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The mentor Vol. 102 Issue 19 | Manhattan High School | March 10, 2015

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Thespians enjoy coffee, snacks, talent Junior Evan Heger and senior Lauren Fischer play a duet version of “The Final Countdown” in the Black Box theatre for Coffeehouse. Duets for viola and alto saxophone are not very common, so Fischer transposed a saxophone duet so the two could play together. Fischer gave Heger the music the day of Coffeehouse. “It was fun because everybody recognized the song and it was just a casual performance,” Heger said.

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NHS preparing for Fashion Show Madeline Marshall News Editor National Honors Society is back on the catwalk.

After last year’s debut NHS Fashion Show was a roaring success, NHS members are determined to make this year’s show even more fabulous. To do so, members have been reaching out to the Manhattan community and MHS students alike.

“It showcases MHS students as the models wearing clothes provided by businesses around Manhattan,” publicity chair and senior Francie Knackendoffel said. “It's a really fun event. There will also be a section of the show for the MHS Prom Shop that shows dresses that have been donated for MHS girls to wear for prom.”

In order to make the show a successful fundraiser, NHS asks Manhattan stores and companies for donations.

“This is the main event to fundraise for the club,” treasurer and senior Dheepthi Perumal said. “It is also an event where NHS comes together to accomplish something for the club and community. We want

the community to be involved and we do this by having local business provide the clothing for the show. Also, many of the door prizes are given by the local businesses. As an officer our main goal was improving from last year's fashion show.”

Much communication and planning is going into this couture production.

“We've divided into groups that each have one or two chairs and focus on one aspect of the show,” Knackendoffel said.

Each of these groups has a leader to help further maximize success. “[A major part of our planning has been] Communication from the beginning of the school year. Hopefully all the committees will come together on the final day,” Perumal said.

“The most important part of the show is seeing all the students that are a part of it be happy and enjoying it.”

The show, which will be at 7 p.m. on March 28, is hoped to be an enjoyable and successful event.

“NHS hopes to have a big turnout and to put on a fun show for everyone,” Knackendoffel said.

MHS offers experience for intern Angie Moss Business Manager

Counselors have many jobs to do, from talking to students to pre-enrolling them for the next year. This semester graduate student Amanda Applegren began interning in the Manhattan High counseling office.

Applegren is not new to MHS. She graduated from Manhattan High in 1998 and is now working with some of her old counselors.

“I graduated here myself in 1998 so one of the major experiences I’ve had are seeing all the changes, getting to see familiar faces, teachers that are still here,” Applegren said. “Some of the counselors are still here. As far as other experiences, I’m just implementing the new ACT Prep group and getting that done and it’s been pretty productive so far.”

Applegren is required to have 240 hours of direct service counseling hours for her graduation and has achieved about 50 hours so far working on projects that the counselors do not have as much

time to do, like implementing the ACT Prep program on Naviance. She has mostly worked with juniors that have not taken the ACT yet or students that are not strong in some of the skills needed to perform well on the ACT. “We’re just trying to give her projects that we don’t have as much time to do. She has requirements that she needs to have. She needs to meet with an individual and videotape them and work with a student,” Wichmann said. “She’s taking a class at the same time that correlates with her experience that she’s getting here.”

Interning at MHS gives Applegren experience that is needed when she graduates.

She is learning many new things about the career and what school counselors do throughout the day.

“One major thing that I’ve learned is that in the role of the school counselor you get assigned so many students per grade level,” Applegren said. “You’re supposed to see all of them at least once or twice throughout the year and how hard that actually really is when you have such a large

school as this to get through all of them and know their names and remember their faces and keep up to date with everything.”

While Applegren does her 240 hours of direct service counseling, she has to compile a portfolio that includes videotaped sessions with other students and explains what she plans on doing after she earns her degree and is licensed. One of the things that Applegren has to include is what grade level she would like to work with in her career, which is middle school.

“With elementary, I think elementary would be fun, it is a bit of a challenge with younger kids to get them to set down and really want to talk to you. You have to do a lot of play therapy with them. Middle school for me, it’s a huge transition period,” Applegren said. “I think that is where things start changing as far as bodies, attitudes, focusing more on friends, not on school type thing and really starting to think about high school and what they want to do after high school It’s a good middle ground.”

Scholars Bowl places sixth at Quest Alan Brown Features Editor The results of last January’s Quest competition have been released, revealing that the Manhattan High School Scholar’s Bowl team finished second best for 6A schools and in sixth place overall. Out of 70 schools, MHS was one out of the 16 that qualified for the televised event. The result solidified the team’s highest placement at Quest in the last five years.

“We did well. It felt good,” senior Ben Lindsey said. “I hope it left a legacy for the next generation of Scholar’s Bowl students. I hope they carry on what we’ve done.”

The Quest competition is a televised elimination tournament. Each team matchup is produced as a separate episode.

The event is held at Washburn University in Topeka annually and is aired on KTWU. Each episode premieres at 11 a.m. on Sundays and is eventually re-aired at 4:30 p.m. on Fridays. The television episodes that will feature MHS will preSee Scholars page 5

Students participate in Schulerkongress Dual credit opportunities increase Lorenz said. “And so we had a little bit of difficulty pulling it off in as organized of a fashion as we usually do but the stuThe German classes at dents didn’t realize it as much Manhattan High competed in and so everyone had a really the Schulerjkongress on Saturgood time and we were really day. Schulerkongress features excited about the results.” many different competitions.

Students “The stualso learned dents had the other things. opportunity “I think that to participate it was really in culture fun, I thought quiz, prose or it was going to poetry, readbe really boring ing, scavenger but it was fun,” hunt, there sophomore was a game Alisha Harroom, there rington said. were dance “I got to meet and chorus and a lot of people they could buy who spoke fluthings from a ent German. small store if German students pose after participating in Shuler Kongress. they talked to PHOTO BY ALE FLORES I didn’t know that many peothe spapofies ple spoke German.” who asked them in questions new format this year.

Of the students that went to “The organization was not in German,” German teacher that great this year because the event, 27 of them earned Elke Lorenz said.

Junior Nabil Hossain com- it was a new format for the medals or ribbons from their peted in the prose and poster Schulerkongress. We went events. The students are also from a more practice format looking forward to going back competitions.

“I initially signed up for the to a more proficiency format,” next year.

Joseph Sell Online Editor-in-Chief

Global News Madeline Marshall News Editor Global news is a vital part of news today and can directly affect MHS students.

