the JOURNAL
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September 27, 2013
Meet the top runners of the girls cross country team. Page 8
Issue 3, Volume XCII
Southport High School
Read about alumnus’ proposal. Page 4
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Resource to help with test prep ZAPS seminar will be provided at Southport as College Go Week comes to an end by Lindsey Farley Reporter
Photo by Lindsey Farley.
Southport to run south Health fair and marathon to take place this weekend in memory of running coach by Abigail Barrett Reporter In the first year, Running South was called just “Running South.” Last year which was the second year, Perry Township altered the name to “Coach Hathaway’s Running South” to honor the late Coach Tom Hathaway. Hathaway was a biology teacher and cross-country coach to Perry Township for over thirty years. This year is the third year of Running South and the second year with the addition of honoring Coach Hathaway, who not only coached here in Perry Township, but he also coached at the University of Indianapolis and helped out by teaching a variety of running courses at the Ken Long and Associates Training Programs. He ran in 131 marathons and a great deal of mini mara- Mr. Tom thons and other races. Hathaway, Hathaway ran at least Running coach one marathon in each state earning himself the honor of qualification for entry into the 50 States Marathon Club. This Saturday, Sept. 28, Coach Hathaway’s Running South will take place. A one-mile run, five-kilometer run and ten-kilometer run will take place outside through Homecroft along with the MSDPT health fair and Family Forum in the East Gym of Southport High School and a free carnival in Perry Stadium. Coach Hathaway’s Running South was developed as an event to raise the Perry Township Education Foundation’s (PTEF) funds and to provide the teachers of Perry Township grants.
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Race day prices
10K Entry Fee $23* 5K Entry Fee $20* 1 Mile Entry Fee $5 T-shirt $10 Long sleeve tech shirt $10 *Entry fee is $10 for students
Event times
Opening Ceremony 8:00 a.m. Kids Activities 8:15 a.m. 10K Start 8:30 a.m. 5K Start 8:50 a.m. 1 Mile Start 10:20 a.m. Awards Ceremony 10:30 a.m. Information from Ken Long & Associates
PTEF has been able to award over $1 million in grants to teachers since 1994. These grants provide a variety of new equipment and technology that benefit students in many ways. In the first year, there were around 400 participants. For the third year of the festivities, there are expected to be 2,000 people or more participating in the health fair, Family Forum, carnival and one-mile, five-kilometer and tenkilometer runs. “We have all age groups participate and many families participate together,” Ms. Lorri Brune, Executive Director of the Perry Township Education Foundation, said. A significant amount of children from Perry Township schools will take part in the running events and health fair and their families will join in with them. Most schools advertise the event and the students who do take part normally run with other family members or a big group of friends. Students from Douglas MacArthur Elementary School’s “General’s” Running Club are currently training to participate in Coach Hathaway’s Running South. All kids who take part in and finish the one-mile race, whether they attend school at a Perry Township school or not, will receive a rubber bracelet. The top finishers in each race receive a gift certificate from Blue Mile. Blue Mile is a specialty running and walking store with various locations around the Indianapolis area such as Greenwood, Carmel, Fishers, Broad Ripple and two locations
in Louisville, Ky. They also provide various aerobic-centralized classes to sign up for. On the back of each runners bib, there will be a disposable DAG chip. These chips will allow runners to score and time themselves in the races they participate in. Various recycling receptacles will be provided around the area to dispose of the bibs and chips. Freshman Riley Hyatt participated in the five-kilometer run during last year’s Running South. She ran with her family and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. For this year’s race, she hopes to run with fellow cheerleaders who will also be participating. “My friends were there, it was a fun way to support the school,” Hyatt said. Registration for the races went through Sept. 26 for Riley Hyatt, all who wished to Freshman participate. Runners should arrive between 7:30 and 8:15 in the morning to check in and receive their bib. All races start near the intersection of Shelby Street and Loretta Drive on the east side of Southport High School and end on the track of Perry Stadium.
Community provides events for teenagers The mayor of Southport asks for youth help in bringing the city together by Bradley Davis Reporter Concerts, parades, car shows, movies and a zombie walk, all things the City of Southport have been doing to attempt to bring the community together and make the city stronger, according to Southport Mayor Vernon Jesse Testruth. The city has been trying to get the community together to make the city better. The city council and departments have been trying to work together to bring in the youth and the family aspect into the city parks, businesses and homes. Southport has made improvements like selling the lumber yard on Southport Road to build new senior citizen apartments and by demolishing run-down houses to replace them with new ones. “We are the capital city of the future,” Testruth said. “But, in order to arrive to the future (the city
The Blindside Boys perform on Sept. 14 for the community at the Southport Park event. Photo by Lindsey Farley. and council) need the youth’s help.” The city’s long term goal is to become one of the better cities in the state, but Testruth’s goal is to bring Southport to the future faster. In order for that to happen, the mayor needs the students at Southport High School to help. Testruth needs student participation in events to make them run successfully. Many of the council members have thought of
ways to bring fun into the city and to encourage community wide participation. The movie and the concert at the park were their first two attempts to bring the community together. The council and the mayor want to be able to do things that the youth thinks are “cool” and “fun.” The council believes that the city needs more youth ideas to brighten up the city as a whole and to encourage more teens to attend the events within the city. “We need ideas and the thoughts of the youth to improve the interest toward the city,” Testruth said. The city will be hosting a car show and a Halloween parade at the beginning of October. In recent years the car show has had great attendance. This year the mayor expects over 100 people to register and attend the show. The car show has been an ongoing event in Southport for many years, even before Testruth became mayor. The turn out of the concert and the movie were both very good and it will definitely be something that the city will do again, according to Testruth. On Oct. 25, the city will be holding their first annual zombie walk. For more information on the zombie walk, check out shsnewbureau.com.
College Go Week and the ZAPS PSAT and SAT seminar are some of the resources offered during September. According to guidance counselor Mrs. Erin Shimp, these resources are preparing students not only for college but the process of applying as well. According to a former admissions dean at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. and author of “Winning the College Admission Game,” Mr. Peter Van Buskirk, admissions offices are looking at more than test scores and essays. “They need to throw themselves at healthy and productive pursuits reflective of their natural interests and curiosity,” Buskirk wrote in an email to The Journal. “The passion and enthusiasm with which they are engaged will speak volumes to the admission officers.” On Saturday Sept. 28, the ZAPS PSAT and SAT seminar is being offered to Southport students in hopes of getting them accustomed to test taking techniques used on both the SAT and PSAT. According to the ZAPS website, the seminar will help students learn tips on all subtests, practice strategies to eliminate wrong answers, prepare to write a well organized persuasive essay, take shortened practice tests and reduce test anxiety. The five hour ZAPS seminar offers a comprehensive study guide and 18 practice test workouts that further help students to comprehend what types of questions will be asked on both the tests. There is a $79 fee for the seminar, but students of all grade levels are encouraged to come. According to the ZAPS Learning Company, if students practice the tips and strategies taught at the seminar, WHO College-bound they can raise their students PSAT score WHAT PSAT/SAT by five to 15 points, and preparation seminar raise SAT scores 50 to WHEN Tomorrow, 150 points. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. According to Cindy WHERE IMC Ament, who is part of the PRICE $79 ZAPS Learning Company Customer Service team, the seminar not only teaches test techniques, but other skills too. “(The main goal of ZAPS) is for students to raise their test scores,” Ament said. “Students will learn time management.” College Go Week presented by the organization, Learn More Indiana, took place during Sept. 23 to today with activities that went on throughout the week. The goal of College Go Week was to help students prepare for future college completion and set career goals. According to Shimp, College Go Week has a changing theme each year and this year’s theme was football. According to Learn More Indiana, Monday was kick off day. This kicked off the week with pamphlets being given to students. Tuesday was grad plan day, with all freshmen completing a graduation plan. All counselors were in the cafeteria during lunches playing college trivia with students. Wednesday was career day with the main focus on sophomores taking a career assessment. Thursday, counselors were down in the computer labs offering advice, and making visits with seniors and juniors getting ready for college. Today is college application day for all seniors. Checklists are also offered online on the Learn More Indiana website to help the college application and preparation process prolong smoothly for students. They are personalized by grade level so students can check off what is to be completed each year. Zaps also offers an app for smart phones where students can answer previous SAT questions. “Research is key,” Shimp said. “Calling admissions offices and setting up college visits wouldn’t hurt either.”
