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WELL SAID “Chess is far superior to dating girls.”

–Senior Dustin Angerhofer on one of the reasons he started the Chess Club at NS.

UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday, Feb 1 Boys Basketball Juab @ NS 3:30 pm-8:30 pm Thursday, Feb 2 Girls Basketball Richfield @ NS 3:30 pm-8:30 pm Friday, Feb 3 Frigid Friday Feb 3-4 State Drill @ UVU Wrestling Divisionals @ Juab Saturday, Feb 4 Sadie Hawkins Dance 8pm-11 pm (Commons)

New math policy requires senior math for college-bound students BY

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According to a new state board rule, students who are planning on attending a traditional college are now required to take a senior math class.

“We want to get students who are planning on going to college the best opportunity that they can to actually succeed,” math teacher Matt Syme said.

Syme has a relative who works as a counselor at Dixie State University, and he claims that three-fourths of students who do not take four years of mathematics in high school end up dropping out before their first year.

Along with that, three-fourths of students who have taken that extra year of math remain in college.

“If you’re planning on going to

college, even if you’re not sure but think that maybe you’d want to in the future,” Syme said.

“Having that extra year of math would be helpful. Very, very helpful.”

Students who skip their senior year of math are not fresh on the subject when they get The results of a survey conducted at NS shows the to college. This, in percentage of students who plan on taking certain most cases, makes math classes their senior year. Another 6 percent plan it so the student on taking calculus, 5 percent want college prep math.

“Even high ends up in a reme- lege credit. That is students, See Policy, dial math class that a huge setback for school college students. if we have a long page 2 doesn’t award col-

NS students attend recent Spirit Bowl

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3 State ranking of senior Hootchy Brewer in his wrestling weight class

4 Art pieces entered

by NS students that made it into the Springville Art Show

1 Ranking of the NS boys basketball team in region play

7 Amount of Super Bowls Tom Brady and Bill Belichick have been in together

CONTENTS Features................5 Sports...................7 Arts......................10 Crossword...........12

Juniors stay after school to take Practice ACT

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On Saturday, January 21, students from Manti, North Sevier, Gunnison, and North Sanpete high schools gathered to compete in the Spirit Bowl. Held at Gunnison High, the Spirit Bowl was a competition/pep rally to see which schools had the best school spirit. Manti won, North Sevier took second, and NS took third. After the competition, the schools participated in a dance.

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Preparing for college is stressful for students, and one of the steps to get into college is taking the ACT. The ACT is a college readiness assessment; a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions in the United States.

The ACT is important because when colleges are admitting students they only look at two things, GPA and ACT score. Because having a good ACT score is so important, NS is helping students get bet-

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Accreditation team comes to NS, reviews entirety of school BY

M AKENZY PALMER

Recently a team of professionals came to NS to evaluate the school through interviews, observation, surveys, and evidence to determine that the school should be an accredited institution. The accreditation process happens once every five years, and it is a process that high schools and colleges across the nation go through to ensure that credits are valid.

“They bring in a team and they look at what you do really well,” Principal Nan Ault said. “They talk about what you

should be doing to improve, and they rate your school.”

The accreditation team examined every aspect of NS within three categories; teaching and learning impact, leadership capacity, and resource utilization. The overall external review score for NS is 304.62, well above the 278.03 national average score. NS scored 285.71 in the teaching and learning impact category, 321.82 in leadership capacity, and 334.29 in resource utilization. The national averages sit at 267.91, 292.76, and 284.48, respectively.

The team felt that the

The accreditation team scored NS in three categories and compared them to the average national scores.

school’s biggest strength is “a formal structure whereby each student is well known by at least one adult advocate in the school who supports that student’s educational experience.”

The accreditation profes-

sionals also provided NS with priorities of improvement and areas to work on. They said that teachers need to better

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Students invited to attend Sadie Hawkins dance BY

LUCY A NDERSON

NS students are invited to attend the Sadie Hawkins dance on Feb. 4 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the commons.

It is girl’s choice, and costs $3.00 for singles and $5.00 for couples.

The theme of the dance is “I Cross My Heart,” and students and

their dates who attend should wear matching T-Shirts.

The Future Farmers of America (FFA) are in charge of the event.

The FFA club adviser, Kevin Allen hopes to have a big turnout this year.

“Our main goal with the Sadie Hawkins is to get as many people involved as we can,” Allen said.

ACT, continued from page 1 ter scores by having them take the Practice ACT test.

The school uses Naviance, a college and career readiness software provider, to help students become familiar with what the ACT will be like. Students stay after school one day to take the test, and the Practice ACT lasts as long as the real ACT. “[Naviance] gives [the students] an opportunity to get a feel for what the real thing is going to be like,’’ said Chet Keisel, school

counselor.

After the test, Naviance gives the students a diagnostic score, or what they might get, and it also shows them on which areas they need to improve.

Another beneficial feature is that, once they have completed the test and received their score, Naviance gives practice questions that can help students improve their score.

The students then are assigned to flex, where advisers go over questions to help prepare the

Annual Poetry Out Loud competition approaching BY

AVERY BRIGGS

The school Poetry Out Loud competition for NS students is coming up. It will be help Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium.

Students who are interested in participating need to choose two poems from poetryoutloud.org, and email their choices to Mrs. Kaylene

Johnson at kaylene. johnson@nsanpete.org, or print copies and take them to her in person.

Once submitting their poem choices, students should plan on meeting with Johnson during first period on B Days. They will be excused.

If first period is not an option, students can arrange to meet with Johnson after school.

students for the ACT test. Even though students may not like being assigned to flex, they get better scores the first time they take it after having been prepared with the Practice ACT. Keisel believes that when students get to the actual test they are not as stressed because they know what to expect and are aware of the questions that are going to be photo by emi palmer asked.

Juniors stayed after school to take the Practice ACT, a test to help them see how prepared the are for the real ACT test.

Policy, continued from page 1 weekend, I end up reteaching them what I taught them the week before,” Syme said.

“You can imagine if you miss a whole year of math.”

NS counselor Ben Cox agrees that it is not beneficial for students to have a gap in their learning, and he also thinks it’s important for students to challenge themselves during their senior year.