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

singing but I didn’t have time,” Hossain said. “It was good, we placed. We did well overall for our school.”

This year the topic for the Kongress was “World Cup winners speak German.” The Schulerkongress also took on a

Alleged hackers charged US prosecutors have charged three men for their role in what is one of the largest data breaches in US history.

They stole nearly one billion email addresses between 2009 and 2012 by hacking into eight email service providers. The men then used their stolen data to spam millions of people and sell them fake products. They made over $2 million from this endeavor.

Giang Hoang Vu pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud, but Viet Quoc

Nguyen is still at large. These tow men allegedly used the stolen addresses to link people to websites selling fake Adobe software.

David-Manuel Santos Da Silva, the other defendant, has been charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Unarmed black teen killed by Wisconsin police Tony Terrell Robinson Jr., a graduate of Sun Prairie High School, was shot dead Friday

Angie Moss Business Manager There are several opportunities to earn college credit at Manhattan High School and more options will be added to the course description book for the 2015-2016 school year.

During the enrollment process at the beginning of the semester, students were told about the switch from using Kansas State University to earn dual credits to using Manhattan Area Technical College.

The switch is making it easier to afford taking college classes at MHS and also provides more class options like Public Speaking and Introduction to Sociology.

There are a few classes that are being added soon including Ag Welding 1, 2 and 3 as well as Welding Safety/OSHA 10, Cutting Processes, Welding Metallurgy, Arc Welding, Mig Welding and Computer Drafting.

“We haven’t completely up-

during a confrontation with a police officer in Madison, Wis. Robinson was unarmed.

Being yet another police shooting involving the death of a black person, this event has caused much outrage within the community. More than 100 protesters gathered at the scene of the shooting and chanted “Who can you trust?

Not the police.”

“You’re not protecting us, you’re killing us,” Robinson’s grandmother, Sharon Irwin, shouted at police as protesters rallied in the streets.

Police reportedly confronted Robinson, who was con-

dated the course description book because we just met with MATC last week on a few additions so as soon as we have all of the information we will update the electronic version that’s on the website and send that out,” Career and College Readiness Counselor Katie Ball said. “I’ll send out messages to all students and parents with the updated information to make sure that everybody knows what courses will be taught next year, which ones will be offered through MATC and all the changes that’ll be made.”

Some classes offered by MATC come with certifications that can be used in the workforce after passing the course.

“They’ll get an OSHA credit on it and that’s two credits and then three more credits for welding and cutting processes so it’ll be a five credit class that they get for free at MATC,” welding instructor Doug Muller said.

The computer drafter classes do not provide a certification, but students will have other benefits like earning four credits from MATC after passing the course.

“There should be two-fold advantages,” Computer Drafting teacher Monty Enright said. “Number one is they can get credit from MATC and number two is that now becomes a course that they can transfer to other universities too that they can tie in with a drafting program or engineering program.”

The final decisions will be made sometime this week and should be announced before spring break. If students would like to switch into any of the new classes, they will need to talk to their academic counselor.

nected to a previous report of battery. The officer who killed Robinson, 12-year department veteran Matt Kenny, had used deadly force before, shooting and killing a man in 2007.

online Saturday) the speaker says Boko Haram is announcing its “allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims, Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim al-Husseini al-Qurashi,” which is another name for ISIS leader Abu Bakr alBaghdadi. While media sources have not been able to independently verify the authenticity of the video, leading experts agree that this video is, in fact, real.

Boko Haram pledges allegiance to ISIS Boko Haram, the Nigeriabased Islamist terror group, has pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to an audio message that is supposedly from Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. In the audio (posted

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Stop denying public records for STORMING THE COURT: inappropriate reasons Fans must maintain sportsmanship THIS EDITORIAL IS A COMPILATION FROM A DISCUSSION HELD BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD. TO LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION THAT LED TO THIS PIECE, VISIT WWW.MHSMENTOR.COM Sexual assault is defined by www.justice.gov as being “any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape.”

Because of the variety of meanings the term carries, The University Daily Kansan at Kansas University requested files from the university that would share context of the 168 reported cases of sexual assault in 2014, more than double the

number filed in 2012, to create an accurate database and map the trends in sexual assault.

The Mentor editorial board met to discuss the actions and motives of each party and determine whether the university is justified in its denial of the records.

The UDK as a publication has an obligation to report accurate, relevant information to the students of KU over whatever topics they deem of importance. The university isn’t in a legal position under the Kansas Open Records Act to deny public records to anyone, let alone the media.

They have claimed releasing this information, that doesn’t even include names, will violate privacy and discourage students from reporting sexual assault in the future. Not only is that not an irrelevant opinion because of KORA, we believe a more likely reason for

withholding the information is an attempt by the university to keep attention away from the number of cases that seems to only be rising.

When sexual assault rates on a campus rise the fear is that enrollment numbers will fall, which of course will mean less money coming into the university. The UDK feels the best way to prevent future assault is to provide information to the students. The university’s “fear” that releasing and publishing information would discourage students from reporting attacks seems completely unjustified. If anything, it will encourage victims to report such incidents by making them realize they aren’t alone, and maybe if they see the university actually making attempts to resolve rather than hide the issue they would be reporting assault in the first place.

Stop complaining about classwork

I was sitting in one of my classes last week when my teacher handed us a crossword puzzle to complete in class.

Immediately the entire room was filled with “Why do we have to do this?”, “These crosswords are so stupid!”, “Can we do something else?” and “Why don’t we just do nothing today?”

This happens nearly every.

Single. Day. Stop it.

The question constantly crossing my mind is “if you don’t want to do the work, then why bother to show up for the class?”

For the record, I am by no means a perfect individual when it comes to my school work. I understand that some days you wake up and realize that you’re not going to

do anything in class today because you’re tired and drowning in senioritis (doesn’t matter if you’re a senior or not; if you’re in high school, you probably have it -- it’s definitely a thing). That happens from time to time.

But come on, wake up.

Students need to appreciate the fact that teachers do so much more than what you see in their class.

I don’t know how many times I’ve walked around the school after seventh hour has ended, and see a teachers in their classrooms, taking the extra time out of their day to try and make their classes more enjoyable for students.

Their purpose is to help us learn and retain the information that they are trying to get across to us.

The fact that they take the extra time out of their day to make their classes more enjoyable for us should be applauded, not completely disregarded because you don’t want to do an easy 10 minute crossword.

