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Halloween at Dorman (p.8) Farmers Day (p.10) Breast Cancer Awareness (p.10) The Science of Fear (p.11)

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At Dorman

Pg. 3 3......................................Homecoming 4......................................Mock Trial

Junior Editors

Profiles

Sarah Biggerstaff

5.....................................Kalista Pedersen Eva Patnoude

Sports Layout Editor

6.....................................Trainers & Swim Joye Smith

Team Sports Editors

7.....................................Nathan Hughes

& Girls Golf Pg. 6 Tylen Fowler Features Cole Kennington

8.....................................Halloween Content Editor

10.....................................Farmer’s Day & Breast Haley Mainville Cancer Awareness

11....................................Science of Fear Photo Editor

Hope Culbreth Entertainment Webmaster

12.....................................Fall Fashion & David Hawkins

Fall Edition Foods

13.....................................History of Horror Staff Writer

Hampton Ford Editorials

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14...................................Colin Kaepernick Visit us at

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Reviews

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16...................................Miss Peregrine Review

The Cavalier welcomes and encourages any and all letters to the editor. All letters are subject to editing for libel, grammar, content, and space. Letters should be signed and brought to Mrs. Gallman in room B105. Some material is courtesy of American Society of Newspaper editors/MCT Campus High School Newspaper Service. Discriminations of all persons is prohibited with regard to the provision of educational opportunities and benefits on the basis of race, color national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability in Spartanburg County School District Six as required by Title IX of the Educational Amendment Act of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended. The following persons have been designated to handle inquiries regarding discrimination policies: Mr. Gregory Cantrell, Title VI, VII, and IX Coordinator, and Dr. Allan Eggert, Director of Special Services, 1390 Cavalier Way, Roebuck, S.C. 29376.

Sarah Biggerstaff junior editor

Photo courtesy of Hadley Ancell Jessie DeGuzman smiles as she is crowned queen at the Homecoming game.

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he annual tradition of voting on a homecoming queen is one that Dorman has kept for years.

Everything from the crowning during the game, to the campaigning throughout the month of homecoming has remained constant.

An important aspect to the preparations of the crowning of Homecoming Queen is getting the students excited about the game and the ceremony.

A themed week of dressing up, a parade of floats made by various clubs at Dorman, and casting votes for Homecoming king and queen are all vital parts to creating spirit for this tradition. After all, a student body who is excited over an event is a student body involved in that event.

Making a big fuss over homecoming isn’t just for the football game, though. Everything that Dorman does to create spirit for the occasion is not only to have a better crowd at the game, but also to have a larger group of voters and student participation.

So what makes Homecoming Queen so important to Dorman? What makes girls want to run for it?

Sally Ott, senior, was a homecoming queen contestant

for this year’s race.

Ott said that being a part of homecoming gave her “a new perspective on Dorman’s dynamic.”

“I got to be around a group of people who I’m not familiar with,” she said. “It has helped me understand how the school operates outside of the things I’m involved with.”

To be on the court, the girls have to have a certain grade point average, and they have to have participated in at least two school clubs or teams. They also must be actively involved in a community service.

Once on the homecoming court, the girls help decorate the school for the upcoming week and also show community support by volunteering at a nursing home.

Maybe this is why Dorman has a homecoming queen every year. Without this tradition, the school may lose part of what makes it united and proud of its student body.

Homecoming week is another part of the high school experience, so get out of your comfort zone, junior girls and go out for the court.

Going in, Ott didn’t expect to win, but she said, “I knew that homecoming would be a great memory.”

Even outside of making memories with other students, homecoming is a good way to create memories with family too.

Contestants are escorted by their fathers and wind up spending a lot of time with them leading up to the crowning ceremony.

“I... loved being with my dad and letting him in on my high school experience” Ott said.

Dorman’s traditions give students a chance to experience high school. Spirit weeks and dress up days are vital to the unity and pride of the student body, and homecoming is no exception.

Students make memories with each other through homecoming both on and off the court.

Homecoming is definitely going to stick around at Dorman High School for another while longer.

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Mock Trial: Intricacies of the courtroom and the law Hope Culbreth photography editor

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Daniel Aull, sophomore

Mock Trial is a good experience, and you get to meet new people.

Maggie May, junior

Mock Trial is interactive and informative.

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orman High School has a new Mock Trial Team.

The South Carolina Bar Association contacted Mr. Vernet about starting a mock trial team; this, plus student interest, helped create the Mock Trial team at Dorman.

Sponsored by Mr. Vernet and Mrs. Revan, Mock Trial is about giving students an opportunity to learn the intricacies of a courtroom and law. Students learn about both sides of a court: the prosecution and the defense.

Mock Trial allows students to compete against other schools with court trial teams, where they run through real-life cases, helping prepare the students for careers in law.

There are different acting positions a student can audition for in the trial: three attorneys, three prosecutors, six witnesses, one bailiff, one timekeeper, two reporters, and two artists.

