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WELL SAID “We are always keepign it classy. There have been times when we want to say something to the other team, but we talk with our actions, not our words and that is why we have been successful.”

-Senior Cesar Lemus on football’s success this season

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NS sees changes to bell schedule, GPA BY

SAVANNAH A MES

When students returned to school in August, many were unaware of the changes that had been made to both the weekly and bell schedules. Students were also shocked to learn about the implementation of a new grade scale.

Bell Schedule During the 2017-18 school year, NS adopted a new schedule that included A Day classes every Monday and Wednes-

day, B Day classes every Tuesday and Thursday and Fridays alternated between A Day and B Day each week.

“Nobody liked the rotating Fridays, but we did like having Mondays/ Wednesdays and Tuesdays/Thursdays the same,” said Ben Cox, counselor/ teacher at NS. The high school administration chose to make the change to have all eight classes on Friday so that teachers would have the opportunity to see their

students three times a week. Cox said that he is grateful for the extra learning time his students have each week.

The Utah State Board of Education requires schools to have at least 180 school days and 990 hours of instruction each school year. This was brought to the attention of the administration by Dr. Samuel L. Ray, Superintendent of Schools for North Sanpete School District.

“Now, instead of three passing periSee GPA/Bells, page 3

Drill sees improvements with new class, new coaches

Saturday, Oct 6 Volleyball Tournament NS @ SVC Wednesday, Oct 10 Volleyball South Sevier @ NS

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Percent increase of students coming to NS in the next two years

3 Number of new classes this year

7-9

Number of miles that cross country runs every day at practice

1 Place River Dillman took in region golf

CONTENTS Features................5 Sports...................8 Arts......................11 Crossword...........12

photo by Mayzie Talbot

The NS drill team rocked their hip hop routine during a halftime performance on Sept. 28.

E MILY K ERKSIEK

routines and improving technique.

The NS drill team is off “We are different this and dancing this year. Many year,” said Vice President hours of hard preparation are Isabella Johnson. “We have a being put in to show NS that fresh new start. We work really drill is a serious sports team. hard, and we want people to This year new coaches are see it out on the floor.” carefully analyzing the dance To make these improveBY

ments, the 17 girls on the team are using their time more wisely. The dancers attend a drill team class during eighth period, and on A days they practice in the morning.

“We use our time efficiently,” said Assistant Coach Brittany Dyches. “When we

are here, we are here. We aren’t being distracted by other things. We aren’t sitting around talking, we are just getting the job done. We are very, very focused.”

Dance has been a big part of Dyches’ life; she danced on the Manti drill team and took See Drill, page 3

Added classes open Band room sees remodel windows for students due to harmful sound levels BY

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C HEYENNE BALLARD

NS has started their journey on comprising a variety of classes on their schedule so that students have a fair view of what they are interested in going into. In an effort to add more classes for students, the NS administration has taken some action and have added three new courses: Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Intro to Physical Therapy and Technical Theatre.

EMT “EMT class is preparing and training individuals to be able to handle an emergency prehospital situation,” said local EMT/teacher, Cami Hathaway.

This class is especially exciting because it’s not just sitting in the classroom (although that’s a huge part of the class), but students also get to ride See New Classes, page 2

A BIGAIL C LAWSON

The NS band room recently underwent a remodel to combat the massive amounts of sound produced in the music rooms due to the large numbers of students in Timothy Kidder’s music classes.

The noise during each of the four band classes— jazz band, concert band, percussion and guitar— reaches decibel levels that are harmful to the hearing of students and the teacher.

See Bandroom, page 2

blueprints provided by Sam Ray

Far West Construction provided this mock-up drawing of a possible new music room addition to the school.

2 news Bandroom, continued from page 1 “We needed to make some modifications to try to lower the decibels because it is so loud when band and percussion practice in the room that actually it’s affecting my hearing, and I’m sure it’s affecting the hearing of the students,” Kidder said. “It can cause tinnitus which is a constant ringing in the ears, and it will actually lead to deafness, and it has a high rate of occurrence in band directors that are exposed to loud environments consistently.”

The damage to his ears had been occurring for years before it became enough of a major concern for Kidder to reach out to the administration for a remedy.

“The ringing in the ears started sticking with me lon-

ger,” Kidder said. “I’d wake up the next morning and it was still there, and so that scared me a lot, so I asked for a sound curtain which helped, and then I’ve been wearing ear plugs and taking care of it. So it’s been on my mind for a very long time and we’re just lately kind of seeking some solutions.”

This search for a way to relieve this harm led to an evaluation of the facility by Sound Design International, an acoustic engineering firm, who stated that “the room is much too small for the size of band using it.”

As the band room was made for a band of around 30 musicians, but usually holds twice that amount, the group suggested making a new mu-

sic room or increasing the interior volume of the current room.

Superintendent Sam Ray reached out to local business Far West Construction for a cost evaluation of a new music room to be added on to the north east corner of the school, and they quoted him a total of $637,179.79. A project of that cost is currently out of reach due to the new addition to the high school and a six million dollar replacement of boilers and air handling systems around the district, although Ray is pursuing donations to cover a portion of the cost with the district matching those funds.

Sound Design International provided a list of shortterm modifications to the

band room to “make the existing room more workable and tolerable for the band teacher and students,” which included removing the hard cabinets and other reflective surfaces from the back of the room, adding acoustic panels to the walls and ceiling to diffuse sound and building a wall on the ceiling to control the reflection of sound off the ceiling.

The School Board approved $10,000 for the remodel and work towards immediate relief, and the completed work cost between $2,000-$2,500, leaving room for more adjustments.

“That’s what we’ve done kind of as a band-aid; it’s not a permanent solution,” Ray said, “but at least we’re trying

to do something to help them make it better until we can do something that’s more permanent.”

Despite any addition being several years out, the administration hopes to continue to support student musicians and the reputable program Kidder has built.

“I think his program will maintain its healthy numbers, and he’ll do OK with what he has,” Principal Nan Ault said.

“I’m hoping that we just continue to support his program, and that he knows that we know ultimately there’s a good plan out there if we can just get to that point. We’d love it, it would be great for everyone...and it would be nice to support them, so that’s the ultimate plan.”

New Classes, continued from page 1 on the ambulance, take care of patients and receive their EMT license at the end of the course.

“When it comes time after we get so far into the books, what I’m hoping for is a couple of hours in the ER and then about eight hours on the ambulance,” Hathaway said.

