Anonymous HoodlumCastro Valley

..steal from the rich and give to the

poor..

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”By Irene Liang

City Editor

Student voters win two of three

Castro Valley has now been annexed into the city of Hayward under an agreement with the Alameda County Board of Super-visors. This is a drastic attempt to save the town from further budget cuts from the county.

“Desperate times call for des-perate measures. In this case, something extraordinary had to be done,” said county supervi-sors Samuel Mills and Mary Shellstone.

Alameda County is bankrupt, and it has no choice but to under fund its unincorporated commu-nities. In order to receive funds again, Castro Valley must link up with a city. Boundaries must

With the recent economic crisis starting to affect CVUSD as teach-ers, counselors, assistant princi-pals, and programs are being cut, a hefty donation of $10 million to the district was made by the one and only Oprah Winfrey.

Concerned student and senior Kristin Charlemagne wrote to the talk show queen and asked for a bailout.

“It isn’t fair that the students have to take the fall for the irre-sponsibility of Republican legis-lators,” said Charlemagne.

In her letter, Charlemagne mentioned the cuts that would be affecting CVHS next year. With the teacher layoffs and the elimination of eighth period, students will not be able to take as many electives. In addition,

California recently passed a new legislation aimed to help deal with its budget crisis: ex-tend the summer break of K-12 schools to four months.

G o v e r n o r A r n o l d Schwarzenegger’s proposal of $5 billion worth of cuts to education over the next eighteen months is drastically hurting public schools throughout the state. Due to a lack of funds, lawmakers in Sac-ramento were forced to reduce the length of the school year as a method to save money for the schools.

Educators’ reactions to the plan are mixed. Some note that a longer school break may give students more opportunities

In a startling turn of events, Castro Valley's miscreants and law-breakers have come forth to give a semi-public apology as well as to give reparations for their crimes.

"We didn't want to admit to ourselves that what we've been doing is bad, but look-ing back there is a lot to be set straight," said a former delin-quent who preferred to remain anonymous.

Without the notice of admin-istration or law enforcement, a group of nearly ten law-offend-ers stood on the corners around the school handing out iPods and cell phones to passing students.

"They were also waiting at the bus stops and in the Village," one sophomore student Alisha Marcelli reported last Thursday.

Marcelli was a recipient of a brand new iPod touch. "The guy was really nice. It's hard to believe he was ever a criminal," she said.

There was a noticeable engrav-ing on the back of Marcelli's new iPod and a closer look revealed "Happy Birthday Mitchell! Love, Mom." Marcelli was unwilling to answer any further questions.

When asked about the source of all the electronics, the group responsible for this early Christ-mas replied with a shifty-eyed response and some incoherent mumbling.

Why did these people just realize the error of their ways? Why did they ever think it was okay to steal?

"Castro Valley has a lot of rich kids, so they could just replace them. Plus, school kids are easy

class size increases, especially among freshmen English classes and Algebra I classes, will affect the student-teacher ratios and the way teachers will be able to tend to their students.

The letter reached Winfrey’s desk and, a few weeks after mailing the letter, Charlemagne was “overcome with emotions” when she picked up the phone and heard Winfrey’s voice.

“It was unbelievable. I wasn’t expecting her to reply at all. I mean, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Oprah!” ex-claimed Charlemagne.

During the interview, Winfrey said that it broke her heart to know that innocent students are limited to what they can decide to add to their courses, the senior said.

“She understood that everyone deserves an education,” said

Charlemagne.The $10 million Winfrey do-

nated will help lessen the cuts that CVUSD must make, as about $4 million will go to help make up an estimated $6 million gap. The remainder of the $10 million will be put into reserves to help over the next few years, which may still be tough for the district, or in the case of another fiscal crisis.

CVHS Principal Pete Alvarez and Charlemagne flew to Chica-go on March 3 to tape a special episode for Winfrey’s show. The show is about how the economic recession is affecting the average American. It’s clear that every-one in Castro Valley will be tun-ing it to watch their own people on national television. The tap-ing of the show will air on the local ABC channel at 4:00 p.m. on April 1.

prey. It's like Robin Hood, steal from the rich and give to the poor, but we realized we were only giving to ourselves," said the anonymous delinquent.

Upon the discovery of this unwarranted distribution of expensive goods, there was a cry of outrage from the Alameda

to excel in avenues other than school. On the flip side, a four month break in the school year may seriously hamper the ability of students to learn in the begin-ning of the school year. Students may have forgotten what they have learned from the previous year and studies have shown that essential skills such as reading and math scores substantially decrease after long breaks.

