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Happening NOW •Football: 11AAA Quarterfinal game vs. Watertown 4:30 p.m. at Howard Wood Field •Haunted Library: 6:30 p.m. at Oak View Library •Gymnastics: Open gym 7 p.m. in gymnastics room
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chili fritos •À la carte lines: Cheesy french bread, chicken fajita, baked potato fixings, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Tutors of Freshmen: During lunch time study halls who did not attend this morning’s meeting will meet at 3:10 p.m. today or during 4A or 5A Friday in A-230. •Quiz Bowl: Team members will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in A-136. •R&R Book Club: Will meet to discuss “Confess” during fourth period Friday in the library. •Freshman Girls: That plan to try out for basketball will meet at 8 a.m. Monday in the auxiliary gym. •Renaissance Committee: Members will meet at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Little Theatre. •Cheerleader: Try-outs for basketball sideline cheer will take place at 3:15 p.m. Nov. 5 in the auxiliary gym. Practice at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday.
Other Reminders •Wear Pink: to show support for breast cancer awareness Friday. NOW Thursday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . Sydney Arrington and Sam Siganos Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . Chayden Fitzsimmons Staff: Isaiah Hall, Robert Speeks, Abby Freese, Austin Hoflock, Ashley Paulson, Abby Johnston and Mubarak Kadir Editor-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Wiley Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . .Hannah Smith Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ MCT Campus High School Newspaper Service
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AP Environmental Science students visit Big Sioux River Data on condition of city’s river collected for analyzation By Isaiah Hall dvanced Placement (AP) Environmental Science students spent a day collecting data on the Big Sioux River Oct. 16. It was not summer recreation on the river, however, as the students worked to collect data on the condition of the river for later analysis. “We collect the data in the fall while the weather’s still nice, and work with the information during the water quality unit this winter,” teacher Ross Blank-Libra said. “We are looking at chemical and physical properties of the water along with the types of organisms that are living in the river.” Senior Tyler Olmstead said the trip was a great experience. “It taught all of us a lot about how gross the Big Sioux water really is,” Olmstead said. “I would recommend people do not swim in it.” Senior Abbie Stotesbery said she agreed. “It was very educational,” Stotesbery said. “We all realized while doing the tests that the river is very unsanitary.” Blank-Libra said the river is not beyond hope, however. “The state designation for the Big Sioux is for
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Photo by Ross Blank-Libra SAMPLE—Seniors Caroline Point and Annalee Leggett work to take samples from the Big Sioux River Oct. 16. limited contact recreational use,” Blank-Libra said. “Which means you are taking your health in your hands if you decide to go swimming— mainly due to levels of E.coli bacteria. The river is not in great shape, but in years past our data has showed that, in some respects, it is not as bad as most people think.”
Football playoffs begin at 4:30 p.m. today 11AAA Quarterfinals Tonight’s 11AAA Quarterfinal games include: •No. 8 Watertown at No. 1 WHS, 4:30 p.m. at HWF •No. 7 R.C. Stevens at No. 2 Roosevelt, 7:30 p.m. at HWF •No. 6 Aberdeen Central at No. 3 O’Gorman, 6 p.m. at McEneaney Field •No. 5 Lincoln at No. 4 Brandon Valley, 7 p.m. Admission is $5 for students and $7 for adults at all locations. No activity tickets or passes accepted for playoffs.
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By Sydney Arrington and Ashley Paulson The 11AAA Football Playoffs will kick-off at 4:30 p.m. today at Howard Wood Field as the No. 8 seeded Watertown Arrows visit the No. 1 Warriors. Gates will open at 3:30 p.m. No passes or activity tickets are accepted for all post-season SDHSAA games in all sports, including football. The last time the Warriors played the Arrows was Oct. 9 in Watertown as the Warriors defeated Watertown 45-0. Senior Jacob Skogstad said
Watertown is going to come out with a lot of energy. “We need to match their energy and play our game,” Skogstad said. “It’s going to be a cold night, but I don’t think that will effect our game. We are a team that runs the ball well, and the cold also won’t stop us.” Head Coach Chad Stadem said the team is ready. “I’m very excited for the game,” Stadem said. “The guys are ready to take the next step. We need to focus on this game only and take it one game at a time.”
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Warrior Life
By Robert Speeks
Warrior football players work to not become overconfident for the playoffs.
Drama club offers Halloween ‘Spook-A-Grams’ to raise funds By Chayden Fitzsimmons and Abby Johnston Drama club members will be selling Spook-AGrams at lunch today in the commons. Spook-A-Grams are black carnations that will be delivered with a dramatic reading of spooky poetry on Friday or Monday.
Today is the last chance to buy them. Senior drama club member Sam Johnson is excited by how well the Spook-A-Grams are selling. “It’s a fun way to raise money and support drama club,” Johnson said. The Spook-A-Grams are $3 for one, or $5 for two.
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You can tell a lot about a man by his shoes Believe it or not, shoes really do say a lot about someone’s personality. Coming from a guy like me, an avid shoe collector, shoes are the first thing I notice on someone. From a fresh pair of Jordan’s to a beat-up pair of New Balance shoes, I can tell your personality by what’s on your feet. I do know the classic saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” however my sneakerhead instincts are very precise when it comes to these kick predicHear me. . . tions. For example, a pair of Asic Kayanos is most likely a runner like senior Alec Austin Hoflock Kray or a pair of Under Armour Curry Ones is most likely a basketball player like Senior Sam Siganos. A person wearing a crisp pair of one of the hyped-up Michael Jordan silhouettes, the Air Jordan Retro One, could be someone who is into the history of Michael Jordan, knowing this was his first retro to release in 1985, or simply someone who wants to have a very sought-after shoe so they can turn heads. A person wearing a beat-up pair of New Balances is probably someone who is into the comfort and good support the shoe provides, because they are always on their feet working hard. Personally, I am an Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 kind of guy, because I am a fan of soon-to-be president in 2020 Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian. His shoes also have a very simple, but yet luxury, appeal to them that fits my style. So not only can kicks show someone’s personality, but they can also start conversations or even help you meet new people. Senior Austin Hoflock has the best looking shoes in the school.
Technology companies embrace cloud By Pete Carey San Jose Mercury News (TNS) SAN JOSE, Calif. — A billowing Internet cloud is enveloping some of Silicon Valley’s legendary companies, forcing an upheaval in the way they’ve done business for decades.
Technology Watch In what some would say is an overdue recognition that the cloud is the future of computing, venerable valley companies like Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Cisco Systems are scrambling to build data centers, launch new business lines, create cloud services and convert software that came in a box to software that’s rented over the Internet. “Senior management, boards and investors see this giant iceberg coming at them,” said Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights and Strategy. “It’s no trivial task to take an application of yours that’s 10 years old and move it to the cloud.” But there’s no choice — a shift from traditional in-house corporate networks to faster, cheaper data centers accessed via the Internet is changing the information technology business model and will create a $235.1 billion cloud market by 2017, according to the research firm IHS . “There is a sea change in what most customers are looking for,” HewlettPackard’s CEO Meg Whitman told analysts in September. “Our customers are in a period of transformation and transition that you see only once every 10 to 15 years in this industry. “ Next month, HP will split into two companies, one of which — Hewlett Packard Enterprise — will be run by Whitman and focused on business services, big data, mobile and a hybrid of private and public cloud computing. The new HP is the result of a four-year “journey” the company began in 2011, Whitman said.