“I’ve always thought it was valuable to keep students engaged their senior year. So many students get their requirements knocked out and so senior year gets here and they want to just kick back and not do anything,” Cox said. “I don’t think that’s valuable for them in preparing for college and the real world; I think it actually hurts them.”

Many students want to relax their senior year and definitely don’t want to be bothered by math concepts.

However, these students are only putting off the inevitable.

“You’re going to take that

fourth year either now in high school or later in college,” Syme said. “It’s going to be much tougher if you have to take it in college because here at the high school we have resources--we have teachers and tutors and people who care and will do whatever we can to help you.”

While the state is requiring college-bound students to have four credits of math, there isn’t a way to effectively monitor who is college bound or not. Students can easily say on a survey sent out to the junior class that they are not planning on going to college just to get out of taking math their senior year. The high school, as an institution, will still have to allow that student to graduate.

“We’re not making or requiring students to take four years of mathematics, we would just strongly suggest they do, so that when they get to college they will be prepared.” Syme said. “It just makes sense. Why would we

set our students up for failure?”

However, having four years of math does not come without its challenges.

“Math is an incredible challenge for a lot of students and the idea of another year of math in high school is not appealing,” Cox said. “I get it when people don’t want to keep taking math.”

There are some statistics that show that 79 percent of students who take the extra year of math graduate college within four years of enrolling.

Cox sees this number as being misleading because the students who take senior math are already high-performing students who would graduate college within four years regardless.

“They have statistics and stuff to back up how valuable that fourth year of math is, and it clearly is valuable,” Cox said, “but it’s hardly a guarantee for success. For students who struggle in math, taking the extra year can be detrimental

if they aren’t ready for the college class in high school.”

While there are certainly students who are not in favor of this change, many agree that it is for the best.

“I’m fine with taking an extra math because it gets you ready for college,” junior Cooper Rosenlund said. “It didn’t change a whole lot for me.”

With the change, NS will be offering at least one additional math class for next year’s seniors to take.

In the past, in order to take any college-math credit, students were required to score at least a 23 on the ACT. Now, for Statistics (Math 1040) and Quantitative Literacy (Math 1030), a C average in Math III will be accepted.

“Fortunately, we have some really strong math teachers who students appreciate and enjoy learning from,” Cox said. “That makes a huge difference.”

Teachers at NS are com-

Accreditation, continued from page 1 implement the school’s instructional process in support of student learning.

“It’s really hard for them to come in and evaluate an entire school in a couple of days,” counselor Ben Cox said. “They do interview students, but it’s difficult for them to really get the breadth and depth of what we’re doing.”

The team was only at NS for two days, which could cause problems because teachers feel that the classroom observation portion, in particular, can be inaccurately re-

flected.

“They go into classrooms for maybe 20 minutes at a time and they don’t see every teacher,” Cox said, “but that’s how they do everybody so even though it’s not a perfect system, it’s probably the most efficient they can do.”

The other area for improvement is putting the technology and tools that we have to use, but not everyone agreed with this evaluation.

“Many teachers use [the iPads] regularly in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean every

single day they’re using them all the time,” Cox said. “[The observers] might come in at a time when we’re not using them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not being utilized.”

However, there is no question that the NS staff is doing everything they can to help students succeed. Although many of these are new, the staff is working hard and many tools are provided to help students including advisory, flex, math labs, Aleks, Canvas, iPads, ACT Aspire, and Naviance.

“They’re seeing us

mitted to the success and wellbeing of each student, that’s just something you don’t find with professors in college.

“Colleges don’t care if you’re ready--they just care if you pay the bill.” Syme said.

“The professors aren’t paid to care. They’ll gladly accept your money and if you struggle, oh well.”

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at the beginning stages of this and I have no way to show them whether it’s working or not,” Ault said. “We need to use these tools long enough to feel confident about it and see results.”

Ault and Cox agree that there were no surprises in the evaluation and are both happy with the results of the external review.

“We’re aware of where our weaknesses are and we’re proud of our many strengths,” Cox said. “It’s nice to have an independent voice tell us what they think about what we’re

doing, and they were excited about a lot of things that we are doing.”

Although NS does have areas to improve, the school scored extremely well and obviously provides a great learning environment.

“The staff works extremely hard and this is a way for us to celebrate all that they do,” Ault said. “When you put all that evidence together like that it’s pretty powerful to look at everything that we accomplish.”

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After one year, sign language class in jeopardy for year two BY

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American Sign Language (ASL) is in its first year at NS, and is a full year class. However, it may also be the class’s last year due to conflicts over who will be teaching it next year.

The class is currently being taught by new teacher, Katrina Palmer.

Palmer is the mother of six children, two attending NS. She also has a dyslexic child who she recently pulled from public school for half of the day so that she could give him a more personalized education at home.

Palmer is also a writer, and this new teaching job has interfered with her writing schedule and thrown her routine out of order. Balancing her time as a writer, a teacher, and a mother has proven extremely difficult.

“So right now I get up at 4:30 in the morning to write, and then I do homeschool until 12:30, and then I come here,” she said.

Palmer agreed to teach ASL thinking she would just teach one year because she didn’t have the proper certification to teach any more than that. Shortly into her year teaching at the

high school she learned that ASL was being counted as a foreign language credit. Many of the students currently enrolled in the class are using it to get two years of foreign language credits in hopes of receiving a scholarship known as the Regents’ Scholarship.

For Palmer, this was bad news because in order for the credits to count towards scholarships the students had to take two years, and Palmer only signed up to teach one.

“I feel really guilty about this because I know about the scholarship thing, so I’ve been trying to find solutions,” said Palmer.

For the high school, this would also be a big problem. Principal Nan Ault is now hard at work to find a solution to this growing issue as she is determined to find a way for students enrolled in ASL be able to use it as their foreign language credit.

“I just want kids to get their two years of credit,” said Ault. “And I wasn’t trying to set them up, that really was our intent--to bring this class back to the school and have a great program.”

However finding a teacher who is able to give credit is proving

harder than Ault originally thought.

“Unless we have somebody out there in the district who has an endorsement in ASL and who can give credit for the class, then I am stuck,” said Ault.

Not only would Ault be out of an ASL class, but she also would be out of a dedicated teacher.

“She’s so good at what she does,” said Ault. “Whatever she does she does 150,000 percent. She’s just that kind of a gal.”

