The Mentor: Oct. 6

Manhattan High Students sit in the stands during last week’s homecoming pep rally. Later that day, seniors Sarah Middendorf and Gabe Awbrey were crowned homecoming king and queen.

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Volume 103 // Issue 4 // Oct. 6, 2015

Powderpuff continues tradition

TARA MAGAñA

Blue M Asst. Verbal Editor

MAYA MINOCHA

Blue M Organizations Editor

TOP: Seniors Darien Stokes, August Balman and Bryan Armbrust are thrown into the air by the rest of Manhattan High’s Powderpuff cheer team. The team presented their practiced routine during the Powderpuff football game Sept. 30 at Bishop Stadium. LEFT: The Powderpuff cheer team dances during halftime before the Powderpuff football game, between the white and blue team, commenced. “It was awesome... We really worked together as a team and came together to win,” junior Chelsey Henry said. Henry scored multiple touchdowns as the game resulted in a 30-12 win for the blue team.

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Club Dodgeball brings club members together ANNA ALANAZI

Blue M Photo Editor As the North Gym filled up with club members practicing their throws, senior Dalton Juenemann blew the whistle declaring the announcement for the Club Dodgeball rules.

This year, every club brought diapers to support the Interpersonal Skills fundraiser. Student Council organized the game under a bracket and a double elimination system, so everyone had to lose twice to be out.

But it wasn’t all about the competition or winning for the other teams.

“It’s always just fun to see the other clubs,” Business Professionals of America president Emma Devane, senior, said. “Normally for our club meetings we just see our club, but when we have club dodge-

ball we get a view around all of the other clubs and see who’s in them and what they’re about.”

As the competition heated, BPA won a tiebreaker against Tribe. However, their winning streak came to an end when they went up against Ultimate Frisbee.

“A whole bunch of us got out really quickly,” Devane said.

“So then everyone else wasn’t paying attention and would get out themselves.”

Even though Ultimate Frisbee Club wasn’t confident about winning, they went home with a trophy.

“It was fun, all the way through, great sport on our team,” senior StuCo representative Michael Everett said.

“It’ll always be fun to look back and remember how much fun we’ve had together.”

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GLOBAL NEWS MADELINE MARSHALL Print Editor-in-Chief

Global news is a vital part of news today and can directly affect MHS students.

In order to inform our readers, The Mentor has compiled small summaries describing some of the largest happenings in the world today. We encourage the reader to read about these topics, and others, in greater depth.

Nine die in Oregon shooting

Last Thursday, a gunman opened fire on a writing class at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Six college students, a teacher and two emergency responders ranging in age from 18 to 67 were killed, according to county officials. This mass shooting has, once again, brought the gun control debate to the forefront of American issues.

President Obama was quick to speak on the issue. “But as I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that, and I

With a slight chill in the air, cheerleaders laughed as they flew in the air, hoping to perfect their routine as football players smudged black war paint on their excited faces. All were ready for the homecoming tradition of Powderpuff cheerleading and football.

“I just think it’s hilarious and fun to be out and having students learn a new skill and just have fun working with people that they may not normally work with and just for them to show an interest and to kind of step out of what they’re familiar with and give me their best,” white team coach and assistant Tribe sponsor Andrew Lee said.

First of the powderpuff festivities came the girls’ flag-football game.

The two teams, white and blue, practiced up to five times the week leading up to the Wednesday game at Bishop

Stadium where the field was shortened by 20 yards for them.

“I’m excited,” senior white team member Emma Devane said before the game. “I wish I would have played it my junior year, but I’m super excited to see what it’s like and have a lot of fun with it.”

In the first quarter, it seemed like a tight match as both teams quickly scored and tied the game at 6-6. But that evenly matched game was quickly controlled by the blue team in the second quarter with junior Chelsey Henry scoring multiple touchdowns, bringing the score to 18-6.

“It was awesome,” Henry said. “Very pumping up and energizing, I guess you could say, just knowing that I was going to get a touchdown even though it was really tiring.”

During halftime, the senior boys in Powderpuff cheer took the field. After weeks of preparation and lessons from the ac-

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McClendon, Colburn conquer at debate tournament ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD Entertainment Editor

As the debate season goes on, the Manhattan High Varsity team grows strong.

On Oct. 2, debaters traveled to Olathe Northwest to compete in one of the toughest Debate

Coaches Invitational (DCI) tournaments on the Kansas Circuit.

“I was pretty confident in my ability to beat whoever I was up against,” senior Nathan McClendon said. “I mean, it paid off, like, because of hard work and preparation.”

Although Manhattan as a

whole did not place, the improvised team of McClendon and sophomore Lily Colburn ranked first out of all others.

“I was definitely really excited about it; I’ve never gotten first place at a debate tourna-

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BSU guest speaker talks identity ANDREA LU

Graphic Editor Last Tuesday, Black Student Union gathered for their usual after school meeting in the MHS Alumni Conference Room. However this time, they had a guest speaker. Kansas State BSU member Caleb Taylor opened up his lecture with the quote from the Disney classic “The Incredibles” from Elas-

said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough,” Obama said according to whitehouse. gov. “It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel.

And it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America -- next week, or a couple of months from now.”

Violence in Israel continues, actions taken Under heavy domestic pressure from critics, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel threatened on Sunday to wage a “harsh offensive against Palestinian Islamic terrorism” as he returned

tigirl herself, “Your identity is your most valuable possession.

Protect it.” He then followed it up with the question: how do you identify yourself?

“I’m still trying to identify myself because when I was younger, I would let people identify myself and I feel like identity is something that you should give to yourself,” junior and BSU Vice President Adanna Okere said. “And so, I

mean, I would identify myself as unique, I guess. I’ve always been, like, a lot different than a lot of my family members.”

Taylor stressed just how essential protecting your identity is.

“Your identity is the most valuable thing that you have,” Taylor said. “I say all the time that two of the most valuable

to a country battered by a wave of deadly violence.

