the church in the past, this year many people who claim to have been abused by clergymen all came out with information close to the same time, spurring a media frenzy with serious allegations of negligence being thrown at the leaders of some of the churches.
The media and most, if not all, major news networks attacked the Catholic Church for not properly handling the violations. In s01ne cases, the media pointed out, priests were simply
transferred from one church to another, where they could work with children again. With such aggressive reporting, some Catholic priests have become defensive and responded to the media uproar, using their pulpit as a political platform. In California, Rev. Msgr. Padriac Loftus of St. Mel Parish was quoted in the LA Times as saying "The Church is being prosecuted by the media One must ask why? Is it deep-seated anti-Catholic attitude? Is it prejudice? Is it even hatred?" The parishioners of Loftus' church were uncertain of their leaders ,vords. Wayne • Bradshaw of Woodland I-Iills who attends St. Mel's ,vas "hoping he [Loftus] would take more responsibility before he blamed others." Still, Rev. Loftus does have the support of at least some
Tetreault encouraged attendees to have love for those who do not understand, and to be role models for opponents of equal rights, "We are all role models," she said "by living our lives that we believe is the right thing to do."
UNL student Jacob Eckstein vocalized l1is thoughts in terms of in-
of his parishioners, who believe as he does that the media has prosecuted the church.
In New York, the clergy has acknowledged the problem instead of defending itself. On May 8th, the BBC reported that the archdiocese had given state prosecutors a list of priests who have been accused of sexual misconduct in the past 35 to 40 years. This follows strong public pressure and the hesitant response from the Pope condemning the acts.
'The Pope called all 13 American Cardinals to the Vatican on the 16th to hold a n1eetirig on the problem. Prior to this, the Vatican seemed to be hinting it would leave this problem up to tl1e United States. The meeting will be closed to the public and Cardinal Roger M, Mahoney of Los P,ngeles has in-
free as individuals. We have our rights, we just want people to recognize it on paper."
"This moment is revolution," Eckstein said in closing. "It shall be defined by the compassion and loving acceptance that acknowledges the fact that you are nothing more than my reflection. We are only this moment and we are only our own revolution."
dicated he expects the meeting to be "open, frank, and without limitatio11s." Mahoney is archbishop of the nation's largest Catholic archdiocese. He has himself been accused of sexually abusing a women, but his accuser has a history of mental illness and her testimony is the only thing that supports the accusation.
As reported in the Lincoln Journal Star on Sunday the 14th, Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz condemned the acts and has vowed he would "never knowingly ordain a sexual deviant nor allow such [a person] to work as a priest." Local churches have taken a zero tolerance policy toward pedophilia. Since his statement, Bruskawitz discharged a number of preists from service for reports of sexual miscond11ct.
May 3, 2002
Volume 107 lssue 7
Eddie Leon News Editor
Recently, global issues have been making big waves in the United States. Now everyone knows that human rights violations are taking place in the Middle East, more specifically Afghanistan, and Palestine. This is a good thing (knowledge of the events, not the actt1al violations). When you know abot1t a problem, the next logical s tep is to take real, relevant steps to solve it. Unfortunately, the United States has shown it can only make half-hearted, insincere attempts to solve a problem in the hopes it will be enough to quiet the offended party.
Yes, our government has shed some light on the atrocities in the Middle East, but I wonder if they'll leave those countries out in the cold like they did Cuba and Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American war, which was also 'fought for freedom' and 'on the behalf of others.' But one need not go that far back in our history to find U.S. indifference after an initial response.
Today, and pretty much since the civil war, minorities-mainly Blacks-are over represented in the prison system. Minorities as a whole, blacks, Latinos, Asians, etc., make up less than 40 % of the entire United States populace. However, 3 out of 4 youth sent to a state prison are minorities according to Resources for Disproportionate Minority Confinement/Overrepresentation of Youth of Color, an organization that provides information about disproportionate 1ninority confinement. Like with the Spanish-American war, there was an initial response by our government; affirmative action, desegregation, laws prohibiting job related prejudice, etc. But a brief look at our prison system shows something isn't right. As I have said, 3 out of 4 youths sent to state prisons are minorities. A third of
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ethose weren't even violent offenders. Let me rephrase that: 3 out of 4 youths sent to state prison are minorities, out of those 3, l youth didn't even commit a violent crime. This lucky youth would likely roo1n with an adult who may be in prison for murder (so, what you in for ?). How would you like to room with a murderer because the police busted you for minor possession for the third time?
Thanks to mainstrea1n media, these disparities are pretty much overlooked. Watch MTV or BET and you see the networks do nothing but promote a false image of minorities. The average minority on one of these AOL/ Time Warner owned net•Norks is ignorant, sexist, violent, or just plain shallow. We are portrayed as a people without worries or intelligence. White people see this and think it's all gravy. 'They're doing fine, see how they are on TV?'
This is not our reality.
Our reality is this: if my Black friend Edward, my White friend Bill, and I go out and we all commit a violent crime, Edward will ·spend 254 days in jail, opposed to the 193 days Bill spends in jail. As a Latino, I'm looking at 305 days, even more than Edward. Let's say Bill and Edward have drugs. I of courses have none because I just say no. Edward is 48 time more likely to be sentenced to juvenile prison than Bill. Not only are we locked up for lesser charges, we ' re locked up when a white person might not even be charged And if we commit murder? Whoa. If we go to a federal court, Edward and I have an 80% chance of ending up on death row. Bill has abot1t a 20% chance. We ·are 4 times more likely to die. Maybe Bill will vi sit. This underscores the indifference to the racial
problen1 in the U11ited States. Some White people and even some people of color would like you and everybody else to believe the racial problem is over in this country. To prove this , they would give you the names of successful minority e11tertainerswho have made it, Entertainers? I ca11notthink of someone of my race who has become successful because of their intellect as opposed to their acting ability, athletic ability, or comedic ability. I'm st1re there are a few, but how hard must I look? Minorities are the clowns of this society. Watch MTV commercials. We are the Latino with the big sombrero and huge 1nustache. We are that Black guy doing karate to save a buck or two on long distance. We are the Native sitting in front of the smoke shop, the Asian 1unning the con1er store. Is this what we have become after the Civil Rights Movement?
Prison is just an example of the problem. Racial problems are running rampant in this society. The big problem now is it's more subtle. Racism and prejudice are now underground and mainstream at the same time. Mainstream because it's thrown up in our face, underground becat1se the mainstream has embraced it so completely that it isn't noticed. Worst of all, teenagers are helping keep this 'stealth racism' alive by buying and supporting products and media that promote a negative and often false image of minorities. Thanks, MTV.
The only way to fix this problem is for us, as a generation who has greatly benefited from the Civil Rights Movement, to take some responsibility. Read a book. Stop watching MTV. Yeah I said it, stop watching MTV and BET too. Read a book. For the love of God, don't buy rap music from anyone who claims to be keeping it real by drinking beverages you would have to save up to buy. Read a book If we don't consume what they provide, these marketers will stop selling t1s the c r ap that they are.
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sPaula Reyes Staff Writer
Being a vegetarian for most people means living without eating animals. It is sometimes for etl1ical l•oacr.no V 0V that people don't eat meat, like Ll,Q 1,elief that negative energy fron1 ''"·- cnfrerlng (Jf the animal flows to the person wl10 is eating. Pe,1ple may als<J feel · ,- rneat-eating is a vvasteful pr a.__.4,_~rp,_~A,ccordi ng to t}ie I '-i•·er' s· D u 1 1-t ,.1 La Les epartr1101'lt of i\.g·ricult1Jre 1 ov,~r 90 o/0 of all grai11 produced gcJes to 1e1;.,,1livestoclc-cows, pigs, shee1J a11d.chicke11s. This is a11 amazing 11urr1ber if you thir1k. of 1' 0 vv many peonlo 01e every day rrom starvation. fa. more common ethical reason is the belief that other creatures have feelings, and their feelings are similar to ours. Other
people are vegetarians because they don't like the taste of the meat or because it is a healthy choice. Even if they don't have an ethic as reason to Sllpfffi i t , they are S t ; I ' - 1- - 'legetarians.
I started readins abotit veppta1lai1is111 because I wanted to !(no,v about it, to write this article, and I discovered how someti1nes there are a lot of ideas that bri11g people to vegetarianism, but vie never know about these. When you kno,N that
somebody is vegetarian you usually never ask why. I have tried to do it myself and for a long time I haven't eaten 1neat, because I just don't like it. I can tell you is that because I don't eat meat, I try a lot more healthy food. It is easy to find a vegetarj._ ~--
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like JR.utri l(upfer v;ho said "It is more hun1ane. It is 11ot necessary to kill ani111als for food. There are other sources of nutrition. I11ter1ns of economics I think it's more cost efficient to invest directly in human consumption than to feed the livestock." She has been a
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vegetarian for 26 years. But there are some students too." It didn't seem right to me," Brandon Barron said. "It is healthier and there are a lot of chemicals they use to feed animals. They don't use livestock in a natural manner," said junior Claire Climer. There are different
but not meat; and others, who are called lacto-ovov e g etari ans, won't eat beef, chicken, pork or other meat but they don't mind eggs and milk.
Vegetarians are improvi11g their health, and preventing future diseases. The human body doesn't 11eed animal protein, and it is harder for o u r bodies to lJfOC C"S''' ._') It car, b e
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kinds of vegetarians. Some are extremely strict and they won't eat anything that comes from animals. They are called "vegans." Others will eat fish and seafood how a lot of hu1nans have lived on vegetarian diets. l\1edical researchers have discovered evidence that links meat-eating and high cholesterol with heart disease and cancer. It is thought that reducing meat in one's diet can prevent people from becoming overweight. These are really important preventions in a country where 1 out of every 2 people has the risk of heart disease according to tl1e AHA (American Heart Associatio11), and where more than half of the adults are overweight. 'fhe America11 N atio11al Acader11y of Scie11ccs reportecl in 1983 tl1at "People may be able to pre'Ve11t rr1any COlllillOD ty11es of cancer l1:y eat:ir1g le.ss f,, 0 ·,-,1 -,.·1=at" and ·m~--e .ell,:..,.~
cal Youth Become Inspirational aders On
The first foundation developed and operated completely by youth for youth has been introduced in Lincoln.
The youth-initiated, yo11th-run foundation comprised of 44 local high school teens who completed either the Youth Leadership Lincoln or the Youth Leadership Academy created the framework of the foundation. The students are a diverse group of youth coming from various Nebraska high schools.
Generally, the Youth Inspire foundation attempts to educate the community about leadership and values and funds projects for youth in the community.
The project was established through a Youth In
Philanthropy grant from the Lincoln Community Foundatio11. The idea of the foundation is to use the grant money to support youth-oriented programs. "We are dedicated to bettering our community through youth serving youth with time, talents, and treasures," says the Youth Inspire Mission Statement.
The grants that the Youth Inspire give out are based on a Needs Assessment after a grant application has bee11submitted to the foundation.
According to a pamphlet produced by the Youth Inspire program, the foundation aims to establish an endowme11t that can financially support youth projects, to create a selfsustaining foundation
which uses its time, talents, and treasure to benefit the comn1unity, to instill values of trusteeship witl1in youth, to create a better quality of life, particularly for under-represented youth, and to aid in building the next generation of outstanding citizens.
The Youth Inspire board of directors, made up of eight Lincoln youth, will begin making grants this month.
Seven committees make up the Youth Inspire foundation. The Board Development Committee educates the foundation on the structural procedure of the foundation.
The Education Committee educates younger students about the i1nportance of involvement in the community.
The Endowment Committee oversees the foundation's financial standings regarding projects, donations, grant applications, and investn1ents.
The Grants Con1mittee oversees the grant process, contracts, and applications. 1'he Needs Assessment Committee is in charge of determining what the community feels is most important to success of youth.
The Projects Com1nittee receives and gives proposals regarding the fo11ndation.
Finally, the Public Relations Committee helps the foundation develop community awareness of the foundation.
The Committee also creates advertisements and web sites to promote the Youth Inspire foundation.
According to the foundation, "We believe that the role of yo11th in our community is key to its future success."
,i..,-, .d. l)l "vegetaliles ancl grains. Ir1 Li11coln yo11 can fi11d a fev1 places vvitl1 'vegetarian dishes like "The Ove11", "the Indian viiI " "M ,, '' J age agg1es , erusa1em cuisine" a11d "Taj Mahal Cuisine of India". In the U.S between 3-5% of people are vegetarians and this number increases every day.
May 8, 2002,
Nelly:
erprtced, Not orth the Trouble
The famot1s hip-hop ;ir• ist, lcnovvn as Nelly, fP"•i'c; nis way to Lincoln's f\cfShing A nri:,"·' 111 - -a-y A ,, "L. 1\Jelly was ex-- 1--,.?~ u n •· --'- ' pacted to put 011 a11a\veso111eperfor1n,<in0~ ~' - -0 vvIt!-1bis friends llle St. Lttr,uti..co'".,r/ - - • ''' hP, <,nerietl by Abyss.
l\s the 11ews of the performance hit <lee streets, excited fans bot1ght overpriced gcnc,·,x1 aclmis,ioi1 tickets for $30. Due to the expensive tickets, and the fact that Nelly's style is slowly go111gd::,"'''ll the drain. I was not planning on going to c"'""roncert. At the last mint1te I was offered a free ticket, and decided that I had nothing else better to do 011 a Friday night in Lincoln, so I went to check: it out. It was completely the opposite of what I expected, and it was unlike any other concert I have ever been to. As fans walked thot1gl1 the door they were automatically split into two lines. There was a male and a female line where everyone was frisked to find any weapons, or narcotics.
The frisking was expected and came as no surprise to me. As everyone piled into the auditorium, it quickly became very loud and very hot, and the concert had not even started yet.
The show was scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m., but the opening act, Abyss, did not come out until about 8:00. Still I was not worried about having a good time; many concerts start late, and I thought for sure Nelly's performance would make up for the inconvenience. I was wrong.
The sound system at Pershing was absolutely horrible. I could not understand a single word that was being said by anyone on the microphone. After lis-
tening to the mumbles of A,byss for a whopping 30 minni'"'", 1r was annotinrpd t11at tl1ere was goi11g ,v be a 15 rnin11te ,vait to see the wo11derfuJ nprf°A~•-- "'"'-~ uf 1~eJiy's because he lJacl best friends he had to talk to, Tl1e 15 1nin11techat was in reality an hour long conversation, Fi11ally it was time for the Ull.illlau., pv.1.iv..i. J. u.~.u .:.• .:--~•..._ -;,r aci lVf sure going to make tip for all the tro11ble, waiting, a11dheat strolce T \>1~nt throt1,gh earlier, Wrong again. l rie 1,..,,fo~=cince dld llO[ hold up a11ywhere close to what 1 expected. I expected a pL1mped up performer who would get the cro,vd involved and spit out incredible lyrics that I have heard so n1a,,:1times 011the radio.
Nelly ra.,c..1round stage so much half the time I Cuu1cJn't fig11re out who was who or who I was supposed to be watching.