Three attorneys are coming to speak to the students to help better prepare them for their competitions and possible future careers.

The first competition will be on February 18, 2017, and they will

receive the case file for that trial on October 28th.

Right now, the team is using the middle school case from last year to practice their research skills and become familiar with the intricacies of law. The high school case the team will be receiving on the 28th will either be a civil or criminal case, but they won’t know until they receive it.

This warm up will give the team an idea of what they should expect at the competition. At competitions, there will be a real judge and a real jury made of attorneys; the students will have to act professional and dress to impress as they argue and defend like real-life attorneys.

Students will gain many life and future job skills through mock trial: confidence and public speaking skills will be built, communication skills will be developed, and problem solving skills will be improved.

Mock Trial meets once a week for about forty-five minutes to an hour, and the meetings will become more frequent as February approaches.

Zach Cowan, senior, said that “Mock trial is engaging and challenging.”

Photos taken by Hope Culbreth Students listen to Mrs. Revan discuss ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos.

Pedersen playing her guitar.

Photo by Haley Mainville

Music and Arts and Acting...Oh My! Haley Mainville content editor

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alista Pedersen, junior, is a girl of many talents: singing, playing guitar, swing dancing, drawing, doing theater makeup, set building, and acting.

Singing has always been dear to her. She would run around the house singing as a child. Last year, she sung “Happy”

by Pharrell Williams in Dorman’s talent show. Adding to her voice, she plays guitar. Occasionally, she will perform at friends’ and family members’ parties as well as on Tuesday nights at Roebuck Baptist where she receives lessons as well.

Swing dancing also plays a role in her guitar and singing talents— music links them together. On Monday nights, she and a group of friends go downtown to swing dance.

Performing by singing, dancing, and playing guitar isn’t all she uses her performance skills for; when she was little, Pedersen would occasionally do impressions of cartoon

characters she’d see on television. Also, she was the main character in her fifth grade drama club play, A Rabbit’s Tale, and in her seventh grade year, she auditioned for a main character role in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest as Father Time’s daughter and got it! She would have never thought this would all lead to her theater life years later.

Pedersen contributes so much of her time to the Dorman Theater. She has performed in most of the plays held in the auditorium in recent years: You Can’t Take it With You (Alice), Murder Mystery at the Murder Mystery (Sandy), Into the Woods (the witch), Annie (ensemble), and The Groom has Cold Feet (Darlen). You can definitely expect to see her in future plays as well.

“Kalista is a bright, determined, brilliant visionary that wroks tirelessly to insure her vision of shows or characters to come to life,” said Mrs. Wren, Director of Theater Education.

Confidence is key when performing, but she admits it can certainly be nerve racking. Even so, she quoted, “if you stop getting nervous when you get on stage, get off.”

Continuing that claim Pedersen said, “I live by that, and I work so hard to be my best for me and my theater family. I know for certain that if i’m not nervous, I’m not trying hard enough, and if that’s ever the case, I know to push myself harder.”

Pedersen also has a love and talent for drawing. She has always been able to replicate objects with ease. Realistic drawing is what she prefers. Furthermore, her drawing skills allow her to be capable of doing theater makeup.

“My creativity creates each specific talent I have. If I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t be able to accomplish and better myself in my areas of interest. It’s the reason for my ability to do what I do. I would never be able to say I’ve done it all on my own though because that’s not how life works. I owe it to my theater family. Without them to push me, I wouldn’t be where I am,” Pedersen said.

Pedersen, as many other students at Dorman, uses her talents to be involved at Dorman. Along with these talents, she has decided her majors for college, which are civil engineering (because of her love for construction) and fine arts.

Loving construction and drawing allows her to design and build sets for plays at Dorman. She won second place theatrical design for one of her sets in the SCSTA competition.

All of her talents link together from her performing abilities to her creating abilities, and she certainly uses them to be involved at school. Dorman allows her to express her talents and exercise them which leads to improvement.

“Why would I not focus on one of my talents and better myself at it instead of jumping around from one focus to another? In order to be a well-rounded person instead of flat, I chose to explore all of my interest and continue to.

If I wouldn’t have and do not continue to, I wouldn’t have met amazing people and had amazing experiences and opportunities and continue to do so,” said Pedersen.

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The Effects of Motivated Swimmers Haley Mainville content editor

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orman’s swimming season the atmosphere,” said Danielle Nottley, has ended, and, the motivated freshman. swimmers reached goals they Nottley was 5th in the 100 breaststroke were aiming for. against Boiling Springs and 4th against The girls team was undefeated, beating Gaffney and Byrnes. In addition, she Byrnes, Gaffney, Spartanburg, and Boiling contributed to a medley relay with the Springs. The boys beat Spartanburg, breaststroke.

Byrnes, and Gaffney.

