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INSIDE THIS EDITION BASKETBALL-- Freshman Joe Hall attempts to block a pass from the opposing team during the MHS freshman boys basketball quad tournament. Photo by Jennifer Sadler MARCHING BAND-- Senior Kayla Baumgartner performs with the MHS Colorguard during the band concert. Photo by Hailey Eilert See Pages 3 and 5 for more

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StuCo completes vote for 2019 prom theme Kaitlin Clark Print Editor-in-Chief

Last Wednesday, the juniors of Manhattan High school made their voices heard as they voted for this year’s prom theme.

Three themes were on the ballot -- Under the Stars, Vogue and 24 Karat -- with 24 Karat emerging victorious. “...we thought it was a really cool idea to kind of go for like a gold kind of like, shiny luster kind of thing,” junior class president Elizabeth Kim, junior, said.

According to Kim, it was a close vote, with votes between 24 Karat and Under the Stars differing by four votes.

The Student Council junior class annually plans prom, coming up with everything from themes and decorations to invitations and food. Now that they have their theme, they will move on to planning ways to make the Manhattan Town Center look special for prom attendees.

“I’m looking forward to like seeing like the reactions of ev-

eryone and just seeing how they like it,” junior class representative Lexi Feather, junior, said. “It’s going to be cool to see how like, all of our hard work paid off.”

Fe a t h e r stressed that the junior StuCo class would like their peers to let them know what they would like to see at prom, allowing for more community involvement in the planning process. “...we just try to incorporate everyone around us,” Feather said.

StuCo is hoping to have good communication throughout their planning and organization stages this year to ensure that everything

goes well, since they do have to do so much to prepare. On the day

decorating the space before returning later that night to actually attend the event. The amount of work that they have to put in m e a n s that they must communicate well. “ I ’ m hoping for our class as a whole to kind of come together and make sure all of our voices are being heard and that our commuGraphic by Olivia Haas nication of prom, for example, junior Stu- is very well thought out, because Co members spend all morning I don’t want this to like, tear us at the Manhattan Town Center apart,” junior class representative

Elizabeth Chapman said.

An important part of StuCo’s plan to make this prom successful is their overall goal of creating a unified event. Unity is something that they plan to focus on throughout this year.

“I believe that currently the school has...some lack in school unity, and it was one of the things that I said in my speech when I ran as class president that I promised to bring,” Kim said.

As they move forward with the large undertaking that is prom planning, the junior StuCo class hopes to shape the event into something that all Manhattan High upperclassmen can enjoy.

“I hope to...try to bring in people that normally wouldn’t go to these types of things and...not be a disappointment to them,” Kim said, “like make it like a really magical night that allows them to reach more into the school community as well.”

Prom will be at 9:30 p.m. on April 27 at Manhattan Town Center.

Cadaver trip shows medical opportunities Debate heads to state Hannah Heger Features Editor

Most students have not seen a dead body, let alone interacted with the organs and muscles of a human body.

The students in Accelerated Anatomy and Physiology got to attend the Kansas State University cadaver lab. This opportunity allowed many students to get close to a human cadaver, explore the inside of the body and learn about anatomy in a physical way.

“It’s something that I’m really interested in and I’m just fascinated by that kind of stuff,” Grace Warner, junior, said. ”I’m fascinated by anatomy and just like the human body.”

The students were split into groups with one in the cadaver room where they got to examine the cadaver. “[The teacher] said that we could look and touch anything we wanted to,” Emily Ward, sopho-

more, said. “We asked her tons of questions and she had answers for all of them.”

After the group was finished with their time they learned about individual organs.

“One of the teachers had different organs from the cadavers on trays,” Ward said.

“She showed us all of them, asked us questions and let us hold them and ask our own questions.”

This chance to interact with cadavers was a rare opportunity for high schoolers and it gave them insight into the medical field. It gave them an outlook at what a future career could look like.

“I think everybody needs to have that experience, whether you’re going into a medical field or not,” Grant Terril, junior, said.”Just to say you can you know, … say you’ve actually had that experience.”

Just seeing the cadavers could be a deciding factor for many stu-

dents who are considering joining the medical field. Many medical schools involve cadavers for their program and will have to later interact with the body.

“I would think anybody who’s considering medicine, not that all of my students are considering medicine as a career. But a good chunk of them are. And so that’s one of the reasons I don’t require the cadaver trip,” Craig Ackerman, Accelerated Anatomy and Physiology teacher, said. “It’s purely voluntary, but I assume if you’re one of my students, and you’re thinking about being in medicine, medical career, there’s a good chance you’re going to work on those cadavers at the college level.”

“It wasn’t traumatic or anything but it helped me realize that maybe medicine isn’t what I want to do,” Ward said. “I thought it was great and interesting, just not for me”

with season wins Meredith Comas Online Editor-in-Chief

The halls of Manhattan High stood alert and alive late Monday morning. The buzz from the classrooms peaked out of wooden doors in the fluorescent hallways, and E hall stood so still that a single footstep was thunderous, quieting when reaching a large wooden door desperately attempting to contain the racket within.

Upon opening the door, another world of chaos, competitiveness and spirit rushed about.

On the whiteboard in large, orange letters behind junior Trinity Brockman -- who was in the middle of preparing assignments above debate-room jabber -- stood the line “a bad team

makes cheap arguments.” Never have six words so perfectly described the competitive edge of the MHS Debate team and their recent wins that are a mustwatch of the debate season.

Friday and Saturday of last week, the debate team competed at Maize High School where, after preliminary rounds, Manhattan took all top three positions in the Kansas Debate Classic Division.

Between the MHS teams, only one round had been lost.

Pairs Ivy Auletti and Peyton Woods, juniors, took sixth place while Brockman and partner Sam Delong, freshmen, ended the tournament undefeated and in second place.

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Students, scholars travel to salt mines StuCo prepares for Club Feast Ayden Boyles Business Manager

At over 600 feet below the earth’s surface, where it is always 68 degrees, students from AP Environmental Science and Geology as well as Saudi Arabian scholars visited the Strataca Salt Mine. This mine is home to the Hutchinson Salt Company and moves around 500,000 tons of salt, primarily for road use, each year. The mine is also home to Underground Vaults and Storage, where many documents and Hollywood movie props can be safely stored.