Nelly did try to get the crowd involved by inviting a selected few to get on stage and dance \Vith him, and encot1raged fa11sto si11g along with his lyrics. Nelly seemed to be very opinionated that night because he talked a lot, and it was too bad because the sound system still sounded horrible and it was hard to understand what was being said.
Overall the Nelly concert was a disappointment, and a waste of my Friday night. I am happy I received my ticket for free, and I express sorrow to those who paid the $30 to see one of their favorite artists.
I expected too much from the famous hip hop star, but I have learned a few valuable lessons from the whole experience: always wear shoes with backs on them to a concert, don't wear white, do wear deodorant, and never put expectations on a concert you were never willing to spend money on to see.
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p~11k_ 1ock" P.u,nl<,sfound out abgiz/good place l\llany bands that vvould be consJd;;;~-;;;'sctt~:;~td:~fer,en~ thing~ to c,,~ecttI-1~!,(~~;·amongthese \VasBill ered big name bands in tl1e w~rlct of µoils do; 111 t~ .,J~o_p,_~·:-~f~i,Il1'rt'1°erifJo11es. Bill saw the potential for the P~11kat the ,t11neplayed '.he~e, oands as puI oy ,,,,,,:,J long-time punker F'" ·• 5 •• ;-;:7"7: > .,., '/"''=/ y"~,,,~- such asJ.F,A,(JodyFoste1 sArrr1y)
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- 'f •. 1 absolutely,"~" ~e11t1mentcame 111toI /fk•\~~ l11J,,tf,fA,J~, B11cKya~d,and shu, ,t ao,v11.Af play 111 the 1n1ct 70Q a tiine when • 11,,+,,#iu4.ff lli' iWW"· ¼k '°\ ter this 1?e scene seemed to d1e most people were still listening to\ do,vn a bit, riot as mariy people put sappy love tunes and power ballads. on shows, bands started to ~lay Tl1e music o~punk sought ~ochange I 1n,orer~ck-typ~ songs, people JUSt all of that, with fast, abrasive, three sta1tecl to lose 111terest, 0 hnrcl 2:uitar .licks, it was a power , Then, in the ~id-90~ k:ids house of 1101sethat has yet tu 11c1vc ',,,iwi; startea to hear the 1nus1cagain aJ1d a -=~ri son, You rnight also be o-•_ '-·~ :~ Th»,1 would hear it frc,rr1 abl: to ,tell tne ."',1,_ " ·~ i.ts lvrics, older fr:iends who haa, uc':''' , mo,-,toften cynical of all things 1.."·"' volved in the scene while 1t was sidered 11ormal, such as love, fam- ,_,,, still vibrant. Son1e even had parily and govern1nent. Has Punk ents who were inv0l" d ~,, ,rie 01,.,,L-llC. changed though? It seems as if it has, at least in the context of local The scene has slowly music. , ··•y pw·· started to grow again, with ma11y Since the late 70s punk has fr,i/C'.. ·· bands starting out playing punk had a strong, though 11otalways ap- /~ ,,,,,sic. People also started to find preciated presence in Lincoln, Get- new plaL~c to put on sho\VS such ting into fights for Punks was a .,,. ,."_"·- as: the Cultltre Le,,~~~ 0 n the UNL •~<211laroccurrence, t1sually with (,·;: campus, shelters at botl1 A1,,~~~ue Jocks, "'-:9utheast Jocks were the ' and Van Dom parks, and bars such worst," saia ~~'les. This meant that Ryer from early 80s advertising a,s ptiffy's on 14th and "o:;~; 1d the community or i.~ , 11k kids in Lin- k ..._ t th B"" 1.n., d J,.111ckerbockerson 9th and O , coln had to be a tight ki.,~,,011 e "if a pun SLLOW a e 'LLC rar · With the scene growir1g you saw someone who looked 1~1.re The location was so popular that like it is, new places to play openyot1 "°'.alking down the street, you ti. dtdn't need to be mentioned. ing up all the tim,e, it won't ,take woula always go up and talk to long for us to be right back ,,;nere them, you immediately had sorne- building almost immediately, it was we were 15 years ago, For inforthing in common," Jones said, a brick buildint, •.vith cement floors mation on shows, you can check
It wasn't just in Lincoln and bars for windowc this n1 eant many stores downtown, they often that this played out, " I remember that the k:ids could get as 10,,vdy as will have fliers indicating the locawhen I went to L.A., I didn't pay they wanted to get and not worry tion and cost of many shows, Refor anything, punks would be work- about breaking anything. member also that if you aren't sating at the restaurant or the movie That place was so easy to isfied ,vith the state of affairs in the theaters, a11dyou would just get in have shows at that they would be local music scene, you can change for free," Jones said. held there almost weekly, shows it, your predecessors did.
The best part of the scene,
- "I of all small local scenes, is that tl1ey I I were created by the people who I S d" comprised them. DIY, or "Do It tu lO • I Yourself'wasthebiggestpartofthe I 5
I whole movement. Kids would start I their own bands without even know- I It's picture time! ing how to play their own instru- C 11 ;:: · I ments, They would set up their own I a _now ior your appointment I shows, not knowing if it would even I Bring 1n coupon for 25 free wallets I be allowed to go on, most times shows were just held in the base- I ments of the houses that the bands I I lived in. There were other places to • Good until July 1, 2002 play too, the most
notable being "The Brickyard". " T h e Brickyard" often referred to as the Yard, was an old Meadow Gold factory on the Northwest comer of 17th and Holdrege. At the time that it was most frequently used. it was owned
You can choose not to have sex
You can choose to say no to drugs and alcohol
You can talk to your partner about sex and HIV
You can choose only to have safer sex and always use a condom
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Entertainment Editor
Gauntlet Legends was a gan1e on tl1e N64 and ,~;as a copy from a game that appeared in videogame arcades in the very beginni11g of Gauntlet the se1ies. J\Jow, after taki11g parts fro1n past gan1es, Gauntlet: Darlc Legacy is no,v an available title for PS2 and Gamecube by its developer, l\1idway Games Inc. The game Gauntlet: Darlc Legacy is a 2 player ga1nc, v;hich is rated T for teen beca11se of viole11ce and blood. Tl1e game is currently on both the PS2 and the Gamecube. "fhe ga1ne allows players to play the game by then1selves, with a friend, or group of friends in a co-op type way. Co-op is basically a type of gameplay which allows more than 1 player to play the single player game a11d help each other so they can get tl1e job done a bit quicker. It makes for a really fur1 1nultiplayer game for when friends are over at the house.
The game is an action game wl1ich feels a bit lik:e RPG, or role playing game, because of the
use of magic spells. It's
shooter, though, because you go arou11d world to world filled with millions of enPm i es ,nho ~n 1 --'-~ ·J vv I..l V 11y 11eed one shot witl1 tl1e character's weapcln and they are dead. Tl1ere are 8 characters to choose fro1n in the very beginni11g. You can choose between a Wizard, a K11igl1t, a Warrior, a Dwarf, an Archer, a Jester, a Sorceress, or a Valkyrie. They all have their o,vn special skills, which include strength, armor, magic, and speed. Some of the characters are better at a particular thing than anotl1er. Tak:e the Dwarf and the Jester for instance. The Dwarf is great
Gauntlet:DarkLegacyis a rerrrade videogame from an arcadeversion. lt is rated T for teen and is in stores now. at long bloody battles because he slow. The Jester, on the other hand,
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JerrodWatson EntertainmentEditor
If you have ever heard of "The Shining", you might want to associate it with a brandnew n1ovie which has Bill Paxton as the main characterand the director.
The movie is called Frailty, and at first glance it might seem like a "The Shining" clone, but actually isn't. Frailty is basically the story of a mans childhood growing up with his father and his youngerbrother.It begins with one of those 2 kids, now grown up, going down to the police stationto tell his story on a murderthat was going around town called the God's Hand murders. The boy, played by Matthew McConaughey tells his storyto the cop and everythingkind of goes on from there.
The main plot of the movie is about the father and his 2 children living alone. They didn't have a motherliving there,so it was up to the father, played by Bill Paxton, and his 2 children to make
a living. One nigl1t, while everyone is asleep, the father awake11s a11dtells his childre11 about a vision he had just had.
The vision was from God, he says. He explained that he was told they were chosen to help God in the final battle, because the battle has just begun between good and evil. But the problem is there are demons.
So, the father explains to them that the angel told him that there will be 3 weapons and a list of names who will be pointed out at later time. Nothing more happens, except that the father wants this to be a secret.
Throughout the first week, the father finds the various weapons needed to do his work. An Angel points out to him an ax, a pair of gloves, and a lead pipe. And later on while working at his job as a Mechanic, he sees an angel with a fire sword, and he is able to write down 7 demons who are inside human bodies. At first he's unsure of what the gloves are used for, but he
later realizes that they are used to reveal the demons sins. First he bashes his victim over the head with
is faster, but he has lower stre11gth. Once you pick a character you are able to collect a few reel crystals to gain entra11ce to gain access to the very first world. There are a variety of different worlds, \Vhich include l\iJ.otintain, Desert, Forest, Sky, Castle, Town and many others. Each world has an enemv tha1 ~'-~,,ges with each vvorlrl .,,,,,.;'reare the regu1ar e11e,,,1es, which range frorn Ogres, Ghosts, Zombies, and Knights. Sometimes the reg11lar enemies ·,vill have a weapon that they fire u'c ;/<ll], which causes Y()U to loose inore darr1as"' than regular at-1=~=1~" r_rl...,,...~~,...,.,rp. 1;;inallerer1err1iesthat fight along the regular '"'""·· which also change. Tl1ey range from worms, spiders, rats, anu little green blobs. Occasionally, yo11 will !111d bigger enemies, which take a while to destrt)y. They have high stami11a.
A great thing about the ga1ne is its use of special items and magic spells. Yo11 can go around worlds and find special items, such as a hammer, sl1ield, 3 way shot, and more. This will help you beat enemies a little faster. Magic needs to be fou11d as well, and when you
all the sins the ciemo11has committed while living in the htiman body. Then he sn1ashes an ax through their body. It never shows the ax penetrating the body, and doesn't really show blood or gore either while this is happening.
This became routine for the family, including the younger son, whose name is Adam. The older son, named Fenton, isn't too sure. He believes his dad is probably going insane. So, throughout the fiilli!!Ill'lill.!movie Fenton tries to stop tt:?}K/:WJ)t} " tl!I Ill!.;;"his dad. But he is always \ti'i!\(;ii;i getting punished for those
Directorand star BfilPaxtonplays a actions. psycho-stylekillerdad who lives with his two sons in the horrorflick
This movie isn't only good because of what it's about, or how it was Frailty.
the pipe so they become unconscious, then he takes the person to his house and puts the gloves on. He touches the person with the gloves on and that reveals to him made. This unique movie also raises a lot of questions. Some people who were talking on a message board on the internet were complaining that it was like terrorism. That is was linked to events dealing
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fi11d a potion, you can use n1agic ,cs a weapon to ·destroy enemies Of change ,.vorthless iteins into ite,.:s that will help you 011t in your , d·,;e11ti1re. You need to be able tc; ;;o up i11level to be ab]P tc ,urn those worthless i 10 ·", st ich as .Jun!c or IJ'.}i ,,0u tood, into better stuff, 3u0, as treasure a11d regular food. An other great thing about the game c:; tl1at you can make your cl1ar11f'··.; gain experience. y 0 ,, · _,' 0 0 level 1 and C'"' get up to arour1 level lOO. OncP you hit level ) u, 2 o, 30, 40, etc., your character v; i maLure into a greater fighter. Yo ' will also need to find legendary .._1,....,.,...,_11ol·uli!l tlic worlds in der to l1eat specific b 0 s0 cnaracters, This gan1e isn't perfect, however. Overall, it is a great gam.e, b11tyuc. n;ight get a little tired of it after time. 1 ha, ;~ mainly because of the simplistic game p1 :,, Nothing is easier than going around to kill and find various items. But the game, in my opinion, is good enough to get a rating of 8/10. GaL1ntlet: Dark Legacy is very enjoyable and Midway makes l(illing the bad guys very enjoyable.
,vitl1 September 11th. Others were talking against the main purpose of tl1e movie because it's about Goe telling a man to kill people. Ari · that God would never do that in re;;J life. They also made comments that if middle eastern actors were to star in the movie, then people would hate the movie.
But my opinion of the movie when I finished watching it at the theaters is that it was a great scary movie. It's as disturbing as The Shining was, and so good tl1at even Stephen King has given it some thumbs up.
I left the movie also thinking of those issues people brought up. I left thinking that God would never do this. And that's another reason I liked this movie. It raised a lot of controversy to its viewers and at the same time delivered an outstanding entertaining movie that will disturb you, and even make you jump a little. I give this movie a perfect 10/10. No other movie I have ever seen has been good and thought provoking at the same time.
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May 3, 2002
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Jerrod Watson Entertainment Editor
\J ..Lchief In the April 1st,issue Josh 0 ,00-editor in wrote an article concerning the age-old question "What is the truth? Scienc e or religion?" He wrote about his u 1:-1-1tr11th, and that ' re11g 1'6'flSJ/1~, j11s t a b o o k f ull of s tori e s and was s ttper stiti on an d re ii gious h i era r cl 1y \vl1e11 comparefl to science, ,vhich t o l1irn is r easo n a11d ra tio 11ali t y
T he r e v1as 0 11 e 1Joi11t tl1at ,,vas g oo d v,,1l1 e n h e s ai d sc i ence isn't a religio11 It clear l y isn't. B ut after r ead -
o n this vvh ol e 1na tte r, l vvas able to fi11d qu o te s fron1 the C hristi a11ts 1u 1c , 1,u, s~ .•o "";· e ntific prin ci pl es 11otknown by regular people during the t ime of the Bible' s creation.