Israeli police say they are restricting access to the Old City of Jerusalem after a Palestinian man killed two Israelis on a street in the historic neighborhood. Only Israeli citizens, Old City residents, tourists, businesspeople working in the area and students studying there will be allowed to enter, police said in a statement Sunday. The U.S. State Department issued a statement Saturday, saying it “strongly condemns all acts of violence, including the tragic stabbing in the Old City of Jerusalem today.”

“We are very concerned about mounting tensions in the West Bank and Jerusalem ... and call on all sides to take affirmative steps to restore calm and avoid escalating the situation,” the statement said.

Hurricane Joaquin not to directly hit US, causes record flooding

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Despite undergoing some weakening and no longer near Category 5 hurricane status, Hurricane Joaquin is a Category 2 hurricane as it tracks northeastward through the western Atlantic Ocean. Even so, historic flooding has still unfolded in South Carolina.

Curfews have been ordered, dozens of people are in need of rescue, several interstates are closed and five people are dead in some of the worst flooding South Carolina has ever seen, officials said Sunday.

Opinions

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Death penalty faulty THIS EDITORIAL IS A COMPILATION FROM A DISCUSSION HELD BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD. TO LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION THAT LED TO THIS PIECE, VISIT WWW.MHSMENTOR. COM. About to die and stripped of all belongings other than his boxers, Richard Glossip’s execution came to a sudden halt when it was discovered that the final ingredient in the State of Oklahoma’s three-part lethal injection cocktail was not present.

They had potassium acetate. Which, while helpful for de-icing runways, was not the potassium chlorate needed to carry out the death of Glossip.

This last minute stay of execution (which happened last Wednesday) was just the most recent happening in a long and winding string of events that incite questions regarding the death penalty and its procedures in America.

Glossip was sentenced to die for the 1997 murder of Oklahoma City motel owner Barry Van Treese. The sentence was based almost entirely on the word of the confessed killer, a 19-year-old motel maintenance man and meth addict named Justin Sneed. Sneed admitted that he beat Van Treese to death with a baseball bat, but said that Glossip made him do it.

In exchange for tes-

timony against Glossip, Sneed was given a life sentence, which he is serving at a medium security state prison. Glossip’s lawyers noted that Sneed changed his story several times before he admitted to the murder, then made a deal to receive life in prison in return for implicating Glossip.

In the face of mounting evidence that Glossip was innocent (as he has pleaded all along), his execution was scheduled for January. The execution was pushed back, however, when the Supreme Court agreed to consider a claim, brought by Glossip and other death-row inmates, that Oklahoma’s lethal-injection drug protocol would cause them severe pain and suffering (which would be a violation of the eighth amendment). The court ruled against the inmates in June, and Oklahoma immediately rescheduled Glossip’s execution. He was supposed to die last Wednesday, but, as previously explained, was not.

This long, drawn-out and questionable process does a pretty good job of summing up the major flaws of the death penalty in America. Those in favor of the death penalty would like to say it’s only for those who are the “worst of the worst,” but it seems that there’s a little too much bargaining involved for that to be the case. The death penalty

is doing a pretty terrible job at being a fair means of punishment and the majority of The Mentor editorial board doesn’t think the arguments for it at this point are logically sound.

It seems obvious that the death penalty isn’t being implemented fairly and evenly across the board; this is depicted by Glossip’s place on death row and Sneed’s relatively light punishment, which he received by, in essence, sending another guy to die instead. With death being the “ultimate punishment,” it seems only logical that if a country is going to implement it, it must implement it justly so as to not inflict undeserved punishment.

Seeing as how that has yet to be attainable, it would be more logical to simply retire capital punishment and choose other, less “final,” but just as brutal punishments such as solitary confinement within a life sentence.

The debate surrounding the death penalty brought some disagreement among our editorial board – the morality at its center being the main point of discrepancy – but both those for and against capital punishment agreed on the fact that there is, in some shape or form, a problem with the current implementation of the death penalty. So, it looks like the justice system has some work to do.

Anniversary of missing students reminds of corruption within Mexican government its many cases of corruption and even crime, still goes on without worry.

President Enrique Peña Nieto is much to blame for this. On Oct. 2, he met with the families of the students to consider reopening the case to anERICK ECHEGARAY other investigation, difSports Editor ferent from the one being conducted now, and shut A year later and still down their request. Peña no trace, no bodies and Nieto even had the audacno explanation. A ity to state more year later and this than five times tragedy remains “Last week marked the one (with a straight unsolved and un- year anniversary of the disap- face) at a recent UN covered. A year meeting, that Mexilater and protests pearance of the 43 students co is “a nation fully still fill the streets committed to law, and people still call that mysteriously vanished human rights, and for justice. peace.” from the face of the earth Last week The hypocrisy marked the one- without reasonable explanaof the Mexican year anniversary tion, yet a year later the Mexi- government has of the disappearangered many but ance of 43 students can government has not been until now there has who mysteriously been no action or vanished from the able to tell its people what strong movement face of the earth really happened.” by the people to without reasonable change what needs explanation, yet a to be changed. The year later the Mexfamilies of 43 stuican government has not by police, and many oth- dents of Ayotzinapa Norbeen able to tell its people ers have been killed in mal School still hold on what really happened. to the hope that some of protest since then.

What did happen? NoThe people still just their loved ones might body really knows. Pro- ask for answers, and still be alive, or at least tests continue all across they search for the truth that they can find their the country including in beyond whatever lie the bodies and be able to bury the district of Guerrero. Mexican government can their dead the right way.

Protest is actually what make up to clear up for The search continues and started the whole thing. their corruption. Their so do protests, protests Students protested a con- version of whatever hap- showing that the Mexican ference involving the pened to the bodies of the people have not forgotten mayor of the city. After- students is unrealistic and will not forget about wards they disappeared, and even impossible as this tragic incident, that leaving behind specula- proven by international they will not stop fighting tion that it was the mayor studies. Yet the Mexican for their rights against who planned the kidnap- government, even with that corrupt government. ping and disappearing.

How? It’s speculated that he handed the students over to the local gang, believe it or not. The students were never heard of again. The mayor and his wife were arrested while the city’s chief of police is still a fugitive one year later. Apart from the 43 students who disappeared that day, three others were killed

The truth about being black: Ewing discusses black experience JAMERA EWING

Guest Columnist

Hundreds of years ago, African Americans were persecuted, demoralized and degraded simply because of the color of their skin. Here we are, hundreds of years later, and we are still being persecuted, demoralized and degraded.

