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empty flag poles eXplaINeD Regardless of the fact that many students walk by the flagpoles everyday, few are aware of their history and what they stand for. Currently they are empty; however, they should be flying by the end of the year. Spanish teacher Michelle Heeb does not recall there be- gift that [the class of 2011] left was to replace the flags, so we are in the process of getting them ordered and geting much fuss about the raising of the flags in 2000. “[The flags] were put up after [the lawsuit] and I do not ting new ones, they had just gotten beat up and worn out with all the weather,” Smith said. “I remember anything ever being said about ome bearing the stars and stripes and the others ‘these are our new diversity flags,’ they just am hoping [the flags will be back up] waving purple, black, white, yellow, brown and red. this year.” magically appeared,” Heeb said. Many students walk by these seven flags every day Heeb suggests other possible ways The district continues to make an effort but few know for what they stand. for the flags to represent the culture to raise awareness of student diversity but “I LIKe THe School principal, Jason Smith, sheds some light on their according to Smith, many students are fLAgS... I THINK here at the high school. origins. THeY ARe A gOOd “You could do flags of different naunaware of the purpose the diversity flags “They were created in order to show that PHS has a sol- serve. S Y M b O L O f W H O W e tions. I was over at Chief Leschi and id understanding of diversity and [that] we care about the A R e ...” in their gym they had flags of all the “I do not think [most students know the diversity of our school and diversity issues and to show purpose of the diversity flags] because if different Native American nations that we respect all of our cultures here at the school,” you are a senior and you started in 2011, that were represented at their school, JASON SMITH Smith said. PRINCIPA L which was really cool. You could have that was still well before There is significantly more to the litflags of all the different countries that your time. So I would bet tle-known backgrounds of these diverare represented here,” Heeb said. “We most students do not sity flags. “THeY WeRe know and maybe that is something we could have kids design something to put on the flags, you Their creation stemmed from a law- C R e A T e d I N O R d e R should change, maybe our MLK assem- know, student art.” suit filed against the school in 1999. TO SHOW THAT The diversity flags of PHS have quite the history behind bly would be a good time to talk about “At that time there was a lawsuit that PHS HAS A SOLId them and Smith feels that they are effective in their purthat,” Smith said. had taken place and I think the lawuNdeRSTANdINg However, senior Rachel Owens knows pose of representing the diversity at PHS. Of dI V e R SI T Y.” suit sparked a lot of ideas and aware“I like the flags. I think when they are up and the flags some of the flags’ history. ness about how we can make our high “They represent diversity… I have are new that they are beautiful and I think they are a good school more welcoming and tolerant of symbol of who we are and what we care about. I think that been told,” Owens said. JASON SMITH all of our cultures and all of our people If you look outside today, the flags have there are other ways besides flags but more than that it is PRINCIPA L that attend,” Smith said. “I think that actually been taken down for repair but a culture of your school, it is how students are feeling, how [the flags were] a gesture, a symbol to Smith says they should be back by the we treat each other, that is what I look at versus any other show that we care about what is taking place and student end of the year. symbol,” Smith said. issues.” “[The flags] are down because they were so ripped and In the wake of the lawsuit, the diversity flags that sit worn that we wanted to replace them and… the senior outside the school were born. B y g a B e c a r r o l l m a n a g i n g e d i T o r
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The first assembly at a new school is seen by many as a first impression of how the school year will pan out. The school is expected to don itself with purple and gold ribbons, shine its hallways and floors to glimmering perfection and give off an overall feeling of excitement. This year, sophomores ascended the stairs to their gym seats as the juniors before them had once done. it became apparent to some sophomores after the assembly started that something was off. The volume level was, just as it has been for years now, a little low in the sophomore section. This was the origin of what is seemingly the most common complaint of the sophomore crowd. Sophomore Dana kirkman agrees with the complaint, having had a negative experience at the first assembly. “We can’t really see anything or even hear anything because of the speakers,” kirkman said. The speaker problem was, for some, a flaw of the first assembly but the fact that there were speakers at all is a recent addition. “Just last year, we finally got a new sound system so [the sophomores] could at least hear but up until then they could not even hear which was unfortunate,” ASB adviser Jamie Mooring said. Although the speakers didn’t work during the first assembly they have since been fixed, which kirkman said
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The Puyallup School District has begun a partnership with the University of Washington Tacoma called Pathway to Promise. Pathway to Promise gives Puyallup seniors more post-high school options. Vice Chancellor for student and enrollment services at UW-Tacoma, Cedric Howard,
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be seeing the first numbers this fall,” Howard said. Graduating seniors will benefit from this partnership by receiving assured admissions if they meet certain requirements. Megan Beresford, Associate Director of University Recruitment, explains the criteria that seniors have to meet. “For seniors to be eligible they have to have a cumulative GPA of 2.7, four credits of English, three credits of Social Studies, three credits of Math, two credits of Lab Science, two credits of World Language, half credit of fine art, half credit of academic elective and a 480 on each
explains how the partnership started. “This program started about a year and a half ago,” Howard said. “We entered this partnership asking ourselves how we could create more post-high school options for graduating seniors.” The Pathway to Promise program was finalized in October of this year. This years’ seniors will be the first to receive assured admissions for this coming fall. “Pathway to Promise went into effect in our meeting with the Puyallup School District. We should
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Debuts on nov. 14, 15 and 16. Held in the PHS auditorim from 7-10p.m. each day.
Winter clearance will begin nov. 1 during lunches, before and after school. Athletic packets are avalible in the main office.
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PHS will run on an 11:45p.m. release schedule nov. 8. School wont be held nov. 11, Veterans day.
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community service is a rewarding experience that comes high school can be overwhelming; it hits us like a tidal wave and we tumble and swirl in its depths, attempting to in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from helping out at the food keep our heads above water while we struggle to stay on bank to helping a neighbor with yard work to going on a top of each and every class and requirement we need to mission trip to build a family a home. you can volunteer for as long as you want or you can graduate. it can be hard to keep one’s wits in this environment but keep it to a minimum, how you help out is up to you. all that matters is that you do. if we fail to take time to stop and compose however, it is often difficult enough ourselves, how can we ever enjoy all that “ . . . h o w y o u h e l P just to juggle school and extracurricular this time in our lives has to offer? ouT iS uP To activities, let alone committing to a of course, the easy route is to ignore the you. all ThaT foundation or service organization to help opportunities high school offers us. To never challenge one’s self to achieve M a T T e r S i S T h a T out. you do.” reaching out to these places takes more than what is asked would be pretty courage too. stress-free but no one is going to thank you might have to step out of your themselves for not doing more. our View comfort zone and forge new relationships. So dare to do more, not just in private but that is precisely one of the reasons matters of individual interest but in community service is so wonderful. community issues that expand your it forces you to get out there and do what you normally boundaries beyond the home, the school, the comfortable. it is something everyone has been told but its importance would not and in the process serve as a benefactor for your community. is not to be missed: get involved in community service. when looking back at your high school career, make The importance of community service is something we sure you are not regretting all the possible memories and often undervalue. Sometimes, as high school students we lack the foresight experiences you missed out on; make sure that you are celebrating the fact that you chose to do more, to help to see how far a little bit of caring and service can go. Try to put yourself in the shoes of those in your someone out, to take part in community. community and imagine how much an act of kind loving service could do to better your attitude and your future.