A c co rding to variou s sourr,..$ s uch as, it is ca i-i that the c1,r : ,1an religion i s the only religion that has a Bible tl1at can be lookeu upon u s s cientifically accurat e Believe it or not, the Bible read by Christia11s is s aid to actually be a science book written in ad, 1 a11ce because of various quotes in the Bible. How can that b e, thougl1, if there doe s n't seem in." i'1"ow,Isaiah was a book believe d to have been written 2,800 year s agv. T ong before Aristotle and other 5' "<lt people proved to people of the world that the earth was indeed round, not flat. thing to W..0her interesting • •h ~t 1,as- sage was when 1t talkea auv __ stretching out the h e av e ns like a curtain. If you want to you c an , triin k' •cirn tJUc"BP~:".'., ti sts are b e gi n n ing to belie,re th e u niverse is ex p an ding S ev en tim es duri11gt h e Bibie , you ca n f in d G o d ta llci11g a bo ut str etc h in g heav e r1o ut Tl1e issue of s t ar s vvere l, rougl1t up in Jer emiah 33:22 It re ad s "As thP hne< of !1ea ve11 c c11z1,ot b e n itt nb ere cl, 1,eith.er t h e s a nd o. f t h e sea measured. " No,, , J " ' '' 1 case vo ii clon't know , vhat "h o st o f heaven " m e ::;nc,, 1t w as the bible s '""'i of saying th e st ,, rQ So , really, it says As the stars cannot be numbered , neither the s and of the sea measured." This was writte11 a long time ago, a11d at an earlier date, people didn't realize ther e were billions of stars in the universe because only 1,000 are visible to us. Tl1ey thought there were only the 1,000 and tha c wa s it.
to be an y evidence that th e Bibl e was , vritten by truth ? Well, to tl1e unobservant people in the world , you n1ight actually think that. You might read the Bible and see Jesu s walking on water, or John baptizing people in the Jordan River and think , "Wow, great story. Too bad I don't know it's a true story or not." But, for people who read more into the text in the Bible, you might notice that it talks about the world being round. That passage was found in the book of Isaiah. The passage is found in chapter 40 verse 22. It read s "It is He wlio sits above he circle of the eart.h, And its i11habitants are like grasshoppers , who stretcl1e s out the heaven s like a curtain, And spreads the111out like a t e nt to dwell
The book of Job has variou 5 things that relate to science. There wa s this p a rticular one in 26:7 that states "H e stretches out the north over the en1pty plac e , and hangs the e arth upon nothing. " It pretty 1nuch says that the earth is hung above nothing. Nothing, being the universe. At that time, people believed that an animal carried the earth on it's back. We all finally realized after this passage wa s written that the earth floated in space Another qt1ote from Job comes from 38:19. "Where is the way where light dwells?" They are asking where light goe s. Recently , it has bee11 discovered that light has a way That involves motion traveling at 186,000 miles a s econd. "Have you commanded th e morning si11ce your days , and caused the
da y'spring to kno1A; 1 his place; that it mi g ht take hold of the ends of the e arth, that the wicked ,night be shakert out OJ .,7 ft (the e arth) is turned as clay to t1 .~ ~ea!; and they sta11d as g arment .,, T\- ~ wa s inJob38:12, 14. lfyougrasp what is going on here, you 1 0 it talking about the e a rth being tur111::u. · ~ • • turn the c lay on the seal , or the p o tters w heel Basi c all y, th e ea rt h' s+;:-ofaq~t'l~J~~rti o i1 on The bo ok of G e11esis talks a b ot1t circur11sis i m. In 17: 12 it says "A ,rtd l1e tha t is eig f tt clc,ys ol cl shctll b e circu m ci se d an zott11g y( 1ut, ev e ry rn a11 c hi ld in )'Our ge11era:J-7·.,--. -c,.;,•, ),,._ ,1/., i ,-, Uut rt fi'i- li1e l1oi1se, o r /Jo u rziit vvith rnorte" , , ! t ., ; tlC /1 l S 110{ 0 arl V S' r .;/ oj tli_ y seed. " f\[oticc w riere it say s to b e circumcised w h e11 you're 8 day s old? It wa s ju st l e arn e d by medical sci e nc e that the eighth day is the only day in a per s on s life where the blood c lotti ng e le1nent prothrombin is above 100%. It is believed that all the ingredients needed to form a human being can be founrl ;,1 clay. NASA ca m"' up with that in J osz. You can read UI' 011 that in tl1e Bible in Gene s is 2:7 ,vhere it says "And the Lord Godfornied man of th e d u st of the ground, and breathed into his nostril s the breath of lif e, and 1na11 beca,ne a living soitl. "
Speaking of lif e , it was said in the Bible that you need blood to survive. It s ays
it in Leviticus 17:11. "For th e life of th e fle s /1 is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to mak e an atonement for y oitr soitls:for it is the blood tha 1naketh an atonement for the soul." Scientists didn ' t realize this in their s tudies until the earlier 1900s Before then, people who were sick would have leaches p11ton them at barber shops to remove blood. This never helped the sick person, and would u s ually kill the person.
Back in 1630, Galileo found out about the water cycle. That water come s fom the streams and
goes into the river s to the oceans. After that it evaporated back into the sky for the next rain. This was alread y taught, h,..,;vever, in Eccleasiasties 1:7. "Att ,,, ~ rive rs ru11 i11to the sea, yes 1 0 sea is not full, itnt o the place fro,,,•·•hence t h;, r ivers come, neith er th ey re turn " ngazn_
eHebrews 1:10, 11 says " And you, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands; they shall perish; but you rer,,....;.· and they all sl1all ,vax old as do es « 0 ,, rment. " 1t s av s tha t the earth i s w ea , ing out. 1 r1c ""'~ - 1 f - ,,,;v 0 thermaldy11amic s says the
same thing, which wa s n't di s covored by science until recently.
The Bible shouldn't be proved by facts anyway. Faith is what makes it more fun. But it's always nice to know that there are facts. I hope that I have changed a lot ~.: neople ' s minds and n1ade n e oples '.i:,ith grow stronger.
Kat Shiffler
Co-Editorin Chief
l1naginea clearblue mountainstream. A family of bunnies runs across an expansive meadowunderthe resilientblue sky. Now imagine your brand new SUV just tearin' through all that nature-is-goodnesscrap. Yeah, you're spinning around in the dirt like its a co1nmercialfor the Ford F-Series. The fourteendollars of fossil fuel you ju st pumped into your tank came to the Texaco by way of a huge oil conglomerate in an unpronounceableland. Think the bunnies have it bad?
That greenish-brownliquid pouring into your tank is the lifeblood of human exploitationand abuse, not to mention a contributingfactor in many of the world's conflicts today. The air aroundyour ride is saturatedwith harmfulgaseous emissions thatfloatupin the atmosphereto createpollution and deteriorateour only protection from the sun's rays But that's okay. At least you can drive yourself to school everyday in style. You have a reputationto maintain,and everyoneknows your car is
in developingcountries Completelyapatheticto this discussion,you are halfasleepand can't wait to get intoyourcar againto tum up the stereoand drive somewherefor lunch. At the end of a long day you drive the three blocks to yourjob, and then finally you headhome. Youworkbecause you needto pay for yourcar. Youneeda car to get to work. You ' re stuckin an endless cycle
Mear,whilethis rock that we live on called
ing as we will wipe out all natural resources and ourselvesif the entireworldfollows the exampleof the UnitedStates.
· Our drive-happysocietycomes at no small price to taxpayers Billionsare spent to build the necessaryroads and parkingspaces for everyone's cars.Theseareconstantlybuilt,maintenanced,maintained , and then rebuilt again to accommodate the growingnu1nbersof automobiles.
Bikersare being overtakenby the ambitions of manyindustries who see the moneyin making people dependent on cars. As this happens , our lands are being tom apart, we are pollutingour air and becomingsloths who can' t walk a halfmileto schoolto saveourlives. Everymiledriven in a car is a 1nissed opportunityfor a health-promoting,nature-preservingwalk or bicycleride.
Locally , a groupof punkrockers,collegestudents and concerned cyclists have spread out across severallanesof trafficwith signsthat read, "Share the Road" and "I am Traffic." This local "CriticalMass",as it is called, is the latestattempt to unifythe Lincol11bikers. Theserides are meant to call attentionto the legitimacyof bikers on the road, andto raiseawareness of alternativesto chiving while havingfun (and maybe even dressing up like truckers).
The parkinglot is full of cars, but the bike racksremainmostly vacant. the biggest, newest and best. But hey you' re into that environmentalstewardship-thing. You l1aveprogressive bumper stickers on your car, you don't eat anything with a mother, and you yell at people when they litter.
To get to schooleach day you spend twenty mint1tesweavingthrougl1traffic because of the construction work being done to expand the roads. After waiting in the drive-through at McDonaldsand then searchingfor a spot in senior lvt for ubant 40 minutes, you give up and park on the streettwo b!OC1'..~ u -,,,a!r from school.
Arriving late for class, you slip 111,v your seat in timeto listento your teacherblab on about the WorldBank's environmentalfund and the Senate'sbudgetcutsof energy-savingprojects
earthcontinuesmovingalongits interplanetarytract. The human species continuesto evolve. I'm not talkingabouta sixthfingeror anything,I'm talking aboutrealizingthe practicalimplicationsof our dire environmentalsituationhere. The worldhas alternativesto this sad and stereotypicalstoryof wastefulness. It's time to utilize alternativetransportation people! Vivabicycles!
The motorvehicletrend adverselyaffectseveryoneon the planet. Worldwide,approximatelya quarterof a millionpeopledie on the roads and ten millionare injuredevery year in a scale equivalent '" ,var Motor vehiclesare also the singlebiggest sourceot at1uv~p1,~ .~~ I'"llution.There is an obvious problemin a global trend that µ1uu,v,~ o l r,:rp cars and sport utilityvehiclesfor eachperson;see-
Thereare many advantagesin bikingto and from your school and work. Biking promotes physicalandmentalhealth,it freesthe streetsfrom unnecessarytraffic, and it leaves the earth as you found it. Plus your consciencecan be temporarily freed, knowingthat you're not funding corrupted oil interestsor takingpart in enslavingthose in oil producingcountries(noteto reader:the r1ot1, .: S on your back are a whole other i~Du v) If peoplewe re ,o use therrc~s less, we would not nccJ rodestroylandto makehighwaysandparking lots. On a bike, transportationis cheapand efficient. Parkingis easy and free, and you may find yourselfseeingthat you wouldotherwisemissfrom the confinesof a car. Drivingsucks Don't be the stereotype,be the prototypefor a greener tomorrow. Get out there and do the earth and yourself some real good. Bike!
Stege-Tomsett FeatureEditor
This year,it was decidedthat the SymphonicBand wouldgo to Branso11Missourion the weekendof April 11 -April 14.This \Vasa tripthat wasa contestto seewhois the best in the Midwest. SymphonicBandwasinvitedto this competitionafter winningthe overallat Worldsof Fun The Orchestra,and VarsityJazz bands were also in attendance,everybodyexceptfor the ConcertBandand thePrepJazzBand.
"Whydon't we get to got to BransonMr. Ehly?"is the questionthat somebodyin ConcertBandwould ask at least once a day.His responseis alwaysthe same , "BecauseI just don't think that we couldgo andget a one"
betweenthe bands as firstand second.Cometo thinkof it, why does therehave to be a classificationfor them now?Whyshouldeverybodybut ConcertBandandPrep JazzBandgetto go?In thefuture,it shouldbe thateither
of Fun competitionin KansasCity.Symphonicband tookfirstplacein thecompetition,andconcertbandtook thirdplacein the"openclass"competition.Thatis when the secondband from the high school,performto see whois the best.Thatwasthe best scoringthatconcertbandhas evergotten.· SincetheSymphonicBandtookthebest overall, Mr Rush decided that they shouldgo to anothercontestin Branson Missouri.The bandwas not introduced to the idea untilafterthe divisionfrom n1archingbandin thefallof 2001.Conceit Band didn ' t believethat it was an equalopportunitythattheywouldattend thiscontest.
When symphonicband returnedfrom theirtripto Branson , all thatwastalked aboutin thebandroomwasl1owfunand
Well , I thinkthatwe couldif everyonewas willingto sitdownanddo somegoodold-fashioned practiceon his or her own time.If therewere some kindof incentivefordoinga great job, likea different trip, the studentsin ConcertBand would practice harderforthatlittleincentivetrip.If this wereto happen, there wouldbe no reasonto have a classification all bandsgo, or noneof thebandsgo. Thiswouldnotbe a freetripby anymeans.It wouldalso costus thesame $310to go,notto mentiontheadditional $40 to go to Worldsof Fun on the band's annualtrip, whichby the way , thishowthisentirethinggot staited. Last schoolyear , ConcertBand,Orchestra,Symphonic Band,andVarsity Jazz Bandattendedthe anntialWorlds
ConcertBandpracticesin the LHSband room. excitingthe trip was,and how marvelous it wasthattheyspentntrrnerou s hoursona bus, stayed i11hotels, andgotto sitesee aroundthe city.WellI have two wordsfor you "SHUTUP!" therest of us are sick of hearingaboutthe trip I suppose there is somegood tl1atcameout of all of this;it willprovideMr.Ehly , and Mr Rush withstories thattheycantell formanyyears to come
Micah
KasandraSmith Opinion Editor
be friends,that also smokedmarijuana.As he madehis spot in the group he soon found himselfslowlyfading away.His life was soon full of more,and strongerdrugs too.
In healthclassstudentsaretoldthatmarijuana
There is a growingproblem in the halls of is an illegal gatewaydrug, meaningthat it leads to the LincolnHigh.It is not the trashliningthe walls,the gum use of other,strongerdrugs.John, and Sara are the perstuckto lockers,or the overpopulatedhallways.It is the feetexamplesof this theorythatno one wantsto believe. amount of incrediblydangerousdrugs among the Lin- Both have expe1imentedwith many differenttypes of coin High students.Theseare the stories of two heavy drugsincludingLSD,xtasy,nitrousoxide,cocaine,mushdrug users that attend Lincoln High. To protect their rooms,and alcohol.Back in ninthgrade whenSara was identieswe will call the,nJohn, and Sara. a curiousfreshmanshe smokedon the average1 bowlof
As teenagerswe are warned and pressured marijuana(a coupleof ouncesof marijuana)everycouple aboutmanythings.It is a timein our lives that we want of weeks.Her usagehas grownso muchsincethen that to experienceeverything,regardlessof what our loving she stated,"Right now, after this weekendI have only parents,teachers,or friendstell us. High schoolsee1ns spenttwo days sober." Now Sara smokesmarijuanaevto be thetimethateveryonewantsto fit into somegroup. eryday,sometimesmore than once a day, and she also It nevermatterswhat the groupis, as long as we "have snortscoke on a regularbasis.John startedout smoking friends"we arehappy.As our needfor belonginggrows marijuanaonlyon theweekends,andprogressedsteadily. we are willingto risk more and more to get what we Whenhe startedit wasjust to have fun, but as problen1s want. Many studentsgo beyondrisk taking,and begin came about,John would use the drugs to relievestress, to play with death. and to deal with teenageissues.Now John statesthat he
Beingin high schoola personis goingto be triesto limithimselfto only the weekends,becausehe is introducedto drugs.There is no way to stop that from tryingto cut back.It is hard though.Smokingmarijuana happening.The only thing that can be done is to teach is often an everydaythingfor him. studentswhat will happenin their lives dependingon Sara and John have both experimentedwith their choicemade at that moment. manydifferentdrugs.Theyhave seenwhatthey thought
The introductionto drugs is just the begin- to be the good sidesof them,but overalltheyhaveexpe111"0 v ;11r decisionsshowif you are willingto sacrifice riencedall the downfalls,that everyoneis warnedabout. everyth10? you•·~-"•nd everythingyou could have to Sara statedthat coke is labeledas the strongestdrug she take the nsk that alwaysto111_,., __ •he use of drugs,or if has used,but she personallyfeelsthat the most effective you are_thes~art _onethat_realiz~show 11'.""'"rlangers ones were the ones that made her hallucinate,such as comewith takingJust one httle hit. In the hves of John, LSD, or mushrooms.Sara statedthat she thinkshalluciSar~ the~ b~th fell to the pressures put on by nates"'" th-, strongestbecause" if you are reallytrippin' friends. Therrfnends and coworkerswhere the ones hard,you reallyfee1nh" :1"11 can't controlyourself.You who got them started. can in yourhead maybe,but if you say grsh this pop can
In the ninth grade Sara began to use mari- you really can't." John's favoritedrug is LSD. 1'he 1.rip juana. It was a hard time in her life. She was havinga wasreallygoodthe first timehe usedit, but the strongest few painfulhealthproblems,and the doctorrefusedto he used was cocaine,becausethe feelingis so different, give her any type of pain reliever.After experimenting and you get such a cravingfor in it when you are on it. \vithpot she quicklyrealizedthat the amountof pain John statedthat the cravingcausesyou to spenda lot of decreasedfollowingeachusage.As manyknowthethrill money,though. and pleasuresof one specificdrug are soon gone, and Sara,wasat one timea greatathlete,was susthe need has to be filled by somethingstronger.There- pended for some time from participatin<> ;,, ho, pvi,. fore thejourney down the dark alley began. _Saraanrl hPr nAnahaa huu ,uany problemsof~encaused John was also intrr,rlnnn,J ,hla ""' y popu- by her drug use. The problemsthat happenedIll the past - -;, \Hl"-llJUana)first bv his friends_and a closef,,m- with her coaches_~nrlthl' smnnnt of timp she <pent ,vith 1lymember._John's story is a little differentfrom Sara's her drugs, preventedher from going back this year to _Inthat he did not suffer from any type of healthprob- participatein activitiesthatrepresentLincolnHigh. The len1s.He was an averagestudentwho had the urgeto fit amountof drugs that Sara has consumedalso interfered in witha group.Marijuanawas the door that openedand with her schoolwork. Sara, and John often skip school ~~o.\1/edhi_mto ·?i~th~.1~ ~.crowd?fstudents soonto to use drugs. When they do come they don't try. The
drugshavecausedSarato often feel exhausted,and left her depressedand feelingdown.
