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nxiety seems to be running as wild as an influenza; capturing the vision of students in high schools throughout the country. Stress and anxiety go hand in hand. Sophomore Isabella Armenta has noticed the rapid spread of both as she witnesses students conquer schoolwork and assignments on a daily basis. “I believe anxiety is looming over teens these days, the amount of pressure we are under from parents expectations, homework and part time jobs are huge factors,” Armenta said. “It is crazy how much more homework I have this year and it is more time consuming on the students part, the main point of any conversation during school is homework and how stressed everyone is. Overall high school consists of less time for friends and more time to study and learn and quite possibly stress.” Jordan Leonard, a student at UW Tacoma studying

psychology, can also decipher how much anxiety teens are under while in high school. “Our world is fast paced and allows for no time to process. Teens are under pressure from many different angles: parents, teachers and future education. Parents are usually both working and have less time to spend devoting their time to their kids but that does not change what they expect,” Leonard said. “Teachers have certain requirements they have to meet by their students fulfilling educational goals. More so, college is more competitive than ever because we all know in this economy you must have a degree to succeed. Not to mention the peer pressure some teens may face. We live in a world full of dangerous temptations and teens are the most susceptible. Add all this to the hormones and a developing psyche and you get a day in the life of your average teenager.” Leonard also experiences anxiety first-hand since she goes to college and holds two jobs. “I took time off before returning to college so when I

went back I didn’t have the option of not working while in school. I work two jobs and I go to school full-time. I am determined to get into the accelerated Master’s program that UW has to offer,” Leonard said. “I face stress and anxiety on a daily basis. I worry all the time about everything in my life. I want to succeed and I want to make my family and myself proud but I don’t want to be burnt out before I graduate. I have to remind myself that I need to balance my time and fit in not only the mandatory but allow for time to decompress. I would lose my mind if I did not.” Hannah Heitman, junior, faces anxiety from finals and notices that school is the main source of anxiety, although some teens face issues at home as well. “Anxiety seems to be very prominent in teens today; we are all trying to get ready for college and we want our grades to be high, especially in junior year.

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or anything that Anxiety continued from page one hobbies allows them to focus on “This year finishing up finals was very stressful, which lead to some anxiety. In math I have had to make sure I understand everything and make sure I am doing everything I need to do to get the grade,” Heitman said. “In junior high, I had time to mess around; it was enjoyable since I was not worrying about assignments. Most of the time stress comes from schoolwork, sometimes it can come from family complications but overall that is just a small note to the anxiety teens can uphold.” Although teens are under enormous amounts of pressure, there are ways to handle anxiety and make it better. “Trying to lessen anxiety can be difficult but students could find ways to balance time better, take a break and try to put priorities forward and anxiety behind us,”

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Armenta said. Leonard notices the anxiety teens go through. A recommended way for students to lessen anxiety is to take a break and put your attention to something else as you come to terms with why you are stressed so that you can focus on things you need to get done. “I think the toughest part of being a teenager is managing what is happening inside your own head and I think that experience is very similar no matter what generation you belong to. When you are a teen your thoughts and feelings are magnified and managing that while dealing with whatever else you have happening in your life is very tough. I commend teenagers that make it through without scars,” Leonard said. “Teens need to have outlets to handle their anxiety. Being involved in sports,

something that is outside of their daily stressors can truly mean the difference between managing effectively or not.” If anxiety starts to alter perception and affect everyday life turn to a professional. “We, as a society, need to focus on getting our teens the tools to manage their stress and anxiety before it gets to levels that are not manageable. The tough part is that there are so many variables. I wish that counseling was more of a routine thing for teens, just like their physicals,” Leonard said. “Counseling and therapy have such a stigma associated with them when the proven positive benefits could prevent much for many teens. I think it is incredibly brave to ask for help and advice in a world that does not seem to have time for such a thing.”

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-Community Experience Evidence (Plan, Time Log, Evaluation, Reflective Essay) -or Varsity Letter in Community Service (Plan, Certificate, Reflective Essay)

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Online system continues Instructional Leadership-Technology Integration John Parker. “Entering course requests via HAC Last year the school implemented a new class registration process that provides students and guardians the allowed students to select classes online. ability to view the student’s next year The school is using the same online course requests as soon as they have been entered. Students/guardians will registration system this year. Registration for next year’s classes will be able to view these requests until the begin this month with a more refined end of the current school year,” Parker said. “When student course requests process of signing up for classes. Principal Jason Smith explains some of are entered via online course requests the reasons behind the online registration the user can confirm that the requests entered are accurate. The margin of error process. “[Online Registration] has been in the is greatly reduced if not totally removed, district for three years. This is our second when someone is not having to interpret a handwritten course request year at PHS doing it. Last year I was a little nervous “ I T H I N K W E form prior to manually entering each course into the about it but the counselors H AV E BE E N student information system.” did a great job walking me ABLE TO Students will begin the through the steps. Really REFINE THE [all] it comes down to is: P R O C E S S . I T registration process in late February according to onfamilies having their [HAC] IS A MORE time graduation specialist log-in, which they should EFFICIENT Annette Burnett. Students have and then really it is WAY...” will also be allowed to use the [about] putting the power library computers to register in the hands of the students JASON SMITH for classes. and families to go ahead PR INCIPA L “We will also be hosting a and sign up for their classes Registration Fair, formerly on their own,” Smith said. Efficiency is one of the main advantages the Curriculum Fair, for current and that using an online registration model future Vikings and their parents Feb. 20. has over using the traditional method, Mr. Smith gives a brief welcome in the auditorium. Booths and classrooms are according to Smith. “I think we have been able to refine the open for tours in the commons, atrium process. It is a more efficient way than and CTE building,” Burnett said. “Booths just the old fashioned paper copies. In are available by course department this ever evolving technological world (Math, English, etc) and programs (AP, that we live in, more people have used AVID, STEM, etc) and have staff and technology and we wanted to use it to students available for questions. Myself, streamline the process. I think the biggest Mrs. Jellison (Career Specialist), Mrs. [difficulty] was making people aware that Nebel (English Language Learner) and the there was something new and different,” Special Education department will also have booths. Counselors will be available Smith said. The online registration process is in the library for students and parents also more accurate than the traditional who want to start, review or complete the method according to Director of online registration process.” B Y