Not only will this class help students be an EMT, but it will also help them in their college career. Students have the opportunity to double it as a college class and earn nine college credits.

Even if students do not plan on going to college or being an EMT, this class will be beneficial to anyone who takes it.

“One day everyone’s going to possibly be a parent or have a spouse or partner or something and want to take care of the people they love, and this class just helps be able to do that,” Hathaway said.

Intro to Physical Therapy High stress situations and adrenaline isn’t for everyone, which is why NS also added the class Intro to Physical Therapy.

“We learn a little bit about other therapy and rehab pro-

fessions...medical terminology, injuries, how to evaluate those injuries,” said athletic trainer and teacher Jamie Withers.

Any high school exposure to potential career opportunities is crucial, and that’s exactly what Withers wants from this class.

“Not everybody has gone to physical therapy or had it or really knows what it is,” Withers said, “there may be some negative interpretations about it— that it’s painful, that it hurts, or not knowing what you can rehab.”

A lot of people are uninformed about what’s out there and that there are multiple areas in PT that you can go into. This class could open up a whole window of opportunities.

“This might spark an interest, or they might be able to decide, ‘You know what, that’s really not what I want to go into,’” Withers said.

Withers is trying her best to get her students the exposure they need to decide if they want to do this with their life before they are trying to figure everything out after high school.

photo by Cheyenne Ballard

Intro to Physical Therapy gives students the opportunity to explore the career.

Technical Theater Being on stage isn’t everyone’s biggest dream. Not every student wants to be on the stage acting, being the center of attention. What are the students who feel this way supposed to do?

“There’s a lot more to theatre than just what you see on stage, there’s stuff happening backstage. Costume design, lighting design, sound design, set design, set construction, run crew,” said Drama Teacher Alex Barlow.

This class allows for a wider variety of students to participate in helping create school plays and musicals.

“We have a lot of students who really wanted to be on tech crew and really wanted to learn about things, and really wanted to come to things,” Barlow said. “We’ve never happened to train them on how to do things, this gives us the opportunity to do that.”

According to Barlow, when it comes to technical theatre, there’s a lot of job op-

portunities as well as scholarships.

“They are going to be doing a lot of applied stuff for the shows so it will really help being able to have a group of students over the costumes and the light designs and props,” said Barlow.

Barlow sees this class as a “must have.” Not only does this class help teach students how to use the equipment but it’s also helping organize performances and time management.

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Number of special ed students led to classroom switches BY

ATHENA DE GROFF

Over the past several years the number of students in the severe special education program at NS has increased. This has created the need for more classroom space, and teachers have shifted classrooms this year in an attempt to fix the problem.

Special ed teacher Diane Cheney has moved to the former drama room in order to free up space for the severe special ed classes. Now Cami Hathaway has two rooms, her original one, and Cheney’s old room, to accommodate her students’ needs.

“We’ve tried to figure this out for several years because my room has always just been busting at the seams,” Hathaway said.

Expanding to two classrooms has proven to be a positive thing for Hathaway and her caseload of 18 students. The added space has allowed them to have more valuable learning experiences.

“It’s not that a classroom can’t handle thirty something kids,” Hathaway said, “but a lot of mine just aren’t really good at just sitting there for a whole seventy minutes and not moving, yelling out or jumping up.”

One challenge that came with the addition was that sometimes there are two classes going on at once, and only one teacher. Hathaway has been able to work everything out, with help from her amazing

T.A.s that are willing to pitch in and help. They manage one class while Hathaway is in the other room.

Since there are no empty rooms lying around at NS, this positive change for the special ed classes would not have been possible without sacrifices from other teachers.

“I couldn’t thank Mrs. Cheney enough for sacrificing her room,” Hathaway said. “You know, at least in my situation, she’s really a good duck for it.”

But Cheney is not the only teacher affected by the move. Alex Barlow and Ben Cox both had to shuffle rooms.

Barlow had taught speech and debate and drama in his former classroom, which is now used by Cheney, and exploring computer science in a small lab next to the library.

Having lost the classroom he used for his drama classes, he now teaches drama in the auditorium and speech and debate and his computer classes in Cox’s former classroom.

Barlow misses his old room, and moving was difficult, but he wasn’t strongly opposed to the move.

He does prefer his new classroom to the old, small computer lab where he used to teach.

“It’s just one of those things you have to do because we have growing classes and only so many rooms,” Barlow said.

Cox was the underdog of the classroom situa-

photo by Athena De Groff

Students work in the cramped journalism and English 1010 room.

tion. He was moved into Barlow’s old computer lab, which is much smaller than his previous classroom.

“This is my fifth classroom in 15 years, and every year I just keep downsizing,” Cox said. “It’s definitely a challenge, but I understand because we all have to make sacrifices to do what’s best for students.”

Cox hopes this is not his last move. He understands that since he only teaches two classes, English 1010 and journalism, he should be in the smaller area, but it’s a tiny space to accommodate his and his student’s needs.

“If I’m in this space for the next 15 years, I’m going to lose my mind,” Cox said.

As NS continues to grow, more classroom changes are inevitable. So for now, nothing is permanent.

Drill, continued from page 1 state three years.

“I grew up loving Shirley Temple movies, and I would sing and dance along,” Dyches said. “That’s what inspired me to dance. When I was 14, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Dance has been something that has kept me motivated and distracted me from my discomforts.”

Dyches owns a dance studio, Just Dance, and head coach Kiersten Wheeler also teaches alongside her. Together they have an extensive knowledge of dance and technique that encouraged them to coach drill team.

“I wanted to become a coach because of the positive influence [dance had on me] in high school,” Dyches said. “I want to pass what I experienced on to others.”

Although the past drill team coaches helped develop the team members, the new coaches are playing a significant role in helping the team see improvements.

“I loved the coaches last year, but

the coaches this year have a dance company,” Johnson said. “That’s what they do is dance, so they can give us great feedback.”

Although competitions won’t start until December, the team’s hard work is beginning to pay off.

“We get so, so many compliments,” said President Shalyce Cook. “Everyone is saying we look good and super clean.”

To help clean technique, the team does across the floor work. The coaches are then able to critique them.

“Our coaches have a great judgeseye point of view,” Cook said. “They have judged many competitions. They know formations and how to place people. Our coaches this year just know more about dance.”

With new coaches came a new proposed team name, the Soarells.

“We want a name that represents the school,” Dyches said. “Spiriteer doesn’t really have a link to the school name. Whereas we felt like Soarell, to soar above, to spread your wings like

a hawk. That is our hope to be called that someday.”