Now my intention is not to point fingers at white people and say that they are the source of all problems regarding race. In many ways, black people perpetuate our “second-class” citizen status. But, many people don’t realize that many of the problems

and stereotypes that African Americans face are deeply rooted in the slave days.

For example, the family unit in the black community is very broken and damaged. Many black men who don’t take care of their children are considered “dead-beat” dads. What people don’t realize is that most of these black men simply just don’t know how to be fathers. They haven’t been taught. This stems from the slave days when white masters bred slaves to try and create the strongest, healthiest and most efficient slave.

The master picked two of his healthiest slaves and

Free time is valid

DAKOTA SANTIAGO

Staff Writer

The thing about being poor is that you don’t have time to live.

This probably seems like a gross oversimplification, and it is to some extent. There are lots of ‘things’ about being poor.

I wanted to write about this aspect, however, because I think a lot of people aren’t aware of it. Most of the time when other people think about poor people they think about money. The most obvious aspect of being poor is that you don’t have money. Very few people who aren’t poor think about how time plays into being poor.

There’s this belief and attitude leveled at poor people which I believe comes from a basic misunderstanding of the reality of being poor.

A common expectation I’ve come across is that if you’re poor you supposed to be working all the time, always. You’re not supposed to hang out

with friends, you’re not supposed to go out to eat and you’re absolutely not supposed to have free time.

This is not only unrealistic but also denies poor people of their humanity.

Most people who work acknowledge the necessity of free time. Free time is when we perform our most basic form of self-care. It’s when we relax, when we process and make sense of what’s happened in the day and prepare ourselves for the next day.

The idea of self-care, especially taking time to perform self-care, has slowly been gaining more and more traction.

However, this view still changes when the people in question are poor.

If anything, poor people should be more validated in having free time.

People who are poor deal with work and/or school stress on top of the stress that comes from not having enough money. It’s a constant calculation of: ‘What am I going to cut out? What can I absolutely not be short on this week? What do I have to be short on in response to that?’. The time to unwind from all of that anxiety is necessary in order to keep moving around uncompromised.

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forced them to have a child together. So a black man was forced to have a child he didn’t want in the first place. The child had no sentimental value to them. What do you do with something you don’t want? You either abandon it, give it away or throw it away. In some cases, African American men actually did have children they wanted with a woman they actually cared about. Unfortunately, the slave system never allowed African American men to learn how to be good fathers.

They were snatched away from their children or their children were snatched away from

them and sold like objects, to be worked liked machines.

In no way am I condoning dead-beat dads, but keep in mind, African American men have been stuck in a detrimental cycle created by the white man.

Another popular stereotype associated with African Americans is that our favorite foods to eat are fried chicken and watermelon and that we love drinking Kool-Aid. Numerous people use this stereotype jokingly but don’t know the story behind it. Once the slaves were emancipated, African Americans still had no rights. This stereotype

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“‘Do I Call Karl?’ on literally all my papers”

was created around that time. African Americans were extremely poor and could only attain dead end jobs because they had no education. It was illegal for them to learn how to read and write.

It was said that the only thing they could afford was chicken (which they fried) and watermelon.

Since we couldn’t afford Coca-Cola, we drank Kool-Aid if we wanted a sweet drink. Many people, including most African Americans, aren’t aware of the negative connotation associated with this stereotype. So next time you want to crack a joke, make sure you actually know the

punch line.

So many times African Americans are accused of playing the “race card.”

Well, racism is the reality of African Americans and other ethnic minorities across the globe. Racism is the elephant in the room and it needs to be removed. The only way to remove it is to address that it is there. It is not just something that can be ignored. Plenty of people say that they are tired of talking about racism.

If only they would stop and consider how sick and tired African Americans and other ethnic minorities are of experiencing it every single day.

What do you draw in the margins of your papers?

“Fire rhymes for my upcoming mixtape.”

-- Kyle Thompson, senior (@kyle_thompson___ on Instagram)

“geometric shapes”

-- Israel Wheatley, senior (@a_nu_matt)

-- Emma Galitzer, senior (@em_galaxy)

“I draw Andy Fitches thighs” --August Balman, senior (@augdawg23 on Instagram)

“Inspirational sh** like nature or cheat codes.”

Ethan Chege, junior (@e_chege34 on Instagram)

Next week’s question:

What’s your favorite part of the fall season? What are you looking forward to?

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Anime Club hosts kick-off party for members

The members of Anime Club enjoy pleantiful snacks and drinks provided by club Sponsor Tiffany Stevenson. The club members spent their time watching different shows and chatting about their favorite shows. The club has always been popular at MHS, and this year the club hopes to become active in Manhttan’s community, but also have fun.

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ALE FLORES

Staff Writer

Anime Club had their kick-off party, where all students who signed up could go and learn the club’s plans for the year, meet each other and share food. The officers of the Anime Club organized fun games and food. Everyone had fun, though the room was a little crowded.

“I think the party went okay,” Erin Heller, presi-

dent of the Anime Club said. “It almost felt like too many people. It was another challenge.”

Anime Club also has a new sponsor who the members of the club are really happy to have.

“I think she’s very awesome. She has changed things [a] bit but in a positive way. Most of our older sponsors didn’t have any experience sponsoring an Anime Club, but she has. She sponsored an Anime Club at Junc-

tion City, like two or three years ago, so she has really good ideas,” Heller said.

Tiffany Stevenson, Special education teacher and new sponsor of the Anime Club, is excited about working with the students throughout the school year.

“Our biggest goals are to to make it to “NakaKon”, give back to the community, and bully prevention events. We have a lot of ideas,” Ste-

venson said.

Naka-Kon is an annual three day anime convention. The convention typically features contests, game shows, panels, showings, vendor booths, video game rooms and workshops.