Face it, you could be covering the same material at home, taking notes from a book.

Next time you want to complain for 45 minutes because a teacher gave you work for a CLASS, think of that.

Stop complaining about the work teachers give you.

Also, if you don’t do the work for a class, don’t expect teachers to hand you a decent grade on a silver platter.

Homework, in-class assignments, projects and tests are what mainly affects your grade. You really want that ‘A’ in English?

Shut up, buckle down, and Do. Your. Work.

It can stink, but it’s well worth it.

Not only will you keep your grades in good standing, but you will be more eligible for things such as scholarships and building a good work ethic in school will help you in the workforce as well.

Remember, school is a privilege, not a right. Stop being lazy and make the most of it.

On the morning of Feb. 23, Kansas State basketball was a mess. The team was on track to finish the season with a losing record, cries for head coach Bruce Weber’s dismissal were louder than ever and optimism for the program was at a low point. As K-State prepared to take on their higher ranked arch rival, The University of Kansas, the outlook seemed bleak. K-State and KU fans alike chalked the game up as a win for the Jayhawks before the game had even begun.

But that night, something special happened. In sports, it’s sometimes referred to as “the magic factor.” K-State came out of the gates more motivated than ever and played perhaps their finest game of the year. When the final buzzer sounded, the Wildcats shocked the nation by coming out victorious, 70-63. As expected, K-State fans in stands

rushed the court in waves.

On the surface, it seemed like the typical college basketball celebration. Looking at the situation closer, however, controversy and chaos abounded.

Fans surrounded the KU players, some deciding to bump and taunt them. KU coach Bill Self found himself pinned in a corner, and one Jayhawk assistant coach resorted to putting a student in a headlock. Unsportsmanlike conduct was an issue that night.

This brings to light an issue that has long been debated in college basketball. Should fans be allowed to storm the court?

Being able to storm the court and celebrate with the team is a privilege given to fans. In order to have privileges, you must abide by the rules and be responsible.The responsibility of the fans in this situation was to carry themselves in a respectful manner.

While many stayed true to this principle, there were others who did not. Once the idea of storming the court becomes more about taunting your opponent than appreciating the victory of your team, it’s gone too far.

Sportsmanship is an important component of any sport. If a K-State player were to have taunted the KU bench during the game, they would have been punished by a technical foul. If players are to be held to certain standards of sportsmanship, so too should the fans.

At the same time, that’s not to say that storming the court should be done away with entirely. In most instances, it’s a harmless way for fans to celebrate a win and to have a good time. The whole point of watching sports is to be entertained after all. If it’s done the right way, it should not be a problem.

To the credit of K-State, later in the week the university prohibited any spectator to approach the court following the team’s home upset of Iowa State. This was handled correctly. While court storming hasn’t been officially banned at Bramlage, fair and reasonable punishment was enforced. It should come as a reminder to not just K-State fans, but to college athletics fans across the entire nation, to be good sports.

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Question of the Week:

What do you wish you could do for Spring Break? What are you actually doing?

“I will be changing diapers,” Choir Director Chad Pape, @PapeMHSChoirs

“I’m going to Colorado, wish I was going to the beach,” senior Rose Gruenbacher, @roseevelyn_grue

“I would love to go to Latin America and do some more volunteer work. Instead I’m going to Iowa,” Junior Krista Burton, @itskristaanne

“We would love to sleep in and stay parked for 7 days!”

USD 383 transportation, @BusUSD383

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Discriminatory bills will create backlash if passed, damage states’ reputations

According to an article from last Thursday’s edition of “The New York Times,” “state legislatures across the country are taking up bills that would make it easier for businesses and individuals to opt out of serving gay couples on religious grounds,” due to the rising possibility that the Supreme Court will “establish a nationwide right to same-sex marriage later this year.”

This is unsettling.

I’m a believer in giving individuals and humanity the benefit of the doubt. People are basically good, in my eyes.

However, a huge chunk of any hope for humanity I have has become tainted with antipathy at the disturbing report that American people in today’s society would consider it their right to be allowed to turn someone away -- to straight-

up discriminate against them -- because they’re different.

As much as I’d like to say that this is a shocker, it’s not. I may be a bit of an idealist, but I’m a practical one. My idealism has not reduced me to naivety; I know there are people who discriminate based on superficial differences, and that this is just the way of the world, unfortunately. But In our diverse country, one would think -- or like to believe, I suppose -- that we’d be at a point where we could get past all of that.

It’s completely ludicrous to consider having, or to even to propose, laws that would allow business owners to refuse service to gay or lesbian couples, even on account of religious beliefs.

True, America has all kinds of policies regarding the protection of free exercise of any religion, but how does serving or the general existence of a gay or lesbian couple have a negative effect on anyone else?

Of course, any religion may have its own reasons for not accepting every sexuality, but just because you don’t

believe something is acceptable doesn’t grant the right to use your freedoms to infringe upon their freedoms. That’s against everything America is supposed to stand for. Plus, it’s hypocritical. What if someone wanted to refuse to serve someone because of his or her religion? That wouldn’t be right. Just like refusing service to a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender individual wouldn’t be right.

The laws of our country don’t stand for the rights of religions to be imposed upon, so they shouldn’t stand for the rights of sexual orientations -or races or sexes -- to be imposed upon, either.

A person or people, by being gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender or straight or whatever sexual orientation, cannot likely affect you directly anyway, no matter what your faith is, so there’s no reason to discriminate. Besides, who’s to decide who to not provide a service to when there may not even be proof of someone’s sexual orientation? Who’s to say who’s who, who walks into

a store or restaurant? The suggestion in these possible bills is far too open-ended to be ethical or fair, beside the fact that it’s cruel and unjust.

“The New York Times’” article stated that “some of the new bills are already experiencing pushback from businesses and prominent conservatives who are concerned that they might lead to boycotts or harm their states’ reputations.”

States that consider taking these discriminatory bills to any form of a higher level SHOULD be concerned because these bills WILL lead to forms of protest or civil disobedience if they are passed and put into effect. They will lead to the decay of the states’ reputations, and that would just be just desserts, wouldn’t it? Although one cannot assume that every single person in one state is discriminatory, it would certainly be fair that those who were discriminatory and supported this bill or imposed this law on people if it were to be passed to gain a bad reputation.

