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inside... Should schools teach safe-sex education?
Story p. 4
Explore individual interests through independent study Story p. 10
Find out where to get the most for your dollar in Wilmington Story p. 8-9
Wrestling team establishes dominance in FAVC Story p. 12
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news......................2 opinions................4 features.................7 the eye..................8 sports....................11 entertainment.....14
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Big time charity visits small town Four truckneed no longer exists,” Heeg said. loads of food, Though delivering truckloads of amemedicine and nities may appear to be short-term relief, clothing were one of Feed the Children’s goals is “to delivered to Sughelp families in need move past needing artree Ministries, help and into becoming self-sufficient located on 180 members of their community.” East Main St., on Jaehnig commented on both the short Thursday, Feb. term and long terms sides of the situa19. tion. “Each pack“There isn’t a quick fix. It’s not like age will feed a six months down the road, or even a family of four year down the road, that we’re going to for an entire have things completely solved,” Jaehnig week. The prisaid. “They have committed to helping mary trucks have us until Our Father’s Kitchen picks up these boxes of the phone and says, ‘you know what, non perishable it’s three years later, we have more food items that will than we know what to do with, take our feed a family of help, and give it to another community. four for a week. We’re doing very well, thanks for getting The secondary us here’.” trucks will have As a community that is used to personal items... helping each other, Jaehnig feels that shampoo, toilet receiving help from a resource outside paper, toothpaste, of the community is something new for things like that,” Wilmington. Wilmington “To be honest [we] are used to helping Councilman Rob each other. It’s something new for us to Jaehnig said. actually ask for and receive help from an When will outsider,” Jaehnig said. “This time it’s Feed the Chilcoming through in a very big way, and I dren make more think everyone feels that they want to be deliveries? When a part of it, but they also want to make WHS students Michael Ellis, Taylor Jaehnig, Jessica Fields, photo/karlee blanchardWilmington needs sure that Feed the Children understands Mike Zurface, Cody Shaver, and Andrew Ellinger help it, according to Jaehnig. that we understand what a commitment distribute boxes for Feed the Children. “If Our Father’s Kitchen is this is and we will be good stewards of going through food faster than their generosity.” Katie Swindler they can bring it in, all they have to do is news editor pick up the phone and call Feed the ChilIn response to the 60 Minutes segment dren, and they’ll send a semi their way featuring the plight of Wilmington after with extra food,” Jaehnig said. This process will continue until “the the DHL layoffs, the Feed the Children organization has added Wilmington to their delivery route. Feed the Children, a Christian, nonprofit organization, delivers necessities to families in need. Though their headquarters are in Oklahoma City, they deliver worldwide. “Feed The Children’s international programs focus on providing food, medical assistance, emergency relief, and creating sustainable development,” the official Feed the Children website, feedthechildren.org said. “Last year, Feed the Children shipped 135 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and in 32 foreign countries, supplementing almost 800,000 meals a day worldwide.” Why is Feed the Children coming to Wilmington? “Feed the Children saw the 60 minutes special on Wilmington-DHL and wanted to get involved,” Eric Heeg, Ag teacher and FFA adviser said. “They’re also using this event as a big PR-media blitz and will record video footage and conduct interviews with families to use for commercials. The footphoto/chas wiederhold age will also be used to recruit corporate The line of people in need stretched around the block on Feb. 19 as four donations.” semi trucks filled with food delivered to Wilmington.
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Economy tests small businesses
Karlee Blanchard
Small businesses, facing this new economy, encounter closures, adjustments and new hopes for their entreprenuership.
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Small busitoo much time. nesses, defined as They have been businesses with struggling with 500 employees or finding both a less by the govlocation, and ernment, have becoming up with gun to struggle all the money to across the county invest in makdue to the longest ing the shop a economic recessmall sit-down sion in a quarter café. century. The un“We would employment rate have loved declining everyto have been day has reached able to do this the highest it has [sit down café], been in 16 years but we are just while banks are getting started more careful about as new busiphoto/karlee blanchard loaning money, Pictured above is Brenz Salon, which closed it’s doors in January. ness owners and particularly to aswe have already piring new busiinvested what we can finanness owners. The results and proof of The closing of small businesses cially,” Garrison said. “In order to struggling small businesses are spread has a large impact on the community be able to do this - we would either all corners of Wilmington. around it. Those who still have jobs need to find a business partner or an The situation with DHL and the are more likely to cut back on spend- outside investor, which is not likely in economic down slide that has come ing with fear that they too will lose today’s economy.” with the situation, many businesses their job. The business location has been an have had to redefine their hours, costs While some new businesses have issue as well. Other obstacles that and number of employees. Some found locations to open shops, such have come in the way of opening a small businesses have closed recently. as the Cassano’s opening up in the new small business is the lack of expeBrenz Day Spa closed its doors re- former David Adair building. Starting rience with doing such a large project. cently, followed by Daylight Donuts new businesses, particularly in an area They have learned now that there are and most recently the alternative going through an economic downfall, easier ways to handle things. music store, Wilmingtoons located is difficult. “Though it has been a good learndowntown. The current economy not The process of opening a small ing experience for us, we spent a lot only closes businesses, but also stalls business, at this time, has been dif- of time ‘hurrying up and waiting’ only new openings. ficult for aspiring franchisers, or busi- to find out that we needed to do someProblems that have caused many ness owners. thing else first,” Garrison said. businesses across the country similar Aspiring small business owners With the economy the way it is, to the ones closed here in Wilmington. Anita and Garrison have been try- the Garrisons are stalling opening the Financing for the businesses is hard ing to open a double-drive-through new business. to come by, layoffs are looming over coffee shop. The drive through will “As we would still love to move owners’ heads, and profit is falling or help those who are busy to get the forward with this dream of ours - we disappearing altogether. coffee drink they want, without taking feel that it wouldn’t be a sound finan-
cial decision at this time,” Garrison said. There are many people who are affected by business loss, and who may have business loss in the near future. It’s not just communities facing struggles, local businesses are pinching pennies also.