During the party, Anime Club officers took the time to announce some of the events occurring during the year. One of the most relevant is The Anime Club T-shirt Contest where members of the

Anime Club get to create a design for the club’s tshirt. The winner of the contest gets a free NakaKon ticket and the runner-ups get a half priced ticket.

“We want to have an Anime Club T-shirt. In order to come up with a design we’ve made a contest. The three best will have to be approved by the administration and the winner will be chosen

by Mr. [Marvin] Rupe,” Stevenson said.

The president of the Anime Club also was excited about the contest.

“I think it’s a great idea.

Every other club has a tshirt. We are Anime Club.

We like art. We should have had one already but we never got the right sponsoring,” Heller said.

Even though there were some complications because of the number of people in the room, everyone enjoyed the party.

Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 World Tour’ takes Kansas City

MAYA MINOCHA

Blue M organaziations editor Not very often do you come across an artist who can sing, dance, play multiple instruments and emotionally connect to a crowd, all in one show.

But if you are looking for a show with all of these aspects, then the 1989 tour seems like the show for you.

This past week, seven time Grammy winner Taylor Swift took her sold-out 1989 world tour to Kansas City. The tour was such a large production that Grand Boulevard in downtown Kansas City was shut down due to the 33 semi-trucks

and 20 buses that came with the tour.

When I pulled up to the Sprint Center, I instantly felt like I was in another world. Everyone is in a costume reflecting one of Swift’s lyrics. There are people in tutus, large light up signs and lots of glitter.

Swift opened up the show with the first track on her multi platinum album “1989.”

“Good evening Kansas City!” Swift said. “There is nothing I love more than a sold out Kansas City crowd, but we begin our story in New York.”

Throughout the show, Swift made eight costume changes. For each song there was a different setup to help perfectly portray the story of the song.

From the New York City skyline in the background during “Welcome To New York,” to the fringe costumes for “Shake It Off,” Swift not only sang the

songs, but also told a story during her show.

Before each song, Swift talked to the crowd and gave speeches relating to the song. This gave the concert a very intimate feel. Swift made you feel like you are the only one in there when you are in a room with 15,000 other people. Swift played almost every song off of “1989,” and also added a few of her most popular songs off of other albums.

Since her latest album has a more pop feel than her other albums, she transformed her old songs to fit the feel of the tour. The “1989” tour is one that you do not want to miss. As I was leaving the arena, I could hear many different people of all genders and ages saying how much they loved it. Catch the “1989” tour’s last stop in the midwest in Omaha, Nebr., on Oct. 9 and 10 at the CenturyLink center.

Taylor Swift grins at some fans during the bridge of her song “Out Of the Woods.” Swift was boucy and bubbly as she pranced across stage throughout the night, pulling fans into the live performance.

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What’s new in the music scene this week?

This coming fall and winter is about to be the best time for music fans.

One Direction’s new single and promises of a a new album, new Keith Urban for you country fans, and tons of new stuff coming from the rock and rock adjacent genres. Check it out below.

Australian metalcore group Parkway Drive put out their fourth studio album titled “Ire” through Epitaph Records on Sept. 25.

This is the first album where they have seriously changed their sound, and I honestly really like how it turned out.

Since their first release, “Killing with a Smile” in 2006, they have been recognized in the metalcore scene as the heaviest and most unrelenting band to date. They took a daring move on “Ire” to take a hard rock approach to their usual metal style. Instead of their usual motif of a breakdown or two in each song, they focused more on vocal delivery and riffage than on the overall heaviness of the album.

If you’re new to the metal scene, you might enjoy the track “Vice Grip.” It’s the most radio-friendly song on the album, but still retains a decent metal sound. If you are

a returning fan that favors the Parkway Drive brutality, “Dying to Believe,” “Dedicated” and “The Sound of Violence” are the songs closest to their previous material. My

personal favorite off “Ire” is “Crushed.” It perfectly blends Parkway’s previous heaviness with their new hard rock style into a mindblowing aural assault with excellent lyrics.

While there are moments on the album that are relatively bland and generic, I feel like that the positive points of the album overshadow the mistakes rather well. One or two songs tend to sound like they are reskinned versions of each other. The song “Writings on the Wall” seems to be just a filler song to meet a time requirement. There is nothing really special about it; it’s essentially a more depressing, pessimistic version of “Vice Grip.”

DAVID FLITER Staff Writer

The words “Can I have a moment of your time?” have never caught my attention more than in the first line of the first song of Shinedown’s new album, “Threat to Survival.” And what an attention getter it is as it pulls one into the band’s best album to date.

Hoping for a throwback to their third album, “Sound of Madness,” I was not disappointed when I got the exact opposite of the sound that got me through my middle school years. Instead, I got a modern twist on their past with brutally honest lyrics that describe who I am now. From the first words of “Asking For It” to the last of “Misfits,” lead singer and main lyricist Brent Smith brought the theme of survival to the forefront with lyrics full of life advice; from friendship to dealing with haters. Now, this isn’t too different from past albums.

What is different is the lack of metaphor. Instead, the album is straight to the point with few

TARA MAGANA Blue M Assistant Verbal Editor

places where the meaning is left to interpretation.

Then there’s the sound.

Though keeping to their roots in hard rock, “Threat to Survival” is far more modern with upbeat, catchy tunes such as “How Did You Love” and “State of My Head.” But they still kept the softer ballads I crave with “Thick as Thieves” and “Misfits.” And it’s all complimented with Smith’s voice that only seems to improve with age.

Basically, this album is the work of a genius with the right mix of hard rock and catchy, yet meaningful, lyrics that I can’t wait to see performed live in Wichita next Friday.

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Football routs Topeka West on Homecoming night Greg Woods

Online Editor-in-Chief It was a slow start for the Indians, but that didn’t stop them from dealing out another blowout.

The Manhattan High football team earned its second-consecutive rout Friday night, a 50-7 win over Topeka West on homecoming night. With the win, MHS moves to 4-1 overall on the season.

Manhattan forced Topeka West into five turnovers on the night, adding to the Indians’ 16 forced turnovers this season.

The scoring was primarily handled by junior quarterback Ian Trapp and junior running back Keiadrain McDonald, who accounted for six of Manhattan’s seven touchdowns of the game. Trapp said he was happy with the progress his team made after last Friday’s road win.

