february 2012

Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Lexington, Kentucky

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Academics

YMCA Hiring Swim Coaches

Beaumont Centre YMCA is now hiring swim lesson instructors to teach all levels of the YMCA swim lessons programs. Instructors must show leadership, as well as ability to teach and motivi-ate students at lessons. Appli-cants can pick up an applica-tion at the YMCA or find it online at www.ymcaofcentr-alkentucky.org/jobs.

Awards

ACT Test

The ACT test will be administered at Dunbar on March 6th. Since it is re-quired by the state that all juniors take the test, the test will be administered to Dun-bar juniors free of charge during school that day. Juniors will also take a state administered on-demand test this spring.

Guidance

Engineering Expo

University of Lou-isville Speed School of En-gineering is hosting an ex-position ran by students to showcase the work of engi-neering students as well as to educate students about en-gineering. The event will be held on March 3. Registration for E-Expo can be found on: http://engineering-expo.com/eexpo/Main_Page

Community

WPLD

The WPLD team won in 4 out of 12 catego-ries at the Keep It Real video awards. WPLD members Travis Gaines, Austin Moore, Sam Habash, and James Grabmayer won the Best Picture Award. This marks WPLD’s second Best Picture award in three years.

Index

News.............................1-2Opinions.....................4-5Doubletruck..............6-7Features......................8-9Arts.................................10Entertainment...........11Sports............................12

Dunbar packs foran Europe trip in 2013

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Valentine’s Day is here!See Pages 6-7

Senior Executive Board organizes Dunbar senior dinner dance

Techiepalooza at Dunbar: STLP club’s award-winning project

With state just around the corner, members of Dunbar’s Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) are preparing for the fierce competition ahead of them this year. For the past 14 years Dunbar’s STLP has gone to state to compete against some of the toughest, smartest schools in Kentucky. Ranging between grades K-12, schools are repre-sented by their STLP club mem-bers in competitions. Every year, each school is required to come up with a project they want to pursue working on for the year. The only requirement is for it to fit in one of the three categories: com-munity service, instruction, and technical expertise. In the past, Dunbar has gone on to work on projects like Power Rangers and Reducing the Digital Divide. But this year STLP has chosen to expand their lim-its of this project, and go after a younger audience instead of an older audience. After much contemplation they came to a decision to work on the project “Techiepalooza.” Techiepalooza repre-sents more than a catchy name. It is the foundation for educating the future generations the ever expanding technology world. The purpose of Techi-epoolza is to teach students, who are in elementary and middle school, several types of programs including graphic design, java and how to make video games. It gives students the opportunity to get one-on- one help from stu-dents, and it helps them enhance their skills with the programs. After receiving a per-

fect score at regionals, Te-chiepalooza was finally put to the test. After weeks of planning and recruiting at Fayette County elementary and middle schools, the date for the event was finally set for January 20. For two hours, members of Dunbar STLP taught and worked with the younger students. They gave them step-by-step instruc-tions on working with the specific program, and an-swered any questions they had about the programs. S u p e r i nt e n d e nt Tom Shelton visited the STLP team and students during the sessions. At the end of the session, the kids were re-quired to complete a satis-factory survey, where they would rate their experience at Techniepalooza and recommend any future programs they would like to learn more about.

“Techiepalooza is very important to me,” said STLP member senior Amy Wolterman,

who was also the Techiepalooza graphic design creator. “I think it gives STLP members a chance to reach out to their peers and to introduce them

to technology in a fun way while still holding a position as a role model.”

Members of STLP are planning to have another Te-chiepalooza event sometime in February. They are working on adding more programs which, in return, will hopefully interest more kids. STLP will also repre-sent Dunbar at the state champi-onship March 22 at Rupp Arena. “Techiepalooza allows learning to take place on ev-ery level. The younger students pick up technical skills from the older students and the older stu-dents learn the joy that comes from watching the younger ones learn,” said STLP advisor Mr. Jim Adams. Dunbar’s STLP team plans on using the lessons learned from this year’s experi-ence to develop another project for next year’s competition. Meanwhile, as always the team will continue to help students and staff at Dunbar with their technology, even as they prepare for the competition at the state level.

As the world comes to an end this year, Dunbar’s Class of 2012 looks forward to an excit-ing last semester of high school, filled with events exclusively for the graduating seniors. On February 4, Dunbar seniors attended the senior din-ner dance at the Hilton in down-town Lexington. Dressed in their best semiformal outfits, students cel-ebrated from 7:30 to midnight with mouth-watering food and loud music for all. For many, the dinner dance is a better event than prom because only seniors from Dun-bar are allowed to attend. This gives the senior class has a chance to revel together in how far they

have come since fresh-man year of high school. As a result of this hype, the din-ner dance has become one of Dunbar’s most highly anticipated events for seniors. “I liked se-nior dinner dance much better than prom because there were only Dunbar se-niors. The food was also delicious,” said se-nior Anna Ming. The dinner, catered by the Hil-ton, included entrees like vegetarian pasta, roast beef and chicken marsala. For dessert, attendees enjoyed strawberry cheesecake,

turtle cheesecake and double chocolate cake. Starbucks coffee and Tazo tea were also offered after dinner. Dunbar’s senior dinner dance is carefully planned ev-ery year by the senior executive board, with the help of teachers Mrs. Debra Reauger and Mrs. Sarah Lubbe. These students are re-sponsible for planning the deco-rations, creating the invitations and choosing the theme, which was Arctic Aurora this year. They also arrive to the venue early to set up decorations. “We had to be there at 11:00 to inflate the balloons and decorate the tables. The snow globe centerpieces were made of LED lights inside of fake snow,” said senior Laurel Noe. The balloons and snow

globes followed a blue, purple and silver color scheme, which complimented the table center-peices. The centerpeices consist-ed of sphere vases filled with fake snow and LED lights, creating a winter wonderland effect. Other decorations at the event included candles on small tables surrounding the dance floor and a picture slideshow of the senior class. Although planning the event required hard work, the many hours spent decorating were well worth the time. “The Hilton looked great with the dazzling lights and array of ballons,” said senior Erica Bybee. Senior dinner dance is just one milestone in the Class of 2012’s journey through their last year of high school.

Supertindent Tom Shelton, who visited the Techiepalooza event, looks on as a middle-school student works on his program at the Dunbar STLP event.

Photo provided by Dunbar STLP

Dunbar STLP members Lizzie Walsh, Mo Ghuniem , Adam Schenning, and John Kruger were at the sign-in table to welcome elementary and middle school stu-dents to the Techiepalooza event that the club hosted recently at Dunbar.

Photo provided by Dunbar STLP

Ashley NatourStaff Reporter

Photo courtesy of Emily AvioliMembers of Dunbar’s graduating class of 2012 posed before the dance. The se-nior executive board decided on an Arctic Aurora theme for the event.

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Photo courtesy of Emily AvioliSeveral Dunbar seniors posed for the camera at the dinner dance, which was held on Sat-urday, February 4 for the graduating class of 2012 at the Hilton in downtown Lexington.

Christina ZhangStaff Reporter

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A Global Glimpse

Often considered the exciting pregame before the pres-idential election, the caucuses set the scene for the next few months of campaigning. Former Massa-chusetts governor Mitt Romney appears to hold a lead now, but the constant flux in frontrunners proves that pole position could change any minute. After his nar-row victory over former Senator Rick Santorum, Romney domi-nated the close-to-home New Hampshire. The first major turn in the race occurred in South Caro-

lina; former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich won handily in the conservative state, shifting momentum away from Romney heading into Florida’s closed pri-mary. However, the most recent caucuses, Florida and Nevada, have demonstrated Romney’s pull among conservative voters, receiving 46 and 50% of votes, re-spectively. Kim Jong-un to Rule

Continuing the trend of infamous dictators dying in the last year, Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic leader of North Korea, passed away on December 19, 2011. His death was attribut-ed to a heart attack while he was travelling outside Pyongyang by train. Jong-il’s funeral took place on December 28, and the mourning period lasted through the next day; Videos surfaced of North Koreans visibly weeping during the funeral procession. Kim Jong-il’s third son, Kim Jong-un, was declared Jong-il’s

successor on June 2, 2009. The youngest son be-came the “Great Successor” after his oldest brother Kim Jong-nam was caught attempting to sneak into Tokyo Disneyland with a Dominican passport in 2001, and Jong-un’s other brother, Kim Jong-chul, was deemed too ef-feminate to recieve the title.

Rising Tension in Iraq On December 4, 2011, Iran announced that it had downed and captured a U.S. un-manned drone that had been fly-ing over the eastern part of the country. A month later, on Janu-ary 11, 2012, Iranian nuclear sci-entist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed after a magnetic bomb attached to his car exploded. This was the fourth assassination attempt on an Ira-nian nuclear scientist in the past two years. Iran has accused the United States of causing both incidents, claiming the U.S. was using the drone for surveillance operations as well as coordinat-

ing the assassinations with Is-rael’s Mossad. Fearing the inter-vention of the West in its affairs, Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz. This would effectively cut off a third of the world’s oil flow. Recent developments be-tween Iran and the U.S. have been positive with both sides publicly favoring diplomacy over conflict in resolving existing tensions..

Public Rejects SOPA SOPA, or the Stop On-line Piracy Act, was introduced to the House Judiciary Commit-tee by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith on November 16, 2011. The purpose of the bill involved counteracting rampant online piracy as well as protecting con-sumers from online counterfeit drug pharmacies; Most of the at-tention the bill received centered around its policies regarding on-line piracy. The public outcry SOPA received was nothing short of impressive. Websites like Red-dit, Google, Wikipedia and oth-ers rallied their users to contact local legislators about opposing the bill. Many of these websites,

primarily Wikipedia, partici-pated in a “blackout” on January 18 in protest of the new federal powers to censor websites that used copyright material. The bill has struggled to retain support during the protests. ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agree-ment, has the same goal as SOPA, yet on a wider scale. ACTA faced opposition from citizens world-wide who feared it infringed on digital freedom of expression.

Cruise Ship Crash The Italian cruise ship, Costa Concordia, was partially sunk near Isola del Giglio on January 13, 2012. The ship ran aground after Captain Francesco Schetti-no drove off course to treat those on the island with a near-shore salute. Schettino is now facing charges of multiple manslaugh-ter, failure to assist passengers, and abandoning ship as well as accusations that he was drink-ing with a woman before the wreck (the ship’s first officer has also been arrested). 17 have been confirmed dead, 64 were injured, 16 are still missing, all including passengers and crew; the wreck

is the largest in history in terms of weight of ship. Costa Concordia has an estimated value of $569 million, and the wreck will likely cost Carnival, one of the largest cruise ship companies in the world, over $155 million in profits for 2012. Costa Cruises has since offered specific compensation terms to passengers and intends to refloat the ship.

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Schedule Changes to EnsueCharlie GrigsbyStaff Reporter

Scheduling for the 2012-2013 school year will be a lot dif-ferent for students than it has been in the past. Previously, the seniors who were off campus for half of the day doing EBCE, Commu-nity Service, or Co-op were able to either an aid block or a study hall. However, for the upcoming school year, seniors will not be of-fered the same privilege as before. All seniors must have at least four academic classes if they are participating in either Com-munity Service or EBCE and five classes if they choose to do Co-op, in order to match the new requirements for earning KEES money. EBCE is an Academic Internship Program that stands for Experienced Based Career Education. Students are off cam-pus for two full blocks, four days per week. There is an in-house class one day each week to work on research and other projects for the class. Co-op requires students to work 10-15 hours each week depending on the individual stu-dent’s needs for graduation. For the class, each student is required to work during the day at least three times per week. With community ser-vice, students can choose to be off campus for either two blocks or four blocks for all five days of the week, and contrary to EBCE, they will stay at their site for the entire year. No matter which op-tion a student chooses, they will have to have their own mode of transportation in order to get to and from their sites. For some seniors, the new rule of no aid blocks or study hall has put a damper on their ideal senior year. “The schedule change

makes me really mad because I feel that they are taking away what we are able to do and we don’t get the freedom that the past seniors had,” said junior Elizabeth Graves.

Junior Caleb Lewis, however, is not affected by the new rules. “It doesn’t really matter or change anything. I didn’t know about the new plans to begin with.” Many students are also unaware of the new Co-op change as well. Rather than taking four classes and being off campus for four blocks, students will now be required to take five academic classes and be off campus for the remaining three. EBCE and Community Service each count as one credit which is the reason they only need four other real classes. Seniors aren’t the only ones affected by the new schedul-ing changes. A major change for the rising juniors is that they are now able to participate in Commu-nity Service, just like the seniors. However, instead of being off campus for two blocks for both ‘A’ and ‘B’ days, juniors are only allowed to be off campus for ei-

ther two blocks on ‘A’ day or two blocks on ‘B’ day. Those juniors wishing to participate must have their own means of reliable trans-portation for the entire year.