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Foreign Language
September 27, 2013
{satNI} Camipuai phit nak ding caah zei dah a herh? SAT cu online in sign up tuah a hau mi asi i, na thiam lo ah cun, merang caa chimhtu sin zongah bawmh na hal khawh. PSAT cu tang hra a kai lio mi caah cun zeituah hau lo in an phi kho. Tang hleikhat a kai lio mi nih phit a duh ve ah cun, Guidance office ah kal in sign up a tuah kho.
Aman zeizat dah a si?
PSAT camipuai hi mak sang bik a hmuh mi caah cun National Merit Scholarship ngah khawh nak asi. Photo by Katie Hinh.
SAT camipuai hi a biapi SAT camipuai hi sianghleirun kai khawh nak ding caah a biapi mi asi by Emily Sung Foreign Language Editor Southport siangin i a kai lio mi sianghngakchia hna cu, October thla thokin SAT camipuai phih khawh nak caan an ngei than cang lai. SAT cu US ah a ummi High School sianghngakchia vialte nih an phi tawn mi camipuai (exam) pakhat asi ii, college an lut khawh nak ding caah camipuai phit tawh mi asi. Mah test hi Sianghleirun zohkhenhtu buu (College board) nih an chuah mi asi i, Sianghngakchia pakhat nih English le Math ah zei tluk in dah a thanghcho tih mi theih hngal nak caah tuah mi test a si. Mah test hi High school an kai lio ah camipuai an phi mi lakah a abiapi bik mi asi ii, kumfa tin te in phit mi test asi. Guidance Director le Special Programs Counselor a tuan lio mi Mrs. Julie Fierce sinin kan
theih ning ah cun, mah SAT hi sianghleirun (college) kai khawhnak ding caah test phit mi chungi a biapi bik mi asi. College sianghleirun nih hi test mak hi an zoh ii, sianghngakchia pakhat nih English caa rel, English caa tial, le Math ah zei tluk in dah a thanghcho tih mi le college kai khawh nak ding caah theih hngal nak an ngei mi zei tluk in dah a sang tih mi hngalhter khawh nak caah hi test hi an phit ter tawn mi asi. Sianghngakchia nih hi test ah hin mak sang (high score) an ngah ah cun scholarship zong an ngah kho i, sianghleirun zong fawi deuh in an lut kho tiah Fierce nih cun a chim “Hi SAT test hi sianghngakchia caah a biapi tuk. Sianghleirun kai khawh nak ding caah a herh mi thil a si ruangah sianghngakchia hna nih mak (score) sangbik hmuhkhawh an i zuam a hau,” tiah Fierce nih a chim. Fierce sinin kan theih ning ah cun, SAT caamipuai hi a fawi mi asi lo ii fawi deuh in sianghngakchia nih an phi khawh nak hnga Sianghleirun zohkhenhtu hna nih PSAT tih mi test hi siangngakchia caah a tuah piak hna. PSAT hi SAT cinhnak (practise) camipuai asi ii, mah camipuai ah phit mi hi SAT
camipuai an phit lai ding mi kal phung he an i lo. Tang hra a kai lio mi sianghngakchia hna cu PSAT camipuai hi a man liam lo in October thla thokin phit nak caan ttha an ngei te lai. Tang hleikhat a kai lio mi hna zong nih Guidance Office ah kal in PSAT sign up an tuah ah cun an phi kho ve lai. PSAT camipuai hi SAT tlukin a biapi mi a si ve. Hi test an phit mi ah hin sianghngakchia nih mak sang (high score) bik a ngah ah cun National Merit scholarship zong ngah khawh asi. “Sianghngakchia nih PSAT camipuai ah mak (score) sang bik a hmuh ah cun, National Merit Scholarship zong a ngah kho. Cu ruangah cun , daithlang lo in mah PSAT camipuai hi tha te in sianghngakchia nih an phit a hau.” tiah Fierce nih a chim chih. Fierce nih a chim rih mi cu, SAT test caah sianghngakchia caah a hlei in timtuanak (Prep Class) tuah piak an si i, Sikpar siangin khar (Fall break) chungah ah Perry Meridian High School ah tuah asi lai. Monday in Thursday tiang suimilam 8a.m. in 11a.m. tiang asi te lai.
SAT camipuai hmasa bik mi cu a man liam hau lo in phit khawh asi. A vawikhat nak na sungh a si ah cun aman na liam a hau lai. Thaithawh le Chuncaw a manlo in a ei mi pawl caah cun vawi hnih tiang a man liam lo in an phi kho.
Camipuai hi zeitik ah dah phit ding asi? SAT camipuai hi Zarhteni, Southport siangin ah phit asi te lai. PSAT hi cu Cawnnithumni ah, Southport siangin ah phit dih ding asi i, Zarhteni zongah phit khawh tthiam asi. PSAT hi October ni 30 ah phit asi te lai.
SAT camipuai caah min pek ni Sept. 7, 2013 Oct. 3 , 2013 Nov. 8 , 2013 Dec. 27, 2013 Feb. 7, 2014 April 4, 2014 May 9, 2014 (A cung i ni leh thla langhter mi phak hlanah hin SAT sign up ding asi)
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Student Life
September 27, 2013
Alumni Mr. Joshua Young and Ms. Nicole Sams celebrate engagement. Photo by Katie Hinh.
Classroom wedding proposal
Former Southport student pops the question to girlfriend of nine years Senior Meg Mobley began her last year at Southport High School by juggling AP Statistics, AP Psychology, dual credit literature and dual credit government classes. She says she doesn’t get a lot of free time outside of school. Photo by Katie Hinh.
More homework adds to balancing act Students learn to handle large amounts of homework along with other activities
{homework POLICY} AMOUNT Students shouldn’t have more homework per class than can be done in three hours. RESULTS Students should be able to see their homework grades. TIME May be started during class period
by Sierra Sullivan Reporter Cross country, two AP classes, two dual credit courses and a part time job at Chicago’s Pizza dominate senior Meg Mobley’s schedule for this year. With so much on her plate, Mobley still finds the time to get her amount of homework completed every night. “It’s a pretty heavy workload,” Mobley said. “Sometimes it can be a bit much, depending on the week.” According to Mobley, she gets most stressed and frustrated when her teachers pile on all their tests in the same week. Students who deal with very busy lives, such as Mobley and senior Joseph Morris, must learn to balance large amounts of homework with their other activities. Morris is currently enrolled in five AP classes, involved in the musical and is a member of the swim team. He believes the amount of homework he receives is a reasonable amount, but attributes some of his stress to his habit of procrastination. “There are times when I need to push myself to do better,” Morris said. According to Morris, each class has its own requirements, which makes the amount of homework that teachers assign him fair. He believes the practice outside of class helps students to keep up with class work. “It keeps (students) on their toes,” Morris said. According to education.com, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not homework is essential in the success of students in school. According to the website, homework can have both negative and positive effects on students. Homework can improve the retention and understanding of academic material. It can
Information from high school homework guidelines in 2013-2014 MSDPT Student Rights Handbook help students prepare for what college work will require. However, if students are required to spend too much time on work, they are more likely to lose interest in learning. Students tend to withdraw and get frustrated when they are assigned an overwhelming amount of work. In these cases, students try to find their own ways to manage time and stress. “I try to focus on certain things at a time and not try to take in everything at once,” Morris said. “I’m sure like every kid, I don’t like homework, but it’s the easiest way to stay at the right pace of the class.” English teacher Ms. Julie Breeden believes that the use of homework is essential in order to practice what students are learning and that motivation is key to getting homework completed. According to Breeden, Perry Township’s policy is 30 minutes of homework per night per subject. Other factors contribute to the amount of
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homework students receive as well. For example, more challenging classes receive more challenging homework. Students are likely to receive more homework in more rigorous classes. “I probably give more (homework) to honor classes,” Breeden said. “I try to moderate my (amount of) homework.” According to Mobley, the amount of homework she receives has gradually increased every year since freshman year, since she decided to take AP and dual credit classes. “Freshman year I had it pretty easy,” Mobley said. “I took honors classes but compared to this year, it was nothing.” Also, she believes that this year, the modified block has given students more time in class to complete more work. “IPass is great,” Mobley said. “You can’t get everything done just in class.” With classes now 70 minutes long, teachers can give more work to students, due to the excess time in class to get the work done. To Breeden, the modified block schedule hasn’t made a big difference in the amount of homework she assigns to students. She believes she tries to give all students class time to complete their assignments. Breeden also thinks that a lot of students schedule themselves with more than they can handle. Between everything else students have on their to-do lists, homework for weighted classes may be overwhelming. Even though students may receive larger amounts of homework, Mobley, Morris and Breeden all believe it is possible to balance the workload. Organization and time management are necessary if students aim to be successful in completing their work. However, Morris believes students can control the amount of stress they have about homework when they decide what classes to take. “They should know what they are getting themselves into if they want to take a lot (of classes),” Morris said. “(They will need to) go and prepare for what’s going to be thrown at them.”