“Going into the Highland Park game, we were kind of unfocused,” Trapp said. “So I think we kind of got a little bit more focused this week, especially going into J.C. next week. We’re going to have to build on that, and keep the momentum that we got going [tonight].”

The Chargers relied heavily on the pass, more so than any of

Manhattan’s opponents this year -- Topeka West quarterback Zach Shima launched 30 passes, many of them deep balls downfield. One was a 34yard touchdown pass to six-foot-five receiver Jordan Newby. Head coach Joe Schartz said he was pleased with how his defense defended the Chargers’ aerial attack.

“We did okay. We laid back and played coverage, and we didn’t bring a lot of blitz or a lot of pressure,” Schartz said.

“So at times, he had time to stand back there and deliver the ball, but other than the one touchdown, we didn’t ever give up the big play, so that’s the positive.”

Senior linebacker A.J. Pablo agreed.

“Defense did really well,” Pablo said. “We didn’t give up many big plays. We gave up that one big play, the touchdown, but other than that, they didn’t have that many big plays. They didn’t convert that much.”

After scoring just once in the first frame, a oneyard touchdown rush from senior Blake Wewer, Manhattan picked up momentum in the second. Trapp completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to McDonald, and the running back punched it in from two yards out at

the end of the half. The Indians led 22-0 at intermission.

Friday was McDonald’s first game back in action since Sept. 4 against Shawnee Heights. He said he’s getting close to 100 percent, and Schartz concurred. “[He’s] obviously rusty,” Schartz said. “But I think everyone feels comfortable offensively when he’s in there. We’re going to need him to get better. I’m glad to have him back.”

The Indians scored on their first possession of the second half when Trapp found junior Tariq Gerald for 10 yards and a touchdown, and Trapp later hooked up with Pablo on a 22-yard screen pass for a touchdown.

MHS led 36-0 at the 2:50 mark of the third quarter.

On the Chargers’ ensuing possession, sophomore Jalin Harper picked off Shima after several deflections. Manhattan scored off the turnover, a 30-yard rush from McDonald, his third score on the night. The Indians’ advantage swelled to 430.

“I felt good,” McDonald said. “It was nice to [get back on the field]. I liked it.”

The lone Topeka West touchdown came early in the fourth quarter, when

Shima hit Newby for a touchdown pass. It was 43-7 with 10:35 left, but MHS wasn’t done offensively.

Trapp finished off his night with a 10-yard scamper into the endzone two minutes later, topping off homecoming night in the Little Apple.

Manhattan hosts Junction City (5-0) next Friday, the 101st renewal of the

rivalry. Schartz said he anticipates the contest to live up to the annual hype.

“When these two teams get together, throw the records out the window,” Schartz said. “It’s a rivalry game, and the Silver Trophy’s on the line.

You’re going to get both teams’ best. Anything can happen in that game, so we just have to go to

work, put together a good gameplan, and try to keep the kids focused and not distracted.”

Trapp anticipates sticking to the run-oriented style against the Blue Jays.

“We’re a run-first team,” Trapp said. “Unless they can stop us, we’re going to try to run it down their throats.”

their series with a 2-1 victory at Seaman breaking their streak of two straight losses that came to the hands of Shawnee Heights and St. Thomas Aquinas. Next up was nationally-ranked Washburn, a team that is recognized nationwide.

The game kicked off to a 1-0 start by Washburn Rural, coming in the way of a header off a free kick.

The game would intensify quickly as MHS battled back from a 3-0 deficit late in the second half.

Two late goals would give them hope to take

the game into overtime, the second goal scored by senior forward Kirkland Lambert.

With less than a minute to go MHS had their final chance when they were awarded a free kick at the edge of the box.

With everything on the line, MHS failed to scored on the kick, sparking a Washburn counter-attack that was the final blow.

Manhattan lost the game 4-2 and dropped to 5-3.

“At the beginning we didn’t come out like we were supposed to, you know, we talked about

intensity and coming in the game hard and when the game started we just freaked out and it seemed like no one knew what to do and that shouldn’t happen,” Varsity defender Conall Root said.

Washburn and MHS traded many fouls even to the point where yellow cards had to be pulled out.

“It was rough, we didn’t start off very well.

We got bullied. I mean the ball was in the air for a quite a while and we’re a possession team, we’re better than we showed

tonight,” assistant varsity coach Mike Lopez said.

The next challenge for Manhattan would be a long mid-week trip to Great Bend in which they would look to end their bad form. The Indians rose up to the occasion as they blew Great Bend High out of the water in a 10-1 victory. They followed that with a home victory against Wichita South High in which they scored five goals and kept Wichita scoreless.

“The first half we did bad. In the second half we picked it up posses-

sion wise and also with shots and goals,” Varsity forward Angel Fraire said.

Finally MHS completed their three-game winning streak with another win at home against Emporia. “[For the upcoming games] we’re going to have to give a solid performance to win and later we have the quad coming up which is pretty important too,” junior Saubhagya Shrestha said.

MHS will take the field again when they travel to Hayden today to play against Hayden High.

Senior A.J. Pablo jogs into the endzone Friday night after catching a screen pass from junior quarterback Ian Trapp. The touchdown pushed Manhattan’s lead to 36-0 in the third quarter.

PHOTO BY GAVIN LARIOS

Soccer wins three straight to turn season around Erick Echegaray

Sports Editor

After a starting the season with a 4-2 record, the Manhattan High soccer team faced arguably its toughest challenge of the season facing three opponents in just five days.

The series of games included a match against Seaman away from home, nationally ranked Washburn Rural right after and finally a long midweek trip to Great Bend to finish.

The Indians kicked off

Volleyball competes in Topeka Jordan Lutz Staff Writer

After more than a week off, Varsity volleyball will play today in North Gym at 5 p.m. The “Dig Pink Invitational” will raise awareness for breast cancer and serve as the team’s senior recognition night. The girls will be up against Highland Park, Emporia and Washburn Rural.

Coach Lisa Kinderknecht hopes to come out

with three wins when the night is done.