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Wood tech class crafts chairs

Left: Sophomore Welsey Conrow and junior Matt Cunningham cut off slabs of wood during their the sixth hour wood tech class. The students are currently working on building chairs. Each student had a special job assigned to them, collaborating to complete the project. Right: Junior Micah Poulson focuses on cutting his wood precisely during his chair project. Once the chairs are completed, they will be available for purchase. photos by Darian Foga-Frehn Darian Foga-Frehn Staff Writer The fifth and sixth hour Wood Technology classes are building chairs for their newest project.

Monty Enright, class instructor, is excited to see the end results of what his students will bring.

“The wood tech is involved in a mass production unit and we’re using the same project they’ve used for quite a few years,” Enright said. “It’s an Adirondack chair, which is a leisure chair for outside.

It’s really a nice little project because it doesn’t involve a lot of difficult machine operations. We can build about 25 of them in somewhere between about seven to ten days.”

Each student has a different job in the project, yet they work together as a class to do each chair.

“We’re all working on a certain part of the project. Some guys are cutting out the arms, other guys are assembling it together,” sophomore Brandon Breeden said.

This isn’t the first time Wood Tech have made the

chairs.

“This project has been used quite a bit in the last few years,” Enright said. “In the past they’ve built a lot of chairs.

We’re not going to build quite the number they did. I think I’ve settled on 100 of them.

Hopefully the project will be done in a four- to five-week period.”

The project has been a great learning experience for students.

“Learning how to do the drilling has been the most beneficial part,” sophomore Matthew Velasquez said.

Breeden agrees and enjoys tracing as well.

“Drilling or tracing [has been the most beneficial learning experience],” Breeden said.

“You get to learn your measurements and depths. The hardest part is carrying [the finished chairs] off into another room.”

Enright argues that the monotony of the work is the most difficult.

“The hardest part is realizing that you don’t get to do a lot of variety of jobs,” Enright said. “You may be assigned just to attach legs, assemble

the seats, so that one of the things it does teach is that in mass production a lot of it is assembly line production, and so trying to stay motivated at that time can sometimes be difficult.”

The project teaches students about the ins and outs of mass production, which will help them if they want to work in that industry.

“I think when we’re done they’ll grasp the knowledge of what assembly line mass production is and the ability to work as a class to complete the project,” Enright said.

After the chairs are made, the class will sell them to students and staff.

“The kids get first shot at [the chairs],” Enright said.

“At the point they’ve bought what they want, we’ll sell to the people at the High School first to whoever wants one. If we have any left then we’ll sell to the rest of the people in the district, but I don’t think there will be a lot left. We’re only making a hundred. Last year they made around 250 and there still wasn’t enough.

We’re going to sell them for $35 a piece.”

Noel Gallagher pursues new tomorrow in “Chasing Yesterday”

Noel Gallagher knows what it is like to be on top of the world.

“The Chief ” or “The Godlike Genius,” as he is fondly called by the Oasis faithful, is one of the pinnacles of British rock ‘n’ roll. After founding the band Oasis, together he and his brother Liam took over his native island like a storm. It wasn’t uncommon to hear the group being referred to as the next Beatles. In fact, at their peak in the late ’90s, the band was overwhelming voted the biggest band in history over the likes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin by many tabloids. To this day, Oasis still retains the title of fastest selling album (Be Here Now, 1997) in British history. Their most popular song, “Wonderwall,” still makes an occasional radio appearance today.

Now that nearly 20 years have come and gone since the golden age of Britpop, Gallagher is no longer the hero of rock that he once was. The 2000s proved to be a dark age for Oasis, which saw the band halfheartedly put out mediocre albums and experience declining popularity. The group disbanded for good in 2009 after a dispute over flying fruit.

Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to see Gallagher spending his time sitting back watching Manchester City soccer games on television, admiring his collection of trainers, or taking shots at today’s biggest music stars such as Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Alex Turner. According to Galla-

gher, he’d “rather drink petrol straight from the nozzle at a garage” than listen to any interview featuring Turner.

Based on these instances alone, one would assume he is bitter about his current situation.

Surely he must have a nostalgic longing for the good old days when Oasis was still the king of music.

But free from the strings that attached him in Oasis, the middle aged rocker seems to have found new life.

According to critics, Gallagher’s 2011 debut solo album was his best work since the turn of the century.

Because of this, and despite the name of his new album, “Chasing Yesterday,” he isn’t looking back to the fame nor the sound of his past. He’s been there, done that.

Now Gallagher considers himself to be an explorer, journeying through the fresh and modern terrain of alternative music.

Throughout the album, he finds himself combining instruments and vibrant sounds in ways that were once impossible with Oasis. The album proves to be enchanting and truly a breath of fresh air for

the Manchester native.

“Chasing Yesterday” begins with one of its most complete tracks, “Riverman.” The re-

laxed, dreamy flow of the song indeed prompts the listener to think of a rolling river. “All of the love that was left behind is gone...like a memory that fades, she disappears again,”

sings Gallagher. It is at this moment where the true significance of the album’s title it is first revealed. Gallagher is not

him. The song seems destined to go down as one of Gallagher’s classic songs, mirroring the gentle cries of love from “If I Had A Gun” before it. “Behind me lie the years that I misspent...I was told that the streets were paved with gold and there would be no time for getting old when we were young,” he sings, looking back on his youth.

Gallagher has always been a lyrical genius, and he continues to find his writing rhythm on this track.

“We’ll fight the dying of the light and catch the sun” may be as fine a lyric as he has ever penned.

The album also features many other elaborate gems that stretch the boundaries of Gallagher’s musical imagination.

“The Ballad of The Mighty I,” for example, seems to glide with a continuous wave of energetic pulses.

It is on this song where fellow rock legend Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths, makes his appearance.

Marr blankets his sound behind Gallagher’s vast colPHOTO COURTEST OF NOELGALLAGER..COM lection of instrumentals, but plays chasing fame and fortune. He a crucial role in the rhythm of seeks youth and lost love. the song.

Gallagher finds his most “The Right Stuff ” may be emotional moment on “The the most uncharacteristic song Dying Of The Light,” which in Gallagher’s career. He takes in turn brings out the best in great pride in the fact that he

MHS ceramics class holds Skype interview with Mexican artist Erick Echegaray Staff Writer

Manhattan High had a special visitor on March 3 in the form of Gibran Morales, a Mexican artist who currently lives in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. He skyped with the students in the Ceramics I class to talk about his art and his culture and also to inspire students with his work.

