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Chick-fil-A partners with MHS, provides leadership opportunity to students Junior Bella Musselman watches senior Kinsey Levendofsky scoop rice into a bag held by sophomore Christian Vazquez. during the first Chick-Fil-A Leader Academy meeting Friday. All together, students make 75 food bages complete with instructions that will be going to families in need across eastern Kansas. PHOTO BY ALYSE MAENDER
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Security officer Randy Nivert writes a ticket for invalid parking. Tickets can be administered for anything from parking in the wrong lot to not having a permit. PHOTO BY CORA ASTIN
The recent issue of parking tickets has caused a civil studentsversus-staff dispute. With many of the school’s population driving, the parking lots can become hectic at times, especially in the morning when students are rushing to find a decent space to park before the first bell. The pressure of getting to class on time drives students to park anywhere available, including the faculty lot. Parking in the faculty lot then leads the staff to park anywhere available too, causing disorder among the lots. “If kids don’t get tick-
ets they think they can park anywhere,” security officer Randy Nivert said. Both parties are getting defensive over whose lot is whose. Students and staff are equally aware of the lack of spaces available and both undoubtedly know the lack of parking is inadequate. “It’s definitely not suitable for the number of students that want to drive their personal vehicle,” principal Grey Hoyt said. The frustration of the student body doesn’t go unnoticed, but the staff’s side of this isn’t all great either. “Can students see why staff get frustrated
Chick-fil-A is known for production of the Spicy Chicken Sandwich -- and now leaders. The local restaurant is working with Manhattan High School teachers Darren Allman and Kristy Nyp to establish a ChickFil-A Leader Academy. The national program focuses on impact through action. “I think it is something that students can benefit from. They won’t regret doing it,” Allman said. “After all, they are helping the community.” In monthly “Leader Lab” students develop leadership skills. The cornerstone of the pro-
gram is the “Impact Project” in which students plan and lead a project within their community. During the first meeting at MHS, students met with the owner of the local Chick-fil-A and put together 75 food packages for the community. “We’re doing it for people who need it and to help make a difference in this community that needs it so desperately,” member Christian Vazquez said. Though it was only the first meeting, junior Bella Musselman already feels she is making an impact. “We’re doing it for a good cause and it helps me not take for granted what I do have,” Musselman said.
Roberson wins award for student teacher work
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if students are parking in faculty spots?” Hoyt said. Some students are questioning the purpose for distinct lots altogether. “Why does faculty need three lots? There are way more students,” senior Hannah Johnson said. Students, along with their parents, have found a few loose ends in the rules of parking as well, including justice for those parking without a permit. “The problem is they’re giving people with actual parking passes tickets,” Johnson said. Many students have also pointed out the SEE PARKING ON PAGE 5
Accompanying teachers throughout two semesters, student teachers have become commonplace in the halls and classrooms of high schools. English teacher MaryKris Roberson has made it her goal to leave these student teachers with as many tools for education as possible. All of her hard work has paid off in the form of the award that she was recently nominated for and successfully won. “It’s called the Distinguished Cooperating Teaching Award,” Roberson said. “It’s an award for service to the profession of teaching, meaning that for my work with student interns and Block II students and all sorts of KSU students and the college of education as they’re on their path toward their goal of professional certification.” Over her long
teaching career, Roberson has had numerous student teachers who have both challenged and rewarded her, but what has not changed is her close bond with them. “I have had about 16 student teachers and that’s a big number for me because I don’t usually like to give up my students and let someone else work with them because I’m very maternal when it comes to my students,” Roberson said. Though on the surface the emotional attachment seems like the hardest part of having a student teacher, it also lies in the leadership side of it. “A lot of people when I tell someone outside of teaching that I have a student teacher they’re like ‘oh then your job’s super easy right now because you have someone else doing it for you’ but it really isn’t easy to have a student teacher and to work with a student teacher because you basically have to teach someone else your job and help them think about what they need to do to make sure
that nothing is lost for your students,” Roberson said. Even with this challenge, Roberson enjoys not only teaching the future teachers, but learning from them as well. “It’s just this symbiotic relationship where we all build our learning from each other and that’s what makes it so wonderful,” Roberson said, “Learning just isn’t a one way street, it’s a great experience for me as a cooperating teacher because it helps me construct and model and instill good teaching methods for my student teachers and to learn from them too.” Roberson has been brought up to speed on pop culture thanks to her student teachers. “They keep me current with pop references, with films, with literature and music and all of the things that seep into the classroom,” Roberson said, “That’s a good way to stay current and relevant for my own students, as well as teaching me about technology and technological advancements when it comes to teaching.”
Chess club officially back as interest group with new sponsor DAVID FLITER ONLINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Chess Club started off the school year as simply a hopeful returning interest group, but now near the close of the first quarter, their status as such has been recognized and the game of chess lives on in the hands of the passionate students involved. While mostly a social
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club, Chess Club wishes to rank up to the full status as an actual fully functioning club by doing fundraisers and reaching out to the community. “We’ll probably do a concessions stand,” president Yusuf Cifcti said .”The middle schools don’t have a chess club right now so we’ll probably go to a middle school and talk to them about chess and get a club started there.”
Even with only two meetings under their belt, they already have a loyal following from chess connoisseurs throughout each grade. “ I did it at the middle school when [U.S History teacher Darren] McCoy was there and it was really fun whenever I went,” junior Michael Kovar said “I don’t get a lot of chances to play chess so it’s fun to have other people to play
chess with after school” Chess club is sponsored by McCoy, formerly a middle school chess club sponsor, and a passionate leader of his group of budding strategists. “Chess is awesome,” McCoy said “Students just want an area where they can compete, have fun, enjoy the game,
LIBYAN REFUGEES RESCUED
NEW DINOSAUR DISCOVERED
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES END
Organizations including the European Union Naval Force came to the rescue of an approximated 3,300 migrants off the coast of Libya traveling the Central Mediterranean sea route, a perilous path for the unstable boats.
The Savannasaurus, reported this week in western Australia, was a dinosaur species that roamed earth nearly 95 million years ago. Paleontologists determined that the dinosaur was between 12 and 15 meters long.
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Wednesday’s presidential debate was the final one for this general election. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump squared off Las Vegas, Nevada and discussed topics such as the Supreme Court, border security and their respective charity foundations.