Leslie Campbell, biology teacher, explained that this field trip allowed students to see what they were learning about in person. The students also heard how the mine was formed and how it fits into life.

The tour also featured a ride on a tram through the dark, where at the end visitors can pick up their own pieces of salt to take home. “[I liked] the dark ride that

goes with it that takes you back into the mine,” Campbell said.

For the scholars visiting from Saudi Arabia, getting to see a salt mine was a life changing experience.

“I’ve never been to the salt mines ever,” Abdulla Kensarah, a Saudi Arabian biology teacher, said. “I think it’s a good experience for me when I go into salt mines and see what they have underground.”

Not many people ever have the opportunity to see how and where salt is formed, so this allowed the students and scholars to go deeper for information that may not have been in the textbooks.

“I’m really thankful for the teacher and the Photo courtesy of Leslie Campbell school,” Kensarah said. “... you “They give me this opget to see features that you don’t portunity to go to the salt mine see in the general part and I really and I think this gave me more exlike seeing some of those features perience about what I bring back deeper into the mine.” to my country.”

Kaitlin Clark Print Editor-in-Chief

Manhattan High’s Student Council has had a busy year, and as the first semester draws to a close, they are still putting their all into their work as they prepare for the annual Club Feast.

StuCo invites the clubs of MHS to come together tonight at 6 p.m. for a potluck-style dinner and play games together. This year, sophomore StuCo members, who organize the event, have planned to make it safari-themed through their decorations, which have been the focus of their planning so far.

“It’s been really fun,” sophomore class representative Faith Beyer, sophomore, said. “I love planning stuff so being able to like be a part of it is really good.”

According to Beyer, she has heard from other StuCo members that Club Feast has had a small turnout in past years. This year, they hope to make it a bigger event with more clubs in attendance.

“I think this year we’re going to try and get it more like publicized and out there and so it’ll be better,” Beyer said.

StuCo wants Club Feast to be an event that brings clubs together. Even though the event itself has not yet happened, StuCo members are already starting to feel that unity that they hope to bring.

“I don’t really talk to the freshmen a lot...I just get to talk to them more often than what I would usually and that’s pretty nice to get to know them through Club Feast,” sophomore class president Mia Thompson, sophomore, said.

All clubs that have received invitations are encouraged to attend. Club Feast will be hosted at West Campus at 6 p.m. tonight.

“I feel like Club Feast is like a nice thing for people to get together and get to know each other and just like have games and have a good time,” Thompson said.

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School emergency drills should be more randomized This editorial is a compilation from a discussion held by the editorial board. To listen to the conversation that led to this piece, visit MHSMentor.com

Security has been an issue for dozens of schools worldwide, including Manhattan High. A debated issue is our current lockdown and secure campus system.

At the moment, school emergencies happen during class times at Manhattan High, but real life school emergencies are not something that is predictable. They can happen at any time. Although our school does not rehearse this drills outside of class time, it is not the fault of administration that drills are not practiced during class due to nationwide and funding issues.

According to Merriam Webster, the definition of emergency is “an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action.” With school emergency drills only occurring during a

50-minute class time, who will know what to do when it could happen during lunch, before or after school, or even during a passing period?

It is the agreement of The Mentor editorial board that when in practice, drills should be more randomized. There should be more security measures districtwide and there should also be some emphasis on situations that could be considered emergency measures at school on a regular day.

Since drills aren’t practiced at our prerogative, students and possibly teachers will not know how to handle a certain situation if, for example if it happened during a passing period. It would not only cause a chaotic environment for everyone to be in but could also cause a numerous amount of people to get hurt. The school avoids drills during other times to not create chaos, but in the event that

this does occur at MHS, we need to be prepared and have knowledge on how to deal with chaos.

Yes, the school tries their best to make drills random in a way that won’t interrupt the school day, but if there is a real emergency, the threat is not going to care if it interrupts the school day.

Since we don’t practice school emergencies during randomized times, excluding class times, students are more vulnerable during lunch or passing periods.

Purposely creating chaos is a difficult thing to initiate, but it is important that in any situation, we are prepared. This is especially important since the 82 incidents in 2018 are the highest number since 1970, according to CampusSafetyMagazine.com. We’re at a 6A high school that is in Kansas, but school shootings can happen anywhere.

It’s more than just school shootings though that aren’t prac-

Teammates help with dealing from loss

Kamryn Bussmann Staff Writer

Dealing with losses is hard on anyone. Whether that’s for an athlete, an adult and their job or a loved one gone. I’ve been fortunate enough to not go through much loss. I have though, gone through a soccer season and golf season where we didn’t end with the result we wanted.

Reflecting on how you play after a game where you lose

might be one of the hardest things besides an injury to go through, and this could go multiple ways. This is because you have to be truthful with yourself.

If you gave 100 percent or not or where you messed up. Being honest with yourself is a very hard task because you want to believe you did everything you could to win but just couldn’t get the right results.

Another way reflecting could go is blaming it on your teammates or your coach. Blaming a loss on other people does nothing as an athlete. Saying that it’s other people’s fault you slowly lose team chemistry. Your faith in each other begins to disappear, making it harder to get the drive to win. Yes, sometimes coaches make questionable choices but all in all, it comes down to a team’s

effort as a whole.

Losing anything doesn’t feel good for anyone. It leaves one feeling powerless or sad. A loss should turn into a drive, a want, a need to win. Don’t let a loss take you out of something bigger than your individual skills.

Going through tough losses with your team when knowing each and every one of your teammates put their heart and soul out on that field or court isn’t as bad as going through it alone.

With that being said, going through any type of loss, big or small, does not help emotionally to keep how you feel to yourself. People will understand and push you to be a better person or player. Teams don’t win games because of one person, they win because of each other playing together.

Fashion beneficial to gender roles Sophia Comas Sports Writer

As we have all clearly seen throughout the 21st century, the topic of gender and its role in society have long been debated and fought over. However, in that debate, we have discovered the piece of the puzzle that is now allowing for people everywhere to express their true selves.

We have discovered that sex and gender are not perfectly binary. Because it’s not, neither are certain industries that dominate our economy, specifically fashion.

The rise of androgynous fashion has given those who don’t identify with a specific gender an outlet of expression not seen before in previous decades. When I think about ‘50s fashion, I see men in suits and women in skirts.