The new proposed name has created controversy among team members, faculty and NS alumni.

“I’m not really a fan of the name,” said Drill Mistress, Brylee Swapp. “I’m here to dance; the name doesn’t matter. I still wish we were called the Spiriteers because it has a lot of history, but it doesn’t really matter in the end we are here to dance.”

The team will now be known as the NS Drill Team. Because of conflicting opinion, Soarells was turned down by Principal Nan Ault.

“I personally don’t like it,” said Secretary Victoria Church. “It is like the color of a horse. I like change, but not that much change.”

The drill team has a fresh new start and is trying to get rid of the stereotype of having drama.

“There’s not much drama on drill team,” Cook said, “It’s just our personalities. We all get along super, super well. If there was to be a problem we

have been told to go straight to the coaches, or to the problem. We don’t spread rumors. Our team is not one to turn on each other.”

Because of spending so much time together, the team is close.

“We have a trustworthy relationship,” Dyches said. “They respect us, and we respect them. I imagine it has been difficult having new coaches come in and change things, but they have been very supportive of our decisions. We are all onboard and on the same page.”

The team and coaches want NS to know that they are having a great season. They have already found success and gained confidence. They know with their hard work they can win this year.

“We are on fire,” Dyches said.

“We’ve got a really exciting season ahead. We want to support all the sports at the school, and we hope to gain some of that support back. We want all the sports to excel.”

GPA/Bells, continued from page 1 ods and lunch, there would be seven passing periods on Friday,” Ray said. He asked them how they planned to reach the 990 hours because of the loss of time between class periods.

As a result of the change made to Fridays, the administration had to change the bell schedule for Monday-Thursday in order to reach 990 hours of instruction time. Now, school starts at 8:13 each morning— two minutes earlier than previous years— passing periods are now four minutes instead of five and lunch was cut by three minutes.

“I loathe the Monday-Thursday bell schedule,” said Cox. He strongly valued the time that was taken out of his day to meet the required 990 hours.

Cox was one who pushed for a change to the Friday schedule, but he did so without knowing that the superintendent would require more class time Monday through Thursday.

“Honestly, that may have changed how I felt about the Friday schedule,” Cox said.

Students share different opinions of the new Friday schedule, with 42.4 percent of responders to an NS Times survey hating the change, but some have found that the change has had positive results, with 11.1 percent indicating they like the new schedule.

“The new Friday schedule is beneficial to

me because it gives us an opportunity to learn throughout the week and test on Friday,” said Ally Brotherson, a senior at NS. Over time, students and teachers have adjusted to the new schedules, even if some do have negative feelings about the change.

Weighted GPA The schedule change isn’t the only thing being implemented this year; a new way of grading is being used by several teachers at NS. In previous years, the school used an unweighted GPA, which means that for every class a student took, each credit was weighed the same in every class. An ‘A’ was the maximum grade a student could get out of the 4.0 scale.

This year, the school is using a weighted GPA, meaning that there are certain classes students can take that are weighted higher than others. Before, students couldn’t have a GPA higher than a 4.0, but now that is possible with the new weighted grade scale.

“As I’ve looked at the number of students that are enrolled in concurrent enrollment classes at NS, I’ve noticed that our numbers are significantly lower than those of schools near us,” Ray said.

He wondered why the students at NS weren’t taking those classes even though they are qualified to

do so. Ray and the high school administrators considered that students might be more worried about maintaining their GPA than pushing themselves to take those harder classes.

“We wanted students to feel rewarded for taking the harder classes, rather than feel punished if they got a ‘B+’ or an ‘A’,” Ray said. They want the weighted GPA to push students to take the college classes that will better prepare them for future education. He believes that taking concurrent enrollment classes in high school will make the transition to college easier for those students.

In an NS Times survey, 82 percent of responders indicated that receiving a higher GPA for harder classes would influence their choice of whether or not to participate in those classes.

“It encourages students to take harder classes and it gives students that have already been taking harder classes an opportunity to better themselves even more,” said Coldir Cox, a senior at NS. The administration agrees with this, and hopes students will push themselves to gain from the change.

“The biggest benefit is that students really seek to fulfill their potential,” Ray said.

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Kaepernick controversy opens way for more empathetic society

BY K ALEB COX

“In early September, Nike unveiled their brand new “Just Do It” ad campaign, helping commemorate the 30th anniversary of the behemoth’s iconic catchphrase. The campaign featured famous athletes such as LeBron James, Serena Williams and Odell Beckham, Jr. on black and white posters with inspirational messages accompanying them. The controversial face of the campaign was former NFL QB Colin Kaepernick.

As is the case every time Kaepernick’s name is mentioned, harsh debate ensues with no one willing to cede their position. It’s been over two years now since the former 49ers QB first took a knee during the National Anthem, and we still haven’t quit discussing it.

Initially, the outrage over the protest focused in on the methods of doing so. Many claiming that kneeling during the anthem disregarded and

disrespected the flag and the troops.

That aspect of the controversy never faded, but people also began criticizing what he was protesting: police brutality. It’s easy to find statistics that disprove the idea that officers at large are specifically targeting black civilians, and none of those people knew any cops who were racist.

It can be hard for many to sympathize with Kaepernick, especially in Sanpete county.

He was a famous, relatively wealthy, black athlete, protesting an issue many hadn’t even considered to exist, in a way that appeared disrespectful to something many held dear to their hearts.

In a county that tends to be overwhelmingly white, republican and impoverished, the battle to relate to the situation at hand is immediately an uphill one.

Upon first hearing the news of Kaepernick’s protest back in September of 2016, my initial reaction was that of outrage. I accused him of disrespecting the troops and police, I doubted his cause, and I just couldn’t comprehend why he would be doing something like this. He was making millions to play a sport, so how could he possibly feel oppressed in any way?

I found my answer to that question as well as several

others in the following years.

Is Kaepernick an unpatriotic spoiled brat? Is most every cop a terrible racist who is trained to target black people? The real answers lie somewhere in the middle of these extremes As many can attest to, the police officers in Sanpete County—and throughout the nation—are amazing people, who sacrifice time, money and sometimes their lives, to try and benefit society. These men and women deserve our praise and recognition in the highest regard.

That being said, too many racist cops still go free with relative ease, largely due to our society and criminal justice system’s often unconscious pro-police bias.