“Looks like I’m going start looking for another job for part of the year. I feel our political leaders in Sacramento are in the peak of their incompetence,” said Selina Kyle, a teacher who adamantly opposes the new legislation.

The shorter school year may have some unforeseen con-sequences, however, as local

schools would have to alter their year-long schedule. If students were to take National tests (Star, AP, and etc.) at the end of the year, than the school year would have to begin in mid-October.

Another option would be to begin the school year normally but have students come back during the summer to take the test. This alternative is highly doubtful since students will have little incentive to come back to school in the middle of their break.

Whatever Sacramento pro-poses, the situation looks bleak as public education is already in a steep decline in California.

“At least we can have a well deserved break,” said student Dick Grayson, who had a more optimistic outlook.

be severed and school districts must be joined. Basically, Castro Valley is incorporated under the Hayward address.

“My city is grateful that it can help. We are glad that Castro Val-ley could bind with us; besides, maybe this could even boost our property values,” exclaimed Todd Evanswood, mayor of Hayward.

With the central part of Castro Valley in Hayward, the Palo-mares Hills subdivision is plan-ning to secede.

It is preparing to become its own city due to the affluent de-mographics. A city hall, police department, two new schools and a Wal-Mart will be slated for construction in the following months.

Oprah Saves CVHS

Robin Hoodlums giving back to Castro Valley

By Lisa CarmackStaff WritEr

Oprah Winfrey and Principal Pete Alvarez pose for the camera after their special meeting in Chicago.

Budget problem solved! Oprah Winfrey delivers a mountain of cash to Principal Pete Alvarez.

HoWard WHang / Photo Editor

By David AhnStaff WritEr

Smaller budget, longer summer

Country Sheriff's Department as well as the high school adminis-tration.

"Why didn't they just turn themselves in? If they really felt guilty we could have them doing time or community service, and we could easily return all the sto-len goods to the proper owners because we happen to have the written reports," said an angry deputy in response to the Robin Hood exploits.

Law enforcement is currently on watch for the Robin Hood team and is instructed to arrest them on sight.

Whether the actions of these repentant sinners are wrong or right is up to you, but think twice before deciding to play out your favorite childhood fairy tale. You might just end up in jail.

We now live in Beverly Hills… not!

By James RoseStaff WritEr

Editor,I always set aside some time

in the morning to read all of the newspapers in the states as I sip my cup o’ joe. As a reformer of education and a hockey mom, I was pleased to find a high school publication on my dining table. It’s nice to see kids committing their time to learning how to serve their high school commu-nities and expose the truth.

I have to admit that the article that made me just jump out my seat was that adorable Malena Bell’s column. It is so nice to know that I have a supporter in California who agrees with my policies. Since today’s media constantly criticizes my family and me, it’s so comforting to

In the midst of receiving my college acceptance and rejec-tion letters, I have recently had a monumental epiphany regarding my life goals.

I’ve decided, as it is in my best inerest, to not continue with my col-lege plans and settle down. After four years of high school, I feel it’s time for me to take a break from schooling.

I’m tired of being taught what to do with my life and I’m ready to take all that I’ve learned and put it to use.

Within the next few years of my life, I plan on getting married and starting a family. I’m going to act

Last week, Gov. Arnold Schwar-zenegger received an inquiry from President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia in which Medvedev ex-pressed interest in annexing Cali-fornia in order to help it with the state’s current budget crisis.

Just as America expanded by purchasing California for $15 million, Russia is considering purchasing California for $50 billion, which is enough to get California out of the money hole of $44 billion.

The amount of money the Rus-sians are handing us is alone a fantastic reason for why Califor-nia should seriously consider this Russian bailout.

“We believe it is our duty to help you capitalistic jerks out when your broken democratic system does not allow a budget to pass, even when it is over three months late. With some goodwill and gentle prodding on our part, perhaps you may con-sider the numerous advantages of a communist society,” President Medvedev said.

In addition to a net profit of $6 billion, the Russians promise California self-government and will not force communistic ide-

Editorial:We at The Olympian believe

that it’s about time that the people in our community who do graffiti and occasionally cause a disturbance to our town should be giving back.

We believe that giving back to the community is a very impor-tant thing to do. Everybody in our community should be giv-ing back and doing community service.