Seniors Erick Echegaray and Zachary Culbertson play a game of chess during a chess club meeting. PHOTO BY SAVANNAH CHERMS
CYBERATTACK TARGETS RUSSIA An American hacker under the alias of “The Jester” surpassed encryption and accessed the webpage of the Russian government ministry on Friday. He posted his own opinions on the website and sent threats to Vladimir Putin.
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Topeka West -- Oct. 21-22 - Juniors Lily Colburn and Maeisha Hossain went 3-2 - Juniors Douglas Kim and Martina Hernandez finished 3-2 - Senior Sean McGimpsey and freshman Trinity Brockman ended 4-1 - Open Division made it to and got out in quarter finals
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In a setting where one is constantly told that they are free and their speech is free, liberty and freedom have unique role: one with hypocritical complexity. The role and understanding of free speech in our family, our community, our country and especially to ourselves can vary in written rule, in spirit and objective morality. The third week of October is known as “Free Speech Week,” a national event that recognizes every person’s right to freedom of speech, however different, and recognizes the press, however corrupt. The occasion surges the typical question, how free is free speech? While countless things could fall in that territory, two main topics highlight
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the contemporary conversation: the intrigue and mystery of whistleblowers and their role in a society with freedom of speech, and the line between censoring hatespeech and restraining the freedom to speak as you please. The Mentor Editorial Board, although diverse and divided in thought, agreed that whistleblowers -- rule-breakers of sorts -- are necessary in a nation that promotes itself as the ultimate home of liberty. Like any other responsible citizens, and though there are exceptions to particular whistleblowers, most of the people who release information to the public do it for the good of the people around them. The intent is to control and autocheck the power that
we cannot see, the rules that we do not know, the invisible chains that are put upon us by the individuals we elect to power. Whistleblowers for the most part don’t commit treason but on the other hand they provide us the information to become even more aware of the power we hold, as well as the one held over us. Every right comes with an asterisk, and all those asterisks should be explored and exploited when it comes to educating the people on information kept from them. That invisible power surrounding our every move is not only government but media, specifically the press. Scandals from many campaigns have spread but none as unnoticed and impor-
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We are more than ‘millennials’ MIRA BHANDARI COPY EDITOR
In a world of unfortunately broad generalization and stereotyping, our entire generation has been dubbed with the term “millennial.” We are now seen not as individual young people with separate dreams and different marks to make on the world, but as one group of so-called entitled and selfrighteous children. Originally, the word was used with a positive connotation. “Millennial” was synonymous to idealistic and visionary. However, it was first used to describe individuals who reach young adulthood during years around the second millennium in the 1987 book “Millennials Rising” by Neil Howe and William Strauss. Today the word has been mutated into a term that keeps young people trapped in a metaphorical box of labels and bias. A claim often made by older generations that coined the term “millenPrint Editor-in-Chief -- Angie Moss News Editor -- Angie Moss Online Editor-in-Chief -- David Fliter Opinions Editor -- Erick Echegaray Features Editor -- Elizabeth Alexander Sports Editor -- Jacob Clanton
nial” is that technology has made us codependent. That having a world of information at our fingertips is making us lazy. But isn’t that the point of technological advances? To cultivate new ideas and machinery that make necessary tasks more convenient? In fact, the tech-savvy upbringing of many millennials has allowed
group of individuals to blame all of their qualms with the world on. In the United States, this generation is one of the most diverse in history, with different ethnic backgrounds, financial statuses and who we are as people. Comparing all millennials in the same way is like comparing apples to oranges. It’s true that we have grown up in an Internetbased society, but that does not auGRAPHIC BY tomatically mean VANESSA GUVELE that all young people have access to the Internet. This applies to everything. Millennials are often called “spoiled” and too accustomed to hearing “yes,” and maybe some of us are. But there are large handfuls of people who have faced burdening personal battles. Mental illness, financial instability and prejudice are just a few of the overwhelming number of problems that many their minds to develop millennials face. Without in a way that is strongly listening to the stories equipped for the new of every millennial from modern world. every possible walk of Millennials are art- life, it is impossible and ists, inventors, creators, outrageous to make thinkers and everything any generalized statein between. Everyone ments about this group is different and marvel- of 80 million future doclously unique, and the tors, lawyers, presidents only thing that is ac- and people who have complished by putting us the power to change the in a box is giving other world. people another general Entertainment Editor -- Preston Harrison Trending Editor -- Savannah Cherms Content Editor -- Anna Hupp Copy Editor -- Mira Bhandari Photo Editor -- Dylan Thomas Graphic Artists -- Elizabeth Alexander and Vanessa Guvele Business Manager-- Lily Colburn
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frequency and variation in its purpose and seriousness baffles even the most written rule, surprising with every single case. While it was argued that hate speech in all of its essence should be protected as free speech, mostly because of the literal definition of liberty, the truth is that in a modern and developed world, the ridiculously ignorant ability to verbally harm another human directly because of their ethnicity, race, sexuality, physical appearance or other feature should be separated from the supposed-righteous freedom we praise. A specific and purposeful verbal attack on a specific person should be a non-protected type of speech, one that should be evaluated
with care, but preyed upon because of its malicious intent. Although this country cannot give you total liberty, and while it can certainly give you death for treason, the laws and modernism of United States’ First Amendment should be appreciated for what it provides: one of the best atmospheres for freedom of expression in the history of humanity. Other people in different places don’t have the same luxury we have, yet that does not mean we should stop worrying about shaping a comfortable and ideal aura for everyone to express, inform and argue; no matter how impossible it may seem.