Despite what the media at large would like you to believe, both of these things can be true. We can celebrate the brave officers and condemn the hateful. Our tribalistic tendencies have lead many of us, myself included, to believe that this is a partisan issue. It doesn’t have to be.

It’s the harder road to take, certainly, but I believe in an America that can do hard things.

America is not perfect. It never has been and certainly won’t be for a long time. However, what makes America so awesome isn’t necessarily

baseball, bald eagles and fireworks (though those things are definitely awesome). To me, America is awesome because of those who have fought to help mend these sometimes glaring imperfections.

Rosa Parks kick-started one of the most important movements in the history of the world by refusing to give up a seat in the front of the bus.

She stood up—or sat down, rather—for a cause she knew to be right. I wouldn’t call it farfetched to compare this situation to our modern Kaepernick story.

Many still attack Kaepernick’s kneeling, claiming he has been disrespectful towards the flag. I’d argue that more important than the flag is what it stands for: Liberty, equality and the idea that our nation should be a place for everyone to feel safe.

If the action of one football player who chose to do what he felt was right, despite the onslaught of criticism he knew he’d proceedingly receive, can help save the life of just one unarmed and innocent black civilian, I’d call that incredibly patriotic.

Billings Learned Hand once said, “The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.”

You don’t have to agree with everything Kaepernick

says, or his methods of protest. I simply ask you to step back and look at the situation through another set of eyes.

If you’ve been on Kaepernick’s side since day one, then I ask you to look and understand why some may be upset with his methods of protest and look at it from their perspective.

Regardless of where you fall on the matter, we all have something to learn. The best way to break down this wall that we often put up against those whom we disagree with is to reach out to them. Find people who have been racially targeted by police officers; see where they’re coming from.

It’s easy to get caught up in this world of rage-inducing social media headlines and nasty Facebook comments. If we can step back and try and see the other side, America can grow and change into an even better country. It’s all about perspective.

“Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything,” white text reads over a close up of Kaepernick’s face on the aforementioned Nike ad. This quote is attributed to Kaepernick’s immediate cause, but this can also apply to our society at large as we strive towards a goal of understanding, empathy, and love. We can do whatever it takes.

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New science teacher shares love of science with students

BY J AMIE

WALKER

A blue sunny sky, a set of paints, a beautiful lake and a kayak. New science teacher April Anderson spent her childhood painting and playing on the water.

“Drawing just helps me forget about the world for a minute,” Anderson said.

Later on, as Anderson was working on a Montana construction site, she met her husband. He is originally from Fountain Green, and Anderson moved back to Utah with him.

“I never thought I’d live in Utah,” Anderson said.

They later got married on June 5, 2010.

They now live in Wales with two boys, Shandan who is six and James who is three.

While living in Sanpete, Anderson, along with four or five other people, applied for the science teacher opening. Anderson’s biology major helped qualify her for the position, but the students enjoy her personality.

“My favorite thing about her is the fact that she is super sweet,” sophomore Kylee Davis said. “She’s new to the school obviously, but she is a really sweet person and she is just amazing.”

Before she got the job at NS, Anderson

worked at the alternative school and did a great job. The alternative school was very sad to see her go when she left to teach at NS. “We understood that she did a fantastic job down there,” said Vice Principal Jeff Ericksen. “She connected really well with students.”

A few things that encouraged Anderson to work here were being close to home and the culture that is here, but her favorite part about working here is the students.

Her least favorite part about working here is waking up at 5:30 a.m., but on those days where she doesn’t want to get out of bed she uses her students as motivation.

“215 students, okay I have to get out of bed,” Anderson said.

Anderson wants to work at NS until retirement if everything works out according to plan.

Anderson started college online at University of Phoenix because of expense, but then switched to Snow College and got her associate’s degree.

Because of convenience, Anderson is now studying from Western Governors University and is working on her bachelors and second education in biology.

Anderson likes science because of its

photo by Jamie Walker

New science teacher April Anderson assists junior Nathan Garff.

theories and beliefs. She enjoys the hands on work and knowing how things work.

Anderson went to high school at Indian Lakes High School, where she graduated in 2006 at age 17, and was a part of the softball and basketball team.

“When you grow up, you realize that what you had wasn’t all that bad,” Anderson said.

Now Anderson’s hobbies include her kids. They enjoy go riding on their Razor, fishing, playing sports, going to the Basin

Drive-In and on walks where they go look for rocks and feathers. On her own time, she likes Pinterest and drawing.

Anderson enjoys the 4th of July because there are no expectations and you don’t have to get presents for anyone.

“There are no expectations,” Anderson said. “You don’t have to have a tradition, you don’t have to give people a present, and you don’t have to celebrate it. It’s just a fun summer good little thing that you can do whatever you want.”

Dutch foreign exchange student enjoys host family, American life BY

CARLI JOHANSEN

From across the world, to the Big Apple, to the middle of nowhere, the journey of becoming a foreign exchange student is certainly not one for the faint of heart.

Yet for the fourth year in a row, the trip has been made to NS. This year senior Josseline Blank (pronounced Blahnk) has come from a “small” town in the Netherlands with a population of roughly 5,000, to Spring City.

While that doesn’t sound like much, the population is very condensed, giving it a big city feel.

However, despite the stark difference from what Blank knows back home, she is enjoying the small town life.

“I feel like the countryside is way more the ‘real America’ as compared to cities,” said Blank.

“I know cities, I didn’t know the countryside.”

She is housed with the Willdens, a family of five, with two of their daughters attending high school alongside Blank.

While at times the transition may be hard, both Blank and the Willden family feel they have bonded easily.

“Josseline has been a great temporary addition to the family,” said Blank’s host sister senior Savanna Willden.

Blank feels her host family has done well at providing a home away from home. “[My host brother] reminds me of my actual brothers, so it’s fun to hang out with him,” Blank said.

While she’s done well at adjusting to life with her new host family, there are certain American customs and aspects that have thrown Blank for a loop, such as the outrageously large drink and food sizes. “[When going to Fizz] she wanted the big 44 ounce, so I got

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her a 44 ounce and she says, ‘What is that?! It is huge!’” Willden said.

In addition to our famously sizable sodas, Blank has also been surprised by things we find mundane, everything from drive-thrus to mountains.

“There are drive-thrus everywhere, even at the shaved ice place,” Blank said.

While Blank has become an avid fan of our large drinks, refills and all things American, the year long process to get here was a strenuous one.

“The hardest thing was all the planning and getting the vaccinations in time,” Blank said.