“Emporia is better this year than previous years,” Kinderknecht said.

On Thursday, Junior Varsity traveled to Topeka High for a three-game event.

“Junction City and Emporia went well. Topeka High, we underestimated them a bit,” sophomore Meg Auten said. JV comes off a victory against Emporia last Thursday night

in which they won in two straight sets, 25-9 in the first set and 25-12 in the second set “We started to play at their level instead of ours,” sophomore Raegan Wilcoxson said. “The second match, we stepped it up and started playing at our level. We beat them by a lot more.”

The girls won six straight sets.

The Lady Indians will face their rivals, Junction City, on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Girls Varsity tennis comes home from league Anna alanazi Staff Writer 10 teams, 20 matches.

The Manhattan Highgirls varsity tennis squad came back with a sixthplace Centennial League finish after a long day at Kossover in Topeka. The team played six matches under a bracket system, hosted by Highland Park.

“I went 2-2 in pool play then won both of

my bracket matches to get ninth,” senior Lexi Bieker said.

Senior Cathy Lei topped the MHS placings with third.

“I’m always excited to watch my teammates play,” senior Tracy Le said. “It’s amazing to see our hard work be a catalyst to success. I’m so proud of the entire team for putting so much ef-

fort and passion into this sport. I wouldn’t have gotten to know any of my teammates nearly as well as I have if it wasn’t for this sport and I love them all so much. They’re great people and I’m glad I had the opportunity to be a part of this group.”

Lady Indians victorious in last meet before postseason play begins Gavin Larios

Staff Writer

The Manhattan High girls golf team took their last victory of the season before Regionals at Manhattan Country Club yesterday afternoon. They placed first in the invitational with a score of 386.

“We didn’t play the same course that we practiced on, and I never want to say that we have the advantage somewhere.

We definitely knew that we could all do better,” sophomore Delaney Wisdom said.

Washburn Rural placed second with a score of 404. Three of the six Lady Indians won a medal yesterday.

Sophomores Macie Myers placed second with a individual score of 83; Wisdom placed fifth with a score of 96; Bella Hager placed ninth with a score of 100; and Lydia Fry scored a 108. Freshmen

Sophomore Lydia Fry puts on the eighth hole Monday afternoon at the Manhattan Country Club. Fry shot a 108 at the meet.

PHOTO BY GREG WOODS

Elise Jackson scored a 107 and Camy McAtee scored a 117. The Lady Indians’ average score of the last five games is 367.4.

“The surprise of the day came from sophomore Bella Hager who shot a 100 to contribute to the team score for the first time in her career,” coach Chris George said.

“She played her best round of the year today.

She played fairly consistent, relative to the field, and hit the ball well. I was real happy for her to come up and get an individual medal.”

Next Monday, the Lady Indians will compete in 6A Regionals at Clapp Park in Wichita.

XC dominates in competition at Junction City

CORA astin Photo Editor After relaxing on the beach of Milford Lake this past Saturday, the Manhattan High Cross Country Team and 13 other schools from the area put their bodies to the test to run the Junction City Invitational.

Hosted by Junction City High School, this course overlooks Milford Lake, at the Milford State Park.

While the scenery was calming, the cross country teams for Manhattan

High pushed through all barriers and came out as first for all teams that competed on Saturday.

Six out of the seven Varsity girl runners from Manhattan placed in the top 15; there were 66 total Varsity girl runners.

Junior Cara Melgares led the Manhattan girls with a time of 19:28 giving her a second place victory.

Senior Anna Keely wasn’t too far behind with a time of 19:29, coming in third.

This gave the girls first place overall.

“I was expecting to run a little bit quicker today,

but time doesn’t really matter at this point in the season,” Melgares said.

The girls have seen much success this season and hope to continue this trend.

“So far we’ve come back with a trophy or a plaque at every meet and we are going to try to keep that rolling,” Melgares said.

One of the Manhattan Varsity boys needed just a little longer than most to get ready mentally and physically for the race.

After winning state as a sophomore, junior Jack-

son Schroeder ran his first meet of the season, with the overall winning time of 16:16. Sophomore Cooper Schroeder fell in third place, not too far behind with the time of 16:32. These performances gave the boys team a first place overall finish as well.

Due to some over workings, Jackson had not competed in any of this season’s meets before this one. “[I] worked myself into the ground over the end of track season -- beginning of summer -- and

I got into really good shape, and it all started affecting my body negatively” Jackson said. “Just a little bit of over training, I would call it.”

The rest of the team is benefiting from Jackson being able to run again.

“He helps our team score way down and just overall a better team together,” Cooper said.

“But we have lots of guys that are working really hard at practice and its just awesome.”

Both teams hope to hold a strong lead throughout the rest of the

season.

“Hopefully we can go out and win league, and then keep it moving to regionals, and state, and then try to get podium top three at state,” Cooper said.

The team hopes to cut down on the overall pack time leading into the Haskell Invitational next week.

“I think we are gonna keep getting better and keep progressing,” Jackson said. “[We’ll] try to, hopefully, work on our packed time -- get it down a little bit,” Jackson said.

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Features

GSA makes posters to spread awareness savannah cherms

Entertainment Editor

Manhattan High’s GayStraight Alliance is sticking to their plans. The club’s goal is to spread awareness about the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community, and they are succeeding.

The club has made signs to hang around the school throughout the month of October. The posters are to help celebrate LGBT awareness month.

“We made [the signs] to inform people about the movement and what it represents, and what gay rights mean to us,” sophomore Martina Hernadez said. “I hope people will gain more knowledge and start understanding how we feel.”

The signs were all made by the members of the club, and the idea was thrown out by one of the club’s sponsors. According to GSA’s president sophomore Kylie Alexander, the idea was collectively voted on by the club.

“We’re hoping that people will realize that your peers might be any sort of sexual orientation and to keep them in mind, and to be careful about what you say because you never know how it will affect people,” Alexander said.

As for the rest of LGBT awareness month, the club plans on giving some presentations on the spectrum that is sexuality, gender and even romantic attraction.

Top: GSA club president Kylie Alexander, sophomore, listens as club members shout out their opinions on some opportunities the club was given. The club soon after got started on creating their posters.

