Weather
Friday NOW is brought to you by:
The University of South Dakota
Tonight:
Today:
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015
Happening NOW •Oral Interp: National Qualifying Tournament 1 p.m. today and 8 a.m. Saturday at Roosevelt High School •Girls Basketball: At Roosevelt today—JV and freshmen 4 p.m., sophomores 5:30 p.m., varsity 7 p.m. •Bowling: vs. West Central 4 p.m. today at Eastway Bowl •Wrestling: Region Meet concludes 6 p.m. tonight at Tea Area High School •Show Choir: Center Stage competition Saturday at Aberdeen Central High School— JV 1:30 p.m., ClaCo 3:30 p.m. Saturday
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, baked potato fixings, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •National Honor Society: Members must attend a meeting at 7:45 a.m. or 3:15 p.m. Tuesday in A-211—choose one meeting. •Spanish Club: Members will meet at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in A-154. All current and former Spanish students are welcome—breakfast treats will be provided.
Correction •Senior: Caitlin Beacom’s name was misspelled in Thursday’s President’s Award for Educational Excellence story.
Other Reminders •Volunteer: To welcome eighth graders to WHS March 4. Details and application at tinyurl.com/WHS2019. NOW Friday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lexus Paulson and Carson Herbert Assistant Editor: . . . . . . . . Sydney Arrington Staff: Dayton Schumacher, Timmy Wood, Rachel Konrad, Trahas Habtemariam, Cole Uithoven Editor-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Nachtigal Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . Lizzie Spier Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth Assistant Adviser . . . . . . . . . Sally Goetzinger The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. WHSNOW.COM Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
Vol. 20 • No. 104
Mostly cloudy Not as cold High 39°
www.whsnow.com
Cloudy, flurries Low 15°
Saturday:
Slowly clearing Windy Falling temps
Warrior bowling teams take top spots in Kolhoff Invitational Squads host West Central today, have state Feb. 27 By Carson Herbert arrior bowling team members saw success at two events recently. First, on Feb. 13, the teams hosted Yankton at Eastway Bowl. The varsity boys beat Yankton 48-2. Leading the team was junior Aaron Johnson with a 635 three-game series. The varsity girls also dominated Yankton 24-1. Senior Nicole Thill bowled a 593 series. Junior Cameron Peterson was able to help the JV boys tie Yankton 25-25 with a 546 series. Yankton had no girls JV team. The teams then honored the former WHS coach who passed away a few years ago at the Howie Kolhoff Invitational Monday at Eastway. After five games, the varsity girls were able to claim the top seed, and the boys were the No. 2 seed. In the double-elimination tournament, the boys only suffered one loss. In an exciting face-off against West-River, who was the team that beat the Warriors earlier in the event, WHS was able to get revenge by winning in 10 games. The girls also took first place in similar fashion by beating city-rival O’Gorman in nine games. The teams will now host West Central today at 4 p.m. at Eastway Bowl. They will wrap-up the season in the State Tournament on Feb. 27 at Sport Bowl in Sioux Falls.
W
IN MEMORY—Members of the bowling teams pose with Marcie Kolhoff, widow of former WHS coach and tournament namesake Howie Kolhoff, Monday. Team members include (row 1, L-R) senior Nicole Thill, juniors Emily Byllesby and Maggie Bowie, Marcie Kolhoff, senior Caitlin Beacom, sophomore Alex Rote, freshman Adrianna Spaethe, (row 2) coach Troy Duffy, freshman Cyler Melvin, seniors Nick Kloxin and Devon Huber, junior Aaron Johnson and seniors David Eichmann and Elliott Anderson.
Boys basketball team wins by one
Girls now travel to Roosevelt for series of games tonight By Rachel Konrad and Sydney Arrington Varsity boys basketball team members took on the Rough Riders and escaped with a onepoint victory 52-51 Thursday night in the Roosevelt High School gym. The game was a battle with neither team leading by more than five points. Senior Deng Geu scored the game winner with nine seconds left. Geu lead all scorers with 24 points and eight rebounds, followed
FOLLOW US, WARRIORS!
