January 2018

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018

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VOLUME 50, ISSUE 5 222 Memorial Drive Berlin, WI 54923

A BERLIN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT OPEN FORUM SINCE 1924 Newsbriefs Paige Krause

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Berlin Bellyfloppers gear up for plunge As the Polar Plunge draws closer, organizer Nicole LeDioyt prepares her team.

“On Friday, Feb. 16, ‘Toss your Teacher’ is at Menominee Park in Oshkosh. The Berlin Belly Floppers, including 15 teachers, are jumping,” LeDioyt said.

Many teachers that are not participating still raise money.

“Teachers that participate have a donation sticker in their rooms and once you pay $1, you can sign the paper and be put on the wall,” LeDioyt said.

LeDioyt says she hopes to reach her goal of $2,500 to beat the record from last year.

“I hope to reach $2,500 to go higher than we raised in the past. All of the donations will go to Special Olympics.

Everyone donates $1 to show Special Olympics how awesome Berlin High School is,” LeDioyt said.

Student Council reveals Winterfest information

Student Council prepares for Winterfest activities and dress up days.

“This year, the theme is ‘All You Need is Love’. We’re doing a Sadie Hawkins dance, which means girls ask guys.

We are also doing hush necklaces,” Student Council President Joey Schmidt said.

The Winterfest days are themes that they have never done before.

Monday: Dress to Unimpress Tuesday: Salad Dressing Day: Freshmen- Italian Sophomores- French Juniors-Thousand Island Seniors- Ranch Wednesday: Workout Wednesday Thursday: Plaid Day Friday: Stop and Go Light Day: red means taken, yellow means undecided and green means single.

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Krall and Viars first to use 3D printer

Bryn Hermanson

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Juniors Nathan Krall and Lukas Viars produced a chess board using all three of the school’s 3D printers in tech and engineering teacher Marty Wenig’s Solidworks 3D Design class during 3rd hour.

The students decided to make a chess set because they wanted to do something that they could physically show off rather than something that was just for the grade.

“Nate and I wanted to make something ever since Mr. Wenig told us we could use the 3D printer to make almost whatever we wanted,” Viars said.

“One day at the beginning of the trimester, I suggested that we make a chess set and Nate agreed. We then started to make the pieces and board.”

Krall and Viars’ next step was to figure out how big to make the set. They decided that each piece was going to be one inch in diameter. The boys designed each piece. Next, they sent them over to the printer to be made, which took a couple days, Krall explained. They used the AutoCAD program and laser engraver to make the chess board.

“Nate and I did most of the design, but Mr. Wenig did help us with the technical side of things,” Viars said.

They used the program Solid-

Juniors Lukas Viars and Nathan Krall work with a design on one of the 3D printers. They started the chess set at the beginning of the trimester and finished on Jan. 12. “It turned out pretty dang great because we spent an entire third hour playing chess,” Krall said.

Photo: B. Hermanson Works to make their design, and after they got everything set, they sent their design to the program Afinia Studios to print their design.

Inside the printer, there is plastic filament, which is about the same size as weed wacker string.

The filament goes into a heating element where it is melted. The printer lays the plastic filament layer by layer into the design Afinia Studios is telling it to, which can take up to several hours.

Although the boys said the final project turned out exceptionally well, Krall and Viars did experience some troubles throughout the process.

“We had a lot of difficulty with getting the chess board to come out right because the pattern would shift over to a different angle and the film on the material was incredibly difficult to get off,” Viars said. “It took us maybe three to four tries to get everything sorted.”

Although the printers are mainly being used for the Tech and Engineering classes, Wenig sees the printers being used for other purposes, too.

“I can see parts for Rube Goldberg, repair parts for different devices and models for art and science being printed from our 3D printer in the future,” Wenig said.

Viars and Krall play with their chess board they printed from the 3D printer.

Photo: B. Hermanson

Students analyze Millenial stereotypes

Harry Kujawa

Reporter

Every generation has their stereotypes or things they are remembered for. Comparing and contrasting those stereotypes for generations has been a topic of English teacher Amy Wenig’s class for the last 10 years.

“I think it forces students to look at their generation and their habits, and that’s how the stereotypes are created. It also forces them to look outside the box at older generations as well,” Wenig said.

Seniors in the Advanced Composition class will continue this trend and are writing about the stereotypes for Millennials.

