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SMOKING, VOTING AGE DISCUSSED

Campaigns to push voting age down and smoking age up have gained support. Senior Isaiah Hall and school nurse Karen Smith discuss the changes that would occur at PHS should these laws change. drafting] have sort have been tied together for a while now. Initially [voting] was lowered to 18 because [18] was Citizens can vote and purchase tobacco products at age the drafting age. It is possible that if the voting age was 16, 18. This may not be the case for long—some states have the drafting age would come [down] with it,” Hall said. Moving the smoking age would make purchasing passed laws moving the smoking age to 21 and according to The New York Times, there is a campaign called tobacco, alcohol and marijuana legal at age 21 in the state of Washington. Vote16USA, pushing to move the voting age to 16. School nurse Karen Smith gives her The New York Times states that the campaign hopes to push voter turnout and give teenagers the opportunity to opinion on moving the smoking age “I am hugely in favor of [moving vote on school-related issues. Senior Isaiah Hall speaks to the idea of lowering the the legal smoking age] because I have seen a lot of students that are voting age. “It is entirely possible that by lowering the voting age, not smoking cigarettes but they they would have to generate voter registration programs are vaping, which is very similar problem. I would here at school in order to enroll really like to see [students],” Hall said. Hall reveals a potential problem with “I feel that even at the age of that moved up to allowing 16 year olds to vote. 18, we are still not prepared age 21 and just giving that student “We are running into the situation enough to vote; we do a chance to have a where not a lot of 18 year olds vote, so S U Z little healthier start lowering to 16 would not necessarily not have enough political [to] their life. I would like [students] to change much but I feel that even at knowledge or efficacy to not use at all but if they are going to the age of 18, we are still not prepared choose to use, then let us get the body enough to vote; we do not have enough vote.” fully developed before they do,” Smith political knowledge or efficacy to said. vote. At 16, you know even less. I am ISAIAH HALL Smith relays the health benefits of not saying all 16 year olds are stupid, SENIOR moving the smoking age. I am saying that they just have not “That is three more years of healthier living. One of experienced enough to intelligently vote,” Hall said. Hall brings up the possibility of the drafting age moving the biggest things we think about with the teenage brain is the development of the pre-frontal cortex. That is the alongside the voting age if it were to change. “Another thing that lowering the voting age at 16 part of your brain that helps [make] decisions and those could do is also drag the drafting age with it. [Voting and decisions would be based on facts and data. That is not B Y S U Z Y S T O N E P R I N T E D I T O R

developed until we are in our early-to-mid twenties,” Smith said. “To make the decision that could ultimately be a life-long habit, I would rather they would be making those choices when their brain is ready to be making those choices. I think in the long run, fewer [students] will use.” Hall expresses the troubles of moving the smoking age. “Personally, I think [moving the smoking age to 21] is a good move because if you stop people from getting addicted early, they are less likely to get addicted later on. I also feel [however] that it will not put a stop to smoking as a whole because if someone wants to get ahold of something, they can and will. It would be just as hard to regulate then as it is now but it will also be up Y S T O N E W | V A N G U A R D to enforcement of the law. We already have people who are willing to sell to minors anyway,” Hall said. With the smoking age being 18, some students are legally able to smoke off campus. Smith expresses how moving the smoking age would affect the school. “We have a lot of 18-year-olds [at PHS]. We have a lot of students [who would be] 18 their entire senior year. It just might impact them because most teens will start smoking around their friends. When they are in school, they are around their friends,” Smith said. “I think [students] are going to succumb to the pressure more and if they have the age where they can purchase, then they might be the

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unior Gwen Roberts and senior Alex Cornyn are heading to compete at a state ProStart cooking competition at Clover Park Technical College Feb. 27. Culinary teacher Janese Lassen explains what ProStart is and how it helps direct students’ futures. “ProStart is a curriculum designed by the national restaurant association to teach culinary arts in a way that prepares students to enter the industry,” Lassen said. Lassen then explains how PHS is different in the way that students can learn to cook. “One, [students] are learning the basic skills needed so [they] can go and get a job in the industry and have the experience. Here at PHS we are unique in that we have the Bistro. So students actually get handson experience working in a restaurant setting, working in the front of the [restaurant] and the back of the [kitchen],” Lassen said. Cornyn has been in the culinary program