Now, when I think of fashion I see a wide variety of men and women wearing whatever clothing they want, whether a man chooses to wear a dress or a woman chooses to wear a tie.

My perspective on clothing changed since I was just a little kid thinking that girls couldn’t wear the color blue. Seeing a man

in heels only amazes me now because I’m shocked at how anyone -- regardless of gender -- can walk in shoes that lift eight inches off the ground. It’s fashion trends like this that help describe the changes actress Emma Watson asked for in her speech at a “HeForShe” campaign in September of 2014 when she said, “It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, not as two opposing sets of ideals.”

The gender spectrum is proving how we as a society are evolving into a new era of acceptance.

The Civil Rights Movement hasn’t ended yet, as Manhattan High saw when the Westboro Baptist Church protested students and teachers of the LGBTQ+ community. However, with the growth of a new generation, America is reaching new levels of equality and expression, and it wouldn’t be possible without the fashion industry.

Even celebrities have opened up about using fashion to express themselves outside of gender normativity. For example, “Queen” frontman and songwriter Freddie Mercury, one of the first pioneers of androgynous fashion, broke all expectations of what a man should dress like. Decked in sequined body suits and heeled boots, Mercury stole the stage time and time again with not only his astounding vocals and catchy lyrics, but with a style that America had yet to embrace.

“I have fun with my clothes onstage,” Mercury once said. “It’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.”

His fashion began a revolution in the world of clothing, along with other stars such as Prince and David Bowie. More recently within the realm of fashion, celebrities such as Jaden Smith and Ellen Degeneres have displayed styles that don’t conform to what we typically think certain genders have to wear. Degeneres herself even released her own collection with Walmart -- called EV1 -- saying the line was inspired by “inclusiveness.” She then goes on to say in an interview with Refinery29 that she “wanted it to appeal and be available to as many people as possible.”

Smith feels similar when it comes to his own clothing choices.

In an interview with “Essence,” after receiving backlash for wearing a dress in 2015, he said, “I feel like people are kind of confused about gender norms... I don’t see man clothes and woman clothes, I just see scared people and comfortable people.”

His work along with countless others who use their platforms to influence our stance on gender prove how life is changing.

Outlets such as fashion are contributing to the overall growth of humanity, and rather than question what we find abnormal, we should embrace it.

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ticed seriously by students. Tornado drills are never done in a way to make it serious because of the fact that we all have to shuffle into the bathrooms and other people are stranded in the hallways because there’s no other space when there is, essentially, almost 1,800 students in a school. Even with the recent passing of the bond referendum that plans on making and actual shelter to accommodate everyone, we currently cannot practice in that kind of environment.

Stemming off to the referendum, part of it was increased security not only at MHS but at grade schools and middle schools.

This is also a huge threat to grade schools and middles schools, especially since little kids have no idea about how those situations work. High school students, such as us, have the ability to go out and research and are more of free-thinking individuals whereas

Question of the Week What holiday traditions does your family participate in?

Next week’s question: What is your favorite part about the holidays?

little kids haven’t gotten to that point yet.

At this point, since there isn’t the security that there should be, we have to basically trust the office in bringing in someone that doesn’t look threatening to their standards.

Currently at MHS, we have five different drills: tornado, fire, evacuation, secure campus and lock-down drills. Although those drills are very important, it is also important that we know how to handle other safety issues, such as medical related problems. In the event that someone has a seizure at school, we won’t all know how to handle that correctly. If we don’t know how to handle the situation, someone will get hurt.

School safety emergencies are never predictable, in which for the safety of our district and community, we should properly know how to correctly take into action for a real-life school emergency.

“Mostly screaming.”

- Chad Pape, choir teacher @chaddavidpape “We make like six different kinds of Christmas cookies.”

-- Lauren Waldradt, junior @lauren71717

“My family opens gifts and has a big dinner on New Years Eve instead of Christmas.”

-- Katya Tarabrina, sophomore @sicksadange1

Black Friday affects holidays

Aloera Ostermann Blue M Visual Editor

As we get into the holiday season Christmas is fast approaching.

With Christmas, everyone begins to think immediately of the presents. They think of the things they want and the things they may get for other people.

People think of getting gifts and giving them they must first purchase them. As Americans, we are often looking for the cheapest items, something that is cheaper than normal. One of the most popular days of the year for this kind of shopping is often known as Black Friday.

Black Friday occurs immediately following Thanksgiving day.

The sales open on Friday and people would line up outside all kinds of stores looking for the best deals. Yet as our country’s desire for materialistic things progresses so does our demand for more sales. Black Friday has started to worm its way into beginning on Thursday. The doors to many stores open at 10 p.m. on Thursday. People leave their homes and begin to line up at many places from Target to Best Buy to Dicks Sporting Goods.

While this may seem efficient because people have more time to shop there are actually some major downsides. With Black Friday

beginning on Thursday, many people are leaving their families to shop. Thanksgiving dinners and festivities are cut short by people leaving. Families are losing precious time together over simple materialistic gifts when “use” is the best gift anyone could give.

Family gatherings are interrupted by the search of cheaper deals. As we look for more gifts we forget not only the meaning of one holiday but two.

Thanksgiving is a time we should be spending with each other, celebrating the things we are thankful for. Black Friday beginning earlier is hurting that precious time. We begin to buy gifts for Christmas. But the truth is that Christmas isn’t about the gifts either. We have begun to lose the meaning of not one but two holidays all by starting Black Friday shopping on Thursday.

We need to go back and embrace the true meaning of both holidays and focus on the true meaning of them.

Black Friday simply needs to remain on Friday and not start any sooner. While some families do find it enjoyable to go shopping together it is not friendly for all ages. Many young children shouldn’t be exposed to the environment that Black Friday brings because people tend to go a little crazy and older people don’t find it as appealing to go walking around a store for hours at a time.

Young children and grandparents would benefit much more by the families being able to stay at home and spend time together on Thursday night and the shopping itself should be left on Friday.

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Cheer competes at only competition of year Micheal Simmons Blue M Editor-in-Chief

For many high school athletic programs, a team has several months of competitions, allowing time to improve and learn from previous competitions as the season continues. With Manhattan High cheer that is not the case, as they fell short in the finals of their only competition event of the season.

“This is our first year going to this competition,” senior Jamia Roberts said. “We did the best we could with not knowing a lot.”