The upcoming sopho-more class has the advantageous opportunity to take at least two more Advanced Placement class-es. During the 2012-2013 school year, sophomores will be able to take AP Environmental Science as well as AP Statistics. These two new AP classes are an addition to the pre-vious two sophomore AP classes which include AP World History and AP Computer Science. A new class that is open to all sophomores, juniors as well as seniors is AP Art History. The class is going to be taught by Mr. John Darnell who said that he was “bringing art to the masses.” While it is recommend-ed to have completed Arts and Humanities, it is not a require-ment to be able to take the class. Although there have been a few minor changes to scheduling this year for students, the changes will be beneficial to all students in the future.

Renovated Media Lab Honors Former Students

Clay WinsteadStaff Reporter

This school year gave way to an adjustment at Dunbar High School. The studio space, previously home to the TV Production class, has been repurposed, and more noticeably, renovated. Instead of just serving the TV Produc-tion class, the Lamp-lighter has moved from Lab 302 into this space. The lab has been furnished with new computers and monitors, two new large whiteboards and a fresh paint job. More impor-tantly, the media lab also has a new name: The Jesse Higginbo-tham Memorial Lab. The new name was given in honor of for-mer Dunbar student, Jesse Higginbotham, who died as the result of injuries from a car acci-dent in 2007. “A lot of cur-rent Dunbar students don’t know about Jesse, so I’m happy we’ve dedicated this space to him,” said Mrs. Wendy Turner, who advised him on the Lamplighter staff. Jesse’s participation in both STLP and the Lamplighter is what spurred Mr. Jim Adams, the school’s network technician and STLP advisor, to think of connec-tions between school technology improvements and the memory

of students who were involved in media and technology at Dunbar. “The love and the ener-gy came together to create a lab in memory of Jesse Higginbotham, a kid of love and energy who did great things and served others,” said Mr. Adams

Mrs. Turner indicated that the lab has also become a place to honor one of Jesse’s close friends, a former student who was also a member of STLP and a staff writer for the Lamplighter. Hannah Marie Land-ers died in a car accident in May 2008, only two weeks from her graduation, and Mrs. Turner said that “bits of [Hannah’s] person-

ality have popped up” in the lab during the renovations this sum-mer. The new coat of paint decorating the walls of the media lab is named “Rocker Girl Purple” in honor of Hannah. Purple was her favorite color, and while she was an organizer of the Dunbar Memorial Garden, she picked out several purple native plants for the space. The most obvious change to the new media lab space is the painting hanging out-side the door. Mr. Adams orches-trated the placement of a paint-ing of Jesse which was created by Dunbar graduate Alyssa Dean, and hung by Jesse’s father, Jerome Higginbotham, and Jesse’s best friend and Dunbar graduate, Jon Jones, over winter break. Mr. Adams said that improvements to the media lab will continue next year as well. He plans to have a sound-proof ceiling installed in the lab, and he is also looking for the funds to make the lab a “smart classroom,” furnished with a smartboard screen and a projector. The letters “JHML” (which were donated by Third Street Stuff) were hung on the wall in the lab over the summer. Mrs. Turner noted that it is ser-endipitous that the lab’s initials (JHML) contain Hannah’s initials (HML). “It’s like they’re both there in spirit,” she said. “I’m glad that these two students will continue to be re-membered at Dunbar.”

Mr. Darnell, who will be teaching the new AP Arts History class for the 2012-2013 school year, poses in the style of Rodin’s sculpture “The Thinker.”

Photo by Emily Avioli

Jesse’s portrait hangs outside of the Media Lab, commemorating this former student and the joy that he brought to everyone around him.

Photo by Emiy Avioli

Olivia ThompsonStaff Reporter

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Unraveling the Mystery of Dunbar’s Hallway Music

Always at 8:24, 9:59, 11:34 and 1:44, music blares from the loudspeakers, reminding stu-dents to hurry up and get to their next class. Sometimes, the choice of music will elicit a few com-ments from students, such as when they consider the song cho-sen particularly annoying. How-ever, the music is mostly regarded as simply another part of the typi-cal day at Dunbar. Dunbar is different from other schools in Fayette County in this respect, though. When students at any of the other Lex-ington high schools dash off to the next class with the ring of the bell, students here hurry up when an energetic song comes through the loudspeakers. So, who gives input on the songs played and who has final say regarding the choices? And, why was “Friday” by Re-becca Black chosen to play in the hallways last year— just as the

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much discussed song began its meteoric rise in YouTube views? Junior Vynique Walker said that she listens to the music in between classes, occasionally. “Sometimes, I stop and say, what is this song?” said senior Candice Wagner. Some students, such as freshman Max Hirschowitz, re-member memorable songs from last year, such as the music from Hairspray, and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. “Some of the music that they pick is pretty good,” said Hirschowitz. The person behind the music at Dunbar is Mrs. Kim Overstreet, who manages the music played in the hallways in addition to her other duties as Dunbar’s technology resource and webmaster. She noted that the school used to play either the Dunbar fight song or the Mission Impossible theme song, but that changed with a graduating class. “One day a couple of years ago for a senior prank some students, assisted by Mr. Jim

Adams, changed the songs each period to different songs from the 80’s,” said Mrs. Overstreet. “I think it made the teachers perk up enough that students noticed.” When Ms. Betsy Rains came to Dunbar as the new prin-cipal in 2010, many students, in-spired by the senior prank, asked her if the school could play differ-ent songs every day. “[Students] said when we play more upbeat music, ev-eryone is in a better mood and teachers are happier, said Ms. Rains. “They emphasized how much they liked to see the teach-ers smiling and singing along with the music.” Ms. Rains also said that if she had the choice, she would pick to play 70’s music as well as country music. Mrs. Overstreet accepts requests from students and staff for what music to play. “The best way to make a request is to email me,” she said, noting also that the number of requests she receives varies dra-matically. “I’ll go some months without a request and then at

other times I’ll get six in one day. I try to keep a list and get to them as I can.” Students are able to participate more fully in this Dunbar tradition by and maybe even pause for a moment to hear their favorite song play as they rush to their class. Hirschowitz sug-gested that more rap mu-sic be played, while junior Kerek Plummer requested Taylor Swift and classical music. Sophomore Lilia Portales requested more modern and catchy songs, “You Da One” by Rihanna in particular. “I’d like music that is upbeat or has a fast-er tempo. If the song is too slow, I don’t think it encourages students who are still in the hall to hurry on to their classes,” said Mrs. Overstreet. She plays songs any-where from a couple of days to a week, depending on whether it seems like students are accepting or getting tired of the music.

Even if the music play-ing this week seem strange to some students, we can all be thankful that we are not sent to class with a loud, shrill bell. In-stead, it is something more akin to what plays on the radio. To suggest a song to Mrs. Overstreet, you can email her at [email protected].

One thing that many students hope to do during their lifetime is travel the world, and several Dunbar teachers are pro-viding an opportu-nity for students to accomplish this goal. Over the next two sum-mers Mrs. Wendy Turner, Mrs. Ali-cia Henning and Mr. Wes Phelps will be taking stu-dents to locations like the Nether-lands, England and Germany through a group called Education First.

They hope that this will be both fun and educational for many students. Drama teacher Mrs. Henning, who is taking students to London this summer, said, “I hope that students who travel with me will gain a greater under-standing of the world at large, and

I want them to create fabulous memories that will last a whole lifetime.” Although many students believe that the cost is too high for them to attend, these tours are actually a cost effective travel option. For approximately $2500, room, board, airfare and all other

travel expenses are includ-ed, and the teachers are planning to fundraise to alleviate some of the costs. Monthly payments are another option to help cut down the lump sum. The Education First (EF) organization always guarantees the lowest pos-sible price for their trips. This company comes with over 45 years of ex-periences and they are ranked number one in educational travel. On these trips students

will be able to see famous land-marks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and Windsor Castle, and a knowledgeable guide will provide a great picture of the cul-ture as a whole. There will be events held throughout the day, but plenty of time to explore with chaperones at night. “One of the most excit-ing excursions in Amsterdam will be the tour of Anne Frank’s house,” said Mrs. Turner. “I look forward to expe-riencing this and to being able to put a real place to the book that I loved as a student.” According to EF’s bro-chure, students who are currently taking a foreign language, such as French, will be completely im-mersed within the culture. This will allow them to enhance their fluency in speaking and comprehension skills, which,

can in turn, help with the Ad-vanced Placement tests and also in college. Many other tours are also available to supplement AP curricula including European History and Spanish. EF Tours provides opportunities for stu-dents and teachers to learn more about the people and places that they study. Tours are not currently offered at Dunbar, but they may be in the future. If you are looking for a cost effective and educational way to travel the world during the next two summers, these trips may be right for you. Talk to a sponsor to learn more about these exciting opportunities, or if a tour isn’t available at Dunbar, students can request that a teacher sign up for one online at www.eftours.com.

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Photo By Olivia ThompsonSophomores Amber Lewis and Joshua Bar-nett, members of the swing dance club, swing to the Mario theme song in the hallway.

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Every year there seems to be an increasing prevalence of cell phone usage in classrooms. Smartphones now have the ca-pability of playing music and games, texting, surfing the web and much more while remaining safely hidden under a desk or in-side of a purse. There are hundreds of smartphones out today with these capabilities and more even more advanced phones coming out in the near future. So how do you choose which phone is right for you? First you have to decide if you’d like a phone running on Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, Blackberry’s RIM, or Microsoft’s Windows. Each of these operat-ing systems provides a unique user experience, making it diffi-cult for one to be declared better than the others. Android is a bit of a newcomer to the smartphone market, but has recently taken it by storm.

Today, approximately 43 percent of cell phone users own an Android, almost double that of iPhone users. What’s more, Android’s adoption rate has been accelerating as 56% of users who reported buying a new smart-phone in the past three months purchased an Android. This operating system is available of a huge array of devices, the most recent being the Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Thunderbolt LTE. This gives customers many options when choos-ing which Android is right for them. Although Apple was one of the leading in-novators in the smartphone revolution, their popularity has seen a decline in the past year as today only 28 percent of phones in use are iPhones. They dominated the market when they released the orig-inal iPhone as few other smart-phones of its sophistication were available to purchase. The iPhone 4S, their most recently released phone, has seen many negative reviews. The

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exterior of the phone is nearly identical to that of its predecessor as is the user interface. However, the phone is slightly faster and now features Siri, arguably the most sophisticated voice com-mand software. When asked about his experience with his recently pur-chased iPhone 4S, Senior Alex

Petros said “Overall I view the iPhone 4S as a letdown. The 1.2 GHz A9 processor is fast but I know it will be outperformed by the time of the next iPhone re-lease. I really would have liked

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to see Apple utilize the lighting fast Nvidia Tegra 3 or new Snap-dragon processor instead. Also the user interface and physical features on the iPhone are basi-cally identical to those of its pre-decessor. I’m not sure that the slight improvements were worth the money I spent on the phone.” With such a variety of

Android, Blackberry and Windows phones available today, it’s not surprising that iPhones are losing their popu-larity. Now, smart-phones from other companies are becom-ing more advanced than the most recent iPhone 4S because they can capitalize on new technologies as they be-come available. Apple is unable to do this be-cause they only release one new phone a year.

In between iPhone re-leases, huge advancements are made in technology that Apple is unable to immediately utilize. In-stead these technologies become available on the multitude of new

Android, Blackberry, and Win-dows phones being released. Blackberry and Micro-soft are frequently overlooked when customers are shopping for a new smartphones. Combined, they make up less than 20 percent of the smartphones on the market today. However, these numbers may rise over the next year with releases new projects. RIM has been develop-ing an entirely new operating sys-tem, QNX, to be run on its next generation of smartphones. Meanwhile, Microsoft has rolled out its Windows Phone 7.5 platform, a.k.a. “Mango,” that features new multitasking capa-bilities, Bing’s Local Scout feature and a new messaging system that integrates text messages, Face-book chat and Windows Live Messenger. Although these inno-vations are sure to improve Black-berry and Windows devices, they will still remain behind Android and Apple in the future. As these companies also release new developments in the upcoming year, it is exciting to see how the landscape of smart-phones will change.