by Cole Benson with seven points. Geu said he was proud of the team’s victory. “We worked hard as a team, and we didn’t give up when we faced adversity,” Geu said. Head Coach Craig Nelson was also pleased with the boy’s performance. “We stayed poised and calm and stuck to our game plan,” Nelson said. “Guys stepped-up and made some good plays.” In sub-varsity action, the JV Warrior Nation Events
@whsPAC
won 60-48. The sophomores won 67-40. The freshmen A Team fell to the Riders 55-49, while the B Team finished with a 54-50 win. The Warrior boys will next be in action Tuesday at O’Gorman. The Warrior girls basketball team will now take on the Rough Riders tonight at Roosevelt. Freshman and JV games will start at 4 p.m., followed by the sophomores at 5:30 p.m. and varsity at 7 p.m. All WHS News
@nowatwhs
• News of Washington
Page 2
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015
Warrior
Martin Zuniga
Brooke Weber
Q & A A profile of WHS students
Editor’s note: The Warrior Q & A Sports is a weekly profile of Warrior students with the goal of helping members of the WHS community come to know each other better. Subjects are chosen by the Student/Activity Leader of the Month Committee at WHS. Assembled by Jack Nachtigal
Junior Student of the Month •What are your plans/dreams for the future? My dream is to finish school and become a police officer. •What is your favorite class this semester? My favorite class is math. It is hard, but I get through it no matter what. •What is your message to the readers of the NOW? I would like to tell them to never give up and try very hard. •What inspires you? My mom and dad are my inspiration. They say “never give up—just keep trying!”
Junior Student of the Month •What are you involved in at WHS? I am a member of the JV show choir and the Melodia women’s choir ensemble. •What are your plans/dreams for the future? After high school, I plan to go to college—probably for something in the medical field. •What is your favorite class this semester? I like anatomy. The human body is extremely fascinating. •What is your message to the readers of the NOW? Get involved! It’s the best way to make friends who have the same interests as you.
Senior weighs college options after disappointment Last March, I took a college visit to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)—my dream school. While down there, I toured the college, went around campus, watched the Tarheel basHear me. . . ketball team beat Notre Dame, and even got to meet some of the players. After Lexus Paulson that visit, I knew UNC is where I wanted to spend the next four years of my life. I applied in early March, and found out last week that I did not get in. I knew it would be a challenge getting into UNC, as they
are only allowed to accept 18 percent of students from outof-state every year. After feeling sorry for myself the whole weekend, I decided to do some research. Every year over 30,000 seniors apply to UNC, and of those only 7,000 get accepted. Of those, only 1,200 are from out-of-state. So mathematically, I had only a 1 in 25 chance to begin with. So although many seniors have their college plans figured out by now, I do not. Now that UNC is no longer an option for me, I have decided to narrow down the other colleges I have been accepted to to Creighton, Ohio State, Arizona State (ASU) and Florida. While ASU and Florida are at the top of my list due to the warm weather, wherever I end up I am excited to spread my wings outside of good ‘ol South Dakota. Senior Lexus Paulson will always be a Tarheel at heart.
Debate team takes third at two events
admissions@usd.edu
www.usd.edu
@UniversitySD
By Timmy Wood and Cole Uithoven Debate team members competed in two events in the past two weeks. First, in the Central Forensics Conference Meet Feb. 7 at Roosevelt, freshman Ruhama Tereda took first in Novice LincolnDouglas (LD) Debate and second in Novice Original Oratory. Freshman Carter Munce also took second in Novice LD. The Warriors took third overall. The Warriors then captured third overall Feb. 13-14 at the Rushmore Challenge at Harrisburg
High School. Munce took first in Novice Extemp and third in Novice LD. Tereda took second in Novice Original Oratory and fourth in Novice LD. Sophomore Ryan Neuman and freshman Ashley Sanchez took third in Novice Policy Debate. Senior Destrie Johnson also took second in Varsity LD. “It was great to see Ruhama and Carter continue to do so well,” coach Travis Dahle said. “It was a great final regular season tournament for us. We’re excited about the national qualifier and state meets.”
Twin stars to end in supernova By Amina Khan Los Angeles Times (TNS) At the heart of a strangely shaped planetary nebula, astronomers have discovered a pair of doomed white dwarf stars that will inevitably merge and explode in a dramatic supernova. Planetary nebula have nothing to do with planets; it’s a misnomer from the late 18th century that stuck. “The planetary nebula stage is the ultimate fate of stars with masses one to eight times that of the sun,” the study authors wrote. “The origin of their complex morphologies is poorly understood.”
Science Friday While using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope to examine one of these weirdly shaped nebulae, Henize 2-428, they found not a single star, but a pair of stars spinning around each other. They were roughly the same size, and together have the mass of nearly 1.8 suns. That lends support to the idea that the strange shapes of planetary nebulae are often caused by a pair of stars, not just one. But the scientists also observed the nebula using telescopes in the Canary Islands to look at the stars’ masses and their distance from each other, and they found something stranger. These stars were uncomfortably close to each other: Their orbital period is a mere 4.2 hours. This is so close, in fact, that the stars’ gravity will pull them together, and within 700 million years, they will merge into one star. At that point, the combined star will be too big to withstand its own mass (according to the Chandrasekhar limit, a star that has reached the white dwarf stage can only support its own mass up to 1.4 solar masses) and the stellar twofer will go supernova — a far more violent event than the one that caused the planetary nebula to form.