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A man sitting with a bundled up little girl tells us that he The city of Seattle hosted the largest event ever to be thinks it is outrageous that the Seattle Public Schools did held within its city limits Feb. 5. An estimated 700,000 people poured into the city with not cancel school for this ‘holiday.’ The teenager running down the street, shirtless, with a a population of 634,000 on a normal day. The streets were filled with screaming fans, decked out in green and blue, 12th Man insignia painted on his chest, skipped school to waiting hours to catch a glimpse of the players that had just come witness what he called ‘a historical event.’ The smell of bacon in the air came from one man on a won Super Bowl XLVIII. The Seahawk’s victory parade, under anyone’s definition, street corner frying up bacon and pancakes for his little was absolutely insane. People were packed, some 30- kids on a camp stove. Another group of fans that had camped deep in certain spots, to welcome home out overnight for their parade spot right the players and coaches of Seattle’s “JOURNALISM by the stadium were keeping warm with a professional football team. IS ALL ABOUT propane heater. Most people in attendance saw the SEARCHING OUT All around the swarm of people we saw parade as an opportunity for the 12th AND RECORDING stories in action, photo opportunities and man to celebrate, along with their beloved THE NARRATIVE happenings you will only get to see once in team, the Super Bowl victory. The parade THAT OCCURS your life; we wanted to tell someone these was a chance for so many of the fans to get IN ALL HUMAN’S stories when we came back to school the out and show support for their team. L I V ES.” next day. As journalists, however, we saw in the OUR VIEW This way of viewing events opens up a screaming fans and pandemonium as whole new world of exciting experiences. something a little different. When one looks closer, a bit under the Journalism is all about searching out and recording the narrative that occurs in all human’s lives. surface, they can be amazed at what they see. The Viking Vanguard encourages each and every one of In an event like a parade, we are looking for people who our readers to go out and try to view the world the way a have a story to tell and want their story to be heard. In everyday, mundane occurrences, we see a story to be journalist would. Seek out interaction with new people told. These stories come out especially in large events of and learn a bit about them. Dive under the surface and get to know different people and their stories. Look at each people combining together. Instead of seeing a faceless mob of screaming fans, we experience as a way to connect with fellow humans and strive to look closer and see what people are contained add richness to your world. Because every crowd of people is made up of individuals. within the mob.

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Balancing a job and school sounds like a simple task. In finish a 10-point assignment. Really think about what you have to do to get the grade my case, I have it easy: traveling five minutes from home every Tuesday and Thursday to a quaint Farmers Insurance you want. Then do it. Some would argue that the best way to achieve your office. goals is to stay up late and get everything done. Having a job is rewarding. You hold responsiGet everything done, yes. But take a break and bilities and get a taste of what a career will feel breathe. There is no need to deprive yourself of like, not to mention the money that you will obsleep and free time. tain. After work I notice that I slowly gravitate to the A normally busy day becomes every day. Just couch and have the ability to sit there and watch like any other commitment, it can be hard to reality shows until I realize that it is already the work around, especially with school and outside next day. The solution for me to get my homeactivities. work done is to finish an assignment and then Sometimes you have to sort through your prigrant myself five minutes of phone surfing time. orities. Now that you have school work and a job, If you focus and set your mind to getting your you have to realize that you cannot do everything SAMI LY NN homework done, you can get it done. Go to work, perfectly, there is just too much on your plate to NEWS EDITOR come home and get your homework done. Then focus on the small details. you can move on to watching Dance Moms, since Take into consideration that time keeps moving, there are only 24 hours in a day and eight of them it is oh so addicting. Ultimately having a job is a wonderful opportunity and should be dedicated to sleep. Get the assignments that you absolutely need to finish and put them at the top of your has many more positives than negatives. If you can learn to navigate your way and work through assignments and the list. At this point, it is better to be well rested and understand complications of scheduling, you will be prepared for the lessons in class than stay up for countless hours trying to extremely crazed life of being an adult.

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that goes beyond just stupid; it is ustin Bieber: you either selfish. love him or you hate When you drive under the influence him. you are directly endangering every I hate him. other person on or around Maybe it is too the road. strong of a word I just feel that somebody but I really do not who has so many people care for him. looking up to him (the It is not majority of whom are very his music. I young and impressionable) actually used to would actually take the lives commend him of others into some account for his success. before making such rash and He got famous dumb decisions. because of Kids are still looking up to YouTube and L Y D I A J O H N S O N REPORTER this guy and making excuses made it really for him — “oh, he is just a big; that is quite kid, he is bound to make impressive. mistakes.” What I hate are his actions But the thing that separates Bieber and the way he presents from other kids is that he is getting himself. every action recorded, and while that Of course, being a may seem unfair, he has a small troupe celebrity would be hard: of prepubescent children looking up to millions of people straining him; to them, he is a role model. to peek into your life with In fact, people all around the vast high-power cameras and no nation that is the Internet are still sense of personal space. defending the pig-headed pop star. But that sort of lifestyle is The blind loyalty of these such fans no excuse for J Biebs’ recent says a lot about how actions. prior A few “ A F E W W E E K S A G O somebody’s opinion of somebody weeks ago he HE WAS CAUGHT can directly influence was caught ROAD-RACING... how they react to what road-racing AND THIS IS that person does. while drunk WHERE WHAT Beliebers proclaim and high, WAS LEFT OF MY then resisted R E S P E C T F O R H I M their everlasting love for the boy in the arrest. WENT OUT THE comment sections And this is W I N DOW.” of videos criticizing where what LYDIA JOHNSON the young Canadian’s was left of my REPORTER questionable choices. respect for They defend his him went out music in the comment sections of the the window. same videos. While the stupid But what those people are not decisions of getting understanding is that nobody really drunk and high do seem cares about Bieber’s music anymore — to be in character for the what everybody is getting worked up pop star as of late, to make about is how he continues to like act those decisions and then such a disrespectful and stuck up little be audacious enough to get brat. behind the wheel is something