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eople who passed my house this halloween might have left rather offended. although there was a large bowl of candy on the doorstep, there were also lights and laughter emanating from the house. i’m sure our apparent refusal to open the door was off-putting. however, i would like to start by saying it had nothing to do with any antitrick-or-treater sentiment, rather, we were busy celebrating christmas. yes, as strange as it sounds, oct. 31 is not filled with black and orange decorations for the bakers. Things were not always this way; the decision to switch holidays occurred two or three years ago when i stomped through the front door and declared that i would no longer celebrate halloween. My reasons behind the decision were a combination of petulance and determination, having endured 14 years of jumping as i passed every spookily decorated corner and turning down each invitation to watch a horror movie that came my way. i have a tendency towards nightmares, so i avoid ‘scary’ things best i can.
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This is, obviously, much more diffi- chance to dress up as someone entirely different for a day. cult around halloween. rather, i would simply like to point i am not the only one with this probout that it’s not a joy-ride for everyone lem. People who have experienced hor- and these non-celebrators shouldn’t rific events in real life or dreams can be ridiculed for disliking something have flashbacks caused by blood, that honestly terrifies them. Social media likes to make fun of screams, etc. (fake or otherwise). over the years, i feel like this prob- fear a lot but it is not so humorous in lem has increased along with the real life. People have genuine reasons for amount of gore showing up on peobeing scared as well as for ple’s doorsteps. not celebrating and i hope it might have something that the people who get an to do with the fact that a maadrenaline rush from horror jority of america celebrates keep that in mind. halloween, so society has at this Pre-christmas as latched onto that and turned we have taken to calling it, halloween into one of the my house was a deliciousmajor commercial holidays; smelling safe haven. filling store shelves with any nervousness was horror movies, ghoulish washed away to the tune costumes and overall grim reminders to me and other e M i l y b a k e r of “we wish you a Merry rePorTer christmas” and i spent the non-celebrators that the day evening watching holiday when they have to squeeze their eyes tight and walk fast is com- classics. i invite any fellow “Scaredy-cats” to ing. This, however, isn’t to say that hal- join in the christmas celebration next year. loween should be stopped as a whole. for everyone else, i hope you had a i understand that, for most people, it’s a fun, care-free event with free fantastic halloween or simply a great candy (who doesn’t like that?) and the oct. 31.
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Above: Junior Katie Hawley poses with friend and former Rogers High School junior Shannon Cheek. Cheek was diagnosed with a type of brain tumor — a glioma — in 2012 during her freshman year and passed away Aug. 28 of this year. Hawley reflects on the personal impact left in her life by Cheek. Surviving family members of Cheek’s include her father and sister.
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i told her it was okay for her to go and be with her mom staying in a fancy hotel, getting a limo and driver, getting will never forget this summer. it was filled with the bright happy moments of mis- to ride the great wheel and of course eating dinner at the and brother who had preceded her in death. i told her that i would be okay, that i would make sure sion trips, bonfires and endless friendship but it was Space needle. in the future it is not going to be all of the fancy aspects her dad and sister would be okay. also filled with the harsh and painful loss of one of my i promised her that we were all going to be okay. that i am going to remember. best friends. the next night aug. 28, i received a call from my dad. He i am going to remember that she wore my i arrived home from a mission trip july 7 and jacket the entire time in Seattle, that whenever i told me that Shannon’s dad had called and she had passed that night made a comment to my parents about pushed her in her wheelchair, i would raise one away that night. how my friend Shannon was finished with her Sept. 7, only a few days after school started, was the day arm and yell “for narnia” and that in the mornchemotherapy. ing she was so tired and didn’t want to get up that i attended my best friend’s service. everything about She had been suffering from a glioma — a type that she repeatedly insisted that everyone use her service was perfect — the sanctuary of the church was of brain tumor that 10,000 people are diagnosed the bathroom to get ready before her just so that filled almost to capacity with people wearing pink in her with every year and only about half survive. honor. i read a scripture verse and her other best friend she could stay in bed longer. my parents got that look on their faces, the throughout the summer, a few parties were megan was one of the eulogists. look that just sucks the happiness right out of everyone that spoke that day did her thrown by myself and a couyou. life a great honor. the church even had it was that moment i knew that she was done k a t i e H a w l e y ple other friends, allowing gueSt “SHe Had been a pink-stained glass cross and when we Shannon’s school and church with her chemo because she was done. Suffering from all looked at it we could feel her presence friends to come over and see a few days before, my parents had gotten a glioma — a there. her. it was an amazing experience to call from my friend’s dad. type of brain being able to have been a part of ShanShe had not been feeling well since her chemo had see just how many people were touched tumor tHat non’s life was one of the biggest blessings ended and the doctors ordered an mri which revealed by her life here on earth and how many that Shannon’s brain tumors had returned and there were of them wanted to be with her until the 1 0 , 0 0 0 p e o p l e a r e i have ever received. She and i did some diagnoSed witH crazy stuff together, from falling in rivend. more than she had ever had. every year...” ers and chasing flip flops floating away the final party happened the Saturwhen i went to her house the next night, i expected to to her taking me to Starlight prom in Sebe overcome with sadness but when i was with her i was day before she passed away. there was k atie H aw ley gueSt attle. an overwhelming amount of kids who nothing but happy. every day i miss her like crazy, but evi painted her nails since it was our favorite activity and showed up and during the party i promery day it also hurts a little less. i know she is up there ised i would come back as soon as i could. we just talked. that tuesday i dyed a strip of my hair pink because it sitting on her mom’s lap, playing with her brother and that’s how most of the summer went, me spending about every day to every other day over at Shannon’s was her favorite color and i went over to her house after- eating her favorite snack of anything gummy and peach flavored. house just talking with her, doing her nails and some- wards to show her. i also remember one of the last things i ever told her — at this point in her progression she slept all day but we times just sitting in silence watching a movie. “i’m not going to say goodbye, because goodbye means through make a wish, Shannon, her dad, sister, an- knew she could always hear us. that tuesday was also the day i decided was perfect to forever. i’m simply going to say see you later, because that other close friend and i got to go up to Seattle for a day is only temporary.” and night. we were treated as if we were rich and famous, give Shannon my “it is okay” speech.