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since his junior year and is currently in the you only have an hour to make a threeProStart competition team. He explains course meal, two plates of each product,” how being on the competition team has Todd said. Todd also explains the complexity of shaped his future. “Takes a lot of time and work but I enjoy what they need to do in the hour. “It has to be completely prepped it. It helps me focus and helps me with and plated to go out at the end of culinary experience,” Cornyn said. that hour mark. And Cornyn explains what everything has to be done good things have can “It was the first thing I simultaneously, which come out of doing the your entree has to ProStart competitions. ever really did where every means be hot, if your appetizer is “[You can get] scholarships and decision impacted the rest hot it needs to be hot, if it is cold it has to be cold.” [culinary] skills, if you do of my team.” Todd expands on what really well you can get Cornyn said about what the attention of schools,” MICHAELA TODD benefits can come out of Cornyn said. JUNIOR doing ProStart. Junior Michaela Todd “There are some was on the ProStart competition team last year as a sophomore. scholarships at the state level, the big She explains how Pro-start works and what ones are at the national level. Which is a huge deal because culinary school is very you do at the competitions. “Everybody does their own thing but expensive. It can rival just like a four-year we are all working together to make one traditional college,” Todd said. Todd then explains what she has gotten larger product. So while we might all be instructed to make one dish we are all out of doing ProStart and how it has doing parts of other people’s dishes to positively impacted her life. “I spent a lot of time in the [culinary make sure we get done on time because

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Step-by-Step Foundation is hosting a diaper & baby items drive from Feb. 22 - March 1. Examples of items to bring are diapers, baby blankets, wipes, binkies, burp cloths and onesies. The first period class to earn the most points will win cinnamon rolls and chocolate milk. The drive is sponsored by the Medical Careers Academy class. WA N T

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Kalles will host its ninth annual Loganfest this year. All proceeds will go towards Logan Lewis to support his battle against neuroblastoma. The 3 on 3 basketball tournaments will be held March 18-19; each team is guaranteed to play in at least 4 games. Additionally, a 5 km fun run will be held May 8. Registration forms can be found online and in Kalles’ main office. Register soon, spots fill quickly.

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room] I was here a lot of times until 9 p.m.. I love doing [ProStart] and I would be here two to five days a week working on it. It taught a lot of team building skills. It was the first thing I ever really did where every decision impacted the rest of my team. If I burned something, that means now the whole team has burnt food. So you have to be really careful,” Todd said. Todd also explains what tasks they might have to do to finish and go for the win in this competition. “You learn to work simultaneously, so I would finish something for my dish and have to jump in and help the girl standing next to me finish hers. It is all about teamwork and cooperation and collaboration. It teaches a lot of collaboration skills. I learned about myself as a leader, having to take charge of my own dishes and run everything making sure the timing was working properly,” Todd said. Todd then explains if ProStart was worth doing again. “[ProStart] is a learning experience and what I gained from it is absolutely worth doing it again,” Todd said.

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The theater department will be performing Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” March 10-12. Each showing begins at 7 p.m. Admission is $6 with ASB, $8 without.

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Student led conferences will be held at PHS March 2-4. Parents and students are encouraged to attend. Advisers will be emailing parents in order to schedule meetings.

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In the past two years, the Tolo dance has been canceled each year. In the past, the leadership teacher has canceled it due to low ticket sales. This was not the case this year as Tolo was held Friday, Feb. 19. Over 500 tickets were sold. B Y

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Leadership and AP Junior English teacher Jamie Mooring describes what made the Tolo dance unique from other school dances. “Tolo is the dance that we do in spring and it is different because girls are supposed to ask guys to go but it does not have to be a date dance, that is just the tradition behind it. So just like at Homecoming some people choose to go without dates, they just go with a group of friends. Tolo is the same way, you do not have to have a date to come,” Mooring said. Senior Riley Voss explains the thought process behind this year’s Tolo theme—Glow-lo. “We tried to first pick a theme that we thought people would actually be into, opposed to just a dress up day or something like that, [which] Leadership has done in the past,” Voss said. “We have just tried to do something more broad and modern like a Glow-lo or black light dance because we have seen other schools do that and it has been successful. We just wanted to make it seem like it was going to be a fun party rather than an intimidating dance that [students] could be scared to go to.” Unlike in previous years, Tolo was a fundraiser for the senior class, according to Mooring. The money will go towards funding events like Prom. “Any profit that is made will go to the senior class so the senior class officers run [Tolo]. We used to do it that, it was a junior class fundraiser but what I learned over the course of years trying to run it, was that seniors would not go because it was a junior class fundraiser,” Mooring said. “The only kids that would go were the sophomores because they did not know that nobody really went and some of the juniors. We switched it to be a senior class fundraiser. The seniors needed it anyways to offset Prom costs. It costs about $20,000 to run your senior year [with] all of the expenses that are incurred. So [seniors] need all of the help they can get.” Voss helped to plan and purchase materials for Tolo. She describes what that process is like. “Events like this are kind of hard because there is a lot of preplanning that you can do and then it is just waiting and waiting until the event. Once we got all of the pre-planning done, we have just been trying to focus on geting the word out there and getting people to go because our teacher will wait until the last minute to cancel it,” Voss said. “We want to sell as many tickets as possible, so we are