130 Southport High School students were selected from iPass classrooms to answer questions about their homework and activity load.
How many days per week are you assigned homework?
3%
Less than 1 day
41%
44%
12% 1-2 days
3-4 days
5 or more days
How many hours per night of homework do you usually have?
20%
Less than 1
30%
45%
1-2 hours
3-4 hours
5-6 hours
3%
2%
7 or more hours
How many activities are you involved in? 0
20%
1-2 activities
46%
3-4 activities
21%
5-6 activities
5%
8%
7 or more activities
Information gathered by Britton Whitlock.
by Tori Updike Student Life Editor Southport alumnus Mr. Joshua Young spent the entire day last Friday, glancing up at the clock, mentally preparing for one of the biggest moments of his life. He worked an eight hour shift with butterflies in his stomach, waiting for the moments to tick down to 4 p.m. and hoping everything would go according to plan. He’d been officially planning this moment for nine weeks, although in reality it had started long before that. After weeks of planning, Young was finally going to propose to his girlfriend of nine years, fellow Southport alumna Ms. Nicole Sams, in the classroom of Southport High School where they met for the first time. “He’s planned it for a while,” said guidance counselor Ms. Briana Underwood, who counseled Young when he was a student at Southport. “He came in around the first full week of August and told me he was going to propose to his girlfriend Nicole, and asked permission to see if it would be OK with the school.” Little did Underwood know, her involvement in Young’s proposal would be much more than simply sanctioning the act. A few days before the proposal, Young came to see Underwood again and told her about his complex plan in order to surprise Sams with the proposal. Not only that, but he would need her help. Young never picked up his diploma after his 2006 commencement, and the need to claim it presented the perfect excuse to bring Sams to Southport, where Young would propose in the room where they first met. Underwood would feign difficulty in locating the paper, giving Young an excuse to walk around the school with Sams. They would end up in Mr. Brian Dugger’s classroom, where they first met as desk partners in their former English class. There, Underwood would present Young with his diploma and ask to take a picture, and as she held the camera, Young would get down on one knee and propose to Sams with a custom-made ring that he designed himself. Underwood agreed, and was eager to help bring both of her former students together. “I’m afraid to blow the surprise,” Underwood said, “but I’m excited to be part of it, and excited that he asked to include me.” The proposal went off without a hitch, and the couple walked through Southport’s main doors to find a cheering group of family members holding up balloons, hand-made congratulatory signs and video phones to capture the momentous (and long-awaited, according to some of the family members) occasion. “I’ve never had this experience before. It’s like an out-of-body experience,” Young said. “I had butterflies in my stomach all day, but once we got to the school I knew it was going to be good.” The couple has been together since they first began going out in Young’s junior year, Sams’ sophomore year. Young began trying to win Sams over as soon as they were made desk partners in class. “He was always trying to get me to write him notes,” Sams said. Though Young admits that Sams initially viewed him a a troublemaker, he kept talking to her. “Her smile and eyes were just irresistible,” Young said. “So I just kept talking to her and talking to her, and finally she wrote me a note and we just kept writing back and forth.” Then one day, after purposely forgetting his books in their English class, Young called Sams to ask if she had picked up his things. They talked for hours, and the rest was history. “We don’t see a lot of students who have stayed in a consistent committed relationship with their high school sweethearts, so it’s really cute when these things work out,” Underwood said. “They bring out the best in each other.”
Entertainment
September 27, 2013
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Art interest transformed into career
Junior Morgan Ray (middle) had the role of Amaryllis in Southport High School’s 2011 production of “The Music Man.” This was Ray’s first high school performance. The “WIzard of Oz” will be her first school performance of this year. Photo by Jesse Roller.
From school to stage
Junior actress is nominated for her performance while former student lives dream by Vanessa Abplanalp Entertainment Editor
From a child of Eden to a guard of a fantastical land, junior Morgan Ray has done it. On stage, that is. At 10 years old, Ray had to quit dancing and was recommended to act. Her first performance was “Children of Eden,” and she fell in love. “Acting gives me a sense of home,” Ray said. “I belong on stage, it’s the best feeling ever for me.” This year’s fall musical, “The Wizard of Oz,” with Ray as the guard will be her 14th or 15th production. Amongst others, Ray was the lead role in “Anne of Green Gables” at Southport Middle School. In high school, Ray was in “The Music Man” and “Bye Bye Birdie.” During the summer, Ray spent a week at an intensive acting camp with three Broadway actors. Despite being extremely hard, Ray says she wouldn’t trade it for the world. In March, Ray had her first community theater play lead in “Moon Over the Brewery.” She’s been nominated by the Encore Association for two awards for her performance: best performer 18 and under and best actress in comedy. “Encore awards are like Tony’s for this area, community theater awards,” Ray said. “It’s the biggest honor to be nominated.” Following high school, Ray strives to major in musical theater and minor in something unrelated as back-up, with her goal being Broadway.
Ray advises those desiring to act to put themselves out there and audition. “I’ve literally auditioned for everything,” Ray said. Having recently broken out into the community theater acting scene with larger parts, Ray couldn’t imagine her life without acting. “If I ever had to (quit acting), I’d be sad, but I wouldn’t be broken,” Ray said. “I had that time where I could truly shine. It’s so beautiful to be on stage.” From the beauty that tamed the beast to Disney Cruise Line entertainer, is one who has also had her stage time. Southport High School 2008 Alumni Ms. Ebony Deloney has wanted to act since she could speak, she says. After making living room movies, Deloney’s first role was in sixth grade as the lead in “The Color of Justice.” Ms. Ebony In high school, DeDeloney, loney was in every fall Southport graduate production, starting with “Annie” and ending with lead role Belle in “Beauty and the Beast.” She and fellow cast members visited elementary schools as characters. “I was reading ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to kids, and one girl points to Belle and goes, ‘That’s you!’” Deloney said. “That really touched me, because kids don’t see color, and I was the first AfricanAmerican to receive a lead role in a Southport High School play.”
During “Beauty and the Beast,” Deloney auditioned for the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, a New York college conservatory. Deloney was accepted and attended for two years, Deloney says, and she was taught by Broadway actors. “Everything that we knew, they broke down and said we’re going to create a whole new performer,” Deloney said. “A lot of people quit because they couldn’t take it.” At 18 and living in New York, Deloney had acting, singing, dancing classes and rehearsals with other students in her daily life. During her last semester, Deloney’s first audition outside of school was for Disney Cruise Line. She was accepted, and Deloney has her third contract for nine months this year with the company. Now 23, Deloney has been between New York and Indiana. She leaves Oct. 3, when Disney Cruise casts off. Deloney is in the entertainment department, singing, dancing and helping characters and guests. It’s the best experience of her life, Deloney says, and she’s living her dream. According to Deloney, she’s working toward Broadway, film and television. Through all the work, Deloney says that her family, friends and Southport teachers have supported her. For any profession, not just acting, Deloney gives advice from experience. “If there’s something you feel you are meant to do, you have to do it,” Deloney said. “You can be your worst critic and enemy, but everything that you want to do in your life is attainable. Apply yourself and know that success isn’t going to fall into your lap, you have to work hard.”