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Puyallup’s popular Winter Wishes program was pioneered in December 2009 by the leadership class, modeled off a program at Bethel High School. Wishes granted range from a candy bar to dental care. fact that we actually got the program going and the fact that people had a good time, in my mind, the first year was eeting a deadline can be a success.” stressful, especially when there It was decided to have the program be are around 1,600 high school held during the Alumni Assembly, which students holding you accountable to is put on in December before that deadline. Christmas break. The leadership class is meeting that “We wanted to have the program same deadline this December through around Christmastime, we wanted to the Winter Wishes program. do it when we had a good audience An annual event for the last four years, and we also wanted to show the every student and staff member is given alumni community how giving and one wish that has the potential to be how generous we are today as a school granted by the leadership class. and as a staff,” Principal Jason Smith The program began here when the said. “We inserted the program in there leadership class heard and it has been a big about the Winter success.” “ T H A T I S T H E Wishes program For the program BEAuTY THAT A being put on at to work, the LOT OF PEOPLE another school from leadership class DO nOT SEEleadership teacher needed donations. Jamie Mooring. WHEn YOu BrIng Local businesses “We got the idea A STuDEnT InTO and community from Bethel High THE OFFICE WHO members have School, so we actually supported the HAS nO MOnEY went to Bethel for a program through day and met with all F O r T H E H O L I D A Y S their donations. AnD WE gIVE of the people who “There are lots T H EM A $500 gIFT coordinated the of contributors. CArD FOr FOOD program to figure out Best Buy donates how it was supposed A n D Pr E SE n T S.” computers, Fred to look,” Mooring Meyer donates said. quite a bit—there is JASOn SMITH It was the students a huge laundry list Pr InCIPA L who wanted to start of folks,” Smith said. the program and “It’s amazing to me who got it running, how much will be according to Mooring. donated if you just ask.” Alumni Alex Fraser was one of those The leadership class tries to grant as students who began the Winter Wishes many wishes as they possibly can. program at PHS. The wishes they grant can range “We really looked at what Bethel from a candy bar to, one year, a student had and we tried to model everything getting free orthodontic care from a local off them and really think everything dentist. through,” Fraser said. “We basically While the program is a way to get started a to-do list because we had to students involved, it is also a way to help start creating a timeline of when we had students in need. to have certain things done.” Items such as gift cards for gas and The year after the leadership class food are given to these students. went to Bethel, they were able to get “That’s the beauty that a lot of people Winter Wishes running and ready. don’t see — when you bring a student “That December [of 2009] is when into the office who has no money for the we did our very first Winter Wishes,” holidays and we give them a $500 gift Mooring said. “[The leadership class] card for food and presents,” Smith said. had been bugging me to do it but I didn’t “To see them cry is just amazing.” know if we could pull it off. It’s kind of Even though the event is needed by one of those things that you either do it some students more than others, it is still well or you shouldn’t do it.” meant to be fun. While the possibility of the program “You get a lot of the kids who just want existed, the planning for Winter Wishes a candy bar or the kids who say, ‘Oh, I began. want a pony’ so you give them a My Little “It’s hard, because when you go and Pony,” Fraser said. “We try to be creative start anything it’s hard to have any and really try to get as many people’s expectations,” Fraser said. “You’re just wishes granted, even if it is in more of a hoping that it doesn’t ultimately fail. The funny manner.” b y m a d dy l u c a s o p / e d e d i t o r
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Why community service? new. [Community service is] a great way to have students who go through the Some people spend hours upon hours doing same schedule every day: get up, community service work. Others, may spend only go to school, do their homework at as much time as needed to graduate from high home and repeat. Break the cycle and give them a new perspective on school. There could be a reason why some people spend the world,” Rose said. A few people can do a great amount more time doing community service than others. These people, like senior and ASB President Jack of work. Work that doesn’t necessarily go Rose, could see benefits that others may not unnoticed. “Recently our first Key Club activity initially notice. “The benefit is obviously helping people but was spraying wood chips at the Puyallup you get to see what you’ve done in the community Playcare center the people were very and how it affects people,” Rose said. “[When you thankful... it was giving back to the kids do something for someone] they light up and you who go on the playground. We all get a good feeling inside and that’s what drives had fun doing it,” Snead said. “It felt good giving back. community service, at least for me.” Junior Molly Snead, Key Club president, sees It was very impressive, a community service as a way for students to lot of people showed up experience new things and break out of their even though it was 9 a.m. on a Saturday. It comfort zone. “I think it is important because you get students took 35 minutes and who are normally in their own little world we got it all done, it with their friends and family and it gives them was very cool,” The more experience to meet new people and see how they live their lives,” Snead said. “I think it also helps people who do people decide what career they want to go into c o m m u n i t y because it gets you involved in different stuff. service the more It is definitely beneficial to students in that way. good that can be The more experience you get the better, I think it a c c o m p l i s h e d , according to Rose. makes you more of a rounded person.” “Everyone needs Angela Reed, AP Chemistry teacher and adviser of the Viking Knights and Ladies, wants people to help at certain times in their life. If you help be aware of the power community service has. “It is a way to give back to the community that someone today hopefully you live in and enables you to learn about yourself they can help someone and each other. If I had the power to change the tomorrow,” Rose said. There might be more reasons to do community service, I would probably make it community service than more hours,” Reed said. helping people. So is there a particular reason “What they do not see people do not just jump up and “ E V E R Y O N E N E E D S do community service? H E L P A T C E R T A I N is that it is really fun. We hang out eating food, Ryan Reece, sophomore, TIMES IN THEIR playing games so it does gave one possibility. LIFE. IF YOU not seem like work,” “Some people look at HELP SOMEONE community service as physical T O D A Y H O P E F U L L Y Snead said. Community service is labor,” Reece said. THEY CAN work. There is however From carrying boxes full HELP SOMEONE a way to take your mind of cans to building houses, TOMOR ROW.” off it. physical labor is just one way “It is more fun with to help out. There is a range friends; we drove around of things students can do to JACK ROSE SENIOR on a golf cart cleaning contribute. up garbage. Doing not “I feel there is a great benefit necessarily fun jobs. with community service, such as tutoring kids, feeding the homeless, But you are with your friends on a helping charities. It’s all for a good cause. I think sunny day in the summer so it is community service is required to give back to fun,” Rose said. Not everyone goes out of their way people who gave us education and to help those in need and it should definitely be this way to not to do community service. Everyone only help, but to get kids in the mindset to look to has to do it though. “I think that it is a good idea to give get involved in their community besides school,” kids a taste of community service Reece said. Giving back is a positive part of doing hours. That way they have to try it, community service. To some people leaving their if they like it they can keep going, comfort zone is a downside to community service, if they do not they can try to find other ways to help out,” Rose according to Rose. “I do not think people are against community said. “Even if they do not like it service, I think people are against having to step they still helped out, so there is outside their comfort zone and try something not a downside.” B y