Left: Sophomores Kylie Alexander and Myra Rivera quickly brief with GSA sponsor Jeanne Disney about some opportunites for the club, before a meeting. Alexander is the president of GSA, and Rivera the secretary.

Right: Junior Allison Clauss sketches out her poster for GSA. Clauss’s poster had hearts with diffrent sexualities written in them in diferent colors. Clauss was also a member of GSA last year.

PHOTOS BY savannah cherms

Filmmakers Club geared towards autistic students anna hupp

Staff Writer

“I don’t know that there is a film club ... Is there a film club?” Manhattan High School security guard Carlos Gonzales said when asked of the club’s whereabouts.

In fact, there is a film club. A club of two members, albeit, but a club still.

Filmmakers meets every Thursday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Manhattan High East Campus’ Little Theater. It focuses on acting and moviemaking.

According to the USD 383 website, Filmmakers is catered towards students somewhere on the autism spectrum. The USD 383 website also states that middle-schoolers, along with high-schoolers, can join the club.

“The club is about working on being able to do different voices, how

to act and stuff like that,” freshman Jodi Matta said.

“It’s early in the year so we’re still working on basics,” Filmmakers’ lead teacher Ellen Burke said. “But as time goes on we will start working on film.”

Last year Filmmakers created a mock commercial. This year’s end goal is more auspicious: a movie. There is currently no target date for the movie’s completion.

On Thursday, the club warmed up by describing the members’ days in languages they made up on the spot. This forced club members to communicate using body language and tone. (Matta croaked like a raptor.) Filmmakers decided that the movie will be about people trapped in a video game and looked for songs to use in said movie. Finally, club members watched two videos: one in an

imaginary language and one silent. Afterwards, they discussed what they thought the events in each video were and the feelings the videos conveyed.

Club members were confident and upbeat when describing what they thought of Filmmakers.

“There’s fun that comes out of making the movies, dressing up and everything like that,” Matta said.

“I’ve acted all my life, and this is a natural combination of teaching and acting,” Burke said. “I also get to bring in a lot of watching film, which I love!”

“I’ve never done anything like this before so it’s a good experience for me,” assistant club leader Sherry Brown said.

“I think it [the club] will have a good outcome.”

Gifted freshmen learn of college opportunities TRACY LE

News Editor Gathered in SPED Gifted Facilitator Kate Moore’s classroom on Sept. 29 at 1 p.m., gifted students eagerly listened to a speaker from the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science at Fort Hays State University.

“The KAMS program itself is an academic school year program for the junior and senior year. It involves students who are interested in and are willing -- with their family, including their families being interested and willing -- to leave Manhattan, go to Fort Hays State University and live on campus where they take a full

BSU FROM PAGE 1 things you have in this world is your name and your word. Your name, because that’s what people identify you with-that’s your identity.

My last name is Taylor so people might know me as Mr. Taylor, ‘okay yeah I know him, I know where’s he’s from and I know what he’s about’ and your word, if you say you’re going to do something, you have to do it, you know?”

Taylor also noted that your name and your word go hand in hand. If you’re word goes down, your name goes down and vice versa.

“When you make a commitment and you give your word to it, you have to follow through with it.

Because if you don’t, you start to fall from a chain of neglect, a chain of falling through your word

academic load,” Moore said. “It is an accelerated and compacted program that allows students to get two years of high school and two years of college simultaneously.”

Taking place in Fort Hays, high school students send in their applications for the program in February of their sophomore year in hopes of reaping the benefits of a cheap Associate of Arts degree and high school diploma. This is difficult for students to achieve due to the program being very elite, accepting only 25 Kansans and five outof-state and country students to attend.

“Well, I think it’s an amazing opportunity for just the right student it

has a lot of mixed advantages with a few disadvantages,” Moore said.

The KAMS program, although far from home, allows students to gain college experience for prices much cheaper than what a senior would pay going in as a freshman. “[Participants] come out with basically 60 hours of college credit that they have not had to pay tuition and fees to get,” Moore said. “They do have to pay their living expenses, and that amounts to about $3,500 a semester. But that’s their dorm room, that’s all the living expenses and most of their food.”

and then people can’t depend on you and that’s when you’re name goes down.”

Taylor not only talked about why it was important to protect your identity, but that your future, especially college, and decisions depend on who you are and who you want to be. He mentioned that good habits have to start now so students easily achieve their goals in college.

“You’re your success and you’re your own failure. You’re your own worst enemy,” Taylor said. “Life is not a sprint, life is a marathon. Each day is a day you race, each day is a day you have to make a decision, ‘I’m going to be the best I can be. I’m going to be nothing less than my best self.’ Each day you have to give the most effort.

That means getting the most out of your classes.

You might not realize this now, but everything that you’re learning now, you’re going to have to use when you get to college.”

Furthermore, Taylor encouraged the members to get out of their comfort zone and continue to stay true to who they are as individuals.

“You’re going to have to stop having to be scared of who you are, but just be who you are,” Taylor said. “So don’t get caught up in, ‘somebody wants me to be this, somebody wants me to be that, my parents want me to be this’, people want the best for you, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they know the best way. You’re going to have to pick out what’s the best way for you.”

Taylor also emphasized how building a good reputation and treating people with respect will

AFS participates in Medicine Lodge parade jordan lutz

the treaty signing. But it now includes foreign exchange students in Kansas.

“We were walking in the parade where we showed our flags from all the countries. There were a lot of other people in the parade like natives,” sophomore Catharine Knudsen said. “It went really long. Two hours where they were riding on horses and were shooting all the time.”

Despite the long pa-

rade, the exchange students enjoyed having the opportunity to learn more about American culture and even meet people from other parts of the world.

“It was nice meeting a person that come from another part of the world,” Noemi Facchetti said. “Then there was American food with corn and average turkey leg. Something real American. I liked that.”

school most days in the week, last week, to prepare and research.”

Despite their short amount of time to practice for the tournament, McClendon and Colburn’s hard work showed clearly.