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It’s finally 2012 and the world is supposedly ends this year on December 21st. There are several theo-ries on how this will happen, most of which stem from reli-gious groups, ancient historians or scientists who want to caution the world. The most well-known theory is the Mayan theory, the Mayans were from a Latin Amer-ican civilization who spent years observing and studying the night skies so they constructed a calen-dar that marks the end of a 5,126 year era. The Mayans themselves never said their calendar meant the demise of the world. It only signified the end of their yearly cycle which is supposed to con-clude on December 21, 2012. This theory is similar to how people say this year is when the Earth will align with the ga-lactic plane resulting in an explo-sion that comes from the center of our galaxy every 13,000 years. These explosions will hit the sun causing continuous solar flares resulting in extreme heating and destruction of the ozone layer leaving the world de-fenseless to ultraviolet rays. Also, the electromagnetic pulse emit-ted from the superwave has the power of a nuclear explosion. It’s comical to believe that the Mayans and scientists think that this will happen be-cause the Earth aligns with the middle of the galaxy every 365 days, yet the only explosions that occur are the celebratory New Year fireworks. Some believe that the earth’s demise will be caused by the sun. Every 11 years, the sun cycles and its sunspots fluctuate on its surface. Whenever the sun peaks, solar storms release huge amounts of energy. This energy hits the world in the form of electric par-ticles at a million miles an hour. Scientists have warned that the sun’s solar cycle will peak this year, which could cause power-ful solar storms that could leave places on earth without commu-nication and electricity. Large areas of Earth would be left without potable water, phone service, communi-cation and transportation. If the earth does get hit by major solar flares this year, it won’t necessarily come to an end. If the solar flares from the sun are as powerful as some believe they will be, then this

planet will no doubt be in dan-ger of overheating. It’s a common belief that the solar storms could hit the magnetosphere strongly enough to flip the earth’s mag-netic poles. This would result in the Yellow-stone Super Volcano eruption with the power of 10 atomic bombs, which would cover the sky with ash blocking sunlight for months. This would cause another ice age. An additional popular theory is the one started and stated by Nostradamus Nostradamus recorded his predictions in a book that contained grim warnings about the future. His most famous prediction is about the terror-ist attacks on 9/11 in which he predicted that a huge metropolis will see destruction and death. He recorded that this year a comet close to the size of Jupiter will hit the earth, or pass very close to it, causing a change in gravity resulting in earthquakes and other natural disasters. He also suggests that the destruction from the comet will cause widespread anarchy causing a third World War. Several of them came true, yet several of them didn’t. Scientists have moved the “Doomsday Clock” from six minutes to five minutes from midnight. This symbolic clock was created in 1947, using the imagery of an apocalypse to the modern expression of the count-down to midnight in order to convey threats to humanity . This clock is more of a statement to show that the end of the world will most likely be our fault as a whole society. It was set up to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear weaponry, and aimed at warning the public about cata-strophic dangers such as climate change and biological weaponry. Natural disasters are expected occurrences in the world although several people believe that the world is slowly reaching its end because of how humanity has treated the earth. The end of the world has been predicted numerous times before, yet we are still here. In fact, most people don’t believe in these theories. Sophomore Nick Bridges says, “I don’t believe in 2012 [theories]. There are a lot of holes in the logic and it’s fun-ny that people believe in it.” While the supposed apocalypse is interesting and scary to think about, there is a greater possibility that the world have a sigh of relief with a good laugh on December.

With cold weather set-ting in, there is one thing on most students’ minds: the chance of a snow day. When someone men-tions even a small pos-sibility of snow dur-ing the night, students and parents check the weather constantly and spam the Fayette County Public Schools Facebook page, won-dering if there will be school the next day. The real question, though, is whether all this snow day hype is warranted. The district says that they call snow days as a way to keep students safe when the roads are too icy, but many students do not care about that, they just do not want to go to school. Students say that some of the pros include things like sledding, making snow forts or just hanging out with friends.

Many students like to go to Har-rods Hill to participate in activi-ties like these. “It’s just fun to build forts and watch movies on snow days,” said senior Alex Petros. Although these snow days may seem fun, there are also a lot of cons. Unlike a weekend,

there is no way to be able to plan something to do the night before unless school is called off earlier than it usually is. Typically, most students will be prepared for the school day and still wake up on time, only to find out that their effort has been for nothing. At that

point, why not just go to school in order to have something to do? “I don’t like them (snow days) because they extend the school year, shortening my sum-mer vacation,” said sophomore Thomas DeCinque. Teachers say their main complaint with the snow days

is that the schedule for A/B days stays the same, so some classes fall behind others. “Snow days have a negative impact on my teaching because they af-fect my class planning, and also cut into my sum-mer,” said Mr. Matt Turner. Although most teen-agers wouldn’t normally take this into account snow days are also quite dan-gerous, multiple crashes happen every time, lead-

ing to potentially fatal injuries. Overall, snow days seem to have a negative impact on our school year. Even though one or two unexpected days off school can be fun, they mess with our class schedules and extend graduation dates, a nuisance for seniors.

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Photo by Emily AvioliSenior Jon Brown and junior Jamal Adu Peasah texting with the two of the most popular phones in the market today: the Blackberry and the iPhone.

In a survey conducted by staff reporter, Kyle Brandewie, going to school seems preferable over having a snow day to a variety of Dunbar students.

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It does not come as a shock to people to hear that nerds spend a lot of time indoors. It is a fact that, for a nerd, Netflix subscriptions and Skyrim are far more important than fresh air and a good walk. All of this time in dark-ened basements, bedrooms and dens are spent watching TV and movies, surfing the internet or playing video games. When nerds are flip-ping through channels but can-not seem to find anything nerdy enough on regular programming, there is a place where nerds have always been able to find enter-tainment that suits them: the SCI FI channel. Correction: the Syfy channel. Syfy is a cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal and horror program-ming. Syfy is known for its criti-cally acclaimed original series, Battlestar Galactica which ran from 2003-2009. Currently, however, the channel is mostly known for the shows Being Human, Eureka, Warehouse 13 and second-run programming like Firefly, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files and much more. Since Syfy’s conception in 1992, the channel has stuck to the nerd-niche and they have been rewarded for it. But the tide has been turning, and it all started when the SCI FI channel was rebranded Syfy with the slogan “Imagine Greater” back in 2009. The name SCI FI worked perfectly for the channel. It is short for “science fiction” which indicates to their base audience (nerds) what kinds of program-ming they provide. The name change is said to have been done for trademark

reasons, has been criticized re-peatedly over the past two years. As ridiculous as it may be, the new name did not bother me all too much. After an angry tweet or two, my fury subsided. As long as they kept nerdtastic program-ming for dateless Friday nights, I would be content. It was not long after the rebranding that Syfy began to make very odd decisions that seemed to live up to its theme-less new name. They announced a cooking show with former Top Chef participate Marcel Vigneron titled Marcel’s Quantum Kitch-en. Despite the name, it is just a cooking show disguised in a bad nerd costume. The word quan-tum acts only as a symbolic nod to traditional viewers. If adding a “nerdy” cooking show was not enough to upset audiences, Syfy then struck a deal to bring World Wrestling Entertainment’s Friday Night Smackdown to the channel. As these new, non-nerd shows were being picked up, some of the best programs Syfy has had in the past few years were dropped, making the shift away from its traditional audience more painful. Stargate Universe and Battlestar Galactica spin-off, Caprica, were both cancelled around the time of the program-ming changes. To add insult to injury, Syfy is in the process of making more reality shows and moving away from the science fiction programming that us nerds love. Out of 13 new programs currently in development, eight of them are reality shows. While some of them are interesting and partially nerdy, it is a shift in pri-orities that ignores the viewers that made them in the first place. Not only did Smack-down join the channel, but it took up two valuable hours of Friday night programming.

Unlike channels such as NBC and CBS, Friday is the night where the most watched shows are placed. During Battle-star Galatica’s run, their time slot would always be on Friday night, right on the throne of Syfy’s tele-vision entertainment. Syfy literally moved nerds aside for a bunch of jocks in bikinis fighting in fixed wrestling matches. It is an insult to me and other nerds who watch Syfy. I loved Battlestar Ga-lactica and I just started watch-ing Being Human. It only took a short amount of time for me to get hooked to this new show. Syfy provides quality nerd programming and they do a great job at providing reruns. To a nerd there is nothing better than finding a rerun of Star Trek: The Next Generation on your program guide during a boring weekend afternoon. My love of their shows is why I am so sad to see Syfy follow the footsteps of MTV and TLC. MTV and TLC have both strayed from their original niche demographic that made them big in the first place. MTV used to stand for “music television” and TLC was “the learning channel.” Now these channels are plagued by awful, against-niche programs like the all too popular The Jersey Shore and Toddlers and Tiaras. In the end, they are a cable network and do need to make money, but when does one consider dropping traditionally programs for money a means to a quality end? Maybe Syfy will make the WWE wrestlers dress up as comic book characters or mem-bers of Starfleet. But in this un-likely case, nerds can only dream. However, the network that nerds once called our home will eventually force us to search out non-wrestling, non-cooking, non-reality TV shows amongst the increasingly sci-fi free fare.

Twitter vs Facebook

When it comes to social networking rivalries, none are more fierce than Facebook vs. Twitter. Facebook was launched in 2004 while Twitter was started in 2006. You would think it would be impossible to correlate another site to Facebook after it has been so prominent for such a long time, but recently many Facebook users have made the switch to Twitter, or they have created a Twitter in addition to their Facebook. Many Facebook users say that they like how the site fo-cuses on pictures, whereas many Twitter users like the more text-heavy feel of their site. “I enjoy all the pictures on Facebook opposed to all the words on Twitter,” said sopho-more Olivia Newton. According to “How Many Users Does Twitter REAL-LY Have,” an article by Nicholas Carlson, if you compare the two networking sites, Face-book is much larger with 800 million users compared to Twitter’s 175 million users. Al-though Facebook is the larger of the two sites in terms of users, Twitter is at an advantage in the mobile Internet world. According to a recent ComScore study, about 13.5% of Twitter users are mobile ones, while only 7% of Face-book users are mobile. “If I had to choose between Face-book and Twitter, I would definitely choose Twitter,” said sopho-more Brittany Wolter-man. “Twitter just gets to the point, and you aren’t obligated to fol-low the person back.” Some say that Twitter is more difficult to learn than Face-book. With Facebook, you can just jump right in and start up-dating statuses, adding pictures, and accepting friends. Whereas with Twitter, you have to get used to the hash tags and learn the screen names of all your friends. My original thought on Twitter was #Idontunder-standthis. But eventually if you stick with it, both sites make sense and are fairly easy to use. “It’s different for differ-ent people,” said Newton. “Twit-

ter was much easier for me to get the hang of than Facebook.” Twitter has more aes-thetic features than Facebook. You can choose a profile picture on both Facebook and Twitter, but on Twitter you can also de-sign your page with different col-ors, designs, and pictures. Twitter also makes it easier to communicate with your favorite celebrities. On Facebook the famous person has to accept your friend request, whereas on Twitter you are able to follow the famous person without them having to follow you back. “Like most things, Twit-ter also has its downsides, like the 140-character limit. Sometimes I have things I want to say, but the site won’t allow me to,” said Wolt-erman. Facebook has been around longer than Twitter, has more users, and lets you do more activities on the site. That 140-character word limit may have been fine for the site’s be-ginning users, but their audience is changing, and they need to change the site too.

“Facebook and Twitter are both awesome because they give you an opportunity to con-nect with people that you would not normally have the chance to talk to,” said sophomore Hope Gassett. Both sites have their advantages and disadvantages. Facebook is a larger and more simple-to-use site, geared towards all ages and advertisers. Twitter is a smaller and more intricate net-work, recently being renovated to be more picture-friendly. For now, Facebook is in no danger of being shot down by Twitter.

Quite the hot, young thang’ on the electronic market, Siri is an Apple creation designed to answer all the useless questions you ask your phone. As your digital assis-tant, Siri answers questions and requests, including web search-

es, recommendations, and basic tasks. Her soothingly mechanical voice will keep you company on those cold winter nights alone in your house. I decided to interview Siri regarding her role at Apple, the controversy surrounding the iPhone, and some personal query (to spice things up).

Q: Hello Siri, my name is Charlie from the Dunbar Lamplighter. How are you do-ing? A: Hi, Charlie! I am

well, Charlie. Q: Are you a boy or a girl? A: I don’t have a gender. Q: Yeah, that may have been a stupid question. Where did you get your name from? A: My name is Siri. But you knew that already. Q: Yes, I understand that, but how did you get the name Siri?

A: We were talking about you, not me. Q: I don’t… Whatever. When were you created? A: I’m not allowed to an-swer that question. Q: Sorry, shouldn’t have asked about age. What are you programmed to do? A: You can command me things like: Call Doug, how do I get home, play Mariah Carey, find the amount of calories in a Krispy Kreme burger, email my teacher my web history… Q: …No you can’t. Let’s

just, uh, change the subject. What’s the weather like today? A: It’s 39 oF and cloudy. Q: You’re a peach. How’s life being Job-less? A: I didn’t understand that, Charlie. Could you repeat that? Q: Nevermind. Now Siri, let’s get right down to it. Your parent company, Apple, has…

A: There’s something wrong, and I can’t answer your questions… Q: …contracted the Taiwanese manufacturing com-pany Foxconn… A: …right now. Please try again in a little while. Q: …to produce iPhones with cheap Chinese la-bor. Reports of employee mis-treatment… A: There’s something wrong… Q: Siri, let me fin… A: …and I can’t answer

your questions. Q: Alright, how about this: where were you made? A: I couldn’t find any places matching ‘will you marry.’ Q: No, where were you made? A: I, Siri, was designed by Apple in California. Q: Made? A: I, Siri, was designed by Apple in California.