Domestic violence impacts everyone involved
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tant as the partnership of political campaigns with newspapers and news entities. When articles are edited for the favor of a campaign, when quotes are taken out because of the partnership between government and the people who are supposed to inform without extreme bias nor relate to the people they report about, the paradox becomes larger. How critique and regulate the people who critique, regulate and inform us of the powers that now control them as well? On the other side of speech lies the darker side of the human psyche, specifically when it comes to hate speech and its infinite forms and deliveries. Natural or unnatural, the
I was five years old, about to start Kindergarten and excited for the possibilities that starting school could give to me. By this point in my life, I knew the Mommy and Daddy never got along. I didn’t always understand why, but I knew that bad words were yelled quite often, and I knew that we had four holes in our walls from previous fights. The trailer that we lived in -- which h a p pened to be our fourth house that year -- was small in size. T h e w a l l s w e r e l i g h t b l u e . There was an opening in the wall that separated the living room and the kitchen, allowing you to look into either side. The ledge of that opening is where my blue Care Bear sat, and right next to that was the white chair that became my safe haven that night. As most fights begin, the one between my parents started with yelling expletives and derogatory statements at each other. Then the hitting, kicking, pushing, choking and punching began. I hid behind the chair for a majority of the fight and just listened to the sounds of struggle between the two. Eventually I had the courage to peek over the chair and saw my mother shove my father into the wall hard. Five holes. The next thing I saw was a bottle of ketchup being launched across the room, and then ricocheting off the wall, splatmann, Lauren Race and R.J. Walling. Videographers -- Gavin Larios, Chandler Mixon, and Hans Ahorro Kristy Nyp -- Adviser Distribution -- Thanks to Kim Schnee’s class - Caleb Barnes, Oscar Casas, Angel Cid, Charlie Dickey, Karl Drown, Rachel Efken, Terra Harvey, Lynne Jones, Colten Kirk, Josh Kohls,
tering all over my Care Bear. Six holes. I tried to remember what my preschool teacher told me to do when someone was being hurt. It was something with numbers. Three numbers. 911. I was supposed to call 911 when someone was being hurt, which is what was happening at that time. So I called, and waited for help to arrive. Scary people with guns came, took my parents away and I got to go spend the night in a strange building with adults that I didn’t know. A couple days later, my grandparents came and I got to stay with them for a really long time. That night defined my perception of relation-
extreme cases. Domestic violence includes emotional abuse. The expletives and derogatory statements that I mentioned earlier was a form of abuse in itself. Both forms of abuse also come with psychological effects that can’t ever be reversed. Living in constant fear of what your parent or significant other might do or say to you screws with your brain and can lead to anxiety, depression, paranoia and post-traumatic stress disorder. The harm isn’t limited to those directly involved either. I was a bystander and I still have nightmares about my parents’ fights. I have abandonment issues and it takes me unbelievable amounts of time to truly trust someone. Abuse isn’t exclusive to women, either. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Abuse, one in seven men have been abused by their partner at some point in their GRAPHIC BY lifetime. Men victims VANESSA GUVELE are too, and ships for the rest of my they need to be treated life. The fight instilled equally. a fear in me, and conIf you or someone you vinced me that all I can know is being abused expect from relation- in any way, encourage ships is abuse. As a five them to get help. Don’t year old, I learned what make them feel like domestic abuse was. I they’re being forced to learned that my entire report it, and don’t feel life consisted of domestic bad if they don’t listen violence all around me: to your pleas for them to between my parents, my get help. You can’t force sister and her boyfriend, people to get help if they my neighbors, my mom don’t want it. However, and her parents, my if the situation becomes mom and I. It was a re- potentially fatal, all bets peating cycle that never are off. Call the police ended, and it took me and do anything you can until I was a sophomore to get them out of harm’s in high school to really way. If you’re worried understand that that’s about confidentiality, not what a healthy rela- there’s a hotline you can tionship is. call at 1-800-799-7233 Domestic violence or visit thehotline.org. needs to be acknowlDomestic violence is edged and understood not to be taken lightly for all that it is, not just and should never be the physical aspect. brushed off. Take care Physical abuse is hor- of yourself, your friends rible and nobody de- and your family. It could serves it, but our bodies save lives. usually heal, except for Kahari Lowery, Allie Parker, Alesha Pearl, Megan Ritthisorn, Mythias Satterfield, Dave Sherwin, and Hannah Sullivan. The Mentor is published each Tuesday that school is in session at Manhattan High School, 2100 Poyntz Ave. Manhattan, Kan. Telephone (785) 587-2114. More than 1,000 Mentors
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MHS senior attends Princeton symposium ANNA HUPP COPY EDITOR
Emma Kellogg entered Princeton University for the first time. The buildings were ornate, of imposing stature and enclosed by trees. She had left the surrounding forest, but Kellogg still felt like she was lost in the woods. Kellogg attended the college’s Creative Arts and Humanities Symposium from Oct. 16-17. The event, which accepted 90 high school students based on letters of nomination from teachers or counselors, encouraged interest in those areas at Princeton. All expenses were paid by the college. In total, there were six seminars and eight workshops, but each student went to only two seminars and one workshop. After arriving Friday evening, Kellogg explored the campus with her host, a college freshman. “One of my favorite things about the campus is there’s a little study area -- it’s also one of my host’s favorite areas,” Kellogg said. “You go down some stairs into this cafe-type area, and there’s free cookies all the time. Students at Princeton are paid just to make cookies all day long to give the other students cookies for free, which would be an amazing job. And there were so many cool, giant, abstract sculptures all around Princeton, and the architecture was just so intricate and you really felt like you were art of a different time.
The inside of the dining hall, it looked like Harry Potter.” Later, Kellogg went to dinner at the dining hall, then went to her host’s dorm room to read a text for one of the seminars she would attend the next day. “There was actually an event that I missed out on because I didn’t look on the schedule enough,” she said. “Everyone was like, ‘oh this thing is so cool,’ and I was like, ‘oh.’” The next day, Kellogg went to the seminars and workshop. The seminars were both focused on language, the first of which was titled “Literary Translation as Collaboration.” There, Kellogg learned how the sounds of words affect translation. The class also discussed whether translating a work loses any of its original meaning or essence. The second seminar was communication through history. with examples, especially of letters of recommendation. “It was interesting to see those because a lot of them seemed quite silly,” she said. “It’s also interesting to see the way people communicated back then. Now you can just email a letter of recommendation to someone; back then they had to like travel, sometimes across the sea.” Experimental dance was the topic of Kellogg’s workshop. A Princeton professor taught the high schoolers some basics, like how to move in ways
A lecture hall in Princeton. Senior Emma Kellogg said the college’s architecture was intricate and seemed to transport her to another time. PHOTO COURTESY OF EMMA KELLOGG
that appeared “light” or “heavy.” After that, students partook in dance skits. For example, several groups selected three random parts of the body -- Kellogg’s group chose the head, right foot and eyebrows -- and a corner of the room or nearby area they felt spoke to them. Using those elements, they created the mini plays on their own. “We had four people in our group and there were four benches outside,” Kellogg said, “so we used that to our advantage and made a kind of skit based off that which was very primal and strange.” Their skit involved two students on top of and below a table, fighting a little tap war. At the end of the skit, the high schoolers who were on the bottom moved to the top. “All of the students that came- they were
so fully present in the dancing,” Kellogg said. “They really made some beautiful things and everyone was just really into it. We ranked which ones we wanted and drawing was my first choice for the workshop and dance was my second, but I am really glad I was put in the dance.” Why did Kellogg decide to attend the symposium? “It seemed like a really priceless experience to be able to have this opportunity to go to the school for free and be able to see a school that I probably never would have seen,” she said. “We also got to be a part of workshops and seminars involving the arts, which was a really amazing experience, to be able to have conversations with professors at Princeton that are involved in the arts and learn from them.”