Closed doors and an photo/karlee blanchard empty building.
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Neil Vance staff writer
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Shown above are the items each box given to families contained. Below is one of the eleven Feed the Children trucks that made it’s first delivery in mid February. photo/ashleigh achor
Recently Wilmington High School Senor’s took the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to determine future education in high schools. Wilmington High School was one of the randomly selected high schools in the nation to take the NAEP test. The test is mainly looking to see what high school students have learned so far and what they still need to be taught. “We were selected by the NAEP group, who tests high school students throughout the country,” Guidance Counselor Linda Graham said. Three different tests were given to the students and were unknown to them until they arrived at the testing site. “Our students were given math, science, or reading tests. None of them knew which test they were going to get when they sat down to take it,” Graham said. The NAEP test, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, is viewed as the nation’s report card for its education. “It is the only measure of student achievement in the United States
where you can compare the performance of students in your state with the performance of students across the nation or in other states,” the official NAEP website, http://nces. ed.gov said. “They’re [NAEP] looking to see what high school students know and they are developing and trying to work on a national curriculum of what kids who are leaving high school should know,” Graham said. “They’re going to take the results and score them, we will never know how our students scored, no individual names will ever be used.” Although students and staff members may never know how they did on these tests, the result could be seen in changes in high school education systems. To create an incentive to score well on the test, Jeff Fryman, Wilmington High School Principal, threw in prom tickets, yearbooks, and restaurant coupons to raffle off to those taking the test. “There are rewards for effort while you were in the testing area so that we didn’t have someone coming in for nothing,” Graham said.
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The controversy stirs as students re-evaluate the education regarding contraceptives
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staff writer Some would say that the Wilmington City School’s Sex Ed Policy is outdated. They’d be right if it weren’t for the fact it’s only been in place for a little over a year. According to the staff and administration, in the 2007-2008 semesters, the system decided to change from the teaching mostly safe sex, to teaching no sex at all. They started using the A word… Abstinence. Teaching abstinence is as ineffective as it is contradictory to law, the law in question being the separation of church and state. It was religion that originally said not to have sex before marriage, and now the schools have picked up on that act too. One of the big theories circulating around parents is that safe sex classes are passively teaching teens how to have sex and that is simply preposterous. Though it isn’t all teens, seven out of ten teens admit to having sex by the time they reach nineteen, and people
need to understand that the abstinence course isn’t doing much to protect the ones who decide to get it on. The class as it stands, with A-bombs and all, is almost flat out frightening. It’s like they’re trying to scare teens away from sex completely with all the gory details on STDs and pregnancy. That part is good; it’s informing the masses of everything and anything they don’t want to know but should be aware of what is out there lurking. The bad part about the abstinence course is in the video about STDs, the chapter that explained condoms, their use, and how they can protect you has been fast-forwarded over to get to the chapter that says abstinence is the best way to prevent pregnancies and STDs. If the school is going to teach the class and make you watch the scary video, they should at least cover every manner of STD and pregnancy prevention available, not just abstinence. Is it a good idea to pass out condoms in class? No, probably not, but it is a good idea to inform the class that using a condom can prevent pregnancy 98% of the time, and that such a thing as a female condom exists. There are hundreds of different types of prevention from condoms made to kill sperm the moment it touches the latex, to “The Morning-After Pill” (Plan B ®), which (according to it’s official site:go2planb.com) prevents pregnancy.
“One of the big theories circulating around parents is that safe sex classes are passivly teaching teens how to have sex and that is preposterous. ” kate hilliard staff writer
One of the abstinence slogans is that love waits. What America needs to realize is that teenagers have their own definition of love, and some think that love shouldn’t have to.
Karlee Blanchard opinions editor
Over the last 15 years, teen pregnancy and birth rates have declined over the years. Yet we are still the country with the highest teen birth rate, and have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases/infections. It has been an issue for some time, whether or not schools should teach Abstinence-Only sex education, or if Safe sex education including health benefits of condoms and offering birth control options.
“America tries to be the best at everything, and it is quite embarrassing to see the highest number of teen pregnancies.”
karlee blanchard opinions editor
There are many arguments against both of these programs. In 1996 the Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act was passed by Congress. With this Act came a new standard for the sex-education in schools. It suggested that schools only teach abstinence before marriage education. This program failed, and five years later the initiative was terminated. There have not been any proven long-term effects of the program, yet the argum e n t of how to educate the teens in America are still lurking over the heads of many. With the high numbers of teen pregnancies and birth rates, I understand why schools have still continued to make the decision to teach abstinence only sex education. America tries to be the best at everything, and it is quite embar-
rassing to see the highest number of teen pregnancies. Most of these pregnancies are probably due to the lack of education from parents, and the education system. I don’t believe that abstinence only education will fix the number of unplanned teen pregnancies, and I am not one-hundred percent in support of drilling young minds to believe that sex is a bad thing. I do not think that sex is a horrible thing, and I often laugh at the many jokes teens make about having sex, such as “Don’t have sex, you will get pregnant and die.” But I do believe sex is sacred, and should be kept for marriage. My personal beliefs are mostly based on my faith, and I understand that schools are not going to give biblical reasons to be abstinent from sexual activities. I do think that there is a good medium between safe-sex education and abstinence only programs. As I have stated, I personally believe that abstinence is the best way to prevent life changing mistakes, but I also think that if teenagers are going to have sex, which any teen in high school would know that many are, they should be prepared with ways to attempt to prevent these mistakes. Even though I know it has been proven that some forms of birth control such as condoms do not give one-hundred percent protection.