Without motivation, the team wouldn’t The girls team also won the Dreher have been able to win so totally. When Invitational and region. Plus, they came in the swimmers were asked where their second place in the Upstate Invite, Augusta motivation orginates, most mentioned their swim meet. parents, friends, and coaches, of course, but The talent and depth coming from both they all agreed the sport involves plenty of the girls’ and boys’ team allowed them to self motivation as well. finish the season on a good note.

If the swimmers hadn’t worked together Although it was a challenge, the effort as a team, and remembered their scores was well worth affect the team it because the as a whole, love of the the season sport the team wouldn’t have members have. ended so well.

The coaches, Their effort motivation, and hard work and resources, together payed like Converse off. utilities, also “It’s played a definitely a big role in team and an the teams’ individual

Photo taken by Haley Mainville kind of sport. success.

“I love the Artwork by MaKenzie Blaakman, painted with goggles.

We earn our competitive own times, aspect of [swimming] being not only but we, all together, win or lose as a team against other teams but against myself based on combined scores,” said Dylan too, trying to beat my last, best time is a Hayes, senior. challenge, but what’s a sport without one?

Hayes had state consideration times in You get to control how well you do,” said the 200 free, 200 IM, 100 fly, 100 free, Emily Felton, junior. and 500 free. He is the teams’ 3rd leading Felton’s 100 freestyle time was 1:11, male scorer.

50 freestyle was 32 seconds, and 100 “Day in and day out, the girls and guys breaststroke was 1:35. work hard and have the desire to better “Even though some of the guys on our themselves and the team overall,” said team are inexperienced, we have good Coach Bailey, boys and girls swimming coaches, resources, and training to work coach. our way to the top,” said Andy Cockrell, According to Coach Bailey, the teams sophomore. were really on track this season. She can’t Cockrell was a key member of the wait to see what happens next season freestyle relay teams, winning several because she feels they have a bright future events. He also finished third place in the ahead.

50 freestyle and 100 freestyle against “The team definitely has good Byrnes and Gaffney sportsmanship which is a strength of ours,” “The meets are fun; I loved being able said Emily Felton. to meet new friends on the team and

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Photo taken by David Hawkins Coach Frye and Coach Sobeski help Maxton Bates off of the field after an injury.

Behind the Scenes with Trainers Tylen Fowler sports editor

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ports at Dorman are important factors of a successful school atmosphere.

But what if a player is injured or is trying to recover from an injury?

That’s what Dorman’s athletic trainers prepare for.

To be a trainer, a student must graduate with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited professional athletic training education program and also pass a comprehensive test.

Dorman trainers are the best in the business. They’re capable of easing pains and effects from injuries.

Sarah Frye, Michael Sobeski, and Sheila Romano are the main trainers you’ll run into when something happens.

There are also student trainers and others learning the profession who help out because it’s not easy to work on multiple games in one day.

Trainers collaborate with physicians to provide care and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.

The training room is a loving environment, and everything seems to run smoothly. The trainers are basically the parents of sport players here.

Safety is a priority when it comes to Coach Frye’s athletes.

Head trainer, Coach Frye, said, “I try to make this a loving and caring environment, so people can be comfortable and motivated to getting healthy again.”

GIRLS GOLF REBUILDS FOR SUCCESSFUL SEASON Joye Smith design editor

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olf is a unique sport for the girls to play at Dorman.

Our school provides excellent training, facilities, and coaching.

Last year, Dorman won the AAAA girls golf Championship at the Country Club of Lexington. Most of the varsity team was composed of seniors, but this year’s team has done well despite losing half of the team because of last year’s graduation.

Senior Juliet Maroni has been playing on the girls golf team since seventh grade and continues to play because she enjoys growing with the team and seeing what the team can do throughout the season.

“We are a lot smaller than most teams, but we have just as much spirit and drive as other teams,” said Maroni.

Junior Sarah Deaton says she enjoys playing golf for Dorman because of getting to be on the course every day with her fellow teammates and having a special bond through the sport.

“You should continue to play [golf] no matter your age, it’s an enjoyable sport, Deaton said.

Sophomore Caroline Turner says the team is doing great this year and, in Upper State, the team was in the top eight.

Through playing golf, the girls get to make new friends, memories, and have fun.

This year the girls were eighth in the AAAA girls golf championship in Lexington, South Carolina.

Photos courtesy of Ed Overstreet Dorman girls golf match against Spartan High.

Senior Nathan Hughes Begins Exciting Dance Career Tylen Fowler sports editor

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he staff here at Dorman encourage our students to follow their passions and strive to do their best.

We have students interested in everything from STEM fields to Fine Arts. One student, Nathan Hughes, has taken that encouragement and used his talents beyond the hallways of Dorman.

Hughes, a senior, started a dance group called the “Galactic Creations” back in 2008, which is now known as “FroBroz.” It began as a large group but is now just him and his brother. He describes their style as versatile and 80s influenced.

Despite being a senior, he is busy touring, so he is currently taking classes online.

Hughes says that these online classes are not easy because “you have to teach yourself” rather than having teachers to help you learn.