AFS members enjoy spending time together JORDAN LUTZ BLUE M BUSINESS MANAGER
After scheduling issues las year, AFS made its trip to the Britt’s Farm Pumpkin Patch this year for their Fall Festival. With over 40 members there, all club members enjoyed the night of fire, s’mores and mazes. “I enjoyed it a lot,” senior club member Peri Carney said. “It was a lot of fun making s’mores and the hay ride, going back to where the bonfire was and the corn maze. The Scary Corn Maze was actually fun. I ate the dirt a little bit during the maze. I was trying to run away and
someone still had my hand so then I just fell straight into the ground. It was funny, I’m ok. It was fun, I’d do it again.” The AFS Fall Festival is held to help show exchange students some ways Americans celebrate autumn. “I think over in, around the world, there are actually different [fall] activities,” sponsor Tony Wichmann said. “So, Halloween and how we celebrate and so forth, gives [exchange students] exposure to how we celebrate Halloween. In some cases, we have actually had pumpkin carving contests.” With some help from
Japanese exchange student Kō Saito and Kathy Wichmann watch Saito’s host father, Tony Wichmann, attach one roasting stick to another in an attempt to get his marshmallows toasted properly while staying away from the hot fire. PHOTO BY JORDAN LUTZ
their adult chapter, AFS members were able to enjoy attempting to roast marshmallows over an intense bonfire. “Okay, that fire was so big so it was really hot,” Carney said. “It was really hard to find a good place to go, without getting too hot, to roast the marshmallows. There was like one spot because there was a tree trunk and there were other branches around it. So, we had to go around it and hide behind the big tree trunk so it wasn’t so hot but then that’s where all the smoke was going. So, it was fun. It was very interesting trying
to get around the heat and smoke.” The club members relaxed and bonded with each other around the fire as well as enjoy a night view away from the town’s lights. “Of course, I talked a lot with my friends,” junior exchange student Kō Saito said. “I loved the view in Manhattan. I saw sunset and a lot of stars and it was so awesome.”
Summer abroad provides oportunity for students ALYSE MAENDER STAFF WRITER
For some students, summer means relaxing on the couch with a cold treat and Netflix queued up, but for others summer is a chance to learn another culture. For summer 2017 tudents are offered an opportunity to travel to another country and immerse themselves in another culture. Earth science teacher Andrew Farmer is the group leader for this year’s trip to England and Ireland. During the trip, students will learn more about historical and geographical monuments and take a step out of their comfort zone. “Pretty much you’re thrown out right away and you learn how to order your own food, how to navigate the subway system. You learn how to get around, their culture, their traditions, as much as you can get in 10 days,” Farmer said. Usually, foreign language students at-
tend the school sponsored trips, but the location of England and Ireland eliminates the language barrier, allowing more students to possibly attend. This is hoped to expose students to a new setting and provide them an educational experience in a group setting, although in the past, student have been allowed to individually experience the country. “The majority of the time it’s in a group setting, it just depends on what the vibe is like,” Farmer said. “Last summer we had a couple kids that were independent for a couple of hours. The wanted to go to the beach or go shopping or took a tour by themselves.” Spots are still available to England and Ireland if students are certain they want to attend and planning for summer 2018 trip to Greece and Italy are underway. For more information, speak to Farmer in room D201.
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The girls golf team was flowing with emotion as they prepared to go to the state golf tournament Oct. 17. The girls had their stomachs filled with excitement and butterflies as they left for their practice round at the Country Club of Leawood early the day before. After they arrived, they were able to play their practice round adjusting to the course and preparing for the tournament the next day. “The practice round is always helpful, you get to find your way around the course and figure out the best place to put your shots,” junior Delaney Wisdom said. “It also helps you figure out the highs and lows on the greens.” Along with the practice round that Sunday, the girls had plenty of laughs and had lots
of time together. They spent time in their hotel room listening to music, sharing dance tips and finally finished the night off with a dinner at Jack Stack Barbeque. “One of my favorite parts was just hanging out with the team and enjoying all the experiences,” sophomore Camy McAtee said. “It was especially fun to go back to our hotel rooms and listen to my fire playlist.” When the team woke up Monday morning, the girls knew it was time to get down to business and go out and play their best. The team had some struggles throughout the day although they were able to finish in fifth place, just one spot behind their finish last year. “We didn’t necessarily play bad as a team, but obviously not quite good enough to bring home a trophy,” head coach Chris George said. “The
ball just didn’t bounce our way today.” Junior Macie Myers played the best for the team shooting an eightytwo which was good enough to secure her the third place medal. “When [Myers] finally got in the groove on the back half, which is much more challenging than the front, she looked as good as she has all year,” George said. “That’s quite an accomplishment given the windy conditions, a challenging course, and the big stage of the state tournament.” With the state tournament finished, the girls golf team’s season is finished as well. It is a season that they can be proud of but it also leaves plenty of room for improvement and, as the team has no seniors, all the girls will be back next year looking to improve in every way possible.
ond place finish, while freshman Matthew Pickering and junior Cooper Schroeder followed with fourth and fifth place finishes. “I think we have what we need for state, we just need to mentally be prepared and be ready on race day and put out what we have. ” Logback said. “We have the miles in the bank, it’s just we need to use what we have, and go put it out there.”