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Volunteers earn varsity letter for hours hardest part. Once you’re done with that it all falls have been receiving letters. “The number of recipients for the county and for into place,” Sidhu said. But students should be aware that the tracking PHS has increased through the years pretty steadily,” period is not a normal school year. Students in Pierce County can receive a Opstedal said. “The timeline is from beginning of April to the Last year, 54 of the 535 recipients were from varsity letter in community service through end of the next March. So this year [students can United Way if they have completed at least Puyallup High School. Senior Kenvaze Sidhu received a letter last year for document hours completed] from April 2013 to 145 hours of community service. United Way of Pierce County partners with competing 160 hours of community service through March 2014,” Sidhu said. In order to receive a varsity letter in community the schools in Pierce County in order to offer this Multi Care at Good Samaritan. “I got the varsity letter because it is recognized service, students must complete paperwork that can recognition program. Bethany Opstedal manages the Youth United by many sources where as just writing 160 hours be found at the website found with the QR code to the left and turn it in by April 1, 2014. on a college transcript is good but Program for United Way of Pierce County. “I finished the paperwork within a “The Varsity Letter in Community Service is a a varsity letter makes it official,” “IT IS THE week before it was due. I do not suggest school varsity letter for doing volunteer work both Sidhu said. SAME LETTER that,” Sidhu said. “Get the paperwork Students can do their community within the school and broader community,” AWA RDED FOR done. It is not that hard to put together.” Opstedal said. “It is the same letter awarded service through one single program ATHLETICS The United Way verifies all of the or through many events and for athletics and other activities.” AND OTHER paperwork and then sends students who The program was started for the programs. AC T I V I T I ES.” meet the requirements invitations to the Senior Emily Hurst school year of annual ceremony held each May. received a varsity 2001-2002 and “The ceremony was a great experience letter sophomore B E T H A N Y O P S T E D A L since then 2,583 because we sat with our school, so I was year and junior year letters have been UNITED WAY around all my friends. It was good to see and is on track to awarded. the people serving the community. Each individual receive another one this year. “ T h e “I volunteered at church events school was recognized,” Sidhu said. “It is a good time program was like camp and mission trips, at HOSA to listen to speakers and [see] the accomplishment of started in events, with Viking Ladies and at the our school, and every school what we accomplished an effort to Children’s Therapy Center,” Hurst as a community.” recognize The ceremony is also a reminder of why the said. and reward Jessica Anderson, math teacher students do the community service. local high “It is never been about the letter or even getting and Key Club adviser, recommends s c h o o l UNITED WAY WEBSITE finding community service that suits into college, it is always been about giving back,” students for Hurst said. your interests. their volunteer Students are encouraged to keep serving the “Pursue your career interests when considering efforts,” Opstedal said. “We felt it was as important to honor those giving community service. Contact businesses in your field community even after they have received their letter. “I definitely recommend that people keep back to our community through service and ask about opportunities,” Anderson said. There are many opportunities to volunteer in the community service in mind even after you are done as it was to honor our athletes.” because it helps a lot in the community and you are The first year that a student from PHS community. Students just have to find them. “I had always wanted to volunteer with Multi Care. appreciated. It is not just work,” Sidhu said. “People received a letter was in 2003 and only one letter was granted. Since then more and more students Getting up and getting the process started was the will appreciate you for what you do.” B y e m m a m i l l e r a n d S i e r r a t r y o n F o c u S e d i t o r / F e a t u r e S e d i t o r
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In order to graduate, a student needs at least 20 hours of community service. For some students, the hardest part is finding the right place to serve. Churches, food banks, shelters and environmental programs are all places that welcome volunteers. Career Specialist, Shelley Jellison, gives her advice about picking where to do community service. “The number one thing that I suggest students do when trying to select where they want to do their volunteer work is to pick something that is meaningful to them,” Jellison said. It is recommended that students get an early start on their volunteering hours to avoid limiting options and to give them a chance to
complete their community service pick up locations.” Another program that Puyallup while doing something they enjoy. Church provides is “The earlier students can start, the Nazarene more options that they are going to Thanksgiving Boxes, where they put together boxed meals for needy have,” Jellison said. Most churches provide many families. “Puyallup Nazarene community service Church assembles programs that approximately 125 benefit the less “THE EARLIER Thanksgiving boxes for fortunate. STUDENTS CAN David Rodes, S T A R T , T H E M O R E distribution to needy families identified in pastor at Puyallup OPTIONS THAT several elementary Nazarene Church, THEY ARE GOING schools in the valley as describes Freezing TO H AV E .” well as those Nights, a program associate more directly that helps the SHELLEY JELLISON with our own church,” homeless in our CAREER SPECIALIST Rodes said. area. Students may want “It provides transportation, evening meal, cots to volunteer their time at a food bank and warmth for the evening,” Rodes to help feed families in need. Northwest Harvest is an organization said. “Sometimes showers are available, breakfast, sack lunch and that provides food to hungry citizens transportation to specific drop off/ all over Washington.
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Jennifer Chew, volunteer program manager at Northwest Harvest, describes their mission. “Northwest Harvest provides nutritious food to hungry people statewide in a manner that respects their dignity, while fighting to eliminate hunger. Our vision is ample nutritious food is available to everyone in Washington State,” Chew said. Each one of these programs welcome volunteers and need volunteers to continue helping those they are reaching out to. Students volunteering their time to benefit our community contribute growth, prosperity and unity in our area according to Rodes. “Volunteers lead, give, serve, recruit and celebrate the successes of these efforts to bring quality of life to many in Puyallup,” Rodes said. “None of this would happen without a large number of volunteers.”
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44,309 hours is equivalent to about 6,817 six-hour school days of straight community service.