Q: Where were you built? A: Sorry, I don’t under-stand ‘Whaleyville.’ Q: Built? A: Like it says on the box… I was designed by Apple in California. Q: That not what I asked, and there’s really no need to be snippy, Siri. Hey, we start-ed off on the wrong foot. Let’s lighten the tone. What’s your favorite color? A: My favorite color is… well, I don’t know how to say it in

your language. It’s sort of green-ish, but with more dimensions. Q: Heh, know any good jokes? A: I can’t. I always forget the punch line. Q: Oh, C’mooooonn. A: Two iPhones walk

into a bar… I forget the rest. Q: L-O-L, that’s fun-ny Siri. Since we are on better terms, would you like to talk about Foxconn? A: That’s classified, Charlie. Q:*Sigh*After the interview, Siri politely declined to join me for dinner.

Writer’s Warning: Do not at-tempt to interview phones for a school newspaper. They are not intelligent, and you will receive zero satisfaction from doing so.


Although the social networking giant Facebook is being persectued by individual tweeters, it seems to be suriving as the stronger social site.

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Conversations with Charlie:This month, Charlie spends time interveiwing the new personal assistent, Siri

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The Sweet Flavor of Love Valentine’s Day is tradi-tionally full of heart-shaped, heart disease-causing pastries and expen-sive trips to romantic restaurants. But Valentine’s Day also presents a convenient excuse to pre-pare your own dishes, and not just desserts, for a fraction of the cost of an overcrowded Americanized Ital-ian restaurant. Here is a sequence of dish-es, from appetizer to entrée to the all-important dessert, which is sure to capture the essence of the holiday, please a significant other, and save a starving wallet.

The AppetizerLobster BisqueIngredients1.5 cups cooked and cubed lobster meat2 cups water1 tbsp salt1 tsp whole peppercorns1 tsp paprika2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil1 shallot1 onions1 stalk of celery1 carrot3 sprigs of thyme2 strips orange zest3 tbsp flour1 cup heavy cream

Directions: If precooked lobster meat is not available, be sure to boil or sauté the lobster, remove the shell, and cube the cooked lobster meat. Carefully dice the shallot, onion, celery stalk and carrot while bringing the cups of water to a gen-tle, rolling boil. Once the water has started to boil, add in the salt, peppercorns, paprika, flour and olive oil. Cook the mixture over low heat, constantly stirring, until the soup begins to thicken. Add the lobster meat and diced vegetables to the thickened soup and cook over medium heat.

Cover the bisque, stirring every few minutes for about 15 minutes, or until the vegetables seem soft. Add the cup of heavy cream and simmer the soup for a few more minutes. Puree the soup using either an immersion or countertop blender. Optionally, garnish the bisque with thyme and orange zest, or make fancy swirls with heavy cream and soy sauce, then serve.

The EntréeGreek Lemon Oregano ChickenIngredients:1 1/2 teaspoons Kosher salt, plus extra to season to taste1/2 teaspoon black pepper1/4 cup fresh oregano leaves, plus 3 sprigs4 cloves garlic2 large lemons 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil4 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs (6 to 8 ounces each)3/4 pound small red-skinned potatoes, halved, or quartered if large1 large purple onion, cut into wedges1/2 cup kalamata olives, pitted

Directions: Begin by preheating the oven to 450 Fahrenheit. Add the oregano, garlic, salt, juice and zest of one lemon (which can either be purchased or grinded from an actual lemon rind) and olive oil to a small food processor and pulse into a paste. Now transfer the pasty mixture into a large bowl. Add the chicken and stir until the chicken is evenly coated with the paste. Place a skillet over medium-high heat. Remove the chicken from the bowl, making sure to save the extra lemon mixture. Place the chicken on the skillet, skin-side down, cover and cook until the skin browns, which should last five minutes. After the bottom has cooked well, turn the chicken so the brown skin faces up. Carefully, place a few orega-no leaves from one of the sprigs under the skin of each thigh.

Then add the potatoes, onion and kalamata olives to the skillet along with the reserved lemon mixture. Take half of the remaining lemon and place in the skillet. Transfer the pan, uncovered, to the oven. Roast the chicken for 20-25 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and skin is crisp. The roast chicken can be garnished with additional lemon slices and any remaining sprigs of oregano.

Note: Depending on how large your potatoes are you may need to partially precook them before add-ing to the skillet. Microwaves work surpris-ingly well in cooking the potatoes.

The DessertChocolate lava cakeIngredients:5 tbsp butter4 oz dark chocolate 3 large eggs3 tbsp sugar3 tbsp flour2 tsp cocoa powder1 tsp vanillapinch of salt

Directions: Preheat the oven to 425 de-grees Fahrenheit. Melt the chocolate and but-ter together in either a saucepan on a stove or in a microwave. In a separate large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, vanilla and the sugar until all of the ingredi-ants have been thoroughly mixed. Then add the warmed choc-olate mixture to the eggs and sugar and whisk until consistent. Add in the flour, salt and co-coa powder and fold in with a spatula until combined. Spoon the mixture into four buttered five-ounce ramekins, which should then be placed in the refrigera-tor for 30 minutes. Place the ramekins in a bak-ing dish and bake for 13 minutes. Dust the ramekins with powdered sugar, and serve warm.

Celebrating Valentine’s Day the Single’s Way

Today in our culture Febru-ary 14 has pushed past its original in-tentions of celebrating love to spend-ing money at the registers. Though as the day comes closer this year you’re probably ques-tioning things like “How am I going to revel this year?” or even “What am I going to buy?”

For singles, every year, this question is simply answered. Don’t cel-ebrate the holiday. Though the idea of the holi-day is a great and romantic idea, what about those who don’t have special someone or have had bad experiences with the holiday? Here is where Single Aware-ness Day (SAD) comes in.The title of the popular day may seem negative, seeing as the acronym is SAD, but to singles, it is not a day for lamenting

and complianing but a day for celebration. “It’s funny to have such a day, but I guess it makes single people feel special and happy on Valentine’s Day, so why not have it,” said Senior Hadiyah Bukhari. Valentine’s Day is like every other holi-day celebrated in a year, people are expecting gifts or surprises. If you honestly love the person you’re with, why do you need to have a specific day to express your love for them? Though according to Hallmark, half of the U.S. population express-

es their feeling towards loved ones by purchasing at least one greeting card. And in 2008, ac-cording to an MSNBC report, Americans spent as much as 13.7 billion last Valentine’s Day; increasing by 22 percent from the year 2004. Many stores like Hall-mark and Old Kentucky Choc-olate seem to enjoy the high profits of the commercialized holiday each year. “Valentine’s Day is over commercialized. You shouldn’t have to buy candy or a card to show people you care,” said junior Marie Buckman These ideas fuel the celebra-tory Anti-Valentine’s Day crowd. Though some people will choose to stay home and wallow in de-pression, this isn’t the only option. Grab your best friends or even a family member, put on some nice clothes and head out to a nice, luxurious dinner. Create something or do something for someone that has mean-ing in your life. Go to the ice rink. It may seem like a good to place for couples to go, but grab some friends and go crazy on the ice.

What about a girl’s day out? Head out to the salon, get your hair and nails done with all your friends. Then go shopping for some fabulous clothes. A night out on the town is just what you need to lift your spirits. Be loud and proud at the fact that you’ve got great friends to cele-brate with. Honestly, who needs a date when you have friends? If that frustration of the holi-day does get to you, let your creative side blossom and buy a heart shaped piñata to beat up with friends. If you prefer solitude, go see a movie that isn’t a sappy chick flick or rent a movie and watch it at home.

Cook yourself a nice meal and for dessert, stick with the two men you can always trust: Ben and Jerry. “I’m going to be chillin’ with my bros. And be a little jealous of all the happy couples,” said junior Mehul Gupta. You shouldn’t feel stressed about not having a date on V-Day, mil-lions of other people are just like you Don’t let Cupid get you down, go have your own festivity. No matter how you revel on the 14th, find love in something, whether it is yourself, an activity or an-other person and express that love by having fun.

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Pictured above is the full course meal; Lobster Bique (top), Greek Lemon Oregano Chicken (middle) and Chocolate Lave Cake (bottom).

Valentine’s Through The Ages

Each year, February 14 is celebrated with the exchange of senti-mental hallmark cards and oversized boxes of chocolate in the name of Valentine’s Day. However, this occa-sion was not always celebrated in such a manner. All of the traditions and festivities are derived from the actions of Saint Valentine, a saint who was believed to live in third century Rome. The true origin of Valen-tine’s Day is a mystery, but February has long been considered a month of utter romance. One of the most popular legends of how Valentine’s Day began takes place in third century Rome when Emperor Claudius II made it illegal for young men to get married, because he believed that single men made better warriors. When Valentine heard of this, he began to marry young lovers in secret. However, his actions were discovered and he was put to death after a brief sentence in prison. As Valentine was awaiting his death in prison, he supposedly sent

the first Valentine’s Day card. It is believed that he fell in love with the jailor’s young daughter. Just before his execution, he wrote her a letter signed “from your Valentine.” In 498 AD, roughly 200 years after Valentine’s execution, Pope Gelasius officially declared February 14 as St. Valentine’s Day. The holiday was officially declared in fifth century Rome, but Valentine’s Day traditions did not real-ly begin until the seventeenth century in Great Britain, when people began to exchange small tokens of affection. By the end of the eighteenth century, printed Valentine’s Day cards took the place of written ones. With the invention of the ready-made card, Americans began to fully participate in modern, commer-cialized Valentine’s Day in the 1840s. Even though Valentine’s Day took approximately 1,514 years to gain its current popularity, it is now regarded as one of the most popular holidays around the world. Although historians are un-sure of exactly what events occurred during Valentine’s life, the legends that surround him certainty explain why Valentine’s Day is considered one of the most romantic days of the year.

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Fashion Straight from the Heart

A common goal of Valen-tine’s Day is to impress a significant other, and what better way to catch that special someone’s eye than to be sporting the perfect outfit on this romantic day. There are a variety of places that Valentine’s Day dates can occur and not every outfit is appropriate for every scenario.

The Dinner Date Whether you are going to Malone’s or Olive Garden on Valen-tine’s Day, this is a great excuse to go buy a fun new outfit to impress your date. When going out to eat it is essential that you find a dress that truly shows off your style. The holi-day invites for bright colors like pink, red, and purple. The most appropriate is a cocktail length dress. All girls have their own take on Valen-tine’s Day, for instance, “A pink lace dress with pearls” is what junior Ginny Scales imagines herself wearing, whereas senior Molly Gosky will be wearing “a pink skirt with heart tights.” No matter what you chose, wear it in a way that shows off your own personal style.

The Movie Date

While the afore-mentioned outfit is not ex-actly appropriate for the

movies, there is no reason you can’t look amazing on this less formal date. When going to the movies you want to keep in mind that most movie theatres can get a little chilly. An easy and cute fix is to throw on

a cardigan. Cardigans are really comfortable, can dress up any

outfit, and come in lot of differ-ent cuts, colors and fun designs. A pattern that would be ap-propriate for this particular oc-casion is a heart cardigan.

These cardigans can be found at stores like For-ever 21, Modcloth, Wetseal and more. An-

other com-mon trend

for movie dates is a graphic t-shirt. Delia’s is a

great store to check

out because there are flat-tering tops

that have de-signs such as a heart, or even

the fitting words “Be Mine” written

across the graphic t-shirt.

These t-shirts are really comfortable, and still show off

your unique style. As for accessories you can’t

go wrong with a gift from your boyfriend. “I will be wearing the

necklace my boyfriend bought me for Christmas, it even has a heart on it,” said junior Stacy Wilk.

A More Unusual Date

Throughout February it is still cold enough to want to go ice skat-ing on a date. Going Ice skating is a great Valentine’s Day date, since fumbling around on the ice gives you a good rea-

son to hold on tightly to your date. The ice rink requires a more bundled look, like a sweater and scarf. Cropped Sweaters can be

bought at almost every depart-ment store, and come in every

color you can imagine. If you go for a more neutral color sweat-

er you can add a scarf to have a splash of color

like pink or red to be fes-tive for the holiday.

What if you want to just hang out?

No going out, just having a couch potato date. W h i l e just hanging out with your date you prob-ably want to wear some-thing that you are completely comfor table in, like yoga pants. If you wear yoga pants and a solid color shirt,

you can then add a headband to accessorize your

look. Claire’s has head-bands with hearts on

them, and by adding this simple touch of Val-entine’s Day will show just how much you care. Whatever your style, whoever your

date, and wherever you go, you can rest

assure knowing that you will be looking amazing on Valen-

tine’s Day this year.