The residents of Castro Valley really appreciate the fact that the hoodlums of the community are finally giving back. They are glad that the hoodlums are doing

als into California, at least for the time being.

Russia also promises to supply weaponry and soldiers for Califor-nia in the event that a Civil War be-tween California and the other 49 states break out. All Russia wants in return now is control of all of California’s numerous nuclear power plants, secret nuclear stor-age facilities, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Although Russia’s motiva-tion for this purchase may seem obvious, Russia assures to the watching world that none of the acquired radioactive elements will go towards weaponry research or development.

An initial analysis shows that, if this treaty goes according to plan, California will be turning over enough radioactive material for the Russians to nearly triple their nuclear weaponry or open thousands of Chernobyl-like power plants.

However, nobody needs to worry as the Russian’s near-per-fect honesty record shows that they have just about always kept their promises. They have already assured Schwarzenegger that they will abide by their promise of not using the acquired radioactive ele-ments towards weaponry research

something to improve the lives of the residents and children, but most importantly they are doing something that will largely im-prove their lives.

It’s about time that we don’t have to pick up the morning pa-per and read that someone was just robbed. We are tired of seeing public places that we all love and use on a daily basis marked with graffiti or damaged.

The hoodlums are impacting many lives by volunteering ev-erywhere, from hospitals to com-munity parks. Many volunteers at hospitals visit and entertain the patients.

or development.The Russians have been nego-

tiating and persuading with much success. Schwarzenegger has been seriously considering this modest proposal. As Californians, we should stand behind our govern-ment and support this bailout that would fix this state’s economy.

If California can negotiate well enough, California’s market value may go up to as much as $100 billion. Such negotiations require much support from the people.

Therefore, the more support we can gather for this, the more money we could get. Should we reach $100 billion, Schwarzeneg-ger decides that the easiest way to generate the most revenue pos-sible is to simply put the state up for auction, selling to the country that can bid the highest.

However, at this point, it appears the only other country interested in purchasing California is Zimba-bwe, and Schwarzenegger is more likely to sell to the Russians.

During negotiations, however, Schwarzenegger spotted a map of the US sitting on the table, with bold red X’s marked over many major cities such as New York, Washington D.C., and San Fran-cisco. Nobody has yet determined the significance of the X’s.

upon my dream of owning a spot-less home with a green lawn in front surrounded by a long, white picket fence. It’s every girl’s greatest ambition to become a stay-at-home mom, dedicated to raising her children and pleasing her husband.

I have come to the conclusion that I don’t need an expensive ed-ucation at some fancy college to live a full, happy, and successful life. After all, it is the husband’s job to “bring home the bacon,” and the wife’s job to provide for her families needs: cooking, cleaning, and lots of love.

I am ready to be a loving wife and caring mother and finally fulfill my duty as an American female.

To the Editor

Deal or no deal? Deal

Our parks have been looking better and cleaner. In addition to cleaning and fixing up parks, they have been visiting the se-niors at the senior center.

At the senior center, they talk and play board games with them in order to make their lives hap-pier.

Due to these sudden changes, parents have been more lenient on allowing their kids to stay out later and not have to worry about getting robbed or hurt.

Overall, we are highly satis-fied with all the good deeds they have done for our commu-nity and us.

Bringing Lucy back

By Howard WhangPhoto Editor

Hoodlums are now heroes

By Sophianna CarrellStaff writEr

The 50s housewife is in style now

The Olympian is the world's greatest newspaper (no fooling!). If you don't like it, don't blame the journalism class of Castro Valley High School, 19400 Santa Maria Ave., Castro Valley, CA 94546. © 2009

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We at The Olympian wel-come letters to the editor. Let-ters should be typed, brief, and be delivered to room 113, Mr. Johanson’s mailbox, or emailed to cvhsolympian@gmail.com. We reserve the right to edit letters for grammar, spelling and libel. We do not publish anonymous letters.

Palin praises The Olympian

know that there are some good people out there.

I also want to take the time to commend all of the other editors. It is outstanding to read such developed writing that is comparable to the writ-ing of the editors of the other 1,000 newspapers I read daily. It would certainty be wonderful if one of you guys interview me up here in Alaska. You betcha that I’ll prepare the hot choco-late!

I wish everyone luck with future goals and I hope to get your support in 2012.

Governor Sarah Palin

LETTERS

I was liter-ally crying after my audition.

