elÁguilaA student-run newspaper for the San Elizario community

SAN ELIZARIO HIGH SCHOOL, SOCORRO ROAD, SAN ELIZARIO, TX 79849

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BACK TO SCHOOL

SEHS makes changesBY PAULINA LUEVANO

Students enter the San Elizario High School cafeteria during lunch.

EL ÁGUILA STAFF San Elizario High School students returned from summer vacation to many changes. From empty lockers to changes in fundraising guidelines, students and teachers have a lot to get used to. In addition to changes in the school environment, students may also notice some new faces.

The administration added several new teachers and even some new courses.

And in case the paper you’re hold-ing didn’t give it away, the school even upgraded it’s monthly news-paper which will be made available to the public for the first time in San Elizario history, something that wasn’t done in previous years.So take a moment to read through our Back to School edition of El Águila and catch up on what’s happening around campus.

BY MARLYN OROZCO, STEPHANIE REYES, SOFIA RODRIGUEZ, LESLEY TREVIZO EL ÁGUILA STAFFOnce upon a lunch time, you could walk to the snack bar, make your order with pleading eyes and hands

open and walk away with a greasy, delicious treat. Try that today and you’re met with a frown and: “Sorry, they are out of exis-tence…” Changes in our school cafe-teria have prompted staff to remove some of students’

favorite snack bar treats from the menu.“I miss the cheese fries,” Eleani Valenzuela, Junior, said. Nutrition Services Director Raul Jacques, explained the changes as being a reflection of a national law. “The U.S. Congress passed a law… that implements nutrition standards for snack foods and beverages sold to students. This allows schools to offer health-

Snacks take hit in policy change

MORE INSIDE• Pep rallies• Freshman basics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014. VOL. 1: ISSUE 1

See SNACKS on PAGE 6

MORE• Find out how clubs are coping with new guidelines

INSIDE: Mrs. Guillen welcomes back students PAGE 4

PAGE 3: SEHS’ Cross Country team focuses on wins.

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PUBLISHERS

Maribel GuillenPrincipal, San Elizario High SchoolChristine Jaksch,Assistant Principal, San Elizario High School

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

June C. StraightJournalism teacher, San Elizario High School

MANAGING EDITORS

Angelica Espinoza Bianca MorenoPhotography EditorPaulina Luevano

Sofia Rodriguez

STAFF

Victor Baez Graciela Barajas Marlen Moreno Cylus Hernandez Angel Salazar Charly Ortiz Eliseo Galvan Nayeli NavarreteSelena Rodriguez

Dominique Valdez Beatriz Reyes Jocelyne GomezJessica MelendezMaricruz MedelezIvete AvalosMelissa IbarraMayra Martinez Stephanie ReyesMarlyn Orozco Oralia GomezApril MelendezLesley Trevizo

YEARBOOK STAFFSan Elizario High School senior wide receiver Jerry Padilla plays in game.

Padilla prepares his ‘good-byes’ BY MAYRA MARTINEZ AND MELISSA IBARRAEL ÁGUILA STAFF The moments that make our senior year memorable are different for everyone. For some it’s the big events: the home-coming, prom, graduation; but for many students, it’s the little everyday moments that stand out the most.Senior Jerry Padilla is a moments guy. “Enjoy every moment of it,” Padilla said, when asked what advice he had for the younger players. “You’ll remember Friday night lights for the rest of your lives. The bus rides, the practices, the games, the band. Nothing beats friday night lights, there’s no where else I’d rather be.” But for Padilla it wasn’t just the mo-ments on the field that were memorable. The outspoken wide receiver said he also learned some things on the team that he will take with him forever.“I’ve learned that in life you will face adversities and when you do, how will you respond to that,” he said. “Football isn’t just a game, it helps you in your life and it teaches you how to grow up and be a man,” he said. One lesson Padilla said he’s learned from the game is how to be a leader. “My coach expects me to be a leader and play to my full potential each and every game. Coach Nieves pushes me so I can be great and that’s what the program needs,” he said.