“We worked well together, and we provided a sort of, like, a good balance as a team I think,” McClendon said. “I would just be radical and [Colburn] would be rational and then it’s like, yin and yang. It worked out well.”

Compared to the previous tournament that the team competed in two weeks ago, MHS debaters are clearly showing great improvement.

“As a whole I think we did better. This was definitely a different type of tournament than the one we went to two weekends ago,” Colburn said.

“I think we did better, I think most people were more confident going into it since it was everyone’s second tournament.”

tual MHS cheer team, the Powderpuff cheerleaders learned how to not only do the dances, but also perform them.

“It was not easy. It took a lot of time,” senior Bre Harrison said. “But hey, they pulled it off and did really good. It was difficult teaching them to perform.”

Doing stunts, dances and performing was a

challenge compared to the boys’ typical days.

“It’s a little different,” senior Darien Stokes said.

“It definitely stretched my comfort zone a little bit.”

As halftime came to a close, the girls retook the field.

“Our team just stayed positive,” Henry said. “We really worked together as a team and came together to win.”

Despite the blue team’s

30-12 win, not all was good as reports of hair pulling, elbowing, grabbing and choking came from both teams.

“There was a little bit of communication between the two teams that wasn’t so positive,” sophomore white team member Kaitlyn French said, “but other than that, I mean, it’s a game, so it was something to have fun with.”

help you go far.

“Never burn your bridges. I say that because there’s people I can still contact in high school and in their mind they’ll still say, ‘I remember Caleb, nice young man, always had manners, yes sir, no sir, yes ma’am, no ma’am’; simple things that I know go far. Just keeping a good report and your name is what I’m talking about. Your name and word -- people will gladly bend over backwards to help you.

So you never know what people know. So treat everybody equally [and] with the utmost respect.”

Taylor then closed his speech with a goal for each of the BSU members.

“Invite somebody new out of each class you go to [to a BSU meeting],” Taylor said. “Put your identity into action. The biggest reaction you can get out of someone is if

you introduce yourself.

You can’t be afraid to introduce [yourself]. You’re identity is who you are.

You can’t protect what you don’t value.”

Jamera Ewing, junior and president of BSU, enjoyed what Taylor discussed.

“I loved him,” Ewing said. “[He was] very inspirational [and] motivational because, like, I was getting really discouraged by the lack of participation but he kinda lifted my spirits and he had a lot of like very good things to say so I was really glad he came.”

Okere also resonated with the messages Taylor voiced.

“I really liked the guest speaker,” Okere said.

“He really encouraged me and I really liked the topic that he introduced us to. If you do not protect something, you do not value it. So that re-

ally opened my eyes into thinking, what are some things that I think that I value but I don’t protect, you know?

“I’m at the time in my life, you know, where I’m just like, ‘Okay, I need to figure out where I am and who I am in life.’ And, talking about stuff like this, I’m able to kind of contemplate, you know, about, like, ‘what am I doing?’ Am I doing this because, people are telling me I have to do this? Am I doing this because this is the societal norm? Or am I doing this because I actually care? Am I doing this because there’s a purpose? Because like the speaker said, everything that you do should have a purpose. And I don’t want to be going through the motions in life and just doing what people tell me, but actually doing things with a purpose.”

Staff Writer

On Sept. 27, members of the American Field Society took a trip to Medicine Lodge to meet other exchange students from all over Kansas. Together, they participated in the annual commemoration of the Treaty of Medicine Lodge. Held every five years, the original pageant only included farmers and workers who reenacted

DEBATE FROM PAGE 1 ment,” Colburn said.

Only having one week to prepare for the tournament, Colburn and McClendon spent most of their time working to succeed as a pair.

“I was with a different partner than I usually am, so I was pretty nervous about the tournament,” Colburn said. “We did two practice debates against other teams from our school to prepare for it, then we went after

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Bright spots found on surface of ceres

Intense solar flares pose threat According to Space.com, an intense solar flare burst from a sun spot and took out lowfrequency radio communications over South America and the Atlantic Ocean earlier last week. The explosion released extreme ultraviolet radiation that covered Earth and supercharged the atmosphere. There is a chance of more solar flares from that spot in the future as well as from another sun spot that is similar but will have greater effects.

Chasm found on Charon

W ater discovery sparks questions of life on Mars The news went crazy after NASA announced that they have discovered water on Mars. The new discovery sparked the question of whether or not Mars would ever be habitable. NASA answered some popular questions in an interview with Quartz. While this has not been proven impossible, there are a few things about the new discovery that you should know. NASA has not seen liquid water on Mars.

If there is, it’s not flowing. It isn’t clear where the water is coming from yet, but so far there are two options -- the salts are soaking up water from the atmosphere, or it’s from below the surface. The rover can’t access the areas that water exists in because they are on steep slopes and the chance that Earth life could contaminate it is too great. NASA is hoping to have humans in the vicinity of Mars in the early 2030s and to the surface later that decade.

Mysterious ripples in Saturn’s rings raise suspicion

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The mysterious innards of this Gas Giant are slowly being uncovered due to unusual ripples in Saturn’s rings. The rings, which are mostly made out of rock and ice, have all kinds of stuff going on including waves that ricochet outward due to the gravitational pull of Saturn’s 62 moons. This is all normal. The kicker here though is that for some reason, there is a set of waves moving inward.

This set of waves moving inward insinuates that there is something moving inside of the rings. Researchers first noticed these ripples in the ‘90s but they still haven’t figured it out.

“The one thing that might produce this [series of waves] is that some sort of disturbance inside Saturn itself is spinning around with a period that’s less than seven hours,” Phillip Nicholson, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in New York, told Space.com.

During NASA’s New Horizons historic flyby in July, images of Pluto’s big moon Charon revealed a more than 1,000 mile wide chasm on the moon’s surface. The mission’s team members put the images together in a video which was released the past weekend. The chasm is at least four times longer than the Grand Canyon and twice as deep in some areas.

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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has remapped Ceres and portrayed its pyramid-shaped mountain and bright spots in a new light. The mountain rises about four miles into space from Ceres’ surface. The new maps also show the 56-mile-wide Occator crater, which is home to the most luminescent of Ceres’ bright spots.