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VOL. 55, ED. 4 PORTAGE NORTHERN HIGH SCHOOL MAY 2025
FROM THE EDITORS
Dear readers,
After lots of hard work—and maybe even some tears of frustration—we have made it to our last edition of this school year. This edition had the shortest deadlines our class has had this year, but our staff pulled through and met every one. We can’t thank each and every one of you for reading the Northern Light. We hope you enjoy reading this edition as much as we enjoyed making it. Happy reading!
Sincerely,
Mitchell Barnard and Abby Hosler
Editors in Chief:
Mitchell Barnard and Abby Hosler
Associate Editors:
Brayden Schimp, Drew Collins, Kenna Hulick, Trevor Anderson, Oli Matthew, Chase Vanderwalle
Staff Members:
Riya Bhatt, Asher Carpenter, Ryan Mauwa, Sophie Amberg, Gabriel Bautista, Layla Carpenter, Abby Dudley, Madeleine Duhn, Ana Van Dyke, Chrisopher LaLonde
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Abby Hosler Mitchell Barnard
On the front cover, senior editor in chief Abby Hosler symbolzies the blink of time that is childhood to graduation by helping her younger cousin, Samantha, don a cap and gown. The photo was shot by senior photographer Trevor Anderson. Below are two other photos from the shoor that didn’t make the cut for the cover.
JUST FOR FUN
These are the staff photos of our senior editors in chief, Abby Hosler and Mitchell Barnard, from their very first year on staff as
Unforgettable Unforgettable
The memories that last for the class of 2025
All photos pictured feature memorable moments for this year’s graduating class. In the bottom photo senior Ethan Steele is pictured as flounder in the 20232024 fall musical. “the musicals for me have been such a huge ceative outlet, as well as making me some of my best friends which I never would hotherwise met.”
Photos by past NL Staff
If there’s one thing that the seniors graduating this year won’t forget, it’ll be the various events that have occurred in recent years. From COVID, to changing principals every year, to a second Trump presidency, the seniors have had crazy, exciting, and sometimes nerve wracking experiences both inside and outside of school. “I didn’t think it was fun during it, but now that the year is ending, looking back, it was all really fun,” shared senior Cameron Burlew. While seniors may not take away everything they learned in class, they’ll definitely take away lasting memories. For the students who experienced COVID-19 while transitioning into high school, their memories of freshman year are clouded by fears of friends catching COVID, virtual classes, constantly wearing masks, and wondering if they would be sent on quarantine during an already stressful period of time. Additionally, virtual school
“The [current] senior class was basically the root of the devious licks in previous years,” Addi Raffenaud.
greatly changed the structure of the school system for an extended amount of time, depriving students of a regular school experience. Senior Gideon Post shared that, “It [was] hard to communicate.” Fellow senior Ariana Castillo further reaffirmed Post’s experience,
sharing, “It was a weird transition going from fully virtual to physical [schooling].” Now, a few years after an lengthy readjustment to “normal”, seniors share how strongly COVID impacted them. “It affected my thought process. For a year and a half, I had no responsibil-
“The
[current] senior class was basically the root of the devious licks in previous years,” Addi Raffenaud.
ity. Going from no responsibility to a lot of responsibility in a matter of a few months was pretty wild,” said Burlew. Students shared their excitement for coming back to in-person school and getting to hang out with friends. “I didn’t feel bad about being in school. I wanted to be social again and see friends,” Castillo said. However, seniors overcame their struggles during COVID, and many agree that they feel stronger because of it. “I never realized how resilient I was until I was put in that situation,” shared senior Micciah Serne. “It put you in survival mode.”