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Bill stunts economic growth Madison Law
entertainment editor
Now, these things should all be addressed and are fine goals for our new president. However, sticking them in a bill designed to stimulate the economy? It seems that President Obama is simply trying to pass these measures on the monstrous tidal wave that is the stimulus bill. The last time anyone checked, television was not a staple in a household, and certainly not a necessity. Included in this bill is a grant for
$450 million to go to NASA for ‘climate-research missions.’ Now, normally this would fall into NASA’s normal, federal budgeting, but this and other cosmetic issues are suddenly included in the supposedly ‘emergency’ stimulus bill. The problem is that President Obama is under the impression that these million little things need to happen at once, which just sends America trillions of dollars more into debt. Many economists will agree, that even though the stimulus plan includes a $500 tax break for each employed person for 2 years, such small temporary money breaks do not promote consumer spending. Instead, maybe Congress should focus more on providing incentives for households, like refundable tax credits. This would increase spending graphic/ patrick blouin and put money back in people’s pockets. I’m not entirely sure if the President understands that he’s dealing with actual zeros here. But hey, if people end up unemployed, spending their days watching re-runs on the newly-turned digital TV, or sleep in comfort knowing that billions of America’s dollars are being used in a stimulus package to purchase all the little useless things that, funnily enough, don’t belong in the stimulus package.
the hurricane asks... “Should WHS include safe-sex education along with abstinence?” Katie Sewell Grade: 12
“I think they should include safe sex teaching because even if you teach abstinence you’ll still have people that will do it [sex] and they need to be informed.” Tiffany Clay Grade: 9
“Safe sex because they’re going to have sex anyways so you might as well give them what to do so they don’t have babies.”
Brett Ashby Grade: 10
Kelley Oehler Grade: 11
“I think both [abstinence and safe-sex] because some students might not realize how important they are to them.”
“I think they should definitely included the safe sex teaching because not all parents teach their children the different ways to be safe if they do make the decision, also some parents are not educated on it to teach then. So this way there are people that are educated teaching it.”
Victor Manley Grade: 10
I think they should include safe sex because your parents should talk to you about it, Yyou can still can get more information about it. Teachers can educate more, but I don’t think it will get through to a lot of people.”
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to aid America’s television viewers in their switch to digital TV. How about the $88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building? And let’s not forget the $300 million in grants to combat violence against women.
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“There is a devastating economic crisis that will become more and more difficult to contain with time. For the sake of our economy and our people, this is the moment to act, and to act without delay.” This is what President Barack Obama said on Jan. 9 in an announcement of his new intelligence team weeks before his inauguration. Clearly, he was serious as a gigantic stimulus package has passed through the Senate and House of Representatives in a final vote on Feb. 13, a mere month of his inauguration. But what exactly does a stimulus package do, and why should people care? Because this isn’t a stimulus plan being proposed…it’s just a way for the government to see exactly how fast they can spend nearly $1 trillion. In theory, a stimulus package is meant to provide emergency relief for a down-trodden economy and boost consumer spending. The best possible result is that the economy can bounce back, and begin to recover. This doesn’t come across as such a bad plan when put in those terms. But take a closer look, and there is a lot of waffle in this so-called ‘stimulus package,’ which now has a total of 1588 pages, a set worth of about $789 billion and rising every day. For instance, the $650 million proposed
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Lauren Showen
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I would like to use this space in the Hurricane to say thank you. I’d like to give a thank you to the state of Ohio which is so often times forgotten about. On a weekend getaway, I realized just how thankful I was for my states’ legislation. So here it is: Thank you, Ohio, for making all of our state a nonsmoking section. Stumbling into a gas station in the dead of night rubbing my shoulders from the effects of uncomfortable car slumber, I was hit by a wall of dense smoke which made my groggy head spin. “Someone has been smoking inside?” I thought to myself. “Somebody ought to report them!” It quickly dawned on me as I struggled to find a bathroom that I wasn’t in Kansas anymore. Or rather, I wasn’t in Ohio anymore. As I exited the ladies’ room, now much more alert and very relieved, I became very aware of my surroundings. A man with a scraggily gray beard, a flannel jacket and a purple trucker hat leaned against an ATM machine smoking a cigarette. I suddenly realized what an abstract sight this was. He looked at me strangely probably because I was starring in thought as he did something that was completely normal. I quickly smiled and looked away, still stunned by what I had witnessed. It had been years since I had been asked whether I wished to be seated in the smoking or non-smoking section or since I had been asked for a light in a parking lot. I had forgotten what is was like to need a gas mask in a public place and how I had taken for granted the smokeless establishments in my state. Thank you, Ohio. Your clean lunged citizen, Smart Mouth Showen
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Is testing pointless for students? Katie Swindler
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I wake up in the morning, with an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. Without a doubt, it is the morning of my first OGT test. Reluctantly, I slide out of bed, pull on something comfortable and sluggishly get ready. I ask myself, “Why do I have to do this?” Really, why on earth does the Ohio Board of Education think that they can judge everyone on the same test? Am I not unique? I am not a different person from the one sitting next to me? After my daily morning drama, I begrudgingly allow myself to be taken to school. After ravaging my locker for the “right” pencil, I slump to a random classroom to take an eighth grade level test for two and a half hours, that I know will only take me one. This is what most standardized tests are like. One sits in a tiny, perhaps overcrowded room, with palpable
tension, and sometimes people they have never seen before. Would this make someone want to take a test that is created for students a grade or two below them that won’t truly judge them personally? I think not. The question is raised, “How does the state decide which students graduate?” There is actually a rather simple solution. It is my firm opinion that academic abilities are better judged by four years worth of scores, than a few hours. Their yearly grades will clearly show whether they understood the teacher and applied themselves. So why not just use yearly scores? Then, people feel the need to ask, “But what about the teachers? How do we know that they are doing their jobs effectively?” There is also a simple solution for this so called “problem.” Give the teachers a state approved curriculum. They would be teach-
ing exactly what the state dictated. Along with that, instead of taking Praxis 3 only once, they take it every 3-5 years. There is a series of three different Praxis tests, each designed to test a different part of teaching. The first Praxis test is in place to make sure that all teachers know all of the subjects regardless of what they will teach. Praxis 2 tests the principles of learning and teaching, the theories of education in general, while Praxis 3 examines the teacher’s methods, and effectiveness. All of these together determine whether a teacher is fit to teach. So my question is, “Why would the state of Ohio spend time and money on a test that isn’t even needed?” When looked at closely, I have to wonder why, when teachers are being reviewed and directed, we need a test that uses students to judge the teachers.