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Whenever I tell people about the sports I compete in, they accept track but often, when I tell them that I play Ultimate Frisbee, they generally respond in one of two ways: they either ask what ultimate is or they laugh and tell me it is not a sport. For me, being an ultimate player is a completely different experience than I have ever had playing sports. I play with a group every Friday

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a sport have never given it a try or have had to play the P.E. version which is nothing close to the actual way. It takes a lot of physical strength and endurance to play; the only rests you get during a game are the brief moments after a team has scored a point. Players have to be able to run sprints for almost five minutes straight and then somehow manage to be able to jump at least a foot to either catch the disc or block a pass. To those who believe that ultimate is not a sport, all I can say to you is just go out and try it. Find a group of friends a disc and go to a field. Just toss the disc around — you never know, it may become your new favorite activity.

night at the Mel Korum YMCA and participate in a league that they put on about three times a year. Very few girls play with the group and often I am having to guard guys that are substantially taller than me. On top of being one of the only girls, I am also the second youngest player as a junior in high school, compared to most of the players who are in college or have already graduated. When people try to tell me that ultimate is not a sport, I generally respond with a sarcastic quip about how it is more of a sport that curling and that is in the Olympics. I believe that most people who say that ultimate is not

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“YES. ONE DOG, A MINIATURE SCHNAUZER”

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Sophomore Daniel Yadon said his favorite part of he tells about one childhood memory related to food in Loring’s class is how enthusiastic Loring is with his work particular. “Who is that guy?” “[My parents] take me out to Japanese food for the — and his cynical nature. “Which guy? The one in the dark hoodie?” Loring is also known for his interesting teaching first time and give me chopsticks,’ Loring said. “I wanted “Yeah!” style; you may have heard about the time he walked on to learn how to use chopsticks. For some reason I kept The simple answer? He is drawing teacher Joseph his hands during class to help students understand the one of them and I am smashing around the house with Loring. a chopstick in my mouth because it still tasted like soy practice of “motion drawing.” The more complex answer? That is the guy whose Sophomore Keoni Otsuka was in Loring’s Drawing Two sauce. I fall, bang the chopstick into my soft palate and self-proclaimed “power animal” is the I am so young that I do not think to yank it out. I am class. raccoon. His favorite candy is Skittles and “ I D I D N O T W A N T “You actually do learn a lot [in Loring’s running around the house crying and screaming with he broke his knee while snowboarding in class]. I thought it was just going to be a chopstick poking out from the back of my throat and TO BE AN ART the Rockies. a class where you learned to draw but I gurgles of blood dripping out.” TEACHER UNTIL “I was in Canada and did not have Another interesting thing about Loring is related to his actually learned a lot. He finds a different I TOOK A BUNCH insurance,” Loring said. “The health care thing to do every day,” Otsuka said. “I favorite hobby — snowboarding. OF SCULPTING I received was really good, considering.” CLASSES [IN “I have been snowboarding almost every single always thought it was unique, some of His favorite song is anything by SCHOOL].” the stuff he would have us do. I never ski area from the north tip of Washington to Southern Hannah Montana (before the exposure would have thought it would apply to Oregon,” Loring said. of Miley). And nobody can forget to mention Loring’s cat what we were doing in class.” His favorite sports team? MADDY LUCAS Loring is aware of his different teaching obsession. Along with his favorite animal being the cat, OPINIONS EDITOR Duh… the Seattle Seahawks. he owns two: one named ‘Meeka’ and one named ‘Lexi.’ style. Loring has been teaching in portable “I love my cats,” Loring said. “They “I have only been in “[LORING] 11 — fondly nicknamed “Plevin” — for a year-and-a-half. three or four other classrooms and as are my babies. We walked our cat on a WALKED ON HIS Loring remembers when he realized he wanted to become far as operational procedures go, mine leash for the longest time because it did HANDS DURING an art teacher — when he himself was taking art classes. not have shots or was not neutered. And are quite different. The way that I deliver CLASS TO HELP “I did not want to be an art teacher until I took a bunch information is different as well, primarily then they got neutered and we do not STUDENTS of sculpting classes and I realized the reason I was taking because I have to set up my projector do that anymore.” UNDERSTAND those classes was because I was interested in the class, to every time I want to show a video,” Loring In all these parts that make Loring, ‘MOTION interact with people who were making art and talking to said. “Everytime I want to show something one thing stands out: he enjoys his DR AW I NG’.” them about what they were making and how they were I have to hook it up.” work. thinking about it, not about producing my own work,” “The actual subject that I do teach, Loring’s life extends beyond the world MADDY LUCAS OPINIONS EDITOR Loring said. that may be why I am set apart from of portable 11. He has many interesting Many students say they enjoy Loring’s class. This is stories to tell. other teachers. I teach a performance possibly due to his personality and his often sarcastic And not everything Loring has done is related to art; he class and everything you do in my class, there is proof as nature. you are doing it as far as drawing goes,” Loring said. “As also has stories related to cuisine. So what would he do if he were kidnapped in the back “I have eaten dim sum. There is all sorts of crazy stuff, far as other cultures and anything about time periods, of a car, what is the one thing he would want to have? I have eaten jellyfish and chicken’s feet,” Loring said. “I no. Not intuitive at all. But the drawing part of the class, “A super power that allowed me not to get stuck in [a] have had snouts and just weird, weird food.” that is exactly why I am set apart from other teachers. It is trunk,” Loring said. While food can be an interesting experience for Loring, because of the content.” B Y M A D DY L U C A S O P I N I O N S E D I T O R