He will graduate on December 4th.

Promotion for FroBroz.

His current tour began on May 23, 2016, and after that tour, Hughes will be going on an international tour which will take him and his brother to places like Mexico, Asia, and Badu.

Many people would think touring would be a fun adventure, but Hughes says that he gets little sleep while touring.

“I get an average of 4-5 hours of sleep especially since I tour in a bus or car. It’s not cheap and not easy,” Hughes said.

He is currently touring in a 45 foot land yacht.

For other students at Dorman interested in dance, Nathan Hughes offered some advice. He recommends that you build up your fan base, create videos of yourself dancing, and remain conditioned.

Hughes’ will be opening for R&B artist, Keyshia Cole, on December 17th in Oakland.

Photos courtesy of Nathan Hughes

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Halloween in Spartanburg

alloween has come and gone, but now what will you do and what will you wear for the next spooky season?

According to the History channel, Halloween dates back to an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain. The Celts celebrated their New Year on the first of November, so October 31st marked the end of their year.

More than 2,000 years later, Halloween is a fun night of scares and trick-or-treating for people of all ages to enjoy. Everyone either knows someone who takes Halloween to the extreme or they are that person.

There are many aspects to this holiday that often infatuate people, which not only contributes to its popularity, but also gives those who want to celebrate Halloween a great deal of options to choose from. This area of South Carolina offers different options from haunted houses and trails to trick-or-treating hot spots.

Photo courtesy of Claire Younger A group of students visited Wompus Woods located in Cowpens.

Photo Courtesy of Mackenzie Brand Scarowinds is only an hour and a half out of the state.

Haunteed houses and trails: • Wompus Woods • Nightmare Hollow • MADWORLD • Field of Screams If none of these sound appealing or extreme enough, there are some other great places to go outside of Spartanburg, and the good news is... none of them will be too far of a drive!

Maybe going out doesn’t sound fun; there are still great ways to celebrate without even stepping foot outside. Some TV channels have horror movie marathons on Halloween. Some start airing classics a week or two before the 31st. If you live in an area where trick-or-treating is common, you can still dress up to pass out candy and make the kids who stop by very happy.

Photo by insidefreeform.com Freeform’s annual13 Nights of Halloween plays different Halloween-based movies

13 Nights of Halloween includes: ~Hocus Pocus~ ~The Adamms Family~ ~Corpse Bride~ ~Matilda~

2,000 years ago

The Celts celebrate their new year on October 31st, calling it Samhain.

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Photo By nerdist.com Syfy channel’s 31 Days of Halloween.

31 Days of Halloween includes: ~Halloween~ ~Friday the 13th~ ~Frankenstein~ ~The Twilight Zone~

43 A.D.

Photo by iHorror.com AMC’s annual Fear Fest features classic horror.

Fear Fest includes: ~Carrie~ ~The Mummy~ ~A Nightmare on Elm St.~ ~The Walking Dead~

The Roman Empire conqure the Celtic territories and they adopt the holiday.

1000 A.D.

The Catholic Church declares November 2 as a day to honor the dead.

the “Ins” and the “Outs” Sarah Biggerstaff junior editor Money could be an object on Halloween, and costumes can get pricey, but don’t let cost rule out dressing up. There are plenty of cheap ways to make a costume. Combining what you already own and maybe buying a few accessories can be just as great as going out to a store and buying an entire costume.

What costumes did students say would be popular this year?

• Clowns • Hillary Cliintonn • Donald Trump • Suicide Squad Characters (especially Harley Quinn) • Pokemon • Star Wars the Force Awakens characters Photo courtesy of Aleena Calicutt (especally Ray and Pictured left to right: Kenzie Manus and Aleena Calicutt on Halloween.

Finn) Some students were very creative this year with their costumes:

Photo courtesy of Nathan Hulsey Ben Weaver and Nathan Hulsey.

Photo courtesy of Amira Kapasi Amira Kapasi and Anna Seebeck.

Nathan Hulsey and Ben Weaver dressed as Shrek and Puss in Boots from the movie Shrek.

Amira Kapasi dressed as an angel this Halloween, and Anna Seebeck dressed as death’s bride.

Fruit proved to be a popular costume option this past year (as demonstrated by Eva Grace White and Cameron Davis who went as a Photo courtesy of Eva strawberry and grapes).

Grace White White Eva Grace White and Cameron Davis.

Maybe you didn’t get to do as much as you had hoped this past Halloween. Hopefully, this article can help you and your friends make plans for next year. No matter how you celebrate it, Halloween can be an awesome night for any age group, but BE SAFE. Make sure that any pranks you pull are respectful, legal, and don’t harm those being tricked or their property.

Above all, be careful walking around neighborhoods with dimly lit roads. Don’t cross the street without looking first, and stay with a group at all times.

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The Irish potato famine. Immigrants go door to door asking for food or money. Americans begin copying this behavior.

Late 1800’s

America began to mold this, calling it “trick-or-treating” and turn it into a community holiday.