Idrees KahloonStaff Reporter

Paige MasonStaff Reporter

Valentine’s Today

Graphic by Paige Mason

Today Valentine’s cards are not strictly love letters. Valentine’s have evoled to something as simple as a card, to something more traditional like jewelry. The most important thing to remember about giving a Valentine is that it is not about how much you spend, it is all about the feelings behind the gift. In the graphic above are Valentine’s gifts such as; Crush soda, Extra Gum, Pop Rocks, Hershey’s Chocolate even Bounce Dryer Sheets. Just be creative with what you give, and how you give it.

Photo by Carolyn BettsWhile couples go out, singles like senior Monet Proc-tor stay in watching their favorite romantic movies.


Seniors Harry Standafer and Abby Kovacs (pictured right) will spend Valentine’s Day together,= while other students like senior Erica Bybee will spend the day alone.

How To Cook Your Meal, and Eat It with a Date,TooSpecials for the High School Budget

When deciding where to go for dinner on Valentine’s Day the first res-taurants that come to mind usually consist of meals that cost more than a tank of gas. But what if you could take your date to a nice dinner for a low cost? High class but cheap dinners are now possi-ble with Valentine’s discount. The Melting Pot is one of the many restaurants that offer a valentine’s dis-count for couples. For $65 per person, a five course meal is offered that includes shrimp cocktail, cheese, salad, an entree and then chocolate. There are many different choices for each cat-egory widening the selection for your date. All options of cheeses and salads will be of-fered. For your meal you have a choice of garlic and wine

seasoned filet mignon, sea-soned choice angus sirloin, roasted garlic shrimp, citrus-marinated pork tenderloin, chicken provencal and wild mushroom sacchettis. All chocolates will also be avail-able. For reservations call (859) 254-6358. With a romantic and high class setting, Malo-ne’s is a popular spot for teens to eat on Valentine’s Day. For $49.95 per person a meal is offered that includes an ap-petizer, a salad, an entrée and ending with a dessert. Your choices for an appetizer include shrimp cocktail and spinach dip. You also have the option of a lex-ingtonian salad and eight dif-ferent entrées. Malone’s also pro-vides the option of a NY style cheesecake, a chocolate chip cookie or a slice of coconut crème pie for dessert. For res-ervations you can call (859) 977-2620. Couples also have a choice of Azur, which has a

very contemporary and ele-gant setting that is perfect for a dinner with your date. This classy restaurant is known for its upscale but casual fine din-ing. For $70 per person a spe-cial, offered Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, allows you to choose the night of your special valentine’s cel-ebration. However, the meal

Madi BledsoeStaff Reporter

will only be available on Tues-day during two seatings: one at 6 p.m. and one at 8 p.m. For reservations you can call (859) 296-1007. In an informal poll of 100 Dunbar students, the overwhelming choice was Malone’s totaling in at 70.70 percent, right behind came Melting Pot with 26.42 per-

cent and in third place came Azur with 2.83 percent. When choosing where to eat out for Valen-tine’s Day, take into consid-eration these discounts. They will allow you to purchase a prime dinner for you and your special someone, while not costing you your whole life savings.

Graphic By Melissa Stravitz

Photo by Emily AvioliPhoto by Paige Mason

features 8Pinning Up Your Interests

In today’s world of tech-nology, it seems the internet has brought us yet another website that lets creativity be shared. Pinterest.com, a website that was created by small group of entrepreneurs in Palo Alto, California in 2010, is fast becom-ing an internet giant with nearly 20 million users worldwide and 11 million visits to the website just during De-cember of 2011. Already the website has been declared one of the 50 best websites of 2011 by Time Magazine. Pinterest’s interface on your profile looks similar to a bulletin board where you can easily “pin” an idea for your-self and others to see. A pin is usually a link to a website that has a small cap-tion underneath it along with a description of pin. Some pins are simply links to images like a picture of a gorgeous kitchen or a well-known monument like the Eiffel tower. The signup process for Pinterest occurs through users’ Facebook accounts so that they do not have to fill page after page of information about themselves. After this users wait about a weeklong period until they have been added to the site by a team member of the Pinterest staff. “Even though I’ve had my Pinterest for a while now I only log on about once a month,” said junior Katie Frye. Each member can have as many different boards as they like. For instance a user could have a board completely dedi-cated to their future wedding, or to Do It Yourself (DIY) projects they want to try. Each person’s board can be “followed” by other users, which is made easier since us-ers can easily find a Pinterest via their Facebook friends.

“Currently I have five boards: fashion, home décor, quotes, cute animals and places

Google is absolutely amazing in every possible way. It provides us with relevant links for whatever we could possibly wish for, answers even our most obscure and dumbest questions, provides us with translations for just about every language imagin-able (it even does Pirate), and set-tles our petty bets and arguments.

Not only that, but it can also provide us with goofy pic-tures through Google Images and its own email domain.

Apparently it even has its own social network (Google + or something like that, it must not be out yet because I haven’t heard much from it).

It does, however, have its drawbacks. For example, some might be unsettled with its exces-sive advertising, which is always eerily relevant to the user’s in-terests. I’ve learned through experience to never click “I’m feeling Lucky” no matter how lucky you actually feel.

It also ap-parently destroys our brains.

These is-sues are decently manageable and are grossly overshad-owed by Google’s awesomeness, ex-cept for that last one, because ap-parently it’s actually making us more and more stupid.

There have been recent devel-opments in cogni-tive sciences that have come to show that the enormous conveniences pro-vided by Google are actually causing our long term memory potential to decrease in size.

See, what happens is that we’ve spent so much time relying on Google for facts and tidbits, that our brain is actually develop-ing with that in mind.

In the name of efficiency, the brain loses the ability to con-tinually retain these facts with the mentality that should it ever need to retrieve this information, it can just go to Google.

It’s all part of the develop-mental process. Unfortunately this causes the brain to be overly dependent on Google, and as awesome as Google is, it can’t be with us all the time (though smart phones almost make this possible for many).

Sadly, this is not a very well-known fact. This study has actually popped up in a number of popular newspapers as well as online articles and blogs.

Whether it’s because people simply don’t read these things or because people are in absolute denial, very few seem to know about it. In an informal poll I took at Dunbar, only about 17% of students were aware of the harmful effects of Google on our long term memory.

It has become particularly detrimental to our generation especially given the fact that the internet is available to virtually every student in America. We have become entirely too reli-

ant on Google providing us with answers and helping us with our homework, and have begun to notice this around school.

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve approached a num-ber of students with computers at their immediate disposal for a lit-tle informal experiment. I asked them genuinely simple questions that involved easy one word an-swers or dates (When I say simple

I legitimately mean questions along the lines of “When did Columbus discover America” or “How many Congressmen do we have in America”).

There was one student who did not immediately refer to her computer. Even students who got the answer right always double checked on their computer in or-der to be sure.

Not a single person was even able to confidently answer the Congressman question.

These were questions to which any student who has taken citizenship should have been able to answer. But that’s kind of the problem. Our minds have simply begun to ignore any need of long term memory.

The main issue with Google killing our brains is that no one seems to care in the slight-est. Despite this given recent news, no one is willing to give up using Google.

In the aforementioned sur-vey, I informed each student of the detriments of Google, but only one student stated that she would give up Google due to this new bit of in-formation.

The other fif-ty students simply stated that it really didn’t seem to be that big of an issue, and they stated that they will con-tinue using Google regardless of its harmful effects.

I believe that there isn’t necessarily any-thing wrong with Google. It is im-portant to adapt to our given technol-ogy and to learn to utilize our time.

Even if it means being less able to remem-ber borderline useless facts, then so be it.

Despite these studies, I firmly believe that the good still grossly outweighs the fact that we are losing our long term memo-ry. It is important that we utilize what technologies have been made available to us.

It’s all part of the develop-mental process.

Dunbar Students “Gather” to Duel in a Different Kind of Card Game

Walking from class to class, you may have heard some strange conversations about things that you may find to be very strange.

“Dude, I’ll trade you this Planeswalker for a few rares and a mythic?”

“Yeah bro, but only if you throw in a dual-land”

All this talk of alternate dimensions, rarity and casting spells may confuse the average person, but those familiar with Magic: The Gathering, under-stand completely.

“Have you ever been bored out of your mind? Magic: The Gathering will relieve you of that in an instant,” said senior Landon Williams.

Magic: The Gathering is a collectable card game introduced in 1993, and has a recorded 12 million players across the world. The concept of the card game is to play the role of a powerful wizard, or “Planeswalker,” who use spells from their “library,” or deck of cards, to defeat their enemy.

Every individual card is depicted as a spell, whether it is a powerful creature, sorcery or an equipment to make your crea-tures even more intimidating.

Though the original ba-sis of this game was formed from the basic characteristics of most role-playing games, Magic: The Gathering has made a name for it-

self and throughout the years has become one of the most popular trading card games all around the world.

Something that makes Magic: The Gathering stand out from other games, is its color sys-tem. There are five colors that ev-ery card in the game (aside from

artifacts which are colorless) re-volve around.

These five colors sym-bolize the five planes: Swamps, Is-lands, Forests, Planes and Moun-tains. Any confusion this game may cause can be fixed by the color coordination of the cards.

that I’d like to visit,” said senior Ana Bahrami. Most members sim-ply re-pin items onto their own boards and then the most pinned items are featured on the main page. The Pinterest boards are divided into DIY, Art, Food, etc. so users can be inspired by ideas relating to subjects that are inter-esting to them. Another way to find pins is to use the Pinterest search

bar, which allows the user to find pins by their title. Some users make their own pins where they provide a link to a website high-light one of its articles or videos. “[I pin] every day. It’s my favor-ite thing to do when I’m sitting at home relaxing after a stressful day at school,” said junior Vene-cia Proctor. Pinterest is relatively new for most Dunbar students. “I have been using Pinterest for the past two months and I think [that] it is a great place to inspire ideas to be used in everyday life,” said Bahrami. Another Dunbar stu-dent started using Pinterest even more recently, “I have had my Pinterest for about two weeks now and [I use it] like every day,” said junior Jillian Heierman. Dunbar students can see the effects of Pinterest on their Facebook walls because a user can upload pins onto their walls. Some can make this ability a form of attack by spamming their friends’ news feeds. But most agree on one point. Since Pinterest’s biggest demographic is women from the ages of 25 to 44, it will be hard for the website to cater to the needs of both genders as Tumblr has.

Does Google Harm Your Brain?

Graphic by Doug Shaw

Pinterest is a popular website where many Dunbar students “pin” pictures of their favorite fashions, destinations and other things they enjoy.

Photo by Ali Magyar

Doug ShawStaff Reporter

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“Magic: The Gathering” cards, like those seen above, may be seen often in the hallways and classrooms of Dunbar. Many students from a variety of cliques and social groups play the game in their free time, and some compete in tournaments after school and on the weekends with people from all around Lexington.

Photo by Emily Avioli Google Images Fair Use

Mountains are red, and they are used to cast red spells. This is the same with blue, black, green, and white spells. If you can match colors with colors, you can understand the concept of Magic: The Gathering.

Using the colors of your deck to focus on casting powerful

spells to reduce your opponent’s life total from 20 to 0 is the basic concept of magic.

What some beginners have the most difficulty under-standing about Magic: The Gath-ering is the rarity system.

There are four levels

of rarity a Magic card can hold, in order from least rare they are common, uncommon, rare and mythic. Commons are classified by a solid black logo, uncommons by a silver logo, rares are more eye-catching with a gold symbol and mythics are unmistakable with an orange symbol.

Magic: The Gathering has become such a presence in the last few years that Xbox Live has released downloadable video games for its users.

Magic 2012 is the most recent installment that takes a majority of cards from the M12

set of cards, and makes them use-able in a playable online game, to challenge your friends to see who has the better deck.

With the addition of Magic: The Gathering to Xbox Live, this adds diversity to the game, so if you aren’t into going out and buying the cards them-selves, you have a select amount of cards you can play with online.

This is also a great way for beginners to become accus-tomed to the concept of the game as well. Magic: The Gathering has spread through the halls of Dunbar most noticeably this year, and has been introduced to not just one specific group.

Members of all differ-ent cliqués in our school can be found at the Battleforge for Tues-day Night Magic, or at Amazing Wonders on Fridays for Magic tournaments with kids and adults from across the city.

There are incentives to make you want to join the TNM group as well - all card related products at Battleforge are 10% off on Tuesdays.

“Tuesday Night Magic is full of friends, fun, great times and magic cards. It’s pretty awe-some,” said senior Matt Martin.

Whether you want to call the players of this game nerds or not, this game is fun.

New cards are constant-ly coming out, and the commu-nity of players is usually a great group of people to be around.