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Sept. 13, junior Wyatt Simmons was at home with his mother, waiting for the feeling in his legs to return, deciding when they should go to the hospital. “It was a blood hemorrhage shaped like a dumbbell wrapped around my spinal cord. It really hurt at first. One night at about 11 p.m. I started losing feeling in my legs. By 5 a.m. I had no feeling in my legs,” Simmons said. Sept. 14, Simmons was on his way into surgery, believing he would not fully walk for the next six months. “It was probably [Sept. 16] when I started walking with a walker at the hospital, with a lot of help,” Simmons said. Sept. 19, Puyallup High School’s football team used their home game against Kentlake High School as an opportunity to honor their teammate during his time of distress. “He was in the hospital and was not supposed to really do anything but he convinced the hospital to let him go to the game in his wheelchair, which was pretty
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“It was awesome, they had the stickers on their hardcore of him to do. He was really excited to be there,” helmets and it was the coolest thing. The fact that they senior and football captain Matt Voss said. According to football coach Gary Jeffers, dedicated the game to him just shows how much they appreciate the football team,” Dylan Simmons said. acknowledging their fellow player was a team effort. Friendships were enlightened and with “I think it was our whole team but our captains certainly initiated “ I W A S H O N O R e D A N D A it came a stronger sense of brotherhood. it. It made me feel proud of our kids L I T T L e B I T C O N F U S e D Wyatt Simmons says he has improved that they felt like it was important B e C A U S e I H A D N e V e R his relationships with others through ReALLY SeeN MYSeLF these few weeks of regaining health. to take care of and recognize one of AS THe CeNTeR OF “Like my brother for example, we were their brothers,” Jeffers said. ATTeNTION. I ALWAYS Simmons was always looking for W A N T e D T O J U S T H e L P at each other’s throats at one point and then this happened and now we are best little ways to add to the team. He OUT THe TeAM SO I friends, which I really appreciate,” Wyatt was grateful when he found out W A S H O N O R e D W H e N what his fellow players were doing T H e Y D e D I C A T e D T H e Simmons said. G A M e TO M e .” Voss confirmed that there is a for him. new found connection between Wyatt “I was honored and a little bit WYATT SIMMONS Simmons and his fellow peers. confused because I had never really JUNIOR “We gave him a helmet with all of our seen myself as being the center of signatures on it and a picture that we all attention. I always wanted to just help out the team so I was honored when they dedicated signed. It was good to see him [at the game],” Voss said. “I know for a fact that a lot of other guys feel like they [the game] to me,” Simmons said. Wyatt Simmons’ brother, sophomore Dylan Simmons, know Wyatt a lot better.” was touched by the dedication.
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Above: The football team used their home game against Spanaway Lake to honor Simmons, who had recently come out of surgery following a blood hemorrhage. Simmons convinced medical staff at the hospital to let him leave to attend the home game in his wheelchair. The team went on to win the game 47-20, one of their five wins so far this season. Captains Quinn Rawson and Matt Voss carried his jersey.
movie “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.” “It hasn’t affected any of my relationships with people,” Vreugdenhil said. “Some people could being doing their ohawks. Perms. Cotton-candy colored hair. hair for attention, but it’s not what I do.” The mass of dead cells atop people’s heads have Katelyn Corrado, an esthetician and the owner of Salon been a huge source of self expression for decades, Ish, a beauty salon in downtown Puyallup, explained how and the way people wear it has been changing for just as she believes that society has evolved into being more long. acceptable of mold-breaking styles. People nowadays look back and cringe at was once the “I think that hair color, specifically, has really progressed. height of style and in 10 years people may be looking at You’ll see not just the ‘eccentric’ person with wild hair their undercuts or copious amounts of bleach in the way color, you’ll see people wanting to just put a splash of that some look back at frosted tips or big ‘80s hair. pink in their normal blond just for fun. I do think it’s more Health teacher Susan Krippaehne remembers when she and more normal to see people with a more wild style,” was a high school cheerleader in the ‘70s. Corrado said. “I think for a lot of people, depending on “I wasn’t allowed to have long hair. The cheerleaders had their profession, they are able to be a little more flexible a dress code but for our hair. I had a bob. I think then bobs with their style and they’re more confident to be able to were pretty common,” Krippaehne said. portray that through their hair with crazy “But what we didn’t think was out there, “[A LOT OF you guys might look back and think that P e O P L e ] A R e A B L e colors or cuts or whatever that may be. We have so many people that go through big it was out there.” TO Be A LITTLe changes in their lives and then want big Styles have changed through time, not MORe FLexIBLe changes in their hair or hair color.” only through length and general cut, but WITH THeIR An example of that is Nick Pluskett, a with the emergence of colors beyond the ST Y L e .” senior at Rogers High School. Pluskett natural realm. shaved his half of his head and half of his K A T e L Y N C O R R A D O “I don’t recall that in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, eSTHeTICIAN beard for ASB pictures this fall. that we were doing any color. I saw it SALON ISH “In July we found out that my dad has starting in the 2000’s,” Krippaehne said. cancer in his liver, kidneys, adrenal gland Nowadays, one can see kids and adults alike with their and satellites in his lungs,” Pluskett said. “Unfortunately, tips or streaks or even whole head dyed one shade or there was nothing we could do to treat it because of another of the rainbow. Some people seem to think that previous medical ailments. Since I can’t really do anything people dye their hair outlandish colors for attention, but to ease his pain I shaved my hair off to support him and I sophomore Carissa Vreugdenhil disagrees. read him his daily devotions over the phone.” “It’s just a style. I think that’s mainly why people have The trends and ways people wear and style their hair is hair like they do: they just think it’s cool,” Vreugdenhil said. constantly evolving. Hair is just a huge part of personal Vreugdenhil has pink streaks and describes her haircut stylization. as “inspired by Ramona Flowers,” a character from the Ly d I A j o h n s o n r e p o r t e r