The competition included three different routines the teams had to compose and practice before eventually performing at the competition. After performing these three routines, the teams that make it to finals then have to combine them into one singular performance, all while surrounded by fans and judges from across the state.

“While I was competing I was in shock that I was actually doing something outside my comfort zone,” senior Taylor Hughston said. “If it was my last time competing in high school at least I got to experience what a competition was like.”

The team competed against roughly 23 6A teams. Despite not making it to finals, the team received no deductions for illegal

actions.

“It was actually really exciting to know that we didn’t do anything that we weren’t supposed to do and we did everything we were supposed to,” Roberts said. “I’m really excited to go next year and overall it was just a really great experience being in front of the big crowd that we had.”

After competing themselves the team was able to watch the other 23 teams and saw more extravagant stunts than what was present in their own routines.

Despite the difference in routines and no deductions for illegal actions, the team was still unable to make it to finals.

“It was disappointing when I heard we didn’t make it to finals but I was also really proud of our team overall,” Roberts said.

“It was disappointing because we worked hard and we wanted to make it but to know that we did our best at everything made me really proud of our team and I was really impressed with the team that did make it to the finals.

I didn’t go home feeling upset I went home feeling that I did my best and that my team did great and that’s all I can ask for.”

The team will continue their season, cheering at all of the home basketball games, including Friday as the basketball teams will play against Seaman.

Photo by Sophia Comas Sophomore Carrie Cave practices basketball cheers and moves with other members of the squad during the Manhattan High cheer practice after school on Dec. 3.

Boys basketball places second at Hays shootout Cole Schmitt Staff Writer

The Manhattan High Varsity boys basketball team went 2-1 in the Hays City Shootout this past week. The team beat Thomas More Prep-Marian (TMP) 67-48.

The team then advanced to the semi-final and dominated Hays High 78-56 in their own house.

They then fought hard but fell short in the final against Millwood High 55-60.

Coach Benji George said MHS did “well” considering Millwood, of Oklahoma City, was allowed to start practicing in October.

Kansas schools are not allowed to practice until November.

“We have a chance this year to be a defensive force,” head coach Benji George said. “There’s things we need to do better but I

think we started to establish ourselves defensively. We did a pretty decent job at getting the fast break going, we’ve worked on that this year. I thought we shot the ball well. Our shooting percentages were good.”

The team went 40 percent from the field against TMP, 49.2 percent against Hays, and 51.2 percent against Millwood. That’s 46.8 percent from the field on average in all three games. From the free throw line, the team went 59.7 percent.

“The team had great execution of our transition and press offense,” senior KJ Williams said.

“We really looked to push pace and get good shots.”

After going 0-8 from the threepoint line in the first game against TMP, the Indians went 15-42, or

Bowling team decided Brianna Carmack Opinions Editor

After three days of tryouts, the bowling team has their new team, believing that this season will turn out to be a successful one.

“We have five of the six varsity

ATHLETE OF THE

WEEK Zane Kohl Boys Dive Sophia Comas Sports Editor

• Placed first in the first meet of the season against Topeka West What inspired you to become an athlete?

I started doing gymnastics when I was in Kindergarten and my P.E. teacher noticed my talent from very early. He started recruiting me to join the high school diving team. Since Kindergarten, I’ve done sports all my life and going to practice after school has

bowlers returning from last year’s State qualifying team,” said Robert Regan, bowling coach and owner of Little Apple Lanes. “We could have a very good season this year.”

See BOWLING Page 5

35.7 percent from three in the tournament.

“We’re really deep,” said George. “Probably the deepest team we’ve had since I’ve been coaching here. We’ve got a lot of contributions from a lot of guys and I think that can be a factor for us this year.”

From the team, 11 players scored at some point in the tournament.

The outcome might have been different in the championship game if the Millwood Falcons didn’t shoot 55 percent from the field and 50 percent from three.

“Situations where we were only down by two or three and then they would hit a three,” said George. “So it just felt like we were down by four or five points and they were just so long and

Micheal Simmons Blue M Editor-in-Chief

Manhattan High girls basketball ended their season opening tournament just 12 points shy of beating Saint Thomas Aquinas and taking first place, giving them

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Photo by Jennifer Sadler Freshman Coy Cavender focuses before shooting at the free throw line during the Freshmen Boys Basketball Quad Tournament.

a record of 2-1.

“The keys to the game were that Aquinas hit 4-3’s in the first half,” head coach Scott Mall said.

“They hadn’t really shot 3’s well in the tournament. Particularly in the second half, our girls really worked to get good shots against

a tough defense but couldn’t get enough of them to go down. We got shots that we would normally shoot well but they just wouldn’t go in consistently. We were definitely led by our four seniors.”

ner-Edgerton on Saturday.

“The first tournament you just want to get out there and see how your moves are working,” junior Mikey Soberano said. “We’ve been learning a lot and have been implementing it on the mat.”

The team had some tough competition to go against. There were schools from Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and two from Oklahoma, with four na-

“We got third at the meet but we lost to Washburn Rural by one so it would have been good to beat them,” senior Parker Holborn, captain, said. “A lot of relays did well in the in the beginning.”

Not only did swimming do well but senior diving captain Zane Kohl got first place, qualifying for state. He has got his eyes on the prize and is focusing on winning

state. In addition, his teammate Brandon Spielman, a junior from Clay Center who swims with the MHS team, qualified for state in the 50-meter free. Relay teams for the medley and 200 free also qualified.

“Just trying to make it [time] shorter so we can possibly place in our [200] relay,” Chris Bedros,

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Varsity wrestling gets fifth at tournament

just become a necessity for me. It gives me something to do and I’m Manhattan High varsity wresvery competitive so it’s an outlet tling team opened their season for many things. I love to push with a top-five placing and had six limits and do dangerous stuff so top individual placings at Gardwhen I started diving, it allowed me to do just that.

To read more about this and past

boys basketball team (2-1) will practice all week before facing off with the Seaman Vikings (0-0) in the home opener at Manhattan High School.

Girls basketball takes second in final game

Kamryn Bussmann Staff Writer

What expectations do you have for the season?

Three and a half on the one meter boards. I also want to push Zeke, my brother who is a firstyear diver, so that he might qualify for state. I expect to be the state champion. Aside from that goal, I only want one new dive that I’ve been after all four years and that is a front E.

athletic, 6’6”, 6’5” athletes. They did a good job of tipping passes and forcing us into constant turnovers.”