Although the class conflicts with Palmer’s schedule and requires a lot of sacrifice, she may still end up teaching next year if they can’t find someone else to replace her.

“I could possibly maybe, maybe do one class,” Palmer said. “Like just continue it and do the second one next year if they absolutely can’t find anyone else.”

Another option Palmer was interested in was doing a summer class. The class would only last a few weeks, and she would cram everything into the short time. An online class is available for sign language, but Palmer doesn’t like that option as much.

“I don’t know that I

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Katrina Palmer demonstrates for her ASL I students. Palmer is unsure if she will teach ASL II next year, which would leave juniors enrolled in the class without enough credits for the Regents’ Scholarship.

would do it online, that’s kind of a last resort,” Palmer said. “I would much rather do it in person.”

One of the worst cases would be Palmer not having the time to teach for another year. If it comes to this, faculty member Jane Tucker, who has been an interpreter for deaf students throughout their school years, will likely take over the position. However, instead of teaching ASL Tucker will teach the students Signed English. If Tucker is unable or unwilling to teach the students Signed English, they could be left without a second year of a foreign language, making them incapable of acquiring the Regents’

scholarship.

Although Palmer doesn’t have the money or time to continue teaching ASL, she hopes the class won’t leave when she does. She knows the class is valuable and she wants another teacher to pick up where she left up.

“I think this is a fantastic program, especially as a foreign language,” said Palmer.

She also appreciates the value that ASL has for dyslexics, like her son, who struggle learning other languages.

“Dyslexics have an extremely hard time learning foreign languages, and ASL is one of the few foreign languages they can learn.” Palmer said. “I feel like it’s a

great program and I want it there for when my son gets to high school.”

Palmer can only hope for the best in this because she deems it more important to focus on helping her son get through school than continue teaching.

“I can’t do all of it. I can’t help him along and teach the class. Especially right now when he’s flunking everything,” said Palmer.

Even though the students in ASL may not have their same teacher next year, the class will most likely be offered in other ways. Meanwhile, their former teacher will be doing what’s best for her and her family.

New class at NS instructs students on how to respond during basic emergencies BY

A ARON A NDERSEN

This year for the first time ever students have the option to take a class that teaches them medical skills in case of an emergency.

The new class is called Emergency Medical Responder, and it teaches students basic skills on how to treat wounds and properly perform CPR. Students also learn basic medical terminology. Over the course of the class each student becomes certified in CPR. Cami Hathaway isn’t new to NS, but this is her first year teach-

ing this class. Hathaway has always had a love for the medical field, and she thinks that everybody should have a basic knowledge of what to do in an emergency situation.

“You never know if your mom or dad or someone in your family are going to have problems,” Hathaway said.

In her spare time and when she’s not teaching classes at school, Hathaway works as an EMT. She is a certified EMT, EMT instructor, and is also certified to instruct and certify people in CPR.

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One of her favorite things about teaching the EMR class is that it’s something different. It’s a lot different than the teaching that she does day to day with the special needs kids at the high school.

For students to pass this semester class they are required to have a certain amount of hours riding along in an ambulance. Doing this would give the students a bit more experience, and help them use the medical skills that they have learned. Hathaway also hopes to be able to teach a full EMT course next year.

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Cami Hathaway instructing students in her Emergy Medical Responder (EMR) class.

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Physics teacher brings experience to classroom

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Math and physics teacher Jed Brewer lectures his students. Brewer moved to teaching after working as a mechanical engineer.

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There used to be an old, haunted grain elevator in Moroni. Though it has long been torn down, voices used to come from the walls and frighten children. When the grain elevator was demolished, the ghost didn’t disappear; he now teaches math and physics to students at NS. “Did you ever read ‘Tom Sawyer?” said math and physics teacher Jed Brewer. “That was my childhood.”

A self-described “fiddler,” Brewer was always interested in how or why things worked.

When he was ten, he disassembled a radio and learned enough about how it functioned to play his voice over the air and convince another boy he was communicating with aliens.

Along with wiring an old Moroni grain elevator and

haunting it as a youth, Brewer also tried his hand at creating scuba gear. Although that didn’t end up working out, Brewer learned an important lesson.

“The moral of that story is that the air has to be pure,” Brewer said. “Clearly, Coleman tanks don’t hold pure air.”

Brewer’s descriptions of Sanpete when he was young seem more reminiscent of a Tom Sawyer time than just the antics he got himself mixed into.

“The only college grads we knew were the local doctors,” Brewer said. “We just didn’t know...what was available out of Sanpete.”

As a teenager, Brewer was strongly interested in astronomy. He acquired a telescope and started taking pictures of the sky. He was even published in “Astronomy” magazine. Brewer served as NS’s

science Sterling Scholar with his astrophotography, but even he admits that the high school teachers and students didn’t really understand life and opportunities available outside of Sanpete.

“The philosophy then was ‘just get them through as fast as you can,’” Brewer said. “I had no idea, and neither did any of the teachers, of the careers available. To some degree, that’s still true today.”

Brewer coasted through high school. He recalls a time where he met one of his former teachers and learned that they all thought he was “going to be a rocket scientist.” He was quick to shatter that illusion. In reality, Brewer didn’t understand his classes, so he did what all high school students do--he faked it.

“I had no idea what was going on,” Brewer said. “I didn’t even know how to set

up a test tube bracket.”

However, Brewer is quick to take the responsibility for the fact that he didn’t learn much in school.

“A lot of kids will blame the teachers; I never did that,” Brewer said. “Education is what you make it.”

After graduating, Brewer went to Snow College but still struggled to understand his coursework. His “crossroads” came in a linear algebra class early in college.

“I remember going into a room and saying to myself, ‘I am not coming out of this room until I understand this class,’” Brewer said. “From that point, I got straight A’s.”

This personal responsibility for education is something that Brewer wishes he saw more of at NS. Both as a student and now as teacher at NS, Brewer still sees students trying to fake it and take the path of least resistance--something that he finds troubling.

“If a student recognizes when they don’t know something, they should recognize and fix that, and I don’t see that here,” Brewer said. “[Students] just try and take the easiest way to that ‘A .’”

After spending time at Snow College, Brewer transferred to Utah State University. There, he studied to be mechanical engineer. After several years and a while in the construction business, though, he switched majors and decided to become a teacher. His rationale was simple; he needed insurance. As a father of a special-needs child, he needed insurance to help pay for frequent, costly medi-

cal care.