“I wrote mine about the stereotypes on Millenials and technology because our generation is more attracted to their phones and technology in general than any other generation before,” senior Sydney Moriarty said.

Topics such as technology and other advancements in that area are what Wenig has become accustomed to seeing in her classes’ most recent papers.

“I see a lot more on technolo-

gy,” Wenig said. “Technology has always been a trend, but the reliance is even greater than ever.”

With the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh requiring this CAPP class to have a themebased portion, it gives Wenig a chance to have her students study a real world issue like stereotypes her students and their peers.

“I enjoyed writing my paper on a real world issue because it makes class so much more interesting and you can actually research an issue that is talked about a lot in the world. it’s just all around more interesting,” Moriarty said.

Using real world issues and having students analyze issues that are actually imminent in their everyday lives is something her students agreed is more useful, and what they wish schoolwork was more based on.

“Real world issues are most definitely more practical for a high school student, and it interests the typical high schooler a lot more than a book or a worksheet because it actually applies to their life,” senior Alex

Olofson said.

These students, however, disagreed on whether these stereotypes are accurate or not after concluding their essays.

“I think these stereotypes are unfair because older generations may not really have that strong of relationships with Millennials because we are more advanced, and because of our phones we generally talk amongst ourselves more and they judge us based on what the media portrays our generation as,” Olofson said.

For Moriarty, she cannot say they are all false stereotypes.

“After writing my essay I would have to say that I agree with some of these stereotypes, but since they are stereotypes, they’re not exactly completely true,” Moriarty said.

Students also acknowledged that with this new knowledge they do not think there will ever be a generation that will not be stereotyped.

“I think every new generation will be stereotyped and criticised for their interests. It’s just always been that way because everyone likes to think their way is the right way,” Moriarty said.

Typical Millenial Stereotypes

1- They expect the world to tell them they are special 2- They expect fast and immediate processing 3- They don’t stay loyal to one employer, instead prefer to job hop 4- They are lazy 5- Technology is just handed to them, and they are too invested in it

Typical Generation X Stereotypes

1- They are self absorbed 2- They are not team players 3- They don’t stay loyal to one employer, instead prefer to job hop 4-They began the obsession of individual rights prevailing over the common good 5- They are quick to marry and quick to divorce Source: “The Six Living Generations In America” by Dr. Jill Novack

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Editorial

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Travel is education

When a student pictures learning, they might think of the four cement walls and desks they sit in five days a week. However, there are several other opportunities to learn that come from the world around us.

Not only does education happen in a school setting, but a different kind of education happens during travel. Traveling allows us to gain valuable experiences from different types of places, people and cultures.

For that reason, the school should sponsor more trips. As of right now, the Spanish, Science and Music Departments alternate the years they travel over spring break, allowing each to take a trip every three years. This simply does not seem like enough to allow as many students as possible to take advantage of the opportunity.

Mark Twain is famous for saying, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” Visiting various places provides the possibility to impact the way students think about education by opening up their mind to new ideas, customs and lifestyles -- ultimately making

Caylie Krebs Social Media Manager Our whole lives we dream about the big moments that lie in front of us. Our weddings, births of our children, traveling, starting our careers and even our high school graduation.

These are all huge milestones in our lives that we want to remember as our own.

Recently, seniors have talked about decorating our caps for graduation. For some seniors, it is more than just a quote or a picture on a cap, it is telling their personal stories. We feel it is a way to express ourselves.

It could be the things that we feel passionate about and even to show how we got through school or the struggles that we overcome.

Throughout school, we have always been told to be original.

This is expressing how we feel about the accomplishments that we have made the past 13 years. Our teachers have

Dear Editor,

them a more well-rounded person.

Traveling also promotes independence, which is important for students to learn early on. Being in a place away from home forces us to go out of our comfort zone to try new things and be self sufficient.

Although there are those few opportunities to travel with the school, they are not open to every student. To travel, a student must be taking a course within that department. This limits the travel opportunities for students who are not taking courses in either Spanish, science or music.

To allow more possibilities to travel, the school should open the department trips to every student, yet still keep the purpose and activities throughout the trip related to the subject. In addition, more departments and even clubs should sponsor trips. This would further promote the importance of travel.

Traveling educates students in a way that is different from the daily classroom setting. More school sponsored trips should be available simply because the broadenshorizons and provide new experiences to learn from. Traveling is not just a vacation, it is also education.