“We learned about the culture there, and some of the artist and the art that they do,”

sophomore Isabel Dritz said.

She along other students in Ceramics I skyped with Morales in Rezac Auditorium during third hour.

“I learned that art can be really important,” sophomore Angel Fraire said. He along other students agreed that it was a good experience and enjoyed the conference.

Morales showed off some of his traditional Oaxacan traditional wood carvings in the hour long skype conference.

The interview was scheduled

by art teacher Sarah Rempel and her niece-in-law who was a born and raised in Oaxaca.

This interview was scheduled to give out information about the culture, art work and people of this area.

“It’s very creative, and I like the designs,” sophomore Melisa Cross said.

The students learned a lot about the Mexican people and culture from the conference.

It also inspired other students to continue their arts.

“He really inspired me to

progress in my art career, I love art and I love the way clay feels between my hands,” sophomore Jason Bryant said.

“It’s my favorite form of art.

I wanted to learn how to use my pottery wheel that I have at home,” Dritz said.

In the end, many of the students agreed that this experience was an interesting one and that they would like to be involved in something like this in the future.

managed to incorporate “space jazz” on the track, along with the occasional injection of electric guitar shocks. What is most unusual about the song is that Gallagher duets with a female singer, which he had never attempted before. “You and I got the right the right stuff,” they whisper. After becoming lost in the song’s tender melody, it’s hard to argue with them.

Despite his new direction, Gallagher hasn’t completely forgotten about his days with Oasis. Many of the songs on the album, including “Lock All The Doors” and “Revolution Song,” have roots tracing back to the ’90s. “Lock All The Doors,” once a demo for Oasis, was abandoned because of Gallagher’s inability to find a complement to the chorus.

Now that it has resurfaced, the sounds of “Definitely Maybe” within it remain apparent. In fact, its buzzing guitar and energy seem to be the perfect fit for the vocals of Gallagher’s younger brother, Liam. It shows just how much Liam, the former frontman and primary singer for Oasis, continues to loom over Noel.

In “Chasing Yesterday,” Gallagher has rediscovered his creative spirit. The production, done by Gallagher himself, is impressive. The new, smooth, alternative direction that he has chosen to pursue has led him to a new tomorrow, and a true career revival. As of Monday, the album became the fastest selling album of 2015 and rose to number one in the UK charts. There has been little love lost for Gallagher in his home country. It’s true that the times when he held absolute power over the entire British music scene are long gone, but maybe that’s just fine with him.

Perhaps Gallagher says it best when he sings, “it’s alright, you know we can’t go back.”

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Cool checks in at third at national competition in New York John Rockey Senior Staff Writer Not all runners will compete at the national level like Manhattan High cross country coach Kory Cool.

In his 20th marathon, Cool took third nationally at the United States Track & Field 50km (31 miles) competition in Long Island on March 1. Needing a six-minute mile pace, the national

race stood as a new challenge to Cool.

“It was on my radar for a while and I wanted to compete with the best in the nation,” Cool said. “I did a lot of marathons last spring. I ran three of them in three weeks. So the recovery time was short on that and I felt that prepared me well going into this.”

In a small park on Long Island, Cool went in expecting a six-minute pace and finishing

in the top 10 overall. Starting out the first few miles, he was over a six-minute pace and made it to ninth place up until mile 16. Then he started passing people.

“I got lucky in the sense that a few guys probably went out a lot harder than they should’ve and ended up dying pretty hard,” Cool said. “So I was able to catch them towards the end.”

Competing in 20 local mar-

athons in 15 different states, the feeling of passing worldclass competition in his longest race stuck with Cool.

“They’re aggressive,” Cool said. “I think I’m the only guy in the top five that doesn’t have a shoe deal. I’m the only guy in the top five that hasn’t made a world championship team. So it’s kind of nice to beat somebody like that.”

Preparation for the race required more than running 104

miles a week before the race.

“There’s a lot of sacrifice,” Cool said. “I went up there by myself, so I left my family at home. I had to take two days off work and spent a lot of money out of my pocket and I had a lot of people helping in the community too. So it was a big sacrifice and a lot of weight on my shoulders and when I finished, it was all worth it.”

Coming back to Manhattan to coach long distance for

track, Cool owes his ability in the race to the cross country team and community that got him there in the first place.

“They actually help me more than they know,” Cool said. “If I wasn’t around them every day, feeding off their motivation and their desire, it’d be a lot harder for me to do this. So I thank them a lot for them helping me.”

Girls earn second straight trip to State

Seniors Savannah Thaemert, Savannah Roberts, Caroline Ballard and Amara Ehie celebrate with the sub-state champions plaque Saturday night after Manhattan beat Topeka High 62-40 to return to State.

PHOTO BY GREG WOODS Greg Woods Sports Editor The Manhattan High girls basketball team advanced to its sub-state bracket’s championship game with a 69-26 win Thursday night over Wichita Southeast. The Lady Indians forced Southeast into 27 total turnovers, an aspect head coach Scott Mall said came from a combination of both teams.

“I thought, early, it was us applying pressure,” Mall said.

“We thought they were susceptible to some zone trap full court, and I thought our girls did a good job of that, getting some traps, making [Southeast] turn the ball over. Then they made some bad plays.”

Senior Caroline Ballard paced Manhattan with 15 points, while fellow senior Savannah Thaemert added eight points. Mall explained that he was pleased with Thaemert’s contribution, whose role this year hasn’t always been in the scoring department.

“It’s good to see,” Mall said.

“Savannah works so hard. She

does all the little things all the time; she just isn’t focused on scoring for herself. So it was nice get her some really good looks where she could have a chance to put the ball in the basket.”

The Lady Indians raced out to a 23-8 lead after the first frame, and tallied 19 more points in the second. Manhattan took a 42-13 advantage into halftime, and Mall said he was content with his team’s performance through two quarters.

“We did a good job of doing what we wanted to do the first half, and not let down,” Mall said. “We didn’t want to press in the second half, and make sure we came out and played really good half-court defense, and then again we’re aggressive on offense.”

Manhattan forced Wichita Southeast into six more turnovers in the third and allowed the Golden Buffaloes just six points. The Lady Indians added 19 more points and led 61-19 heading into the final frame.

The fourth quarter’s clock

was a running clock, and MHS got four points from sophomore Kennedy Wilson in the final period en route to the 6926 win.

Manhattan hosts Topeka High Saturday at 7 p.m. in its sub-state bracket’s title game.