The girls cross country team had a second place finish. Head coach Susan Melgares said she is pleased with how the girls are pack running more with the fourththrough sixth-place runners getting closer together. The object of the regional meet is to survive and advance to state. The Manhattan teams not only survived, they thrived throughout the meet. “Both teams came to
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Volleyball swings into state tourney JORDAN LUTZ BLUE M BUSINESS MANAGER
Preparing all season for this event, the Lady Indians volleyball has found themselves approaching state once again. Competing in sub-state on Saturday in Lawrence, the girls won their bracket thus earning a spot at state this Friday in Topeka. The team’s first match was against neighboring rival, Junction City. Keeping their opponents under 20 points, Manhattan swept the match. The set scores were 25-17 and 25-19. “That was a pretty easy game,” junior setter Kenzie Smith said. “We knew what we were coming into. We knew we had that one in the bag, we should’ve, and we did.” Their second match
was played against Wichita East. The winner would go to state. MHS swept this match as well, winning 25-20 and 2519. “I just think we played hard in both matches,” senior middle blocker Gigi McAtee said. “We finished, we struggled with that this year. We beat them both in two [sets].” Despite the wins, there was some difficulty within the team. “We had a lot of new younger girls who had never been to substate,” Smith said. “So, it was a lot of adjustments, changing into positions and just the environment. We’re really excited about going to state.” Despite this, the team is optimistic about their chances of winning. “I think we have a really good shot at making it to Saturday and just competing really well in
this state tournament,” McAtee said. “We definitely got the side of the bracket we wanted without [Lawrence] Free State and Blue Valley West. So we really need to take advantage of that and play like we can on Friday.” Manhattan’s first match will be against Garden City. “We’ve never played [Garden City],” Smith said. “I feel like it’ll be different but I feel that we’ll take care of business with them. Our hardest [match] will probably be [Olathe Northwest]. Our seeding is alright. We’re six out of like eight, I think. It’s not terrible but it put us in a good position. Garden City is actually good, obviously, but they don’t have a good league. So I think we’re going to be okay when we’re in a good league.”
Cross Country runs through regional meet, prepares to run at state meet
Football caps perfect regular season with win JACOB CLANTON SPORTS EDITOR
Thanks to a big second and third quarter, Manhattan (8-0) beat Blue Valley Northwest (2-6) 45-21. With the win, Manhattan finished the regular season undefeated and secured the number two seed in the west. “Coming in, for the seniors, [going undefeated] was kind of a pretty big goal of ours,” senior quarterback Ian Trapp said. “It’s kind of the first goal on a list of a lot that we wanted to accomplish. It just feels good to come to the end of the regular season with [an undefeated record].” Though MHS would win the game, a slow start nearly upended the perfection. After forcing a punt from BVNW on its first drive, Manhattan managed to gain a few yards before an uncharacteristic fumble from Trapp gave the Huskies the ball back. BVNW would take advantage, going 49 yards in five plays to score a touchdown, taking a 7-0 lead early. The Indians tried to respond, driving nearly 50 yards before being stuffed on fourth down. They ran into some
trouble the play before though, as senior center Wes Conrow went down, forcing him to come out of the game, though he would be back two drives later. “[As I was blocking], whenever Tariq [Gerald, senior] got tackled,” Conrow said, “one of the guy’s legs like swung out and kind of whipped me in the leg and the whole
credit the O-line. They opened up huge holes, [and] the field was wide open the whole game. [However], I don’t really want to focus on stats, all that really matters is winning.” The touchdown got Manhattan started as it would score two more touchdowns before halftime. Senior Iverson Robb would run one in,
next touchdown came on the ensuing kickoff, as the Indian kickoff team forced a BVNW fumble that junior kicker Tyresse Gerald recovered and ran back 25 yards for a touchdown. Next week, Manhattan hosts Wichita Southeast (1-7), a team coached by Manhattan head coach Joe Schartz’s brother, John, to open the playoffs. Thus, any game could be the last for this year’s seniors. However, Joe Schartz’s advice to the team is to relax and enjoy. “I told the kids to take a deep breath and enjoy it,” Joe Schartz said. “One thing that we don’t want to do going forward is hold on to tightly, we need to enjoy this, we need to enjoy this time together, and these kids have worked hard and created a bond that they’re going to remember the rest of their lives. [The] main thing is now let’s keep it going and for them to enjoy the experience.”
Senior Cara Melgares works to stay in front of her opponent on the last stretch of the race. PHOTO BY DYLAN THOMAS
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The Manhattan High cross country teams ran through the regional meet this weekend and have a head of steam going into the state meet next Saturday. The boys cross country team beat out their competition placing first and have three top- five finishers. Junior Logan Logback led the way for the Indians with a sec-
play today, the girls and the boys,” Melgares said. “I believe both teams are in the right mindset for the state meet and with the girls finishing in second, they will be hungry for first place.” The girls team will be looking to repeat their state champion status while the boys are trying to beat out their fourth place finish from last year. The state meet is next Saturday in Lawrence.
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Not every day do you get to lead your team in victory. Junior Logan Logback experienced that this week, finishing in second place at the regional cross country meet helping lead the Manhattan boys team to a first-place finish. “It feels pretty good,” Logback said. “We worked together a lot more this week. Now I think we’re getting
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• second at regional meet • part of first regional team ready for state.” A faster race this week let Logback feel more confident heading into the state meet next week. “I ran a lot slower [last week] than I did this week,” Logback said, “so it’s just a real moral booster. Just putting a time down like that, I feel a lot better going into state.”
Tennis ends season with state MEGAN KLUG BLUE M EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
pile came down [on my leg].” Manhattan would be successful on its next attempt to score, as Trapp ran the ball in for a touchdown, tying the game up at 7. Trapp would finish the game with 283 yards and three touchdowns on 28 attempts rushing, passing the 1000-yard mark on the season. “It feels good,” Trapp said, “but you got to
and Trapp would complete a 32-yard pass to senior wide receiver Jonathon Taylor for the other score. Robb would run for 63 yards in the game, though that would be Taylor’s only catch. MHS came out of the gate firing in the second half, scoring 14 points in 10 seconds. The first score came off of Trapp’s feet, as he put the final touches on the first drive of the second half. The
Junior Reece Wewer makes a move to get past the BVNW defender. PHOTO BY BHAWANTHA NILAWEERA
The girls tennis team travelled to Topeka on Friday to compete in the state tournament. Both doubles teams, senior Lauren Robben and junior Olivia Belin, and junior Neely Joyce and freshman Joanna Park, went 0-2 for the day. In addition, freshman Kira Schartz also went 0-2. Although this result was not the way the team wanted to end the season, they were all honored and excited that they were given the opportunity to go at all. It was the first state appearance for all of the team members, and Robben’s last. As a senior, she took this opportunity as a great farewell to her team and the ten-
that has proved its existence at and away from home. Not only did the once 0-4 Indians move forward without loss throughout the matches, they have now achieved a winning season going into the playoffs. With victories against Highland Park, Topeka West and Topeka High,
all which went 3-0, 9-1 and 3-0 respectively, the Indians moved onto their final regular season match against rival Junction City, a match that would decide if MHS would play at home again this season. Manhattan managed to score the 1-0 before halftime and later would
score 3 more against the Blue Jays’ one to come out victorious 4-1. “Winning this game, it was guaranteed to play another game here, so thankfully I have another game [at Bishop]. Hopefully we can bring in another regional championship,” senior defender Conall Root said.