“I’ve learned that in life you will face adversities and when you do, how will you respond to that,” he said. “Football isn’t just a game, it helps you in your life and it teaches you how to grow up and be a man.”

JERRY PADILLA, senior

PLAYER SPOTLIGHT

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Cross Country team aims for regionalsBY ORALIA GOMEZEL ÁGUILA STAFF The San Elizario cross coun-try team has been practicing all summer long and have al-ready competed in a handful of meets. Head Coach Cesar Morales said while winning is always their ultimate goal, he wants to make sure that his team is get-ting the most out of the team experience. “I want my athletes to enjoy this season through hard work, dedication, courage, passion, and success,” he said.So far the team has participat-ed in three meets, but they still have a long way to go, Morales said.

One of the biggest meets the team has been preparing for is the Lubbock Invitational. Because the regional com-petitions are held there, the team wants to get the experi-

ence they need since going to regionals is one of their goals. “I want a successful varsi-ty girls team and that means them being district champi-ons,” Morales said. “ I want

for the varsity boys team to be state qualifiers.” Senior and Boys Varsi-ty captain Michael Johnson said, “My goal is not only to be district champions but to take my team to state. I felt like we have done what we can but we could still do better.” On the girl’s side of the team, Senior Lesley Trevizo said, “I think the girls varsity team has the potential to go to regionals and beyond. We have been truly working hard for this.” Lets hope the best for our Cross Country Team and wish them the best of lucks as they run to reach all their goals and success.

BY ORALIA GOMEZ Sophomore Miguel Garcia performs in cross country meet.

Volleyball girls look forward to seasonBIANCA MORENO EL ÁGUILA STAFF While most student began school on August 25th, the San Elizario volleyball team had already been training and working hard for three long weeks. The volleyball season officially began on August 4th. This years Varsity team is being coached by head coach, Holly Amerena. The Junior Varsity coach is coach Ana Luna. The freshman team coach, who is new this season, is coach June Straight. According to the coaches the goal is the same as usual: work hard, play hard, and win. “We want district titles and to beat the other schools in our district,”-Coach Luna said.But even with winning as the ulti-mate goal, the coaches say there is more to volleyball than just their record. “The girls are extremely dedicat-ed,” Coach Amerena said. “They will work hard every day for you, thats something not every school has.”This is important for the team, Amer-ena said, because it helps to build a solid program. “I’m looking forward to building on our foundation that we have [worked so hard to build],” she said.With captains Amanda Ramirez, senior, and Natalia Aguilar, junior, Amerena says the team’s goals are well within their sights. She’s even looking forward to facing off with the team’s toughest competition, Fabens. “They are part of the top 10 teams in the city and are favored to win district champs,” Amerena said. “I’m confident we can give them a run for their money.”

HOMECOMING

EL ÁGUILA STAFF

H ome-

coming

festivities

are right around the

corner. Don’t miss out

on the action.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29Hall decorating begins at 4 pm and ends at 9.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1The homecoming parade starts at 5:30 at Borrego El-

ementary and ends in the San Elizario High School Stadi-um A pep rally will immediately follow. The parade is open to the community. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3Homecoming game.

Queen: Angelica Espi-nozaKing: Gerardo (Fluffy) VelasquezLady in Waiting: Kathy Pargas

Aide to the King: Javier GarciaDuchess: Jazmin CarrilloDuke: Charlie Ortega

Senior Princess: Yusdi ArambulaSenior Prince: Angel OrtizJunior Princess: Zoe Covernali

Junior Prince: Alex MadridSophomore Princess: Kahealani ArchuletaSophomore Prince: Jonathan Garcia

HOMECOMING DRESS-UP THEMES

HOMECOMING COURT

BY ORALIA GOMEZ Senior Marlyn Orozco performs in cross country meet.

Monday: Pajama DayTuesday: Retro Day

Wednesday: Western DayThursday: Twin Day

Friday : Spirit Day

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SEHS welcomes 11 new teachers

September

ART CLUBThe Art Club will meet at 4 p.m. on September 24 in room 118.