Even when she arrived in America, her journey here was not yet done. Before coming to photo provided by Josseline Blank Utah, Blank attended the “WelForeign exchange student Josseline Blank poses for the come Days” camp in New York Dutch tradition of hanging their backpack on the flag pole.

City, where all EF students ran through a crash course on Ameri- ence, specifically the high school Blank said. “[In the Netherlands] spirit, which is unique to America. we just go to school only to go to can customs.

“You see a lot of ‘We are classes and there is nothing more Now that she is here, Blank is enjoying the all-American experi- Hawks’ things which is so cool,” to it.”

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Increasing grade sizes cause difficulty in core classes

which is the growing class sizes.

It is that understandable when there are more students, the number of students in each class will grow. While students and faculty feel the effects of larger classes, it mostly affects core classes.

One of the teachers who teaches a large class is math teacher John Sadler.

“The individual students gets less time one-on-one with the teacher,” Sadler said. “If you have a class of 20, compared to a class of 40, of course the 20 is going to photo by Carson Hadley Students squeeze into an overflowing class math class get more time with the teacher due to growing grades and a short supply of teachers. than the class of 40.”

And while it is tougher teachnumber of students in the school has increased 6 percent. In the ing large classes, Sadler underBY CARSON H ADLEY next two years it is projected to stands and he doesn’t let it bother Teachers and students may grow another 14 percent. There him too much.

“That’s just the nature of it,” have noticed the halls of NS are are 687 students attending NS a bit more crowded this year than and current numbers indicate Sadler said, “I don’t feel like it is in past years; there are nearly 5 that in 2020 there will be approx- too big of a problem.”

Counselor and teacher Ben percent more students this year imately 780 students.

This increase in student num- Cox is also having to deal with than last year.

In the past three years the bers causes many issues, one of the larger class sizes that can seri-

ously affect how well students do in school.

“It’s just so much harder to teach,” Cox said. “It’s harder for them to focus, it’s harder for them to get the attention they need. It’s just really hard.”

Several years ago the state did a study and learned that larger classes can affect how well students learn.

“Schools that had total class sizes of 22 or lower, nearly all of them made AYP, (annual yearly progress),” Cox said, “but those who went up above 24 even, the number that made AYP was extremely small.”

Parents and students are wondering what is causing the increase in class sizes.

“We have a lot more students than we have had in the past,” Cox said. “These grades that are coming up are just getting bigger and bigger.”

Another reason for the in-

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crease in class sizes is the shortage of teachers.

“We have been cut teachers in the past,” Cox said, “so we’re down a few teachers from where we used to be.”

It’s not just teachers who are noticing the increase in student number. Senior Bubba Ison, has also noticed the increase in student numbers and class sizes.

“Yeah, there is definitely more and more [students],” Ison said. “I feel like every year you see a lot more freshmen.”

The biggest impact for Ison is the amount of people he doesn’t know.

“It’s just unfamiliar faces,” Ison said. “You don’t know who a lot of people are.”

As the number of students attending NS continues to increase, teachers and students will be impacted in a variety of ways. They will have to adjust to growing class sizes and crowded hallways.

Teen’s lifetime trends bring realization of social pressure BY

LUCY A NDERSON

“Only True 90s Kids Would Understand.” As a high schooler that gets on social media a moderate amount, I have seen this headline on pictures, articles and *cough cough* Buzzfeed countless times.

I was born in 2001. I’m the youngest of my three siblings, and because of this, I had a closet full of clothes from the 90s and the early 2000s as well.

In elementary school, I was quote, unquote, “blessed” to have all of my sibling’s hand-me-downs to wear to school.

My family is all about bargains, so my siblings and I were constantly rocking bulky Champion brand shoes and shirts, and because of my lack of “girly” features, my mom would buy me little boy’s Levi jeans. Wearing boy jeans was the most humiliating thing my young mind could process.

By the time I hit middle school, the flow of hand-me-downs stopped, and I was able to start blending in with the other girls in my grade.

The trends of oversized flowers and bows, scarves, American Fighter shirts and layering

frilly shirts were in full swing. If you wanted those short, squeaky, prepubescent teenage boys to like you, you had to make sure not to wear your favorite T-shirt to school.

There was a constant pressure every day to look as good as possible for fear of looking stupid.

This irrational fear spread over through freshman year and maybe a little into sophomore year.

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There are trends today that people tend to follow, but now, unlike in elementary school or middle school, they are trends that are the wearers choice to buy and wear.

I wish I could go back and tell my younger self to tell everyone else to stick it if they didn’t like how I was dressed and how I chose to portray myself.

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sports 2 oct 18

Football sees great improvement from last season

photo by Mayzie Talbot

Senior Brock Justesen is taken down by multiple defenders during a recent home game against Richfield.

by Charlee Christensen

The NS football team has stepped it up this year in talent, and they have a winning record to show for it.

The Hawks are 4-3 with wins over Juan Diego, Union and Judge Memorial.

“This season has been going way good for us,” senior Cesar Lemus

said. “Our coaches have been pushing us really hard and have taught us that having a good attitude and being on the same page has gotten us so we can all do our assignments and come out successful.”

The team players, coaches and fans can all agree that something has changed and it is more fun to watch or play football when NS is do-

ing well.

“Everyone has stepped it up this year and have improved a lot from last year,” said head coach Rhett Bird.

The improvement hasn’t come easily, and the players have put the work in to make those gains.

“Our coaches have been getting really hard on us because they know what we are capable of

and we all like it because it has pushed us to show our best abilities,” Lemus said.

Others on the team agree that the coaches have been harder on the athletes to help their abilities improve. As a result, the team is more unified and focused.

“We have more kids buying in,” senior Brock Justesen said.

The team is more serious

about winning and finding their weak spots and overcoming them.

“We beat Juan Diego and we really needed that because now people can we what we are capable of and will start paying attention to us,” Lemus said.

Juan Diego was ranked number two in state this year and last year took the state title.

The Hawks were able to strip Juan Diego of their title at their homecoming game 17-14.

Despite this win, the coach and team know there are more challenges to come, especially in this region.

“The seniors this year understand that if we don’t pull together it’s going to be difficult to go out and beat some of the teams in our region,” Bird said.

The seniors seem to be doing well in their season as well as keeping the other kids on track to be successful.

Coach Bird has focused on taking accountability by making sure that things are getting done, but performance on

the field is measured by more than just yards and points for this team.

“We have always been a team that represents good sportsmanship,” Justesen said. “It’s in our code of ethics.”