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calm me down. reflecting back on “gravity,” one thing Breathtaking and nerve-wracking, it is no wonder that “gravity” has a 97 per- that bothered me was the improbability cent “Fresh” rating on movie review web- of the whole thing. Stone needs to travel site rotten Tomatoes. directed by alfon- from the international Space Station to so cuarón, it is also number one in box the chinese station, Tiangong. unfortuoffices, having grossed $179,514,361 as of nately for her, the escape module she’s oct. 24 (Box office Mojo) despite being re- in has run out of fuel but after some oxygen-deprived hallucinations she released only on oct. 2 in the united States. alizes that she can use the landing jets i went into seeing to get to Tiangong. The “gravity” with moderately reality of space is that it high expectations, having “ThiS MoVie is infinitely huge, and heard good things about keePS you on going from Point a to it from friends but not e d g e T h e w h o l e Point B would be esquite knowing what it was way T h rough.” pecially hard due to about. i left feeling satishow the angle of the fied and really in awe of trajectory would space. lydia JohnSon need to be extremeThe compelling nothrePorTer ly precise in space. ingness that is outer space There was essentially just two is where the movie “gravity” takes place. in the movie, russia launches rockets to characters, only one of which destroy one of their own satellites, cre- had good development. in fact, ating space debris that hurtles towards a the storyline was more or less team of astronauts that are orbiting earth Stone accepting the difficulties on the space shuttle explorer, checking up of her past, she just happens to on the hubble Space Telescope. The debris be fighting for her life in space hits the explorer and ryan Stone (played at the same time. kowalski’s by Sandra Bullock) is flung out away from character felt too perfect the shuttle. Fellow astronaut Matt kowal- to me: intelligent, brave, ski (played by george clooney) ventures and willing to sacrifice out on a sort of space jet-pack to bring her himself so another may back. Before they can get back to safety, the live? although there explorer is destroyed and the two of them, (most likely) are people although together, are suddenly stranded. like that in the world, Stone and kowalski find themselves fight- i feel like that type of character is just not ing against time to get back home. “gravity” reminded me a lot of “life of believable. good charPi” (2012) in that both of them are very acters have faults and visually striking. Stone, in her tidy white the way that kowalski space suit, drifts further and further away was presented made from the audience towards the void black it seem that he had of space and countless shining stars. The none. But “gravity” is gentle curve of the earth serves as a stoic background to the chaos of an exploding more than its scienspace station. “gravity” is one of those tific ignorance- it movies that one should try to see in the- has likeable characaters because the huge screen really helps ters, an engaging plot and some stellar explosions. Besides, most movies do capture the beauty of it. But the cinematography is not the only have scientifically incorrect or unlikely elements (just look at any remarkable thing about movie with dramatic or this space adventure. Behuge explosions). ing a drama-thriller, this i think that “gravity” is movie keeps you on edge a wonderful movie to see, the whole way through. you so long as you are not too will be kept wondering if nitpicky. i would definiteStone is safe yet or will yet another disaster keep her from getting ly recommend seeing it if you like either home? oh, look, now everything’s on fire! Sandra Bullock, george clooney or space. in space! it seems that everything that Because some of the definite highlights could go wrong for Stone does go wrong. it of the movie are the visual effects and the was honestly very stressful to watch and i cinematography, seeing it in theaters and walked out of the theater feeling almost in in 3-d will definitely add to the experineed of a cup of tea or a warm bath to help ence.
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i’ve never heard a healthy glow shout “instead, let’s look like an orange piece of construction paper!” Self-tanner can be great and helpful when trying to achieve a less pale look. yet if your finger tips or the sponge you’re using can’t reach a visible spot that you should be applying the tanner to, don’t self-tan. Zebra stripes aren’t cute. one layer of self-tanner is a touch of sun. Two layers of self-tanner is the orange
piece of construction paper. Three layers of self-tanner will make you look like something that should be displayed in a bakery window. although it sounds delightful, no one wants to be looked at like they are crispy piece of puff pastry. under any circumstance of makeup and beauty products, less is more. This doesn’t mean that eye shadow, eye liner and blush are off limits. Just be careful when applying not to over emphasize your features. B a i l e y p l u M B | v a n g u a r d
more bronzer. if an abundance of bronzer is applied, The statement of “less is more” doesn’t you will most likely look like you’re wearalways apply to generations today. For in- ing an over-animated mask. if you still want to look like a california stance, you can never have enough money and every time a grocery trip is in the girl, move to california. Foundation can be your best friend and agenda, nutella has to be on the list, since if you follow the common rules above an endless supply is never enough. But if your need of nutella happens to you’ll most likely be more successful in the be spreading a thick layer on your face to looks department and with your complexachieve a natural glow or perhaps a smear ion overall. Self-confidence is a very important part of doritos crumbs for an instant touch of sun, you’ll probably be snacked on by a of everyone’s life but once again “less is more”. now, i understand the struggle with nearby raccoon. even if you are among the accused, i’m hair since it is a daily part of my agenda to sure an agreeable statement is that these deal with the bed head that i wake up with. in order to keep a less frizzy mane, many doritos- smeared faces would be a perfect snack for any hungry high school teenager. people turn to various hairsprays. Just because hairspray can work magic, in the world of foundation, one layer is plenty. if you’re using a stipple brush or doesn’t mean that copious amounts can be dumped on everything. foundation brush of any Start with brushed hair. sorts, start with a small “SelF-conFiamount and be prepared d e n c e i S a v e r y no matter how messy it to blend. Brushes usually i M p o r T a n T p a r T may look, it’s fixable. For up-do’s, it is better give a heavier coverage oF everyone’S to try and stay away from which has positives and l i F e ...” teasing. otherwise you negatives. even if you will obtain a literal bird’s need the coverage for an nest on top of your head arising breakout, it is acSaMi lynn and blue jays will be nesttually better to stay away neWS ediTor ing soon. from foundation. it can once you have obtained cause your pores to get clogged and soon your whole face will be your ideal look, a light mist of hairspray will do. never brush through your hair afbroken out. For a lighter, daily wear foundation ap- ter sprayed or your hair will separate into plication, using your fingers is the best sticky sections and look like you’ve just way. it is much easier in the mornings, not hopped out of the shower. even worse, only because it’s quick but it allows you to your hair can end up looking dirty. i use pantene curls hairspray because it never miss a spot. The main cause for greasy and broken can uphold the wrath of my tangled hair. out skin is foundation. if you can feel it, They also have a hairspray for straight hair. if your hair is between the two, go for the you’re wearing too much. keep in mind that color is key. if winter straight hairspray. it will be less dense and is coming, take into consideration that you cover easier. By using less hairspray you can will not look like a california girl forever. your skin will naturally lighten. no, the so- afford to buy more important things, such lution from looking ghostly isn’t to apply as... self- tanner? b y s A m i ly n n n e w s e d i t o r
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This is high school. What will you do? Join a club, band or sports team? Be class president or class clown? an athlete or mathlete? There are infinite possibilities.