1950’s

Halloween became focused towards children and made more secular. (what it’s like today)

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Understanding Breast Cancer

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ctober is a month where all the survivors, fighters, and family can acknowledge the incredible strength it takes to beat or survive breast cancer. These individuals deserve to be remembered, celebrated, and recognized.

Q: Breast cancer is a prominent disease in today’s society. When and where did it originate?

A: The first cases of breast cancer date back between 3,000 and 2,500 BC in ancient Egypt.

Physicians of this time declared cases of the disease incurable if patients’ chest were, “‘cold to [the] touch, bulging, and [the cancer had] spread all over the breast,’” according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Q: How many cases of breast cancer occur each year in the United States? How many of these cases lead to death?

A: Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women.

Over 240,000 women are diagnosed with it in the United States each year, and about 40,000 of them die each year.

Q: Which states have the most cases and the least cases?

How many cases does South Carolina have?

A: Washington D.C., Massachusetts, and Connecticut have the highest rates of breast cancer incidents. South Carolina falls in the middle with an estimated rate of about 125 women out of 100,000 who get invasive breast cancer according to Susan G. Komen, a sponsor to breast cancer awareness.

Arkansas has the least amount of cases with about 108 out of 100,000.

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Cole Kennington sports editor and Hope Culbreth photography editor

Talk Farmin’ to Me Eva Patnoude junior editor

Q: What is the cause of breast cancer?

A: No one is positive of the exact cause; however, there are certain attributes that make it more likely for women to get breast cancer.

Q: Are there precautionary measures you can take to prevent it? Or things that you cannot avoid that might lead to breast cancer?

A: Some risk factors are genetic and others are environmental. Genetic traits include gender, race, age, personal and familial health history. Environmental factors include poor diet, lack of physical activity, obesity, alcohol consumption, and radiation to the chest. Genetic traits are unchangeable and unavoidable; however, environmental factors can be avoided and changed.

Q: What is the key to diagnosing breast cancer?

A: The key is early detection because women can check for symptoms and signs on their own: changes in feeling and appearance.

Q: If these signs are discovered, does it mean that someone will definitely get breast cancer?

A: No it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is breast cancer, but there is a possibility, so it is important to check with a doctor.

Photo taken by David Hawkins Breast cancer ribbon on the football field at Farmer’s Day game.

Students pose in their farming attire Photo by Eva Patnoude

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armers’ Week is by far the most celebrated event at Dorman high school. Nothing gets Cavaliers pumped up quite like mudding and overalls, and every year students clear the racks of every local store free from camo and denim.

Rumor has it that the tradition started around decades ago, when Spartan high students dressed up as farmers to mock DHS , which was at that time a much less diverse school with much more rural student body, at the annual rivalry football game.

Ever proud, Dorman kids came back in full farming attire the next year, and have continued to do so every fall since.

Popular Farmers’ Week activities include wearing things like straw hats, overalls, cowboy/girl boots, and plaid flannels, driving four wheelers and trucks through mud pits, and driving tractors to school.

The school hosts agriculture-themed contest, such as watermelon seed spitting and pie-eating. On Farmers’ Day, the friday of Farmer’s Week, livestock are brought to the school for petting, and a hayride is available.

The whole week is an opportunity to dress up extra country, but specific daily themes are added onto the costumes. This year, students were asked to wear patriotic costumes on Monday, camouflage on Tuesday, Frat attire on Wednesday, and Hawaiian clothes Thursday.

The week caps off with the Friday night foorball game against Spartan High. This year, the game was played at Dorman’s feild, making the game more convienient for Cavaliers to attend and giving our players the homefeild advantage. However, afterkeeping the score close through the first half, Spartan high pulled ahead in the last two quarters, winning 41-21.

Regardless of the turnout of the game, Dorman students thoroughly enjoy the Famer’s Week tradition. Andrew Krawczyk, junior, an avid fan, says that though he loves Farmer’s Week, “Its a tradition that the school should focus more on. In previous years, the school went hard on Farmer’s Week and had huge activities and celebration. This year, the student body seems to be much less excited. We need to bring back the Farmer’s Day spirit.”