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Graduation cap decorating always told us to fight for what we believe in, and as seniors, we believe that we should be able to make a decision about our graduation.

We constantly see other schools around us decorating their caps and making them authentic. It is not fair that all schools have generally the same rules, for example Omro, yet we are one of the only schools that cannot decorate our caps. It is a simple matter.

We understand why the school is hesitant about seniors decorating their caps and understand that some seniors may not want to participate, but the seniors

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Sincerely, Evan Ceman

that truly want to do this will take time to make sure that the caps are appropriate and represent our school in a classy manner. We can set guidelines and rules on what can and cannot be on a cap.

Out of 50 seniors surveyed, 92 percent want to decorate their caps. If some seniors do not want to participate in cap decorating, they simply would not have to.

This is for the seniors that feel strongly about expressing themselves and things that they love.

Before graduation, we can set a deadline where a drawing of seniors’ cap decorations will be

to the

I am extremely frustrated with the Thursday late start. The change of class times has completely screwed up my schedule. On top of this, why was the late start selected for Thursday? Why not Monday? I really wish the school would change the day of the late start or just get rid of it.

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turned in. They can be collected by students or teachers that are willing to help, and they can be looked over. They can then be returned to the senior with feedback of whether or not they can use that decoration. Then, a week before graduation, the actual cap with the design can be turned in to make sure that there have not been any inappropriate alterations. Finally, on the day of graduation when there are eight teachers standing around with us in the auditorium waiting, they can simply glance at the cap and make sure that they remain appropriate. This is a simple privilege that the school can give the seniors so that we can make our graduation our own.

Decorating caps is something that most seniors feel very passionate about. We believe that if the school gave us this privilege, it would be something that we can look forward to on one of the biggest days of our lives.

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Student body, we have heard plenty of times on how much the teachers and principals are bothering us on the garbage issue in the parking lot. Well, I think it’s time to start listening and do some growing up. We have garbage cans around the school to put your garbage in, not the parking lot ground and if that’s an issue, the school can put more cans out.

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Sanderfoot contacts bone marrow recipient

Caley Huggins Editor-in-Chief Science teacher Benjamin Sanderfoot underwent a medical procedure to give bone marrow to an unknown recipient in 2016.

Throughout the process, Sanderfoot was not allowed to know his recipient’s name, but they contacted anonymously through letters.

Exactly one year after the procedure, both Sanderfoot and his recipient, Elizabeth Turner, mutually agreed to share their contact information.

“I found out the woman I donated to is a 30-year-old woman that lives in a small town in Connecticut,” Sanderfoot said. “She had severe Aplastic Anemia. She had one bruise that did not go away so she decided to go into the doctor. After a couple tests, she knew that this was not just a simple bruise, but a deficiency in producing bone marrow in her body.”

Turner was forced to move from her small town in Connecticut to Boston for easier access to hospital care.

“Before the surgery, I was unable to do something simple, such as walk up a flight of stairs without being totally out of breath and light headed because my body was not producing red blood cells,” Turner said. “As a result of that, I was going to the infusion center twice a week for multiple blood/platelet transfusions, that along with getting poked with needles non-stop.”

Turner explains that the entire

Fairweather recovers from traumatic accident Mercedes Zabel

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A punctured lung, broken back, pelvis, hip and tailbone and 12 weeks on bedrest. This was senior Allie Fairweather’s life after a traumatic accident just three weeks into the school year. Since then, Fairweather has been on a steady process of recovery.

On Sept. 19, Fairweather and her sister, junior Makinzi Fairweather were driving on a gravel road. As a dare, Allie was riding on top of the car. As Makinzi went around a bend in the road, she lost control.

After trying to regain control by stepping on the brakes, the car spun out and slid into the ditch. Unable to stop, the car clipped a tree, which resulted in Allie hitting the tree and then being hit by the car.

“This kind of put everything

Seniors chosen as Students of the Month Paige Krause

Bone marrow recipient Elizabeth Turner celebrates her ‘first’ birthday Anemia-free on Jan. 27 of 2017. “It is not my birthday, but better than one,” Turner said.

Photo Submitted process of the surgery was long daughter’s life,” Sanderfoot said. and tiring. She was in the hospital In addition to the many letters and for three full weeks and many of emails Sanderfoot had been sent those days she was on chemo treat- by his recipient, Turner also shared ments and nauseous. What got her with him a 97-page journal that the through it, she said, was the friend- parents wrote in before, during and liness of the nurses in the hospital after her surgery. The journal conand the relationships built with tains pictures, as well as writing.