The coaches and team can agree they represent good sportsmanship and always are helping kids up.

“We are always keeping it classy,” Lemus said. “There have been times when we want to say something to the other team, but we talk with our actions, not our words and that is why we have been successful.”

The team has had a good season so far and they hope to continue doing well in representing our school.

“For us to have success for the rest of the year we have to continue to unite as a team,” Bird said. “We’re excited because we know we can go beat any team in the state, it’s just the matter if we prepare ourselves to do that during practice. It’s only just begun.”

“I have more time before and after school to get more homework done, and it just makes everything more productive,” said senior drill officer Victoria Church.

Even though there are several positives to playing a sport during a class period, there are also some down sides along with them.

“You have to have a class taken up where you could have had another one, instead of your cheer class,” said sophomore cheerleader Kaylee

Madsen.

Along with the student athletes, the coaches also think that the sports class is good for the girls.

“They always have time to get stuff done and they have time to practice for events and recitals,” said assistant Cheer Coach Desiree Carlton.

This class time gives them more opportunities to work, practice and rehearse, so that they can perform to the best of their abilities.

More sports at NS turn to school-hour classes

by Kaylee Anderson

The past couple years the cheer team has had their own class period to work on their routines and do other things together as a team, as well as having practices after school. This year, the drill team switched to this practice schedule as well.

These are not the only sports that have been offered the opportunity to have their own class.

“We offered [the class period] to all sports,” Principal Nan Ault said. “The problem is that most of our coaches are teachers and have jobs outside of school, so they have no way to skip their work to come teach.”

Both the drill and cheer teams have a unique situation. Since all coaches are not full time teaching staff, this allows them to have easier schedules to fit the class periods.

Some teachers would consider taking away their prep period and

doing it in the morning so they could have their sport class.

“I would do what I needed to do if they gave me the opportunity to do it,” said social studies teacher and basketball coach Cris Hoopes.

“It’s a huge advantage to be on the cheerleading squad and drill team because they can get to work, they get done with practice at 3:30 and then they don’t have to worry about any of the other stuff. They can go home and do their homework.”

Changing prep to an earlier time does not work for teachers either.

“They can’t be double paid so their contract ends at three thirty so they’re really not allowed to start practice until three thirty, when their contract ends and they pick up this new position as coach,” Ault said.

Another complication teachers have with coaching a class is how they are paid.

Because the pay for teachers and coaches are different, for a sports

class their pay would have to be cut down.

This would really impact their ability to support their families.

“If a teacher coach choose to have a class period for their sport,” Ault said, “they would actually have to be paid differently for their period.”

The difference is that coaches would have to give up an eighth of their teacher salary in order to teach during their prep period. That sum is just too much for coaches to pay.

Even though most sports can’t have their own class, the students in the sports that do have one seem to benefit from it. The class time together allows the team to bond and work on techniques.

“I like it as a class a lot more because you get more time to practice and you don’t have to stay as long after school,” said freshman drill team member Alora Whitman.

With having a whole class period to practice,

students can go home earlier, as well as not having to do many early morning practices.

There are other pros of having a class too. One of these is that with practice during a class period you would not have to stay outside of school hours as long.

This would be especially helpful in the winter months when kids have to drive home in the dark. Sometimes there are other added elements to their safety like the weather and animals.

photo by Kaylee Anderson

The NS cheer team practices in the auxilary gym during their fourth period practice.

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Volleyball performs well in tough region

by Mayzie Talbot

The Lady Hawk volleyball team played Grand on Saturday with a 3-0 win. They also faced number one ranked San Juan last Friday resulting in a 3-1 loss. They won the first set and lost the other three, with the scores being fairly close each set.

They played Emery Sept.

20 with a 3-0 win and currently stand tied for third with South Sevier and Richfield in region.

The Lady Hawks have done exceptional for the last several years, placing second at state last year. This year they hope to continue this winning streak and achieve more.

“Again, we want to take region of course,” said assistant coach Jori Turpin, “and again we want to do well in the state tournament.”

For the team, doing well again means working hard individually and as a whole. It’s getting in the right mindset to perform well and put up a good fight.

“When we show up, we show up,” Turpin said. “We’re untouchable when everyone shows up. It’s just a matter of having everyone come together at the same time.”

With the loss of some amazing seniors, the Lady Hawks lost some strength offensively but in spite of this, they’ve played well according to head coach Ricki Stewart.

“It’s going to take all of us to be successful,” Stewart said, “which, in volleyball, is often the case anyways.”

On the volleyball court, coaches Stewart and Turpin expect a lot of their athletes besides just winning. Always giving “maximum effort” is one of the strongly encouraged attributes as well as being a good teammate and friend to everyone. The coaches also expect their athletes to be disciplined, not play selfishly, and trust in their teammates. “[Stewart is] really big about support and cheering for others, and it’s cool because we get really close by doing that,” said senior Kelby

photo by Mayzie Talbot

Senior Aubree Ison spikes the ball during a recent home game against San Juan. The team is 5-3 on the season.

Henry The Lady Hawks are constantly working towards these goals to be better on and off the court.

“We want to be the team that outworks you and we want to be the team that has enthusiasm and plays with confidence,” Stewart said.

Stewart’s success as a coach doesn’t just come from the athletes that play for her, it also comes with the discipline and openness on the court. She trusts the fact that her athletes have been trained enough to know what to do in any situation and are able to take care of it.

“We’re really honest with each other all the time,” Stewart said. “We’re very honest about where we are and where we need to go and what we need to improve on. We don’t really talk about what we could be, It’s how we’re going to do it. ”

All girls tennis varisty competes in state tourney

by Chandler Cook

They have been progressing a lot since last season and NS girls tennis has seen even though the tough losses their share of both struggles against Manti and Richfield and success this season. At re- put them down, they won evgion, the lady hawks earned a ery other region match. respectable third place.

"Like the waves of the

photo by Kaleb Cox

Junior Nakiah Taylor hits a backhand during region play at Manti. Taylor plays first singles for NS.

ocean, up and down,’’ said head coach Matt Braithwaite.

Though the team has struggled finding enough girls, there are positives to a smaller amount of players on the team. Their small team has made it easy to give more individual attention for what Braithwaite is trying to help the girls work on.

"We can address, I think, more specific scenarios of when we are actually playing the game,’’ Braithwaite said.

On Sept. 21, the Lady Hawks competed in region.