The Science of Fear

Hampton Ford staff writer

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any people share common fears such as spiders, Fortunately, fear is typically short-lived and will dissipate clowns, snakes, vampires, heights, darkness, and as quickly as it began. Strangely, certain people don’t exhibit blood. typical signs of fear and remain completely serene even in Furthermore, there are phobias that span across cultures stressful situations. It is possible for a disease to destroyed such as fear of spiders, thunderstorms, and insects. both sides of one’s amygdala, which is composed of two Halloween is the structures the shape perfect time to explore and size of almonds, the fears and phobias one on each side of the found in almost everyone brain. Because of this throughout society. brain damage one can be Throughout time, chemically unable to feel fear has inspired ancient fear. monsters like Medusa Certain stimuli are and mummies to more more likely than others to contemporary evils like cause paralyzing fear. For Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein example a child’s shriek, or clowns. The question a baby’s cry, and loud, raised is: what causes high pitched noises tend fear, and why is fear so to evoke the primal beast paralyzing? within. Even music notes, According to a study such as the tritone, have from Harvard Medical long been avoided for their School, fear is controlled supposedly eerie tone. by a part of the brain Evolutionary biologist called the amygdala. Active Daniel Blumstein believes primordial emotions can the sounds are perceived cause many chemicals as scary because of a to be released such as “nonlinear chaotic noise.” epinephrine, cortisol, and Researchers theorize that glutamate. such sounds are scary Glutamate controls because they resemble the speed of neural a baby’s cry for help. impulses in between Movie makers have long brain synapsis, and when taken advantage of this something triggers you, phenomenon, even before your body increases the the affect was named. manufacturing and release Suspense, horror, and of these chemicals. terror genres are especially These substances are likely to employee this responsible for that gutPhoto from pixabay.com method for their own sinking, shaky feeling one Boris Karloff as Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. sinister uses. gets and leads to the fight, Environment is also flight, or freeze instinctual response most people have. important in determining what makes something scary. Fear can be imprinted, or learned, through conditioning. In effect, this means people and animals associate stimuli with certain negative or positive experiences and feelings. This is true for 17% - Clowns 9% - Darkness sound but also all the other senses. Memories with previously negative connections can be improved by associating positive 9% - Snakes 4% - Family Loss events with it. However, the negative memory will not be 9% - Heights 9% - Death entirely erased but instead mediated the original. Positive memories can be affected in the opposite way.

25% - Spiders 4% - Lions

WHAT DORMAN FEARS

9% - Bugs

A poll from 24 members of the student body.

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Pumpkin-Spice Everything

Eva Patnoude junior editor

Since the introduction of the Pumpkin Spice Latte thirteen years ago, the flavors of fall have become a seasonal American addiction. While Starbucks certainly leads the charge on nutmeg and cinnamon, a multitude of restaurants and brands have jumped on board. Some of the better known include Dunkin’ Donuts, Kraft, and Pillsbury.

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f you’re looking to really get into the fall mood, Kraft recently Make your own released Pumpkin Spice flavored Jet-Puffed marshmallows PSL: that will really up the ante on your s’mores. They may be more difficult to find in stores, but the payoff of searching for them or Combine over a ordering online will hopefully be well worth the effort. stovetop, stirring “Those could really amp up a bonfire,” said junior Andrew Krawczyk.

Pillsbury (the dough-boy brand) brings out occasionally, until themed cookies for every holiday, and the heated through: Halloween designs are particularly popular.

2 cups of milk These ready-to-bake cookies come in circle 1 cup of coffee shapes with either ghosts or jack-o’-lanterns 2 tablespoons of depicted in food dye, or in plain sugar cookie vanilla extract form, shaped as pumpkins.

4 teaspoons of Junior Emily Poole can “eat them by the box.” The cookies can be bought at most grocery Photo from pillsbury.com Photo from amazon.com table sugar stores, such as Walmart or Ingles.

1/2 teaspoon of Starbucks doesn’t only sell autumnpumpkin pie spice themed coffees, such as the infamous or cinnamon spice PSL, Salted Caramel Mocha, and the 2 spoonfuls of new Chile Mocha. Also on the menu are Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin, Pumpkin pumpkin puree Scone, and the Caramelized Apple Pound Top with whipped Cake. These flavors became available on cream!

September 6th and will be available for Photo from starbucks.com Photo from dunkindonuts.com the rest of the fall months.

Senior Emily Arena said, “A [Starbucks] Pumpkin Spice Latte is my favorite drink in the fall.”

Dunkin Donuts has also made a name for itself in the festivities, with treats such as Reese’s Peanut Butter Squares, Pumpkin Muffins, Pumpkin Donuts, and Pumpkin Munchkin Donut Holes. Though it’s not quite as popular as the Starbucks version, DD offers a similar Salted Caramel drink, which is made with hot chocolate as a base rather than coffee.

Fall Trends

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Joye Smith design editor

ashion changes throughout the seasons just like they do over time. Since fall just began and temperatures are dropping, sweater weather is approaching. Each year new trades are created and old trends fade out.

So far, in 2016, open toed booties, lace-up tops, turtleneck sweaters, and belle trimmed sleeves are popular trends. Patagonias, blanket scarves, Bean Boots, and white converse are returning for this fall.

According to Seventeen, wide-brim hats are a big thing this year. Girls are wearing these hats to complete an outfit or to dress an outfit up.

Cosmopolitan magazine says that 2016 fall fashion includes leggings, suede shoes, and trench coats.

The leggings and suede shoes have been especially popular at Dorman this year. The suede shoes can be with or without a heel.

Junior Dylan Slemons said Sperrys and Crocs are making a comeback this year. These items have been worn by girls and boys so with a dressy outfit or a dressed down one.