What is wrong with this picture? Chris Clevenger
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Numerous children seem to be one of the trademarks of many U.S. families, but one woman is taking the concept to a new extreme. Nadya Suleman, a single mother in Southern California, has planned and given birth to octuplets (eight infants simultaneously). Already a mother of six, Suleman visited a fertility clinic for a questionable procedure called in vitro fertilization. In vitro fertilization is a procedure in which an egg is fertilized by a sperm and then inserted into the mothers uterus. Typically a mother would have one egg implanted, sometimes two, but Sulman had six. Not only is this dangerous to the mother and the children, but also very much looked down upon in the medical world, which has now lead to an investigation by the Medical Board of California. How irresponsible can one parent be? A single mother already caring for six children decides to have eight more? Where is the logic? This is a woman who is living month to month on a social security check, a disability check and food stamps. The children will most likely never meet their father. Suleman visited a sperm bank for all of her pregnancies. In an interview with Dateline, Suleman stated that she is not a
selfish mother, and that she holds each child for 45 minutes each day. Do the math, eight children multiplied by 45 minutes each day. That’s six hours daily just spent holding the newborns. And what is to come of her other six children? Psychologists agree that these children are bound for neglect. When it comes to paying for the children, Suleman is in for a rude awakening. The hospital bill alone for the birth of the octuplets, according to an interview on Dateline, will range between 1.5 and three million dollars. How does a single, unemployed mother plan to pay for this? According to Suleman she plans on going back to college in the fall to gain a masters degree in counseling. Who in their right mind would want advice from a woman who can’t even maintain responsibility in her own life? It sounds like she is the one who needs to be seeing a counselor. The Suleman children are facing a “laundry list” of disabilities that are common in octuplets birth. According to yahoo news the social security payout for a low income family for disabled children is $793 per child each month. This ends up being $2, 379 for the three disabled children she already has, and possibly an additional $6, 344. What Nadya Suleman is doing is obvious. She is just another mother milking the welfare system. The only question is where the money will come from, with a 44 million dollar budget cut taking place in California. It seems yet again that the result of others irresponsible decisions will be left on the taxpayer ’s shoulders. drawing/ chas wiederhold
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but is usually between 10 and 15, Fry- completing one,” Hanks said. In order to be able to teach an inman said. In order to be enrolled in an inde- dependent study communication and pendent study there are a few things dedication are needed. “You have to have materials orgaa student needs to do. First, they need to decide what they would like to do nized and be able to have lines of coman independent study on. Then they munication (i.e. email) available to the need to find a teacher willing to teach student,” teacher Rob Vida said. “To teach an independent study, I an independent study. Then pick up an independent study application and fill have to create a course design in collaboration with it out. Finally the the student. I student must be “I decided to teach an create daily asdedicated to this study, because the independent study because a signments, quizzes and projects teachers are going the extra step for highly motivated and interest- for the student to complete,” you. “ A s t u d e n t ed student expressed interest Hanks said. One would who is interested think teaching i n c o m p l e t i n g in completing one.” Heidi Hanks an independent an independent study requires study must go French Teacher the teacher to “An independent study is through an apcreate complication process pletely different a course teachers will agree that is subject to approval from the guidance office and lesson plans but, that’s not always to administer to a student from the principal, and must collaborate the case, “The lesson plans are not much a teacher to design the independent that is usually not offered in with study topics and assessments,” French different from the normal class. They consist of chapter work, projects, reteacher Heidi Hanks said. the regular cirriculum.” The reason teachers decide to teach ports, and most things you have with a Jeff fryman independent studies vary, but generally normal class. The student only misses share a common theme; they are all want out on the pleasure of interaction with Wilmington High School principal to help students excel in an area the stu- me,” Vida said. All in all, an independent study is a dent is particularly interested in. “I decided to teach an independent way for students to learn about things The amount of students that enroll in study because a highly motivated and that are not usually in the regular curan independent study every year varies interested student expressed interest in riculum and go above and beyond the normal.
Wilmington High School offers something that you may not find at most high schools; it’s called an independent study. They are administered by teachers in the building who are approached by students who are willing and interested in doing an independent study. Most of the independent studies are rigorous courses and require teachers to plan difficult lessons. WHS principal Jeff Fryman explained what exactly an independent study was. “An independent study is a course teachers will agree to administer to a student that is usually not offered in the regular curriculum. We’ve had independent studies such as poetry and certain types of art; …they can go above and beyond what they do in a regular class room.”