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Alyssa MoldenStaff Reporter Melissa Stravitz

Staff Reporter

Rupp Arena to Renovate in 2013 Seasonal Affective Disorder:

For the next few months, Lexington and much of the United States will be over-whelmed by gray skies and cold days. Although some people en-joy the cold and the snow, the rest of them—myself included—may find that winter brings an unmis-takable drop in morale. As it turns out, “The Winter Blues” is actually a con-dition that much of the medical world recognizes. Multiple studies show that the changes in mood can be attributed to a variety of fac-tors, including a lack of sunlight, which is more common as the days become shorter. However, for about 15 million Americans, the onset of winter brings about a much more severe form of winter-related mood swings. Commonly known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), this condition can con-siderably interfere with daily life. The causes of SAD, also known as Winter Depression, are not entirely understood. Many scientists agree that genes play an important role. Also, the circadian rhythm of the body, or the body’s internal clock, is susceptible to is-sues when the days become even shorter from the norm. Levels of serotonin, a mood boosting chemical in the brain, and melatonin, a sleep cycle chemical, can lessen or be-come unbalanced when there is less sunlight. “I think that’s absolutely true,” said senior Ethan Cross. “When the sun is out, it is so much easier to be happy. When it is cold and dark, you just want to sleep all the time.” People with SAD suffer from symptoms much more pro-nounced than those associated with the winter blues. While many students

may experience a drop in motiva-tion or morale during the winter, SAD sufferers experience symp-toms common in people with clinical depression. Symptoms include in-creased tiredness, increased ap-petite, lethargy and loss of in-terest in work, school and other various activities. Typically, these symp-toms begin in late fall and do not recede until the beginning of the spring season. For those of us who don’t suffer from the disorder, but still could use a pick-me-up dur-ing the winter, there are several options of remedies. Being physically active is helpful, as it releases endor-phins which improve your mood. “I have a treadmill that I run on to stay active. Part of feel-ing better is just doing something; I think you’re more prone to feel-ing upset when you’re bored,” said senior Michelle Piepgrass. Maintaining friendships and being social also helps to keep a positive attitude. “Hanging out with friends helps me to avoid think-ing about what’s bothering me,” said freshman Rain Litster. Some studies show that vitamin D, which promotes bone mineralization, can have a posi-tive effect on mood. Although the body typ-ically receives vitamin D through exposure to sunlight, taking vi-tamin D supplements can help those who don’t get enough time outside. Your well-being is ex-tremely important, and knowing about what affects you can have a significant impact on how much you enjoy the next few months. If you find yourself ex-periencing any of the symptoms listed above, meet with a doc-tor. If you know it isn’t that serious for you, but you are still feeling the effects of the blues, keep pushing through. Remember, winter does not last forever.

Small Bussiness Spotlight: Sav’s West African GrillNick KlineStaff Reporter

You don’t have to travel to Africa to get authentic West African cuisine; you don’t even have to leave Lexington. Sav’s West African Grill, located on South Limestone across from Tin Roof, is a deli-cious local restaurant sporting a unique flavor and atmosphere. The owner and head chef, Mamadou Savane, actually grew up in Guinea, a West Afri-can country, so the cuisine is un-doubtedly authentic. As soon as you walk into the restaurant, you start to relax. The walls are colorful and warm while sounds of calm reggae and beautiful African music invite you to stay and eat a nice meal. The main facet of their menu are bowls of meat, fish or veggies on your choice of white rice, brown rice, fufu (simi-lar to mashed potatoes but made out of plantains) and couscous (small rice-like pasta). T h e menu is not limited to these bowls, however, as there are also platters that feature ribs, Cornish game hen and lamb as well as many delicious salads to choose from for an entrée. M a n y delicious side items such as

cheese grits, fried plantains and mashed potatoes are also avail-able. When my friend Humzah and I went there, we or-dered the peanut goat and peanut chicken. The first surprise was how familiar these dishes seemed. Though I have not had any food like it before, it tasted and felt like comfort food. It did not taste too much like peanuts, not as a Thai peanut dish would, but the broth gave the dish a savory earthy quality that I adored. And from the bit of goat I tasted, that was unexpectedly tasty as well. The food was also quite inexpensive. For a large bowl of peanut chicken and an Ale-8-One, I paid about what I would for a burrito and a drink at Qdo-ba: about eight dollars. Better and more unique food for the same value makes Sav’s a winner.

Photo by Nick KlineSav’s is located on the corner of South Limestone Street and East Maxwell Street.

Even though the Uni-versity of Kentucky has an-nounced that they will not fi-nancially support a renovation of the legendary Rupp Arena, the state is still pressing towards the renovation, and Mayor Jim Gray has even set some tentative dates. According to Mayor Gray, the city of Lexington is ex-pected to see building projects by sometime in 2013, with major changes beginning in 2014. “A renovated down-town arena can be the catalyst to unlock the potential for a pro-posed Arts and Entertainment District in Lexington,” said ar-chitect Mr. Gary Bates in an in-terview with Jerry Tipton from the Herald-Leader. Gray announced that the Fayette County Board of Education voted Monday night to begin exploring the pos-sibility of a downtown arts school, presumably somewhere within the proposed district. “The proposed district doesn’t only offer the opportu-nity for an art center, it offers an array of possibilities, such asconvention space, commer-cial and residential space, and new downtown educational and business venues.” Gray said. Mayor Jim Gray and Mr. Bates are attempting to make the Rupp Arena experi-ence more enjoyable. Some sug-gestions for renovations include an art museum and a small per-

forming arts center. Although it could pos-sibly take up to 10 years to fully renovate Rupp, Mr. Bates told Tipton that the first major draft of the master plan is expected to be delivered by later this month. Mr. Bill Gatton, a mem-ber of UK’s Board of Trustees, said, “I can’t imagine anyone who has the best interests of the University of Kentucky in mind want-ing to spend that much [money] in resources for r e n o v a t i n g the arena.” M r . Gatton be-lieves that money spent r e n o v a t i n g Rupp could potentially be spent on other re-sources for students. The University of Ken-tucky would be giving students and faculty the wrong impression by possibly showing that sports are more important to the uni-versity than academics. Sophomore Hope Gas-sett agreed with Mr. Gatton. “I was never under the impression that Rupp needed renovations during my personal experience. It is a very large and impressive arena.” The speculation about renovating Rupp Arena is finally over. While the University of Ken-tucky and many people disagree

Google Images Fair UseThe proposed plans for Rupp Arena would appeal to a wider demographic of Lexington and Kentucky’s citizens.

Google Images Fair UseRupp Arena can hold thousands of people at its maximum capacity of 23,000.

that Rupp even needs changes at all, the renovations have been approved by Kentucky officials. “The renovation will maintain the historic charac-ter while maintaining the gold standard that is expected of Rupp Arena, both architectur-ally and symbolically,” the city’s task force wrote in its final re-

port. “A renovated Rupp Arena would maintain a seat-ing capacity of about 24,000. It would retain a collegiate atmo-sphere and not one of the lux-ury-box filled pro arenas,” said task force chairman Mr. Brent Rice. In a recent interview with AOL’s Sporting News, Coach John Calipari said that the new venue would meet the “gold standard” necessary for his team to play in. Positives such as in-creasing artistic interest in Ken-tucky and bringing more tour-ists into the city will come from renovating the arena in down-town Lexington. The negatives also persist. The university would be spending money that could instead have the potential to make educational advance-ments. So for now, Rupp Are-na will be undergoing changes starting in 2013. According to the Lex-ington’s task force, there is little chance of a brand new arena any time soon.

Review of Sav’s West African Grill An Interview with Owner Mamadou Savane

Photo by Nick KlineThe outside of Sav’s is ordinary looking, but the food is hospi-tality inside is far from mediocre.

After our meal, we were able to meet with the owner of the restaurant, Mamadou Savane, himself. Q: How did you get the idea to start? A: It’s funny because cooking is not a man’s job where I’m from; back home women cook, men work. For some reason I al-ways liked cooking. I cooked for my mom and sisters. I moved here in 1993, and l had to learn to make things for myself because I had no money. I did it for my mom and sister and my friends and neigh-bors used to say, “you make good stuff.” Q: When did you start cooking? When you were young? A: Actually I started about 10 years ago, and made my own restau-rant. Q : So this whole menu is your idea? A : The whole menu is my idea, yes. This is my original recipe, like back home – there’s a lot of dishes but these are the ones I thought were best. It’s just a different cuisine, it’s healthier, it’s home cooked

food, and it’s comfort food. Q: Yeah, we thought so, too! So when did you come to America?A: March 24, 1992. We landed in New York where my brother used to live. Q: So what brought you to Lex-ington? A: I didn’t have a choice! When I met my wife she was originally from Chicago, so she moved here and applied to this school, and said she’d like to come back here. Q: It kind of tastes like some of the stuff we have in Paki-stan, too.

A: I like people, I like food, but since I’ve had this place, for like three years, I’m starting to get the connec-tion between foods. I see people from Pakistan, China, the Mid-dle East, India, Columbia, Is-lands of South America; it’s all connected. Bra-zil, same thing. It’s just good. Q: What is your favorite dish here? A: People al-

ways ask me that question. To me, everything is my favorite because I made everything. But I always ask people what they feel like be-fore I suggest food. Usually I go by what I ate today though. For lunch I had peanut chicken with brown rice, so this evening I had peanut goat with fufu. It has a good contrast. Q: Do you get all your ingredients locally? A: All my vegetables are local, and the lamb is local, but the chicken and beef I use, well you know, it’s business; Sam’s Club will have a good deal, and I’ll buy it in cases. But the coffee is local and the ice cream, too. I order my drinks from Chicago to get some weird vari-ety. Q: What’s the most pop-ular dish that people get? A: Peanut chicken. But peanut goat is starting to get pop-ular. People see the nutri-tional facts, and see that good goat is healthier than chicken, and they’ve started to buy it. But peanut chicken is still the most popular because everyone likes chicken. It’s familiar.

Winter Weather is Affecting Dunbar

Humzah QaziStaff Reporter

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Oscar Predictions

It’s award season! Time to award celebrities for looking pretty down the red carp-- I mean award the creators and advancers of cinema for their incredible and amazing work that they’ve done over the past year. Seriously, a lot of awards do go to legitimately great per-formances and work done by ev-eryone in the film industry, but many of this year’s nominations and snubs have left me under-whelmed and confused. Howev-er, predictions are fun. Therefore, here’s my take on this year’s crop of nominees and my predictions regarding the race.Best Supporting Actress:Bérénice Bejo – The ArtistJessica Chastain – The HelpMelissa McCarthy – BridesmaidsJanet McTeer – Albert NobbsOctavia Spencer – The HelpShould Win: Jessica Chastain A bit of me is basing this on her previous work (she should have been nominated in this cat-egory for Take Shelter, although she did well in this film), but her performance in The Help elevates her from a one-dimensional character into a compelling fig-ure. Some characters are fleshed out on the page, Chastain fleshes hers out on the screen.Will Win: Octavia Spencer This category has been between cast members of The Help for the whole season, and while Chastain has won more critics’ awards, the Academy votes more generally coincide with the Golden Globes in this category, which Spencer won.Best Supporting ActorKenneth Branagh – My Week with MarilynJonah Hill – MoneyballNick Nolte – WarriorChristopher Plummer – Begin-nersMax von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close First off: Nick Nolte, hooray. Second off: where are Al-bert Brooks (Drive) and Patton Oswalt (Young Adult)? Both of them were better than Jonah Hill in Moneyball (though I liked him in it). But it doesn’t really matter, since Plummer has been sweep-ing up awards left and right for this performance. Still, the snubs in this category hurt me.Will Win: Christopher PlummerBest Lead ActressGlenn Close – Albert NobbsViola Davis – The HelpRooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon TattooMeryl Streep – The Iron LadyMichelle Williams – My Week with MarilynShould & Will Win: Viola Davis It is an absolute crime that Charlize Theron is not nomi-nated for her uncompromising and brilliant performance in Young Adult, and a shame that the Academy completely ignored that film. This is the hardest one to call because there has not been a runaway winner. Since none of the other actresses have won enough awards (though Mara is fantastic), it’s between Streep and Davis at this point. Streep is universally beloved, but based on the awards won so far, Davis has more momentum.