Twilight stars come to CVHSRobert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart visit Castro Valley

CVHS students point and stare in shock as Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart of Twilight are spotted walking through the courtyard.

Lindsay Oda / Business Manager

Student Kim on next season’s Idol

Senior Jack Adams was in

astonishment when he checked his lottery ticket and hoped for the best. The lucky numbers ap-peared on his ticket and he was blown away.

“When I found out I won, I ran into random houses in my neighborhood and started danc-ing,” said Adams.

He bought his lucky ticket at Bonfare on Redwood Road in Castro Valley.

When asked about the win-ner, Angel Bivins, the store clerk replied, “He just looked like another loser kid when he was walking in, but that kid was the best thing that ever happened to my store.”

Bonfare’s business has been booming with lottery jackpot hopefuls ever since.

Less than a week after win-ning his earnings of $16 million, Adams bought two go-carts made of Aztec gold that run on champagne.

Do the names Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, and Kara DioGuardi ring a bell? That one show hosted by Ryan Seacrest? Well they’re about to be in for a surprise this next season because of the appearance of our very own Katalina Kim: cheer-leader, two-year Pops Concert participant, and now American Idol contestant.

The road to success started when Kim and her friend, Sheelah Garcia, went to the San Francisco Westfield Mall for a shopping spree after the Pops Concert ended. Kim and Garcia spotted a small singing contest in the middle of the mall and decided to join for fun.

Unfortunately, Garcia received a phone call before it was her turn and had to leave immedi-ately. Kim was performing at the moment, so she didn’t get the notification from the other singers there after.

Crazed teenage girls and guys were screaming at unimaginable decibels and we all knew why. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had just walked through the front gate of CVHS, and right behind them were Taylor Lautner and Cam Gigandet. This sparked a feud between a few die-hard Team Edward and Team Jacob members. A few punches were

By Trevin Smithstaff Writer

By Isabel ChiBusiness Manager

By Elizabeth Transtaff Writer

thrown and hair was pulled, but the riot was ended pretty quickly by a couple of campus patrollers.

Administrators whipped out their walkie-talkies, alerting the rest of the campus patrollers of the presence of the teen idols.

“Oh my goodness! I love Edward, I mean Robert, wait, Edward, IDK, I love him!” said excited sophomore Isla Vablod.

In the few minutes after the stars stepped on to the campus,

a hoard of at least 500 girls had gathered. Teachers were busy setting up an impromptu fan meeting in the student union. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stew-art, Taylor Lautner, and Cam Gigandet answered questions and smiled despite the previous hostility shown.

“Overall the visit went well. Besides the small riot, I mean,” said campus patroller Bruno McBuff. “And they’re really hot!”

She blew away the audience, like she always does, with her rendition of “Stay with Me” by Danity Kane. Kim had no idea that it was an American Idol recruiting session. Kim and another male contestant were selected from the 20 that partici-

pated. Kim’s parents were con-tacted at once. The Kim family immediately booked a plane to go down to Los Angeles, where she’ll have an honorable private audition for the show’s judges.

She spent a week perfecting her selections of “Because Of

CVHS senior wins lottery

When asked why, Adams replied, “One for the weekdays and one for the weekends.”

Also on his wish list is a snowmaking machine for snow-boarding in the summer and a water fountain in his room that dispenses Dr. Pepper.

Despite his love of squander-ing money, Adams doesn’t plan on giving much away.

“It’s my money and I’ll do what I want with it,” said Ad-ams

He plans to buy a hot tub for his room filled with Mountain Dew.

“I’m so happy because I can finally live out my dreams,” answered Adams.

He and his family are still de-ciding on whether to save what’s left of his money as it’s shrinking fast. However, Adams doesn’t seem too worried about it.

“I’m considering dropping out of school and living off of my earnings for as long as I can,” said Adams.

Adams was one in a million and is very grateful for his cash.

Besides Homecoming, junior prom and senior ball are the highlights of the high school years. This year, the adminis-tration has decided to cancel both junior prom and senior ball because of budget cuts. The school can’t afford to let all the juniors and seniors have fun this year.

Even if the bid prices were raised, the school wouldn’t be able to afford it. No junior prom and senior ball means no dress shopping, no putting on make up, and no getting your hair done. Sometimes, high school students need to be pampered for a day. Without junior prom and senior ball, the students will never be able to relax.

“I think the students need to forget about any dances and focus on their schoolwork more. Now that junior prom and senior ball are cut, there is more time to study!” said the new As-sistant Principal Sherry Pinour. She is one of few who are excited about the non-existent social lives of the students.