Unique pets capture attention of students “There is not much daily care. You have to keep them fed and watered, clean According to the 2012 U.S. Pet Ownership out the hen house and collect the eggs,” and Demographics Sourcebook Witham said. “The biggest thing with the (USPODS), approximately 36.5 percent of chickens is making sure that weasels or households in America own dogs. These other creatures do not get into their hen slobbery creatures have bounded their way house and gobble them up during the to the top of the pet pedestal, claiming the night...that and the fact title of man’s best friend that we do not have a lawn “ T H E C H I C K E N S and never leaving their in our backyard anymore spot as the most popular A R E F U N N Y . T H E Y because [the chickens] F O L L O W Y O U pet in America. have torn it up.” Some people prefer A R O U N D L O O K I N G Sophomore Nora Loney F O R H A N D O U T S their pets with feathers agrees chickens are not A N D P E C K A T rather than fur, especially particularly hard to care YOU R SOCK S.” when these pets come for compared to her dogs, with fresh eggs. Although geese, ducks and snake. owning chickens is still “I like watching the ABBY WITHAM rare it has become more SOPHOMORE snake eat because it is popular, especially in very interesting watching urban areas. USPODS him swallow a mouse whole. The chickens states that over a million families currently are funny the way they follow you around own some sort of poultry. looking for handouts and pecking at your Sophomore Abby Witham has six socks,” Loney said. “There is not much chickens along with her cats and dog. Just to say about the ducks and geese; I like like Witham’s more stereotypical pets, all hissing back at the geese to let them know of her chickens have names (each given they are not in charge.” by a family member) and started out very The lack of interaction with the small. feathured animals leads Loney to not “We got them as chicks in the spring of consider them in the pet family. 2012. For the first month they were too “The chickens, ducks and geese are not little to stay outside so we kept them in really pets because they are not friendly; our bathtub. They were so small you could the geese hiss at you, the ducks run away hold them in one hand,” Witham said. and the chickens are just looking for food,” After the chicks grow up and start laying Loney said. eggs there is more work to do, but Witham Witham agrees that the feathered says that it is not difficult for the most part. creatures are not your typical cuddly companion. B Y

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“We got [the chickens] for the eggs. They are not suppose to come inside all though they do occasionally sneak in. For the most part they are just like our other pets, though. We still pick them up and pet them,” Witham said. Whether you consider chickens friends or food, both Loney and Witham agree that there are multiple benefits to chickens. “They are very amusing. They like to huddle in our window well and when you open the door or go into the backyard they come running thinking you are going to give them a treat,” Witham said. Besides the entertainment factor, having your own chickens also gives you your own fresh eggs. The quality of these eggs is one of the reasons chickens have gained some popularity over the years and another benefit to owning them. “The eggs our chickens make... taste way better than store bought [eggs] because they are free range which means we let them run around instead of locking them in a coop,” Loney said. W i t h a m added that one of the best things about having a rare pet in general was having unique

stories to tell about them. “When the chickens were really little ... we would take them outside to wander around for about an hour a day. The dog was completely fascinated by them and kept trying to pick them up with his mouth,” Witham said. “One time we lost Carmel who was the smallest [chick] so we were freaking out but we let the dog out and he immediately found her, picked her up and brought her to us. After that we did not worry about the dog with the chickens and the chickens loved the dog; they still follow him around.” Even though dogs effortlessly trump chickens as the most popular pets in America, being found in 43 times more households than poultry are, Witham’s story proves that dogs can coexist with less renowned, smaller brained and feathered creatures. It might be because, just like Loney, Witham and plenty of other chicken owners, dogs have discovered the benefits of having a chicken.

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Left: PHS junior Marissa Farlow and a friend wait for the parade to start.

“We found a spot at the very beginning of the parade so that as soon as they went by we could leave before everyone else left. But we were standing there for like four hours in the cold and I could not feel my feet.” – Andrew Lindsley, junior Left: PHS students wait for the parade to start. From left to right: seniors Logan Fitzgerald, Chris Helle, Kyle Hendricks, Hunter Davis and Tyler Patnode. Left: PHS students and their siblings wait for the parade to start. Front row from left to right: seniors Serena Fink, Sierra Carrington, Abbie Giustino, Megan Larson, Mackenzie Yerbury, Haley McCann and siblings. Back row from left to right: Seniors Abby Dovre, Kim White, Hailey Smoot, Macrae Salisbury, Jeff Russel, Allie Roland, Julia Roof and Garrett Balmer.

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Right: PHS students wait for the parade to start. From left to right: seniors Madison Mastroccoco, Maddy Lyon and McKenna Mains

“The Seahawks did a lot for our state by winning the Super Bowl. They brought unity to “I wanted to the people in a time that really see my favorite needed it. I feel like a part of players. I something. So even though I have liked the know I would just be another fan Seahawks ever in blue and green, I wanted to since I saw my be a part of that head count that first game when made us famous for the 12th I was little.” man. I suppose I also secretly –Brant wished Marshawn would ask me Edmonds, to marry him.” junior -McKenna Mains, senior “Next time I will watch from my couch because people in crowds in Seattle were dumb. They would walk to the front of the line or crowd, walk down the parade route and just stop in front because everyone wanted to be in the front.” –Aaron Strobl, junior