The Trojans’ Adrianna Henderson has been a scoring threat for T-High this year, and Ballard explained that defending Henderson will be a focus of Manhattan’s.

“We’ve got to work on containing her, and not letting her get to the basket easy,” Ballard said. “And trying to shut her down from the start.”

MHS 62, TOPEKA HIGH 40 Behind 15-point efforts from sophomore Gigi McAtee and senior Caroline Ballard Saturday night, the Manhattan High girls basketball team earned its second-consecutive trip to the Kansas 6A State tournament. The Lady Indians routed Topeka High 62-40 and grabbed 32 rebounds in the process, an aspect Ballard explained was a focus of Manhat-

tan’s entering the contest.

“We knew we could offensive rebound against [Topeka High],” Ballard said. “We really attacked hard.”

Despite the 22-point win, head coach Scott Mall said that the scoreboard didn’t reflect the game’s feel.

“For a game that ended up with that kind of a point spread, it never felt easy at all,” Mall said. “We had to keep working hard on both ends of the court and the girls stuck with it and stuck with it and stuck with it. [We] hit some big shots… In the first half, [we] made some big defensive plays that really helped throughout the game.”

Mall explained that defending T-High’s Adrianna Henderson, who finished with 23 points, was an area of focus for his team. “[Henderson] is so good,” Mall said. “She’s so good at getting penetration and she hit some outside shots tonight.

We made some mistakes early in trying to reach for the ball instead of just trying to get position and get her stopped,

but it’s hard because she does so many things that you don’t see.”

Manhattan took an 18-11 lead after the first frame, and Ballard said that the early success contributed to the outcome.

“We were moving the ball well [early],” Ballard said. “We had played against their zone before; we knew where the openings were, and I feel like we did a good job getting the ball there.”

Manhattan opened the second period on a 6-0 run with contributions from three different Lady Indians. MHS outscored the Trojans 15-12 in the quarter, with aid from five more points from Ballard, and took a 33-23 lead into intermission.

Manhattan tallied three more points than Topeka High in the third, but T-High trimmed the lead to seven midway through the quarter.

Mall explained that his team’s offense was to thank after the Lady Indians later regained a double-digit lead following the 4-1 Topeka High run.

“It was tough,” Mall said.

“It made it really tense in there because [T-High was] on a nice run and we got some good looks and didn’t get the ball in the basket. But then we got a couple of stops on the defensive end. And then offensively we hit some big shots, especially some big outside shots.”

Manhattan led 48-36 heading into the final frame.

The Lady Indians allowed Topeka High just four points in the fourth quarter, and McAtee tallied eight points in the fourth alone. Overall, Manhattan shot 9-for-18 from beyond the arc, an aspect McAtee explained contributed to the win.

“I think we just started hitting shots,” McAtee said. “And when it wasn’t working inside we kicked out, and they got us the ball.”

The State tournament begins this Thursday at Koch Arena in Wichita and wraps up Saturday. Manhattan takes on Shawnee Mission Northwest at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday.

Swimmers and divers prepare for Boys stunned by Washburn Rural in first round of sub-state 2015 campaign with newcomers tire program with all 33 guys, “[I told the players] that off eight unanswered points Greg Woods John Rockey Senior Staff Writer The Manhattan High girls swim and dive team has plenty to look forward to in their first weeks of the season. Their first meets come right after spring break and they’ve spent their first weeks of practice coming together as a team.

“We lost a lot of big swimmers, seniors and people choosing to do club [swimming],” senior Katie Bussmann said. “So this is a rebuilding year where everyone is realizing that they have to step up to the plate and this year is more about self-improving and improving the team all together than it is accomplishing awards.”

As a senior, Bussmann sees excitement and challenges from leading the team this season.

“I’m excited for being with my teammates and helping them improve technique-wise and having the right attitudes at some meets and not being tired and not wanting to do events,” Bussmann said. “[During] spring break, a lot of people leave. So we’re just getting back in shape and then everyone is gone for a week. So

it’ll be really interesting to see because the first meet is usually the toughest.”

The returning swimmers come back with a ninth-place finish at State last season with several first-place victories throughout the season that went into their postseason.

The returners now carry on their coaches’ advice to the large group of new swimmers appearing this year. “[The coaches have said] to not give up,” senior Alyssa Frey said. “To all the newbies, stay in for at least two weeks because it is a hard sport and you do work every single part of your body. It’s difficult, but to stick with it and not give up right away because it is a lot of fun once you get into the season.”

Each practice is spent in p reparation for the first meets on March 25 at Emporia and the first home meet of the season March 27. Between newer and older swimmers, getting to come together as one team right from the start holds promise for the swimmers.

“It’s really exciting because everyone has a big passion for swimming,” senior Emily Cox said. “So it’s nice to see everyone coming together.”

Sports Editor

The Manhattan High boys basketball team’s season was ended Wednesday night.

The Indians dropped a 5958 decision to Washburn Rural in the first game of the Kansas 6A sub-state bracket, Manhattan’s first loss since Jan. 24 to McPherson. Head coach Benji George explained that his team was emotional after the loss.

“I wish that we could have helped get those three [seniors] farther because they deserve it,” George said. “There’s definitely some hurt kids in the locker room.”

MHS finishes the season at 18-3 overall with an outright Centennial League title and wins over every team in the league. This year’s team is only the fourth in school history to win 18 games in a regular season, and George said that he was pleased with the run his team made.

“We tried to talk about the fact that that the three seniors have laid a foundation and have started something special,” George said. “I really wish that I could have helped get them further because they deserve it, and I couldn’t have been any more proud of our three seniors and really the en-

the way they represent the community of Manhattan and represent the school.”

Manhattan took a 12-7 advantage into the second frame, but the second period would prove to change the game.

Washburn Rural hit six threes in the quarter alone and outscored the Indians 20-13, an ability of the Junior Blues that

we weren’t that down at halftime just because we’ve been in those games all year, [like] the Junction [City] game and the game at their place,” George said. “They knew that they had been in that spot before. So, really, at halftime I thought our mentality was just fine.”

The third frame saw a swing of momentum in Manhattan’s favor. The Indians outscored Washburn Rural 15-8 in It’s the one thing that the third and went worried me was if on a 9-6 run to take a 35-31 lead behind [Washburn Rural] had two dunks from sea night that they were nior Pierson McAtee, who explained hot.” -v George that his team’s defense was to thank.

George said worried him.