on social media and on the news. So we are trying to tie that in and maybe get a little bit of a new feel to it and get people interested in coming. So hopefully that will get more people [to come].” Mooring explains why there was a minimum number of tickets that need to be sold in order for Tolo to go through. “We do a joint fundraiser, so that the senior class has the opportunity to make some money but we can still just trying to do everything right now just so it does not get canceled. Because of the high risk we could not spend have the DJ that I think is most appropriate for our school that much on decorations, we did not want to spend a ton dances. So it is a joint fundraiser in that our account ASB of money on stuff just in case it did get canceled. We are Dances, which wwe have an account for, pay for the DJ advertising and trying to encourage people to ask and go and then the senior class pays for any other decorations that they want,” Mooring said. “So because it is a joint in general.” fundraiser, I think it costs about $100 In the past, Tolo has had troubles out of senior class to make it go. Overall with cancellations due to a lack of it cost very minimal, considering now “It is all of our jobs to be sales. This year, those in charge of the dance made some changes in the examples, to really show that it will be $100 lost if we have to cancel it because they are not going to make hopes of increasing attendance as money back in ticket sales. With [Tolo] is going to be a fun that Mooring describes. 200 tickets being required sold to have “I think it stems from the fact that thing for people to do and [it is the dance go, you guys make a pretty it was a junior class fundraiser and so we switched that and made it a senior our jobs] to talk to people and large profit margin.” Robillard explains his role in class fundraiser but we could just not promoting Tolo and making sure that get the word out.” get the girls to ask,” Mooring said. “It attendance is high enough for the is this funny paradox of the girls all dance to be successful. KENTON ROBILLARD want to be asked to Homecoming but ASB CLASS PRESIDENT “It is all of our jobs to be examples, nobody wants to do the asking for Tolo. to really show that [Tolo] is going to be To make it worth the time and energy a fun thing for people to do and [it is and cost I have required that there has to be 200 tickets our jobs] to talk to people and get the word out,” Robillard sold and if there is not then we cancel it.” ASB class president Kenton Robillard explains why he said. “I do not think kids are not going to go because they thinks that there has been issues with attendance in the do not want to, necessarily, I think kids are not going to go because they think not a lot of people are going to be past and how this year’s theme might have affected that. “I do not think kids wanted to be the example, so we there. I think it might help to make [Tolo] the cool thing tried to get our kids to really show that example by getting to do, so we are trying to make it so that it is the cool thing on social media to let people know that we are doing it,” to do. I think that is really our job in the whole process.” Even though Tolo was a senior class fundraiser it was Robillard said. “I also think the whole, Glow-lo theme...is open to all classes to participate in, as Robillard describes going to be a neat theme, because it ties into the color run “What makes it unique is, [Tolo] is casual. Just like that, that they do and...it is like those parties where it is dark and they have the glowing lights everywhere that you see everyone can participate [unlike where] underclassmen cannot participate in Prom unless a senior asks them. So that makes it unique. Also, just the fact that the girls are asking the guys and it kind of flips the tables a bit on the social norm of guys asking girls. It really flips that around. So it is very fun to see the girls get a chance to ask the guys and see what it is like for a guy to ask a girl,” Robillard said. “So I think that is also unique but with that comes some intimidation to ask somebody. Whereas, we are trying to get out there to show people that it can be done and it is a fun thing to go to. Hopefully this year we are going to flip the tables and start a new trend at PHS.” Senior Gabby Gallucci describes how successful Tolo was this year in comparison to previous years. “Tolo turned out to be very successful. The last three years no more than 125 students bought tickets but this year we sold roughly a little over 500 which will really help the senior class fund. Since the senior class had never been to a Tolo before everyone wanted to go and experience it before we all left,” Gallucci said. “Since all the seniors were talking about it and wanting to go, this then led to the juniors and sophomores wanting to be a part of it too. My favorite thing about Tolo this year was just seeing all the energy and fun everyone was having at the actual dance. It is pretty cool to see something you and a couple others planned turn out to be a success.” J E S S I C A C A R L O S | V A N G U A R D

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Key Club put together the Senior Citizens Ball in the commons Feb. 5 to provide an opportunity for seniors in the area to mingle with high school students. Morigan Hooper, a senior and the president of Key Club had some input on how the event took place. Hooper says Key Club’s initiative is the main reason to make this event happen. The club has done this event for a few years now. “Key Club has done this event for a few years now and had been so successful that it has become a tradition here,” Hooper said. There is always a reason for getting together such an event. The biggest reason, according to Hooper, is for the

senior citizen community. “We get the senior citizens together for a ball in order to give back to the community and the senior citizens really enjoy it,” Hooper said. Hooper states that the students benefited the most out of this charitable event. “I think the students benefited the most out of the event because it gave them the opportunity to get out of their shell and talk to the senior citizens or ask them to dance. The senior citizens also told the students a lot of stories from their life which was valuable to hear,” Hooper said. Very little funding was involved with setting up the ball. Key Club was creative enough to decorate the event with many materials they already had, Hooper states.