Aspiring rapper sings and signs
Sophomore wins rap contest and signs deal with rapper after years of sending in music by Cooper Davis Reporter
While sophomore Blake McGuire talks, he rocks back and forth in his chair and smiles. He looks and sounds super relaxed and comfortable with the conversation, and has very good reason to appear so. The story he’s telling is one he’s told 100 times and one that he plans on telling much, much more, if his future is as bright as he expects it to be. “I grew up on the East Side of Indianapolis, and I started rapping in the fifth grade,” McGuire said. “Actually, I started off with poetry, but I don’t think there’s that big a difference with those. So, my oldest brother was also making beats at the time. One day, I wrote a poem to a beat, and it worked. I just kept with it, just kept going.” As he navigates farther into his narrative, it becomes more and more obvious that he really has kept going, and that there’s no intention of stopping or slowing. For years, McGuire says, he dove into the music putting out track after track. He sent them out to producers trying to catch their attention and get a start, but it just wasn’t happening. He estimates this to have lasted for about three years, and while he wasn’t quite staying idle, he wasn’t going anywhere either. That is, until Nov. 8, 2012, when entries for the Money Matters Music Mogul Contest, known as M4, presented by the Boys and Girls Club of America and Charles Schwab Foundation, opened. “Charles Schwab and Kevin ‘KHAO’ Cates collaborated and made this music program where, at the end of the course, you can make a rap song and send it. I actually ended up being one of the four
Sophomore Blake McGuire (right) spent some in-studio time recording music with his mentor, rapper Kevin “KHAO” Cates (left). Photo contriubted by Blake McGuire. choices people could choose as the best representative,” McGuire said. More than 186,000 votes later, it was all decided. The needle hit the turntable, the beat dropped and the dust settled, revealing McGuire to be the winner with his rap “Money All That Matters.” At this point in the interview, his eyes light up and his pace starts to pick up, seemingly trying to crush, cram and wring every bit of detail into the whirlwind of events he was swept up in. McGuire says he went all over, flying fast to Atlanta for a party with awarded rapper Wale, to perform for himself and film his first music video. A few more trips back down to Atlanta, and he had signed to a label. Shortly after, he was bustling himself over to New York. Following all this, he began writing, planning and recording his debut, which can be looked forward to in the upcoming months. McGuire says that all he’s waiting for is the production from his mentor, Cates. But there are nay-sayers. There are people who have been to similar places and done similar things. People like Franklin Central High School producer
and performer Isaiah Hands believe McGuire has a long journey ahead of him before becoming a successful rapper. “It’s almost impossible,” Hands said. “Especially since it’s not even 100 percent (certain) about who’s got the best music. There is so much dumb luck that goes into getting a hit or being found, that I really doubt anyone we know will make it big. ” Look to former Southport High School musicians. Lil Tragic, Glock 40, Ashley Meadows: all of them have gone off the radar. That’s only locally. How many other garage bands, the would-be famous and indie rockers reside in obscurity right now, desperate for a chance? But McGuire seems confident that he’s already got his chance. He had such a gleam in his eye, self-assurance in his smile and optimism in everything he says. That it’s easy to see that even if others don’t believe in him, he believes in himself. To see a video of McGuire rapping, visit the Southport High School News Bureau website at shsnewsbureau.com.
Sophomore Jo Neshkova recreated Sublime’s album art. Photo by Katie Hinh.
Student, graduate and teacher advocate for art to be pursued in and out of school by Sarah Fowerbaugh Reporter High school is the transition between childhood and going out into the world, with hobbies and new interests found along the journey. Sophomore Joana Neshkova has found her drive. Art, she says, is something that she wants to keep in her life for a long time. Like many Southport High School students that have taken to art, Neshkova believes that it’s something she can pursue as a hobby after she leaves high school. Looking towards the future, Neshkova has considered her options reagarding a career in art. Tattoo artistry is such a field that has caught her attention. “(Tattoo artistry) was definitely something I was interested in last year and I’m still interested in it,” Neshkova said. “I don’t know if I could pursue it as a main priority, but it’d be more of a hobby. I’d definitely look into apprenticeships for it soon.” As for advice for fellow Southport artists, Neshkova promotes keeping up with one’s talent. “Draw every single day,” Neshkova said. “If you stop drawing, you’ll lose all your abilities.” For aspiring artists, there is a selection of classes to take, depending on what branch of art one is interested in. There are ceramics, fiber arts, jewelry and drawing classes, along with even more. Art teacher Mr. Anthony Pernell has seen many students come and go through Southport’s art department. His advice for students interested in pursuing art after high school is to follow ones dream. “You should go for whatever you like doing,” Pernell said. “There are a lot of negatives that you hear from people, but if you’re happy doing it, do it.” There are also opportunities outside of Southport’s walls. Should one want to pursue art after high school, there are numerous art college programs and classes around the country. Take Southport alumni Johnny Chau. Chau followed his recently-realized dream of editing and design and is now majoring in graphic design at the University of Indianapolis. Chau says that art is a passion that most people cherish for the rest of their lives. Southport nurtured this love of the arts for Chau with Intro to Drawing and Drawing his freshman and sophomore years of high school. What Chau believes is that if one has the ability or drive, art is a realistic career option. “If you like it and you think you’re good at it, or you want to get better at it, go for it,” Chau said. “It’s not a natural talent.” Along with the offered art classes previously mentioned, tangible arts that Southport has are several choir, band, orchestra and theater classes. Picking a major for Chau was easy, he says. Chau praises going into art in college above most of the other subjects. “English and math: you just memorize something and you get the right answer,” Chau said. “In art, there is no answer. It’s abstract.” Chau and Neshkova alike both believe that if art is something one wants to look into for after high school, it’s good to get practice in now. One class could lead to a passion. It’s impossible to tell if a class one takes as just a hobby could turn into something life-long.
Comic by Hope Randall
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Features
September 27, 2013
{helpingHANDS} Southport students and staff are no strangers to helping those in need. Some have even traveled abroad to volunteer in disaster- or povertystricken areas. Shorts by Alle Musser. May 22, 2011, disaster struck Joplin, Mo. when a catastrophic tornado swept through the entire city. Homes were demolished, leaving people homeless for the time being. The people of Joplin lost Aidan McCleary, all hope, until they Senior finally found encouragement in the eyes of missionaries who came to help rebuild their town. One of those missionaries was senior Aidan McCleary. He joined with Southport Presbyterian Church to help rebuild homes torn down by the tornado. They worked day after day, helping Joplin get their town back. “The community had so much faith,” McCleary explained. “On the school’s sign, all the letters fell off besides the ‘O’ and ‘P’. Someone wrote in the letters ‘H’ and ‘E’ to make the sign read ‘HOPE.’” Junior Jackie Bowie traveled to Maringa, Brazil to help build a vacation home for families that ran an orphanage. The three families took care of 15 orphans each. They had nowhere to go for a break since they Jackie Bowie, used all their money Junior on the children. Bowie and her church built a house a couple of miles away from the families’ actual homes for them to be able to get away from the chaos of working the orphanage. Without Bowie’s church, Southport Presbyterian’s, help, the parents would have nowhere to relax and get away. While there, Bowie grew unforgettable friendships and memories with the children and parents. “I would definitely do it again,” Bowie said. “It was such a great experience.”
Ms. Heather McKenzie,
Spanish Teacher
Spanish teacher Ms. Heather McKenzie helped build a community center in San José, Costa Rica. Before the missionaries arrived, the community center was practically nothing, but year after year, the missionaries continually came to build the center, and now it is a resource center. While there, she experienced pover-
ty first-hand. “It was really poor,” McKenzie said. “Trash men wouldn’t come and pick up trash, they’d have to throw it in the river. Girls were 12 and 13 and they were raped and forced to have babies.” With the help of missionaries year after year, the people in San José are safer than they were once before.
The small church located within a village in Malawi will be visited by Mr. Jack Williams and other members traveling with his church. Part of the mission plan is to build a new shelter for the church. Photo contributed by Lou Ann Vollmer.