“I read the entire journal,” Sanderthem during her time there.

“She told me that it took a lot of foot said. “I do not usually cry, but I recovery time and her immune teared up reading that journal.”

With an eye-opening and lifesystem was weak for awhile after the surgery, ” Sanderfoot said. “She threatening experience under her had to be careful about not getting belt, Turner is now completely sick with the weak immune system. healthy, and is back to working in a When she went shopping, she had retail store in Connecticut. Sanderto stand outside the store and point foot and Turner have not set a date to the things that she wanted and to meet yet, but they plan to meet communicate with her dad through in the near future.

“This experience helps me push the window on what to buy.”

Sanderfoot and his recipient now myself a little more. For example, contact monthly and have sent hol- when running and I want to give up, I know I’m not really going to iday gifts to one another.

“Perhaps the most special thing die running even though I feel like from this experience was the letter it. I tell myself I’ve been through so I received from her father after the much more and made it out fine, so surgery. It thanked me for saving his I can finish this, too,” Turner said.

on pause. I was supposed to graduate early and now I can’t,” Fairweather said. “It also really showed me who some of my true friends are. A lot of people came around those first few weeks, and that slowly just dwindled. Only a few people came around after that.”

To ensure she would have enough credits completed to graduate on time, Allie started online school while being in a wheelchair and on bed rest for almost three months.

In December, Allie had recovered enough to return back to school to do half days for the second trimester.

Although Allie faced severe injuries and challenges after the accident, Makinzi was faced with some challenges of her own.

“I really pushed Allie away because it hurt to see what I

did to her, so we aren’t as close anymore. I did a lot of stupid things after that because I really regretted everything and felt really guilty,” Makinzi said.

“Having to go home and see her was hard, and so was getting the respect and trust back from our parents, but building us back up was the hardest part of it all.”

First hearing about Allie’s accident left longtime friend and senior Jordan Wiltgen with shock and confusion. However, with hopes of helping Allie out, she made it a point to check in and visit with her often.

“Allie’s accident was really hard for me since I have known her since elementary school. We’ve always clicked and been friends since. It showed me that life is short and anything can happen at any second,” Wiltgen said.

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Senior Devin Harmon has been involved in cross country, track, wrestling, B-S.A.L.T. and has been chosen as January’s male Student of the Month.

“I have already been accepted to UW-Madison for industrial engineering because my dad did it earlier in his life and that inspired me,” Harmon said.

During his high school career, guidance counselor Matt Willett has inspired him most.

“Mr. Willett showed me what hard work is and how to dedicate myself to things,” Harmon said.

In return, Willett has been inspired by Harmon as well.

“Devin has a lot of good qualities. He’s committed to what he does, in sports and in academics. I also really like how kind and good he is to people at any age, adults or peers,” Willett said.

Harmon has had one friend throughout high school that stood out to him.

“Scott McGibbon has been my go-to throughout high school. I’ve known him ever since Senior Alex McClelland has been involved in softball, dance, Student Council, LINC Crew, Powerpals, the Mall Peer Mentor trip, NHS and the Red ‘n’ Green. She has been chosen as the female Student of the Month.

“After high school I want to attend UW-Platteville with a degree in business administration or psychology,” McClelland said.

McClelland has challenged herself throughout high school.

“I always challenge myself with hard classes and a lot of them require long essays or homework every night, but it totally rewards itself when you get good grades,” McClelland said.

McClelland has a plan for how she will succeed.

“The best thing I can do for myself now and throughout college is talk through my problems with people who are there solely to listen and help,” McClelland said.

McClelland has found that support in high school.

“My go-to throughout highschool is Jacklyn Jorgensen. Jacklyn knows how to make me smile under any circumstance. It’ll be hard to not see her on a daily basis anymore simply because I’ve

Photo: N. Faulkner I moved here and I always talk to him about everything. He’s my best friend,” Harmon said.

McGibbon has been influenced

by Harmon and has always looked up to him since he moved to Berlin.

“Devin has been kind of like a big brother to me in a sense.

He has always been a very hard worker and he does everything to the best of his ability. You can also always count on him no matter what happens. Devin always does what he thinks is best for himself even when others tell him different, which I admire so much,” McGibbon said. I have no doubt in my mind Devin will succeed in college because he always strives for greatness.”