“The funding all came from the Key Club account and Kiwanis donations. We also reused some decorations to save money,” Hooper said. The event had to be approved by the school administration to have the event take place. “Mrs. Anderson, the Key Club adviser, and the school administration had to approve the event so that it could take place in the commons,” Hooper said. Hooper said the event really made a lot of senior citizens happy and were very impressed. They were excited to dress up and tell their stories to the students and share a nice dance.

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a day, it would take about three weeks, which means that The portfolio, the dreaded portfolio, is almost due. In about a month, seniors will have to have their entire even that portion of the project could theoretically be done Culminating Project completed and ready for Senior within the next month, especially if a student does more Boards. That means, if you have not completed any of than one hour a day. Once the community service is completed and certificate the portfolio, you would have to complete the 20 hours of community service, put together all of the portfolio itself gained the next (or concurrent) step is to complete the and prepare for the Senior Boards presentation all in one physical portfolio. This portion requires a 3 ringed binder and some time. To complete the portfolio a student must month. And that is just an approximation of the time seniors provide works that meet all of the requirements of the Learning, Leading and Living sections. have left on their The Leading section will already be done, portfolio. Fortunately, the “Perhaps the easiest way since it is basically just the community service paperwork presented within the portfolio is more than doable. So to complete this portion portfolio itself. Unfortunately, the Learning long as you know of the Culminating Project and Leading sections will take more work than that. In the Learning section students everything that the assignment is to get help from staff.” must present four pieces of work that demonstrate the four skills of completing requires and set a research project, analyzing and solving aside time to KYLE SMITH CHIEF complex problems, thinking creatively actually complete KYLE SMITH and innovating and communicating and it (without CHIEF procrastinating that is) then it is collaborating. Those four works can come from anything more than doable. The problem is you have done since the ninth grade, so the only real work that the project looks more and more intimidating as time that one needs to do here is collecting the evidences of goes on. In the past few years all of the changes to portfolio learning and putting them into the binder. After that, there requirements may have created some confusion if you have is a reflective essay that needs to be written about the not kept up with them, leading to even more dread when it works presented in the Learning section. Also, be sure to have a transcript and personal essay for this section of the comes to the topic of portfolios. The first thing to complete for the Culminating Project portfolio. With those completed, all that remains is the Living is the community service. This is probably the most timeconsuming portion of the project, since it requires that section, introduction and cover. Almost all of the students spend 20 hours of work outside of school in requirements for the Living section can be completed addition to whatever homework the student may have. through the WOIS program online. Perhaps the easiest way to complete this portion of the Culminating Project is to get help from staff members at To continue reading this story, school in finding community service opportunities. After that, it is just a matter of filling out paperwork, a lot of visit vikingvanguard.com which is meant for the mentor to fill out and just getting the thing done. If you were to do an hour of community service

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America, the land of the free. This is the idea that built a nation. But in light of recent events, such as happened in Ferguson, Baltimore and othe African American communities across the co organizations and groups have popped up t whether this still holds true. Professor of history at Pacific Lutheran and long standing advocate of equality, Beth Kraig, states that forms of racism affect people of all ages differently. “Each high school student is affected by racism in distinctive ways, since each person is an individual. Students of color may have to adjust or limit some of their own expressions and irritations or anger about things that are centered too much on European backgrounds and not enough on the backgrounds of all places and all people,” Kraig said. “Students of color may also know that economic injustices linked to racism hav some of the fair opportunities that they or t members should have. I could go on – sinc so many forms of racism, subtle to blatan person experiences these uniquely.”

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shot at least six times as he was fleeing and unarmed; Ferguson’s police department is majority White, while the population of Ferguson is majority black; peaceful, unarmed protesters were met with heavily militarized police on the streets because they were organizing and demanding justice for Michael Brown with all of this being documented and shared on social media, the country could not deny that there is a deep and systemic problem in our country.” Kraig aims to educate on race issues and commends the Black Lives Matter movement for educating and calling attention to the issues that people of color face in America. that each level young “#BlackLivesMatter is a very of oppression must be met important movement. I fully support its efforts to call loud with an appropriate level of attention to the ongoing abuse of black people (especially boys and response.” men of color) through the legal Walker, although not a huge supporter and police enforcement systems. of Black Lives Matter, talks about the CATHY NGUYEN #BlackLivesMatter is really following importance of conversation on the TACOMA STANDS UP in the footsteps of many organizations topic. “I think that Black Lives Matter is an important and movements that have worked so hard to reduce concept that people talk about you know, that we racism in the U.S. The new wave of energy against acknowledge people that have been victimized but my racism in this movement is something that I find very problem is that with Black Lives Matter they focus a lot hopeful,” Kraig said. Ferguson, though a terrible tragedy, has brought light on black people but it is happening to more people. I see it more as less of a race and more a socio-economic to certain issues according to Nguyen and says she issue. To me it is not just Black Lives Matter but all lives hopes to see the movement continue to finish the work that was started decades ago. matter,” Walker said. “Ferguson pushed the country to realize that race Oppression, woven into America’s roots, has not stopped being prevalent in common culture. Nguyen is at the forefront of these intersectional issues and it touches on this subject and what it will take to be truly must be at the forefront of policy-making and reform of social structures. I do not necessarily view the Ferguson rid of prejudice. “It seems that in the history of humankind, oppression uprising as distinct from the nation’s civil rights has never been fully eliminated but it simply evolves. movements from the ‘60s, I actually see the Ferguson In that sense, we can say that certain prejudices and uprising as a part of the long arc of organizing work that inequities are addressed but new forms have always started decades ago in the name of civil rights, freedom manifested. So long as humankind is structured by and justice,” Nguyen said. power, competition and domination, it may not be possible to be rid of all oppressions,” Nguyen said. the disruption of consciousness and social and cultural systems to advance change,” Nguyen said. Using those goals, Nguyen and other organizers aim to educate and move people into action to end inequality. “All that we do is rooted in the larger goal of interrupting minds, hearts and structures so that communities can engage in critical analysis of power, oppression and lived experiences as well as imagine and build towards a world that is just and equitable. Our organizational principles include anti-racism, antioppression, strengths-based and queerpositive and these frame our approaches “We believe to the work that we do,” Nguyen said.