With a 8-6-2 record to finish the season, the Indians look forward to the playoffs, forgetting the early struggles of the regular season and focusing on what happens on the field. “It’s great to be at .500 but we can play a lot better,” head coach Frank Alonso said. “Dur-
nis program at MHS. “I want to leave my legacy as a tennis player behind and be an example for the future tennis players,” Robben said. “It was a real honor [to make it to state.]” Working together, the team was able to land a spot in the state tournament. Throughout the season the girls worked together to progress their skill level and competitiveness with other teams in order to present the chance of going to state. The overall feeling of the season, regardless of the state final rank, was positive. “I felt really good about our season because last year we really didn’t do that well,” Robben said. “This year we took a big step forward, especially considering how young our team was.”
Soccer heads into playoffs with newfound resilience, completes season with win ERICK ECHEGARAY OPINIONS EDITOR
A certain resilience, a new epoch in the story. A week consisting of three back-to-back matches had the Manhattan High School soccer team entranced in a spree like it has not yet seen this year, an unbeaten streak
ing playoff time we need to ratchet up and play better. That’s where we are at right now and the truth is we are better than that. We need to play with some intensity and some passion and SEE SOCCER ON PAGE 5
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Gears of War 4 is a score JEREMY WOOLEVER STAFF WRITER
Gears of War 4 released earlier this month after much anticipation and anxiousness, as the gargantuan IP has a new team at the helm of it. The story picks up 25 years after the catastrophic events of Gears of War 3 in the eyes of JD, Marcus’ son, as he puts on the shoes of his father to combat a whole new nightmare; the Swarm. JD, however, does not fight alone. Right after the prologue you’re introduced to his two comrades, Kate and Del. Interestingly enough, the story doesn’t begin with the world being torn apart by monsters rising from the planets torn crust, like every other title in the series prior.. Instead, it begins with a majorly outnumbered fight against the COG’s relentless Dee Bees well through almost half the game. It starts out as a fight for survival for the Stranded village, but soon turns into a full assault on the way to find JD’s dad for help. Graphically, even on console, this game is beautiful. Unreal Engine 4 displays at its highest, with crisp, detailed textures, a plethora of expansive and atmospheric lighting, and insanely detailed set pieces. In engine cut scenes that close in on characters blew me away with the incredible amount of precise detail, from dirtsmeared faces run down with rain drops, to faded silver slivers of cuts and scratches all over armor. The sound effects are spectacular too, with heavy bass that practically smacks you. It only gets better since it sup-
ports and uses subwoofers, if you’re playing in a home theater setting. The gameplay is true to the original series, but brings new concepts to the table to keep it fresh. A floor sweeping of new weapons have been brought in, ranging from COG firearms designed for their robot infantry, to fun industrial weapons such as the Buzzkill. A welcome change that cuts down the time needed to saw enemies through is the new execution system triggered by vaulting over cover into enemies, or pulling them over said cover. Once accomplished, you’re instantly given a prompt to hold Y, which starts various brutal executions with the knife. Interestingly it’s not a skill exclusive to you, the Locust can execute you as well, and most times even counter you. An interesting dynamic introduced is the inclusion of the Locust alongside the Swarm. For the better part of the middle, the main grunts of the Swarm are better suited for cannon fodder, while their animal-like monsters do the bulk of the damage. They aren’t terribly great in combat, often preferring to run into your bullets than to suppress and flank you. The Locust however, are more vicious and tactical than ever. They’ll flood you out with grenades, and suppress you while sending 3 grunts charging at you to corner you and gun you down. The presence of both in a firefight will make things even more challenging. A beyond-superb title launching Coalition’s dive into the dark, unforgiving and desolate world of Gears of War.
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Mafia 3 has brutal, riveting story, bland missions
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After almost six years, “Mafia 3” has finally succeeded its predecessor in bringing mob violence to consoles and PC. While the story and combat are the most engrossing I have experienced in a game to date, the overall mission structures are dull, repetitive and uninspired. Still, the game is one of the few this year that has commanded my attention and that I have spent five to six hours playing just to get more of the story and to inflict mob justice in its sadistically entertaining form. The story centers around Lincoln Clay in the fictional depiction of New Orleans, known as New Bourdeaux. Clay is an African American Vietnam War veteran who
served with a special forces detachment. After he returns home from Vietnam midway through the war, Clay meets up with his stepbrother Ellis with the intention of resuming the life of the mafia. Before this can take off, Clay, Ellis, Clay’s adoptive father Sammy and a few of his close friends are backstabbed by a gang they pulled off a heist with. Lincoln, the sole survivor, teams up with his old friend, CIA agent John Donovan to take down those who slaughtered the ones he loved. The first point I would like to focus on is how historically accurate some facets of the game are. As the protagonist is an African American during the civil rights movement during the 1960s, he experiences extreme racism from those around him. It is common to be walking down a street in game and have a random NPC yell the N-word at you. Not
only this, but the presence of white-only establishments around the city almost sets you back in time to a much more close-minded America. I applaud the game developers for not ignoring or hiding the deplorable treatment that African Americans faced during an especially turbulent point in history. Due to the revengefueled storyline, “Mafia 3” is full of gut-wrenching ways to dispose of your enemies. In fact, this is probably the first game where I have physically cringed at the sight of what you can make Clay do to people. Whether it is jamming a suppressor in someone’s eye socket, or executing another with a shotgun, there is something for everyone when it comes to violence. The driving is another thing that I love about this game. It is so fluid, and nothing feels better than pulling off an insane drift while shooting an
enemy mobster in another car. The main thing that plagues the game is the lack of exciting missions or variation in general. It is pretty much entirely “go to this location and kill this man” or “drive this truck of illegal goods to this friendly area.” Even the main story missions are constructed like this. While this doesn’t take away from my enjoyment of the story, and I did enjoy hanging a mob boss from a ferris wheel, I still wish that there had been some sort of decent setup and not just violent satisfaction alone. “Mafia 3” at its core is a great game because of the thrilling, action packed story that I will be playing for a long time, but until the developers add some spice to the missions, I will remain unimpressed with it in that category.