Photo: A. Ketterhagen grown to rely on her bubbly and humorous personality,” McClelland said.

Jacklyn has been greatly influenced by Alex as well.

“Alex shows me the qualities of friendship and she gives her utmost effort in every thing she does,” Jorgensen said. Alex is trustworthy, honest, and smart.

She has all of the qualities every friend wants.”

Not only has McClelland been influenced by her best friend, but also by her softball coach, David Polakowski.

“Alex is very coachable. She takes great criticism, and always bonds really well with everyone on her team. She’s an amazing girl,” Polakowski said.

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Sophomore friends travel out of the country Kelsi Cravillion

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Sophomore friends Natalie Ceman and Amelia Buttke hold an incomparable friendship as they share out-of-country adventures together.

“I love traveling, especially with a friend,” Ceman said. “It is a great way to take advantage of life and because of my personal experiences, and also those with friends, I am able to say that I lived life as much as I could.”

So far the girls’ farthest traveled destinations together were to St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands and to Costa Rica.

“I think it’s amazing to say that we have been to so many cool places together, and because of it, we now have memories that will last forever,” Buttke said.

Though the trips sometimes seem spontaneous to others, there is a reason for every flight and long car ride.

“Because of our frequency of

traveling, we sometimes get negative vibes from others, but personally I don’t think there is anything wrong with that, it just says we love to travel,” Ceman said. “All our trips revolve around my mom’s business or visiting family and friends.”

Vacations together might sound ideal; however, both Ceman and Buttke have their own individual travel goals they hope to achieve in their futures.

“I have a goal to travel to every continent before I turn 30.

It was a goal my cousin had and achieved, and I hope to do the same,” Ceman said. “So far I have only traveled to two.”

Keeping an open mind on where her future may take her, Buttke elaborated on Ceman’s response.

“I plan to take every opportunity that is given to me to travel. I don’t care what is going on, I will take the chance and not second guess it,” Buttke said.

Together, the girls hope to continue to travel together and make the best out of every trip.

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“Sometimes sticking to a carry on versus a full luggage is best,” Buttke said. “This way you only pack what you need.”

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“Shoes are a great place to store smaller items like lotion and sunscreen,” Ceman said.

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Travel Tips From Natalie Ceman & Amelia Buttke

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“If you roll your clothing rather than fold it, you will have more room in your bag,” Ceman said.

“Pack for the right weather, even if it may be mostly warm, a sweatshirt is always a good idea,” Ceman said.

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First time flyers face difficulties 1 “We had a flight at 4:30 a.m. at the Chicago O’Hare airport,” Olofson said.

“We totally slept through our alarms and woke up at 6 a.m. We panicked and instead of telling our parents, I ordered new tickets for 8:30 a.m.”

2 “It was the first time flying for both of us, and Alex is insanely scared of heights. Everytime that we hit turbulance, he grabbed the arm rest and freaked out,” Hendrickson said.

3 “We met a guy from Europe, and we told him why we were going to New Jersey. He told us that it was great to see us chasing our dreams because we will never have this chance again,” Olofson said.

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Seniors Trevor Hendrickson and Alex Olofson went to a football showcase in New Jersey. They decided to go because they would be working in front of big schools.

4 “We got lost in the airport once we landed. We then called for an Uber to get to the train station, which would take us to New Jersey. We didn’t understand what the uber driver or the teller at the train station were saying. We only had one option, wing it,” Olofson said.

5 The boys got lost in the metro on their way to the hotel. Making many circles, they finally figured out where to go.

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Day two in New Jersey, the day of the camp.

“Of course something went wrong, my mom told me our session was at 5:30 but it was really at 3:30 so we missed the first session. Once we got there, they let us take our first session,” Olofson said.

“We talked to a lot of colleges “Once we got first, then warmed up and went to the hotel, we through drills,” Olofson said. missed our check“During the camp, we were in time. We were known as the Wisconsin boys. not given a second We left the camp very happy, it bed, so we ended was a great experience.” up ordering another bed,” Olofson said.

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The boys made it back to Wisconsin with no problems. They made it easily through security and the Chicago O’Hare airport.

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The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated over $1.5 trillion in economic output in 2016 Expenditures by international visitors in the United States totaled $244.7 billion in 2016

Las Vegas, Navada is the third most popular travel place.