The Manhattan High Varsity

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Swim and dive meet hosted at Topeka Anika Nyp Staff Writer

Manhattan High School’s boys swim team missed out on second place at their first meet by a single point.

The swim and dive team went to the Capitol Federal Natatorium in Topeka for their very first swim meet last Wednesday.

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Intramurals spark excitement Aloera Ostermann Staff Writer

As basketball season comes up for many high school students, some get ready for a different

kind of basketball: intramurals.

Intramurals are a fun way for anyone to play basketball. The games are only played on half of the court and with three players at a time for each team. The

boys and girls teams are separate and there is even a tournament to end the season to figure out which team is the best.

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Flipping into Interactive Notebooks, ‘Whodunnit’s’ Madison Ritz Staff Writer

From flip pages to cut out and paste for math notes, educational math teacher Jancy Radke takes a turn to student’s typical notes.

Radke started something new with her students last year called ‘interactive notebook’s’ which is a book that corresponds with their course title. The book has things like flip taps and papers you can cut out to paste onto the paper.

It makes the students get more hands on. It also helps them remember which equations go where, and what type of problems it has to handle.

“The interactive notebooks are where we keep our notes and worksheets that we were working on and it pretty much has everything we worked on from the entire year,” Solomon Thomas, sophomore, said.

Radke would find pages from online that she thought would be

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Jancy Radke points something out to sophmores Julian Avila-Vargas and Easton Roberts during Geometry class. The class spent the period participating in an activity that combined math with the classic game “Who Dunnit.” “It was fun and it was a good review,” Roberts said.

entertaining for her students to do and to put into their notebook.

ARTIST OF THE

WEEK Abbey plays ukulele and piano. She has previously competed in Manhattan’s Got Talent

Photo by Makenna Wollenberg

Abbey Shaneyfelt Stained Glass, Jewelry Makenna Wollenberg Assistant Photo Editor

What got you into art?

“I think I have always had an interest in art I suppose, not necessarily 2-D I have always done unconventional mediums. My sister did jewelry and I saw that she got to do a glass suncatcher and it was cool to me. Then freshman year I signed up and I loved it so I kept with it.”

What is your favorite type of art?

“I really like working with glass probably because it is not something I have gotten to try outside of school. It is just kind of hard to do at home.”

What art classes do you participate in outside of school and in school?

I’m not in any others in school right now. I did do photography and I still do it outside of school.

I do embroidery and macaramé. I also do stamp making, just a lot of weird stuff but just not in classes.”

What made you want to get into art that most people don’t know of ?

“I just like working with my hands and I have never been great with painting or drawing so working with 3-D art has just been a really great way for me to be able to create stuff.”

Is there anyone who has inspired you to keep going with your art?

“Probably Mrs. [Sonda] Copeland just because whenever I hate a piece [or] I don’t know what I’m doing, [she] tells me to either do this or helps me accept it.”

What is your favorite type of jewelry to make?

“Probably necklaces just because I don’t wear a lot of jewelry but when I create stuff I might actually wear it is a perk that I get to use it.”

Do you sell your jewelry?

“I don’t. A lot of time and effort goes into making jewelry. It would probably be kind of expensive to sell and I can’t make it outside of school.”

Clubs unite to volunteer Tara Wood Staff Writer

‘Tis the season to help others, and Interpersonal Skills, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Common Ground and a school social worker, Stephanie Thomas, are doing just that by providing aid to students here at Manhattan High, Salvation Army and Operation Christmas Child.

Sherry Lancaster, a volunteer from Salvations Army, came to MHS to explain what the Salvation Army does, why they collect money around this time of year, and recruit anyone who might want to help.

“We told her that we would volunteer so she had a lot of spaces open around town,” Eric Eklund, IPS teacher, said. “She needed people to ring the bells and collect money and stuff so we’re being...a part of that.”

In this district there is a program called the Back Snap program where food insecure students can go to a closet and take what items they need. These can be food, hygiene products and winter accessories to keep

warm such as hats. According to Thomas, food insecure students are those who don’t get enough calories at home due to various situations.

“I’m sure there’s a huge need and ... you’re not going be able to tell from like, their outer appearance of what is going on at home,” Ashley Eckels, senior, said. “Eating a meal at the end of the day ... having that there for them I think is really important.”

Common Ground and FCA worked together to participate in Operation Christmas Child sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse International Relief. For 25 years this act of kindness has been sponsored by good samaritans everywhere with the national collection week being Nov. 12-19.

“You get a shoebox and you pack it with all kinds of just toys for certain age groups,” Garrin Williams, senior, said.” The operation sends it to like different kids in different countries just for their Christmas gift [for those who] are not able to get Christmas gifts [if] they don’t know about Christmas, which was really cool.”

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“Normally, Ms. Radke would find several pages, pretty much

daily,” Thomas said. “Normally after we take some notes we do a

couple worksheets to put into our notebook.

Various students really enjoy these interactive notebooks and can agree that this goes beyond their studying strategies. It also helps them study and remember things that’ll be on the test a few days later.

“I like the variety of problems,” Thomas said. “Several units there have been problems that have been really complex and really hard. They’re challenging but really fun to do.”

Not only does Radke do interactive notebooks, she also does ‘Whodunnits,’ which is a parody type game that is quite similar to the game ‘Clue’ to study for their tests.

“It’s basically a game with math involved,” Thomas said. “I find them very interesting. I liked it overall. It makes you realize what you need to study for on the test, and what’s coming up on the test.”

Spanish classes decode lockboxes Madison Ritz Staff Writer

While Spanish students study the words and phrases, Spanish teacher Lindsy Clark creates a twist to their daily studying.

Clark came up with an idea to put together a little black box covered in different varieties of locks. It made it impossible to break in without cracking each code. Students were given an hour to unlock the box. There were about five locks on each box. Once the box was unlocked, they were surprised by the reward.

The students were given one code at first, students were given numbers in Spanish.

Once the first lock was unlocked, the students found another key. For the second key, students had to circle the most important ‘article’ in the sentence and it formed a number in Spanish leading towards making the students translate it to English to unlock another lock.

For the third code, inside an iPad the students were given to use, students had to scan a QR code. Once the QR code was

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The Manhattan High Lady Indians were familiar with Aquinas during their season-opener, as MHS lost to Aquinas in the semi finals of their previous season.