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Kraig recently paired up with Lincoln High School to educate college and high school students on racism and its effects. “In the summer of 2015, I realized that PLU needed to have a class that directly connected the study of history to the moral decision to act against racism. I reached out to Princess Reese and an Assistant Education Adviser working with the Metropolitan Development Council- College Bound program at Lincoln,” Kraig said. “Princess earned her B.A. at PLU and I worked with her when she was a student here. I also reached out to a number of PLU Student-Activists with strong track records of combining academic study with direct action. We then met at Lincoln in the fall to design the model for our collaborative project that connected PLU students and Lincoln students in a special program in January of 2016.” The goal of the project was to educate and have the students leave changed and more socially aware. In the process of changing the students, Kraig felt affected by the project as well. “I am a pretty hopeful person, even as I know that Walker compares the riots of the past to the riots in there are a lot of reasons that people can give for being Ferguson and expresses how he believes they will affect filled with despair when it comes to reducing racism. the people of Ferguson and people all over the country. But I believe that the people who fought racism in the “I think that things like what happened in Ferguson past still ‘call out’ to us today and we have to pick up the put fear into everyone. On one side it puts fear of the work and keep struggling to identify and reduce racisms police into the people even though they are supposed of all kinds,” Kraig said. “This project really affirmed for to be protecting and on the other it puts fear into the me the importance of making sure that police that [the people] may riot,” today’s young people can pick up that Walker said. “I and a couple of other work and take things to the next level. “I see it more as less of people here have been around since It helps me stay hopeful when I see the the Rodney King riots and the L.A. energy, vision and commitments to a race and more a socio- riots and we have seen what it does to justice that young people have now.” economic issue. To me it is people. I mean this has been happening to people for a long time and people not just Black Lives Matter have been questioning police and their action. It begs the question do the but all lives matter.” police have too much power and are they abusing and are there safe guards Nguyen explains TSU and their goals W ILLIE WALKER to protect them from abusing it.” as an organization. TEACHER Nguyen explains the situation in “TSU views the work for freedom, justice and equity as multi-tiered. We believe that each Ferguson, the shooting of Mike Brown and the effects it level of oppression must be met with an appropriate had on the country. “Following the shooting of unarmed black teen, level of response. TSU engages in short-term response strategies, such as direct actions, rallies, protests and Michael Brown, by Officer Darren Wilson, the nation vigils, as well as long-term response strategies, such witnessed a civil uprising in response to decades of as education, campaigning, advocacy and community racialized state violence, particularly against black leadership development. What anchors all of these people. Ferguson was, in many ways, the tipping point different strategies is the idea of interruption which is for the country,” Nguyen said. “Michael Brown was

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Walker highlights the differences between civil rights movements of the ‘60s and the equality movement of today. “There have been a lot of changes in civil rights, you know in the voting system and things like that, we have gained knowledge. Learned how to treat people and the idea that we can be equal has progressed to some extent,” Walker said.

Educate and act Kraig, an activist for equality, urges people to educate themselves and fight against racism in their own communities. “I would just urge everyone to think and talk a lot more and to realize that the fight against racism is worth it. Students of color often know this from their own families and communities,” Kraig said. “Other students may not yet realize the importance of working for a better society but if they try (and they are willing to make some mistakes but have the courage to keep learning and trying harder), they will realize that it is really rewarding to contribute to a safer, open and more fair society. It is worth it to save a life and we can save lives if we work together to tackle all of the forms of racism that still harm so many people every day.”