BASKETBALLLadies who are interested in playing basketball for the High Flying Lady Ea-gles please stop by room

600 speak with Coach Contreras or room 308 for Coach Warfield. October

HEALTH FAIRThe San Elizario Indepen-dent School District will host its seventh annual health fair Saturday, Octo-ber 25. The event will be

held in the morning from 9-11. More details will be made available closer to the event.

HAUNTED OBSERVATORYWhen: October 29th, 30th and 31st Both A&B lunchWhere: The High School AuditoriumCost: $3

Students get used to empty lockers

New teachers, classes mark new school year

BY ANGELICA ESPINOZAEL ÁGUILA STAFF Wondering why your backpacks are bulging and the lockers lining the halls are empty? You’re not alone. One of the most noticeable changes at San Elizario High School this year is the change in locker policy.What’s the difference? Last year students could use lockers, this year they cannot. “It is better that the lockers have been taken away because it was a huge distraction from students getting to class on time,” Assistant Principal Christine Jaksch said.According to her, the administration came to agreement about the lock-er change this summer because in previous years, they found students would use the wrong lockers and many books were missing at the end of the year. SEHS is not the only area high school where students have lost their locker privileges, Jaksch said. “Mont-wood high school completely tore off the lockers from their walls.”While many students are upset about the change, a few agree with the ad-ministration’s decision.

“It is easier that the lockers are gone because the teachers get to [assign] class sets and I have physically seen less tardies and less people in the hallway,” Senior, Cylus Hernandez said. Still, many more students like se-nior Valeria Barrajas, say the lockers helped with not having to carry books and without them, students have to carry the load, literally.

Dear Eagle Family, Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year. We are excited to open the year with new courses such as Astronomy, AP Human Geography, Law Enforce-ment II, Art Drawing, Piano II and a full time Journalism program. SEHS football and volleyball seasons are in full swing. Did you know that our cross country team is ranked #2 in the state? Our starlettes competed this summer at the Marching Auxilia-ries Camp and received a “superior” team award.They also brought home many individ-ual medals. Our school was presented with the “pennies for pasta” award for raising over $1,800 for Leukemia research in the spring.Over the summer we learned that our school earned 3 “distinctions” from TEA. We were top 25% in closing achievement gaps and earned dis-tinctions for academic achievement in math and science!! A big contributor to that was SE9. In only its first year of existence, our 9th grade center

turned out great EOC scores and over 100 freshmen passed the AP Spanish exam. We are the home of the SEISD secondary teacher of the year, Cesar Morales. Along with Mr. Morales, we

are staffed with the best educators in the city. I hope to see you at one of our many athletic games, school events or student performances. Save the date for September 29th - October 4th as we celebrate home-

coming week 2014. The vision has been clear from the beginning “San Elizario High School will prepare students to enter a four year university or college of their choice by becoming a cutting edge, learning institution, focused on advanced academics and college & career readiness.” Go Eagles!

Mrs. Guillen

Ms. Acosta

Ms. Raulston

Coach Flores

Mrs. Aleong

Ms. Hoover

Ms. Herrera

Coach Straight

Canonizado

Ms. Anderson

Coach Estrada

Ms. Romo

EL ÁGUILA STAFF Empty lockers line the halls of San Eliz-ario High School.

ABOVE: Denise Ortiz, Charlie Alvarado, Casandra Ruiz going inside the high school after lunch.

AT LEFT: Beatriz Reyes, Samantha Cardona, Leslie Hernan-dez talking in the hallway.

PHOTOS BY PAULINA LUEVANO Abelemir Acosta reading in Mrs.Ayala’s English class room

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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ier snack foods,” he said.According to Jacques, foods served in the cafeteria during school hours must meet these standards or they can’t be on the menu.For students who aren’t happy with our current selections, Jacques says he’s willing to accept suggestions for tastier options.

