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GIRLS BASKETBALL MAKES HISTORY AT STATE JACOB CLANTON SPORTS EDITOR
At the beginning of the season, Manhattan High set a goal of winning the state championship. It can now check that off its list. “From the first day of summer, they had this as a goal,” head coach Scott Mall said. “This is what they were working for, which is something considering we’ve never even been in the championship game in their lifetimes. They set that as a goal, and they did what it took to get here.” The Lady Indians beat Derby 4442 in the 6A state championship to claim the title. The title is the first in Manhattan High
history. “It feels awesome [to make history],” junior Chrissy Carr said. “Our seniors will leave a legacy down here, so that’s awesome that Gigi [McAtee] and Kennedy [Wilson] and all those girls just left a good imprint in our school.” MHS came out firing in the first half, cruising to a 13-5 lead after the first quarter. “We were just hitting shots,” McAtee said. “Kennedy Brown [Derby sophomore] wasn’t doing much at all, and that was awesome. That was a big key, [the posts] stopping her. They frustrated her and that worked really well.”
Raise the trophy. Manhattan High celebrates its 6A state championship. MHS beat Derby 44-42 in the championship game. It is the first title in program history. PHOTO BY AARON HEMBY
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KSU field trip sparks Science Explorers’ interest MIRA BHANDARI COPY EDITOR
Much like its name implies, the Science Explorers Club is always on the lookout for opportunities to expose themselves to the vast and compelling scientific fields present in our world. They took part in one such opportunity last Thursday with a field trip to Kansas State University’s Biology Department. The club members visited with four KSU professors and gained new insights from the unique points of view that these experts offered in their respective fields. They also became aware of the types of projects the university is currently involved with regarding biology and ecology. “I think a lot of people see things like fish and plants to be kind of bor-
ing,” sophomore Carson Gido said. “But when you begin to study their physiology and the role they play in their environments, to me, they become very interesting, which is what we saw on the trip.” The trip as a whole was a hands-on experience where the students were able to see the atmosphere of the university’s biology department up close. They viewed plant specimens that are decades old, learned how to determine the age of a fish by observing the rings on its bones and learned about water transport in plants. According to sophomore Emily Vance, going to the biology department proved to be a valuable learning experience regardless of whether someone wants to pursue a future in
these fields. For other members, learning about ecology’s prominence in a real-world setting sparked long-lasting interest in the subject. “I’d like to go into ecology in college, and same with a few others in the club as well,” Gido said. Other important aspects of the experience for many members include the first-hand exposure to what a job in biology entails, the contributions scientists make to the modern world and how information on both the past and the future can find its roots in biology and science. “I think it was really interesting to see how these types of jobs are so important,” Vance said. “Because in the future we can look back and see what our world was like as far as plants and animals go.”
Field trip educates culinary students MEREDITH COMAS STAFF WRITER
What’s inside the kitchens of Manhattan? On Friday the culinary arts students of Manhattan High found out just that with a field trip inside some of Manhattan’s restaurants and food suppliers. “[The field trip] was for us to go around and see and tour the different types of kitchens that we could be working in,” senior Austin Gonzales said. Students took the day off school to visit the kitchens of Hy-Vee, Chick-fil-A, Kansas State University and Carlos O’Kelly’s, giving them a variety of different kitchen types to explore. While at Hy-Vee,
the students learned how the staff set up their kitchen and followed safety procedures. They also learned the importance of fresh food for the customer and the many safety regulations restaurants must abide to. “This all surprised me because I would have thought that everything was frozen and the employees then reheated it, then served the food to the customers,” junior Rachel Phillips said, “and I was always concerned about buying food from grocery stores that have dining within them due to food items being out of date. It was great to find out that Hy-Vee cares so much about their customers.” The restaurants took students on tours inside
the kitchens to allow them to see how kitchens run in a large restaurant. “I’m going into culinary myself as a profession and I look to own a restaurant and cook in it as well, so looking at all the things that go into a good restaurant work is great,” Gonzalez said. Students were also given a glance at the research facilities of KSU. This allowed students to learn further what goes into the culinary arts besides simply cooking and baking. Not only were they allowed to tour the research rooms, but students were also allowed to sample the
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Chick-fil-A Leader Academy to fundraise for custodian’s son injured in car accident ANGIE MOSS PRINT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
One of Manhattan High’s own night custodians, Tiarra Harris, experienced the unthinkable. Her uncle, Gary Harris, suffered a heart attack at the wheel while transporting her son Devin Busick, an eighth grader
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at Eisenhower Middle School, causing him to lose control of the car. The vehicle eventually landed the two in a creek bed, severely injured. After being transported to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan, Gary passed away and Busick was life-flighted to Stormont-Vail in Tope-
ka for serious brain injuries. From there, Busick was relocated to the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska, to relearn basic functions, from talking to eating. As anyone can imagine, treating traumatic injuries doesn’t take long to add up in terms
of cost. The MHS chapter of Chick-fil-A Leader Academy has thought of one way to combat that: having a Hat Day fundraiser with the students of Manhattan. The event will take place this Thursday. To get involved, stop by the lunch table during both lunches at either campus to purchase a
wristband for $1. Chickfil-A Leader Academy students will also be selling wristbands at all entrances Thursday morning. “Well how we will have it set up at every entrance, like where the sophomore lot is by the front and by the side entrance,” senior Kinsey
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Levendofsky said. “We will have people set to where if you’d want to wear a hat, you just give them a dollar and then you're free to wear your hat all day, and if you also want to contribute more you're always welSEE HAT DAY ON PAGE 3
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