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Makeup can affect anybody. From the way people see themselves to how others perceive them, the power of makeup can transform people everywhere, whether it is a career opportunity or simply a hobby. media has highlighted the beauty industry. Sites such however they want and there should not be a right or as Instagram, YouTube and Twitter have helped people wrong. Just be yourself,” Higginbottom said. Setterfield shares her perspective on people who wear Ranging from jet-black liners of the ancient Egyptians, everywhere accomplish the looks they desire. “I love watching short Instagram videos on contouring and experiment with makeup at school and in the outside to bold red lips in the ‘20s and to present day contour enthusiasts, makeup is a prominent tool used by the and winged liner. Especially those short [Instagram world. “For me the career path that I want to go videos] that are so simple. It gives a masses. However, there is so much more that follows makeup step-by-step technique to make flawless “Not only do we have into is cosmetology and makeup artistry so I support girls who wear makeup. I just than just the wearing of it itself. Cosmetics can hold contouring, eyeliner and lips, whatever it imperfections that we want do not support girls who wear makeup different meanings and uses to different people in may be,” Corrato said. do not see the inner beauty of With a wide variety of products ranging diversified cultures and personal beliefs and opinions. to conceal, we also have but themselves or just do not appreciate the The general meaning of makeup is to polish and from foundation to gloss, makeup can improve our outside appearance. However, this general surely add up and be expensive. Corrado different features we want inner and outer beauty of other people,” Setterfield said. meaning has greatly altered in the new era of technology explains that social media can be a great to highlight...” Makeup has captured the interest of and acceptance of complete self-expression in society way to utilize the products collecting dust millions across the world. Beauty blogs, today. More so than ever before, makeup is no longer a in makeup bags everywhere. K ATELYN CORRADO makeup brands, YouTube videos and so “[Social media] also gives an inspiration jumble of products with promises, but seen as a form of AESTHETICIAN many more practices have been started art, celebrated by all ages and genders and a booming on how to be creative with what you to boost the makeup industry. already have. You can use your typical industry. Corrado shares some advice for anyone looking to join For many young women today wearing makeup begins makeup and create something just as beautiful,” Corrado the clan of beauty gurus and make a career out of their at the tender pre-teen age, a new practice from the said. Apart from the beauty industry and passions. popular conservative ways of the past. “It takes honesty. It is really important to be clear about Salon Ish owner and aesthetician “The power of makeup social media, makeup can hold a much deeper meaning to wearers than just what you can accomplish for your client and not make Katelyn Corrado shares her experience of is to give someone getting a perfect winged look or smoked empty promises that they can look like Kim Kardashian if transitioning into wearing makeup. they are just not Kim Kardashian. It is a huge success in our out eyes. “[I have been wearing makeup] since confidence in Junior Kaylee Setterfield shares her idea salon to be clear with people of what we can accomplish seventh grade. A lot of it was inspired by for them and what is and is not a reality,” Corrado said. of the power makeup has for people. themselves.” my friends. My mom was not a makeup When having a job in an industry that focuses directly “The power of makeup is to give wearer but I definitely watched my girlfriends really start playing with it and K A Y L E E S E T T E R F I E L D someone confidence in themselves. If they on the people based off of product and experience, have something they want to cover up or Corrado shares being a part of her clients experience is doing makeup consultations at makeup JUNIOR even so much more rewarding to her as an artist as well. just express themselves,” Setterfield said. counters at the mall. That really got me “We do a ton of bridal services. We get to make them Corrado in addition expands on why so going and interested in it,” Corrado said. Applying makeup tends to be a practice that requires many men and women wear makeup and care about it feel beautiful and give them a perfect look that they have this vision since they were a little girl of what they were repetition for optimal results. Junior Ashley Higginbottom so greatly. “Not only do we have imperfections that we want to going to look like on their wedding day,” Corrado said. shares how she acquired the skills she has today. So whether a person has a passion for makeup artistry, “I actually mostly taught myself. You kind of just keep conceal, we also have different features that are amazing aspires to have more confidence or delve into the buzzing practicing at it and then once you invest a lot of time into that we want to highlight and amplify,”Corrado said. Negative critics can follow people today based on the beauty business, makeup is all what you make it. it you get good at it,” Higginbottom said. “Makeup is incredibly simple but something that you While not all wearers of makeup today happen to be amount or style of makeup they wear, Higginbottom can make incredibly successful for yourself,” Corrado licensed cosmetologists and experts in the field, social elaborates her response to judgements on makeup. “I think people should be able to express themselves said. B Y

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As girls wrestling's postseason comes to a close, sisters Brooklyn and Jordyn Bartelson wrap up a busy season. The sisters’ coach and father Bryan Bartelson speaks to the success of the girls. "We have had a lot of success this season, several championship rounds and matches, so they are just out there working really hard, trying to get it all done," Coach Bartelson said. The Girls Wrestling State Championship was held Feb. 19-20. "My sister and I had a great season; both of us made it to the finals," Jordyn Bartelson said. Both girls placed at the State tournament. "Jordyn took first for her fourth State title and I ended up taking second. We took seventh as a team," Brooklyn Bartelson said. Jordyn became the second female wrestler in Washington State to win four