Teacher prepares to make an impact in Africa Southport teacher anticipates a mission trip with his church to Malawi by McKenzie Witherell Reporter He is about to take a trip that he never thought would be possible: going to serve people in Africa. But doing so means leaving a baby and wife at home at the cost of $2,700. This is the choice math teacher Mr. Jack Williams is taking. In November, Williams takes the challenge of going on a mission trip to help the people of Malawi, a small country near the East Coast of Africa. “We are going to serve the people there. A lot of the times we get more out of it, ” Williams said. “You meet people who have nothing but are usually incredibly happy with what they have.” These people live well below the poverty line. In Malawi, one U.S. dollar has the exchange rate of 350 Malawi Kwacha. There are missions that go to Africa and help with fight poverty. Williams’ trip, however, has different goals in mind. “The primary goals of the trip are to help in the construction of the district headquarters for The Church of The Nazarene,” Williams said. “The secondary goal is evangelistic in nature.” The group that Williams is going with is based out of his church, Grace Pointe Church of The Nazarene, but he was not sure at first if he was going to go. “I had never really considered it to be an option because it is pretty expensive,” Williams said. “One day before church, on the day you had to commit to the trip, I got a text that morning from the IRS saying ‘Hey, your tax refund is in,’ and I was like ‘OK, guess somebody is telling me something here.’”
{southportSUPPORTS} Mr. Williams and his fellow trip members are raising money in hopes of donating a motorcycle to make the presentation of a religious film possible to a larger audience in Malawi. If you’re interested in helping to provide funds, you can do so by seeing Mr. Williams, Mr. Klopfenstein or Mr. Sanders. *Checks can be written payable to Indianapolis Grace Pointe Church of the Nazerene with ‘Malawi Motorcycle’ in the memo.
When the money came in, Williams committed to go. With the district headquarters soon to be built, the hope is that the people of Malawi will be able to have a place to train pastors and use the building for other things, like school. Malawi is a Third World country. In that sense, the country does not have much. “We have heard stories about how they take their pencils and break them into three pieces so they can have more pencils,” Williams said. The group raised enough school supplies to take with them to Malawi, but now they are raising funds for a motorcycle. They plan to leave the motorcycle behind with a group who has a pastor, in hopes that the pastor can go out to other places and share the word of God. The people of Malawi will also have the chance to watch a film commonly referred to as “The Jesus Film.” They will be able to view it in their own language, then, afterwards, be able to follow Christ if they choose. With Williams leaving for 16 days, his wife’s life will also be drastically changed. She will be alone with their son Jake, who will be eight months old. “It will be an adjustment trying to keep up with everything by myself,” Mrs. Holly Wil-
liams said. “And it will be hard being at home by myself, but I will have our two dogs to keep Jake and me company” The effect of the trip on everyone will be different. While Williams is heading over to Africa with an open mind to what he will experience, his wife will be excited to hear what he has learned. “I think I will feel the effect of this trip most when he returns and shares his experience. I have been on several mission trips, and I know how exciting and fulfilling it is to go to another culture, meet new people and help in a real way,” she said. “He will not truly process his experience until he is back home, and he will look at life in a new way.” She has been on many mission trips before and when the chance came for her husband to go, she did not want him to miss it. “I was the one who encouraged Jack to go on this trip,” she said. “I knew it would be the chance of a lifetime, and I did not want him to miss out. I am sure he did not think it possible because of the cost or leaving us so long. I am very excited to hear his stories when he returns of how God has changed him and what he has learned. That will make it worth being apart for all that time.”
Mission work brings two lives together receive care. So they started a baby center.” The baby center Staci directed is a place where abandoned babies are taken care of until a new home is found. It is not so much an orphanage because they do not raise the children there, but rather keep them until they can by Christina Hemphill be adopted. The center houses about 55 to 70 babies at a time, but the numbers change often Reporter with people adopting and giving up babies. StaMrs. Staci Keter returned from a mission ci says mostly people from Kenya and Europe with numerous stories of her helping the people adopt the kids, but all other parts of the world of Nakuru, Kenya, and a better understanding of adopt them, too. The two met at the end of 2006 and got marwhat it’s like in a Third World country. Oh yeah, ried in January of 2008. The whole time they as well as a husband and twin boys. “He was pastoring a church, and I was work- dated, they were living in Kenya and even had ing at the baby center next door,” Staci said. “He their wedding there. Weddings in Kenya are an all day event. They volunteered with the center when I worked with start church service usually around 9 or 10 the kids.” Mr. Wycliff Keter, Staci’s husband, pastored at a.m. With the service lasting a few hours, the Africa Gospel Church. This church has churches reception lasts the rest of the day. Weddings are all throughout Kenya, but Staci’s church, World very large in Kenya especially for a pastor like Gospel Mission, worked with the one Wycliff Wycliff. At the beginning, there was about 500 pastored at. The World Gospel Mission realized or 600 people. Towards the end, there was close they were not doing anything to help children to 1,000 people were there. Staci says people do specifically other than Sunday school, and saw a not always have to be invited to come to wedgrowing problem of orphans in Nakuru. There- dings in Kenya, most of the time, people just show up. fore, they chose to start a baby center there. Their wedding was a mix of American and “They looked around at what was being done and what wasn’t being done,” Staci said. “There Kenyan culture. Staci’s parents and sister flew was a great need in Nakuru for infants to go and in for the wedding and came a couple of weeks
A woman returns home with much more than she could have ever imagined
ahead to meet Wycliff for the first time, other than phone calls and Skype. After getting married, they started thinking about kids. Staci had become attached to two 6-month-old twin boys at the baby center while dating Wycliff. Then, shortly after getting married, the two decided to adopt the then 2-and-ahalf-year-old boys. “All kids at the center seem to attach to one of the workers. The boys, from the moment they came to the center at 6 months Staci and Wycliff Keter adopted twin boys, Grifton and Solomon. old, seemed to attach to Staci later gave birth to their daughter Eliana, and the couple is me quickly,” Staci said. now expecting the birth of a son. Photo contributed by Staci Keter. The Keters came to the U.S. for most of the der to do that, they needed more education. The boys are now 7 years old. Four years year in 2009, then went back to Kenya for a year and now moved back this past March. Rather ago, Staci and Wycliff had a daughter named than working with babies, they wanted to start Eliana. Also, Staci is pregnant with a baby boy working with university age students. But, in or- due in October.
Sports
Rivalries make or break seasons I hate seeing them do well regardless of who they are playing. But when we play them, I want to see them lose so badly and be so unsuccessful that they are too embarrassed to even make an attempt to paint our rock. This year was no exception. I saw all the Twitter beef that everyone had because of the rock and all the other sports bragging about their victories, but once football happened, everybody just left it alone after we won. One game can affect a whole season because for the students, as long as we beat Perry Meridian High School in football, basketball and baseball, then the school year is a success. But what are the other big rivalries that no one knows about? The rivalry that isn’t so big anymore? The rivalries that are known worldwide? Those rivalries that everyone is glued to the TV to watch all the action? THE RIVALRY WE ALL WISH WAS STILL A BIG DEAL BUT ISN’T ANYMORE Indiana and Purdue have the most popular college rivalry in the state by far. But it hasn’t been what it used to be. Neither of these teams have both been competitive in the same sport for a while. This game has fallen from prominence. It’s still IU vs. Purdue, but the buzz that it used to generate just isn’t there anymore. THAT RIVALRY THAT EVERYONE THINKS IS HEATED BUT REALLY IT ISN’T THAT DEEP Ohio State and Michigan is one of the biggest rivalries in college football. It seems like every year, College GameDay is there on either campus covering the game. This rivalry is probably one of the most intense in all of college football. But it isn’t the most heated. The schools might hate each other, but that level of notoriety isn’t there like it is with other rivalries. THAT RIVALRY WHERE THE TWO SCHOOLS SEE WHO CAN MAKE THE OTHER BLEED THE MOST Duke and North Carolina has my vote as the one of the most heated college rivalries ever. Tyler Hansborough got his face smashed last time he played Duke. Some of the best college basketball players ever have been a part of it, Jordan, Hill, Plumlee, Redick, Barnes, Bilas, Carter and Laettner. Duke vs. UNC is always always has NCAA tournament implications. The game is almost never a blowout and it keeps everyone guessing until the end. That is something Ohio State and Michigan can’t say. THAT RIVALRY THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 100 YEARS AND WILL GO ON FOR 100 MORE Yankees and Red Sox. Even though this is technically a national rivalry, I can consider it to be a worldwide one because of how popular of a sport baseball is. You hear about this game every year. About how slow the players play, about how heated they get at calls and about how bad they really just want to beat each other. This rivalry is second to none in any sport worldwide. Yes, it even beats out Real Madrid and that other soccer team that no one has ever heard of or cares about. Yankees vs. Red Sox is a highlight of the year in baseball and because of how close the AL East is every year, every game counts. You can’t take games off like the Reds do against the Cardinals and still expect to be in the playoffs. This rivalry is certainly one everyone is aware of and everyone can appreciate. THE RIVALRY THAT IS NONEXISTENT AS OF RIGHT NOW There is one rivalry that isn’t there today. Tiger Woods is unmatched every year. He could have a down year, but that doesn’t mean he’s still not the best golfer in the world. I mean, Rory McIlroy was there for a while but he has fallen off as of late. There is just no comparison to Tiger. If anyone was ever good enough to get near him, then that would be something to see. I can’t wait until Jan. 14 when the basketball team will take on Perry Meridian for the first time. I will harbor my hatred for Perry Meridian until that night when I will show it in full force and we destroy them in the first round of the Marion County tournament.