Despite losing to Aquinas (36-48), the team found a silver lining.

“Coach Julie Ostermann said it best after the game ‘you win or you learn,” Haleigh Harper said.

“I think this early loss is the one of the best things that could’ve happened to the this team. We know what we need to work on and we will continue to work hard and get better. This weekend didn’t

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tionally-ranked teams.

With all that on their plate the boys still went out and were dangerous. Three seniors each headed into the finals under the spotlight.

“I think about how it’s me and this other person and how he’s in the way of all my hard work and dedication I’ve put in,” senior Christian Schlepp said.

Bubba Wilson (160), Schlepp (220) and Quincy Saddler (170) got second in their weight classes.

Saddler and Schlepp went 4-1 on Saturday and Wilson went 3-1.

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sophomore, said of his new goal now that he’s part of a state-qualified team.

A lot of guys also set personal

scanned, it led them to a video of a student explaining her schedule.

Once it revealed the directions, it revealed the directional lock code.

As the students unlocked the locks one by one, the anticipation grew higher wanting to know what was inside the boxes while they were unlocking the locks.

“Yes [it was challenging] but not necessarily frustrating because I’m not that very good at Spanish,” Stone Medaris, sophomore, said. It was challenging in a way that this helped me become better.

The fourth riddle was a little easier than the students thought it looked. Students learned their ‘-ar’ terms and had to correspond and change the ending of each word. With the unused words, it revealed the code to the next lock.

Once the fifth puzzle was put together, there were letters revealed on the pieces telling the students where the next clue was.

For instance, some were inside a certain book and another would be under the teacher’s computer.

With the sixth puzzle, it had a tiny key to unlock another lock.

But the puzzle also had students match up objects and their vocab-

ulary. The puzzle then revealed the code to unlock the next lock.

“We were learning how to take all of our vocab and verbs.

We do that and we put it together into a conversation and solving puzzles,” Medaris said. “[The purpose was] to become more familiar with our Spanish.”

For the seventh puzzle, they received a transparent paper with lines on it. They were able to combine the paper and hold it up to the light, revealing a number that unlocked the last code to the last lock.

The students all got really hyped up, only to reveal there was nothing in the box at all. “[I was expecting] a prize like candy or something,” Megan Emery, sophomore, said.

Clark was kind enough to reward the students with Mexican candy for their hard work that they pulled off. She told her students that there will be another project like this in the Spring.

“I liked it I wish she would do it more. It’s really challenging but in a fun way,” Emery said.

turnout how many of us wanted it to but I am so excited to start our league games this week and believe we can find a lot of success this year.”

The four seniors, Harper, Kia Wilson, Taylor Johnson and Garrin Williams led the team to the first two wins of the season against Thomas More Prep-Marian (5332) and Hays (49-39). The seniors were responsible for 86 percent of the teams points throughout the tournament, with Wilson leading the pack, averaging 16 points per game and scoring double figures in all three games.

“I think leadership is huge this year considering our team is

very young,” Harper said. “With four returning Varsity players as seniors this year we have a leadership advantage and I am super excited to see the things we can achieve with that. I expect a lot of this team this year. We have to take full advantage of the opportunities we get and never take anything for granted. We have an excellent coaching staff and it’s really up to us to get where we want to be...”

The team will have their home season-opener as well as begin league play on Friday against Seamen (0-0).

opponents pretty easily,” Schlepp said, “and then had a tough match in the finals.”

Junior Darius Island-Jones (145), senior Jake Mitchell (138) and sophomore Damian lladio (285) took sixth in all their weight classes. Juniors Tate Sauder (120) took eighth place and Soberano (195) took seventh along with A.J. Bunning (285) who placed sixth.

The team’s successful returning competitors plus the new assets to the team show promise for a successful season.

“We are here to win state,” Soberano said.

In addition, freshmen Easton Taylor received fifth (126), Tucker

Brunner (126) placed 14th and Blaisen Bammes (132) got 10th for the team.

“The freshman looked decent for their first high school experience,” Soberano said.

As a team they placed fifth with a score of 134.5, only 56.5 points behind Goddard who took fourth. Southeast Polk ended up winning the tournament with a score of 250.

The boys have a dual on Thursday against Bonner Springs. This will be one out of two times varsity plays at home and is also senior night. They also have a dual on Saturday at MHS.

records since time trials.

“I PR-ed in both of my events,” Holborn said.

The team members now hope that times will enhance the competitive spirit to get a better time

for the newcomers and set a new goal to beat for the next meet for all the athletes.

Their next meet will be at home at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas State Natatorium.

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Instrumentals at MHS have eventful weekend Sophia Comas Sports Editor

It has been a big weekend for the instrumental music groups at Manhattan High, full of riveting performances and spontaneous cancellations.

The Manhattan High Marching Band had the rhythm taken out of their steps for their performance on Nov. 30 when they took to Rezac Auditorium for a time spent inside rather than out of doors, preceding the orchestra’s cancellation at the Sunset Zoo. “Well, nerves were high but we were all ready for the concert to get started,” Elora Neff, junior, said. “Color guard was anticipating those four taps to get us going.”

Along with a change in setting the group had to adjust their sound in order to accommodate the different volume levels and acoustics of being inside. According to Maggie Fontanini, junior, the band had to work with close quarters and a quieter sound.

“We didn’t have to play quieter necessarily but we needed a lot more control that we had never really needed to practice,” Fontanini said. “We had to keep from

blaring and screaming at the audience. We were also a lot closer together.”

The band faced some additional issues when it came to performing inside besides volume.

Being on stage was tightly spaced, which caused some discomfort to band members.

“It’s warmer and we have more room outside,” Neff said.

“Sometimes it will get too hot in the back of the stage. There have been times where people have passed out.”

While the Marching Band practiced for their performance, the orchestra was struck with a case of bad luck when they were no longer able to play at their performance at Sunset Zoo. Director Nate McClendon told his students to “enjoy their Sunday” after reminding them that they weren’t going to play.

Despite that setback, both groups are continuing to work towards their best sound through more practice, although the band didn’t get as much as they had hoped.