One of the more unique things seniors had gone through during their years in high school was our ever-changing principal roster, having a different one each year. “None of them stayed long enough to make an impact. For a lot of them, the students couldn’t get a personal connection.” said Castillo. Students largely expressed that
Story by Gabe Bautista, Drew Collins, Asher Carpenter, Riya Bhatt; design by Layla Carpenter, Madeleine Duhn, and Abby Hosler
they never got the opportunity to get to know their principals due to the fast paced in and out of administrators. Many seniors were waiting for a principal that would stay for a few years as opposed to leaving at the end of the school year. “It was really strange, because you’d start to get comfortable with one and then there’d be a whole new one. said Burlew. Other students expressed their favorite principals, wishing that they stayed long enough to make memories with the student body. “I liked Ledlow the most, he’s the only guy I really got to know,” shared Post. Green added, “[I like] Mr. Lowder. He’s the funniest out of all of them, and he’s probably the chillest out of all of them. He knows that we’re kids, we’re gonna make mistakes, but it’s if we’ve learned from them or not. He incorporates that into his teaching.”
Social media has played a significant role in the life of adolescents. During 2023, the more dangerous side of social media showed through the “devious licks” trend, a movement where students would film themselves destroying school property. For months at Portage Northern, bathrooms and other school facilities would be closed due to students participating in this trend. “I remember someone took a toilet seat. They shut down most of the bathrooms except for the third floor one,” said Castillo. “Everyone was so mad. The teachers were so mad. We just thought it was funny,” said senior Makalee Green. In retrospect, most stu-
dents view the trend in a different light. “Looking back, it probably wasn’t a good thing at all. In the moment I was a young kid, I thought it was funny,” said Post. Most seniors viewed the trend with different eyes when it was over. “During the time I was doing it myself, probably, but looking back with hindsight it’s just dumb and I shouldn’t have been damaging people’s property,” said Burlew.
Hobbs was the therapy dog previously at Northern, but he retired and was replaced by Fletcher. “I don’t really know Fletcher too well. Hobbs seemed to be more around the school,” said Post. Hobbs was initially brought to Northern in 2019 and would often come around to visit classes. He provided emotional support and much love for the students. “I loved Hobbs. He would always come into Ms. Meyers’ classroom,” said Green, “I felt like Hobbs was more mature.” Hobbs was generally well liked around the school but some people had differing opinions on him. “I loved Hobbs, obviously, but he was a little bit of a mess sometimes,” said Castillo. Fletcher is the current support dog at Northern and students have mixed feelings about the change but not necessarily about Fletcher himself. “Fletcher is more prone to go in someone’s bag if he’s not being handled correctly,” said Green, “I remember
Freshman year starts the hybrid year
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COVID starts and sends 7th grade year online
when we used to have Hobbs come to the classroom, that was really nice because we got to just sit and spend time with him rather than him always being trained.” While Fletcher isn’t as active as Hobbs was, he is learning and over time may be more free like Hobbs was.
Hobbs has says his goodbye to the students of PN 2023-2024
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Devious Licks hits PN, bathrooms are constantly shut down
2024-2025
The senior class graduates from Portage Northern
FEATURE - 4
In a world of gun violence, is Water Wars worth the fight?
Story by the staff; design by Abby Hosler
Senior assassin tournaments like PN’s Water Wars are a rite of passage for graduating classes all across America, but in the last few years, these games have come under scrutiny with students around the country being injured, arrested, and in rare cases, even killed.
This year, PN’s Water Wars tournament was not cancelled, but it was moved outside of school control. Juniors Omar Elghawy and Kylie Roe sponsored the tournament, which students paid $5 to buy in to and which featured new rules, including no shooting one another on school grounds at any time.
Moving the tournament outside of the school’s control has both pros and cons. On the downside, moving the entire tournament off school property puts more students with squirt guns in the community, which is what has caused problems in other senior assassin games nationwide. It could also foster riskier and more confrontational behavior, with stories al-
ready emerging of students hiding outside of one another’s houses and blocking cars in driveways. Outside of school, there is no real accountability other than law enforcement, which can make it more difficult to ensure participant and bystander safety.
On the other hand, it is nearly impossible for the school to keep everyone safe even when students can get one another out on school property, as evidenced by conflicts in the student parking lot in years past. In this light, moving the tournament outside of school is the best choice because it removes any and all liability from the school while still allowing kids to participate in a fun and exhilarating senior tradition. Moving it away from the school is also more in line with the school’s ALICE protocols, avoiding the irony that we take the threat of an active shooter situation seriously but then allow students to pretend to shoot one another on campus.