The Answer with Nick Holland
September 27, 2013
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Tennis team faces experience discrepancy
Having less years of practice under their belt leads to a difficult season by Nick Meacham Reporter
The boys tennis team laced up their shoes Monday, got their racquets and were ready to face Mooresville in competition. Juniors Adam Coomes and Nick Holland stood across the court as the Mooresville’s opponents stared them down. Then the game started. The ball went back and forth across the green courts. Southport had good hits, Mooresville had good hits. This went on and on, but Mooresville pulled ahead and beat Coomes and Holland. They outnumbered Coomes and Holland in years of experience. Mooresville had a combination of 22 years of experience between two players playing the double game, but Coomes and Holland only had a combination of eight years. The most experienced player on Southport’s side of the court is senior Billy Cross,
{yearsPLAYED} Grade Experience 9- Dane Haynes 4 10- Jared Hunsicker 6 10- Stephen Broadhead 4 10- Chase Cawthorne 2 11- Nick Holland 4 11- Adam Coomes 4 12- Daniel Carson 5 12- Alex Myers 5 12- Billy Cross 6 12- Alex Darland 7
who has six years of experience and has the head coach, Mr. Harry Schwartz, giving him private lessons to improve his skills. Cross also has gone to camps to brush up on his skills. Not all the players are that lucky, some only having four or less years in playing tennis. Some schools are doing better because they have multiple middle schools that feed into the high school. These high schools then pick the best players to be on the tennis team. Southport High School only has one middle school, Southport Middle School, which feeds into the team so they do not get that big of a choice in incoming freshman players. The team also doesn’t take any outside helpp to improve their skills. “We don’t have the time to put in private lessons like they (other school Sophomore Stephen Broadhead returns a shot against teams) do,” Cross said. Columbus North on Thursday, Sept. 19. Broadhead has Schwartz thinks that the played tennis for four years. Photo by Nick Meacham. team is doing well comthey have the money to practice during the winpared to other teams even ter, according to Schwartz. The reason the boys though the boys have a lack of playing history. “We are really not one of the best teams,” tennis team does not practice year round is befreshman Dane Haynes said. ”There are some cause it costs money to do it during the winter. It costs $40 an hour to play and practice at the bigger teams out there.” The best team in the conference is Colum- University of Indianapolis Tennis Center during bus North. They are currently ranked eighth the winter. “We just need to get these kids to play in the in state. They have only lost against Jeffersonwinter,” Schwartz said. ville. Southport has only beaten Decatur CenAnother way to get the extra experience is to tral, but over the course of the year, they are start it earlier. To get the extra years of experience doing better. “We are slowly improving,” Schwartz said. for future players, Schwartz has recently taken “The other teams play yearly, they play in over the Southport Middle School tennis teams tournaments and travel all over the country and is hoping to change it into a year round sport. County finals are tonight at 5 p.m. The and play. We just wait until the season starts boys tennis team will play in sectionals Oct. to start practicing.” Other schools get to play year round because 3 and Oct. 5.
Teammates step up to cover for injured runners by Brooklyn Raines Reporter Girls cross country coach Mr. Nathan Fishel did not plan to have three of his five top runners out this season due to injuries, but that is the reality he is faced with. Sophomores Shelby Rogers, Caroline Chappell and Desiree Kinney are all overcoming season-threatening injuries. Rogers will not be able to return this season, but Kinney may be able to return in October, if her knee permits her to. Chappell returned this season from a hip injury and ran in the
Flashrock Invitational at Northview Christian Life Church in Carmel, IN. on Saturday, Sept. 21. Dr. G Peter Maiers II, a hip and knee specialist at Methodist Hospital, discussed how to prevent hip injuries. According to Maiers, girls experience more hip injuries than boys due to their growth plates. Girl’s growth plates close earlier than boys do by almost three years. Strength in the legs can prevent over-running injuries, Maiers says. Risk in stress fractures can be prevented by obtaining adequate nutrition and by having a good core, according to Maiers.
Heather Blankenbaker
Lexi Burton -Sophomore
-Freshman
-Team’s fourth runner
-Team’s second runner
-Has been injury free this
-Injury free this season
season
-Finished 83rd in the
-Finished 180th in the
Flashrock Invitational
Delaney Bucker -Sophomore -Team’s top runner -Has been injury free both seasons -Finished 20th in the Flashrock invitational
Fishel is not pushing the runners past their limits. “I’m keeping kids from getting hurt and they are doing well,” Fishel said. Fishel says that he will continue to put the runners through the same course of action that he has been doing all year because of the success that he has seen. “Our runners are running some of their best times ever,” Fishel said. “I don’t want to change anything that we are doing, I know kids are getting hurt but I we’re helping them.” The team will run in the Southport invite at White River State Park tomorow at 9 a.m.
Flashrock invitational
Christy Dean
Caroline Chappell
-Freshman
-Sophomore
-Team’s third runner
-Team’s fifth runner
-Has been injury free this
-Just returned from a hip
season
injury
-Did not run in the
-Finished 210th for the
Flashrock invitational
team this season
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Opinion
September 27, 2013
AP classes should decrease the homework time Southport’s 30 minutes of homework per high school students who take two to three AP classes would be dealing with nearly one hour of class policy excludes AP classes. four to six hours of homework a day de- Many if not all of these perquisite classes are regular or honor pending on what color day their AP level classes which follow the 30-minute classes are scheduled for. Not only homework policy. Character, academic that, but the fact Having AP classes preparation and follow this policy as that unlike in college, high school well would be very motivation are all needed beneficial for the students are in to become an AP student. school from 7:25 student taking AP a.m. to 2:20 p.m. classes. This would Character, acanot only drastidemic preparation cally cut time off of and motivation are homework but allow all needed to become an AP student accord- time for the student to get a full eight to ing to the College Board’s standards. Prereq- 10 hours of sleep at night, helping them uisite classes and having the drive to take remain focused during all their classes on more assignments is important when throughout the day. Also, they would have considering AP however, those prerequisite more time for extra activities taking place classes don’t prepare students for two hours outside of school, for example jobs, sports and extracurriculars. of homework each night.
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The AP homework to class time ratio suggests two hours of homework for one hour of class each day a student has an AP class. According to biology teacher Mrs. Amanda Schnepp, two hours of homework for every one hour of class time is supposed to AP students better prepare for college. Schnepp who teaches AP Biology two, so she is aware of the AP ratio and encourages her AP students to follow it. “AP courses are meant to be equivalent to college courses,” Schnepp said. “In college, the rule of thumb is three hours outside of class for every one hour inside of class. So, to be successful you really have to spend a lot of time outside of class studying.” Although AP classes are set up to mirror college level courses and help students with all the work involved with college,
{head SCRATCHER} Where would you want your proposal to be?
“I want to be proposed to on horseback.” Anna Jones Freshman
“Top of the Eiffel Tower.”
Ira Crawley Sophomore
Comic by Hope Randall.
Be your personal party animal “Be a shark.”