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In the midst of the economic recession, cession,, a small yoga shop has found a home on Main Street
Wilmington’s newest addition, Main Street Yoga Center(MSYC) opened on January 26 of this year. Established by Jane Newman and five other instructors, Jenny Cameron, Steven Fout, Sue Hanna, Tammy Reed and Theresa Rembert, this tribute to health and well-being is not only just the newest in the string of wellness centers to enter Wilmington in recent years, but it is also “a dream come true” for Newman. “I first became interested in yoga during high school. A woman taught yoga at the community center and I found it fascinating, from the start. The relaxation I experienced at the first class was surprising and very much needed. I didn’t realize how much tension I held in my body until this class,” said Newman. According to a 2003 survey conducted by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association “An estimated 13.4 million Americans practice yoga or other mind-body exercises such as tai chi.” Newman attributes the rise in Yoga’s popularity to “the growing stress in our society.”
With a new popularity wave behind it, MSYC is sure to stick around despite Wilmington’s desperate economic crisis. “I am optimistic about the growth of this business even in the midst of the economic problems. Relieving stress and taking care of ourselves is even more important during difficult times,” said Newman. “Yoga is a journey of self-discovery and selfexploration.” Offering a wide range of classes, the MSYC is designed to suit all people who are looking for a bit of peace and relaxation while keeping their body in shape. “For some, yoga is an exercise class. For others it is a comprehensive outlook on life. Many people come to yoga hoping to get in shape and then are delighted by all the stress relieving benefits they didn’t even anticipate,” said Newman. The classes range from an empowering Monday Morning Wake Up to “Asthanga Yoga” which uses breathing and vinyasa to move oneself through a series of asanas, which are
poses that hat restore and maintain wellbeing, vitality, and flexibility. Theree are also several other classes that range ge from beginner to expert such xed Level Class”, “Morning as “Mixed ”, “Yoga, Music and Rhythm”, Stretch”, “Yoga Games and Adventures” and ing Fridays”, among others that “Frelaxing should be of interest to any MYSC goer. YC offers a community class MSYC ssion is held on Saturday yoga session gs and is free to public. mornings “Thiss is a great way to becomee acquainted with yoga even in hard financial times.” wman. said Newman. Also showing the ’s dedication to makMSYC’s ing the experience available eople is the MSYC’s to all people student discount, which leaves the pricee at $8.00 per class. ga, for me, is a way of life. “Yoga, aught me to accept people It has taught as they are, to respect myself more, and to be more positive about life, anna. “said Hanna.
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y beneficial in today’s is highly world, where people are always o find new ways to beat the trying to nd reduce any signs of aging clock and y can. that they d that over the years, yoga has “I find greatly improved my posture. I stand ght whereas I used to crouch. up straight mproves your breathing,” It also improves uch said. Knoblauch ain stretches and exercises aim Certain he body of harmful toxins that to rid the umulate from not-so-healthy can accumulate eating and lack of exercise. These stretchess are called “twisting poses” ve the torso in a wringing moand move tion thatt literally squeezes and mashe organs in the body to release sages the i so that h they h can exit i the h those toxins Yoga instructor and ROBMS health teacher body. Overall, yoga is a spiritual jourSue Hanna demonstrates a Tree Pose. ney that has mental, physical, and emotional benefits for everyone, experts say. “To really stretch your body thoroughly and consistently brings greater health, and with greater health comes greater happiness,” Newman said. blouin
at peace and have never been more relaxed with themselves than when they’re finished with a session. Students say they’re starting to get active in yoga at the times when age and stress become more common in teenagers throughout school. “Yoga will get rid of stress, which I have a lot of,” senior Mariah Helterbrant said. “I have done yoga since Coach Fordyce was coaching volleyball. We would do it during conditioning in my sophomore year,” senior LeeAnn Holmes said. Coaches use yoga to release stress and to gain stronger muscles. Yoga is now used in high school sports as cross-training. “A lot of people, as they get older are always looking for that fountain of youth, and that is one way to have better looking skin, by getting rid of the toxins,” Knoblauch said. The many benefits of yoga help in numerous areas of a person’s life, such as overall health, back problems, and even wrinkles as one ages. This
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“There are many physical, emotional, and mental benefits to yoga,” Main Street Yoga Instructor Jane Newman said. The new business is aiming to improve the health of those who wish to do so. The business focuses on all areas of yoga to improve breathing, overall health, flexibility, and mental stability. “First of all with the regular practice of yoga, your flexibility and strength improve dramatically,” Newman said. The stereotype is that yoga is only for the body contortionists who can fit into a box. This is not necessarily true. People of all ages and levels of flexibility can be duly involved in yoga,” English teacher Julie Knoblauch said. “Newcomers to yoga find it to be a very challenging and demanding experience, but with consistent attention that eases up, and it becomes delightful,” Newman said. Many people who participate in yoga find that they are generally
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Joining the Wilmington High School (WHS) swim team was, without a doubt, the best decision I made last year. Swimming, being a mostly non-contact sport, had benefits for me and, after swimming five summers with the Clinton County Barracuda’s, I knew I loved the sport. I was, admittedly, apprehensive about going back to swimming after a two to three year hiatus. After five minutes in the water though, I remembered why I went back to the pool year after year, season after season. It wasn’t only the feel of power, pulling myself through the water, but the feel of being on a team. Anyone who plays a sport at WHS can explain what the acceptance of a team feels like and does to someone. Everyone on the team has a love of the sport, or at least a reason to take part, and the majority of them have the drive to be better, and the strength to pull their teammates along with them. No one gets left behind on a swim team; from the two lap events
to the twenty lap events, at least half the team is lined up along the pool, cheering their teammate on. Whether it’s a cut off a tenth of a second, or twenty seconds, everyone improves. At the end of the season, there is something for each person to be proud of. From the simplest accomplishments, like finally being able to pull myself out a pool that makes a graceful exit next to impossible (something I couldn’t do at the beginning of the season), to cutting seconds off my five hundred, there was a plethora of small accomplishments for me to choose for me to be proud off. Believe me, I was. The first invitational was more fun than should be allowed. Complete with card games, food, and then swimming events sprinkled in between, there was never a dull moment. From tackling each other for cards during Egyptian Rat Screw, to throwing cookies at someone for stealing your cards, laughter was impossible to avoid, and no one went away without at least one memory of
Coach Mitch Hopf is pushed into the pool by his team at senior night on Feb. 5, photo/kim law 2009 laughing so hard their stomach hurt. The last meet, districts, was hard. Aside from the fact that I was sick, it would be my last time swimming this season, and I knew I’d miss it all. I wasn’t prepared for how much though. After months of seeing my teammates and coaches every day, experiencing withdrawal was painful. I miss the fun, the laughs, and, most
of all, I miss swimming. Even though it was hard, even though it was stressful at times because of school work that was going undone, I can’t wait until next swim season.