The questionthat is often asked is "Where are all the parents,teachers,and friendsthat are watching this continue?" In Sara's case her family life has changeddramatically.Her parentshave sent her to drug classes,and she is oftengiven drug tests. One dramatic experiencethat Sara's family went throughwas when she overdosedon sleepingpills. She startedto hallucinate fromthe sleepingpills,and then spentsometime in the Bryan PshyciatiricWard. Sara has also lost many friends,and boyfriendsdue to her drug problem.These days Sara's best "friends"are other drug users.Though her parentshave sent her to classesand tried to get help, nothinghas changed.Shecontinuesto usemultipledrugs and her need growseveryday.
Johnhasneverhad an episodewherehe could not deny his usage like Sara did. John's parents have accusedhim of doingdrugsin the past, but John lied to them and told them that he didn't. Since then John has continnedto use many differentdrugs, and his parents have neveraskedhim aboutthe problem.John's use has lead him to lie to his parentsbecausehe knows that he will get in trouble.Insteadof stopping,he continuesto use and hopes not to get caught.
Do these two have any regrets about using drugs? Sara's biggestis "the problemsit can cause between your parents and your friends.My body doesn't feel like it use to. I feel weak, and not healthy.I would alsoprobablybe doingbetterin school."Sara chokedon her answerandbeganto cough.The coughwas followed by a largeball of mucusthat she spit on the floor with a slit gigglesaying"Oh,andI probablywouldn'tbe doing that all the time." Sarafeelsher drug problemhas made her the outcast of her family.She doesn't get support from anyone,becauseof her drugs, and her parentsdo not trust her like they did in the past.
The long tenn effects that may occur from expe1imentingwith drugsmay be needingyour nose reconstructedfrom snortingcocaine, getting brain damage, liver damage, and just plain stupidity.The harsh drugs that Sara and John are using effert =auiy. The effectsrln nA• ~~·•~v111 mem though. Sara said that sne didn't care and feels that she is living to die. She is aware that the drugs are killing her body, and ruining mai1yrelationshipsshe had, but she still continues.Why ,1/onlrlanyoneput themselvesthroughthis pain?The answer is easy and Sara stated it her self, "I like it, and I can't just np and quite really." Sara admits that she is addictedand has also been labeledas substancedependent by many psychologists.Though she wants to cut back on the seriousdrugs(cocaine,acid) it is goingto be
Friendsplay a big role in the decisionsthat studentsmake,anddrugsareno exception.SaraandJohn both agree that friends make it difficultto cut back on their drug use. Friendsoftenmakefun of themby making jokes that they can't handleit, and their friendsdo not leave them alone until they agree to participatein the illegalactivities.Sara and John are both heavy drug user,but stilldo not wantto seetheirfriendsdo the same as they do, and if they do Sara stated she wishes they would share their drugs. Proving how desperate,and patheticthese drugsmake you become.
Bothfeel that they wouldnot be able to date anyonethat participatesin the acts thatthey do, because they don't want them to "be weird and act stupid"Sara said. They do not want to watch anyonethey love kill themselvesthe way they are but the feelingof not being awareof what goes on, not caring,laughing,and being happy,and not feeling all the pain they have, is what drivesthemto continueno matterwhatotherhealthproblems may occur.
Sara claims that the overdoseshe had was one bad experience,but the withdraw' s were v/orst."If I have done a bunch and then I just quit, I'll be sitting somewhereand then I'll just startspinning,and get cold sweats,and hot flashes."Sara has also had incredibly bad experienceswithmushrooms.Shedescribedone incidentwhenshewas"trippinbad." Sheandsomefriends were makinga trip up to Omaha,but they got lost. ,\s they tried to find the right exit to get off on they started to becomevery paranoid.The groupfelt that they were being followed.After using mushroomsSara said that she often gets sick for weeksat a time,and the usage is often followedby paranoia.
Saraand John are onlytwoof the studentsat LincolnHighthatsharea similarstory.Thereareso many more, but no one wants to open their eyes and realize that their best friend snorts coke, or the quiet student that sits in the back uses hons<> 0 1.,a11ingproductsto get a bnss w:6 i. ,cnool is a roughtime for everyone.If no one wantsto help their lovedones thenthey will be the ones walkingalone in the same dark alley as Sara and John,and soonthe drugswillcontroltheirlives and they will not be walking any longer.Theywillbe layingin a dark casket,and the peoplethatwatchedthemkill themselvesby their usagewill be the ones givingthe eulogy.
If you suspecta friendor a loved one is using drugs,tell someone,anyonewho canhelp.Youmay contacta counselorhere at LincolnHigh,the sponsorof SCIPNancyWolfein room 118,or you can call Bryan LGH MedicalCenterat 1-800-742-7845.
Letter to tfie !Editor
Dear Josh Swartzlander,
I enjoy reading things that inspire thoughtand your articles do that, as I am sure you are aware. Yet, I believe when it comes to religion, you are in ignorance. You are right; science is not a religio11 In science, questioning is encot1raged. The picture is always shifting to allow for new information. I have never belonged to a religion; I was not raised to. I have been raised on science and spirituality , the latter being compatible with the former, which is nice because I am fascinated by both.
When you speak of religio11, I get the feeling you are only speaking in terms of organized, monotheistic reli-
son ,e on
gion (which do not always do the terrible things you say).
Quakers allow for questioning, and for diversity, as do some Catholics from time to time! Buddhism discourages blind faith and encourages investigation. The historical Buddha himself said, "My teachings should not be accepted out of blind faith, or out of respect for me, but rather by investigation. " Buddhism is thoroughly logical.
It is true that n1embers of religions are not always open-111inded, and often pt1t too much faitl1 in something for which there is no hard proof. It just depends 11ponwho is in control, what their intentions are. I just don't mean in terms of bier -
archy, if an individual is in control of their own life, they also wield power.
Some religious people, wl10 are inevitably spiritual people, have not a trace of a 'God - fearing " attitude. It is my personal belief that one cannot have both fear
not know. I think logic has it's I!:: limitations.
Science is notl i:;
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"Why? " is something that separates humankind from beasts, j11st as logic does. The question is "Is I and true faith , for if faith is it in the collective best interpresent, there is nothing to est to do this?" It is my belief fear When one sees the divine that science could benefit as an omnipotent entity sepa- from a more spiritual outlook• ; rate from oneself , this causes in this way , and that faith i;, problems. It leads to fear and must be grou11ded something 1 a11y11un1berof bad things. In - and that is logic. Religion a11y religiou s /spiritual tradi- can be manipulative, but it tion, there are ir1dividuals who does not have to be. Religion: :,. reject this notion.
I agree: "the spiritual force is nature." The spiritual force is nature, and it may be explained by logic - but we cannot explain all that we do can involve guessing, but it shouldn't. I hope I have been able to provoke thot1ght, at least a little bit.
Sincerely , Mollie Moorhead (10)
May 3, 2002
Volume 107 lssue 7
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JulieKilzer
PhotoEditor
Girls track started his year on February 25th elcoming 40 young women rom grades 9-12, including hree state returners: senior egan Harrington, junior ocie Krull and sophomore bbyWood.
"The girls look a lot tronger this year," said Girls rack head coach Colleen echer. "The girls are com;.ng in with more experience, .nd they have spent time in he weight room." Lincoln igh has participated in three rack meets so far this season.
"We run about ,niddle of the pack," Lecher aid. Girls track members ractice everyday after chool until State which is ,fay 17 & 18 at Omaha urke.
"Our goal is to ave more girls go to state is year; so far we are lookng pretty good. Our JV team ·s str0nger thic ;,oc,r than it as ever been, so that means ood things for the future," omme11ted Lecher. In track
there are 17 different events which can be broken down into five categories: long distance running, jumping, throwing, pole vaulting, and sprinting.
Track has been a part of Megan Harrington's family since she was in fourth grade. Now that she is at Lincoln High she participates in four different events, but stands out as a pole vaulter. She has been pole vaulting since she was a freshman.
"The hardest part about pole vaulting is that it is very off and on. One meet you vault great and the next meet you might not clear a height. You just have to keep your head in it." Harrington takes track very seriously and she hopes to participate in track once she goes to college.
Jocie Krull 's main event is the 800m but she also participates in the 4x4, 4xl and the 400. She has been running track since 7th grade. Krull is also on the cross conn try. team for Lincoln High. During the off seasons she runs and lifts to keep in shape. Jocie said that the
ehardest part of running track is the mental aspect of it. "If you think that you are going to do bad, then more than likely you are."
Janna Miller is a Senior at Lincoln High. She participates in the High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump and Sprints. To prepare for track season Janna does a lot of preseason conditioning. She said that the hardest part of being in track is, "getting all of the details to come together at the same moment to have a great event." Miller has a lot of fun in track. She says that it is worth all of the hard work when you finally see the outcome.
This is Junior Heather Jackson's first year runni11g track. She participates in the 1600 m (mile) and the 4x800. Jackson says that the hardest part about running is when you are ii1the middle of the race because you know you're half done but yet you' re or,ly half done. J:ickson said,"I'm in track because I love running. I think in track you also learn a lot of great life. skills like detcr1nination and courage."
Boy's Golf to Have S Season all the ay to State
KasandraSmith Opinion Editor
Lincoln High's
Varsity boys golf team has five talented players. Captain Senior Travis Davis has been making his name on the varsity team since he was a freshman. Davis' individual 18 hole average, or also known as his ha11dicap is .1. His Lincoln High nine hole practice average is 38. Davis has been playing golf since he was two years old, and has plans to continue to play for Nebraska Wesleyan University. Davis is looking for,vard to attending the state tournaments with his team in May, at
Holmes golf course here in Lincoln Davis stated "every time I step on the tee, I know I can win, but I can't let that affect the way that I play. I just have to focus on hitting one shot at a time, and not think too far ahead. Once our team and I make it to state, I am confident that the team, and I will do very well. Everything else will take care of itself."
Davis feels the Lincoln High golf team will finish in the top ten as a team in the remainder of their tournaments. There is a chance that they will even make their way to state. If the team finishes in the top three at the district tournaments they will have a spot to compete for a state tournament.
The four high schools in Lincoln rotate practice time on the public golf courses in Lincoln. The season stated in march and was kicked of with a first place victory in the LHS Quad. Tot1rnament. In this tournament they beat Norfolk, Col timbus, and Fremont. Besides the LHS Quad they have competed in four other tournaments, but did not manage to score in the top five. He golf team typically plays on Thursdays, or Fridays on courses across Nebraska.
The LHS Varsity Boys Golf team has the talent needed to make it to the state tournament. With help from Davis and all the other talented members Li11coln High may bring home a state title.
RylyZetterman BusinessManager
The girl's Varsity soccer team is planning on an acceptable season with a new assistant coach, Spanish teacher, Karen Bonkiewicz and returning head coach for the 11th year, Russ Inbody. The coaches have high expectations for the team. Bonkiewicz comments, "We focus on working as a unit, placing special emphasis on transition and attack. We've worked on building the offense beginning with the defense and ransitioning through the midfield tip to the forwards. I am excited about the tenosity, passion, and energy with wl1ich they paly each game."
The first game on March 25 was a heartbreaker losing to a shootout with inner city team the Northeast Rockets. Tl1e following Saturday the girls team \Vent home with a victory against 1~ortl1Platte, at that time they were one and one, but the next game did not have good results. The soccer game was 2-2 at the end of regulation and double overtime. This meant there was going to be a shootout. The team did much better at making the goals, but they could not make as many as Grand Is 0 land and suffered another loss. At this point they were 1-2, they had last years state contender, Omaha Burke to
most. Lincoln Southeast the away team and Lincoln High the home at Seacrest.
MaliaGerman(ll) heads the ball in the Southeast victory game. Southeast just like any other team is always the team to beat. The girls soccer team never let down at any
play next game at Seacrest.
The first half was awesome. The team did well in the second half, but Omaha Btirke had too much power and shutout the links 2-0. After Burke came a week with three games that would all be a challenge because they were all ranked teams.
The first ga1ne of the week was at Columbus. It was cold and windy, and the Li11colnHigh girls just could not put it past the Discovers, and lost 4-1.
The 11extgame was against Omaha Duschene at Seacrest. Omaha Duchsene is an all girlsf school in Omaha and quite good at soccer. Lincoln High girls were up for the challenge. There was no score after the first half, but Duschene picked it up and scored off a set kick outside of the penalty box to take the win.
Friday of the three game week was the one Lincoln High girls wanted the
point in the game. They stayed strong and scored in the 66th minute of the game to gain a victory against the number 4 ranked Knights. The links carried their hard playing on to the next game beating Kear11ey and losing a tough one to Norfolk.
For the Li11coln High girlfs varsity soccer team they are peaking and hope to stay strong tintil the last game of the 2002 seas 011. They are friends on and off of the game field. They laugh and make jokes together, some girls lose their car keys and get confused and others enjoy food fights outside. For the most part they have fun and that is what being on a soccer team is all about.
The Linkis girls soccer team is continuing to improve with only one more week left in their 2002 seaso11they will stay strong, and give it their all in every practice and maybe last game in districts.