“We got it going defensive“It’s really the only thing ly,” McAtee said. “That’s how that worried me with this we’ve kind of been all year. We matchup, it’s the one thing that get down and we get our deworried me was if [Washburn fense back into our offense.”

Rural] had a night that they Sophomore Trevor were hot and we had a night Hudgins converted on an andthat we weren’t,” George said. one opportunity to close the “We’ve shot the ball pretty well third quarter, and Manhattan here and we’ve shot the ball led 40-35 heading into the fipretty well lately, but offense is nal frame. a fleeting thing. It comes and The teams traded baskets it goes.” to begin the fourth quarter, Washburn Rural took a 27- as Hudgins tallied a quick five 25 advantage into halftime, but points to give MHS a 47-46 George explained that the defi- lead at the 3:45 mark. From cit didn’t bother him. there, Washburn Rural rattled

“

and took a 54-47 lead with 1:33 left. Junior Gabe Awbrey added two points later to trim the deficit to 57-55 with 4.7 seconds left, but Rural made 16of-24 free throws in the fourth quarter and put the game out of reach with two free throws after Awbrey’s basket.

Awbrey explained that the team will use the loss as motivation for next year. “[We’ll] use it as fuel for next year,” Awbrey said. “[We’ll] get back at it; a lot of us will be playing this summer, and get ready for next year. We think we can do special things next year.”

“It’s a special group; I’ll never forget it,” McAtee said.

“You have to live with regret sometimes. Sometimes the hard way.”

STAT BREAKDOWN

PLAYER POINTS Cole Dillon...........................2 Garrett Francis.....................4 Trevor Hudgins.................13 Grant Munsen......................5 Gabe Awbrey......................14 Pierson McAtee.................13 Cole Gritton.........................2 Robbie Ostermann..............5

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Entertainment

Thespian Coffeehouse

provides positive environment for talent Ale Flores Staff Writer Last Friday night, Manhattan High Thespians had a “coffeehouse” event, at which any student could stop by and show their talent if they brought a dollar or food.

While students presented their talents, members of the audience were able to get snacks and drink coffee or soda. Students who attended participated enthusiastically and had a variety of talents to showcase; students sang, played instruments, acted and more.

“It was an extremely fun night. We need more people to participate. My favorite part was the improvised experimental piece,” junior Savannah Smith said.

Most who attended the event also performed a talent and shared in the excitement and supportive atmosphere of the night.

Students had a lot of fun sharing their talents and food.

“This was an exceptionally funny night with unexpected acts. My favorite part of the night was laughing with everyone,” senior Madeline Wilson, Thespian club president, said.

For the performers of the evening, the Thespian Coffeehouse served as way of self-expression in a comfortable environment, centered around positivity and surrounded by supporters.

“It has been a very fun and interesting night,” sophomore Emma Kellogg said.

“I love the aspect of it that makes me feel comfortable to be myself, and I love how you do something random and everyone loves it.”

Sophomores Sydney Morrison and Emma Kellogg and junior Emma Galitzer sing and play ukelele during a musical performance at the Thespian Coffeehouse last Friday evening in the Black Box Theatre.

Photo by ale flores

MHS concert band prepares for first concert of year Elassia Cunningham Staff Writer After over two months of rehearsals, Manhattan High’s concert band is ready to end the third quarter with their first concert of the year.

Last week, the band focused on polishing the pieces that the musicians were working on over the past nine weeks. The band practiced in Rezac Auditorium on Wednesday and Thursday to see how the band sounds on stage compared to the different sound the band has in the band room.

“The change of setting changes how the full ensemble sounds,” senior Jay Garber

said.

Compared to other concerts, Garber said that this concert includes some of the more challenging musical pieces that band will play.

“This is our more serious concert,” Garber said. “The one [concert] in May is more of a pops concert, more kind of like, happy-go-lucky tunes.

This is more like, harder material, more technically challenging, often times.”

However, senior Danny Aramouni enjoys the challenge of learning more technical music.

“I think they’re fun pieces,” Aramouni said “They’re definitely fun pieces. It’s helping us grow as a band. [The pieces]

gives us some work.”

Aramouni still recognizes the difficulty of the arrangements.

“The band was startled with ‘Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo,’ but we’ve worked hard on it,” Aramouni said. “I think that we’ll sound good. I mean, none of it is easy, but we will sound good and be ready.”

The band tried several pieces during the semester. However, junior Elaine Snowden said that the band had an idea of what they would play at the concert early in the quarter.

“We’ve been working on it most of the quarter,” Snowden said. “And we’ll try out different songs sometimes, but

once we’ve figured out what songs we’ll play we’ll just work on those mainly. [We’ll know what we are playing] probably about week or two into the quarter. It doesn’t take very long to figure out what Mr. [Joel] Gittle wants to play. ” Garber and Aramouni have felt the challenge of the music, but the two musicians, who were also part of marching band, believe that both marching band and concert band have challenges of their own.

“In each marching band thing, be it on the fields or the one concert we did at the end of the year in the auditorium, you’re there to watch a show,” Garber said. “You’re putting on

a show for your audience. This show is an aural show rather than a visual show. Marching band is very flashy; you’re watching formations be made.

This is purely aural.”

Aramouni stated that the music performed in marching band is easier, and that concert music is more challenging.

“I prefer concert music because I like being challenged by the music,” Aramouni said.

“The marching has its own challenges. Like marching.”

New pieces are not the only challenge for band this quarter. Senior April Ascher said that after audition cuts, it took some time to adjust to the new band at the beginning of the

semester.

“At the very beginning, he had to, like, learn the new band,” Ascher said. “Each year people leave and new people come in and you have to test the waters and see what this year is particularly good at.

This year, they cut a whole bunch of people, so we’re getting used to the smaller band atmosphere.”

Despite hard music and a new band, concert band members feel ready for the concert and encourage people to come out tonight and support the band.

MHS Jazz Band opens for Friends University Jazz Ensemble at Columbian Music Hall Elassia Cunningham Staff Writer Not every high school jazz band has the opportunity to open a show for advanced musical groups.

When jazz band director Nate McClendon was approached with an offer for Manhattan High’s jazz band to open for the Friends University Jazz Ensemble at the Colombian Music Hall in Wamego he couldn’t refuse the offer.

“I was contacted by Friends University in the fall of this year to be the opening act for their concert at the Columbian Theater in Wamego, so course I said, ‘Yeah, we want to do that,’” McClendon said.