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The sets Burton uses are also quite fantastic. You can tell that he Nightmare before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and a lot of time and care was taken to either set up or draw the the Giant Peach-- a few of his childhood classics; deathless. Throughout our lives director Tim Burton has stunned us with his bizarre and environment that the story takes place. Like the scene from the unusual movies and spins on other works, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Nightmare before Christmas, where the pumpkin king Jack is In elementary school we all read and watched this classic literary work. But in 2005 pondering what is missing from his life (which ends up being love). In the grave yard there is this strange... I guess you could call Burton took his own spin on it. Like everything Burton seems to do, it had a rather dark and morbid theme to the it a hill, which Jack walks across. This one scene from this one work of Burton’s is quite famous and memorable. movie. Even in scenes where Burton is remembering a While watching Burton’s version of Charlie and the chocolate “EVEN THOUGH brighter or happier time, there is still a clear allusion to factory, I almost had an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. It PEOPLE ARE death. The sun is never bright, everything always seems to seemed as if everything in the move had some hidden connotations GETTING have a shroud of darkness upon it. associated with darkness that I just could not see. MURDERED AND Which is something else I have noticed. In a number of But on top of the bizarre and morbid flare, I feel that Burton must THEN FED TO Burton’s films, if there is ever a happy time, it is usually also be very funny. OTHER PEOPLE, in the past, while the present is depicted with Take Sweeny Todd for example, a story about a ‘demon’ barber who is tormented throughout life, and when escapes prison, becomes a B U R T O N M A N A G E S his usual darkness. I cannot help but feel that TO MAKE YOU he is putting his own personal opinion into his mass murder. L AUGH.” films, like he is showing us that the past was a Todd’s lover was taken away from him, and when Todd returns brighter time and the present or future is dark from London after his bondage, she is thought to be dead. unhappiness. PATRICK FA IRBA NKS With the news of his loss Todd moves to the street where he used to A&E EDITOR Some people might find this unattractive, live happily, where he meets a kind meat-pie maker. but seeing as how all of Burton’s films are quite dark, Both the chef and the barber are rather deranged and start I think this style fits him perfectly. murdering people under a shaving razor, and then turning them into On top of Burton’s works from our childhood, he has also made a film that has a vastly popular “meat pie.” Throughout all of this there is a humorously dark theme. Even though people are “grown up with us,” meaning that while some of the older movies are a little more getting murdered and then fed to other people, Burton manages to make you laugh. child-oriented, in 2012 Burton came out with a new-aged comedy movie called Dark The fact that the movie is a musical makes it that much more hilarious. Happy and Shadows. This movie is utterly hilarious. Everything about it is filled his morbidly dark hilarity. cheery songs about death really speak to Burton’s dark humor. I think the fact that Burton is able to make comedies, And the music, oh the music. This is what makes a lot of his movies so timeless to me. Whether is it is the cartoons, musicals; spins on the works of others or create a soundtrack from one of Burton’s musicals, or simply the film score of wordless songs world of his own shows that he has a wide variety of talents, of which he is at the pinnacle of skill. from one of his traditional films, it is sure to be both beautiful and strange. But over all of his skill as a director, beautiful I think that the fact that Burton creates both musical and non-musical movies orchestrated soundtracks, and hilariously dark really nods to his abilities as a director. Burton also uses a lot of claymation which like all of his movies is seemingly flawless. mood; I appreciate that Tim Burton is no one except Even though they are made of clay or cartoons, the characters and environments Tim Burton. With his extravagant and unique spin on all of his works, he has engraved himself in cinematic history. interact with each other as if they are real. When you watch one of his many films, you can almost feel in your bones that you are watching a Burton movie. And I think that it is something many movies and other forms of art or missing. It’s as if Burton himself is an allusion to everyday life. An allusion that if we choose to be individual and stay away from the usual, that we too can be as interesting and timeless as Burton is. We too can be bizarre but deathless.

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make it to Jade Lake, their adventure was in the beating sun, shirtless.” not ruined. Patnode went on to explain the effects. “The whole lake was to ourselves, it was “All of us got pretty nice sunburns,” really beautiful,” Helle said. Patnode said. At Fisher Lake the group made camp for But sunburns did not stop them from the night and took precautions. enjoying the hike. “There were bears out there. The trees “There was snow so for the way down we brought trash bags. We used them as were all scraped up on the bottom,” Helle sleds. It took like six hours to hike up and said. “We tied up all our food but we 30 minutes to get back down,” Hendricks accidentally left a bag of beef jerky under our tent.” said. Gallucci chuckled in response and Since hiking Camp Muir, the group has hiked to many different locations around explained the jerky incident. “It was under my pillow. I kept it to eat it Washington. “We have also hiked Mt. St. Helens, at night,” Gallucci said. As it got darker, the group became more Mailbox Peak, Fisher Lake and we stayed at my cabin on the Sound,” Fitzgerald said. concerned about Patnode. ”We figured if we did not meet up with The group is spontaneous with their Tyler by 10:30 that night that we would activities. either never see him again “It is Adventure Club or he just did not go,” right?” Hendricks said. “[ADVENTURE Fitzgerald said. “If you know exactly CLUB] IS ABOUT While the others what you are doing, GETTING OUT OF camped out by Fisher exactly where you are YOUR COMFORT Lake, Patnode and Evan going, is that still an ZONE AND LIVING Bedlion, a 2014 alumni, adventure?” Faber said. A LIFE YOU had made it to the The club’s biggest ENJOY” trailhead and started to adventure yet came from search for the group. their excursion to Fisher LOGAN FITZGERALD “Evan and I were lost by Lake in July. SENIOR like 9 o clock. It was dark “It was like an hour by this time so we started drive off the highway down a gravel logging road into the middle yelling their names to try and find them,” of nowhere. At the trailhead, it was us and Patnode said. “We heard a Coyote noise so one other car parked,” Fitzgerald said. “We we grabbed rocks and ran back to the car to sleep.” began our hike from that point.” In the morning the large group realized Gallucci went on explain what happened that Patnode had come looking for them. when they departed on the trailhead. “We were all worried because we had “We hiked about 10 miles out into the North Cascades,” Gallucci said. “We got barely any reception and we received a message in the morning from Tyler that lost in the wilderness for like two days.” Getting lost turned out to be an said ‘on my way’ from the previous night,” Hendricks said. “We were like, ‘oh god he interesting experience for them. “It was pretty crazy. We were trying is out here lost in the middle of nowhere.’” The group packed up and started to find Jade Lake. After five hours of wandering we found a lake, which we heading back. “Twenty minutes into our hike back we found out is called Fisher Lake,” said Hendricks. “Tyler was supposed to meet hear a faint yelling that sounded like Tyler. up with us at Jade Lake later so we So we start screaming ‘Tyler’ and he yelled were actually hoping he would back,” Faber said. Finally, the group was reunited. not come because we could “It was in a meadow,” Fitzgerald said. not even find Jade Lake.” Even though they “We dropped our bags and ran towards did not each other and had a warm embrace.” Despite the troubles along the way, the club agrees that Fisher Lake was their biggest adventure and most