Junior Alexis Puckett said Duck boots, Southern shirts, and Clark Wallabees are popular this fall, but Uggs will not be a fashion trend for 2016.

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Haunted History of Halloween

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Joye Smith design editor

alloween has as unique a history as any holiday.

Haunted houses became a new scary popular outing According to the History Channel, the holiday around Halloween. According to Americahaunts, Egyptians was originally known as Samhain, celebrated on would have different obstacles like moving walls and self November 1st by the Celts. opening doors to protect dead royalty.

This was the end of the bright, hot summer and the In the dark ages, the Celts would act out scarier beginning of the cold, dark winter. The Celts also believed parts of Bible stories. During the Renaissance, creatures that on the night of October 31st, worlds between the such as demons, ghosts, and other creatures. William living and dead became blurred, and that the ghosts of the Shakespeare’s plays included some of these new scary dead returned to earth. creatures.

They would have huge bonfires for sacrifices and wear In the early 1900s, they would tell kids the old homes costumes which were typically made of various animal, from the 1800s were haunted with specific, scary ghosts. pelts, and would provide warmth for the upcoming winter.

In 1969, the first Haunted Mansion was opened. Then, Because the Roman Empire conquered the Celts, two in the 1980s, haunted houses grew more popular and Roman celebrations were combined with Samhain. The continue to grow in popularity today. first one was Feralia, which is a time when the Romans In the 1980s, scary movies became much more popular. showed respect to the dead, According to Filmmaker IQ, it all and the second was when they started in the 1700s gothic horror. honored the goddess of fruit.

The stories took place in medieval From this, the tradition of bobbing buildings and where situations like for apples was created. being in a dark, old castle during a Eventually, All Saints Day was storm. included in the celebrations that In the 1930s, there were a already existed. This was a day variety of silent horror films. The when Christians celebrated saints, Germans created The Cabinet of Dr. which turned into All-Hallows Caligari and others. on November 1st. All-Hallows As more technology came along, Eve was the night before that on so did more movies. One of the October 31st. first hits which is still well known In the nineteenth century, today, was Dracula. Frankenstein, immigrants began arriving Mummy, and Invisible Man were in America and brought their popular as well. traditions with them. People soon Senior Anan Zattam’s favorite started dressing up and asking for scary movies are the Insidious food and money on All-Hallows series.

Eve. He said, “I like the movies In the 1800s, communities Photo from flickr.com because they are actually scary, would have adult and kid friendly Vintage photo of kids dressed in costumes for intense, and you don’t know what’s parties where they would dress up, Halloween. coming next.” eat, and play games. They tried to take away scary aspect The advancements in movie making made more and out of the holiday. more horror films possible. People soon enjoyed watching Starting in the 1950s, Halloween became a holiday horror films for Halloween to fit the mood of the holiday. focused on children. The kids would dress up in costumes Those movies, including many others have been apart and go trick-or-treating. They would have parties in of many children’s lives since the 90s. Today, kids and classrooms and at each others houses to celebrate the teens enjoy watching Twitches, Halloweentown, and Hocus holiday. This is similar to how we celebrate Halloween Pocus allowing them to get into the mood of the holiday today. just as adults do with their horror movies.

The holiday has become much scarier over the years.

Junior Emma Moore enjoys watching Hocus Pocus at Most people are scared to cross paths with a black cat Halloween time rather than scary movies. because it is believed they bring bad luck. The suspicion She said, “It isn’t extremely serious or scary. It allows originated in the middle ages when it was believed witches Halloween to be a fun holiday.” could turn into cats.

The history of Halloween, haunted houses, and horror Superstitions such as seeing a black cat, breaking movies all play a major part throughout this time of year. mirrors, stepping on cracks, and spilling salt are all to be The traditions that have been created over the years will avoided around Halloween more than any other time of be carried on and evolved for years to come. year.

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Senior Kienen Holmes uses an iPhone 7.

Photo by Hope Culbreth

Apple iPhone 7 and iOS 10 Get Sleek, Bold New Look staff writer

The phone will come in memory larger memory sizes than older phones with up to 256GB. Upgrading storages costs one hundred dollars per storage upgrade, so per gigabyte the price drops as storage increases.

As with most new iPhone releases, a new iOS (iPhone Operating System) was released as well.

Although a beta version was released before Hampton Ford the iPhone 7 came out, its adoption was not widespread before the phone’s release. The new iOS features some handy features to improve the user’s experience.

For those with restricted data plans, images can be set to load as a lower quality under Open Settings > Messages > Scroll to bottom > Enable Low Quality Image Mode. It’s unclear how scaled down the images are exactly.

Ever been unable to remember where you parked? IphoneHacks.com says you can never have that problem again as your iPhone will automatically mark where you parked using Apple’s Maps app, if you have a car with a built-in bluetooth chip.

You can also share information on Notes, kind of like Google documents, so multiple people can change it in real-time.