“I was making double doing construction over teaching,” Brewer said, “[but] I knew I needed good insurance.”

Brewer’s first teaching position was at North Summit High School. After a few years there, he came back to the NS school district. He taught science at the middle school for about a decade with John Sadler, current math teacher and former middle school science teacher.

“We developed a new lab and tried to put more focus on lab work,” Sadler said. “[Brewer] was really good at giving seventh graders a good introduction to science.”

Naturally, experiments sometimes go awry. Anyone with one of Brewer or Sadler’s classes know that the two have many stories. Whether it be accidentally ending up with a mouthful of hydrochloric acid, or having a rocket accidentally turn into a bomb, those middle school students had a memorable introduction to science.

Now Brewer teaches freshman math, physics, and physics with technology classes at the high school. The students who take his classes know that he can be demanding, but Sadler says that is one of the best things about his teaching.

“He expects the best out of everyone, and so some kids find him intimidating,” Sadler said. “He will work with any student. He knows what they are capable of doing, [but] he likes them to work and learn.”

NS senior revives chess club, plans to expand playing BY

LYDIA M ADSEN

After several years of extinction from NS, the Chess Club has made a return to the list of activities at the school.

Senior Dustin Angerhofer decided that it was time for there to be a chess club at NS again, so he started one this year.

“I just wanted a chess club, and so did my friends,” Angerhofer said. “We thought it would be fun [to have a club], so we started one.”

This year the involvement of chess club members has reached between 15 and 20 students. These students joined the club for a number of reasons.

“Chess is far superior to dating girls,” Angerhofer said. While some have similar reasons for joining, most joined because they love chess.

“I love chess, and I think I am the best,” senior Willis Cox said. And it appears that is a true statement for now.

As an activity for the club, the members decided to host a tournament. They set up a bracket and members have been playing matches in their spare time. At the current moment, Cox remains undefeated and is in the lead. However, the loser’s bracket is still going on and students like senior Ryker Erick-

son have a chance to come back and take the title.

Not only does the club have tournaments, they also play games for fun.

“Originally our goal was to meet Wednesdays during flex,” Erickson said. “But that hasn’t really happened.”

Since meeting on a continuous basis has proved to be a challenge, many of the members just compete against each other when they get a chance.

“I play three to four games a week,” Cox said.

The range of games played can be from around one a day, like Cox, to multiple games in a day.

“I would usually play at least five to eight games a week,” Erickson said. “Now it’s less because school got in the way a bit.”

Many of the other members are in similar situations. The thing that keeps them coming back is their love for the sport.

“I like chess because it makes you think,” Erickson said. “It’s not a quick reaction game, it’s a game of strategy, which appeals to me.”

Right now the chess club mainly consists of playing leisure games and competing in the tournament, but there are some plans and ideas for the future.

“We plan to hold further tournaments, but nothing’s set in stone yet,” Cox said.

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Seniors Christian Johanson and Noah Richmond play chess in the library. Senior Dustin Angerhofer brought a chess club back to NS this year.

Besides holding further tournaments, the club thinks it would be fun to compete against other schools.

“We want play against other schools like Wasatch Academy,” Angerhofer said. “We want to get competitive with other schools in our region.”

Until these plans become reality, the club is sticking to its roots and just playing some good oldfashioned chess.

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Snow College CNA program popular among NS students semester class during which students are required to do 80 hours in the classroom and 40 hours of clinicals. Most classes help students set up their clinical hours where they get real world experience.

“Clinicals are when you work a ten hour shift working with patients,” Mickel said.

“You get the feel of what it’s like to work at an assisted living center so when you get a job you know what you’re supposed to do.”

Along with the 120 or more hours of training, those in the CNA program must pass a state test, be CPR ceritified, and pass of a list of skills they will use in the field in orphoto by Nicole Burton Senior Heather Mickel practices taking the blood pressure of junior Alex Larsen. der to become certified and be Many NS students enjoy being involved in the certified nursing assistant proable to get a job. Despite the gram through Snow College. extra work, Neeley thinks it’s

by Nicole Burton “Right now I am still a full- Wednesdays, we usually do worth it.

“The CNA program will time student in school and I lab days for hands on learnhopefully help me pay my way High school is a time for am taking the CNA course ing.” most students to explore their through Snow in the evening,” Another option is tak- through school,” said Neeley. interests and figure out what Neeley said. ing a morning class four days “Plus, schooling through conthey want to do for the rest of Though balancing college a week, like senior Heather current enrollment is cheaper and can be way easier.” their life. For some students at classes and a high school life Mickel.

With the benefit of cheapNS in the certified nursing as- is difficult, Neeley manages by “I go straight from camsistant (CNA) program, their taking evening classes instead pus back to high school,” said er schooling and higher pofuture has already begun. of the morning class.

Mickel. “It’s a lot of work be- tential for a job out of high Through a course at Snow “The [evening] class is cause we have to do four to school, it makes sense to many College offered to NS stu- three hours long two days five chapters of a workbook students to take the class now.

“College is a lot more seridents, many are on their way a week,” Neeley said. “The each week while going to class ous than high school,” Mickel or completed their CNA cer- morning class is more days a and high school.” tification. One student work- week for less time. On regular No matter the time the said, “but it gives you a heading on her schooling is senior days we do power points and CNA class requires the same start and can help you decide Hailey Neeley. get breaks at some spots. On amount of work. It is a one where to go to college. You’re a step ahead when you get out

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The state requires that students in the CNA program to have a TB test and a background check. They must also score 16 or higher on the math portion of the ACT and 15 or higher on the reading or maintain a high school GPA of 2.5 or higher. Students must also be at least 16 years old and at least a high school junior.

While deciding on a career path at 16 seems daunting for many teenagers, Neeley disagrees.

“I think picking a career path in high school is smart not strange.” Neeley said.

Receiving a CNA certification opens the door to many other career pathways, including becoming a registered nurse, nursing home administrator, or geriatric care manager. These future prospects play a large part in promoting the CNA program.

“I decided to do the CNA course because I want to be a physical therapist and school is not cheap,” Neeley said. “I love working with people and it is a good paying job.”