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memorable experience. This group has become about more than just hiking. “Adventure Club is based upon the motto of making things happen,” Patnode said. “Its about not using this life as a waste but as something in which to make memories.” Fitzgerald seconded Patnode’s statement. “It is about getting out of your comfort zone and living a life you enjoy. Whether it be through hiking or not is not the point,” Fitzgerald said. “You have to make life happen and not just let it happen and that can be done by getting out of your daily routine.” Adventure Club has also become a way for good friends to get together and has become especially important with college close on the horizon. “[We do these things because we know] that once college hits, we are going to be going our own ways,” Faber said. “Just being with lifelong friends is great because we do not know if we will see each other next year.” Hiking is an escape from the every day world. “It is kind of a nice place to escape the school world. I mean you can hang out at home but you go outside and it is a whole other world,” Faber said. Gallucci agreed with that idea. “Here in town you are under constant surveillance but out in the mountains anything goes. You can do anything and no one will say a word,” Gallucci said. As for the future, the club remains optimistic. “There is a list of things we want to do this summer,” Gallucci said. The list includes several more hikes around the northwest. “We are thinking about the Wonderland trail, which is about 10 days. We’re going to do Mt. Eleanor and the hot springs are high on the list,” Faber said. They went on to explain the final dream of the group. “We are going to be California beach bums,” Hendricks said. “We are going to go down to southern California and live on the beach for like two weeks,” Gallucci said. “Not bring any money, just hitchhike and have an adventure together.”

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“The club needs to go snowboarding today,” senior Derek Faber said as he sat down. “Tyler, can you go snowboarding?” “I want to go today,” senior Tyler Patnode said. A chorus of ‘me too’s filled the room as the members of the self-named “Adventure Club” made impromptu plans to go snowboarding that day. Last summer, seniors Derek Faber, Nick Gallucci, Tyler Patnode, Kyle Hendricks, Chris Helle and Logan Fitzgerald banded together to make up the “Adventure Club,” a group of friends that get together to hike and experience the outdoors. Faber explained how the group came into existence. “It was kind of a mutual thing because Tyler went on some hikes and Nick and I went on some hikes so we kind of merged into one group,” Faber said. Their first hiking trip as a group was from Paradise to Camp Muir on Mt. Rainer, a 10-mile hike. “Camp Muir was pretty wild,” Faber said. “The hike was in the middle of July in the snow for five or six miles

Seniors Nick Gallucci, Tyler Patnode, Logan Fitzgerald, Chris Helle, Kyle Hendricks and Derek Faber crossed an abandonded railroad bridge near Elbe, Wash. during a hike in summer 2013.

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or the unskilled few, Pinterest can be like navigating a maze full of impossible projects that you wish you could do. I am one of those unskilled few. I can take a salmon patty and turn it into a burger that secretes more oil than an oil tanker. I decided to tackle several Pinterest projects in the hope of discerning several tips that can help you avoid a Pinterest failure.

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Peanut Butter Fudge:

Few things top rich and addicting fudge. Who would have thought that a recipe containing maybe three steps could be botched? Somewhere within those three steps, I made a mistake and instead of getting fudge I got a crumbly, sugary flat square sheet. At least it tasted good. When making fudge you need to keep the idea of thickness in the back of your head. If you want to add thickness to your fudge you could either increase the amount you are making or you could use a smaller pan. I did not think of either when making my fudge so that explains the sheet of paper I got. If I had boiled the fudge for longer than I had, it might have been more thick. I was only a few seconds from the desired time in the recipe, even if that would not help the problem when making fudge you need to watch out for how long you are boiling it. Spend too long, you might get what I did, do not spend enough time and your fudge will not set. I have seen both scenarios.

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At first this project seemed like a great idea. A brownie covered in an Oreo truffle layer. What could go wrong? Not reading all of the directions ahead of time, not knowing what a truffle was and not having all the right equipment; that is what could go wrong. It did not seem all that hard when I skimmed the directions but as it turns out, it was all that hard. You start with making a brownie, which is the easiest part. For me, this was the only part that came out any good. It turns out for the next part you will want to get a food processor. Do not have one? Well, you better get out your trusty Ziploc bag and rolling pin, you are going to need them. Using only these two items I had to turn a package of Double Stuffed Oreos into a fine powder. Needless to say, I did not get the finest powder out of my Oreos, before turning them into a truffle. If you are thinking about making this, the single most important thing you need to know before hand, is what dipping chocolate is. If you thoroughly read

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You can probably guess that I am not good at origami. The goal for this project was to get an octopus-looking creature from a single sheet of paper. There are seven steps to this craft. Unless you count making a square base followed by a frog base, then it is nine if you count each as its own step. I have done origami before. Granted they were all simple elementary school projects. Still, I deceived myself into believing yet again that this project was going to be easy. To simply begin you have to know how to make a square and frog base and that is before you get to step number one. My first tip to you, if you want to make this, is to know at least these two

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I spent over an hour trying to make the origami camel. Many would look at what I made and say I did not try at all. They would be wrong; my final product was the fourth or fifth attempt at making it. I would say that what I made was closer to a table than a camel. I do not have a whole lot of tips for this project, I could not complete it. I am not that good at origami or folding in general. The biggest thing with this project was that it was not step by step. Each image was several steps and you just have to guess at what is going on with no writing or directions. If you were to ask me, I would say you would have to be an expert at origami. It does not really seem to be meant to be recreated; it seems more like a post to show what the camel looked like at various times in the project than a stepby-step guide. If you are good at cooking, origami or just want to try these projects out then let my guide serve as a way to avoid failure. They are not inherently Pinterest failures, they all work in some regards such as flavor, being easy to follow or being designed for those with some pre-existing skill. I was just unable to get them to work. Hopefully you can learn from my failures.