With iMessage, one can now send a theme with a text and add effects to the words. In addition one can send a hand-written text. There is also invisible ink on sent pictures which lets one tap on a “hidden” picture, and then it reveals the picture.

Even notifications have seen a some new features. If one picks up their phone, then the Picture By Joe Rossignol home screen immediately come on with all iPhone 7 mockup with a traditional home button notifications. fter a long wait, the iPhone 7 was finally released on Google Maps now lets one make reservations and even September 7, 2016 and was so popular there was a suggests places near or along the route. Siri has also seen backlog time of nearly a month at many stores. some major improvements from the update. The assistant Dedicated iPhone user, Zach Urban, expresses many other can now open apps with voice commands, and if turn-by-tun people’s sentiments about the phone exclaiming, “The iPhone is enabled in Maps, one can ask Siri for nearby places of a seven is a very good phone because it’s lightweight and fast!” certain venue such as coffee shops or fast food. This includes The iPhone 7 has a brighter display than any of its more than just food with booking available with a tap. predecessors. The twelve mega pixel camera also has a higher Although still young, Apple has extensions on Maps to let light sensitivity which means it will take better pictures a users make reservations and choose routes directly from in lower lighting. It is also more water resistant than any the app. The potential there is expected to grow rapidly as previous release. developers release new extensions. Already certain services The home button now uses a pressure engine which means such as Uber are available in Maps. that less people will have to use assistive touch from their The new operating system is thus far the fastest home button breaking, a common problem with previous downloaded IOS ever released, although it probably helps that versions. For those who have an older phone updated to IOS the new phone comes with it.

10, they can turn back on the home button under settings.

Sadly, IOS 10 is not always perfect. The beta versions were Many people are angry that new iPhone does not have full of errors and even stable versions still have occasional a headphone jack, but instead it will pair with wireless issues, especially with older devices and compatibility issues. headphones using bluetooth. For backwards compatibility, These issues typically involve the actual update process but wired headphones can still be used with an adapter that can affect the whole phone or just specific apps. Some users comes with the phone. The adapter will, however, share a find the messaging app crashes, texts don’t send, or iMessage spot with the charging port so one cannot listen to music with is stuck on the activation screen. older headphones and charge the phone at the same time.

For the variety of issues updating can cause, few users According to Apple’s website, it has the appearance of two actually experience any of the problems and solutions to most speakers, but the iPhone really only has one functional one. of them are readily available from Apple or online resources.

The phone will have approximately two more hours of battery life than the 6s.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Review

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n a world full of teen novel adaptations, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children brings something new to the table.

The book is the dark and adventurous story of Jacob Portman, a teenager that must deal with the loss of his grandfather. Loss is something we all deal with in different ways so Jacob’s struggle is very relatable.

The story takes a bizarre turn that leads to Jacob facing special powers, monsters, and time travel. It is very much a coming of age story which begins with Jacob facing disbelief and leads to him realizing that the impossible is indeed possible.

Going into the movie, I wasn’t sure how this would translate from page to screen. This movie is directed by Tim Burton, a director known for ‘peculiar’ stories such as a skeleton taking Santa Claus’ job and a corpse bride falling in love with a living man. Tim Burton delivers a witty, imaginative, and family friendly movie for the Halloween season.

In terms of visuals, this movie knocks it out of the park.

There are some times in the movie where the plot isn’t the strongest, but the visuals truly keep you entertained.

Ian Martin, a freshman, found the twins to be ‘creepy and unsettling’.

The twins are in strange, matching outfits, and instead of talking they only make strange noises. Enoch, a boy able to use hearts to bring dead and inanimate objects to life, and Miss Peregrine herself, a woman who can both transform into a bird and time travel are just as strange.

Asa Butterfield plays Jacob Portman, who is known for other films like Ender’s Game and The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. Jacob Portman isn’t the most captivating character by any means but he is a good ticket to a peculiar world. He is a boy who stopped believing in his grandpa’s stories but has now been pulled into that world.

Eva Greene plays Miss Peregrine, who is known for television shows like Penny Dreadful and Camelot. She does a great job and I wish she had been given more screen time.

Her character is interesting but it felt as if there were scenes with her that were cut. It feels like the book gives her more of a central role than this movie gives her screen time. That may be due to the fact that the film develops relationships between the children more than the book did.

The villain is an odd casting choice... Samuel L. Jackson.

This Hollywood heavy hitter does a decent job but there are times he comes off as cheesy, and it negatively affects the overall tone of the film.

He seems to be a cartoon character rather than the dark villain of the novel. I wish they wouldn’t have watered him down so much for the movie.

Overall this film is very enjoyable and should entertain both those who read the book and those who haven’t. If you’re very picky and don’t enjoy changing the source material, this movie may not be for you.

Photo by David Hawkins The book cover and movie poster in the DHS library.

Asa Butterfield, the star of the movie.

Photo from Wikipedia

“We cling to our fairytales until the price for believing them comes too high.” ~Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children