There are precautions that Water
Wars organizers can take to ensure the safety of participants and secure the future of the event. Some of these are already in place, such as no assassination attempts during scheduled events, like work, and no trespassing on private
“Water wars isn’t gun violence. It’s just teens having fun.”
property. Other important steps for the future would be communicating to the community what’s going on and also having students register their squirt guns to ensure that any weapon used looks clearly like a toy. Connecting these dots can make sure that this tradition is preserved in the safest way possible for generations of senior assassins to come.
One memorable take down is when senior Braden Hembree eliminated Kyla Metzger and she fought back with her crutches.
Students can not forget their very first elimination where Hannah Stimson took out Lauren Pernie during her lunch break.
This year’s senior Water Wars was not sanctioned through the school but instead through the student body. Senior participating used the Splashin app to find and eliminate their targets. The students this year decided to add a $5 dollar buy in that would pool to become a prize for the first three place takers.
Story and design by Abby Hosler
Photos courtesy of water wars instagram
“Have a little cry, pick myself up, dust myself off, and keep going. The show must go on.” This quote comes from one of my favorite episodes of Bluey, where Bingo is having a bad day and their mom talks her through their checklist. Personally, as a whole Bluey has taught me more about how to be an emotionally intelligent person than living in the real world has. Since not everybody is a fan of Bluey, here are some things I believe.
First of all, many people don’t even know what emotional intelligence is. Emotional Intelligence
Self-Awarness
(EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, manage, and influence your own emotions and the emotions of others. Now there are many key parts of EI, such as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. A lot of these skills were taught to us at a young age—especially as Gen X or Gen Z— through shows like Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Sesame Street, and other SEL programs. However, as we have grown up we have “grown out” of those kids shows and maybe even forgot these important lessons. So what does humanity do now? Well, they could be like me and spend their weekends watching Bluey, which I’m not not suggesting, but in all seriousness when going off into college and losing the support systems high school has given, there is a need for some social exercise.
To improve EI, you must improve a little bit in every section
of Emotional Intelligence. Now this list might be long, but I find that the best way to improve in all of these areas is to try new things, especially things you might not be good at because in those situations you are faced with a very important question, “Will I let this one area define me?” This question is especially important coming from high school where test scores, amount of extra curricular activities, and popularity were meant to define us. Even as we set off for the workforce or college, it’s important to know that perfection won’t come in every area of our lives, college is a big place and you might not always be the super star, and that’s okay. So take the summer, watch some Bluey, journal a little, go for a walk, take up rock climbing. Do what you need to do to learn how to be you in a big world where people might not care about your feelings. Oh, and never forget to live your life a little unfiltered every once in a while. You never know what you might learn.
Motivation
Backside Noseslide
Story and design by Mitchell Barnard
Welcome back to the 4th and final edition of my Skateboarding 101 column. To say I’ve enjoyed the last three years of writing this column is an understatement; being able to write this column and help beginners become better at skateboarding has filled me with so much joy. When I first began skateboarding, finding simple tutorials of tricks was so difficult to see, and every online teacher made things so complicated, or made expensive courses. My goal was to provide simple tutorials free of cost, and most importantly, help all the beginners out to the best of my abilities. I want to teach one of my favorite slide tricks for the last edition, the backside noseslide. While it is simple, it impresses everyone! Once again, thank you everyone who has followed along the journey. I hope my tutorials have been helpful.
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Before we get into how to do a backside nose slide, remember to wax either the nose of your board or the ledge that you will be sliding on. This will help you slide more easily and smoothly. Also, make sure you have a consistent frontside 180 and ollie. Now that you have those completed, first things first is the approach. When approaching a ledge to perform a noseslide, come up at the ledge at about a 45-degree angle; this will make it much easier to rotate and lock into the trick.