Similarly, Mickel plans to continue in the medical field.

“I want to go to school to be an RN and this is one of the first steps,” Mickel said. “Concurrent enrollment is a cheaper way to get there and I’ll be a year ahead.”

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Students and teachers enjoy traveling, experiencing other cultures BY

CARLI JOHANSEN

Most students wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to spend more time with their teachers over the summer.

However, for a chance to travel the world, that’s exactly what some students do.

EF Tours offers teachers an opportunity to lead students on trips across the world. Living in our little bubble of Sanpete County, this is quite the learning experience. “[EF Tours] gives kids a new confidence and a new understanding of how the world works,” said Jori Turpin, English and French teacher as well as group leader.

Knowing the world we live in can have major benefits.

Seeing how other people from other cultures live can bring more of an understanding for those with a different lifestyle.

It gives a more accurate idea of how large and diverse our world really is. Not to mention it looks great on college

applications.

“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel,” said alumna and past traveller Savannah Larson. “It’s pretty amazing.”

So far, two teachers from NS have participated in EF Tours, counselor Ben Cox and Turpin. Cox has led two tours in Europe; one in 2008 and one in 2013. Turpin has also been on two tours; a teacher training tour and a student trip in Europe, both in 2015.

“It’s incredibly valuable to get outside of our own little area and see what’s really out there,” Cox said.

EF Tours are better than individual travel in the sense that students are under the care and watch of an EF group leader, someone who is familiar with the country, and they are there with their peers, as opposed to strangers. The tour guides know what sites are the most important to hit and what restaurants aren’t hazardous for your health.

“It was good going with someone who knew what they were doing. The cities are very large and it can be very scary,” junior Billy Christensen said.

Past travellers have advice for anyone considering an EF Tour in the future.

“Take a journal and write down everything,” senior Clarissa Peckham said.

Keeping a journal can hold record of things that would have been otherwise forgotten, and it provides a way to look back to see that yeah, that actually happened.

“Have fun and embrace the trip,” said junior Stetson Taylor.

Be there and be in the moment, being in a different country can be a once in a lifetime opportunity. “[While there] just try new things,” Turpin said. “Try the food, try the culture, try everything.”

Either you find something you like, or you gain bragging rights for later.

photo provided by Ben Cox

A group of students led by teacher Ben Cox pose in the Colosseum in Rome during a trip in 2013.

“Don’t waste any time,” said alumna and past traveller Harlee Tucker.

Most trips are ten days to two weeks, which is not a lot of time to explore a whole new place and culture.

For those who missed the opportunity to participate in an EF tour, the chance is still open. Turpin is planning another tour to visit Rome, Paris, and England, in the sum-

mer of 2018. While the tour is currently full with 17 students signed up, anyone interested can be put on the waiting list.

The tour is planned to be 11 days long.

EF Tours provide a great opportunity to travel the world in the safest way possible, under the careful watch of a teacher and with friends.

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sports 31 jan 17

Hawks begin to win as they enter region play

photo by Avery Briggs

Senior Kaleb Bailey attempts a contested shot during a close win over region rival Richfield. NS has a region record of 3-2. They are tied with Canyon View for first place.

BY

H ANNAH O STR AFF

Though the basketball season got off to a rough start, the boys have started to pick up their game by securing three wins so far in region play.

These games were against Richfield, Juab,

and Carbon. The first two games were won by no more than five points, and both games had comebacks in the fourth quarter.

Coach Cris Hoopes said that it was hard to find what everyone was good at in the beginning of the season, but now

he is starting to put players in the positions that they play best.

“We are putting players in a better position to succeed,” Hoopes said. “I think in the start of the season there were a lot of errors on my part, and we don’t have a lot of varsity experience.”

Along with the the coaching difficulties, the varsity team consists of a lot of juniors. Luckily, those juniors are playing well and benefiting the team.

“Our juniors don’t play like juniors; they play like varsity players,” said senior Kaleb Bailey.

A lot of the players didn’t have the varsity experience going into the season, but with the preseason games over the team has stepped up their game.

“They are really hard working, and if you have have hardworking players it doesn’t matter what

age they are,” Hoopes said.

With two big region games being won in the last seconds of the fourth quarter, the team is starting to pick up their energy level out on the court.

“When we lost to Carbon we came back and refocused and didn’t lose energy in the games against Richfield and Juab,” said senior Justice Green.

The team has set some goals to help them.

Some of these are: play as a team, give it their all win or lose, and work to get better. These goals have seemed to help the team start to pull through in their games.

Something that has been noticed by the team is the energy of the crowd, regardless of the score.

“We have a great crowd who always supports us, and who keep cheering even if we are down by 10 to 12 points,” Hoopes said.

“They don’t stop cheering and that helps the boys keep up their energy out on the court.”

Two star quarterbacks to face off in Super Bowl 51 BY

K ALEB C OX

The stage is set for Super Bowl LI. The New England Patriots will face off against the Atlanta Falcons in Houston, Texas, on Feb. 5.

In the conference championship, Tom Brady led the Patriots to a 36-17 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Matt Ryan and the Falcons defeated Green Bay, 44-21.

This NFL season has been one to remember. Several players have had MVP-caliber seasons, and many rookies showed they’re already on their ways to stardom.

The Dallas Cowboys were definitely one of the most surprising stories of the regular and postseason. Dallas had struggled in years past, with former starting quarterback Tony Romo constantly getting hurt. This season, they finished with the number one seed in the

NFC with rookies Dak Prescott (QB) and Ezekiel Elliott (HB) having historical rookie seasons for their respective positions.

Everything seemed in place for Dallas to bring home their first Super Bowl in over two decades, until Green Bay knocked them out of the divisional round on a last second field goal.

Another big story from this season was Tom Brady. The effects of the alleged “Deflategate” from two years prior lingered their way into this season, as Brady was suspended for the first four games for not cooperating with the investigation. Despite this, he ended up with one of his best seasons ever at 39 years old.

The Oakland Raiders were another team to who had one of their best seasons, making the playoffs for the first time since 2002. This was largely due to young quarterback Derek Carr

Matt Ryan (left) and the Atlanta Falcons will represent the NFC. They will face AFC champs Tom Brady (right) and the New England Patriots in this year’s Super Bowl.

having a historic season for Oakland. This run came to a quick halt in week 16 when Carr went down with a broken fibula. The next week they were defeated by Denver, and later eliminated in the Wild Card round

by Houston.