The concert featured three acts including Manhattan’s own jazz band, the jazz band from Friends University and the Hutchinson Community College Jazz Choir.

Two weeks prior to the concert, jazz band performed the

Friends University Jazz festival.

“It was the first time the jazz band has traveled and participated in a music festival,” McClendon said. “We played incredibly well. The band was very well received by the audience. It was a lot of fun.”

Since their return from the festival, McClendon says that the jazz band ran through some of the pieces they performed at their previous concert.

MHS students prepare for spring play with auditions Alejandra Flores Staff Writer Last Monday and Tuesday evening, students interested in participating in Manhattan High’s spring production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” auditioned for the play. According to junior Austin Grand Pre, the event was satisfying.

“It went very well. There were a lot of freshmen; I was really excited to see them wanting to participate, and the auditions went great,” Grand Pre, who has been cast in the show as Oberon, the fairy king, said. “We had to ran-

domly dance for 30 seconds in a Backstreet Boys style. It was the funniest moment.”

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the most popular comedies written by Shakespeare, is a play that has been performed all around the world. One of the the world’s most popular love stories, it describes the adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and a few mischievous fair folk, including the infamous Puck, a jokester fairy. The story takes place in a mythical ancient Athens and an enchanted forest.

“I am really excited, feel blessed. My character is kind

of like a Peter Pan character, and he messes everything up,” junior Savannah Smith, who has been cast as Puck [Robin Goodfellow], said. “The audition was lovely; we got to dance.”

Luke Stramel, who graduated from MHS in 2005, is directing the production and helping Linda Uthoff, MHS drama teacher, produce it.

“We haven’t done Shakespeare in six years, and the last time we did ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was in 1999,” Uthoff said.

Despite the absence of some members of the band, senior Ethan Levin said the performance went on successful.

“We were missing our lead alto last night, but we were able to pull through that and have an amazing performance,” Levine said.

After performing, the jazz band had the opportunity to watch the other performers.

“We got to see some very high level performers after we got done playing,” Levin

said. “We got to experience some other styles of jazz. They opened up for us at our last performance, so it was sort of an ironic twist.”

For senior Jacob Steward, watching the groups perform was a learning experience.

“It was a good to experience a band perform, and hopefully we can learn something from that,” Steward said.

According to McClendon, the only way for the band to gain experience as musicians

and become more comfortable performing is to perform in front of more crowds.

“That’s the nice thing about getting to perform,” McClendon said. “Each time we perform, the group gets more comfortable; they become better performers. We’re already good musicians, but performing is a different art. So, each time they get a little more relaxed and play a little more aggressively.”

Scholars from page 1 miere on March 8, April 19 and May 10.

“I was more nervous than usual going into the competition because I knew there was a wider viewership,” Lindsey said. “But I also tried staying relaxed at the same time.”

Manhattan High’s team included seniors Luke Wuri, Ben Broxterman, Kyle Weston and Lindsey as well as junior Josh Schwartz. As members of the Scholars Team, these students met on Mondays and Tuesdays each week to prepare for competitions such as these.

“Essentially what we do is look at old question banks, going back years and years. We just go over a lot of questions, lots and lots of questions. It’s an exposure to a lot of information,” assistant coach Tim Ekart said. “It is something they have a good time with.”

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Madeline Wilson senior

do you have Any plans this Spring Break?

Sarah Stewart junior

do you have Any plans this Spring Break?

“At the end of the week I’m going to Hays for the Special Olympiad State Tournament. I turn 18 on the 14, which is Pi Day.”

“My birthday is this upcoming Wednesday so for Spring Break my whole family is coming up for my birthday and we’re having this big bash.”

What do you like about having a week off?

do you have any goals for that week?

“You have more time to yourself and you don’t have to be ‘on’ all the time. You can just chill and turn your brain off and it’s beautiful.

And I get to spend time with my cat.”

What is one of your favorite Spring Break memories?

“Two or three years ago I went to a book conference in Kansas City with my mom and I met so many famous authors. Like Veronica Roth, Gayle Forman... all of these massivename authors and I kind of just stood there. I didn’t pee myself but I did emotionally. I was just in so much awe and that was probably my best Spring Break ever.”

Cora Astin sophomore

do you have Any plans this Spring Break?

“I’m going to South Dakota on a mission trip for my youth group. This is the first time I’m going on a trip with this group so it should be fun.”

“[I want to] not think about school at all.”

What is one of your favorite Spring Break memories?

“I went on a cruise last year. We went to Mexico and it was over St. Patrick’s day so it was a really interesting cruise.”

Kailey Koopman junior

do you have Any plans this Spring Break?

“I’m going to Planet ComicCon in Kansas City. We went last year and it was so much fun. I’m really looking forward to seeing all the cosplayers because they look amazing. I want to totally relax and have fun.”

What is one of your favorite Spring Break memories?

“I think my worst memory was last year, at the end of Spring Break, I had to get my wisdom teeth out and then I got dry socket so that wasn’t nice.”

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Students on destinations

plans past memories

and more Katie Dixon senior

do you have Any plans this Spring Break?

“Tumblr, sleeping, cat... I’m going to Chicago to visit a college. I’m actually really excited.

I’ve never been to Chicago and they also give you a tour of the whole area.”

What do you like about having a week off?

“Sleep and more time to procrastinate the school work, that for some reason teachers give over Spring Break, that I hate with a passion. [Spring Break] is mostly catching up sleep for me and not being completely busy.”

upcoming movies to look forward to cinderella

insurgent

breakfast club

“‘Cinderella’ follows the fortunes of young Ella whose father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. When Ella’s father passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother’s dying words and to ‘have courage and be kind.’ She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods.”

“Now on the run from Jeanine and the rest of the powerhungry Erudites, Tris and Four search for allies and answers in the ruins of Chicago. They must find out what Tris’ family sacrificed their lives to protect and why the Erudites will do anything to stop them. Side by side, Tris and Four face one seemingly insurmountable challenge after another, as they unravel the secrets of the past and -- ultimately -- the future of their world.”

For the 30th anniversary of the Breakfast Club, “take a look back at the film that spoke to a generation and defined a genre. Featuring personal insights from cast members Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall and John Kapelos as well as contributions from filmmakers Diablo Cody, Amy Heckerling and Michael Lehman, this featurette is a must see for all Jocks, Criminals, Basket Cases, Brains and Princesses.”

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source: carmike.com

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