First singles Nakiah Taylor took second in region, second singles Savannah Ames took third, and third singles Kaylee Anderson took fourth.

First doubles Rylee McKay and Ally Brotherson took

fourth and second doubles Natalie Day and Kaylee Madsen took third at region.

The beginning of the season started off rough for some of the girls.

Senior Savannah Ames switched from doubles to singles after a few matches, which was a difficult transition because it puts you at the bottom of the ladder.

"You want the top spots– that’s your varsity spots,” Ames said. “In order to reach those spots you have to challenge the players above you.

When I switched to singles, I was immediately dropped to the bottom of the singles ladder.’’

The team had a very tough loss against their rival team, Richfield.

“We just about beat Richfield head to head, lost by just one match,” Braithwaite said.

On a positive side, the team’s hard work and dedication led to a win against Grand and San Juan.

“We had the opportunity to go down to Saint George and play in a tournament there,” said senior Rylee McKay. “Even though we didn’t win every single match we had a lot of fun as a team and individually in our matches. That was definitely a highlight for all of us.”

The teams great chemistry has led to a fun, drama-free season.

“We just all get along really well,” said Junior Nakiah Taylor.

sports

Cross country team sees hard work paying off

by Henry De Groff

the runners running five kilometers in under 18 Cross country has minutes, and many more been having a good sea- just behind, we have a son, and this team is strong force of varsity looking like it will be the runners, who have high best cross country team hopes for this season. in years, with some of Cross country races

photo by Henry De Groff

Junior Orange Peel practices for cross country by the football field.

are either three miles or five kilometers long, and so in preparing for these races boys from the cross country varsity team will run about seven to nine miles a day, every single day.

“Nobody’s rude to you because we’re all going through the same stuff,” junior Matthew Hindes said.

Nothing about cross country is easy, and everyone needs support.

The coaches really have the kids work. Tempo runs, long runs, hill repeats and many other types of running all beat the kids into excellent

shape.

The team is confident, and they believe that they can always do better.

“We’re looking for a region title this year, so that would be great,” junior Orange Peel said.

The past couple years have been a sort of rebuilding time for the team, but that rebuilding has started to pay off. As well as having big goals for this year, Peel sees the future being even brighter for the team.

“We are looking forward to next year because we will have six of seven of our varsity run-

ners returning.”

Peel mentioned that some kids on the team don’t work as hard as the top runners. The truth is when you skip practices and don’t put in that extra effort, you will pay for it in the speeds of your next race.

This year many of the runners use watches to help keep track of their runs, so if you see some lanky kids with watches on, running all be it too fast, they might just be from the NS cross country team.

Peel and Hindes are the fastest runners on the team, but the whole

varsity team puts up some solid numbers.

The cross country team practices on dirt roads around the valley, or even up the roads in the mountains, depending on what they need to work on for the next race.

What is there to like about running these strenuous races?

“The final kick, when you pass everybody and give it all you’ve got…

I mean no matter what you’ve always got some gas in the tank… even if at the finish you’re bending over and gagging,” Hindes said.

NS Golf recovers after bumpy start to have a solid season

by Megan Booher

This season, the boy’s golf team has been doing amazing. Although they didn’t start the season off on the best foot, they have long since reached their high point, placing fourth in region with senior River Dillman taking first individually.

“We had a slow start but we have battled through the season and beat every school prob-

ably twice,” said golf coach Tod Hansen. “We dug ourselves too deep at the beginning of the season. We just were not doing as good as we should have.”

With region over, the team is looking forward to state with six golfers on the team going to state: seniors Tyler Hadley, Wyatt Ison, Dillman, Avery Wade, Niel Briggs and junior Colby Orton. State golf will be on the Oct 1 and

2.

“We will have a chance at state because we peaked at the right time and are at our best right now,” Hansen said.

Dillman’s placement in region made it the first in a long time that golf has seen a player win the region championship medal for two consecutive years.

The team as a whole has also seen improvement in everyone’s game this season.

“I have been trying to improve all season, and I think that not only me but everyone has improved this season. We have all been trying our hardest and putting in a lot of effort, and I think it has paid off,” Orton said.

The golf team has been improving for years and will continue to improve. With hard work and perseverance the team could do better than they have ever done

photo provided by Cheryl Hadley

Senior Tyler Hadley putts it in Carbon.

in the past. get anything better than “We got fourth at state that we will be very, very last year, and all we want happy,” Hansen said. to do is improve if we can

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arts 2 oct 18

New Spider-Man game lives up to expectations BY

TR AYSON THOMPSON

Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 is a game that I’ve been waiting for a developer to make for the last decade. I’ve been hoping, wishing and praying for a Spider-Man game of this polish and quality to be created, and it’s now finally happened.

Spider-Man for PS4 is everything I could have ever wanted out of not only a Spider-Man game, but just as a game in general.

All of the game mechanics compliment each other in a beautiful way that makes the whole experience feel smooth and seamless, it is an accomplishment and sets the bar in terms of open-world games and games of that nature.

However, there is a game that heavily inspired the structure of Spider-Man for PS4 that came out many years ago, SpiderMan 2 (Based off of the 2004 movie) for the GameCube.

In Spider-Man 2, this was the first time that a Spider-Man video game was able to achieve what every other Spider-Man game before it failed to do. It was able to create a huge New York City “sandbox” for the player to swing around freely and just let them do whatever they want.

Insomniac Games, the developers of Spider-Man for PS4, took that amazing feeling of swinging around New York City, stopping crimes and made it even more satisfying to play with.

The core thing that you do in Spider-

Man for PS4 is swing around New York, beat up thugs, and do some short side missions to give you a bunch of stuff to do in between the main story missions. The side missions can range from doing something like rescuing some dude’s pigeons, to stopping a bomb from detonating; there’s a whole lot of variety in the sort of things the game has you doing to deliver a fresh gameplay experience every time you play.

Spider-Man PS4 also has a surprisingly good story that portrays many of the Spider-Man characters in great ways.

They really nailed the character of Peter Parker regarding the writing for him, and his voice actor also did a great job, I enjoyed seeing Peters character evolve over the course of the game.

The writers also did a great job of making Mary Jane’s character feel unique from her other iterations, yet at the same time, she still has a lot of the core aspects that made Mary Jane recognizable as a character.

Overall, Spider-Man for PS4 is the quintessential Spider-Man game, it perfects everything about moving around and fighting as Spider-Man, once you get immersed in the game, it honestly does make you feel like Spider-Man. If you are in a position to buy this game, I highly recommend it, because it’s not only an amazing Spider-Man game, but it’s just an amazing game in general.