The sisters have wrestled the entire State championships. "I finished where I wanted: four State duration of their time in school. "My dad coached Brooklyn and me at titles in four years, 16 matches at the State tournament with 14 pins. And I got Fife Thunder for little league wrestling to finish my season out in the finals with and at Edgemont Junior High and then at Puyallup," Jordyn Bartelson my sister. I could not be said. happier," Jordyn Bartelson “I finished where I In junior high, they said. The Bartelson family has wanted: four state titles in established themselves as wrestlers. been involved in wrestling four years, 16 matches at talented "In junior high wrestling, for years. "My dad has coached the state tournament...” we wrestled boys and we were the only girls to be since he was 19 so in the finals together; I wrestling has been a part took first and Jordyn took of our whole lives and we J O R D Y N B A R T L E S O N SENIOR second. This time the roles have wrestled since we were were reversed: I took second little," Brooklyn Bartelson and Jordyn took first," Brooklyn Bartelson said. Even before they wrestled, the sisters said. The sisters’ wrestling careers have were around the sport. "They used to be carried around in little continued through high school. "I took second my freshmen year, third baby baskets and they were cheerleaders for the team out in Orting," Coach last year and second again this year. But even though I did not place where I wanted Bartelson said.

to I am glad I got to spend the journey with my family and was glad to be a part of what my sister achieved," Brooklyn Bartelson said. The sisters have created numerous memories in their time wrestling. "The greatest memories for me came from the times that I got to share with my family through wrestling, especially my sister," Jordyn Bartelson said. For the Bartelsons, wrestling draws the family closer. “I just tried to enjoy this year as much as I could with my sister and dad. Wrestling together has been a part of our lives for as long as I can remember and now it has all come to an end but I know Brooklyn will continue to do great things without me and I know that even though I will not be there next year I will always be there to support her,” Jordyn Bartelson said.

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Recent college graduates, Dexter (Jim Sturgess) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) meet one day and try to start a romance. This lasts briefly and soon turns into a friendship. The film then checks up on them and their lives on the same day every year. “One Day” was delightfully witty. Netflix has this movie characterized as a dram, which I felt was wrong. Although it had dramatic moments, like when they “break up,” the banter between the two main characters had me laughing and wishing I could have a romance like that of my own.

The Best of Me

A movie based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, “The Best of Me” tells the story of two high school sweethearts, Dawson (James Marsden) and Amanda (Michelle Monaghan) who broke up but are now reunited by the death of their beloved friend. The story interweaves with flashbacks of their high school romance. In the present they embark on a romance once again but problems from the past come back to haunt them. “The Best of Me” was cheesy at best. I, being a sap for romance, ate it up. The writing was clichéd and the gratuitous shirtless scenes had me feeling déjà vu to every other Nicholas Sparks movie ever. Aside from the fact that it was a “The Notebook” remake, the actors were great and did the best they could with the mediocrity they were given. This one is a definite chick flick and I would suggest watching it on a lazy day.

Silver Linings Playbook

Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has just gotten released from a mental institution. Throughout the film you watch his road to recovery, especially after he becomes friends with Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence). The two slowly fall in love. I loved this movie. I loved how realistic it was, funny and I especially loved how it focused more on the recovery from his (Pat’s) mental illness rather than focusing on the love. Instead the romance was more of a bonus. I did not like how near the end it got slow and then they sped it up to finish on the romance where I think the moments could have been explored more. I would highly recommend this movie

Comet

The film follows a couple, Dell (Justin Long) and Kimberly (Emmy Rossum), through their six year romance. It moves between different points in their relationship before all the details connect together in the end. “Comet” was good as a whole and I loved the cinematography but at points the plot was hard to follow and kind of meshed together to where it did not make sense. In the end it was all made clear but to wait two hours for clarity was a bit of stretch. Overall the actors were great and worked very well together. If you are looking for something new to watch on Netflix I would highly recommend this movie.

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will be the first person to say that I am not the biggest fan of football or even of sports in general. However, the hodgepodge of entertaining Super Bowl Sunday commercials, which at times seems to border on the downright odd and disturbing, never fail to capture my interest. I have seen some pretty weird Super Bowl commercials in my lifetime but I would have to say that Mountain Dew’s “Puppymonkeybaby” commercial to promote their Kickstart drink was amongst the weirdest. The very idea of a “Puppymonkeybaby” creature running around on the two feet of an infant with the torso of a hairy monkey and a slobbery pug’s face is shocking enough. Still, Mountain Dew took their odd creation further when the creature started to dance and chant “Puppymonkeybaby” over and over while three young men began to dance in a conga- line style behind the