New ‘Supernatural’ fails to impress, remains promising MIRA BHANDARI COPY EDITOR
W i n chester brought attention to the g e n t l e r, boyish side of D e a n W i n chester’s persona l i t y. It also further PHOTO COURTESY OF CWTV e m p h a sized, as “Supertion-packed season prenatural” often does, the mieres that immediately introduced another dark inescapability of being a force for Sam and Dean hunter, as after 33 years Winchester to spend the Mary Winchester is once rest of the season fight- again thrown into the ing heroically, this one life of clutching her fireinvolved more heart- arms and hunting down felt moments and fewer the wicked things that go “bump” in the night. monster showdowns. The return of Mary Once a hunter, always a
The season 12 premiere of the CW’s “Supernatural” was not the strong and intense kickoff that was expected from the suspenseful series, nor did it completely give satisfactory answers to the lingering questions from the fiery finale of season 11. However, the softer side of the series was portrayed while staying true to its thrilling roots, thus promising a unique season. Narrowly escaping death seems to be a developed talent for protagonists Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) since the beginning of the show. So much so, in fact, that the “coming-
back-from-the-dead” plot line became routine and predictable. Though in the last episode, we were all thrown for a loop when none other than the boys’ late mother, Mary Winchester (Samantha Smith), abandoned the grave. Unlike previous ac-
SOCCER FROM PAGE 4 above all they need to listen to the game plan. We’ve been doing this a long time, we know how to be successful.” Manhattan’s first regional match opponent
will be Wichita Northwest, a team which they played twice already this season and came winless from both games. In the chance that Manhattan wins and moves on, the next regional final will be played at Bishop Sta-
dium. “If we can make it to state, that would be nice, “ Root said, “but we’re three-time regional champions and we have to make it four.”
The staff is also aware of that concept but have a strong alibi. “There have been more permits sold than parking spots that are available and that’s in the student planner, and that’s always been that way,” Hoyt said.
Though the campus consists of limited parking, we’ve recently been granted some space by the zoo. “There’s room for 50 cars up there, kids just don’t want to walk quite as far as that is,” Nivert said.
PARKING FROM PAGE 1 amount of passes given for the limited spaces to park. “There’s too many people that have passes and not enough space,” Johnson said. CHESS FROM PAGE 1 learn and hang out with friends.” The club conducts a year long competition to see who is on top as far as wins go. “They’ll do a competition that would run
throughout the year to come out with a chess master,” McCoy said. Chess Club welcomes not only avid players, but new ones as well. Even if you are a novice the more experienced players offer helping hands, tips, strategies to depend on.
“Come see it, come check it out,” McCoy said. “it might be intimidating at first if you don’t know how to play so we’ll definitely show you how to play the game if you need to, but come check it out, come watch others play if anything.”
hunter is portrayed as a sad and inevitable truth throughout the series. The storylines involving other characters such as Crowley, the posh demon with a superiority complex, were vague and repetitive, even in the very few scenes that the subplot was showcased. Various other storylines were left completely unaddressed in the premiere, and were mentioned very briefly in the latest episode. However, a redeeming aspect of the new season is the mystery surrounding the British chapter house of the Winchester’s legacy, the Men of Letters, and if their intentions are noble or nefarious. Sam Winchester’s brutal kidnapping made it crystal clear
that no matter what their agenda is, they mean business. The brief backstory that was provided in the previous season finale ignited curiosity amongst viewers and continued to do so in the latest episodes. The premiere had the capability of more exciting encounters, but its purpose seemed to serve as a rather mundane transition episode after the high stakes of season 11. The backstory and small uncoverings of what the future holds for the Winchesters were vague and left many questions unanswered, but there is still hope remaining that season 12 can pick up with the next few episodes.
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It’s Halloween time
It’s finally here! Halloween is upon us and it’s time to get spooky. Bust out your favorite costumes, horror movies and all the candy one could eat before going into a sugar coma. The Mentor staff has almost everything you’ll need this Halloween season.
Bone-chilling urban legends to make you leave the lights on ELIZABETH ALEXANDER FEATURES EDITOR
1. The Russian Sleep Experiment Wanting to observe the effects of sleep deprivation, Soviet Russian scientists conducted an experiment. Sealing five human test subjects in chambers, they filled it with a simulated gas to keep the subjects awake. The experiment officially ended prematurely with the suicide of a few subjects due to insanity and another dying after being administered anesthetic at the hospital. The last two were shot by a researcher hosting the experiment. 2. The Funhouse Mummy The set of “The Six
Million Dollar Man,” a TV show filmed in the mid ‘70s, hosted a haunted house set at the NuPike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California. As staff members were moving The Hanging Man prop, its arm was knocked off, only to reveal human bones and muscle. The prop proved to be an actual corpse. The body was that of Elmer McCurdy, a man who had been shot after robbing a train in the early 1900s. 3. Kuchisake-onna, AKA “Slit-Mouthed Woman” A Japanese woman, mutilated by her husband, wears a surgical mask as she approaches lone people in the night. She will ask, “Am
I pretty?” If you answer no, she will kill you with scissors. If you answer y e s , she will re-
move h e r mask, revealing a gruesome grin, the corners of her mouth slashed to her ears. She will restate the question. If you answer no, she will slice you in half. If you answer yes, she will mutilate your face just the same as
hers with her scissors. 4. A Night in Vegas A couple honeymooning in Las Vegas checked into t h e i r hotel
to complain once more. They remained present for the second cleaning, only to watch as the cleaning staff flipped their mattress and reveal a dead body stuffed in the bed frame
room and were incredibly displeased with the odor. The manager offered to treat them to lunch while the maid cleaned upstairs. The couple returned, only
6. Teke-Teke A train accident left a young Japanese woman sliced in half, her death slow and painful. Now, her ghost roams the streets of Japan, known as Teke-Teke. She is known to follow people who are alone, but unlike Kuchisake-onna, she plays no tricks. Teke-Teke will charge her victim, the sound of her elbows scraping against the ground making a “teke teke” sound. Once close enough, she reveals a scythe, only to slice her victim in half,
making them just the same as her. 7. Mannequin or Mummy? Down in Chihuahua, Mexico, stands a little bridal shop, “La Popular.” Visitors from all over are drawn to this shop, but not for its extravagant dresses. Instead, they’re attracted to the mannequin that stands in the window. Her name is La Pascualita, and she often adorns a gorgeous wedding gown. However, her features are so incredibly realistic--such has having actual fingerprints on her hands, fingernails, varicose veins in her legs, and so on -- people are quite sure she is the well-preserved corpse of the original owner’s daughter.