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Ziemann travels on dream trip

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61 students surveyed

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Everybody has that one trip that they have been dreaming about for years, but have not been able to take. Spanish teacher Jody Ziemann went on her “Spanish teacher’s dream trip” to see as much of the coast of South America as she could.

From Dec. 23 to Jan. 7, she and her husband, Dave, traveled on a cruise around the tip of South America. During the trip, the stops included Buenos Aires, Puerto Madryn and Ushuaia in Argentina, Montevideo and Punta del Este in Uruguay and Punta Arenas, Puerto Montt, San Antonio, Valparaíso and Santiago in Chile.

“I had originally hoped years ago to go around the top of South America, but right now with Venezuela being in complete economic chaos, it’s not a place you want to be,” Ziemann said. “We did the bottom, which actually turned out to be more spectacular than I thought it would be.”

Although this trip around the bottom was not the original plan, Ziemann had different highlights that

Spanish teacher Jody Ziemann and husband Dave stand at the southernmost city Ushuaia, Argentina.

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were in Punta del Este, Cape Horn and Buenos Aires.

“We went to an art museum where a man made sculptures out of marble. He was not an artist I recognized, but he did these huge, beautiful pieces of sculpture,” Ziemann said.

While they were there, Ziemann had the opportunity to talk to him.

After speaking to him for a little bit, she learned he was building a little chapel that contained his version of a piece called “la Pietà”. Ziemann

was allowed to go in and take a picture of sculpture to see what it was like.

“Another highlight was seeing the glaciers way down at the tip of Cape Horn, which we would not have been able to do if the water had been rocky,” Ziemann said.

The last highlight of the trip was visiting Eva Perón’s grave, seeing La Casa Rosada and la Plaza de Mayo, where grandmothers meet every year to protest the disappearance of their grandchildren in 1976 through

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With good weather and amazing experiences, Ziemann only had a few things that she would change about her trip.

“The 9 and a half to 10 hours on a plane was probably the worst part of everything,” Ziemann said. “The one other bad part was the six days of lesson plans that I had to do before I left.”

Even though Ziemann was in a different country, her travel experiences relate to what happens in her classroom.

“As a Spanish teacher, this was awesome because it had so much to do with things that we talk about in class and things that I’ve taught over the years,” Ziemann said.

As students get older and have more opportunities to travel, Ziemann has one bit of advice.

“Go do it while you can before you have responsibilities of your house, family and all those types of things,” Ziemann said. “Do it while you’re in college if you can. I know it’s expensive, but I’ve never been sorry for a single penny I’ve ever spent traveling. It’s just that there’s a lot of neat stuff to see out there.”

Ziemann’s Top 10 Countries 1. Peru 2. Spain 3. Mexico 4. Argentina 5. England 6. Italy 7. Israel 8. Bolivia 9. Russia 10. Greece

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Arts & Entertainment

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Male Healthy eater?

favorite color?

Yes

Blue

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favorite food?

Chinese

Biggest Fear?

Heights BBQ Ribs

Being a disappointment

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Friendly Easygoing

MRS. KING MR. REISE MR. WILLHITE MRS. RADEMANN

‘The Greatest Showman’ puts on great show

Bryn Hermanson

Reporter out with the idea of showcasing

From the opening scene to the ending, “The Greatest Showman” is a wild ride as the music and meaningful sets carry movie viewers away.

P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) grew up with an unfortunate life. His father was a tailor for the Hallett’s, a rich and strict family. The daughter of the family is Charity Hallett (Michelle Williams). P.T. and Charity are separated for years after her father finds out their forbidden love for each other and sends Charity off to boarding school, which is a common theme throughout movies, but this one is different due to believability of love these two kids have. When Charity returns, she throws away her rich lifestyle to begin a new life with P.T. in New York City. With close to nothing, the Barnums start their family.

Throughout the troubles of starting with nothing and P.T. losing his job, he takes the chance and starts up a museum that showcases wax figures, which is quite risky being that he already has nothing. The museum gets little attention, but his daughters help him

“freaks” to perform their talents in front of audiences. From the colors of the costumes and the way the cameras sweep around the circus following the trapeze artists, these shows start to become a huge hit. To attract bigger crowds and get in touch with the upper class, Barnum meets upper class playwright Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron) to partner with him.

Another forbidden love affair blooms when Carlyle meets the trapeze artist Anne Wheeler (Zendaya). Throughout the horrible judgement by Carlyle’s parents, like what P.T. went through for Charity, and the looks from the upper class people, they end up together after an incident started by protesters.