Boy's Soccer Continuesto 'in
JulieKilzer Photo Editor
The Lincoln High Soccer season started with tryouts on the 25th of February. 71 Boys attended tryouts from grades 9-12. And after a lot of tough decisions there are 41 LHS soccer players for the 2002 season. 17 players on each of the teams: Reserves, Junior Varsity and Varsity. The teams practice every day after school for 1 1/2 - 2 hours. They also prac-
tice every Saturday morning. "We are getting better each time we play. Our defense has improved and we are becoming more aggressive on offense," said Coach Brestel. So far this season Lincoln High has played 12 games and have won 9 out of the 12. Including the state tournament May 15th LHS could play 19 games this season. "Our goal is to improve each time we take the field, we want to be the best we can be by May," said Brestel.
There was 011egame so far that has stuck out more than the others. On Tuesday, April 23th the Links played the Spartans at Abbott Field. The Spartans were undefeated and ranked 1st in Nebraska, and 12th in the nation. The game ended in a 2-3 shootout victory. This was the 2nd game this season which was won by a shootout. Jake Colberg, Kyle Harmon and Joey Navis made the three shootout goals for the Links.
Volume 107 Issue 8
KatShiffler Co-EditorIn Chief
the closegroupof studentsand staffhave been testedwith the loss of three fonner students,andthe challengeof recoveryafter thesetragedies.
The Science Focus Program Earlier this year fonner Zoo startedin 1997as an alternativeto the tradi- School students Courtney Cusick and tionalclassroom. Zoo Schoolis a setting MichaelBerg were killedin an automothat encourageslearningwith a safe envi- bile accidenten route to Courtney'sresironment, hands on work, an experienced denceat ColoradoCollege.Michael ' s sisstaffandlots of individualattention ter,Zoo SchoolstudentMega.'1Berg, was
Thestudentsat the zoo attend for the onlysurvivorof the\1/feck. This sp1ing many different reasons, but for 1nost the another tragedystruck the school when s1nall community setting i s one of the formerstudent,SarahL'hrn1acherwasbn1scl1ool 's 1nostredeemingqualitie s Thisyear tallymurderedin lierLincolnapartmental-
Iegedly by her ex-boyfriend Classmates and community membersrememberyounglives that,verefilledwithaccomplishment and commitmentto their school.
The studentsat Zoo SchooloftengaveCourtneyCusicka hard timeaboutcomingbackandvisiting so much after she had graduated. She was the prototype student, recalls history teacher Jim Barstow. He rememberscomingintohis classroom on the last day of school oneyearto fmdher withMichael Berg and two other fri ends campedout with movies and a grill Theycooked all the teachers scran1bledeggs for breakfast that morni11g
Courtney loved animals and science. She was an excellentstudentwhoorganized otherstudents,and was always thereto help out. She starteda summerreadinggroupandcontinuedto go on trips with the schoolevenaftershe graduated "One of her ideas, something that we've kind of gottenaway fromis studentownershipof the school," Barstowsaid. "Shewas just our greatestst11dentin a lot of ways."
MichaelBerg came to the zoo as a sophomore, discouragedby middleschooland lookiI1gfora change.Rightaway he was adoptedby Courtneyand herfriendswhowereall seniors. Hequicklyfoundhisnicheas tl1e technologygmu of the school, layingthefoundationforthetechnologyprogramby settingup and programmingall the computers. Michael's creativitycombined ,vith a knack for co1nputersled
him to createwonderfulvideodocumentaries,whichhe presentedthreeyearsin a row at the NationalHistoryDaycompetitionin Washington,D.C. , "Hereallydidcreate a legacyof video documentaryand how to do it, and he was incrediblycreative. He wasnotjusta computernerd,"Barstow recalls. "He was notjust a studentgoing to ZooSchool.He wasa veryveryimportm1tpartof the school."
Senior Ixchel S\vinehartremembers both Courtneyand Mict1ael as pillarsof tl1eschool. "Thiswasa place that they cared about so deeply,"Swinehart said,"For yourentireschoolto be thatimpo1tantto you is reallyunique."
Barstow recalls Sarah Uhrmacherstrugglingat firstto makethe adjustmentfrom SoutheastHigh School, but shequicklyfoundherplacein theprogra.'11.Thecurrentstudentsat ZooSchool neverknew her, but the staffremembers Sarahas a loverof animals,a sweetkid, and a good studentwith a bright future aheadof her.After she died,parentsand fonner studentsshowedup at the Zoo to talk withteachersandto grievetogether.
"Herebothgoodnewsandbad newswillaffectthe entireschool.On the wl1ol e I would say tl1atthe size of the school is much 1nore positive tha..nit is negativein the sense that it is a very supportjve type of thing,"Barstowsaid. "You just don't hide your feelings, if you're going to cry you're going to cry"
"This i s sucha familyanyway, and I guesstl1i s madeus closer in a way, that none of us wanted,"Swi11ehartsaid. "When someoneso young,s01neon e so importantto the co1lllnunityis gone you have to dealwithitin someway.Youcan't just go throughthe motions,there's all thoseraw energiesand feelingsthat exist and you have to deal withthem a11ddeal withpeoplewhoareexperiencingthesame thing."
"We have desc1ibedthe programas a very smallpool,"Bai·stow said. "So if you dropa pebblein, it affectseverybody That ' s the bad part,that everybody wasreallyhurting. The goodpartI thinkwas that the supportwas there"
As the ScienceFocusProgram finishesup itsfifthyear , studentsandteachers continueto learn,to teach,and to discoverthe strengthof communitythrough tragiccircumstance. The individualtalents,contribution s and entl1usiasmof the youngliveslostwillnot be forgottenwith time,but ratherbuiltuponandreinforced by generation s of studentsto come.
KasandraSmith
Opinion Editor
Since February a group of juniors that volunteer to represent the different clubs and grot1ps at Lincoln High have had 17 meetings to plan this year's prom and post prom. The theme for the 2002 prom was "Footprints in the Sa11d," and "American Pride" was the theme for post prom. Special Education Teacher Tamara Kaiser who is the sponsor of all the Prom activities feels post prom is good because it gives students something to do, and it cuts. down on parties. The prorr1 committee was made up of nine students. These students put in a lot of work to get prom and post prom to look good and run perfectly.
Prom Royalty was one of · many things the committee members organized for the night. To be nominated you must have good grades, be in the grade level, and not be in trouble with the school or the community.
After fitting the criteria the student's vote to decide who is nominated. This year the nominees were for king were Andy Lomax, Thomas Nettleton, Choul Laam, Jerry Otto Thompson, and Scott Rutz. Nominees for queen were Becky Erickson, Katie Finke, Katie Sands, Nuiu Roach, and Jessica
RikkiWallace02)takes time out from the formalityof Prom to break dance for the crowd.
Opfer. Nominees ·for prince were Nick Madsen, Zac Venema, Collin
Hughs, Sam Buetlur, a11d Aaron Tel)o. For princess Ariel Washington, Molly Shields, Tiffany Davison, Claire Ht1tcl1inson, and Jean Clark. Students put in their final votes either Wednesday May 8, or Thursday May 9. The winners for king and queen were Choul Laam, and Nuru Roach. Prince and princess were Zac Venema and Ariel Washington. The winners were announced May 10 at Pershing auditorium w~ere prom was held.
Prom is an expensive and time-consuming event but with the help from teachers, students, and parents all the work ,vas completed and students enjoyed a wonderful
• Journalism Department, and USD
EarlPilcher Journalism Department. One hunGraphicsEditor dred twelve students in total at-
Many voices of people are being heard and expressed in the world of communications but some are too little to he heard. The Indigenous people of this l<1nd are such a small voice in media and mass communication that they may not have the chance to change the thoughts of the world around us.
This is the reason why a Native American Newspaper Career Conference was held in Custer, South Dakota at the Crazy Horse Memorial to inspire _Native students in the field of journalism.
The conference was held April 23-25. Sponsors of the conference included tl1e South Dakota Newspaper Association, Freedom Foru1n Neuharth Center, SDSU
tended represe11ting 25 different nations 12 high schools and 7 colleges. Some of the students in the Native Scholars class wanted to get• some experience in the field of journalism.
Students that attended the conference include: Earl Pilcher(l2), Dallas CrossBear(12), Tony Spencer(lO), Makyla LoneWolf(12), Cristina Vance(l l), Rosita Upton(l l), Chandra Walker(12), Shawntae Olson(ll) and Ivana Rebago( 12) of Northeast High School.
Tl1e trip started off on Tuesday April 23 leaving Lincoln High at 7:45 a.m. on the way to South Dakota. A stop that was made on the v1ay there was at Wounded Knee, which had some i111porta11ce
•evening. Funding for prom came from the profit of ticket sales, with the exception of the printing being done by Augstums, and the cookies were donated by the cookie com-
pariy.
1 h e night went smoothly; Pershing Auditorium was transformed from a huge empty building into a beautifully decorated scene for the Lincoln High juniors arid seniors. Prom was imn1ediately followed by the American Pride Post Prom activities. The athletic hall was full of beautiful decorations, excited students, and volunteering parents. Food was catered into Lincoln High by many different Lincoln businesses, and the Johnson gym was packed full with activities, games and prizes. Many students who attended post prom not only enjoyed the games and prizes but they also enjoyed activities such as Limbo, dancing, and watching peers get hypnotized. The night will be remembered for a lifetime.
to all of the students.
A very sad ride through the third world reservation Pine Ridge was also planned to go through on the way there. The drive took a grueling eleven hours of sitting with no room to relax or stretch. Finally, the class arrived in Custer at 6:30 mountain time. When they arrived students were able to settle in their hotel rooms and get a good look at the environment around them.
The students then finished the day out with a basic orientation of what ,vas to happen over the next • days. 111one day many students may have changed their minds about the field of journalism.
Student activities involved reporting on various topics , graphics, and photograpl1y. After the two day experience students l1eaded for home knowing a little more about journalis1n.
May 28, 2002
Volume 107 lssue 8
JulieKilzerand RylyZetterman
Getting to school in the morning can be a big pain for everyone. The traffic is terrible, and the red lights are really annoying, but the worst part is the parking once you actually get here. Lincoln High l1as four mai11parking lots as well as a couple of parking spots on the street, but obviously there are not enough spots for everyone who drives. At the beginning of the year parking is never a problem. You can show up five minutes before 8 a.m. and find a perfectly good spot. As the year goes on, and more and more sophomores turn 16, parking spots become harder and harder to fmd. By this time of year if you are not here ·15 minutes before school starts you might as well forget get- ·· ting a spot. We are busy, tired teenagers and that extra 15 minutes of sleep we have to sacrifice each morning to ensure a parking space can really add up. Another issue is those little pink envelopes that we dread to fmd on the windshields of our car. I understand that you never have · to won-y about receiving one of
these if you park legally in the possible. Is it really \vorth the $10 nice white lines each morning, to get to your class on time? but sometimes this is just not Let's face, it no one has it :,,.,,, . "U'Ja easy when it · , ' '•' · · · ,, '' comes to .-.-,-.>.&',,::,_..'' - :: parking in the mornings, but many students · tl1at atte11d Lincolr1 High probably have it a lot worse than. you. LHS has one of the best child learning centers in Nebraska for infants and toddlers, but
Catherine Lehn Journalism. Student
MichelleBoeger (10) walks to school from her car, often parkedup to six blocks from the building,carrying her two-month-oldson, Zennith Boeger.
How many of us know much,.if anything about the war in Sudan in \Vhichtwo million people ha ve been killed?
Sudan has been overwheln1edwith civil war for almost all of the 44 years that it has been independent. The most recent civil war has b een going on since 1983, In general it's a fight between the Mu slim government in Northern Sudan and the people of the South that are mostly Christian. The Christian people are seeking religious freedom and more independence
While the war in Sudan may be happening so far away, refugees from the war are right here at Lincoln High School. About 25 Sudanese students attend Lincoln High School. Most of them are men.
I had the fortunate opportunity to speak with 19-year-oldAbraham Akec. As one of the Lost Boys of Sudan he has been through more then most of u s · can imagine, He fled from the War in Sudan on foot with thousands of other boys, leaving behind their homes, their families and their way of life.
The boys didn't have much of a choice. Sudan is filled with slavery, human rights violations, and mistreatment of men, Women, and children Many like Akec fled to Ethiopia, and were not so lucky. Many of the boys lost their lives along the way to wild animals, diseases, starvations and drowning in the river. After some time in EthiopiaAkec was forced back to Sudan and then on to a refugee camp in Kenya, It seemed there was no hope for these boys, however many were lucky. Akec was among the many Sudanese who ·.vereoffered a chance to come to the United States. He came to Lincoln in February, and lives in an apartment with three of his friends from Africa, ·
\Vhile the worst is behind him, his struggle is not over. Now he has to learn to adjust to American ways. Fortunately Akec began learning English before he came to the USA. He is enrolled in the English Language Learners (ELL) program at LHS, He
when student parents arrive in the morning they must bring their children through the south entrance into the South Building where the learning center is located. They are not allowed to walk through
spe aks F,n g li,h Hory v, oll 1.Jul :sayshe will never forget his native language, ·
Schooling in America i s q1tite different from \;<;hathe is used to. Although he did attend co-ed schools , kids didn't behave like the y do h ere , In Kenya the principalwas called " Master" and any misbehavior could be punished physically.Also he didn' t have the opportunity to get a higher education after high school.
Here in the U.S. Akec now has the chance to further his education, which is very important to him. He wants to finish school and go to college to be an engineer or an accountant.
Besides school he also must work to pay for bills, food and other expenses He is a hard worker and is ,villing to deal with the strenuous jobs with , long hours. Akec used to \vork at Farmland Foods in Crete, Nebraska where he worked eight to ten hour shifts, sometimes 7 days a week. That job didn't allow much time for school.
I asked him what the biggest difference he noticed was betweenAfrica and USA when he fist came here. I expected to hear something about the climate or the food or the people. His reply was more than that, "Many African countries are at war, here there is no war," Akec said.
I asked Akec what he would like for others at Lincoln High or in the community to know about · him, the other lost boys, and their culture. He said he just wished that if people wondered about him or have questions for him that they would just ask him. · He's not afraid to tell his story. We hear things about war and conflicts in other countries and we always look to the newspaper or T.V,; or maybe even the Internet for answers. Perhaps better answers are sitting right next to us in a classroom, or walking by us in the hallways,
· At Lincoln High School we have such a diverse student body. We can use that to our advantage and learn from each other. So often if someone is different from ourselves we are scared to get to know them or ask them questions. If we all would just step out of our comfort zone a little and not be afraid to ask questions it \vould benefit u s all.
orthe main building. Alotoftimes there is no parking in the South lots and so parents are forced to park in the north lot and walk all the way around the schpol with their child, or they have to park on the street three of four blocks away It is tiring enough trying to carry a book bag overloaded with last night's homework. Imagine carrying your book bag, a diaper bag, and a toddler il1to school.
Orie possible solt1tion is having assigned parking spots. These spots could be assigned depending on you grade and grade point average. So the seniorwith the best GPA would get the best parking spot and then it would go on down the line. This parking system is already used at Pius X High School and is very successful. Lincoln High is in the process of building a parking lot west of Senior Lot. That will help out. More parking spots would also be available if car pooling were encouraged or even rewarded. A few spots could .be reserved up front for cars caring three or more students.