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“He finished in the Quarter Finals tennis players have ever done and I with his partner Elliot, and this year feel I made a pretty good decision in a singles player I expect him to playing the game,” ather for Johnston’s as indu do that well, if not better,” Reed Johnston said. ents g ctio said. Johnpar s n i Johnston and Crowe are h ston has both looking forward to shown another season, one last a lot chance to achieve in of their athletic fields. WHS Principal Jeff Fryman commented on the success of the induction of the four athletes. “It’s great that we can continue to not only achieve here at WHS in acadeddemics, but also athleticaics,” Fryman said. Both tion to kids [Crowe & Johnston] his tenare good kids and on the nis career, athletic field they’ve succeeded according to very well. Both of them still have high school tennis a chance this year of succeeding and coach Steven Reed. maybe going to state again. So it’s “Tyler works very hard and plays great that they’ve already got this tennis every day after school. He honor but maybe we can do it again makes an hour drive to the tennis next year as well.” courts and plays for two hours a day, an hour drive back. It takes four hours out of his day, I’d say five or six days a week to do that, so the photo/mercedes welsch hard work’s paying off,” Reed said.
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“Both of my cousins and my best friend, Monica,she is in it for the same thing as me… she’s actually On Friday, Feb. 6 during the Kings state champion,” Crowe said. “It’s basketball game, four Wilmington cool because it’s like a family thing. High School athletes were added to Ashley actually went one year, then the WHS Wall of Fame. Honorees the next year Monica went, then I were seniors Lyndsey Crowe and went the year after… with us all beTyler Johnston and 2008 graduates ing cousins, and best friends, its Elliot Conti and Christopher for Lyndsey’s cool.” r e h t a indu g Holcomb. The Wall of nts ctio After great Fame, on display in are n i achievements in p r n playing tennis the middle school he gym, honors since his freshathletes for men year, their achieveJohnston ment and photo was excellence also added in their into the sports. Wall of “I feel Fame. great “I feel about [the I’m being induction], honored they’re dobecause ing good,” I’ve had a Director Mike lot of acWallace said. complishments “Those are great throughout my accomplishments.” previous three Crowe was inductyears, such as being ed due to her performance FAVC Player of the Year, in track and field. She relates making it to state, getting top six in her victories to successful family state, being number one singles all members in the past. of my career, just a lot of things no
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The boy’s varsity basketball team “We’re not talking about the state continues to tear up the court in tournament yet we will start talking recent games, defeating teams such about that when we get there and the as the Elder Panthers and the Centerfirst team we will talk about in the ville Elks. tournament will either With a regular seabe Bellbrook or Little son record of 18-2 the Miami,” he said, “We ‘Cane is tied for first are progressing as a in the Fort Ancient team both offensively Valley Conference and defensively and (FAVC). holding a a lot of our goals and strong 9-1 record just expectations are about in the conference. what is going to hap“It’s been successpen in the post-season ful to this point… too…” we are 16-1 in the As goals and conference,” varexpectations are set sity basketball coach in place, they are also Mike Noszka said. continuing to be met Division rankby the players and the ings and wins over team as a whole but difficult teams such with more challenges as Kings, Elder and in upcoming games Centerville (formally the team still has to ranked number 1 in perform well. the AP Ohio Divi“So far we’ve met sion II Rankings), expectations and most all helped the team of those expectations progress higher in the we won’t know of unleague. til the seasons over,” When asked Noszka said. whether he believed Even though the a state championteam’s performance ship was a possibility has proven to be Noszka replied by superior to that of photo/mercedes welsch many other teams, saying that it was a Senior Kirby Seeger reaches for the the ‘Cane lacked goal the team has. “Yeah it’s a goal ball at the Miami Trace game on the ability to defeat but you can’t be Lakota West, fallFeb. 17. talking about a ing to the Firebirds state championship, 68-64. you’ve got to be talking about one “Any time you lose it’s a setback game at a time”. but we didn’t go there to lose and we Showing a strong focus on each got beat whether you win or lose you game, Nozska and the team approach can always get better and that’s what each game with their mind set only we strive for,” Noszka said. on the next four quarters ahead of “We want to play better from them. game to game. We know what things
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1) St. Paris Graham 17-0 2) Circleville Logan Elm 17-1 3) Cincinnati Indian Hill 16-1 4) Akron St. Mary- St. Vincent 14-3 5) Cleveland Benedictine 13-4 6) Wilmington 16-2 7) Dover 16-2 8) Columbus DeSales 15-3 9) Dayton Thurgood Marshall 15-4 10) Chillicothe 14-3 we have to improve any how…Yeah it was a setback but it’s not something that we are concerned about no,” he said. Setbacks or not, the team emerged the following game with a 58-39 win over Little Miami. The following games also resulted in victories for the ‘Cane with big wins over Elder and Centerville. “We know we are a good basketball team we expected to beat Centerville…It was a great atmosphere and it was great to have the community behind us and it probably sealed the number one seed in the Dayton sectional for us…we feel we can beat anybody but it probably helps that we beat a team like Centerville,” Noszka said. Noska believes that progressing into the second round of the tournament is going to require a strong defense, as well as good skill with the basketball.