Between getting caught up in the money and the power of the upper class, Barnum starts forgetting about the family he has left behind, his wife, daughters and the circus troupe. Eventually, Barnum makes it up to his family and is persuaded by the troupe to rebuild the circus.

With a new and huge location, the final scene showcases Barnum, Carlyle and the troupe performing the greatest show in front of a huge crowd.

Besides watching Zac Efron, the music was another jaw dropping part. The music is the perfect coming together of the pop music that we hear today mixed into a movie taking place in the 1850’s and 60’s. The musical scenes were perfectly blended and set the right tone with the song that the character was performing.

From the meaningful and extravagant vocals of Loren Allard performing “Never Enough” to the original, touching song that won a Golden Globe, “This Is Me”, “The Greatest Showman” provides music that is a mixture of sentiment and excitement. With all the catchy songs, it might be necessary to download the soundtrack immediately after watching the movie.

Overall, first time director Michael Gracey showcases a performance with sets, costumes and a plot that makes viewers want to see it over and over again.

Rating out of 5:

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Behind the scenes of a:

Cheer Competition Mentally preparing before going on

Warming up before going on

Getting ready to perform

Waiting for awards

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“I think the seniors should be entitled to the first row, but the second row and back can be mixed with everyone else,” freshman Helena Buttke said.

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“We usually know if we did well or bad after we perform,” Thoma said. “If we feel like we did good, we are still a little nervous but not as much as we would be if we felt like we did bad.”

When they are waiting hours before and after their routine, it is hard to keep occupied.

“What we normally do is eat, hang out, go on our phones and watch our competition,” Thoma said.

Thoma and Reck agree that the first competition of the season is always the hardest.

“Our first competition is when we really look at the things we need to change,” Thoma said. “We really watch how our stunting is and how sharp our routine is.”

Throughout the years, their is always a common goal.

“We always strive to make it to state,” Thoma said. “We want to make sure our preformace is the best it can be and we can make our coaches proud.”

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Everyone has seen the BHS cheerleaders perform at school events, but how many have gone to support their competitions? When watching a cheer compeititon, it is obvious that the days are long, hard and stressful.

“While we are waiting to go on we stretch, we think about our routine in our heads and have bonding time with the team,” junior Camryn Reck said.

Right before the team goes on, they roughly get five minutes on three different mats to practice and warm up.

“Waiting to go on is very nerve-racking,” Thoma said.

“The nerves don’t really hit you until you hit that practice mat.”

After the team performs their two minute and 30 second routine, the nerves from performing calm a bit. However, awards still await.

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“It’s our last year and we should have the bottom row and not be blocked,” senior Larisa Garduza said. “They will have the bottom row when their time comes. Most of the lowerclassmen don’t even cheer.”

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“We’re loud, we’re involved, we stand when most sections don’t. We have a high attendance, and our cheers are pretty great,” senior Joey Schmidt said.

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Sports Briefs Alex McClelland

Reporter

Girls basketball looks to improve defense

Girls basketball, now in the middle of their season, holds an 11-6 winning record.

“Everyone is always working their hardest in practice and games which allows us to be where we are now,” forward Emily Klawitter said.

To further improve their team’s performance, working on defense has been a sizable part of their practices.

“We work on our defense extensively, which is mainly a zone 1-3-1, and pushing the ball,” Klawitter said.

According to Head Coach Joe Brandl, the biggest improvement they have accomplished since the first game is different players being able to step up and lead the team in different statistical categories.

The next varsity girls basketball game is Feb. 1, a home game against Ripon, starting at 7:15 p.m.

Boys wrestling reflects on season Although wrestling is still working with a young team, the number of wrestlers has increased since last season.

“Our team has gotten bigger from last year which I think is nice,” sophomore Preston Morgan said. “The sophomore class had quite a few wrestlers join and the freshman class also brought a lot of new wrestlers to the team, but there’s not as many younger kids coming up to the high school next year which we would like to change.”

First year coaches Jim Carriveau and Coach Dobs are contributing to the team in their own ways.

“Their style will benefit us in the coming seasons,” Morgan said. “Carivou was good wrestler in high school and was in the middle weights and gives good insight on how people wrestled at those weights and what worked for him there.

Dobs wrestled for Lakeland College, so he has experience with knowing different moves that they would do.”