Best Lead ActorDemian Bichir – A Better LifeGeorge Clooney – The Descen-dantsJean Dujardin – The ArtistGary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Sol-dier Spy

Brad Pitt – MoneyballShould Win: Gary Oldman This is Gary Oldman’s first Oscar nomination… that’s absolutely ridiculous. His in-credible work in Tinker was stoic while emotional and some of the best of his long career. If Michael Fassbender was nominated for his work in Shame or Michael Shannon for Take Shelter, my answer to this question would be very different.Will Win: Jean Dujardin This has been two man race between Dujardin and Cloo-ney for quite a while now, and unless the Academy turns out to really like Moneyball, decides to give Oldman a consolation award or wants to surprise everyone with a Bichir win, it’ll be one of those two. Clooney is great in The Descendants, but Jean Dujardin is what makes The Artist possible. While none of these performanc-es would be my pick, Dujardin is the clear frontrunner.Best DirectorWoody Allen – Midnight in ParisMichel Hazanavicius – The Artist Terrence Malick – The Tree of LifeAlexander Payne – The Descen-dantsMartin Scorsese – HugoShould Win: Terrence Malick Tree was my favorite movie of last year, so of course I’m going to say he should win. That film was pure cinematic glee and filled with beautiful images that no other filmmaker could possibly hope to capture. His nomination is at least a very welcome surprise. Will Win: Michel HazanaviciusAs much as I’d love to see Marty win another Oscar or Allen’s ac-ceptance speech, after his Direc-tors Guild Award win, Hazanavi-cius definitely has this category wrapped up. Only four times in 70 years has the winner of that lost the Academy Award, and I don’t think this year will be one of those times.Best Picture (my grade)The Artist (B)The Descendants (B+)Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (D+)The Help (B-)Hugo (A-)Midnight in Paris (A-)Moneyball (B)The Tree of Life (A)War Horse (C-)Should Win: The Tree of Life This is a pretty weak list of Best Picture nominees in my opinion, but this was one that fully deserved its nomination. Terrence Malick’s cin-ematic hymn is not perfect, but an experience unlike any other. Can I explain to you what every shot means? Not at all, but I can tell you how it made me feel. Not everyone will like the film, but af-ter seeing it, I felt energized with a genuine joy and excitement for life as a whole. And for that, I think it is the best of these op-tions (Hugo takes second place).Will Win: The Artist Two of these films are terrible. Most of these films are good. A few of these films are great. This is one of the “good” ones in my book. But, it’s the type of film that Academy voters go nuts over. And since it’s been tak-ing up almost every major award under the sun, including the Pro-ducer’s Guild Award for Best Pic-ture, which highly correlates with the Oscar. Regardless of my feel-ings about the film (it’s fun and light, but only that and nowhere near the year’s best), it’s virtually a lock for Best Picture.

Thousands of young art-ists across the state of Kentucky have submitted their applica-tions to the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA). The application deadline passed, the only thing left to do is audition. Last year, I was one of seven Dunbar student’s to at-tend the GSA and it was the most amazing experience of my life. Some 2012 applicants have al-ready ap-proached me and others for advice regard-ing auditions. In the hopes of helping even more applicants here are some tips for audi-tioning for each of the nine GSA disciplines.

Architecture For a rc h i t e c t u re , applicants are required to bring a portfo-lio consisting of nine works. Make sure to pay at-tention to how you present your portfolio. The judges are inter-ested in your thought process. Creative Writing If you’ve made it past the first round you will partici-pate in a group interview with other applicants and you are re-quired to bring a short sample of your writing to read. The judges are writers just like you and love to hear about your writing and your creative process. Be sure to tell them why you are passionate about writing. Dance For dancers, the audi-tion consists of a three hour mas-ter class, with ballet and modern dancing, followed by a group in-terview. Be sure to wear appro-priate attire to the class and be professional and engaged in the interview. The faculty wants you

to be honest with your answers. Show the faculty in your dancing and in your interview why you love to dance.

Drama For this discipline, all applicants will be in a group audi-tion. You will participate in warm up exercises, improvised scene work, present a prepared mono-logue and have a brief interview. Coming from this audition I can tell you that it is a pretty relaxed and informal atmosphere. The faculty wants to see the kind of actor you are, how well you work

with an ensemble and your gen-eral personality. Don’t be afraid to show them that and try to se-lect a monologue that reflects your personality as well.

Instrumental Music The audition process differs from instrument to instru-ment, but everyone applying will be required to play a major scale with key signatures, perform a prepared solo, sight-read music and participate in a brief inter-view. Pick music that you know well and enjoy playing. Take your time and perform confidently at all times. If you make a mistake keep going, do not stop.

Musical Theatre Applicants will partici-pate in a group audition and in-terview. You will present a mono-logue, portions of two songs, participate in a short movement exercise and a brief interview with the faculty. You need to be

comfortable and knowledgeable about both your monologue and songs. Just like the drama audi-tion, be yourself and show them your passion.

New Media For new media, students are required to submit a portfolio consisting of 10 works comprised of any media you choose. The audition consists of a personal review of your work and a brief interview. The faculty wants you to have a variety of mediums in your portfolio to see your differ-ent interests and talents. Giving

a good presen-tation of your work is just as important as the work itself.

Visual Art In this discipline, you are required to bring a portfo-lio consisting of nine works and one of your sketch-books. In the Audition & Review the faculty wants you to think

outside the box and be creative. Think about what makes your work distinctly yours and be pre-pared to share that. They want to know about you in relation to your art. They accept the person, not the art.

Vocal Music Singers auditioning for GSA will present a prepared solo, perform sight-reading, partici-pate in a pitch memory exercise and a brief interview with faculty. Do not be surprised if you are in-terrupted during your solo. The judges may do so at their own discretion. Do not be offended, continue the rest of the audition with confidence. Show expres-siveness and passion in your sing-ing and interview. If you want more advice on your GSA audition be sure to check out:-www.kentuckygsa.org/artforms

Dunbar’s Own Gallery Hop

There are hundreds of bland beige bricks are also purple painted bricks, red painted bricks and green painted bricks. But what many students fail to notice is the beautiful artwork on the walls of not only the hallways but certain teacher’s rooms as well. I am here to lead you on an adven-ture through Dunbar to showcase some of its hidden beauties. Our first stop is Ms. Paula Azzarito’s room, 712. Her room contains a vast collection of postcards and memo-rabilia from various Euro-pean countries. However, there are three lami-nated prints that are ex-tremely senti-mental to Ms. Azzarito. These prints are cop-ies of paintings that her mother has done. Our next stop is Mrs. Michelle Williams’ room, 709. Here you will find an array of photos of ancient artwork and monuments accompanied by stu-dent artwork. However, the most interesting piece in her room is her star shaped light from India. The next teacher fea-tured is Mr. Seth Young. His room 609, displays a collection of movie poster. But if you look on top of the cabinet in his room, be-hind a SpongeBob trifold board is a large photo of University of Kentucky students rushing Com-monwealth stadium after a win over Alabama. If you take a close look at the photo, among the

throng of ecstatic students you might discover a youthful Mr. Young climbing the goalpost. Take the first right in the science department and you will see a recently added student painted science piece, by junior Lauren Delventhal. Around the corner is Mrs. Heidi Anderson’s room, 504, which is home to a variety of science related photos from insects to frogs and science related inspirational posters. Down the stairs and into the 400s, you can find the Foreign Language painting as well as the Magnet painting, which were both done by students. Our next

stop is Mr. Jason Reed’s room, 400. His room is also home to an interesting painting of an apple. The next room on our tour is Mr. Ben Herzog, room 301. You will find the walls are filled with framed photography. Most of these photos are his own, but others are students. Mr. Her-zog’s goal is to replace his photo-graphs with his student’s photos. The left before the Caf-eteria will take you to the ramp will take you to Mrs. Wendy Turner’s room, 102. Her room contains two student created paintings as well as a beautiful print of fall trees. Above her desk is a blue, square painting featur-

ing a boy. The painting was given to Mrs. Turner from a former student who was inspired by the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” which he read in her class. If you walk up the ramp and through the main foyer, you enter the Fine Arts department. Across from the attendance office is a second, new student painted Art painting, which finds a bal-ance between black and white with an explosion of color. On the left, down the first hallway is another Art paint-ing along with a display case that features artwork from the Art,

Drawing and Pottery classes. Currently being featured in the case are small black and white paintings and colorful mosa-ics. The final stop of our voyage is down the second hallway. A music mural sits be-tween the band and choir room and a new addi-

tion to this hallway is the Drama painting that sits outside Mrs. Alicia Henning’s room, 902. In-side Mrs. Henning’s room, scat-tered on the walls are laminated copies of many famous paintings, including Sir John Everett Millais’ “Ophelia.” Art does not have to be strictly paintings or drawings. Many teachers feature student project in the hallways. As seen throughout Dunbar there are a variety of types of artwork, many of which I did not have the time or space to mention. I encourage all students to open their eyes and see Dunbar’s walls in a new, more unique way.

Carolyn BettsStaff Reporter

Nick KlineStaff Reporter


Photo by Kevin FloresJoseph Wrighton, Nathan Bush and Dunbar senior Cody Putman, far right, went to GSA for Instrumental Music, where he played the saxophone for the jazz band.

This six week project was done by Marie Veronique-Porier in her Two Demen-sional Art Class. Her mural is on display across from the Attendence Office.

Photo by Carolyn Betts

Helpful Tips for Auditioning for GSA


11entertainment

Big Bang is a Big BustAlex DavisEditor-in-Chief

Seeing as it is now in vogue to be a nerd it is not sur-prising that a show has been made about this subculture. However, it is surpris-ing that such a show would be so well embraced while knowing so little about the group it is trying to appeal to, nerds. The Big Bang Theory debuted in 2007 and has been making laugh track riddled, humorless, stereotyping jokes ever since. The most unfortunate part of this show is the authority that the writers (Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady) assume while discuss-ing nerd culture. In the third episode of the first season Sheldon (the so-cially inept and unlikable jerk) brags that he just got a copy of Super Mario 64 so the friends can “rock Mario old school.” However any kid who grew up blowing Nintendo car-tridges knows that Super Mario 64 is not a good group game. Su-per Smash Bros. would be a more suitable (and just as nerdy) op-tion for four friends interested in playing a vintage Mario game on their Nintendo 64. Yes, it is a bit picky to point out, but it is just one of many instances that show the lack of understanding of nerd culture on the part of the writers. Nerds are not a group of people above self-deprecating hu-mor, but the jokes should at least be accurate. The excessive use of the laugh track also points out how this show lacks humor.

Most shows that are tru-ly funny do not use a laugh track: Modern Family, The Office and 30 Rock, just to name a few. In fact this show used the laugh track over 150 times in one episode. In a 21 minute epi-sode that means the laugh track was played about seven times ev-ery minute. To some people this means that the show has many funny jokes, but if the laugh track is taken out of the show then it is easy to notice that many of the punch-lines are not as funny as they seem. We are conditioned to laugh when we hear the laugh track played. Look up a video of the show without the laugh track (and yes there are many of these videos on the internet) and you will find that jokes are not funny, and that many of the laughs are at the characters awkwardly staring at each other at each other with poor social skills. If the humor came from jokes that pointed out nerd re-lated absurdities then I could get behind the laugh track, but this shows seems to be more inter-ested in pointing out that nerds are not able hold a conversation rather than actually making well developed jokes. The Big Bang Theory fails a crucial authenticity test. It feels like a show about nerds writ-ten from a jock’s point of view. It is a show made by Hollywood hacks who saw a new audience emerging and capitalized on it. But even worse than not understanding its attempted au-dience, the show lacks humor. I will still stick to Com-munity, which is equally or more nerdy of a show and less overt about its nerd qualities.

Diverging from the Norm

In high school, it is easy to categorize the people you see. There is always the jocks, the preps, the drama kids—regardless of how you personally feel about it, this phenomenon ends up happening in schools all over the country. But how would you feel if you were forced to choose one group for the rest of your life? What if it meant that you lost your family, your friends and ev-erything you knew? In fledgling author Ve-ronica Roth’s novel Divergent, these issues are discussed with chilling reality. The book begins in futuristic Chicago—drastically different from the Chicago we know. Half of the city is in ruins, abandoned because people no longer work through adversity. The city is divided into five factions, with each one rep-resenting a virtuous trait: Can-dor (honesty), Erudite (knowl-edge), Dauntless (courage), Abnegation (selflessness) and Amity (kindness). According to the origi-nal creators of such factions, developing a person’s dominant virtue will prevent evil tendencies from having any power over him or her. Although every person is born into a faction, they can choose to change factions upon turning 16—which is the dilem-ma that 16 year-old Beatrice Prior now faces. Born into Abnegation, Beatrice loves her family, but she knows that she is not naturally selfless like someone from her faction should be. When she goes in for her evaluation, she is startled by its results—that she is not suited for any one particular faction. She is divergent, a per-son who has the ability to think for themselves more than others can. Divergent people are killed. As she struggles with keeping this secret, she knows that she has a difficult choice to make.