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Now that we have the approach dialed in, it is time to lock into the trick. When you ollie up to the ledge, you should almost be rotated since you came at the ledge at an angle. However, to make a full 90-degree turn, rotate your shoulders slightly. This will help lock the wheels against the side of the ledge, providing a smoother slide as well as some extra stability.
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Finally, the slide and riding away, now that you’ve locked into the slide, put pressure on your front foot, to stay locked in and sliding, trying to balance on the board evenly could result in slipping out, which is not something to look forward too, so press down on your front foot as hard as you can. When you’re ready to exit the slide, turn your shoulders the opposite way to return to your regular stance, or complete the 180 rotation by fully rotating your shoulders, then give your front foot a nudge, and you should pop out cleanly.
GOODBYEsaying
The Northern Light is graduating 8 senior reporters. These are their final bylines.
Abby Hosler
I can honestly say that being a part of the Northern Light has made me the outspoken woman you all know from Unfiltered and my other articles. I truly don’t know how to say goodbye to the last four years of my life and the friends I’ve made along the way, so I won’t. This is Abby Hosler, saying see you later.
Asher Carpenter
My time on the NL has been a very fun, memorable time in high school. My biggest accomplishment was winning an award for my coffee table writing last year. Other than that, the staff and making friends and doing activities made it a good experience. I know I’ll remember it for a long time, but all I can do is appreciate my time of being a writer on staff.
Brayden Schimp
For the past two years, the NL staff has been my home away from home. I’ve learned to express myself in non-creative writing and met people who helped shape me into who I am today. Thank you, Northern Light, for the growth and memories.
Topher LaLonde
I am thankful and blessed for my time on the Northern Light. This program helped dial in my writing and reporting skills and a little designing. My favorite topic I covered this year has to be sports. My favorite thing I’ve written about this year has to be the piece about the Lions and their 15-2 season.
Mitchell Barnard
I can’t believe it is finally time to say goodbye to journalism and classroom 3.121. Being a part of this class for the past four years has truly been an honor. Thank you, journalism, and all of the great staff throughout the years. Wouldn’t change it for the world.
Chase VanderWalle
During my sophomore year, I joined the staff without an idea about what journalism was. Here I am now, 2 years later, and I have enjoyed every second that I have been on staff. I’ve been able to build connections and so much more. This class taught me how to design, which I found a great liking for and is the main thing I do around here. Thank you, Dr. Thorpe, for all the effort you have put in for us and for making high school such a good experience.
Trevor Anderson
My time on the Northern Light started in my sophomore year when my mom forced me to sign up for this class, which I argued to her that I didn’t want to take. I’m glad she made me do it, because it was the best class I ever could’ve taken.
Ryan Mauwa
Being on staff for 2 years has been an amazing experience, making me think outside the box for certain articles. Dr. Thorpe has given me many opportunities to show my writing talents by letting me do columns on things I’m passionate about. I just wanted to thank all my readers and staff members I’ve worked with.
Chase Ryan Abby Mitchell
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Asher
Topher
Brayden
Heard It From a Huskie
“Seniors, what advice would you give freshman?”
“Do
a lot of activities, explore the school, and do all of your work.”
Alica Lindsay
“Have fun with it and do your work and turn stuff in on time.” Wyatt Manusos
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“Try
not to procrastinate or work too Tylermuch.” Chan
“I would say to join a club or a sport to help you make friends.”
Grace Conant
Story by Kenna Hulick and Ana Van Dyke; design by Ana Van Dyke; Photos by Kenna Hulick and Ana Van Dyke
“Just to have fun and don’t take anything too seriously.”
Ava Grunder
“Take freshman year seriously. It kind of fits the track for your high school career and colleges care about freshman year.”
Mason Dowell
“To surround yourself by people who will embrace who you are.”
Sitora Aminova
Tyler Henry
“Join a sport or club or something, get involved with the community. As well as yes grades are important, but if you get a bad grade on a test or something, it’s not the end of the world.”