A.nother idea is to have some spots set aside for volunteers and students with special needs. If y ou j11stgot over pnetl111oni a and were too \Veak to walk a long distance to get to ocho oL TI~c .sc ,:,pace~ wuulu be assigned short term a11d you would have to apply for a spot. TI1esespots could also be applied for by student parents or sn1dents who are soon to be parent s This would be a big help to many s tu- · de11tsfor whom walking a long distance to school isn't only an .inconvenience it i s al111ostan impo s sibility.
ePaulaReyes StaffWriter
I came by myself last August from Bogota, Colombia to fulfill a dream my mother and I have planned for a long while. I planned be an exchange student for one year, live in a different country with all that is involved in that. The organization that helped me to come here chose my destination. I came in a plane trying to imagine how Lincoln would be. How \vould the next year be? Now the school year is ending and this coming June I'm going home, and I don't know how to feel. I know I want to go home because I miss my family and my friends. But I a1n sure I'll miss Lincoln too.
This wasn't easy for me at the beginning. When I got off of the plane I had to find a person who I didn't know. I had just
EddieLeon News Editor
In about a week , every student who goes to an LPS school is going to be e11joying their summer.
So1ne o f 11 s can lo o k fo rward t rJ wakir1g up at 1100n e ve r 5,da y, w atc hin g cartoons, and h an gi11g out. The rest of us can look for\vard to ,vorking , studying for colle ge, or even going through basic training. Either way, at least we don't ha v e to go to school.
I've been going to school at various locatiolls for more than twelve years, and although not all of you are in my same situation, I have at least four more coming. But before we start thinking about the future, let's get things straight here
barely talked to my host mother before once or twice, and I would now have to live an entire year with this person. After that I entered a house went downstairs and saw a room that looked empty in comparison to my bedroom in Colombia. That night when I talked to my parents I realized I wouldn't be able to see them for a whole year. I was scared.
Then the first day of school I came with the idea of making new friends and I found myself eating alone during lunch in a hall full of people and thinking, "why?" I used to eat with at least ten friends every day. What happened? I was alone and I had · to live here for one year, so I decided that I would make it even if thi s was going to be hard for me. I h.ave to make it! Now I think that even this sad time was necessary in my experience to value what I left back home.
Thank God. I started and now. It takes a lot of effort to endure and complete over t\\i·elve years of schooling. 'fhis is no small feat, and everyone graduating thi s year should be very proud of themselves.
In my fa1nily , I am tl1e first 011ein about ·72ye ar s to fin ish l1igl1 school. Ev e ryone else ha s e itl1er dr o pped ou t or gotten their GED. For m e, graduating l1igh school i s a really big deal So , class of 20 02, keep this in mind when your get your diploma: you ' re d oi ng what some entire families can ' t do. We take for granted how ea sy thing s come to us in the United States, including education.
Juniors and sophomores, make the most of your high school, because sometimes the conditions
we live in prevent us from finishing what is so important in this society; education.
Whatever we do from here is in our hands. If our teachers did their jobs right, and if we took advantage of all the opportunities ope11to us, we should have all the tools necessary to get
on
making new friends who helped me and made every day a new experience. I'm glad for that. I found teachers who taught me lessons that I wasn't able to find in my school back at home( not because n1y teachers in Colombia were bad, but because I didn't have the opportunity to choose my classes like I did here). I found in my host mother a great person who did her best. And now I am happy and sad at the same time. It is hard to explain.
I discovered a whole new culture different than what I though I was going to find. I learned traditions like Thanksgiving day or the parades. In school too, I never had a Hon1ecoming Dance before or a pep rally. I l1ad a Prom but that was different than the Prom here, the Prom from my last school lasted until 6 am, and for that reason there isn't a Post Prom. I had fun and I am happy
to have had the opportunity to attend both. All those different events created in me the desire of learn about different cultures. I am very thankful for all of that.
·Also I am able to compare traditions, reactions and feelings. I was surprised at the effect that September 11 had on people here. I haven't seen in my country that patriotism and solidarity among the people.
That made me being ashamed of my indifference becat1se when I heard of horrible acts in my country I tried to don't think about it and evade it, but
now I am different. I learned that you have to love your country and help your people as much as you can.
This year has been a long break for me that has me changed me and I'll never forget what I lived here. I especially want to say thanks to all the persons that in any way helped my year.
I'm glad for the friends I made because especially one, helped me and shared with me a great friendship that I'm sure it is going to last. Take adva11tage of every moment in your life even if it makes you cry.
what we need and those tools are going to brings us to our future, whatever that is for each of us.
If you' re going to college , don't let your education make you forget who you are. lfyo11 ' re going stra i gh t to wo rk , dedi ca te yourself to succeed so you ar e n' t le ft behind beca11se yoti didn ' t go to college.
If yo u ' re taking a break before you decide what to do, don't let that break tum into tl1e rest of your life. If you aren't doing anytl1ing, get off your butt and do something, you're making the rest of us look bad! Do anything you can to expand you horizons. The world just opened up to us We've got all kinds of possibilities.
By the way, since I an1 an adt1lt now, I'm changing my name to 'the Ed.' Since I am now the Ed, I feel like I should drop some knowledge on you before I go.
My advice is this: vote when informed, don't have fun at the expense of your education, and (most importantly) use common sense. That's it for this year. Peace.
perfectly ripe homegrown tomato,
sample freshly harvested com, to enjoy honey straight from a the honeycomb, or to smell herbs from a cot1ntry garden. If you were to wander into the Haymarket on any given Saturday morning from May to October, your senses would undoubtedly perk up to a large array of homegrown goodies. Shopping couldn't be more natural, with food sold from the back of a pickup truck and raw goods straight from the hands of the vendors, farmers and craftsmen that produced them.
Bill Zetterman, a Special Ed teacher at Lincoln High has attended the farmer's market in Lincoln for
ab orrt a d e cade, si11ceit fir st be ga r;. This y ear he st art ed worki11g at the · 1narket on Saturdays se lling pi zz a ,bread, pastries, plant s, herb s a,'1dotl1e r good s for Hilli s and Company. " I eajoy most the fresh p, uduce of the organic var ie ty, " s aid Zetterman. " I thi,11<it's a good way to purvey goods. It's great for small growers and small businesses and for people who want to co1ne down and walk around and be with other people."
The crowd of customers gathers quickly on nice days in the Haymarket from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. to survey the fresh produce and goods. Live entertainment and street performers also add to the appeal. Dogs, small children, baby strollers, and bicycles are also commonly seen alongside patrons of the Farn1er's Market, who come from all over to walk around and see, smell, and san1ple the very best Lincoln has to offer.
es1ctent Evil is on tne GA~1ECUBE, and it is exclusive too. As it was already talked about in the Noven1ber issue of this years Advocate, people read that Capcom has decided to make all Resident Evi I t itled videogame s exclu s ive to Nintendo.
A11d the first game in that list of 6 Resident Evil games has been released, and with 2 disks. Resident Evil is simply a remake from the original gaine that debuted on S011y Play station. The remake is rri~ht~~ff;~~i~
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feet in less than a second and sprint like lightning at you if you shoot them with a bullet. There are even crows, but most of the time they won't bother you unless you shoot them first. If you decide to shoot them, the game will look like your living out the movie "birds". So it's a good idea to just leave them
alone.
ION. I have e en ·w ts a remaKeor a Throughout Resident Evil, yoLt will need to collect variou s items to go on. And there are a lot of iten1s, so you might need the aid of a storage chest sometime. You collect things like k e y s , whistles, books. All kinds of stuff. And sometimes yot1 will need to examine the item, because the item you want might be hidden never ~l~yed survivalhorrorgame rated M for the original before as I maturethat was originallyfor the have neverPlaystatton.Checkit out in stores owned the 1st p I a y station only for NintendoGAMECUBE somewhere on top of the item you get. And example would be a key to another area of the mansion. You don't pick up a key, however. You pick up a boc k. with a key attached You will also be able to pick up defense ite 1ns throughot1t the game, which include a de v ic e that s end s out bolts of electricity and a dagger. You cant use these alone, however. But they are very useful when an item attacks. When a z om bie attacks ,1ou console, but for those who have played, you might be able to catch tl1e differences from what you hear about the GAMECUBE version.
The game i s like Night of the Living d e ad , but ,vith profess i o n a ls doing the dirty work. You will need to battle z ombies in a huge pla c e. I t st art s where yot1 get to pick v oLtr character , a femal e narr1ed Jill • Va le nti11e and a male named Chris 11e dfield. Tl1e deci s ion or1 the chara ctt. , v ot, u s e wil l gi v e you differe r1t plot ,, t ht()t1ghout t he game. J ill wil l begin ¼ th the heip of a com r ad name d Barry, a1,cl will be acco1npa11ied by another per s 0n outside in the r1all. Chris will begin «lone. And t hroughout the game, you play it and t h e eriding will depend on how well yo1 1 d i d. You mi,ght get a happy e nding, or a sad e nding. You never 1<.n o ,v until i t happens , though. A fter :, 1 ou s elec t your character yoti go on your mission, which really only has 011objective. Stay alive. So that 111ean s you will need to avoid enemies the best you can. You might need to dodge enemies, who are bloodthirsty zombies, without shooting them, if that is possible, because of lack of ammunition in the mansion in which the game takes place in. If you waste all y our bullets on enemies in the gaine, you won't have enough for the boss at the ending most likely. You play like this with human zombies and dog zombies roaming around There are regular zombies who walk slowly and zombies who get to their
from in front of vo u. 1f ,1ouhave an ite n1. there will be an anima ti on s equence o f yo ur character p u lli ng out a dagger a n d s ti c ki11g it in the zombies head. or i f vou use the J electricity item, you will s hock the zo mbi e to his doom T he g raphi cs are another n ice t hi11g a bout this game. Basical ly, ot her people ·who have played t h e game comn1ent that they are the p rettie s t t hings ever seen before.
An d they sure do look real. And the e11emies are smarter tl1an ever too. They wont just stand downs tairs waiting for you if your ups tairs now. They will just walk up after you. Or if your trying to flee from a zombie who is trying to eat you, it will follow you downstairs.
The enemies haven't figured out how to open up a door to a room you escaped into yet, but that's all good still.
The sound , however, isn't the best in the world. It's not bad, but it doesn't support Dolby Pro Logic 11, as games on GAMECUBE usually do. The act-
ing isn ' t the greatest either. But all that is 1nade up with the moans from zombies and the usual bumps in the night you get from scary places. It adds to the game and truly makes Resident Evil a work of art.
With all that said, I must
say how much Iiove this game. It's scary, fu11, and frustrating all at the same time. The game is a remake, as said already, so I'm not sure how well that will go by \Vith people who have played the original.
But from what I heard, the game is very different from the origi-
nal, and will still be loved by people who have already played the 1st. For those who haven't played the gaine, and like to be scared, this is a must have game.
For those who have played it, at least rent the game first. Than buy it. You wont be disappointed.
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Earlier this month I got the opportunity to attend a Lincoln High performance of Romeo and Juliet. I honestly didn't k.now what to expect , for one I had never attended a performance of any of Shakespeare's plays. I have to say that I was very impressed. For those of you who have never heard of this play, and I must s ay that if you haven ' t you hav e p rc)bably been living in a cave y our e ntire life, h ere i s a brief s ynopsis: tw o "s tar c ro ssed lo v ers" ·(Rome o a nd Juliet), meet at party held by J uliet 's parents. The problem ,Nith t heir me et in g is t hat Romeo is a Mo nt ag ue, Juliet a Capulet. 'Wh v i s this a p robl e m yo u may as k , w el l t he two families h at e each other, the p lay st art s out w ith t l1eCa pulet bo ys a nd WI011tagu e boys initiated in a f ig ht. This doesn't ap pea r to f aze the two young lov e rs h o \vev er w ho w ed in sec ret It all goe s horribl y wrong tho u gh when Juliet 's cousin Tybalt,
kills Romeo' s best friend Mercutio. Romeo then 11 kills Tybalt in an act of revenge thereby causing him to be banished from the city of Verona. Upon hearing thi s news, Juliet, •. head s straight 1 .r•+ to the local friar lll!: and ge ts a poiso n that will mak e her , for all intent s and purposes di e , 011ly t o la t er aw a ke n a fter her f u ne ra l She d oes this in
then g oe s to the friar and get s a poison of his own, one :-:a that actually will .• k.ill him. He goe s to the chapel H to see her for one last time a nd · then drinks the poison , killing hims elf. Juliet then wakes up to find her love has killed l1i1ns elf S he then tak es a
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a s a high s chool production. You would be wrong, I felt that they cast pulled off the performance v ery well. It certainly was one of the best school plays that I have seen at Lincoln High since I have been here.
Both of the stars, Doug Palmer who played Romeo, and Eileen Farrell who was Juliet, pulled off their performances in a very convincing manner. The emotions that they evoked seemed very real, b11twithout the overacting that you see a lot of times in other Shakespearian performances. Another highlight of the play was Ben Tibbels, ,vho played the part of Mercutio. Me rcutio i s the character that pretty much brings all of the comic r eli ef to tl1e scri p t, and was pulled off nearly perfectly by Tibbels.
I 111ust s ay th at i f I go t another chance to see a Linco l 11 Hi g h perfo rmance of Rome o and J uli et, or an y other play Vi1 ritte11 b y ~:)aakespeare, I certainly wouldn ' t pa ss it up. I al so wouldn't e xp ec t any of y ou to pass up the opportunity either; it's something that woulcl leave a void in y our soul.
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Another great thing to do over the s ummer is concerts. Yo u might not find a great variety of performers coming to Nebraska, but some tl1at are c o ming ar e Th e Warp Tour and Alan Jackso n. O r ma y be it s indoor stt1ff ,;ou 'Nant. You can soe n d some A more money and buy vi de og am es during the su mmer. \V ith five g an1e syste m s 011tl1e 1narket currently , the Pla y sta ti on 2, XBox , GAMECUBE. Gameboy Advance, a 11dPC co mp t1ters, y ou can ' t lo s e when i t c o me s to v id eo g ame s. Maybe it ' s sleepi ng y our aft e r, o r some music li st ening alo11g with that. Just f ind some CD's, a player, and li s ten away. You can always si t around and watch TV • or w atch movie s on your D V D or VCR. There are a lot of great movies currently out including Rat Race, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and many others. And the internet is always there too. If you have a job, which is another cool thing to do in the summer if the job is fun, than it shouldn't be hard to have a fun time. There are a lot of things to do, and these are just some of my suggestions toof But with three whole months ::.nothing, it should be a great time for everybody.
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28, 2002
Volume 107 Issue 8
EddieLeon ~~ewsEdiior
In pretty much every issue I write a story about social injustice. There are good reasons I touch on this topic.
One, there's a problem with it in our society and I think it should be recognized.
Two, I just like to make people feel uncomfortable, which this issues does , because a lot of people like to deny there is a problem.
Three , most of the time , white people write about social injustice, which really makes no sense, considering they don't experience it on the same level a minority, such as myself, does.
The problem, though, is that other people, including minorities, start to think I'm an overly sensitive, whining, cry baby with a problem with white society. This isn't the case.