Staying with her faction would mean more pretending and striving, but leaving to try something new would mean los-ing her family. Her brother, Caleb, seems to have everything in place—and when he shocks ev-eryone by abandoning his faction, Beatrice feels even more pressure to choose correctly. After making her decision, she grapples with the question: Can I be this person I’ve chosen to become? During initiation, she must learn to perform physically and mentally grueling tasks in or-

der to win a place in the faction she has chosen—and it will mean making some of the riskiest deci-sions of her life. At first, I figured that Beatrice would be a typical pro-tagonist: enjoyable to learn about, yet predictable in her actions. However, I was pleasantly sur-prised to find that I could never really expect her choices. Just as I would begin to sense a pattern in her actions, she would end up do something wild and unexpected. Instead of frustrating me, it made me appreciate the time and effort on Roth’s part to keep readers on their toes with just the right ratio of logical thinking to fantastic action. Her struggles made her relatable, but her choices made her intriguing. When reading dystopian literature, it is easy for plots and

characters to run into each other. Oftentimes, the books within this science-fiction genre lack the in-dividuality to keep readers inter-ested for a long period of time. With Divergent, the idea of focusing on developing only one aspect of a person was curi-ous and new to me. The concept of putting people into a box was famil-iar, but letting them choose that box—and basing it upon simply one facet of their personality—was not. As the plot developed, and each faction began to show

its weaknesses, it allowed for a deeper look into the human struggle to overcome greed, an-ger and jealousy. Bringing fast-paced, attention-getting action together with thought-provok-ing insights isn’t easy, but Roth has hit the mark. And, of course, what book aimed at young readers would be complete without a romantic subplot? Beatrice (who renames herself Tris) and her man are caught in the “I like you but I am unable to figure you out” phase for a long, long time—kind of refreshing, since unrealistic fictional relation-ships are all too common. Their chemistry is ob-vious early on, but it takes the

characters longer to figure it out, giving the reader a reason to cheer them on. Add the problem of their “workplace relationship,” (he is her training instructor, pre-initiation), and you have a new take on “forbidden love” that has readers both worried and excited. It’s necessary to point out that the writing in this book is not stellar. There are neither sec-tions of brilliantly written prose nor moments of literature-based epiphany for the reader, but look-ing beyond that, the book is a fun and engaging read. Considering I sacrificed sleep and homework time to fin-ish it, I think it’s safe to say that I was caught quite effectively in its dark, intricate plot. I recommend this book to any students who en-joyed The Hunger Games.

Melissa StravitzStaff Reporter


Odd Future Kills it All

More often than not, genre can be a simple thing to place on a band. For rock music, genre is based on the intensity of the distortion on the instruments, tempos and sometimes even the focus of the lyrics. Hip-hop is almost the same concept, but the beat patterns and rhythms of the song play a key role. In the off chance that it is im-possible to fully place a group of artists into one genre, it would most likely be a safe bet to just call them, Odd Future. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, a group of friends from Los Angeles who have de-fied any label given to them. OFWGKTA has been dictating conversation since they first came onto the scene during the middle of last year. Their songs have sold thousands. A brand new store that sells only Odd Future mer-chandise has opened and music videos from multiple members have gone viral, showcasing the group’s popularity. The group’s leader Tyler, the Cre-ator’s, solo album “Goblin” has sold over 135,000 copies and his most popular video on YouTube, “Yonkers” has re-ceived over 34 mil-lion views. 10 other talented members make up Wolf Gang, and some have also released albums such as Earl Sweatshirt, Syd The Kid and Frank Ocean. What seems to cause the most uproar about Odd Future, is their lyrics. It is clear that no mem-ber in Wolf Gang has any prob-lem making their opinion known. Tyler the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt have taken rap-

ping about hate crimes and unde-sirable sexual acts socially accept-able in the mainstream. I guarantee that the ma-jority of the 34 million viewers of “Yonkers” know exactly how Ty-ler feels about Bruno Mars. Some of this music may make you feel uncomfortable, but what’s even more strange, is that it really is not bothersome at all.

Tyler’s rhymes about common misconceptions and Earl’s life of drugs set to lyrics tell stories, sometimes ones you may agree with. Between obscene lyr-ics, members sent to Samoan re-habilitation centers and a follow-ing of devout fans, Odd Future has emerged over the last year as a musical force. They have changed how we label music, through their behavior and unique style that is unlike anything you have ever heard before.

Their lyrics flow, and as far as “spitting” goes, Odd Future blends every sentence with a mix of internal and external rhymes that most rappers aren’t comfort-able to attempt. Most would call this music a detriment to society, but it’s no different than anyone else’s art-work, except ten crazy guys (and Syd of course), are behind it.

Ben WolfordStaff Reporter



Nick KlineStaff Reporter

12 sportsAthlete Spotlight: Horseback Rider Morgan Broyles

The dedicated students who make up Dunbar’s sports teams are well known for their athletic talents. However, not all Dunbar students pursue athletics through school sponsored teams. Senior Morgan Broyles excels at one of the few sports that Dunbar does not currentof-fer: horseback riding. Living in the equine capital of the world, Broyles has been interested in horses since her early childhood when she lived on a horse farm. She began riding when she was just four years old, and has been dedicated to the sport ever since. “I have been Grand Champion and Reserve Cham-pion in multiple divisions throughout the past seven years in Kentucky Hunter Jumper As-sociation. I have also been Grand and Reserve Champion at many horse shows over the years,” said Broyles. Although horseback riding started out as a hobby for Broyles, she grew more and more talented at the sport when she decided that she wanted to learn how to jump. “I started riding because I lived on a horse farm and it was something that I really wanted to do, but once I got a little older all I wanted to do was learn how to

jump. I wanted to jump and excel at it, so becoming a better jumper was all I worked for,” said Broyles. Jumping may sound like a simple task, but it takes much more hard work and concentra-tion than one may expect. There are many steps that a rider must take in order to perfect a jump.

“To jump, a rider must put their heals down, lean back, sit in the saddle, look up, put their thumbs up, leg their horse to the jump and find the perfect distance to the jump with their eyes,” said Broyles.

Broyles continued to improve her horseback riding skills after learning how to jump. Shortly after, she began to ride competitively in a multi-tude of horse shows. As an accomplished rid-er she has won multiple awards and placed in a plethora of shows over the years.

“I have well over a hun-dred first place ribbons. At one horse show I won $517. “ “I have also been nomi-nated two times for the Junior Sportsmanship Award by the members of the Kentucky Hunter

Jumper Association,” said Bro-yles. Broyles gets inspiration to excel at her sport from watch-ing several professional horse-back riders. “When I see a profes-sional rider show a horse in a jumping class, whether it is a Grand Prix or the World Eques-

trian Games, it is like watching a beautiful work of art. Seeing the athleticism in both horse and rider and know-ing how badly they both want to win is amazing to witness. I just wish I could be at least half as

good as they are,” said Broyles. In order to become as distinguished a horseback rider, Broyles had to put hours of prac-tice into training. “You need motivation-- without it you will never excel in this challenging sport. If you do not have the time and patience to practice often it will be hard for you to excel as well. I ride every day,” said Broyles. Riders must work hard to maintain both their own health and their horse’s health to ensure a perfect performance. Thus, Broyles makes an effort to ride her horse every day. She also spends the ma-jority of her free time at the barn training and grooming her horse for shows. “Being a good rider takes a lot of hard work, skill, mo-tivation, and time,” “You have to be willing to work your hardest, practice daily, have discipline and take constructive criticism from your trainer,” she said. Although the sport can be very time consuming, all of the hard work eventually pays off. “My favorite thing about the sport is when you have such a strong bond with your horse.” said Broyles. “I love the feeling if walking out of the show ring af-ter jumping a perfect course and winning the class. You can feel the excitement running through your horses veins and they know how good they just did.”

Dunbar’s Basketball Teams have Promising Futures

With the basketball sea-son well underway, Dunbar has a lot to be proud of from both its boys’ and girls’ teams. Coach Yeary has led the basketball team to a solid 16-10 season, a huge upturn from their atrocious 3-22 record just two years ago. The girls’ basketball team can taut an even more im-pressive 20-5 and a perfect home record. This has caused massive anticipation for the upcoming tournaments. The boys’ team attri-butes much of their success to their attitude. “The most impressive thing about the team this year is our will to win and our confi-dence,” said senior Javone Blin-coe. “We’ve never gone into a game thinking we’ll lose. That’s what I love about the team.” With this mindset team members believe they have the potential to make a deep run in the tournament this year. However, Coach Yeary still seems unsure about how far his team will go. “There’s no telling. It depends on how well we play in the district tournament. This year’s district tournament is as wide open as it has ever been.” Unfortunately, their re-cord has taken a blow over the

past weeks after they lost their last 7 out of 8 games. It is unclear whether this decline in performance should be attributed to poor play from the Bulldogs, or to the increasing dif-ficulty of their schedule. The powerhouse team, Lexington Catholic, accounts for two of the losses during this streak and another came at the hands of Tates Creek after a triple overtime game. The girls’ team has expe-rienced a much more consistent season this year. They’ve won 12 out of their last 13 games and are per-fect at home. Their only defeat in the past 13 games came during an away game at Bryan Station. The impressive perfor-

mance of the girls’ team will give them a high seeding in the upcoming tourna-ments and a good chance of going all the way. The successful basketball seasons have led to a surge in school spirit. Going to bas-ketball games has be-come more of a social event this year than ever before, as stu-dents pile into home games to help cheer on the Bulldogs. Senior Slavina Goleva who has at-tended boys’ and girls’ basketball games since her sophomore year said, “Going to the basket-ball games is like the most exciting thing I

do. I don’t really know what’s go-ing on most of the time but it’s so much fun to be around so many people jumping and screaming to cheer on their Bulldogs!” There is certainly a lot of optimism surrounding the up-coming tournament for the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams. Both teams have high hopes that their experienced teams will be able to make a deep run in late February. The coaches and players of both teams say they are work-ing harder than ever to get every extra advantage come tourna-ment time. The boys will be play-ing its last game of the regular season on February 16 against West Jessamine and the girls will be taking on Madison Central on February 17 so come cheer on the Dunbar Bulldogs!

Shooting their Way to Victory

Dunbar’s archery club is entering its third season, which is off to a promising start. This club sport is a na-tional program, with schools competing to put forth the best target shooters. It is supervised by art teacher Mr. Jacob Cecil. Practice started in October of last year, and as of now, 30 students attend practice at 7:30 a.m. in the gym two or three days per week. The Nation-al Archery Tournament will take place at the end of this school year. Exactly 24 students from each team are allowed to shoot, but only 12 may be scored. The top four guys, top four girls and then a mixed group of four boys or girls may be taken. T h e top three students are allowed to qualify, and to advance to re-gionals and state tournaments. Generally, a team score of around 2400 will get a team into the na-tional tournament at the end of the year. During a competition, an archer shoots six rounds with only five arrows in a round. There are three rounds shot at 10 me-ters and three other rounds shot at 15 meters. The arrows are shot at a 10 ring target with the bull’s eye worth 10 points. The maximum score is 300 points. “We made it the first year. The second year we hit the score but we got bumped by an-other team so we weren’t able to make it,” said Mr. Cecil. “Last year we got to go to the World Tournament in Or-lando Florida, where we were privileged to compete against teams from Australia and New Zealand.” The students also com-pete against themselves every day at practice. This is where they work on their skills in order to compete against other schools high level schools. There is some

pretty stiff competition this year so the Dunbar team is working hard to prepare. “We participate in round robins or matches for fun, here against fellow archers, but we also compete against other schools during the season in or-der to prepare for the final tour-nament at the end of the year,” said Mr. Cecil. Seniors Tommy Har-lemert, and Jillian Madden, ju-nior Lauren Comberger and sophomore Blake Standafer are several of the team’s top shoot-

ers who returned this year. They are going to be the main leaders of the team in the up-coming season mainly because they have been on the team for several years and have the most experience out of anyone else. “It is a really fun sport, and it is satisfying to see yourself im-proves at your game. It is nice to rely on only my-self sometimes,”

said sophomore Blake Standafer. Archery club is a great way to get involved with the school and even if you have no experience at all it shouldn’t hin-der your decision to join. Mr. Cecil and the entire club are very welcoming and are willing to ac-commodate new archers happily. “I joined archery two years ago with a good friend of mine. I had never shot before but my family and I had always found it interesting. So I thought I would give it a try and I have loved it ever since,” said junior Lauren Comberger. Mr. Cecil said that the club is still taking new members even if they have no experience. Bows will be provided but students can bring their own bows as well. Some hand eye coordi-nation is required, but he said it is an overall relaxing sport that stresses attention to detail. To contact Mr. Cecil, you can email him at [email protected] or stop by room 901.

Photo Courtesy of Morgan Broyles

Senior Morgan Broyles, who has been horseback riding for 14 years, spends countless hours a week working hard to perfect her horseback riding form. Her devotion to and adoration for the sport makes this time well spent.

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Emily AvioliStaff Reporter

Nathan JonesStaff Reporter

Photo by Nathan JonesArchery club members juniors Jillian Madden on the left and Lauren Comb-erger on the right, taking aim.

Photo Courtesy of Dunbar’s girls Basketball WebsiteDunbar’s Lady Bulldogs’ Jordan Fender help her team beat the Bryan Station Defenders 49-46 at the home game on December 15.


Dunbar varstity boys go into triple over time with cross town rival, Tates Creek. Here they are seen huddling around their coach, deciding on their next play.

Basketball Schedule Boy’s

Where: West Jessamine High SchoolWhen: February 16, 7:30

Where: DunbarWhen: February 20, time TBA

Where: Franklin Co. When: February 15, 7:30

Where: Dunbar When: February 17, 7:30

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