With the advancing technology, people may soon be able to choose their child’s eye/hair color along with many other features.
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Drinking and driving can lead to serious consequences such as a DUI, or even death. Check out the startling statistics.
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LION’S TALE November 24, 2008
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Volume 49
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Oviedo, Florida
W LI N G FOR STAT E
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FIRST IN STATE. Junior Julie Leonard practices at the Oviedo Bowling Alley one day after school.
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ears flowed down junior Julie Leonard’s eyes after rolling her last ball. Leonard took home the girls individual championship at the State Bowling Finals, defeating Timber Creek senior Kaleigh Harp 2-1 on Nov. 12. “I wasn’t expecting to come out on top at all,” said Leonard. “I went to the competition just hoping I could make it into the top 16, because that would be a huge accomplishment.” From Nov. 11-12, both the men and women’s bowling teams competed at the State Bowling Finals, at Boardwalk Bowl in Orlando. On the first day, the team bowled four games that determined their status in both individual and team competitions. Leonard was placed fourth, bowling a 182, 192, 194, and 247. “During the tournament, I was so stressed,” said Leonard. “But you can’t let it get to you, otherwise you perform badly.” In the first round, Leonard bowled against Jennifer Wiley of Forest High School, whom she beat 2-0 with scores 173-138, and 184-171. In round two she played Miami Southridge High School’s Brianna Pucko whom she also beat 2-0, leading her to be victorious in the third round the following day, beating Julie Wright of Winter Park High School 2-0. Then Leonard played the final championship match versus Timber Creek’s Kaleigh Harp. The format of the match was best scores two out of three. Leonard could feel the pressure to win. “Before my championship match, I was shaking and nervous to the point of feeling ill,” said Leonard. “I wouldn’t look at or talk to anyone but Coach Wilkie. I even had a hard time watching the other girl [Harp] bowl. I was secretly hoping she would throw it in the gutter or leave splits every time.” Although her nerves were getting to her, Leonard pulled herself together, focusing solely on the match and her bowling. “Despite my stress,” said Leonard. “I was somehow more relaxed see BOWLING, page 1
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Fake ID carriers risk jail
School leaks1200 gallons of water in single day
rip, drip, drip. The leaky faucet released water droplets one by one as chemistry teacher Susan Carpenter looked on. Disappointed by this waste of water, Carpenter walked back to her classroom and planned a new conversion experiment for her classes. “I noticed that the bathroom sink was leaking a lot, so I thought figuring out how much water the school is wasting in the bathrooms would good conversion experiment for my students,” said Carpenter. Carpenter’s chemistry classes and her AP Environmental class carried out the experiment in both the boys’ and girls’ bathrooms of the science building to see just how much the leaky faucets cost the school. The classes went out with a beaker, a graduated cylinder, and a stopwatch, and
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DRIP, DROP, DRIP. Susan Carpenter’s measured the amount of water wasted in a day, which averaged out to 1200 gallons per day. Since then many sinks have been repaired.
collected water in the beaker for 30 seconds. That water was measured in the graduated cylinder, and then the students calculated how much water we were losing in milliliters per second, and converted that measurement into gallons per day. “The data that all of the classes collected was amazing. I was surprised and upset to see that some of the sinks were leaking water like a sieve,” said sophomore Eric Gender. The classes’ experiments concluded that on average, the leaky faucets cost the school 1200 gallons of water a day. “The results made me feel like we should do a better job with conserving water here, and that the construction team should work on that. Thankfully, I know they are planning on fixing see WASTING WATER, page 3
ervous sweat beaded at the nape of Senior Vienna Johnson’s* neck; she leaned back on her heels, crossed her arms over her chest, and tried to look casual. In front of her, the club’s bouncer squinted skeptically at her fake ID. She’d never encountered this problem before; nobody had ever noticed that the shorter, darker-haired girl on the ID didn’t exactly look like the tall blonde that handed it over. “This isn’t you.” Accused the guard. Johnson protested, insisted that the picture on the card was, in fact, her. The guard asked for further identification – a credit card, anything. “I don’t have anything with me,” Johnson lied again. Still unconvinced, the guard drew her aside. “Sign your name three times as it appears on your license,” he instructed. Johnson cringed, but complied. “I had no idea what the signature looked like,” she said. “So I just signed the girl’s [on the license] name three times in cursive.” She handed the slip of paper over, and waited again. The wait was agonizingly long as the guard scrutinized her handwriting, comparing it with that of the unknown girl
thinking that maybe [my signature] might have actually been kind of close [to the girl’s.] But then he looked at me and said, ‘Sorry, but this isn’t you.’” Now this is where, under other circumstances, Johnson might have found herself in a heap of trouble. “Any person, whether a juvenile or an adult, who drives a motor vehicle without a valid driver license commits a criminal act and can be taken to jail,” said Commander Marc Beaulieu of the Oviedo Police Department. “However, simply having an altered or fake driver license in your possession is a crime and can result in your arrest.” If he’d been following protocol, the guard should have called the police and Johnson would have spent her night out on the town locked up in prison. But by some stroke of luck, the guard pocketed Johnson’s ID and told her to hightail it. She was all too happy to get away. “The guard merely put the ID in his pocket and I left. I think that if I had tried to put up a fight or something, the cops might have gotten involved, but I was not going to
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see FAKE ID’s, page 3