disturbing Puppymonkeybaby. The way Mountain of the father’s hand and throws the chip across the room. Dew chose to promote their Kickstart drink had me That’s when the focus of the commercial changes and the scratching my head in wonder and I had to sit back and father and the mother are screaming and the cries of a reflect on what I had just witnessed. It certainly is not newborn child are heard amongst the chaos, implying that like any commercial I have seen before. even babies cannot resist the temptation Nonetheless, it does grab your attention of Doritos. “Super Bowl Sunday without a doubt and you cannot help but Aside from all the madness of both to keep watching the hypnotic, dancing, commercials... never fail the Mountain Dew and the Doritos chanting “Puppymonkeybaby.” Super Bowl commercials, the question of This year was also the tenth and final to capture my attention.” whether or not the commercials actually year for the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl fulfill their purpose to effectively advertise Contest where filmmakers can create the products comes into play. KEIONNA NEWTON STAFF their own Doritos advertisement and While at first it may seem like a contest a chance to have it aired on Super Bowl of who can come up with the most Sunday. The winners are selected by online public voting outlandish commercial idea, the overall effectiveness of from a pool of 50 semifinalists and three finalists. such commercials may not be all that crazy. The top winner of this year’s final contest was the The ideas that companies come up with to advertise Doritos ultrasound advertisement. In this commercial, a their products certainly are a bit out there these days, father stands off to the side eating a bag of Doritos as his especially when it comes to the Super Bowl but the humor wife undergoes an ultrasound. always remains. Things begin to turn odd when in the ultrasound, the baby appears to be trying to grab at the Dorito chip. To continue reading this story, visit Suddenly, the mother grows angry, snatches the chip out vikingvanguard.com

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s the Denver Broncos are celebrating their victory in the 50th Super Bowl, the NFL was busy handing out golden footballs to all the high schools that had an alumni in any Super Bowl. This hits close to home because PHS alumnus Damon Huard is one of those people and PHS gained its golden football at the Winter Sports assembly . PHS is lucky enough to be one of those high schools receiving a golden football. Huard was a participant and winner in Super Bowl XXXVI, in 2001 and Super Bowl XXXIX, in 2004. Varsity head football coach of the Gary Jeffers reflects on when he found out about the football. “About a week before the [Winter Sports] assembly I found out that PHS was getting a golden football representing that PHS had an alumnus in the Super Bowl,” Jeffers said. Athletic Director Jim Meyerhoff had to work to get PHS the golden football. “When we played Rogers, in football, Chad Eaton received his and gave it to the school. That was when I started inquiring. I looked into Dane Looker and he got to the St. Louis Rams just after their Super Bowl run,” Meyerhoff said. “Then I started getting in contact with Damon Huard’s dad, Mike Huard. I have worked with him, he is one of our clock operators for football. After that we started the process and by that time the football season was over. So we tried to find a time to present it. The Winter Sports assembly worked out really well and [Huard] was free.” Jeffers tells what the football represents. “I was at PHS when it was presented to Damon Huard. The ceremony was nice, it was good to see [Huard] get recognized. The football represents the 50th Super Bowl. Each NFL player who has played in a Super Bowl had a golden, 50th anniversary football presented to them at their respective high schools,” Jeffers said. Meyerhoff sets the scene when the football was given to Huard. “I was there when the golden football was delivered to the school. I took a picture for Twitter. Plus, the picture is also on the New England Patriots website as well. They

made a whole section about all their players getting the football. So they asked for a picture of [Huard],” Meyerhoff said. Jeffers tells his impression of Huard as a person. “I have met [Huard]. He is a great guy and he has a real passion for PHS Athletics. He is one of hundreds great alumni that this school has,” Jeffers said. Jeffers describes the significance of the football and what it means about Huard as a player. “I think being given a football that represents the National Football League’s 50th Super Bowl is significant in the fact that someone from PHS played in a Super Bowl, which is pretty cool. Less than five percent of NFL players win a Super Bowl ring, so to have an alumnus who has won two, is pretty cool,” Jeffers said. Meyerhoff’s connection to Damon Huard goes back a long ways. “I knew him before when I went here, he was four years before me but I knew his brother and a couple of other people close to him. I did not talk to him much until we started talking about the golden football, [which was] in late December early January,” Meyerhoff said. “In the short time that I have known him, he has been a very nice guy and he is very personable and helpful in trying to get this process going. He even got ahold of and talked to the NFL because they were not responding quickly enough. He had the contacts to make that happen. His family is really nice and it is nice to have that kind of family around PHS.” Meyerhoff speaks to the tradition that lives within all of the alumni of PHS. “One of the reasons I came to PHS is because I graduated here. I want to carry on that tradition and I have been involved in some clubs that have some championships and other things here. PHS is just full of tradition, we still get people who just stop in here and want to know when the next game is or talk about the past,” Meyerhoff said. “My parents went here, my

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Above: This is the golden football, signed by Damon Huard that represents the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl given to each high school that had a alumni play in the Super Bowl.