But there is one thing, regardless of style, personality or personal goal: volunteer. volunteering is expected of us, from the class leaders to the class wallflowers. it is our responsibility, not just as a graduation
prerequisite but because it is our way of service will be invaluable to the school. Wondering what kind of work you contributing and making a difference. it shows who you are and what matters to would have to do at an elementary school? Michelle nelson, a paraeducator you. volunteer because you care about at karshner elementary answers that animals, education, the elderly, hunger or question. “[volunteers are needed for] assisting just because you want to benefit others. volunteer because you want change. the teacher in the classroom, tutoring, volunteer because you want to give back reading with or to students, grading to the community that raised you. anyone, papers and helping with bulletin boards. We also like volunteers for our events like everyone, can contribute. This year, i believe pHS students can go karshner karnival, reading night, and above and beyond the typical volunteering math night. We are always looking for help standards. We can, as a school, set a new of all kinds at all different grade levels and standard. This year, let’s make puyallup in all subjects,” nelson said. volunteering at an elementary school High remarkable by donating more than the minimum 20 hours service, by earning is an opportunity for you to give back to more varsity letters in community service the place where you started, but it also benefits you personally. than any previous year, principal Tim Mckamey by doing more to be “volunTeer Beand student teacher actively involved in our cauSe you WanT of chelsea greer community. To give Back To Midland elementary, This year, make THe coMMunilocated in the Franklin humanitarianism Ty THaT raiSed pierce School district, your choice. This is you.” commented in regards your opportunity. to the personal benefits. ask questions and “There is always determine what matters S ava n n a H Ja r r eT T grapHicS ediTor personal satisfaction to you. Then take action. in any volunteer work and if you’re really but it seems to feel interested but unsure of what to do, check the community corner amplified when you are there at the each issue for a new volunteer prospect. moment a youngster learns. in every kid’s From here on out, i will be recommending face, you can see a little of your own and new locations and provide information on it just feels good to see growth, success. i community service. aside from that, it’s think everyone can look back and think of that one teacher that made a real up to you. connection or impact and as a volunteer, This is high school. What will you do? you could be that one person for someone elementary, My dear Watson: So, to kick your community service else,” Mckamey said. if you’re good with kids, know how to use experience, i’m starting with the most logical, straightforward and easily a stapler or are simply looking for a place accessible volunteer location: an to volunteer this year, a primary school is elementary school. any elementary your best bet. They will have numerous school, you pick. no matter where you possibilities and the work, generally, is go, you will not be turned down. know i rather straightforward. So stop by your am telling you this truthfully, being the nearest elementary school and ask to daughter of a teacher myself when i say volunteer. is] a leadership “[volunteering primary schools are perpetually in need of volunteers. They will offer you reams opportunity, a chance to feel pride of work and whether it is tutoring kids and responsibility in helping someone or completing simple office labor, your younger. and it’s fun,” greer said.
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Above: Junior Cassandra Divis cheers on a teamate during the 100m backstroke, event 10 of a standard high school swim meet. “I can stay energized and spirited throughout an entire meet because it is exciting to see everyone get better. Swim is about beating your previous times and I like cheering for people to beat their own record,” Divis said. The swim team has won the SPSL Spirit and Sportsmanship Award the last 6 years. w our community so we show that through having team spirit,” Messineo said. Team spirit days twice a week has ver the course of the past few months, students may have seen brought the swim team together as one girls dressed in a certain theme. and has even planted many seeds of one may wonder why they are dressed in friendship into the hearts of girls on the team. such a manner. “having something in common that These girls are most likely members of the girls swim team at Puyallup high we all do, like being ridiculous together, School; a large and very spirited team with just helps us bond even more as a team. it helps us to become closer,” allen said. almost 60 teammates. when the team attends swim meets “Some people do not even know that we twice a week, they have spirit days and have a swim team, where the pool is, or the whole team dresses a particular way that we even have a pool. we just want to get the word out that we are here, we are a together. Junior Sierra allen has been part of the large portion of the athletes at this school girls swim team for three years and is one and it is one gigantic swim family. we want people to know that this is what we do it is among many teammates. “having spirit days was the captain’s idea what i do, and it is something fun that we all love and enjoy.” because we have never “we BoTh Feel Senior Mahalia done this in the past. Just knowing who the captains T h a T i T i S r e a l l y Jaramillo, team leader, iMPorTanT started on the swim [seniors emma Miller To h aV e T e a M team as a freshman and and Serena Fink] are, it S P i r i T , B e c a u S e has been a part of the fits their personalities to wiTh SPiriT team every year of her do this,” allen said. “The coMeS TeaM high school career. She coaches approved of it Pr i de .” plays an active role as a wholeheartedly because teammate and a spirited that is who they are. My caSi MeSSineo swimmer. top favorite one was girlS SwiM coach “Spreading kindness despicable Me day where and encouragement is we all dressed up like minions. we even got yellow swim caps to definitely my favorite part of being on the wear at the swim meet and our entire team team. having all that spirit and energy really builds you up and gets you motivated was dressed in yellow.” to swim for your team. when people are Tradition begins This is the first year that swim team cheering for me, i am not going to let them has participated as a team in spirit days down and i am going to do my best for my twice a week. The idea came from coaches team. it is a really big motivation to know andrea Stammen and casi Messineo, as that all of that motivation and spirit out it was a tradition for their swim teams all there is for us,” Jaramillo said. throughout their high school careers at C o m m u n i t y edmonds-woodway high School. not only is the swim team very close “andrea and i have been trying for and spirited team, but the girls also play years to get our captains to do it and the an active and very important role in the captains this year got on board and it community that is not to be overlooked. has been so much fun. we both feel that “[The girls swim team] has a really big it is really important to have team spirit, influence on making people feel part of because with spirit comes team pride. we a community and part of a group. i have have pride in our school, in our teams, and definitely met all of my closest friends on B y
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along with having so much spirit, the that team. i have seen a lot of friendships grow within the team and seen people girls swim team has also come through in make their closest and best friends there. helping the community by participating i think that is really cool that it brings so in a swim meet that was dedicated to many people together,” Jaramillo said. breast cancer and raising money for that “having team spirit days makes people particular cause. The swim team brought in baked goods, t-shirts and get more involved. it beverages to sell and raise is one more thing that “h aV i ng T e a M money for. all profits are sets us apart and really SPiriT dayS donated to breast cancer makes us our own MakeS PeoPle funds--this year the swim group within the school geT More team raised almost $1,000 itself, because that is in VolV ed. iT iS something that no one o n e M o r e T h i n g for the cause. “we deck out the pool in else does, so i definitely ThaT SeTS uS think that makes us a lot a P a r T a n d M a k e S pink and everybody wears pink. Some girls even wear closer.” uS our own pink wigs and it is really one meet in g r o u P. . .” spirited. That is my favorite particular, there were Mahalia JariMillo meet in particular, because very few girls on the Senior we are not only swimming opposing team so against our rivals to beat members of the PhS swim team went over to cheer for the girls them, but we are swimming for something who needed encouraging and positive bigger than ourselves. every single race is energy in order to perform their best in for that cause. That is another situation where spirit comes into play because we behalf of their team. “one of the things i love about swim all get really involved to try and make a is that when we go against a team when difference in our community,” Jaramillo some of the other teams have very few said. swimmers and we are a team of 50 almost I n c l u s i o n 60 girls, when they do not have enough The girls swim team has brought many members to cheer for their own team, girls closer together and helped girls to we cheer for them. Some girls will swim a feel comfortable to be themselves in and relay and will not have a single person to outside of school and also make many cheer for them from their school, so we lasting friendships. take on that responsibility by cheering and “when there are a lot of kids who get encouraging them” Jaramillo said. scared first coming into high school, or if coaches andrea Stammen and casi they are a freshmen they are really scared Messineo are in full support of the girls about what it might be like. it really helps supporting not only one another but girls the transition go better because they from opposing teams as well when the already have good friends from swim team; need arises. especially when they have upperclassmen “That is kind of one of our things as a they can turn to to feel supported if they team. we never want to take over someone need it,” allen said. “one of the things that else’s cheering, but if someone does not i look forward to every year, is having that have anyone cheering for them, we have close team. it helped me my freshmen year enough spirit to share. we never want at aylen when i was on swim team and it to take the place of someone else who helped me to get out of my shell a little bit. wants to cheer for their own team. we it’s helped me to make better friends for have enough spirit to spread around for high school.” everyone,” Messineo said.