One teacher pointed out that this might hurt the economy

By Sarah Gilchriesestaff Writer

more than actually save money for the budget cuts. If hundreds of students don’t buy dresses, makeup, suits, or tuxes, those businesses would decrease rapidly.

“Some of us only go to school for the social aspect of it. If you cut out everything that is fun, more of us won’t show up,” said senior Arnold Bebek. He was looking forward to going with a group of friends to senior ball, but now he won’t be able to because of the budget crisis.

Without any interests or de-termination to go back to school, students will not attend classes, causing CVHS to lose even more money for the amount of absent students.

“I am sorry to see that there will be no more giggly laugh-ter and stories being told about prom in my classroom. Monday morning after dances is when students are glowing and happy. They relieve the week-end by telling their friends,” said English teacher Taraneh Ellegrot.

Hopefully next year, juniors, seniors, and their dates will be able to dance once again. But for now, we can only return our dresses and make other plans.

Dances cut from scheduleadMinistration forced to cancel

junior and senior proMs

You” by Kelly Clarkson, who won the first season of American Idol, and “Alone” by Celine Dion. She received all yeses from the judges and as a bonus she also got an autographed picture with Ryan Seacrest. She returned to Castro Valley with excitement and thanked God for this won-derful opportunity.

“I still can’t believe it,” she commented. “I was literally crying after my audition. Simon isn’t really as bad as everyone keeps saying; he was actually the nicest.”

Kim loved singing ever since she can remember. She was exposed to music as a young child, singing in church choir, taking piano lessons, and par-ticipating in school productions of musicals.

Since season eight has just started, she’s not participating until the ninth season and Kim has lots of time to prepare. Sup-port Kim by tuning in every week and watch as she follows her dream.

KATALINA KIM

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A reef shark and other aquatic life recently moved in to the CVHS pool/aquarium. Howardd wHang / Photo Editor

Just when athletes were begin-ning to think that making it big in the world of professional sports was just a childish dream, more than 100 CVHS students received full scholarships to colleges around the nation.

Delegates from colleges all over the country met in Castro Valley for a three day conference from March 28 to April 1.

“This is insane,” said senior Torrence Misserly, captain of the Ultimate Frisbee team. She added, “If I didn’t know better, I’d think I went mad.”

A similar state of disbelief hit the seniors of the badmin-ton team, all of whom were scouted.

“We had to pinch each other to be convinced it wasn’t a dream,” said senior and junior varsity player Coraly Lin.

Basketball, soccer, football, track and cross country also had their entire roster of seniors scouted by colleges.

By Joseph WanCopy Editor

A total of 30 teens were arrest-ed after Castro Valley students and Hayward High School stu-dents started a riot on Saturday, March 20.

The riot started after the CVHS boys varsity basketball team out-scored the Farmers, 104-52. With this glorious victory, the Trojans won their fifth HAAL basketball championship.

The Castro Valley crowd was certainly happy about the vic-tory but Hayward fans were totally disappointed about their humiliating loss. The Farmers then proceeded to throw crops, such as tomatoes and wheat stalks, at the CVHS fans as they exited the gym.

Many students were able to keep calm. However, there were a few students who were just mad about the mess that Hayward High made. The CVHS crowd finally started to respond back by throwing trash and empty Gatorade bottles.

Staff members, who were even-tually able to stop the basketball fans from throwing things at each other, calmed down the riot.

By Moises FonsecaStaff writEr

Despite numerous budget cuts, CVHS will be adding another sport to its repertoire. Even in the face of teacher layoffs and program cuts, CVHS will choose to spend its money to fund the creation of a new team sport.

With growing popularity among the 11 to 26 demographic, bowling will be the newest team sport.

Many people complain that this is a disgrace because the school has put more priority in this sport than education. Teach-ers, students, and parents alike have banned together to protest this allocation of school funds.

“This is completely ridiculous. Bowling is hardly even a chal-lenge to do,” said senior Halley Wright.

Another student, junior Phil Manners added, “ It’s not even a real sport.”

Though many consider this proposal outrageous, there are

By Tim WongStaff writEr

By Brandon LuiStaff writEr

Looks like CVHS students won’t be the only swimmers in the pool this year. The CVHS swimming pool will be con-verted into a new aquarium to house marine life. Various Bay Area marine life foundations have paid CVHS to convert the swimming pools into saltwater habitats for tide pool and oceanic animals.