The next varsity wrestling match will be the conference match on Saturday Feb. 3 in Winneconne at 9 a.m.

Indians lose on buzzer beater shot Kelsi Cravillion

Reporter

Varsity boys basketball lost on buzzer beater shot against non-conference team, Lomira on Monday, Jan. 23.

“We started the game and ended the game with determination,” junior player Grant Miller said. “After the first half, we kept with them until the end, but we need to learn how to put teams away for good.”

Early in the season, goals were set by the team in hopes of achieving one at a time.

“At the beginning of the season, our team made a lot of goals for the non-conference games,” Miller said.

“Though we are still working to achieve them, a non-conference game is still a game and we have to continue to work hard no matter what.”

According to statistics on wissports.net, the team holds double the number of attempted shots than their opponents.

“During practice, we work on playing fast and getting

Junior Grant Miller makes a free-throw shot in the second half. “As a team we need to learn to stick together throughout the entire game, and begin taking wins with confidence,” Miller said. Photo: K. Cravillion

termined for the rest of the “Practice consists of focusearly shots,” senior Cole season. ing on team defenses as well Jecevicus said. “Sometimes “Our team still has hopes of as working hard on guardthis benefits us, but I think success in upcoming games ing the ball,” Kasuboski said. our loss was because we and plans to continue mak“We do this in hopes that if rushed ourselves. We need to ing realistic goals,” Kasuboski there are no good shots early learn how to be patient with said.

“Our loses will not stop in the game, we still are aleach other and the game.” us from working hard and lowed a chance at victory.”

Head Coach Andrew Kasudoing our best.”

Though the loss was unexboski, elaborated on Jecevipected, the team remains decus’ input.

New club B-S.A.L.T forms at BHS

Harry Kujawa

Reporter

Guidance counselor Matt Willett, physical education teacher Joe Stellmacher and history teacher Andy Kasuboski started a new club called B-S.A.L.T. (Berlin Student Athlete Leadership Team) for student athletes. This club will focus on showing student athletes the right lifestyle choices and giving exposure to the teams that do not get the same attention that other sports do.

“Last year I went to a conference, and there was a high school in the Milwaukee area called Kettle Moraine there.

They were presenting a program that focused on athletics that they had in their school. I knew that I wanted to do something like that for our school, but the timing just wasn’t right last year.

Now, it is the perfect time,” Willett said.

The founders also want to highlight how much time and effort athletes have to put in every day.

“My hope is that we can highlight the everyday grind an athlete has to go through. People don’t understand what it really takes to be a student athlete and we would like to change that,” Willett said.

The club plans on showing students the lifestyle of a student athlete through short videos that will come out once a week in Feburary.

“We hope to have a recording and airing program using the SO room upstairs. We’re trying to recap what happened over the week, what next weeks calendars is and individual stats, other things like that,” Willett said.

A unique angle the club has decided to pursue is using senior leaders that are positive role models to set an example of how to be a student athlete.

“I joined this club because I would like to show students that they don’t have to participate in unhealthy things like drugs or alcohol just to fit in because to really be the best athlete you can be you shouldn’t do things like that,” senior Chris Werch

B-S.A.L.T founding members meet for their first recording. The club was formed to promote healthy lifestyles and uses positive role models in the school. “We’re starting with just seniors, and they will recruit underclassmen they think would be a good fit,” club adviser Matt Willett said.

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This club appeals to each founding member in its own way.

“I joined because I wanted to be a positive role model for

student athletes, make a positive change to the high school’s environment and show how to make healthy choices while being a student athlete,” senior Elias Klawitter said.

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Friday, February 2

Saturday, February 3 Tuesday, February 6

Friday, February 9

• Girls Varsity Basketball @ • Boys Varsity Basketball @ • Boys Varsity Swimming • Girls Varsity Basketball • Boys Varsity Basketball @ Ripon, 7:15 p.m. @ Two Rivers, 9 a.m. @ Kewaskum, 7:15 p.m.

Berlin, 7:15 p.m.

Berlin, 7:15 p.m.

• Boys Varsity Wrestling • Boys Varsity Basketball • Girls Varsity Basketball @ • Varsity Dance performs at Berlin, 7:15 *Varsity Cheer & @ Winneconne, 9 a.m. @ Winnebago Lutheran half-time Stunt Performs at half- time Academy, 7:15 p.m.

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