Social inequality bothers me, but the truth doesn't, and in our society, it seen1s that the truth is something to be scared of.
In our society you can't say anything without checking with the U
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NAACP, the ACLU, PETA, whatever Latino rights group is prominent at the time, and/or some other special interest group. Come on, who wants all that pressure?
People get frred over racial jokes ·in this country. I for one think some racial jokes are hilarious, even ones about my culture. Let me tell a joke about frijoles and chanclas and the room is in stitches. Let a white guy do it and he's in a world of trouble.
Now, I'm not denying there are justifiable reasons that a white guy shouldn't tell a racial joke, but why does he have to be so careful? I swear , white people really have to watch their step in this country. Why do they have to be so careful, but I can shoot my mouth off?
The problem with our society is that we have made the truth taboo and we let lies dictate our lives. We live a lie when we pretend racial problems in this country are a thing of the past.
If someone brings up the problem of race in this country two things can happen.
One is that the public acts like the person is bring up a long dead issue, and they are just whining. The otl1er is that everyone takes this er s on' s word as the iospel and tries
to rework society so it fits around this person's view.
White people accept this for some reason, and, yes, white people are the reason why this type of situation is so prevalent. Why? Because people of color are so used to verbal abuse that we aren't so worried about it We are willing to shut ourselves up. Besides, we don't have the power to make society listen to us.
In my experience, we're not going to change our behavior so that we don't offend others, because they haven't changed to stop offending us. I am talking about the economic situation minorities are subject to because white people aren't willing enough to fix the system their ancestors created Some white people in power are even maintaining it.
This is a system that makes minorities have to sacrifice so much and work so much harder to achieve any success.
You could call me a beaner all day and I wouldn't mind if my people and everybody else could just have a little economic equality. And what's most offensive is that some white people have the audacity to pretend there is no problem.
This is America after all, the land
of opportunity. I know a lot of you are probably thinking, "Well, what my ancestors did isn't my fault," and I would agree with you, but someone has to take responsibility, and only white people have the power to fix the problem With great power comes great responsibility. Guess what white people; you've got power, guess what comes with it.
Besides misuse of power , a lot of white people don't like to hear the truth. Tell a white person about the problems in the ghetto, about how hard low income people have it. Don't even mention race, just bring up poor people. You ' re going to he ar all kinds of reasons why it's the poor person's fault and how if they would just try a little harder they v.rould get out of the hood.
A common response is "there is always a way out" or something similar. You know what? For privileged white kids, there is a way out, because they often have the economic and social power to change their circumstances.
Privileged white kids don't even realize how good they have it most of the time, wlrich is offensive to those who don ' t have much. Their families will be there to bail them out if any-
thing ever gets too hard.
We have no one to bail us out, so we can't just buckle down and rr1ove on to a better situation.
Am I exaggerating? No, I'm not. It is this bad. I am generalizing so white kids can see how things are. I know they aren't like this as a whole, and neither are minorities. A few minorities are successful, and there are plenty of white kids who don't have the support I am talking about, but conversations in my Sociology class have made it painfully obvious that a lot of students just don't get it. Even when you agree with me, you don't really know where I am conti.ng from.
A lot of white students are going to college and higher education. Don't feel bad for it or guilty. Appreciate what you have. You're going to be running this country in a decade or two, and when you take your place in power, remember there is life beyond the suburbs.
There is a lot of talk about how we as a generation can n1ake big changes.
Maybe, but all the changes in the world won't make a difference if white people don't change with everyone else.
Eddie Leon News Editor
Pulling a senior pranki s basically an institution, but all the senior pranks I can remember have been pretty stupid and not very creative What have we gotten? So far, some spraypaint on our \Vindowsand print-
1ng paper taped to our lockers.This is really uninspired work, and I have the distinctfeeling that by the time you read this, some genius will have alreadydone a seniorprank as bad or worse than the last one. I say we need a senior prank committee,or we need to abolishthe senior prank,period.Theyjust aren't worththe cost to fix them. Last year the school spent a wholebunch of moneycleaningup after the seniorprank.I wouldhave a preciseamount for you,but whenI calledaroundfor the cost
of cleanup, some people in the administration had apparently forgotten ho,v 1nu ch i t costthe school,and one in particular, who will re1nain nan1eless, didn' t seern to be sure of what a senior prank is That sai d, 1noney was spent on something n1ost of us thought was pretty dumb And for those of you who forgot or weren' t here last year, some people got into their heads thatit wouldbe great to spray paint some wi ndow s in the school.Thevandals , in an apparentstroke of genius, sprayed names, slogans, and in1prints of their hands, completewithfinger prints. These are the kindsof peopledoingour senior pranks. Aside from the fact that seniorprankersseem to be a tad stupid,they' re prettyselfish.The money the school spend s on clean-up could be spent on our education.Instead, we have these goobersthrowingit all away. Thanks guys. And I have a sneakingsuspicion that someor all of the idiots who vandalized the schoollast year didn't even go here. So it's like this: unless we get a really good senior prank, they're not worth doing Why did senior prank even start? What about seniorgifts?When'sthe last time we had one of those?
People,we must stop the cycle of stupidity.For the love of God, if you haven' t done a seniorprank yet, don't!
KatShiffler Co EditorIn Chief
"Don' t hate the media, beco1ne the media," read a scrap of paper stickingout of the clutteredmess on atabletopin the newspaperroom. "Hey yeah,"I thoughtas I digestedthis bit of truth, "I can' t be a media-hater!Somebodymust save the massesfro1nmisinfonnation!" I then put on my virtual superhero cape andburstinto the sky to combatthe sinisterteam of censorship, corruptionand crapiness !
Hmm so maybeI'm no super hero (althoughI do enjoy changing in telephone booths), but I still find myself detenninedto contributeto responsible independently-producedmedia. I'll be the first to criticize the multinational mega-conglomerates that presently ·.sponsorour news programs. This is a trend we all love to hate (for good reasons),but nothingwill everchangeif we don't put our complaintsinto action. I bring this issue up as my last published words of wisdom because we desper0 ately need a press independent of com• n1ercialand governmentalinterests and a governmentfree of the influenceof a privatized1nedia.
This year on The Advocate staff has b een interesting for me in many v1ays. Yeah,this is just a studentnewspaper you might say, but I 've leained a greatdealabouttherealities of newscoverage, and the deeply-rootedinequities of our media-drivenculture As a journalist, I've paid attentionto what is covered i11mai11stream media and what is
BryceNelson Photo Editor
J-Iis tory is one of the most · important aspects of human civilization. It teaches us who we are, where we come from, and some- · times even where we might be l1eaded. The one problem with this i s that the importance of history is hinged on the ability for debate; without debate history means nothing. It is the debate that allows us · to grow and learn from history.
In the years to come, this tradition of debate and discussion, many feel, will be thre atened. State official s decided tl1at v ith all of the talk about tighten;,1g curriculum sta ndards they ,-,;011ld get a head
glossedover. For the most part I don't Express and Sears dropped their spon" likeit, and I see a lot of roomfor refonn. sorship of ABC's Politically Incorrect Sometimeswhenit'comesit report- afterhost Bill Mahercriticized President ing,the issueis not inaccuracy,but rather Bushfor his characterizationof the Sepbiased or one-sidedcoverageof events. tember 11th hijackers as "cowards".
Even in The New York Times one of Maher's comment was that the label our nation's mostrespectednewspapers, could more plausiblybe applied to the the front page has been taintedlatelyby · U.S Military's long-rangec1uise1nissile unproportionate attention to Israelis attacksrather than the suicide 1nissions killedby Palestinians. On April IO,the of the hijackers. SeveralABC affiliate n1ainl1eadlineon the front page of T11e stationsdroppedMaher's show after tl1e New YorkTimesreacl"13 IsraeliTroops episode, but the talk show host was Killedin Ambush;Bus BombKills 10." luckierthan somewho lost theirjobs for Fartherintothe story,the author supplied criticizingthe presidencyin the sensitive someadditionalinfonnation,"Morethan times after the attacks.
100 Palestinians have been killed in Columnist Dan GuthrieforJenin, the Palestinian town that has broughtthe stiffestresistanceto the broad · Israelisweepthroughoutthe WestBank. Many of the Palestinian dead still lie wheretheyfell." Accordingto The New YorkTimes,the deathsof 23 Israelis are more important and more newsworthy than the deathsof 100Palestinians.
This gross misrepresentationof events only reinforces this country's media-constructedimageof the Palestinian "terrorist" and the Israeli "settler." Withoutthese nice, neat labels, people wouldn't know the good guys from the bad guys, something that mainstream media and our government (''you 're either ,vith us or against us!") have collaborated on to distinguish for the public.
In the aftermathof September11th, the media has fallen victirr1to self-censorship as well as intense govem1nent pressure. Journalists that question or criticize"antiterrorist"initiativesor the StateDepartmentare deemedunpat1iotic and are censoredor even fired.
MajoradvertisersincludingFederal start and come u p with their ou ,n standards. Tho:r <1ssembleda task ,vrce in Kearney in order to come up with these standards. They worked on these standards for 4 days, and when the group came up with what they felt were sufficient · standards, "they took what they · had come up with to the Nebraska State Board of Education, for approval. ·The board denied everything that we had worked on and · adopted the Virginia state standards which have been rated as really lJau;· ~aiu J uvlsc Dro o tol, th» l ;nroln High Social Studies department chair.
·After all of thi s happened, ea c h individu al di strict had to come up wiili th eir own sets of standards. The only stipulation being tha t they
merly of the Oregon Daily Courier was firedfor \Vritinga columnthat criticized Bush for "hidingin a Nebraskahole" in the days followingSeptember11th. The paper was quick to print an apology to readerssaying,"Criticismof ourchiefexecutive and those around him needs to be responsibleand appropriate. Labeling him and the nation'sother top leaders as cowardsas the UnitedStatestries to unite afterits bloodiesttetTorist attack everisn't responsibleor appropriate."(9/ 18/01 ) The samehappenedto journaiist TomGuttingof the Texas CitySun,when after writinga columncriticalof Bush's actions he \Vasdismissedfro1nthe paper. .· The next day a foilov.'-up story was printedwith the headline,"Bush's LeadershipHas Been Superb." (9/21/01)
To undothis dan1age\ve must steer awayfrom the privatizationand deregulationof the public ai1wave s Media tycoons s11ch as R11pertMurdoch of the NewsCorporation, SumnerRedstoneof Viacomand Steve Case of AOL all have extremepower over a governmenttllat seethe tremendousrewards (blingbling)
11adto be at least as rigorous as the state standards. It was to this purpose that both Brestel and Bob White were taken out of their classrooms for the first half of the first semester. It was their task to come up with the standards for Lincoln Public Schools. They feel confident with the standards that they came up with are much more rigorous than the state standards, though they still feel very uneasy about standards · like these.
One of the reasons that Brestel feels so uneasy is because as a result of the se standards, all students will be required to take a stan~ dardized proficiency test. Th e res ults of the se tests will be n1ade public on a scho ol-by-school ba sis. The aspect ,:if this that scares Brestel the
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of a privatizedmedia.Thewealthywhite men sittingpretty at the top of General · ElectricownNBC,andthereforerestrict publicizedcriticismof corporateinterestsor sensitivetopics Corporationsare currentlypayingbillions of dollarsto networks to detenninewhat news reaches the generalpublic Joun1alistswho questioncorporate power, criticizethe government,or report the unwelcomed,uncompromising truth are threatened and ce11sored.
As you hold this issue to your face, think for a moment about where you leain aboutthe world aroundyou. Is it from Fox News? From the ten-minute · music news on MTV? The I' m pretty sure you're all aware of the mediadriven, commercialized-hypethat we live in. The fluffynightlynews that we have easy accessto is not reliable. The 30 minuteABCNewsprogramis at least 12 minutesof commercials.
So I'm askingyou now to consider the source Keep in mind the forcesbehind mainstreainmediatodayand don't acceptnews that just scratches the surface. But don't be haters, because the goodstuffis out tl1ere Forreliable news coverage I strongly encourageyou to utilize the wide world of independent mediaboth in print and 011 the web.
Withinmy own little high school media-microcosmthat is The Advocate, I've tried my hardestto 1nakerhispaper entertaining , well-roundedand responsible for covering relevantne,vs While neither I nor this student paper are of superhtnnan proportions, I would hope that all of you on ilie other side of this newsprintknow enough to at least appreciate raw, uncensored journalism · where it can be found.
most, along with fellow Lincoln High social studies teacher Nancy Grant-Colson, is that state funding will soon be based on proficiency test results as opposed to which school needs the rnoney the most.
Another fear of many social studies teachers is that with these standards, they will be limited in the amount of alternative media sources they will be able to use in class. "There just won't be enough time for me to go search out these other sources of media and incorporate them in to the learning environment," Grant - Colson said. One · thing i s certain about all that is happening. "It's the l a w, and r10 matter how mucl1 I di sagree with it, I am gciing to ha ve to teach to the standard s," Brestel said.
JoelSievert JournalismStudent
Next school year around 1,000 Lincoln Public School ·high school students will trade in their old school colors for the green and silver of the Lincoln Southwest Silver Hawks.
When the 2002-2003 school year begins it will be the first time since Lincoln East High School opened in 1968, that a new public high school has been opened in Lincoln. Lincoln will have its sixth public high school when Lincol11 North Star High opens its door s for the 2003-2004 school ye a r ·
Ofthe nearly 1,000 exp e cted student s a high per c entage i s expected to be ninth and tenth grade students. Lincol11 Southea st w ill be the affected the most by Sot1thwe st out of the four ctirrent Lincol11 Publi c School's high schools. According to Mr s. Kru se, in the coun s elin g center , Lincol 11 Higl1 should lo se only a small number o f s tudent s I:Iowe ve r , Lincoln High will loo se six teacher s and staff; l\1r. Shearer, Mr s Felton , Mr. Frencl1 , l\1r. Free, Mr s Fortne y , and Mrs. Kennedy, to Southwest Students \vho wished to attend Southwest were a sked to decide by October 2001 ,
Ruth Kohtz JournalismStudent
When Lincoln High psychology teacher Jeff Bayer was found dead in a motel room on February 26, 2001, the entire community reeled. Students were confused and the administration was distraught at the loss of such · a special person and asset to the school.
Bayer's official cause of death was reported as being heart failure, but as Principal Dr. Mike Wortman said, "There was still some kind of concern then. Why did his heart give out? Was there something that triggered that?" Though Bayer 's father died of heart problems at a young age a s well , th e Lincoln Journal Star reported on July 7, 2001 that heroin had been found in Bayer' s blood ·
.·On April 29, 2002, the paper was informed of an entire heroin inve stigation that supposedly also included the previous death of Bayer' s wife and criminal charge s against his fiance. Such reports bring visions of the inner-city crime, gangs, and drug dealers, and not usually professional educators.
"Most of it l1appens with average white middle class people, and I think that maybe that' s a wake-up call," Wortman said. "We do need to be concerned for each other and whatever it is that causes people to n1ake these choices whether they're students or staff."