I am a shark. No lie, that’s the whole and entire truth. Its probably filed somewhere deep in my student records, but it’s there. I am like the human embodiment of “Jaws” and let me tell you right now, you are going to need a bigger boat. I first learned of my snarky sharkiness when I was in eleventh grade. I was sitting there in my good ole’ peer mediation class and we were taking a test. This test was to determine our confrontation styles, and low and behold, I was characterized by the grad students from Butler University, who were administering the test, as a person with high aggression and low tolerance. I also have the tendency to be mean and intimidating when I am trying to prove that I am correct, and let’s just face it here, I’m always correct. These Butler students tried to comfort me and tell me that it wasn’t that bad, but that’s when I realized they were wrong. I know,shocking that I would try and tell a graduate student they were wrong, but they were, because being a shark isn’t bad, it’s great.
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{cardinalQUESTION} If you could add another club to Southport, what would it be and why?
I think there should be an animal care based club. in the club, the people could learn about animals and how to help them if they’re endangered. Many animals are endangered or going extinct. We could visit zoos or help rescue animals.
by Tre Wessel Freshman
The cat club. Where people can share internet cat photos.
by Cheyenne Caldwell
Senior
by Cathy Watness Senior
I’d add a politics club because my generation needs to care more.
Zombie survival club. In the club you learn how to survive a zombie apocalypse. You learn skills for how to save food, water, and give medical attention. It will help us if there were to be an apocalypse. We all wanna be like Daryl Dixon.
Kayla Reed Senior
“On the beach and written in the sand.” Faith Avila Freshman
Independence ahead by Vanessa Abplanalp Entertainment Editor
“Thanks for the adventure, now go have a new one.”
by Zhuling Page Freshman
“On the beach somewhere.”
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by Katie Hinh Editor-in Chief
I honestly think everyone could use a little else is. So, if that makes me a shark, then so be more shark in them. I looked over the other it. Call me a shark because if that means enconflict management styles and I was unlike gaging in my world and being the aggressively any of the other ones. I’m not the “Avoiding questioning person I am, I hope that’s how you Turtle” or the “Accommodating Teddy Bear.” I remember me. So let me give you some little was truly a shark. pieces of my shark mantra to remember. We sharks, we don’t mind confrontation, we Question your world and yourself. Never revel in it. We love the argument. We enjoy the take something at face value, just because its quick fire of debate. We love pushing buttons. easier than finding the truth. We think outside the box. Don’t accommoWe want to win. But most date to the status quo. of all, we want to challenge No one has to fit into Think for yourself and someone else’s idea the boundaries of what we believe. We don’t avoid the never be afraid of asking of normal. answers. We don’t accomDon’t avoid the ana question, believe me, I swers modate for ill informayou seek. Your tion. We want to literally have had enough groans knowledge is power live life to the fullest, and and ignorance? That is for two lifetimes. never be held back. simply laziness. In this case, shark is Fight to win, and just a label for me. Do I for what’s right. Not honestly think that the word shark changes who right for your family, your boyfriend/girlI am? No. However, a label like this can change friend or your community, but fight for you. how we perceive ourselves. I hadn’t noticed key Think for yourself and never be afraid of askattributes about myself that make me so unique. ing a question, believe me, I have had enough How much I questioned my daily life. How much groans for two lifetimes. However, that has nevI wanted to make a difference in my environ- er stopped me. ment. How much I had wanted to inspire change Stand on your own two feet and never back in the world. down. If you really want something, don’t be I have never been able to accept an explana- afraid to take it. tion without due cause or fact. I have never been Have your own John Williams theme song able to take anything at face value. I don’t agree that plays when you walk by. with things that are “tradition” because everyone Be a shark and just keep swimming.
“The girl I have in mind is perfect, so wherever it happens, it also has to Michael Maloney be perfect.” Junior
Sweet 16s, graduations, first kisses and voting. Some or all of these are memorable experiences found in high school, along with another major event: getting your driving license. Many juniors and seniors, and even some sophomores, are on the gas-fueled edge of obtaining a driving license and an open road before them. With an entirely new realm of freedom and independence on a silver platter before our very eyes, there is another significant point to remember: you’re growing up, and your parents must deal with that. But that doesn’t mean you’re not their child. Seeing as I recently obtained my license, this is based on a true story. From having colorful, plastic keys to play with to being reluctantly handed the car keys, parents have been there every crawl and red light along the way. In cartoons, parents are portrayed as neglectful, if even there at all. Note the lovable “Rugrats,” where all adults just happen to lose their children every episode. In one case, the main characters are also the par-
ents, though not evidently apparent. Ranging from 1995 to 2010, and perhaps soon to be later years, Disney’s Pixar film “Toy Story” is a tale not just about babes in toy land, it’s children growing up and parents letting them. From an imaginative, youthful child to an equally creative yet older college student, Andy has been silently watched over by Woody the Cowboy and Buzz Lightyear of star command, and not to mention the rest of the Andy room crew. As he grows, the toys do their best to protect and guide him, all the while not letting him know what they’re actually doing. Parents are the background characters of life guiding you, through the dark and the light. They love you when you deserve it least and tell you the truth when you need it most. You cannot wait to grow, as they wish your years would cease increasing. Boxed and ready to hit the world’s road, Andy wanted to take Woody along with him. In the end, he went to a new child, with a whole new line of memories and play times to go. Neither wanted to say goodbye, but knew it had to be done. This is the inevitable cycle of parenthood. No matter if you’re able to drive, vote or enter a bar, you are someone’s child. Freedom does not take that away. Even if this may escape your mind at times, your parents always know. So, as you buckle in, remember those who tucked you in. Independence is on the road ahead, but never forget who led you there.
Opinion
September 27, 2013
Confessions of a recovered stereotype by Rachael Samm Managing Editor-of-Content Hi, my name is Rachael Samm, and I’m a recovered stereotype. I’ve been clean for seven years and counting and haven’t been struggling with relapsing. Though people around me continue to nudge me back into my previous frowned-upon nature, I resist, remembering how wrong it is and how much happier I am living with an open mind. I, Rachael Samm, no longer fit the stereotype of a Christian. People often hear the word “Christian” and immediately think that Christians follow a ton of rules set in place for them to get into Heaven and that they will smite anyone who does not follow their ways. I’d like to inform you that I don’t think you’re going to Hell and will not judge you for having different beliefs than me, nor will I shove my religion down your throat. However, I used to fit the Christian stereotype of being that funsucking judgmental Biblethumper that many people think all Christians are like today. That’s not the case though -- with me or, honestly, with most Christians. You don’t have to have the same beliefs I do. The point of me writing this is for people to understand that being a Christian does not make me the typical stereotype. People mistake Christians as perfect snobs when, in fact, I’m a very flawed human being who is no different than any other American teenager. Being a Christian doesn’t mean I follow a bunch of rules set in place by my Pastor. Christianity is not a dictatorship over my life. In that I mean I have a relationship with God, and I believe in the existence of God and talk to Him about things that are on my heart. I literally feel His presence with me wherever I go and listen to Him by praying or reading my Bible. Though He is God, I label Him as more of a friend to me because I talk to Him like He’s my best friend, not like He’s my ruler. And just because you don’t talk to God or don’t believe in Him or any part of my religion at all, doesn’t mean I’m going to condemn you. I have so many friends who are Buddhists, Atheists, Agnostic or Hindu and
never have I criticized them for their choices. Christians all over the world are persecuted for their religious views, so why would I judge my friends or anyone else for theirs? People are often under the impression that Christians are the most judgmental people on the planet and I won’t lie, I’ve thought the same exact thing before. In fact, I’ve been that judgmental Christian before. I would judge the crap out of people if they swore or talked about “worldly” things like twerking or drugs. I acted this way because the Bible talks about having a clean mind and just talking about those things isn’t representing the Christ-like image I’m supposed to have as a follower of Jesus Christ. But it also says in the Bible not to judge others which is something that I really stress in my faith now and many Christians seem to forget about. If I’m judging people rather than encouraging them, then we can expect to have some tension up in here. But not all Christians are like this at all, and it’s important for people to realize this. Don’t judge me just because you think I’m going to be judgmental when I say I’m a Christian. Also, yes, I am allowed to have fun even though I’m a Christian. I don’t know why that is even part of the Christian stereotype but for some reason it is. Every Sunday night in the summer, my youth group gets together to play ultimate frisbee and then go over to my youth pastor’s house to swim, eat, play games and just laugh with friends. It feels like a giant party every Sunday night. How is that not fun? Finally, the “Bible thumper” stereotype. Yes, I was responsible for shoving a bunch of Bible
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verses that people didn’t understand down their throats. I didn’t know limits and would overwhelm people with Bible verses that I found helpful to myself. In fact, I wouldn’t even understand half of the Bible verses I forced upon random people. I just expected them to magically become die-hard Christians by reading something that they had no interest, let alone, understanding in. Yeah, I was THAT girl. But I changed, and now understand that throwing Bible verses at people can be discouraging, especially when they suffer from the image of the Bible-thumping Christian. Though I represented each part of this stereotype at one point in my life, I changed because I value the part of Christianity that says to love everyone no matter what far more than trying to force my religion down their throat. Christianity is about love, not about being a perfect person. But this stereotype still haunts me even though it has been seven years since I’ve represented it. I’m so happy to be living the life I live because I am a Christian, and it’s time that people get this negative image of Christians out of their heads. Yes, it’s the Christians like the person I once was that made this stereotype come about in the first place, but it’s people who make these judgments that make it a problem. Stereotyping is the bigger picture here. If people weren’t stereotyping Christians as these funsucking, judgmental Bible-thumpers, or people in general for that matter, then people wouldn’t have so many problems with each other. Honestly, if people didn’t stereotype and had an open mind, then they would meet so many interesting people in the world that would change their life. There’s a bigger problem in society than the actual stereotypes, it’s the people who are doing the stereotyping.