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me and my expectations. The team has prepared for their season both mentally irls basketball has had a season for the books, and physically in practice and game situations. winning their tiebreaker game against Curtis High “We always have a pre-game ritual where we sing School last weekend at Spanaway Lake High Hey Baby, Silent Night and Make a Man Out of You from School, taking second place in the South Puget Sound Mulan. That is just how we get pumped up before every League South. game. Physically we stretch and practice hard,” senior “I did see ourselves in second place, not necessarily in Hailey Smoot said. “Team to us means playing together the possibility of having to do tiebreakers but you never at all times; playing all four quarters, holding each other know what team is ready. Every night you come out on accountable for things but not being rude about it. After the court and you need to bring your best game, especially every game we put our horns to a member on the team if you are at the top which we were last year,” head coach that did something good for us, was really encouraging or Cherokee Ainslie said. “You know made a lot of good shots for us. They were people are going to want to dethe leader that night.” “THE DOME IS throne you or come after you. This Credit is due to the coaching as well as OUR GOAL AND is a nice change for our season FOCUSING ONE the athletes for this season’s successes. because in past years we haven’t GAME AT A TIME “You have to always make sure as a had that competition and there is a CAN TAKE US coach you are staying positive and uplifting positive piece of ‘oh there are girls T H E R E .” but also as a coach I have to pick out the we can beat? Okay let’s try that,’ so things we need to improve because that is that is nice for the girls to have.” the only way we are going to be able to The season started in November PAUL A GIMMESTA D keep going. Keeping that balance is difficult SENIOR and has been building momentum like teaching the kids to be positive with towards one goal for the girls: to themselves even though we are working on play in the Tacoma Dome. things that are a little more difficult,” Ainslie said. “It is “Having gone so far last season after not even making it hard but it is rewarding to see them get things right; to to the post-season two years ago has been super exciting. be moving their feet to the right spot and get the charge So coming into this season we have all been super pumped instead of the blocking foul or when you actually have to keep that past legacy going and let people know that them hold a little longer and see them get a nice big stuff Puyallup is not something you want to mess with,” as block. Now we are starting to block out as a team and senior Paula Gimmestad said. “The Dome is our goal and rebounds are getting easier to all people not just our bigs. focusing on one game at a time can take us there.” It is rewarding as a coach and player and trying to remind This is Ainslie’s second year as head coach and her them of that is important.” second year with many of the girls out on the court Girls basketball is looking on towards post-season play everyday. to finish out their record season. “This year there are not a lot of new faces because “We are a quick team and we all have lots of talent last year I only had two seniors, I have pretty much that but sometimes we get really excited. We love playing whole squad back besides three. It is a little different together, we have been since elementary so we know how because now we have different leadership, which is fine; each other works and plays,” Smoot said. “We are not very they are doing a great job leading each other and working disciplined so sometimes we just do whatever we want but together,” Ainslie said. “The team bonding part has been we are always looking for improvements.” nice to have this year and they have that year of knowing

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Anyone that knows the Bartelson sisters knows that they have been proactive wrestlers almost their whole lives. What most people do not know are the things they have done to get there and continue to do in their daily lives. Sophomore Jordyn Bartelson explains Bartelson said. Jordyn Bartelson expounds on her her goals for this year as a wrestler. Last year she won at State for wrestling as a experience being a multi-sport athlete. Her team traveled to Florida over winter freshman. “Our goal is to go back to State and win break and over the course of the last year another title. This year my goal is for my they traveled to Texas, California, Idaho, sister to win; I want my sister to win more Chicago and Oregon to compete against than I want to win myself. So I mean, other select teams. “Over winter break was a really working hard for her is really benefitting me too because we are both competing,” important time to be here and practice Jordyn Bartelson said. “She is my sister but I had to go to Florida for a week with and I want to see her succeed and do soccer and miss that practice time with my sister. When everyone well this year. Before season “I THINK WHEN else was practicing, started I told myself that I was YOU DO A SPORT I was in Florida and going to work hard to make YOU SHOULD it is tough,” Jordyn sure she gets there. We are A L W A Y S D O I T T O Bartelson said. “We pretty close, she has been my practice partner ever since we T H E B E S T O F Y O U R have league games ABILITY AND GO in California so were little.” Not only is Jordyn Bartelson F O R T H E H I G H E S T sometimes I have to G OA L YOU C A N.” miss tournaments a state champ wrestler but she and stuff like that to is also a multi-sport athlete. ARTELSON go to soccer. There She plays club soccer for the B R O O KFLRYENS HB M AN are positives and Washington Premiere on the negatives. With soccer ECNL (Elite Clubs National League) team. Her team went to National I get that extra conditioning but on the Championships and is required to trek all other hand I am missing practice, drilling and practicing with my team. It is kind of across the state for their games. “I have to travel with my team a lot and tough but it all works out in the end.” Currently, Jordyn Bartelson plays soccer miss wrestling practices this year which is really tough. My sister and I do a lot of extra and wrestles; she used to play fastpitch practices outside of school and we pretty on top of both those sports as well. She much practice seven days a week. A lot of enjoys being a multisport athlete but the time I go from wrestling practice to along with that comes the battle of time soccer right afterwards. Then sometimes I and overlapping schedules. “Both of us used to play fastpitch, soccer go to another wrestling practice on top of all that. Doing wrestling and soccer at the and wrestling but then I quit fastpitch and same time is a lot to keep up on,” Jordyn went to my soccer team and Brooklyn quit