The biggest headline to come from the NFL this year actually started in the preseason when San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick caused a stir in the media when he refused

to stand for the national anthem to protest police violence against AfricanAmericans. Many players across the league joined this protest, and as a result, many fans began boycotting 49ers games.

It was an interesting year indeed for many teams. A year that will come to an end on the first Sunday in February.

The Patriots are favored to win the game by three points.

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NS wrestling succeeds in various tournaments BY

CARLOS NAVARRO

With the season nearing its end, NS wrestling is going to as many tournaments as they possibly can in order to get ready for what region and state is going to look like.

This year the wrestling team has accomplished many goals and competed at one of the hardest tournaments in Utah. Just recently they attended the Rocky Mountain Rumble tournament at Orem where they hosted 72 teams.

That’s including teams spanning from 1A to 5A classifications all around the state, as well as many out of state teams from Idaho, California, Colorado, and Arizona. With all of these teams at the tournament, there were at least sixtyfive wrestlers in each weight class and players could possibly have five to six matches a day.

The Rumble tournament is one of the hardest tournaments in Utah, and a lot of the NS wrestlers did well. Senior Hootchy Brewer took fourth place out of the sixty-four kids in his weight class.

“The Rumble tournament was way tough and a huge wake up call so that I can get my butt moving,” Brewer said.

Other wrestlers such as Gatlin Peterson, Josh Lee, Sam Sevy and Keegan Eliason were beat in the consolation

photo by Carlos Navarro

Senior Hootchie Brewer attempts to pin a Richfield wrestler during a recent meet. Brewer is currently ranked third in state, with a record of 37-3.

round and ended up placing.

This year, the seniors wrestled for their last time at home against Richfield.

Though NS lost due to not having anybody to wrestle the light weights, they won most of their matches by pin or by points, which brought the crowd screaming in support ofour wrestlers.

“This season has been long but it probably has been my best year so far,” Brewer said.

Brewer’s record is 373, and he is ranked third in state. At the Rumble tournament, Brewer beat the second ranked wrestler in state. Later that day, the second ranked wrestler beat the top wrestler in the state, and the top wrestler later beat Brewer in the tournament.

“Region wise, I should take the championship,” Brewer said. “But state wise, if I can get my butt moving, then I can take state in my weight.”

But Brewer is not the only one whose prospects at region are promising.

“Our wrestlers have a really good chance at state and at region. Gatlin should take region and state and Keegan, Sam, and Josh have a really good chance on that as well,” coach Bryan Strain said.

Strain is the new head coach and P.E. teacher for NS and has been enjoying his time not only teaching but coach and getting to teach the

wrestlers his wisdom.

“Strain is awesome! Every wrestler’s style is different and his is, and I really enjoy that about him,” Brewer said.

As the season comes to an end there are still very high hopes for the wrestlers to show how hard they have worked for and they are not going to quit when something is in their way. Instead, they will take it down as a team fighting.

flu, and two girls have been playing on sprained ankles.

Additionally, the team’s point guard, Angela Clayton, missed many games as the result of a dislocated shoulder.

“It’s just been a lot of adversity with trying to get everybody healthy at the same time,” Griffith said. “They get used to playing together and meshing, and then somebody gets injured. Then they get back to meshing, and we get

someone healthy again.”

Overcoming the injuries has taken some time because the girls weren’t playing or defending well, and were inadvertently blaming the injuries on their struggles.

“We were not meaning to use injuries as an excuse, but in the back of our minds we were thinking ‘When we’re healthy we’ll play better,’” Griffith said.

The girls had a team meet-

ing, watched game footage, and came to the realization that they weren’t defending like they thought they were.

Griffith believes since that time, in the games against Richfield and Juab, the team is defending like they were at the beginning of the season.

Another conflict the Lady Hawks are facing is their inability to create offensive opportunities.

“The last two games the score doesn’t show how hard the girls played and how well they played,” Griffith said.

“We just are struggling to score anything.”

According to Griffith, early in the season when Clayton was healthy, she created plays which allowed for girls to get open. In turn, the team had a lot of confidence shooting the ball. However, once Clayton was sidelined the other girls began doubting themselves and their abilities.

“We’re just figuring it out. We’re getting good shots, the girls just have to have the confidence that they’ll fall,” Griffith said. “Each girl needs to rely on herself in order to help the others.”

With all the adversity this season has brought, Griffith

believes her team is great at being just that, a team.

“When the girls are getting each others backs and playing defense, our team as a whole is a lot stronger,” said Griffith. “That’s when we really start scoring, when we just get up and get after people.”

With the highs and lows of the season, Griffith has found that, for the most part, the girls attitudes have remained encouraging.

“December was rough, our attitudes were kind of ‘Pity me, everyone’s hurt, three starters are out,’” said Griffith. “But they’ve really committed, since region play started, to get over it.”

When comparing the Lady Hawks to other teams, the height difference is apparent, with senior Abby Smith as one of the smallest post players in the region. However, Griffith believes the team’s play is not affected by the girls small statures.

“Size doesn’t matter if you have toughness and grit,” Griffith said. “And we box out better than most teams, when we decide to.”

Injuries plague Lady Hawks’ region title hopes BY

AVERY BRIGGS

The 2016-17 basketball season has not gone as planned for the NS girls team, as they are 5-13 overall, and 1-4 in region. The biggest struggle for the team has been the amount of injuries and illnesses the girls are dealing with. According to head coach Randi Griffith, three girls have missed games due to concussions, one from the stomach

photo by Avery Briggs

Senior Ryann Tapia defends a Carbon player during Thursdays loss at home.

This marked the Lady Hawks’ fourth region loss.

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NS swim team’s season ends with participation in region meet BY

NICOLE DAY

With region over and the season ended, Coach Britanny Adams reflects on how much the team has improved.

“It went better than I anticipated,” Adams said. “We had a lot of new swimmers and I wasn’t sure how fast they would learn, but everyone improved more than my original goal.”

Region swim works differently than a lot of sports, though it is similar to track. All of the points athletes earn for region are on one day opposed to gaining points throughout the whole season. The team wins or loses the region title based only on their performance in the region meet. Because of this everyone wants to be swimming their best at the end of the year. In order to achieve this, the team does tapering to prepare.