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Judgment is necessary to determine an individual’s character and intentions “Life goes on.”
The first day of school. You walk into class sit down and glance around the room unknowingly dissecting each and every person your eyes befall. In that single glance, you have effortlessly categorized everyone around you into a societal status based on their appearance, mannerisms and behavior. This is an act that our society vigorously frowns upon and yet we continue to perform it day-in day-out. Judgment is a tool that people use to try and bring light to a subject that they knowingly do not understand. Being judgmental is seen as a bad thing because of the way society reacts to it. While in reality, it is the first step in getting to know someone. According to psychologists Susan Fiske of Princeton University and Peter Glick of Lawrence University, a person’s judgment is based off of two criteria. The first is the warmth a person has the ability to portray, showing their friendliness and intentions. Secondly, is competence or, the ability to carry out said intentions. This new ideology in the psychiatric field is slowly transitioning into the standard rubric for analyzing ones judgmental process. This rubric is simply condensing the broad scope of judgment down to its key components. The most basic understanding of judgment is a quick and easy way to assess someone. As humans, we are all about efficiency and through judgment we can determine who we want to in-
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vest our time into. This system works wonders, follow. Action should not be taken lightly. because nine times out of 10, people will at- It is a challenge, and no challenge is ever tempt to portray themselves as who they truly easy. People will attempt to cheat their way are. Although, just like a piece of literature, through them in order to reap the rewards of once it leaves the authors hands, the meaning adversity. This adds an extra variable to the equation of mankind. So what can we believe is lost and is now up to interpretation. Where people go wrong in these assess- if action is corruptible? ments is when they assume that what they Corrupted action appears in front of the see is all that someone has to offer. What’s the eyes of many. A person’s true intentions are saying? You can’t judge a book by its cover. never openly seen, because they are perJust like a team is only as good as its formed in darkness where moral holds power coach, judgment is only as good as its as- over self-image. Trust everyone and believe no one. In all honsessor. Everyday people get hung up on what someone thinks of them, when in reality, what esty, we can never understand the people that that person thinks means nothing. surround us. Especially when their most important characteristics The only person that knows and understands appear when no one is watching. Like a masked your choices is yourThe goals we set for self. You are never govigilantly pursuing being to be able to make liefs behind the mask. ourselves and the barriers All we can do is hope. everyone happy. Decithat we overcome are what Hope that the values that sions should be made to coincide with the wants we hold dear are the truly define us. and needs of the indisame ones instilled upon the people we choose to vidual. The repercussions of those actions associate ourselves with. can be faced down later. The brain will over Everyone will make mistakes with these decithink a situation, so trust your gut and roll sions, but all we can do is gather our pride and with the punches. try again and again and again if we have to. We The goals that we set for ourselves and the are all in search of companions, and the only barriers that we overcome are what truly de- way to find them is through trial and error. The pursuit is what is promised to us. fine us. Overcoming adversity shows character to the utmost degree. People should never While happiness is uncertain and left to the find truth in other’s words, because they hold hands of fate. no weight. When it comes to people, never rule anyTruth is found within our actions. If you one out from the get go. Eyes are deceiving want them to think you’re an athlete, well and cannot perceive anything past the superthen go get a trophy. If you want someone ficial layer that is appearance. The brain is to think you’re good with kids, well then go confusing and will over think every variable coach the little buggers. Action is revealing. creating a convoluted mess of thoughts. Take Action is irrevocable. Action is truth. the risk, and trust your gut. It might just surAlthough, wherever truth exists, lies will prise you.
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September 27, 2013
In a changing school, students demonstrate what construction sites once were
by Jesse Roller Photo Editor
In front of the old orchestra room’s mural in room 116, senior Billy Cross plays his violin. The mural behind him, a remnant of the old orchestra room, will either be torn down or be built over with new walls. The new orchestra room is now located in room 404. Photos by Jesse Roller.
Empty rooms. We pass by these remnants of days past in the hallways of Southport High School. To some, these drab, graconcrete rooms might bring back vivid and nostalgic memories from when these vessels were once occupied. However, to the newer school generation and to those who have never placed a foot in these rooms, they may only see the rooms for what they are now: empty. Although some rooms are becoming history to make way for the future, some of the students of these rooms live on, accomplishing the same tasks as they did before their areas were demolished, just in different places. An example of one of these living, breathing remnants is senior Billy Cross, a violinist in the orchestra. He, like many others before him, rehearsed in room 116 where the old orchestra room was located. Now, Cross rehearses in room 404, the new orchestra room that’s filled with newly installed sound equipment, new floors and practice rooms. This issue’s photo page seeks to capture a glimpse of what rooms like room 116 were used for and what they will be used for in the future. (All photos were taken under the direct supervision of a Southport High School Administrator.)
{williamHOLLINGER} Before: IMC After: The 230 Wing Senior William Hollinger has been a student assistant for librarian Mrs. MJ Jones. But after relocating the IMC to room 267, the old IMC was renovated for new classrooms. This wing will adopt the old IMC’s room number, 230, with classrooms categorized in lettered subgroups of the number 230. In early November, The 230 Wing will be utilized as temporary homes for classes relocating due to future construction. All photos were taken under the direct supervision of a Southport High School Administrator.
{alexDARLAND} Before: Tennis Court After: New Parking Spaces Senior Alex Darland has been playing tennis for seven years and plays for the high school varsity team this season. The tennis court that he is standing on is currently being utilized for trailers and will be demolished for parking lot space. Although Southport will lose three tennis courts, the ten remaining courts have already been repaved.
All photos were taken under the direct supervision of a Southport High School Administrator.
{faithWALTERS} Before: Ceramics Classroom After: Concert Band Room 401 used to be Mr. Bruce Thompson’s ceramics classroom where senior Faith Walters made crafts (displayed on the table while she forms clay). Thompson’s class was relocated to room 212 and room 401 was converted into the new band room. The band room, previously located in room 115, has also gained new sound-proofing, All photos were taken under the direct supervision of a Southport High School Administrator.
audio systems, practice rooms and floors.
{brendaTHOMPSON} Before: Cardinal Corner Bookstore After: Cafeteria Extension The Cardinal Corner Bookstore was located in the area behind the temporary walls in the lunch room. Mrs. Brenda Thompson has worked in the bookstore for two years but was relocated to room 268. Eventually, The Cardinal Corner Bookstore will move to the north side of the school near the main offices, and the Cafeteria Extension will be open for business with ramp access and charging stations.
All photos were taken under the direct supervision of a Southport High School Administrator.