Senior Department Awards
Story by Riya Bhatt and Sophie Amberg; design by Sophie Amberg; photos by Abby Hosler
Graduating seniors shine at senior awards
Band teacher William Mufarreh and choir teacher Chelsea Whiteoak presented the band, orchestra, and choir awards to Max Martin, Owen Randall, and Elijah Parker for commitment to their respective music classes both within and outside of school. Of Martin, Mufarreh shared that, “he continually shows his dedication outside of the program. Max is a fantastic musician.”
IB coordinator and teacher Rick Searing awarded Clara Kim with the Theory of Knowledge award, which is for the specific IB class required for the diploma. Teacher Joey Wood honored Sydney Bates with the Senate department award; she’s been in student senate for 4 years. “She is a model of leadership because of her never give up mentality,” shared Wood.
Ms. Whiteoak honored Grace Birko with the drama and forensics award for her commitment to both the PN Drama and Forensics programs. Her senior year, Birko participated in the fall and winter musicals with lead roles, as well as earned 4th place in the state competition for forensics.
Dr. Amanda Thorpe awarded Jani Whitley with the English department medal, describing her dedication to challenges and eagerness to learn in class. “I never knew a department would recognize me for my favorite subject,” shared Whitley. “I was so grateful to hear such kind words.”
Journalism and broadcasting advisors Amanda Thorpe and Celia Weeks awarded Abby Hosler with their respective department awards. Hosler is a co-Editor in Chief of the Northern Light and has been involved with TV Broadcast for 3 years. “She always makes sure to put out quality work and keep everyone else on track,” shared Weeks.
Out of the 309 graduating seniors, 35 are IB Diploma Candidates, awarded special medals at the ceremony for their dedication and commitment to the IB program
Megan Neterer honored Maya Abdulhak for strong determination in mathematics. Abdulhak persisted and took IB AI her junior year and AP Calculus and AP Statistics her senior year.
AP Scholars with Honors awards the students who have achieved average scores of 3.25 or higher on exams with scores of 3 or higher on 4 exams. For the class of 2025,
Evan Elkins was awarded the business department award by teacher Amy Meyer, who described his dedication to the business classes at PN. Elkins has also participated in DECA, winning the top state championship on his entrepreneurship team with Evan Moorman and qualifying to compete at nationals in Orlando.
Mr. Wood awarded Maya Abdulhak with the IB award for the history department. “My outlook on school has always been to put 110% of my time and energy into classes,” shared Abdulhak.
Department head Michelle Mason awarded Miles Fagan with the science award for his dedication to science classes and the Science Olympiad team, and work in his robotics team outside of school. “His aptitude for science, curiosity, and enthusiasm made him the top candidate for our department award,” shared Mason.
IB Spanish teacher Heather Cañenguez awarded the Spanish award to Melody Seith and the French award to Grace Birko. “It’s about the community and helping all students be able to do well in Spanish,” Canenguez shares about the Spanish award. “It’s who helps to bring together the students.”
Ivan Tai, David Li, Maximilian Martin, and Aryaman Mishra (left to right) accepted this challenging award
Senior Awards Scholarship Winners
Meeting the 9 seniors who received a scholarship
Grace Birko receiving the Robert P. Amrhein Scholarship. The Amrhein Scholarship is a memorial scholarship that is given to a student who demonstrates superior strength of character.
Aubrey Rowlson receiving the DAR Scholarship, “I am very kind and caring to all the students here at PN and I always try to include others”.
Elizbeth Rzepka receiving the Grainger Family Scholarship. The Grainger Family Scholarship is intended to promote individual character growth and life experiences through continued education.
Robert Haworth who received the Scott Hammond Scholarship, “I’ve put in the effort for it, I’ve been trying to get a job with Portage Public Schools in their IT field”
Story by Topher LaLonde and Trevor Anderson; design by Oli Matthew; photos by Abby Hosler
Diego Arias receiving the Peter Livingston Scholarship. The goal of the Peter Livingston Scholarship is to honor a graduate with strong leadership skills.
Blessing Afiademanyo receiving the PN Communications Scholarship. The Communications Scholarship is earned through an applicant’s essay about how being a part of the forensics program impacted their communication overall.