Sweet, spooky party treats LILY COLBURN BUSINESS MANAGER
SPOOKY BOO BROWNIES Ingredients Brownies, prepared from scratch, mix, or store bought, completely cool 1 1/4 cups of white frosting 16 large marshmallows Black decorating gel or frosting. Instructions Cut brownies into squares slightly larger than the diameter of a large marshmallow. Heat frosting in microwavable bowl uncovered on High 30 seconds, stirring every 10 seconds, until frosting can be stirred smooth and fluid. If frosting becomes too firm while decorating, microwave 5 seconds; stir. Top each brownie with 1 large m a r s h m a l l o w. Spoon 1 tablespoon frosting over each marshmallow to coat. Let stand until frosting is set, about 30 minutes. Use black gel/frosting to make eyes and mouths. MONSTER PRETZELS Ingredients 1 bag mini pretzels 1 bag M&M’s candy, needing only the green ones
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circular candies- little pearls or Sixlets or any other type of round decoration green food coloring 2 bags White Chocolate chips, melted slowly 2 TBSP shortening or coconut oil, to thin out chocolate semi-sweet chocolate chips, for decorating the alien eyes (you’ll only need about 3-4 TBSP Instructions Melt your bag of chocolate with 1 TBSP shortening (or coconut oil) in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave the bowl 1 minute at a time, stirring after each minute, until completely melte d and
smooth. Add a few drops of green food coloring to one bowl. Dunk each pretzel into the green chocolate until completely coated. Place each onto a sheet of wax paper. Add melted semi-sweet chocolate to the coated pretzel and
place round candies on top to make eyeballs. Let pretzels harden completely and enjoy. HARVEST HASH I n - gredients Sauce: 3/4 cup Butter, melted 3 / 4 c u p Brown Sugar, packed 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract Mix: 1 box Rice Chex 1 bag of Goldfish 4 cups Pretzels 1 heaping cup Candy Corn 1 bag Reese’s Pieces Instructions Preheat the oven to 275°F. Melt the butter in the microwave in medium bowl or measuring cup. Add the brown sugar and vanilla extract and whisk well until combined and dissolved. In a VERY large bowl, add the Chex cereal, pretzels and Bugles. Pour the sauce over the cereal mixture and toss gently until evenly coated. Place coated mixture onto lined baking sheets and bake for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
Entertainment games, movies sure to send shivers down your spine DAVID FLITER ONLINE EDITOR IN CHIEF
“Insidious Chapter One”: Out of the trilogy, the first “Insidious” brings the most sinister atmosphere and best scares. The story revolves around a family that starts to experience paranormal occurrences. After bringing in a psychic, she reveals that it is not the house that is haunted, it is the couples son that is harboring a dangerous spirit. A solid story matched with excellent scares brings a terrifying Halloween movie. “The Babadook” This movie is equal parts strange and scary. Following the story of a widow and her son with behavioral issues, the child finds a strange
picture book on his bookshelf titled “The Babadook” illustrating a unsettling man in a trench coat and top hat who emerges from a child’s closet. After reading the book, the family starts to fall apart as the child’s behavior deteriorates and the mother’s mental state fades as a malevolent presence takes residence in their home. “Army of Darkness” The third movie in the “Evil Dead” series, Army of Darkness pits protagonist Ash all the way back in the middle ages as he fights his way through the ranks of monsters and skeletons in order to get back to the present. Though somewhat of a horror movie, Army of Darkness is an all around hilarious movie with class lines such as
“This! This is my boomstick,” as Ash frightens medieval citizens with his modern high powered shotgun. Cheesy, funny and full of gore, Army of Darkness is definitely a good pick for a fun halloween movie. “Tucker and Dale Vs Evil” A parody of multiple horror movie cliches, this movie focuses on two kind, if a bit dumb, rednecks who are taking a trip out to their newly purchased lakeside cabin. Sounds nice, right? However, a group of college kids convinces themselves that the two rednecks are coldblooded serial killers. Funny, but not scary in the slightest, this movie is a good one to put on if your halloween party consists of you and a bag of candy alone.
JEREMY WOOLEVER STAFF WRITER
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl Although not specifically horror, this RPG/ Shooter hybrid literally wrote the book on immersion and atmosphere. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. takes place in a world where the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 had such devastating effects as to practically create its own world, called the Zone. The world is dangerous at day, with packs of mutant animals waiting for you and bandits lying in wait for ambushes. But the night? It’s most certainly fatal. Take as many comrades as you want. They won’t save you from the Bloodsuckers. Grey Sweden is a scary place at night. Mix that
with a man who is tasked with finding his way through his deceased mother’s labyrinth of nightmares, and you’ve got one frightening horror title. Grey will have you leaving a deserted diner and entering abandoned basements filled with screeching arachnid baby dolls and temperamental kids fused into their trolleys with the sole objective of putting you to beddy-bye. Cry of Fear This title is another extremely popular modgone-standalone based on Half-Life’s GoldSource engine, a popular platform with modders. It’s also another title that takes place in Sweden, and developed by Swedes. This bad boy will have you sprinting back and forth in the then abandoned city of
Stockholm at night, trying to find an escape from the demons in your brain. A fair warning; this game is distinctly disturbing, and is certainly not for the faint of heart. SOMA From the developers of the widely popular title, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, comes a frightful experience under the sea. After losing consciousness in a CT machine, you wake up under the sea much further in the future to find that the surface of the world has been decimated by an asteroid. Moving through the claustrophobic spaces of an expansive underwater station, you’ll find yourself running from the atrocities of man, and contemplating humanity.