The death of Jeff Bayer, who was a favorite teacher am o ng former students, may c au se people t o question the credibility of all t e achers. Lincoln High teacher and Social Studies Depart1nent Chair Jack Brestel, who was a clo se friend of Bayer's , understands that t e achers are public figure s and ar e held to high er standards, b11tthat should not determine the w ay they are vie wed in their p ersonal li ves.
"People that were clo se to him tend to put away thin gs [Bayer] did outside of scl1ool," Br-::stel said It is important that he be remembe red for wh at h e brou g h t to th e cl as sroom a nd not by what he did in his personal life. Wor t man r eit erate s tha t wh en it comes to the pe rs o nal lives of al l tea c her s "you can't judge ev erybod y by wha t another per so n d oes."
The current policy on the drug te stin g of
Southwest ·will have educational features not commonly found in the Lincoln Public School s ystem. One of these features is block scheduling. Block scheduling is a two day system that consists of four cla s ses a day which are ninety minutes long. Each student takes four · clas s es one day and the next day goes to four different classes that also meet for ninety minutes. The administration at Southwest has stated that it hopes that block scheduling will create smaller classroom communities and will encourage s tudent s to ·take a more personalized approach to ed11cation.
The admi11istration at Southwest want s to create more community involvement. They plan to do thi s by s eeki11g s tudent , parent, and community input on s e ver a l is sue s includin g sports and band uni f orm s The admini s tration has also s aid that stud e nt s will be the ones responsible f or creating the school son g
When Southwes t opens i t will compet e in Clas s A high school comp e titio11s and will b e a me1nber of the Heartland Athletic Conference.
Tl1e s am e is t rue f or North Star when it opens in 2003 Wit h the addition of a fifth and sixth school, the competition within the city is sure to become more inten s e and new rivalries will · be born. On a side note, Southwest's first city
football competition will be an away game against the Links at Seacrest Field. When Lincoln Public Schools announced that it was going to open two new high schools, there were some people who knew they wanted to go there. For others, the decision was not as easy. For these students there were important questions to answer. Do I want to leave my high school for my senior year? Is it worth leaving my frie11ds and the familiarity of my old school? Will it really be anv different at Southwest than it ishere?
Thus far nearly 1,000 Lincoln Public School student s have answered these questions and made the decision to go to Southwe st These student s leave m any of 11s a sl~ing ourselves a questio11.
"Why would they want to go to a brand new high scho o l?"
For some students the de sire t o play varsit y sports was a motivating fact o r. For otl 1er s , th e exp e rience of helping to s tart a n e ,v school with new traditions was an appealing idea. For some students Southwe s t is simple more convenien t.
"I think that South w est will be a better fit for me I al s o look forward to helping establish a tradition of academic and atl1letic excellen c e , " said Tr e nt Blackwell, a Lincoln Higl1 ju11ior
Blackwell stated that the opportunity to be in the first graduating class is, "an exiting opportunity and something I will always remember."
The students have given us answers it is now the teachers and staff tum to explain their decision. Some of these teachers taught at their previous schools for several years before Southwest was a reality.
What about Soutl1west enticed these teachers and staff to switch schools and make the move to Southwest?
The teachers and staff share some of the same reasoning as the students. They wa11tthe · opportunity to establish new traditions and look forward to the cl1allenge to establishing a new school.
"I like the new block scheduling especially for my anatomy cla ss e s," said Mr s. Felton. Mr. Shearer is looking forward to "the opportunity to t e ach 1nore ph ys ic s "
Both Mrs. Felton a11divfr Shearer co rr1mented on the fact that they will miss the s tudents, fellow te a chers, and staff a t Lincoln ·H1gh.
Southwest was supposed to b e completecl by A pril 2002 so tha t school s upp l ies, boo lcs, and other e s sential s c ould b e m ov ed Ho, x:ever, the constrt1ction proce s s is nearly two months behi11d a11dthe school sho uld be completed by June.
teach ers deem s such screenings or se arches as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy and the cause of Bayer ' s death will not result in a policy change.
Because educators are often seen as role models and are important components in the lives of children and teens, Wortman believes it is necessary to also use Bayer as a case in point.
"This is a true life example of substance abuse, that it can hurt people, and has a ripple effect, that it hurts a lot of people and has negative consequences," Wortman said.
It can also open up discussion between teachers and students and help people to realize "drugs have been here and maybe this is the eggshell cracking," Brestel said. "To think that its just all of a · sudden hit Lincoln, Nebraska , is naive," he added.
· No one is e xempt from its eff ects. Though the number of current Lincoln High students who experienced Bayer as a teacher continues to dwindl e , the lo ss of a teacher from the school community and its subsequent investigation nevertheless concerns people At times, Lincoln High may seem to be u,,dcr a siege of bad press for a variety of reason s, and the reports of drug use by a teacher may only further the public's prejudices again st the school. "I think that just a lot of students ·are concerned, frustrated that maybe this is going to cast a negative view of things that we wish wasn't the perception," \.Vortmansaid. But, according to Brestel , "the students who had Mr. Bayer know all they need to know," and therefore the public's perception of the situation is not relative.
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The personal lives of teacher s and educator s may never be fully understood, except to know that those whom society hold s to higher standards are not immun e to flaw. Wortman shared a poem: "In men who men condemn as ill , I find so much of goodness still. In men who men pronounce divine, I find so much of sin and blot. I do not dare to draw a line between the two wher e God has not."
\A / hile the commur1ity sti11 strug~le s to co111pr ehend how such a beloved part of Lincoln High could have fall e n v i c ti1-i1 l u the u se ot drug s, th e knowledge that because o f B ayer' s short li fe, others ' li ves we re changed in a positive way offe rs comfor t "He's just a great friend o f r,1ine," Brest e l s aid, "and I'll re metnber him fo r th e many times we spent t ogeth er. It must b e 14 y ears p lus that I knev, h i m and h e never did dru gs in my presence That 's · how I knew him and that' s how I'll remember him "
• , and registered for classes in November. Even though students were suppose to have made the decision by October some students are still transferring or withdrawing their transfers from Southwest.
···TiffanyBundy JournalismStudent
People used to always tell me that high school was going to be the best time of my life. We were going to have the greatest years there and we would remember those years forever. If high school has been the best time of your life, then you probably never woke up being afraid to go there.
You weren't scared of vacant hallways or even fully occupied ones. You didn't fear leaving your classroom because you had to take five minutes to walk to the next, fearing that in those five minutes you could be attacked with words of hate or even be phy s ical abuse. Perhaps it was the best time for you because you didn't fear for your life, because your sexual orientation wasn't a target for hatP. crimes.
School is a place to feel safe and comfortable, but hate crimes towards oa.,,-,1.,,~_ bian, Bisexual, and Transgender, (GLBT) peoples seep through the walls, even the walls of Lincoln Higi1.
-Skip the chapter on hate in your life and look at it from the opposite side. Every time that the word "fag, " or "queer," or "dyke ," slips from a persons mouth and is focused to hurt someone, that is a hate crime. Pushing someone ot hurting someone because they are gay is a hate crime.
Yet so many of you don ' t see it in that point of view. So many of you don't realize the scar s you place upon someone by calling tl1em a nam e.
Hat e crin'.lC3 a5ai110,l gays are becoming mor e common. Gay people can't even hold hands in publ i c without consequences Jvios t of these con sequence s consis t of word s tha t demoralize th e ir s e xuality and make the i r ve r y own life style a joke. "Sticks and stone s ma y brea k 1ny bone s, but word s ,vill nev e r htir t
me." We l1eard that saying over a million times when we were young I'm going to stand up, or in this case yell and scream, as I type this paper and sa:y I'm sick of hearing that stupid saying! People commit crimes everyday of your school day life by saying hateful words. These words that you think are no big deal cause fear, paranoia, and place emotional long- ··· lasting scars upon gays and even allies of gays.
Perhaps the reason why so many of us believe that these words don't effect others is because of the fact that we grow up with so many influences by people that basically make no effort to even acknowledge that GLBT people exist. We grow up thinking that there are no gay people and by saying these words that we are almost now immune to saying. We think we are not hurting anyone because they don't exist. They do exist, and you know what? They are everywhere.
Society has progressed into a hateful level and our school in its own little way sho\.vs society as a whole. Hate for gays reminds me of a time in history when African Americans were tr~a.,c-J. nnequally because of the color of their skin. Soon enou5h the drinking fountains will have a big white sign w1i:1i.n bold black letters the words "Straight," will be aouvc one fountain and ''Gay," above the other.
Did the white, or blaek, or brown, or yellow people wake up one day and decide to be that color? Did the heterosexual people wake up and stare at the ceiling for two seconds and decide to be straight? The an swer is no.
·Being straight was no a choice, so then · why do so many people believe that you can decide to be gay ? It's not a choice and you can't change it abo11t yourself Being gay i s not the only asp e ct o f a certain human being who is homosexual · The y are people witl 1 names and minds and hear t s and they just happen to be ga y · I t is one tiny littl e piec e of the person , bu t i t' s a piece th a t should L~ accepted Being g ay should not be the puzz l e Pl•c e that doe s 11ot fi t
RylyZetterman
BusinessMana~er
The Girls Varsity Tennis team took on their last season with their coach Scott Middle school teacher Dennis Hershberger to make it on of their best seasons. The squad is larger ·than the past years consisting of 10 girls 4 of which are seniors, 4 juniors and 2 lucky sophomores. The players are seniors: Miranda Ducey, Sylvia Jons, Lori Lodwig, and Jamie Sasse ; juniors: Rachel Black, Amanda Lueke, Erica Neuma11n, and ( arrie Wiegert; sopho1nores : Mai·iel Harding and McKirtle y Jons.
They had a big meet the day of prom, Heartland Conference hosted by
Jons also commented, "This vear • was a lot of fun. Having five returning letter winners helped the team out. I will miss the coach and the girls next year, but we learned a lot of life lessons on and off of the court that brought us closer."
Coach Hershberger considered this season good despite the
weather. He commented, "We had quite a few players make vast improvements."
Fremont, and they played in-doors because of the weather, JaimeSasse (12)competes
Sophomore Mariel Hardi11gis a perfect example of a player who n1ade a vast ir11provement. Sl1e ,vas on reserve her freshmm1 year and improved to play on varsity her s ophomore year. Harding just started to play tennis la st season and was part of the number two doubles team competing at state. but that did not stop them. in a tennis meet.
Although, the Juniors Wiegert and Lueke beat Fremonts number two singles 8-6.
·r heir last meet was the biggest, it was state on May 16th and 17th at Tranquility Park in Omaha. In tennis all teams attend state so Lincoln High was guaranteed a spot. At state the girls did not win enough needed to advance to Friday's finals.
As the season wrapped up Lueke looked at it as a, "rebuilding season for the girls."
She commented, "Last year one of our key players left , but our team still had a lot of talent. Our best team eve11tthis year w a s again s t Nortl1east when we beat them 5-4 on April 3 All in all we had a good s easo11,a lot of furt, and we will miss our coach 11extyear."
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Although, the Varsity Boys Baseball team, "we started out slow, but they really picked it up i11the middle, to the end of the season," commented j11nior Dustin Lottman.
They (the
tea1n) beat Lincoln Southeast 6-4 at Sherman Field on Thursday, April 18
girls' record ( 1-7) did not reflect the abilities of the players, they still worked hard at every practice and gaine. This was Coacl1 Hershberger's last year as the boys arid girl" V=~;.ty t.>nni.~ coach. He enjoyed coaching at Lincoln High and commentea, "Lincoln High has an excellent Athletic Depaitment that has been more than supportive of m y tennis programs. I have thoroughly enjoy e d coaching at Lincoln High these past ten years. I have had some great player s and students who have shown ho, v to co1npe te/play in a character driven man11er." Coach Hershb erger will be trans f erring to Linco1I1's mo s t recently built high scl1ool, Southwest to teacl1 and coach tennis.
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ior Troy Stewart said This outstanding player is senior Andy Lomax. His main position was catcher where he performed very well. Lottman added, "Troy Stewart started out slow, but ended up being one of our top players."
Lottman and Stewart both agreed that next y ear, looks pretty good. "Eve11 though we are losing a few players , we should make it to s tate, that is our goal."
This win ' sparked' the baseball team "for a run Drew Roberts (11)cracksone to the outfield. N e xt year
Stewart specifically said, pitching is key. towards the end" Lottman co1nmented.
The baseball team is young only losing five players: seniors, Andy Lomax, Brent Glantz, Willie Vajgrt, Scott Bredehoft, and Jere1ny Schwebke. One of which had an "outstanding season" jt1n-
Overall baseball had an exciting season ending with a record of 9-13. Every player contributed to each win and los s Howe v er, they did not e11d their season winning state. They hope that next year will bring them more luck.
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RylyZetterman BusinessManager
Senior Micah Madlock has made major improvements his senior year. He was first at Lincoln High in the 110 meter hurdles, and competed at state for the 4xl
ears
will have a lot of potential for next year because they are a young team."
Other state competitors from the boys track team included: junior Joel Sievert, in the 400 meter and in the 800 meter with teammates fresh1nan Chris Hatch, sophomore Jesse Humpal, and junior David Crabtree. Terrance Thomas ' first year was his with teammates juniors: Jacob Absalon, Scott White, and Ke1nari Sl1i11all. However , Madlock did not compete in hi s favorite event , 110 m e ter hurdle s, he had a little misl1 a p in districts to not qt1alify for state. The boys track team record wa s 14-5, and they competed at state Friday May 17 at Omaha Burke's track and field area.
Madlock co1nmented, "This is one of the best teams that I've run =at Lincoln u;gn, and they
Ryan Blahak (10)
last year on the track tean1 l1e is a senior and will graduate on June 1. Tl1oma s ,vas impressiv e all s easo11 in long jump and triple ju1np He enjoyed track season a lot ancl co1nn1ent e d , "A ll of 1ny teammate s were fighter s and if they continue figl1ting tl1ey will gai11 high recognition ."
The boys track team stayed strong the entire season and gained more recognition this year than thP) had in the r,<>c • Hopefully, the boys track team will continue to do well in the years to come.
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lV I ay f est ,va s l1e!d or1 May 5,
2002. It wa s a bea11tiful Sunday afternoon, especially if you wanted to hear som e good old live Renaissa11ce music. The 1ne1nbers of tl1e Madrigal s were dressed up in full medieval regalia, which Swisher,Tony Toombs,RichardKreuger,Aaron really helped to set a mood Burgess,Johnvtvter,JenniferVan DyKe.
Bottom Row(L-R):AndreaKerns,Vinh Le, Doug and a tone. -i ·v u c onld tell Cooke,AmeliaHunt, Desiree, Bramhall,Phillip T'oo h,. M ~tvalt!H, ruineSands, Beck:v " Erickson, KristinWilliams,Jenny Troung that they put a l o t of practic e i n leading U! ) t o their p er f orn1a11ce, a nd with t[1e leaders hi p of th e i r teache r , iv1eli ssa Moate s, it all came togethe r quite nicely,
After the performance the crowd, who fully occupied the courtyard during the performance, was invited to help themselves to many fine refreshments. These were however of the modern variety: fruits, vegetables, meats and punch. Unfortunately they had no mutton and ale , it was a school activity aft er
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