Grace Conant & Evan Moorman receiving the Audrey Hensly Memorial Scholarship. The Audrey Hensley Scholarship is a memorial scholarship that goes to one male and one female student that are going to Michigan State University.
Vincent Bruno receiving the Greg Pezzoli Scholarship. The Greg Pizzoli Scholarship is a memorial scholarship that honors an athlete in a water sport.
Oh, the places you’ll go!
The class of 2025 prepare to embark on their journeys
Story by Madeleine Duhn and Abby Dudley; design by Madeleine
47 seniors plan to attend Western Michigan University.
Universities students are attending:
Belmont
BYUI
Calvin
Central MI
Charleston
Cleary
Davenport
DePaul
GVSU
Harford
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Loyola
Mi Tech
Northern MI
Purdue Quincy
Sienna Heights
TaeJae
U Arizona
U Cincinatti
U Illinois
U Pitt
Wayne State
Colleges students are attending:
Aquinas Berklee Cotty
Eastern Florida State
Glenn Oaks
Hartwick Mott
Henry Ford
Hillsdale
18 students will be going to trade school.
19 students will be headed straight to work.
3 students are going to serve our country in the military.
Hope Kalamazoo
Kellogg
Lake Michigan
St. Petersburg Triton
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Ofthe296studentsthatsurveyed, 218ofthemwillfurthertheiredu73.6%cationatcollegethisupcomingfall.
post-graduation plans. There are 309 members in this year’s graduating class, and 296 of them shared their next steps in the survey. Whether they are staying close to home, or journeying miles away, each path represents years of determination and hard work. Here are all of the places they are going!
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27 seniors will be attending Michigan State University this fall.
seniors plan to attend the University of Michigan in this upcoming fall.
64 students plan to attend KVCC this fall.
26 students are still undecided.
29 students attending community college plan to transfer to a four year college.
13 students are taking a gap year
“Principal
In the last four years, Portage Northern High School has had four principals. Many students deemed this as a standout memory from their high school years, but Mike Williams stood out, calling it the “principal palooza.”
Palooza”
Addi Raffenaud claims that “devious licks” were one of the most memorable things from her high school years. Devious licks were an internet trend in which students obscenely stole appliances from the school bathrooms, going as far as taking entire stalls. “It was memorable because the [current] senior class was basically the root of the devious licks in previous years,” claims Raffenaud..
Tug-of-war!
Devious Licks
Looking Seniors share most memorable moments from the last four years
Every year, Northern holds a homecoming pep assembly that yields perhaps the most intense and competitive game known to the world: tug-of-war. In his senior year, Mason Dowell played with fellow seniors against the sophomores. “We looked like we were going to lose it and then we came back and won,” he recalls.
“The great pot pie incident of 2024”
Skylar Handletogen claims that a memorable moment for her was “the great pot pie incident of 2024.” This was an event in which a student attempted to microwave a pot pie in the woodshop, unaware that the microwave was not a standard home microwave. Incidentally, the unattended microwave began emitting smoke and set off the fire alarms. “We all had to evacuate and go outside which was pretty fun because nobody really knew what was going on,” says Handletogen.
Tyler Chan recalls starting a soccer club named the Beast Clan. Of the Beast Clan ventures, Chan cites a cherished memory: “when we played against the kids from PC and won the soccer shootouts.”
Back
“Beating PC”
Beast Clan
Noah Ewaskowitz shares his experience beating Portage Central in a basketball game: “The last time we were at PC, we beat them. It was overtime, and it was a thrilling and eventful game because we were both up, and we kept hitting clutch shots, and it was just a really cool game.”
Story by Brayden Schimp and Kush Kolhe; design by Brayden Schimp
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Expert AdviceTeachers
“Remember to always be kind to people.”
give farewells and advice
“Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.”
away,“Putyourphone andmeetnewpeople”
“Get a passport, never know when you’re going to need one.”
Aaron Warfield - Social Studies
Colin Killmer - Science
Justin Olsen - Science
Story by Mitchell Barnard; design by Abby Hosler; photos by Riya Bhatt
Jeanine Patterson - Finance