Drama competes in Utah Shakespeare Contest

BY K AJE NIELSEN

Drama teachers and students alike often praise William Shakespeare and his work and consider him the father of modern acting. To take things to the next level, the Utah Shakespeare Festival hosts an annual Shakespeare Competition.

Last weekend NS drama students competed at the Shakespearean Festival. At this competition, over 3,000 kids meet in Cedar City at SUU Campus for a two-day event in which students perform acts from Shakespeare in front of judges in hopes to win their school a trophy.

Individual students can also earn scholarships for having outstanding performances.

“It’s pretty tense,” said NS Drama Teacher Alex Barlow.

At this event, students perform one of three main types of performances: monologues, scenes and ensemble scenes.

Ensemble scenes, which are slightly less com-

mon in the acting world, are scenes that have four or more people performing in one scene.

Each of these three scenes can also be comedic or dramatic, both of which require an entirely different set of skills and tactics.

“I would say that I admire dramatic scenes more because of the work that goes into them,” senior Salem Kimball said.

In the competition, the scoring and ranking work similar to region and state drama competition, except there aren’t any finals.

Students, and their partners depending on the scene, attend each round with a group of random students, and take turns performing their piece in front of a judge.

The judge then ranks each scene first, second, third or fourth out of the group. Students are also rated superior, excellent, good or fair on individual aspects of their performance and given points accordingly.

“You’re competing against yourself for that su-

perior, and against others for that first, second, third or fourth,” Barlow said.

In the end, the winner is based on whoever received the most first-place rankings in their groups, and then the final rankings are based on who has the most points.

Points and rankings are also awarded to schools as a group, and NS won second place overall in 2017.

“I don’t [think our school will win this year],” Kimball said, “but I don’t think it really matters too much, because I think it’s more about the experience.”

Kimball’s reasoning for NS not winning is due to a smaller group of students than many of the other schools and therefore won’t leave as large of an impression.

This isn’t the only challenge NS faces; the performers have also had only three weeks to memorize and perfect their scenes.

While most students and Barlow agree that this time is a lot shorter than they would prefer it to be, Kim-

photo by Kaje Nielsen

NS Drama spent many hours practicing for the Shakespeare Competition in Cedar City.

ball thinks it might be for the best, as it helps students apply critical thinking. “[The practice time is] definitely shorter than the other times I’ve done it, but it’s kind of beneficial,” Kimball said. “Yeah, you are rushing it…but when you have time limits and stuff, it forces you to become more creative.”

Even though this time is short, Barlow agrees that the students seem to have

improved on listening to directions this year.

“We’re really good at taking direction, I would say, but our weakness is whether or not we choose to apply that direction,” senior Brynne Lamb said.

On top of getting to perform, students also get to watch professional Shakespeare performances and stay the night in hotels since it is a two-day event.

This is why it costs around $150 to sign up each year.

In the end, Barlow feels that NS will do quite well, but he feels it’s hard to say whether or not they will win because the judges’ tastes can affect the rankings.

“Wwe may get a judge who doesn’t like comedic pieces, and then we’d be in trouble,” Barlow said.

Although participating in these events causes a lot of stress and hard work, most students are going for the experience.

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HIGH SCHOOL MOVIES BY

Heard

K AJE NIELSEN

in the

Halls -“I guess I can’t twerk my way out of that one.”

-“I don’t want to be a furry.”

-“I’m worried I signed my mom’s name out of habit.”

-“I have a rational fear of shoes.”

-“And he swore right in front of my bubble.“ -“There is nothing worse than mud made out of pee.”

-”My sister got a frog and paralyzed it.”

-”Large potatoes that eat you from the inside out, while be ing pestered by satanic monkeys” -”Are you speaking in English or am I listeneing in Hebrew?”

Across 4. Ronald Miller pays to have a girl be his girlfriend in this movie. “Can’t ___ Me Love” 5. A movie based off of a popular horror story series sta ring Jack Black 7. The popular kid loses his popularity when his girlfriend breaks up with him in this movie. “____ All That” 8. A high school comedy version of the Scarlet Letter 9. “___ Things I Hate About You” 10. This movie received a 78% on Rotten Tomatoes “Pretty in ____” 11. “A Cinderella _____” is a high school version of the classic tale Cinderella 12. Name of Bill and Ted’s band 16. Two teens meet at a party and fall madly in love in “The _____ Time” 18. “She’s the ___” is about a girl who falls in love with her roommate at a boarding school.

19. “A Walk to ________” 20. A drama film about a boarding school that tries to help the students appreciate poetry. “____ Poets Society” 21. A movie about a Designated Ugly Fat Friend 22. In “Mean Girls”, a _______ bar will make you lose weight 23. A movie in which a mother and daughter switch places for a day 29. “Hey James Bond, in _______, we drive on the right side of the road!” -“Clueless” 30. What do the students use to raise money in “The Kissing Booth”?

31. “______ Bueller’s Day Off” 32. Musical that is also the byproduct of cooking meat 33. The two childhood friends in “Love and Basketball” are Quincy and ______ 34. What dance are the students preparing to go to in “High School Musical 3’?”

35. Known for saying “Nobody calls me chicken” in “Back to the Future 2” 36. Boobie Miles is seriously injured at the start of “Friday Night ______”

Down 1. Name of the sport Troy Bolton plays in “High School Musical” 2. In “Hairspray” Tracy Turnblad auditions for “The _____ Collins Show.”

3. “Vote For _____.” Quote from Napoleon Dynamite 4. The name of the “antagonist” in “Back to the Future” 6. In this movie, Quentin’s crush Margo says she’s gone to a _____ Town 10. Spider-Man’s Identity in the original “Spi der-Man” 13. “Can’t Hardly ____” 14. The main male character in “The Spectacu lar Now” 15. In this movie, Spider-Man fights the Vul ture 17. A story showing many different points of view. “The _________ Club” 21. A teen discovers that she’s a real-life prin cess in “The Princess _______” 24. “_______ Candles” 25. A movie about a socially awkward teen: “The Perks of Being a __________” 26. “Rock n’ Roll ___________” 27. Who’s Country Club do the students work at in “High School Musical 2”?

28. This film is based on a true story. “Mr. Holland’s ____” 30. A movie about a kid who becomes a teenager in his adult years. “17 _____”

-”If somebody looks like a pony you should tell them.”

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