The smaller pool will be refit-ted with fake coral, plant life, crustaceans, small fish, and a rock. The large pool will have much larger fish like dolphins, schools of tuna, a 300-pound tiger shark, and many types of squid.

The school will have huge

benefits thanks to the aquarium conversion.

The recent refitting of the pools was the foundation to a vast new habitat, which is being paid for by the We Love Fishies Foundation.

The foundation’s president, Namor Octavius, was happy to compensate CVHS for its pool uses. He said, “I’m glad that there can be a good way to preserve ocean life and today’s youth cares.”

The donated money will be used to move the sea creatures and off set budget cuts. Our biol-ogy and art classes will be given access to the new aquarium dur-ing their classes for studies and art. The school will also charge admission during the weekend to make more money.

strong supporters for the ad-ministrators’ choice. “People fail to realize that bowling is really, really, hella intense,” said Bo Ling. “It requires a level of mental concentration and dex-tral strength unparalleled by any other sport.”

The team will practice at the Castro Village Bowl and will face 13 other already formed teams from HAAL and from the Pleasanton school district.

The administration hopes that the games produce a large revenue.

As many as six prospective players have already signed up to be part of the team in this vastly popular sport.

“I really signed up so I could wear those stylish green and yel-low shoes,” said freshman Todd Samage.

The bowling team will have tryouts on the first Wednesday of April at Castro Village Bowl.

“I hope people take advantage of this fabulous opportunity,” added Ling.

The sheer number of delegates arriving in Castro Valley, intent on taking at least one of the Trojans back home, was enough to cover all senior athletes and more.

In fact, some colleges went home empty handed.

Some delegates who were un-able to claim an athlete expressed sadness at not only the small number of available seniors, but also the lack of variety in sports at CVHS.

Delegate Terry Clark from a private college in New Hamp-shire said, “I know it was silly of me, but I was hoping to find a Quidditch team in the West Coast.”

“One of the delegates told me that handball and lacrosse were staple sports,” said senior Toby Sato. “He told me to make a petition and gather signatures, but I just nodded politely and said ‘No.’”

Because of the sudden influx of people driving to Castro Valley, traffic slowed to a crawl.

“There were so many people

coming in, we didn’t know if we had to erect a fence around Castro Valley just to keep order,” joked Officer Thomas Barney, who stood in the intersection between Redwood and the Bou-levard to direct traffic. “If only I’d had my iPod, I could have re-enacted that one scene in Rush Hour 3. Without the accident, of course.”

Another problem the town faced was the sudden number of people who needed places to stay for the duration of the three day conference.

Castro Valley residents im-mediately took action and came together as a community to provide housing for the town’s guests.

For example, an elderly couple owning private property quickly took advantage of the situation and offered housing to delegates for a modest fee.

Homeowner Herbert Lai said, “Hooray for Castro Valley ath-letes without whom we would never have gotten so much business.”

However, the riot didn’t end. Fifteen Hayward High students and 15 CVHS students decided to take it to the next level and fought on the streets.

The riot was eventually put to an end when the police showed up.

“It was a horrible night. We had at least 20 police cars, five ambulances, and two firefighter trucks,” said the Alameda Coun-ty Police Chief John Smith. Smith also said that he didn’t know why there were so many ambu-lances and firefighter trucks, but it helped to keep the press away from the police.

“The community wants to boycott Hayward High. Many parents in the community think that we should never have another game, in any sport, with Hayward anymore,” said CVUSD superintendent Patrick Jones.

The teens involved were charged with disturbing the peace. Sentences can vary from one to 300 years in jail and in-clude a mandatory million hours of community service.

CVHS and Hayward High have decided to expel all the students who were arrested.

With so many benefits for the school, there was no opposition on the school board, so there was a unanimous vote for an aquar-ium without any input from the swim team. However, swimmers like Richard Storm believe, “The swim team should take priority over stinky fish.”

Because of the new plans for the pool, the swim team hasn’t been cut, but will no longer swim in the soon to be converted pools. Currently, there are no alterna-tive swimming locations for the CVHS swim team.

Students and faculty can ex-pect to see trucks moving large holding tanks to the pool in the coming days or even hours. Everyone eagerly waits for the CVHS sign to say high school/aquarium.

Bowling for budget

cuts

Pool full of fishies

Trojan den incites war on farmers

Look out for scouts