“It would be nice to practice a little more,” Fontanini said. “We went a few weeks of not practic-

‘Thank U, Next’ cinematic masterpiece

Sophia Comas Sports Editor

In the wake of her recent break up with ex-fiance Pete Davidson, singer Ariana Grande debuted her new music video for her single “Thank U, Next” Friday, featuring her and other celebrities in a parody of iconic 2000s movies.

The singer scraped up roughly 95 million views in the span of three days while also climbing up to #3 on Youtube’s trending page with her humorous take on movies such as “Mean Girls,” “Bring It On,” “Legally Blonde” and “13 Going On 30.”

Her fun spirit is mirrored in the video along with other members of its cast, giving a throwback to her days on the Nickelodeon TV show “Victorious” with a reunion of her and other cast mates. Grande makes her female power ballad match well with the scenes before her, especially when the movies that inspired her contributed to so much of what is seen now in teenage romance movies.

The video opens with Youtuber Colleen Ballinger recreating a scene from “Mean Girls” in which various students address rumors about character Regina

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Running Tuesday through Thursday of last week, tryouts were from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Little Apple Lanes.

“They went good,” sophomore Kimberly Crawforth said. “I was working on stuff and Tim Gromlovits was helping me to get better, so I can make it on the team. My scores were low, but they weren’t terrible.”

Some of the qualities the coaches were looking for this season included skill, ability to display willingness to listen and an open mind when being taught something new. Senior leadership is also very important when figuring out which veterans should make it on the team.

“This year I would like to see our seniors take more interest in the younger less experienced bowlers and support them and lead by example,” Regan said.

The team set goals to help

George, who in this case is portrayed by Grande. Ballinger -who is eight months pregnant -- uses her baby bump as a prop of sorts for her character in the video and helps set up the comic effect meant to accompany a sense of female pride.

Following Grande’s entrance she and other actresses remake the iconic Christmas dance scene before quickly moving on to scenes taken from “Bring It On.” While Grande brushes her teeth with actor Matt Bennett -- who is famously known for his portrayal of Robbie Shapiro on “Victorious” -- she sings of her troubles with love and how it impacted her life. Despite a topic that could’ve turned dramatic, Grande puts her main focus on growth and maturity rather than pettiness.

“Thank U, Next” quickly moves through other scenes taken from the movies, eventually ending on clips from the entire video that show Grande’s fun side. She goofs around with the other people in the video before the music cuts off, displaying her ability to laugh through anything.

Grande’s video was unexpected to say the least, but the biggest take away from a video like “Thank U, Next” is that cinematic magic doesn’t have to be channeled just through movies. Although inspired by them, “Thank U, Next” proves that it could almost be better than those movies themselves and breaks music video standards everywhere for something fresh and exciting. them improve, which include having the boys team give 100 percent effort to earn a qualifying spot at while also mentoring the more inexperienced members. Individually, some wish to improve their scores at meets throughout the season.

“I would like to get a 600 average for three games,” Crawforth said.

Unfortunately, everyone who goes out for bowling won’t all be on, due to cuts. When a hardworking group of future players comes in it’s hard to make cuts.

“It was difficult making those last cuts when everyone was trying hard and demonstrating the qualities we were looking for,” Regan said.

In conclusion, the bowling team is expecting and hoping for a successful new season with some new members joining the team.

“It’s a really fun sport,” Crawforth said. “It’s difficult but it’s fun.”

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Senior Tess Garvin raises her fist during the final seconds of the Manhattan High School Big Blue Marching Band’s concert on Nov. 29.

The concert featured the band’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” set as well as classic holiday songs. A raffle also took place at the performance to help raise money for the MHS music program.

ing to performing our songs.”

The band had a portion of time reserved for rewards as well as a raffle fundraiser where the band sections created baskets as prizes. The group wasn’t en-

tirely prepared for the concert, although they made it work despite having to fix certain aspects of their playing. They’re glad to have the opportunity to show their audience what they can do.

“We finally get to really play for our audience and they are all people who genuinely care about what we do and all the work we put in,” Fontanini said. “It’s a lot of fun.”

New Little Mix album iconic, empowering

Meredith Comas Online Editor-in-Chief

Iconic is an adjective that transcends it’s formal definition, associating with entities throughout history, from Coco Chanel’s classic perfumes and designs to Christian Louboutin’s red-bottomed stilettos. It’s virtually impossible to itemize everything the word itself defines, but it is quite easy for me to add to the list “LM5,” the newest album from X-factor winning, British girl-group Little Mix. While most definitely PG-13, “LM5” is a revolutionary album for the pop music industry that not only empowers women and others ostracized by society but captures the true emotions of what life as a 21st-century woman is. It’s a new sound for the group, capturing more and more attention every day since its release, and let me tell you, ladies, this album is delicious.

It creatively and provocatively explores the emotions that are found in almost every musical product aimed at the female consumer, such as love and breakups; however, it presents these outside of the typical stereotyped message. Songs like “American Boy,” “More Than Words” and “Told You So” express these feelings in a way that both flawlessly communicates the strings and complications of love, while expressing some real lady power that shows true appreciation for the contributions of both genders in a relationship.

On the flip side, songs like “Woman Like Me,” “Woman’s World,” “Wasabi” and the more controversial, yet brilliant, “Joan of Arc” and “Strip” are absolutely raging with the empowering fire of “the goddess within.”

To the more “traditional” musiclover, these songs will certainly be a shock. For those more embracing of explorative theatrics and emerging politics in the music industry, happy holidays, Little Mix has handed you your new playlist.

Using a balance of the typical “club music,” current pop trends, acoustic instrumentals and experimental vocal theatrics, “LM5” is

a completely new sound; it’s matured, it’s darker, and it’s ready to break down stereotypes and kick gender inequality in its face.

These songs, expressing feminism, body positivity and confidence, are widely different from the group’s usual reputation. The most the fanbase has ever seen of this side of the girls is “Shout Out to My Ex” from their 2016 album “Glory Days” -- directed at member Perrie Edwards ex-fiance and One Direction member Zayn Malik -- which still held the usual sound of the group: enthusiastic, pop-bops that tended to be aimed at any girl fifth grade and up.

This new album is defying the rules and it’s glorious. The songs and their messages are strong, the vocals and music composition are on fire. Like Coco Chanel and her “little, black dress” that was met with controversy, but became a staple in the fashion community, I expect “LM5” -- with support from artists like Ariana Grande who’s “thank u, next” shows a similar message for power to the female -- will take over the music industry as an iconic symbol of the new music era.

has been a teacher for a total of 20 years overall while having 13 spent at MHS. “It was a big honor. There were a lot of nominees from other schools that I know and I think they are excellent teachers,” Braxmeyer said. “It felt special to be selected in a group of out-

standing educators.”