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Heseltine said. “sometimes we have stunting camps on weekends and we have magine a silent football game. the only to go to other fall sports at least once a sounds are that of the football players week (water polo, golf, swimming, etc.). grunting and running across the field, as basketball season comes around we while the fans in the bleachers remain will become even busier with [up to] three games a week.” absolutely still. the physical effort that For most people, this is goes into each game and probably very difficult to “PeoPle do Not practice is also extremely do, considering cheering uNderstaNd high. has been a staple of most tHe dIFFIculty “a lot of people do sports for as long as they oF work we not understand all the have been in existence. do Because effort that goes into according to the usa t H e y H av e cheerleading. although it Federation for sport is not a sport, it involves Never trIed It cheering (better known a lot of athleticism and as usa cheer), the people t H e Mse lv es.” strength,” wolter said. leading these cheers did Pa Ige wolter “For example, we need not exist until 1898. cHeer caPtaIN the endurance to cheer “In 1898, [the for an entire football game university of Minnesota] was on a losing streak, and a medical which can last a long time. we also need student named Johnny campbell endurance for all those kicks we do.” what seems to make cheer even harder assembled a group to energize the team and the crowd,” usa cheer said in their for the team, however, is the fact that a lot of cheerleaders do not feel respected by History of cheer article. since then, cheerleading has evolved fellow classmates. “common stereotypes of cheer would into both a competitive sport and a place most definitely be the preppy, snobby, where boys are much less common. this is a major shift from the creation dumb cheerleader. Now of course this is of cheer when girls were not allowed to not a stereotype we are proud of at all,” Heseltine said. “these stereotypes really participate. cheer has also gained a lot of stereotypes, affect us by the lack of respect we get from which, according to cheer captain Paige others, not only from students but from staff as well.” wolter, are both harmful and misleading. wolter, who has been cheering since “let us be honest. everyone thinks of cheerleaders as ditzy, dumb girls that only sixth grade, has dealt with the stereotypes cheer so they can wear a cute skirt. this for a long time. “I’ve grown to accept the criticism definitely is not true. Many of the girls on our squad are involved in aP classes and we receive on the daily. People do not are cheerleaders so they can support our understand the difficulty of work we school and have fun spreading school do because they have never tried it themselves,” wolter said. spirit,” wolter said. this year might be able to change some spreading school spirit takes a lot of hard work, evidenced in the amount of time people’s minds, as this winter the team is that goes into it, which junior cheerleader going into competition season, with their first competition dec. 14. Julia Heseltine explained. “cheer can be looked at as a competitive “we have practices on Mondays and wednesdays and then games on either cheer team or a high school cheer team. thursdays, Fridays, or saturdays,” this year we are doing something new B y
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the eight year undefeated boys golf team earned another victory after a match with spanaway lake oct. 15. the team has a record of 81-1 with one tie in the last nine years. this past regular season the boys team was 10-0, leading into the sPsl district tournament. In the saturday sPsl district tournament out of 110 players, senior Mitchell Baldridge came in first, senior tanner kovacevich came in sixth, senior connor Mildenberger came in seventh and junior chase carlson came in tenth. In the final round, Baldrige, the team captain, shot 67 and took first by six shots. the state tournament for golf will be in May. Baldrige, carlson, Mildenberger and kovacevich all qualified. In all sports, training is an important factor. In golf though, it can take up a huge amount of time. “everyone on the team takes a lot of time out of their lives to practice in the off-season and during the season. It takes roughly two hours to golf nine holes and roughly four hours to golf 18 holes. so practicing everyday like most of the team does in the off-season requires a big time commitment,” senior logan Fitzgerald said. an undefeated record is hard to uphold. It is even harder to uphold when you have kept it for eight years. “the winning streak does apply some pressure. whenever we feel pressure to win we just try to stay in the moment and play one shot at a time,” connor Mildenberger said. coach glenn Halverson has been coaching for a total of 36 years, the last 13 of which have been spent on the boys golf team. dealing with pressure and hard times are a few things Halverson talks about in his coaching philosophy. “I want to instill fair play, I want to instill the fact that you never give up no matter what it is. It is just a good life lesson,” Halverson said. “when you are having a bad day you just get in their grind it out and get it done. If they can
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Golf continues state legacy come away with an attitude of fair play, honesty, integrity and a compassion for the competition then I have succeeded.” If the golf team lost, it would end their eight-year steak. Mildenberger does not think that there would be a negative impact on his team if that happened. “losing would affect my team drastically. But not in a negative way. It would make us work even harder than we already do and give us a greater sense of humility,” Mildenberger said. this past season, the thing that suck out to Halverson about his team was their spirit and pride. “they have a little fire in their stomach, they take pride in the fact that we have not lost a match. they would have gotten mad at themselves and they would try to rectify
it. they are handling it great especially the experienced players they view it as a challenge. they do not take anything lightly they always go out and try to do the best that they can,” Halverson said. For Mildenberger, it is not just the spirit or strength of the athlete that makes a good golf player. “the game of golf is almost all mental. of course you have to swing, chip and putt, but the way you play mentally is extremely important,” Mildenberger said. “It is a lot like life actually. you have to
make crucial decisions all the time, and what your score is at the end of the round often is determined by how you handled the good things and the bad.”