“During the season you work and work until you want to cry or throw up, or both,” Adams said. “Then towards the end of the season, we don’t work as hard so that by the time region hits you have so much energy that you’re bouncing off of the walls, which allows you to get your best times. Everyone has high hopes going into region next week.”

“I’m expecting to swim my personal best times from the whole season,” said senior Blade Cox. “And I expect the same from all of my teammates.”

At region, senior Benjamin Palmer got sixth in the 200 yard freestyle, as well as setting a new school record.

Despite expecting more from themselves the team has already accomplished some pretty amazing things. Last week in Delta junior Trevor

Ence beat the school record for the 50 free, swimming a 26.66.

“At the beginning of the season [Trevor] thought that he was one of the slowest swimmers on the team and he was mentally preparing himself for that but he just beat a really hard school record,” said Adams.

Ence placed third at region in the 100 meter Freestyle.

Several other swimmers have excelled this year too.

One of those is senior Brayden Robison. Robison swims the 100 Butterfly, arguably one of the hardest races students can compete in.

“With his butterfly he can compete with people who have been swimming for a long time; it’s very impressive,” Adams said. There are nine seniors on the team, which means only five people

photo by Nicole Day

Junior Trevor Ence takes a breath during a recent swim meet.

will be returning next year.

“We’re going to have to start with swimming lessons instead of a swim team,” Adams said. “But with the pool in Mt. Pleasant and good advertising, we should have enough people.” Overall everyone that tried swim team really enjoyed it.

“It’s definitely the hardest sport I have ever done in high school but the most reward-

ing,” Cox said.

Sophomore Emi Palmer agrees.

“It’s a really good workout and works your whole body and the team is very welcoming,” Emi Palmer said.

Coach Adams was also very happy with the way the team interacted.

“It’s very common to have drama on a team but we didn’t have any this year.”

The NS Drill Team participated in their region competition on saturday.

They took fourth place out of four teams, not qualifying to participate in state. This marks the end of the season for the spiriteers, as well as the end of all the seniors’ run with the team. Though the team is dissapointed in the outcome of the season, they look forward to the coming years. photo provided by Jackson Blackhurst

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arts 31 jan 17

NS students enter prestigious art show

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Hannah Ostraff, Noah Richmond, and Ethan Ostraff pose by their artwork. These students have been preparing to enter the annual Springville Art Show.

BY

A BIGAIL C LAWSON

NS is home to students of many talents, ranging from academics to athletics to arts. Among these students are seniors Christian Johansen, Noah Richmond and Ethan Ostraff, as well as junior Hannah Ostraff, all of who have been preparing pieces to enter into the Springville Museum of Art’s annual Utah All-State

High School Art Show.

This art show, open to juniors and seniors from around the state, receives around a thousand submissions each year, from which thirty percent or about 300 are selected to be shown.

“The Springville Museum of Art and the Utah State High School Art Show is really the only competitive art show for high school students,” Ethan Ostraff

said. “There’s a lot of work in doing it, and you know if your piece gets into it that you’re pretty good and that your art is actually good.”

Not only are students able to have their work shown in the museum and to have it looked over by the jurors, who are chosen for their experience and include art teachers and professionals, but they are also able to receive scholarships, cash prizes, and other awards for their work, and see what an art show is truly like.

“I wanted to try this. I think it’d be a good opportunity for me to have this kind of art competition experience and see what that’s like.” Richmond said.

In creating their work, students chose a medium. From the four NS students came three different mediums; Johansen and Richmond chose oil paints, Ethan Ostraff chose encaustics, and Hannah Ostraff chose book arts.

Each chose their medium for a different reason.

“I like painting, but I’m not very good at oil painting, and I’ve never tried this until now, and I

enjoyed it a lot and had fun with this medium,” Ethan Ostraff said.

While Ethan Ostraff ’s pieces did not represent anything particular, that cannot be said of all the artists as Richmond and Hannah Ostraff; each chose specific subjects for their pieces.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the Salt Flats,” Richmond said.

“I think that it’s a really cool place, and... part of the reason I chose to paint it is so that I could emphasize the symbolism of the area, and how simple it is, and also beautiful. For my other painting I wanted to paint a scene of Sanpete that would be recognizable and that looks good.”

Hannah Ostraff ’s pieces differed as well; not only in the medium, but the subject.

“I made [one] in Ireland and it’s kind of my interpretation of the coastline at Spanish Point Island,” Hannah Ostraff said. “And [the other] one, I took 1930’s old Hollywood photos that my great grandma had, and I used photoshop and I created different images out of them. Then I made a

book out of it.”

These students have all been involved in art for most of their lives, which is another reason the art show is something they hope to be a part of.

“I’ve been drawing and painting since I was really young,” Richmond said. “For as long as I can remember I’ve enjoyed drawing and doodling and things like that, so it’s just natural that as I got older I just stuck with it.”

While these students have continued with art, and have focused on it going into this show, that is not what all of them are planning to do as a career.

“I really like art, but it’s not what I want to go into; I want to go into science or biology, something like that. I still like art as a pastime or hobby,” Ethan Ostraff said.

Whatever they choose, making these pieces and submitting them is certainly something they will remember.

Drama students prepare for upcoming competitions, performances

by Megan Aldridge

With the upcoming drama competitions as well as the spring play, the drama team has been busy.

In March many of the students in both the drama I and drama II classes will be preparing scenes for region drama, which will be held at NS. There are many different categories that the students will be preparing scenes for such as pantomime, drama, comedy, and more. The students will then be judged based on how they performed. The goal is to get “superiors” from the judges so they will be able to attend the state drama competition in March.

“Region is a time where people show off their strengths, as well as what they are capable of,” said NS drama teacher Alex Barlow.

The students prepare their pieces dur-

ing class where they practice memorization, diction, characterization as well as many other things. The students perform pieces which fall into that category that suits them best, and later they work on improving other areas of drama.

However, this is not all that the drama students are taking to competition. They will also be taking a one-act with them.

Most of the student are in a short play called “15 reasons to not be in a play,” which is a comedic show. This may sound like an odd choice, but Barlow thinks otherwise.