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The level of intensity between junior varsity and varsity sports is clearly different, what is also different is the treatment the athletes receive from their team mates and peers. I am a varsity cheerleader, I also played junior varsity soccer as a freshman and as a sophomore before I quit, and finally, I also ran track as a junior varsity runner my first year. As a junior varsity athlete one may feel as though they are not good enough to play on the varsity team. Others may feel as though they can’t live up to the potential of their teammates, and find themselves in the shadow of other athletes that excel. Whatever the reason may be for feeling the way a junior varsity athlete feels there could be, many things could be causing them. Junior varsity games don’t get as much attention as varsity games, the stands aren’t full, there aren’t “superfans” cheering them on, and most of the fans consist of parents. Junior varsity games are neglected compared to the attention varsity games receive. As for the treatment junior varsity athletes receive from their peers, they may be looked down upon, or looked at as though they aren’t good enough. When superfans at a varsity basketball game are yelling in the stands “that’s our jv”, they should stop and think, “How are our players going to feel when I yell this?” Fans should not only support the varsity teams but the junior varsity teams as well. Sometimes I feel that junior varsity teams work harder than the varsity team, varsity teams think that they have it made and that their talent comes natural, rather than junior varsity athletes who might actually have to work for that spot on varsity. When it comes to the treatment one would receive from their team mates, it is exactly the same as the treatment one would receive from their peers, except it is more intense. During practice and games you are looked down upon and feel as though they aren’t good enough and sometimes the coaches may make one feel this way too. Regardless of your level of experience and performance on the field or court you should not be put down or neglected, everyone should receive the same treatment from coaches and peers.
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A wise teacher once said that she would treat us all fair, but not equal which ultimately is all anyone y can expect because we are all different. Therefore, when photos surface of a young Olympic gold –medaly ist smoking from a marijuana pipe y he deserves to be treated fairly, he d deserves to be reprimanded for his appalling judgment. l This past August, swimmer Michael Phelps became a worldwide sensation as he became the l first athlete to win eight gold medals y in one Olympic Games. Far from r China, Americans tuned in to witI ness history as the vibrant swimmer k broke records and inspired the hearts y of thousands; for his story is one of d determination as he struggled with r ADHD. t Through his hardships, n Americans found someone relatable. Phelps was someone who hadn’t been given everything but worked t hard and earned his success. People could see themselves achieving their t goals as Phelps did. But when the d d h
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The WHS wrestling team took home the Fort Ancient Valley Conference (FAVC) Cardinal Division Championship on Saturday, February 14, at Milford High School. “I feel that the team’s done really well this season We started off kind of slow…and we talked all year about Winning league,” Timmy Wiederhold, Varsity Wrestler said. “The last two weekends we really stepped Photo/Chas Wiederhold up and I think the team’s doing really well.”
media recently released photos of Phelps with drug paraphernalia many were disappointed and shocked. People aren’t perfect. But Phelps acted in the wrong when he decided to smoke pot at a college party. Yeah, everyone tries it. It doesn’t mean he’s addicted to drugs, it just means he tried it. Who can blame him? Everyone else can try drugs without feeling ashamed or guilty. BUT GUESS WHAT? Phelps isn’t just like everyone else. He isn’t a college kid blowing off steam after a midterm, he is an athlete. He is a celebrity. He’s been on TV, he has contracts, and he’s on the front of the Wheaties box. Phelps more than likely realizes that people adore him and capture his every move. So why would someone of such high popularity enter a college party believing that nobody would snap a photo of the ‘aquaman’? It is pure ignorant that Phelps thought he wouldn’t get caught. Phelps has to know he is a role model who helped
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others believe in themselves, but apparently it doesn’t matter much to him because he threw his supporter’s hearts out the window and decided to ‘experiment’. Wait, experiment? Too bad he got his first DUI at the age of 19. Nobody should feel bad for Phelps either; he put himself in that situation. Phelps knew by becoming a celeb, people would notice him. So don’t pull the ‘it’s so hard to be famous’ card on anyone, Phelps used free will to be a celebrity he is today
and to smoke pot. So back to the words of that wise teacher, treating Phelps equally would be to ignore what he did. But Phelps isn’t equal to everyone else; we can’t turn the other cheek in this situation because he is in the public eye. He is a multi-millionaire. He is, or was, a role model. So let’s be fair, Phelps should know his public status and know what comes along with being famous.
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WHS finished the competition off with 202 points. Close behind them followed Little Miami High School with 198.5 points, then Turpin High School finishing in third with 149 points. “ Everyone’s gotten nicks and bruises, and it’s just a matter of fighting through those, never giving up and being able to wrestle six minutes, eight and a half minutes, whatever it takes,” Varsity Coach Jeff Wiederhold said. Nick Christen, Isaac Bray, Ethan Usborne, Michael Burge, Kyle Ross, Douglas Honeycutt, Timmy Wiederhold, Jay Campbell, Chris Cowman and Cody Stacey are all set to compete later today and tomorrow in districts at Goshen High School. Keith Mapes and Shadrach Brausch are also attending as alternates. If any WHS wrestlers place in the top four they will continue onto the state tournament.
