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Don’t you, forget about Swaggerty Bree Fangman Co-Editor in Chief After eight great years of achieving goals and setting the bar high, Principal Steve Swaggerty announced on February 26 that he will be stepping down as Northview’s principal next school year. The message was relayed to parents and students via email. In the letter, Mr. Swaggerty said, “it is time for me to open life’s next chapter.” That next chapter happens to be at Highland Elementary. While Mr. Swaggerty will be the principal there, the current Highland principal, Mark Pugh, will replace Mr. Swaggerty in the upcoming fall. This decision didn’t come easy. One of Mr. Swaggerty’s twin boys was diagnosed with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, a type of brain damage that occurs when an infant’s brain doesn’t receive enough oxygen and blood at birth. Over the last couple of years, the condition has caused his son to become more and more disabled which means his son is in need of constant care. Constantly caring for two growing boys is a tough job, especially for his aging parents who have stepped up to help. One day, Mr. Swaggerty decided he was ready for a new job, one not so time consuming like NV is. He called the central office and made them aware he was looking for something new.
Soon enough, he was given the opportunity to work at Highland. The smaller student body of the elementary and having fewer school activities to take care of will allow him to have more free time for his family. One new challenge he will face at Highland is the smaller administrative team. “We’re a big team here at NV,” Mr. Swaggerty said, “Mr. Monheim and Mrs. McIlwain take care of discipline, Mrs. Lloyd does curriculum, Mr. Irwin directs the athletic department, there are [four] secretaries and [five] counselors. At the elementary level, I’ll do more of everything and work with one secretary and one counselor.” Other than that, Mr. Swaggerty expects a smooth transition much like how it was transitioning from being the Assistant Principal at Timberstone to Principal at NV in 2011. “It takes time to figure out the culture and community, but you don’t have to figure everything out in one year,” he said. “I have lots to learn.” There’s a lot Mr. Swaggerty has to say goodbye to at NV. What he’ll miss the most will be the musicals, band and orchestra concerts, danceGOLD, and the success of all the sports. At the end of the day, the hardest part about leaving for Mr. Swaggerty will be “just leaving”. “I put a lot of time and effort building
SWANSON MR. STEVEN SWAGGERTY walking out of the Northview doors: Breakfast Club Style. No past or current Northview students will forget the impact he has made on NV.
momentum and not being able to be a part of that team anymore is tough,” he said. The momentum refers to a multitude of things. For starters, he added several young faculty members to the staff that he believes will make a huge impact on NV for possibly the next 30 years. NV also gained a lot of classes, many being Advanced Placement classes. He is also very proud of the Leadership Academy and the ACT courses available to students. Although there will be much to miss, there is one thing Mr. Swaggerty will not
miss: dances. “I’m pretty sure fifth graders don’t grind,” Mr. Swaggerty said. Right now, Mr. Swaggerty is content with his position and does not see himself going beyond being a principal anytime soon as he enjoys being around students, teachers, and the fun school activities. “This [NV] is the best team I’ve ever been on. That includes teachers, students, and parents,” Mr. Swaggerty said. “It’s been an absolute honor to be on that team and it’s been one heck of a ride.”
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light trance. He sent back the people that were the most analytical, or if they weren’t allowing themselves to fully let go and stop ques-
Hypnotist raising money for Juniors Taryn Wachowiak Staff Writer
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“I can’t tell whether I’d rather be hypnotized or hypnotize people,” stage hypnotist Michael Brody said while sending a group of 15 people into a trance on March 15 in the Performing Arts Center. Brody started off his show by talking about the fundamentals of hypnosis. He first talked about the potential benefits, which include an improved mood, a relaxed state of mind, and an “a m a z i n g feel-
ing”. H e then said that anyone can be hypnotized, but they have to be focused and calm. In order to prove his point that anyone can be hypnotized, Brody had everyone in the audience clasp their hands together with their two pointer fin-
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the audience stared at their fingers, Brody suggested that they were getting closer together, and the murmur of disbelief throughout the audience proved that they were. “It was calming and very funny to watch,” junior Sydney Pyles said. Brody also proved that hypnosis could lead to an “amazing feeling” when he gave the audience a way to heal a headache. He had viewers picture the color spectrum going from a red apple all the way down to a blue sky, and by the time they pictured the blue, a headache is minimized if not completely gone. Then he started the show. In order to choose the 15 people that were most susceptible to hypnosis, Brody had the candidates picture a brick in one hand and a helium filled balloon in another, and asked them questions once they were in a
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tioning what was happening. Once Brody picked 15 people, he brought them into a deeper trance and had them visualize many different scenarios. One thing he had them envision was that he was their favorite celebrity when he was facing them, but once he turned his back, he turned ugly and smelled bad. “When he told me he was Bruno Mars I obviously knew that wasn’t him, but for some reason my brain was telling me otherwise,” senior Lindsey Ingle said. Many of the students that were hypnotized enjoyed the experience, but said that it was weird and they couldn’t explain how they felt. “Towards the end you can tell you’re being hypnotized, but at the beginning it’s the weirdest thing,” junior Sereena Jallad said. The junior class is planning on contacting Brody again next year to hopefully bring more people to the show.
April 8, 2019 Volume 93, Issue 8