“I looked at the kids that we have in our class and the strengths that we have and I saw that we are definitely very good at comedy,” Barlow says.

Past students at NS have done a phenomenal job at region in the past, many scoring superiors in their pieces.

While preparing for region drama, the department is also preparing for their annual spring play. This year, they will be putting on their production of “Arsenic And Old Lace,” which is set to be performed in April.

“The show was originally meant to be dramatic, however, when the playwright’s wife read the script for the show, she couldn’t stop laughing,” said drama council member Kelsen Spencer.

If you’ve ever seen a version of this play, you will see that it truly is hilarious.

The play follows the story of drama critic Mortimer Brewster when on his wedding day, he finds out that his two seemingly sweet aunts, Abby and Martha Brewster, are homicidal maniacs.

“My character is kinda crazy, he’s eccentric, proud and freaks out over everything. He’s very against marriage,” said

Sophomore Nicholas Honey, who will be playing the leading role of Mortimer. “I don’t see any similarities between Mortimer and I….but Mr. Barlow does.”

Rehearsal for this show started a few days ago. It went well, but it wasn’t without its rough parts.

“The first rehearsal went really well... in the sense that ‘yeah we’re getting stuff done’ but really bad because being an old lady is hard. I spent a whole half an hour trying to figure out how to walk like an old lady,” said drama Sterling Scholar Jennifer Boekweg who is performing as Abby Brewster in the production.

The other students have also expressed the difficulty of becoming their characters so they can play them more realistically, and a lot of them have to step out of their comfort zones, but really, that’s what drama is all about.

Most anticipated movies, video games of 2017

BY

TR AYSON THOMPSON

After the absolute catastrophe that was the end of 2016, many people are looking forward to 2017.

We have new movies coming out, we have new video game consoles coming out, and we even have the ten year anniversary of the premiere of “Cory in the House,” a classic TV show with amazing characters

and plot development. So get your popcorn, get your root beer, and get your fettuccine alfredo, because 2017 will definitely entertain.

Some great movies come out in 2017--stuff like “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2” and “The Lego Batman Movie” are more comedy-oriented movies that should hopefully sit well with fans and critics.

This year is also bringing the Spider-Man franchise back to the silver screen with “Spider-Man Homecoming,” which is more like a high school movie The next installment in the successful Alien franchise, “Alien Covenant” looks like it’s going for the style of the original film, but this time, with a new spin on it. One franchise

has a movie in development that people have been anticipating for the past two years, and that movie is Star Wars: Episode VIII, the sequel to the modern classic “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” We only have about twelve months until then, and I don’t know how most people are going to be able to wait that long until their hype consumes them.

The gaming scene is also getting some really cool stuff this year, like “For Honor,” a game where you choose from three sides, Vikings, Knights, and Samurais, and then you duke it out in a huge arena and fight until pretty much everyone is dead.

It’s been about five years since “Mass Effect 3” came out, and BioWare just recently announced the existence of “Mass Effect: Andromeda,” and people are hyped out of their minds for this game, just going insane over it. You go through space, explore planets, and survive epic shoot-outs, and I think it’s going to become a smash hit with fans of the series.

A game that I’ve personally been waiting for for the past five years is the one, the only “Zelda: Breath of the Wild,” it completely changes the Zelda formula, while staying true to what makes the series great. It has a huge open world with tons of stuff

to do. You could explore some random cave that you just found out in some field, you could go hunting for certain types of meats to sell to villagers or wandering travellers, and better yet, you can go straight to the final boss and try to beat him, right at the beginning of the game. It comes out March 3, and it’s absolutely surreal to know that we can be playing this game in about a month and a half.

Hopefully with all of these things to look forward to, 2017 will be a great year for all of us, and we’ll all be able to forget about the calamity that was 2016, and all of the tragedies that it brought with it.

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-“What day of the week is Friday?”

-“I feel like you’re a brain jello...“ -”I am the wine within the grape.”

-“You don’t have to kiss to make out.”

-”My eye is leaking.”

-”I was once told I have a voice that could read a phonebook.”

-”No, I am talking about cloning my wife.”

-”Is it bleeding? Nevermind, ears don’t contain blood.”

-”Quick, come check out this bottle of blood that I have.”

Across

1. The shortest president at 5’4” 6. He was only president for a month after his inau guration.

8. This president is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame 14. This president frequently went skinny-dipping in the Potomac before work 18. This president, who died in office, is remembered for the Teapot Dome Scandal 19. He was president during the 9/11 attacks and declared a war against terror 20. This president made the final decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan 21. He made the first live remote national radio broadcast 24. The only president to serve more than two terms 25. Shantytowns nicknamed after this president 26. His first presidential term was coined the Era of Good Feelings 27. He was the first president to dance with black women at an inaugural ball 29. He replaced Zachary Tayler after his death in 1850 30. The first president to live in the White House 31. He married a girl 27 years younger than him while in office 35. The first president born outside the contiguous United States 36. This president could speed-read at a rate of 2,000 words per minute 37. This early president kept pet mockingbirds 38. He was the first to appoint a femal Supreme Court Justice 39. The only president to resign from office 40. He was the first to succeed to the presidency after the death of William H. Harrison

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1. He was fatally shot in Buffalo, NY in 1901 2. He was the last president to have a full beard 3. He became president in the middle of the night after President Warren G. Harding died 4. The oldest elected president 5. This president played his saxophone the night of his inauguration 7. He succeeded Garfield after his assassination in 1881 9. He was the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize 10. He began his career as a teacher in the south of Texas 11. He was a five-star general on the Eurpoe side during WWII 12. He led the country through the MexicanAmerican War 13. He was arrested in office for running over an old woman on horseback, he later died of acoholism 15. The only president to remain a bachelor 16. His nickname “Old Kinderhook” helped popularize the expression “OK” 17. He flew 58 combat missions for the Navy dur ing World War II 20. He was the heaviest president which led to him getting stuck in the bathtub 22. He was the first president to be impeached 23. The only unanimously elected president by the Electoral College 24. He was a Yellowstone park ranger and a fash ion model prior to being president 28. He was shot at the Washington train station and later died from infection 30. This president is known for the Trail of Tears 32. He was sworn into office inside the White House in a secret meeting 33. This president died after eating a lot of cherries 34. He commanded the Union army during the American Civil War

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