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The gears of production have been set in motion for the theater department’s spring presentation of Little Shop of Horrors. The play’s plot and story line mixes romance and comedy and is accompanied by many musical scores. “Little shop is your typical romance. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy tries to feed girl to carnivorous plant,” theater director Bryan Wallingford said. The story consists of a young botanist named Seymour (played by junior Andrew Davis), who meets and falls in love with a girl by the name of Audrey (played by sophomore Rachel Beck) and along the course of the story he finds a small carnivorous plant that increases in size whenever its thirst for blood is met with a human meal. This season the theater department has been breaking out of the typical mold by putting on modern adaptations of plays such as the fall produc-
Andrew Davis and Rachel Beck walk through a scene for the first time with Brian Wallingford.
tion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The actors also have been learning to adapt and play various types of roles, for example Rachel Beck’s role as Audrey in the upcoming show.
Timmy Wiederhold, Andrew Davis, Shadrach Brausch, Monica Henson, Victoria Mcintosh, Ciara Murdock, Hannah Finnegan and Timothy Larrick vocally warm-up for practice.
“Oh man this is like, for me it’s going completely against who I really am as a real person you know. She’s so bubbly and has a high voice and talks in a weird accent.” Beck said.
Other lead roles in the play include Patrick Blouin as Orin, the motorcycle dentist, Shadrach Brausch as the voice of the plant and Timmy Wierderhold who plays the plant puppeteer. While the cast develops the plot, the musical aspect of the production and the set will try to bring the audience right into the reality of Little Shop of Horrors. “We have the florist shop in which Seymour works and it’s sort of in the center and its surrounded by this dilapidated place that is affectionately known as Skid Row, where hobos and winos and bag ladies live and you have this struggling little florist shop in the middle trying to make ends meet,” Wallingford said. Little Shop of Horrors makes its run from March 19-22. The nights of March 19, 20 and 21 the show will start at 7:30 followed by a 2:30 Sunday matinee on the 22nd, Pre-Sale tickets for students will be $5 and at the door tickets will be $10. photos by Zach McCune
Shadrach Brausch, Timmy Wiederhold and Andrew Davis work on blocking a scene.
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It is Kate Winslet’s face and Winslet’s face alone that looks out from the cover of the new “now a major motion picture” paperback edition of Bernhard Schlink’s exceptional novel, The Reader, and that’s as it should be. Though The Reader costars the gifted Ralph Fiennes and gives a lot of screen time to a young actor named David Kross, it is Winslet’s haunting performance that gives the film what success it has. Schink’s memorable book, a powerhouse story of guilt and responsibility that has connections to the Holocaust, was a huge international success when it was first published in 1995. It was translated into 40 languages and became the first German novel to be number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s taken this long to get The Reader to the screen in part because of the exigencies of the movie business and in part because it is not the simplest story to film. Though it has a potent story, The Reader is easily as philosophical as it is melodramatic, as deeply involved with what
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her face as she struggles with the life and death decision of which secrets to reveal and which to hide. From here on, The Reader is at its strongest, as the films twists and turns add to the dramatic and philosophical content. It’s here that The Reader focuses on guilt-ridden interplay between generations and whether it’s possible to come to terms with what people we love have done. Though this remains a reserved film in which the underlying material is stronger than what’s been done with it, enough of it has been retained to keep the enterprise on point. Especially with Winslet on the screen. The movie is of great simplicity which results in the deserving grade of an A. It has mystery, love, conflict, drama, suspense just like the novel has within its pages. If you liked The Reader, then you would also enjoy other Oscar nominee’s movies such as the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, and Milk. All these films are based on a great, historical, political plot that keeps you engaged in these timeless classics. Trust me; these films don’t disappoint.
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goes on in the mind of its narrator as it is in what he does. In attempting to solve this problem, screenwriter (and accomplished playwright) David Hare and director Stephen Daldry (The Hours) have in part frittered away the story’s emotional force. It is only, frankly, the strength of Winslet’s performance that raises above our conventional surroundings and makes The Reader the experience it should be. That narrator is Michael Berg, introduced in the Germany of 1995 as a successful attorney played by Fiennes. Successful Berg might be, but he is as he apologetically explains at one point to his estranged daughter. Extensive flashbacks, alternating with more modern scenes, show how Berg got that way. In 1958, when he was 15, he was stricken with scarlet fever (inexplicably changed from the books hepatitis) on a German street and helped home by a strange women (Winslet) in front of whose apartment building he collapsed. Once Berg has recovered he goes to find the woman,
whose name is Hanna, to thank her. She is 36, more than twice his age, but that doesn’t prevent a kind of charge passing between them and doesn’t stop Hanna from almost immediately seducing the boy. This seduction develops into a relationship that lasts long enough to develop qualities of its own. Hanna as it turns out, likes to be read to as much as she enjoys the interaction with Michael, and soon Berg is reading her everything from Tintin to Lady Chatterley’s Lover. While Winselt’s remarkably expressive face and bearing convey vulnerability as well as passion, the difference in ability between her and Kross, the young actor who plays Berg. The affair ends all of a sudden, and the next time Berg sees Hanna it is under starkly different circumstances. It is years later, he is in law school, taking a seminar that involves going to a Nazi war crimes trial for low-level concentration camp guards, and there, at the defendants table, sits Hanna. It is hard to overstate the impact Winslet makes in the trial scenes, even though she says very little. Alternately despairing, distraught, and defeated, she allows conflicted emotions to play across
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