Braxmeyer was nominated by Diana Wells to become the applicant for teacher of the year.

“Staff members nominate one another. A smaller community than that chooses the applicant for the school,” Braxmeyer said.

“Then the applicant at each school submits their paperwork to the district committee.”

Braxmeyer was quite surprised that she made Master Teacher of the Year.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Braxmeyer said. “I had never completed the application before. I didn’t know what I was getting into until I filled it out.”

Braxmeyer has received various compliments from so many people, especially when it helped her get appreciated.

“I have received lots of student’s kind notes, lots of text messages on social media, and from students in the hallway,” Braxmeyer said. “It’s been fun to reconnect with a lot of people and know that you’re appreciated.”

Braxmeyer earns Teacher of the Year Madison Ritz Staff Writer

Teacher of Manhattan High School, Dedra Braxmeyer has earned the Master Teacher of the Year award.

Currently teaching Advanced Algebra 2, Trigonometry and Pre-Calculus, Dedra Braxmeyer

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Teacher Dedra Braxmeyer boxes in an answer to a problem she was working on the whiteboard. Braxmeyer was recently won the “Master Teacher of the Year” award, the award recognizes outstanding teachers for their hardwork and dedication.

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Partnership Megan Keenan, junior, and Alison Payne, junior -- who have consistently been on the top of the season’s watch list -- ended the tournament undefeated, securing the win for Man-

hattan High.

The team also attended the Hayden tournament on Saturday, where the team finished third overall as partnership Kay Jay Jones and Crysteen Brown, sophomores, completed their qualification for the January State

Tournament in Garden City.

These wins mark the end of the regular season for a time, as they full throttle into their fourspeaker qualifiers this weekend.

“I don’t really have concerns,” Brockman said. “We’ll see how [qualifiers] go.”

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30-year Flashback

The way music changes Destiny’s Child

Bella Lane Staff Writer

Music impacts the way we learn, the way we love and the way we act. Over the last 30 years music has greatly changed. Here are the number one artists from the last 30 years.

George Michael

Variety of Pop

-- 1988 --

2001 -- Pop

-- 2000,

Rad, nifty, awesome sayings from ‘88, ‘18 Bella Lane Staff Writer

Nelly -- 2002 -- Rap

The way we talk is pretty rad. How we phrase sentences is nifty. The way we talk changes over time.

From no form of verbal communications to us being able to talk multiple different ways. From the ‘80s to now, here are some way slang has changed.

Chris Brown -- 2006, 2008

2018 language

50 Cent -- 2003, 2005 -- Rap

-- Hip Hop

Akon -- 2007 --Hip Hop

Lit This sucks G2G Idiot Party Animal

Definition

Taylor Swift -- 2009, 2015, 2018 -- Pop\Country

Mariah Carey

Lady Gaga -- 2010 -- Pop

Movies we loved then and now

Pop\Soul

Rachel Edie Staff Writer

R&B/Pop

-- 1991 --

Garth Brooks -- 1992,1993

-- Country

Ace of Base -- 1994 -- Eu-

ropop

Alanis Morissette -- 1996-

Rock

LeAnn Rimes

Bruno Mars -- 2013, 2017 --

Pop

One Direction -- 2014 -- Pop

TLC -- 1995 -- Hip Hop

Country

Adele -- 2011, 2012, 2016 --

Never heard of any of these people? They were top artist of the year at least once. Check it out. *All According to Billboard Music*

-- 1997 --

The Backstreet Boys

The 1980s were a hotspot for movie fanatics. This was a time when many cult classics were created and adored by all. The list below is a list of the top 5 movies of the year 1988 against the top 5 movies of this year.

1988 2018 1. Rain Man 1. Black Panther 2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2. Avengers: Infinity War 3. Coming to America 3. Incredibles 2 4. Big 4. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 5. Twins 5. Deadpool 2 As you can see, there is a wide difference between the two lists of content. This year’s top 5 list has four of the five movies as part of a series and all of them are part of a bigger franchise.

This contrasts 1988s list because the movies in that list all have an individual movie that seems to be disconnected from most other movies.

Another difference is that all of the movies from this year are actionbased with one of them an animated movie. The movies from 1988 are more on the light-hearted side and are less action packed.

Usher -- 1998, 2004 -- Pop

1999 -- Pop

‘80s terms

Awesome Gnarly Something is boring Gag me with a spoon Having to go somewhere I have to motor A dumb person Dipstick Someone who parties Party Hearty

New Kids on the Block --

1989,1990 -- Pop

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Fashion -- some things never change Rachel Edie Staff Writer

In the ‘80s, many fashion choices were different. However, some of those trends have picked back up with a modern twist this time around. During this fashion era, it was known for being big and bold, opting more for fashion over function.

The first of the comebacks mentioned are high-waisted pants. These jeans first gained popularity in the ‘50s, thanks

to the likes of Marilyn Monroe and many others, and skyrocketed halfway through the ‘80s.

The jeans were often worn a bit baggier than they are now.

Recently, they have made a comeback and are worn in every way possible, although mostly in the form of skinny jeans.

On the topic of pants varieties, bike shorts have also made a return. These have been seen recently on a smaller scale, which to some might seem a blessing, mostly on run-

ways and celebrities such as the Kardashians. During the ‘80s, they were often neon and worn for workouts in those exercise videos that basically represent that decade.

On a less controversial example, distressed jeans have also made this list. Then, they were worn by those in the hip hop and rocker scenes. Now, they are seen everywhere from celebrities to toddlers.

One of the more recent recoveries happens to be fanny packs. These are now made

mostly by brands such as Gucci and Supreme and worn on the runway and by celebrities and influencers. Then, they were worn for function over a fashion statement and more widespread.

Lastly, neon everything.

Perhaps the most well-known trend of the ‘80s were the neon clothes. They were bold and they were everywhere. In the more recent times, they aren’t as prominent but they are gaining momentum as a movement.

The 1988 edition of Blue M, the Manhattan High yearbook, featured a spread about fashion trends. Guess what? There’s a lot of familiar fashion out there.

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