Senior Daniella Saenz said she would like to see something different.”“They should have healthy snacks like more cucumber with lemon, mangonia-das,fruit with chamoy, and more fruit variety like kiwi. They always have the usual watermelon, melon, and grapes,” she said.

SnacksFROM PAGE 1

PHOTOS BY EL ÁGUILA STAFF Above: Students sit and eat in the San Elizario High School cafeteria during lunch. Below: A variety of lunch and snack selec-tions is displayed in the cafeteria snack bar.

SEHS students work on spirit

BY STELLA MOLINARJOURNALISM STUDENT Horns, clappers and lots of pom poms: Love them or hate them, pep rallies are a staple in high school culture across the country and are quickly becoming the norm here at San Elizario High School.For many, Friday morning pep rallies give optimistic vibes to students, but some say that isn’t always the case, especially for freshmen. One source, who chose to remain anonymous said the rallies weren’t as effective as they could be espe-cially since Freshmen are some-times too shy to cheer. But not everyone shares this opinion. “I think it’s awesome,” Fresh-men Sponsor Kaitlyn Aleong said. “I think pep rallies are a good way to get kids excited about school start-ing.” Junior Alexis Lozano agrees. “I like the fact that the whole school can come together and show how much school spirit we have and we get everyone pumped for the game.” And as far the stars of the pep ral-lies, the athletes, their just excited to have their classmates’ support. “[It’s the] best time of the year, just having everyone there, supporting,”-Jonathan Garcia, sophomore foot-ball player said.”It felt nice knowing they will go out there in the games just to see us play no matter if it was almost two hours away and losing ... a lot, San Eli people were there.”

“I like the fact that the whole school can come together and show how much school spirit we have and we get everyone pumped for the game.”

ALEXIS LOZANO, junior

“I miss the cheese fries.”

ELEANI VALENZUELA, junior

FUNDRAISING CHANGESBY ELISEO GALVAN AND ANGEL SALAZAREL ÁGUILA STAFFChanges in the San Elizario School Districts’ nutrition policies have created new obstacles for fundraising groups on campus. According to club sponsors on cam-pus, most of clubs rely on fundrais-ing to get supplies needed for their activities. Without the aid of candy sales clubs are working to come up with creative fundraising ideas to get the money they need.“We would have to rely heavily on concessions and students might need to pay out of pocket,” Coach Warfield said.The Aguila staff surveyed a small group of club sponsors throughout the school to see what some of the clubs were considering as replace-ment fundraisers:•Sell t-shirts•Work concessions•Sell nutritious snacks•Sell snacks after school when the policies do not apply•Most coaches would agree that, if the restrictions had not been placed, they would most likely sell all the goodies students are used to, but since that isn’t possible, most will go with the flow and change their plans.

Friday morning pep rallies kickstart weekends with cheer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 NEWS EL ÁGUILA 7

Stufffreshmendo: A tribute to all the awkward moments and

habits of incoming freshmen students

New school, new rules and new proceduc-es — it can all be a little overwhelming. So it’s pretty easy to spot a freshmen

when they step foot on campus. But don’t feel bad freshmen, the upperclassmen have been there too. And having been there, the upper-classmen on the newspaper staff have come up with a few common situations freshmen find themselves in.MEMES SUBMITTED BY BIANCA MORENO • EL ÁGUILA STAFF

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#earlybirddiscount

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COMMUNITY NEWS

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Only a month into the

school year and

Eagles around campus are busier

than ever. From pep rallies, to color

guard postings and even

wacky-tacky practices.

Above: The SEHS Volleyball

team dresses up for “Wacky

Tacky Practice.”

Left photo: Seniors cheer in

a pep rally.

Right photo: The NJROTC

Color Guard makes an

appearance at the Race El

Paso Triathlon on Sunday,

August 31.

IN ACTIONEAGLES

#SanEli

#co2015#finishline

#GOEAGLES#collegebound

#memories#flawless

#yearbook

#reserveyourstoday

#earlybirddiscount

Coming May 2015