soccer and went to fastpitch. It was hard sister win at State for wrestling last year and I really liked all the sports I played. from the bleachers of the sweaty, intense That is why I just play fastpitch for the high gym they competed in. “It was pretty cool because Jordyn went school now,” Jordyn Bartelson said. Jordyn Bartelson and her sister were half way through the year to wrestle at the not very serious about wrestling until high school since she was not really sure about seventh-grade at Edgemont if she wanted to wrestle without my dad Junior High. Up until that year they were coaching her. So she went there about half not competitive wrestlers but when way through the season and it was cool to competition stared them in the face they watch her win state because of how hard she worked,” Brooklyn Bartelson said. had to say yes. Brooklyn plays fastpitch for the Lady “When we were younger we kind of just went to practice and matches and stuff. Hawks as a freshman. Though she is also But then in seventh grade we started to do a multi-sport athlete, her schedules do not a lot more with tournaments outside, for conflict as much compared to her sister school and extra practices. We just got to Jordyn. “Right now it is not really hard because that age where we wanted to win and we wanted to be the best,” Jordyn Bartelson we only practice a couple days a week. I have batting one day during the week and I said. Last year Jordyn Bartelson went to State usually come home from practice, go for an wrestling as a freshman and competed for hour and then back to practice,” Brooklyn Bartelson said. “It is not the State title. Though it “OUR GOAL IS really too bad because was intimidating for her TO GO BACK TO we just practice on the to be standing alongside STATE AND WIN weekends [primarily high school seniors she gave all she had to give A N O T H E R T I T L E . I Saturday and Sunday]. WANT MY SISTER Usually I do not go to and reaped the rewards. TO WIN MORE practices on Saturday “It was exciting but I THAN I WANT TO because of tournaments did not expect to win; I W I N M Y SE L F.” and things like that but did not really know what I always go on Sunday. was going to happen JORDYN BARTELSON SOPHOMORE We practice three days a because I was such an underdog and I wrestled week. We have batting one a senior in the finals. I just decided I was day a week and then practice for three to going to go out there and give it my all four hours on Saturday and Sunday. I think because I did not have anything to lose,” it is pretty easy right now, you just have Jordyn Bartelson said. “It is really tough to learn how to balance things and know to win as a freshman because you do not your priorities.” have as much experience as all the older Brooklyn explains her wrestling kids there. You just have to come out with background with her dad who has been that confidence that you are not going to coaching for over 20 years, who is also a be beat and that you want to win. But on coach to her and her sister. Unlike many the other hand, anyone can beat you on other athletes, Brooklyn and Jordyn any given day.” Bartelson have been practicing with their Jordyn’s sister, Brooklyn Bartelson, dad since they were old enough to wrestle. a freshman at Edgemont Junior High, For the complete story go to describes her experience watching her vikingvanguard.com

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Ba t i n ov i c h deserves this honor. “I think it is great that he is in the Hall of Fame, he is a very successful coach and we have had great players come through [the program] that were very successful because of him,” Miller said. “I know it means a lot to him, he has been teaching and coaching here for a really long time and deserves the recognition, so getting inducted into the Hall of Fame is great accomplishment. I feel like people are more respected once they are honored like this.” Although the induction is a great honor, Batinovich gives credit to the people who have been there along the way. “I just keep plugging away coaching because I enjoy it and I enjoy being around the players and this is just a nice reward. I have had some great assistant coaches over the years and good players come through over the years, it is just a testament to the program, the parents that support their kids playing the game and it all adds up together,” Batinovich said.

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Batinovich is a board member for the since Washington State Coaches Association for 1990. He has had the chance softball. to play against Welling many times over the “I was originally on there as a years. representative for the sport of volleyball “I have coached against him for the last and that was a three year term. My term 10 years, we have had was up but coincidentally good games against they had openings on the “ [ B A T I N O V I C H ] I S each other he has board for softball so they A V E R Y S U C C E S F U L always done very well. asked me to start another C O A C H A N D W E I am very familiar three year term,” Batinovich H AV E H A D G R E A T with what he does and said. “We have meetings at PLAYERS COME how he does it and he least three times a year and THROUGH [THE does an excellent job,” all the representatives come P R O G R A M ] T H A T Welling said. “Playing to the meetings and we just W E R E S U C C E S S F U L against him, I have seen kind of discuss our concerns B E C A U S E O F H I M . ” his organization skills, about the direction of athletics the level of skills his in the state of Washington MARISSA MILLER players possess, the way SENIOR and then we meet with the he coaches, the way he Washington Interscholastic treats his players, the Activities Association, which is the group way they respect him and I know he has that oversees any high school activities given a lot back to the community through that compete in the state. We tell them our his coaching and that is someone who has concerns about state tournaments, rules hall of fame qualifications.” and other things like that.” Senior Marissa Miller has been playing Retired teacher and coach Bruce Welling softball for 10 years, four of which have was a teacher for 42 years and had coached been coached by Batinovich. She agrees that

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hen you are passionate about a sport, you do not do it for the recognition, you do it for the love of the game. But it is still nice to get some respect. As of Feb. 15, teacher and coach Tony Batinovich will be inducted into the Washington State Softball Hall of Fame. Batinovich has been teaching for 32 years and coaching for 22 years. Aside from softball, Batinovich also coaches volleyball. The honor came as quite a surprise to him. “I got a call from a man named Tom Harmon who is the President of Washington State Softball’s Association. He told me I was selected and I could not be happier,” Batinovich said. “Bruce Welling from Central Kitsap is in the Hall of Fame and the rule is that current members nominate someone to become a new member; he nominated me. He went to a committee, they voted and I guess I was chosen. There are three of us being inducted. Myself, a retired coach and a current coach at University High School. ” Aside from teaching and coaching,

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