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State police arrive on scene after the Sandy Hook shooting. Photo courtesy: Alief Post

>> National One person was in critical condition and two others were taken to hospital with injuries after a shooting broke out between two people on the campus of Lone Star College near Houston on Jan. 22.

>> South Ron Wyden, senior United States Senator for Oregon, serving since 1996, and a member of the Democratic Party visited South on Jan. 15. As a pledge he made as he entered offi ce 17 years ago, Wyden holds an open community meeting in every county in Oregon, every year. South was chosen as the town hall location for Marion County. Students and member of the community were encouraged to raise questions and concerns to the Senator with the discussion ranging from resent gun laws to energy dependency.

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>> West Salem After the persistent efforts of two parent petitions requesting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to test soil and water in the West Salem area. Walker Middle School, West Salem High School, Orchard Heights City Park, and the ball fi eld at Seventh and Patterson streets NW will be reviewed to determine if sampling should be conducted.

The Statesman Journal reports that Anthony Barber, director at the Oregon Operations Offi ce of EPA, said via email that, “A preliminary assessment will entail a review of the past uses and ownership, regulatory history and a site visit,” and that the review will focus primarily, “On whether environmental contamination may be present at the site and if so, whether there is a likelihood of people being exposed to these contaminants.”

The proceeding efforts of the EPA tail behind fi ve confi rmed

cases of youths ages 6 to 21 have been diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer. In the past four years, three people have died from this disease.

“I am glad that the OHA and EPA have consented to test for contaminants in West Salem area. No matter the outcome, it will provide some sense of relief. There have been so many tragedies; it's the fear and not knowing that makes it worse,” said Bryan Haws, an English teacher at West Salem High School.

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In the wake of the recent shootings in Connecticut and the Clackamas Mall in Portland, Oregon State Senator Ginny Burdick, a Democrat from Portland, has begun to gain support for her proposed legislation. The legislation in question would outlaw all guns that carry more than ten rounds of ammunition at one time. Burdick originally wrote this bill on Sept. 20, 2012. Although it was written prior to the shooting, the bill has gained recent attention. On the opposite side of the gun control

spectrum is Oregon House of Representatives member Dennis Richardson, a Republican from Central Point, Richardson feels that teachers should be allowed to have a gun either on them or locked in a safe place in their room. In fact, he sent emails to several Oregon school superintendents suggesting this idea, after the events at Sandy Hook took place. Currently in Oregon, if a person is legally allowed to own a fi rearm, they are allowed to have it on public property, which includes private and public

schools, as long as the fi rearm in question in unloaded and locked in a motor vehicle. [For full story visit clypian.com]

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Tuesday, Jan. 29Period 1: 7:30-9:00am Break: 9:00-9:10 amPeriod 2: 9:10-10:40 Lunch: 10:40-11:30am Period 3: 11:30-1:00pm

Wednesday, Jan. 30Period 4: 7:30-9:00am Break: 9:00-9:10 am Period 5: 9:10-10:10 Lunch: 10:40-11:30am

Thursday, Jan. 31 Period 6: 7:30-9:00am Break: 9:00-9:10 am Period 7: 9:10-10:40 Lunch: 10:40-11:10am

EPA Commences Prelimnary Inspections of West Salem

Senator, Ron Wyden during visit at South. Photo by: Lily Gordon

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Each year on the third Monday of Jan., America

celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service in remembrance of the infl uential leader, and this year signifi ed the 50th anniversary. This is not just another day for us to rest and enjoy a day off from school, but an opportunity to go serve the community. We can

carry on King’s legacy by serving those around us-- look at it as a “day on, not a day off.” This day is a part of United We Serve, the President’s national call to service initiative. His goal was to create a Beloved Community and provoke others to help solve social problems.

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From the 1999 school shooting at Columbine that left 13 dead, to the

recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 26 dead, many people have been shocked by these horrifi c events and have searched for ways to end them. The answer is simple: more regulations regarding gun control.

Although many people be-lieve that more laws concern-ing gun control will not help because criminals ignore laws, this is false. Steps can be taken to reduce criminals get-ting a hold of weapons, especially those that are not practical for anything except mass killings. For example, do people re-ally need semiautomatic weapons such as the AR-15 semiautomatic rifl e that Jacob Roberts used when open fi ring in Clackamas Town Center?

There are many guns already in the system, but more regulations will help. There is a loophole in the sale of guns at gun shows which allow them to be sold without a background check. If closed, it could stop potential criminals or the mentally ill from pur-chasing guns. Gun traf-fi ckers and criminals are the ones taking advantage of the loopholes in the system, so these laws could be edited with little to no effect on law abiding citi-zens.

There could be a limit of one gun per month to help slow the distribution of guns. Of course, this will not completely eradi-cate gun violence, but it is one more step in the right direction.

If people were to be put through a seminar on gun safety and how to properly store guns away from others, this would also help with gun violence as

many of the criminals in these shootings steal the guns from family members.

According to NRA, National Rifl e Association, supporters, others that are armed with guns will be able to take the crimi-nal down in case of a shooting. This is possible, but only if the shooter wants to risk harming innocent bystanders in their ex-change of fi re. In fact, in an inter-view with The Oregonian, Nick Meli, a bystander in a shooting, claims to have had a gun on the shooter in the Clackamas Town Center but did not take the shot for this very reason.

“You never know what will happen,” he said. The shooting

in Colorado would have proved even more deadly if any mov-iegoers had returned fi re in the dark, smoky atmosphere of the movie theater.

After the attack on our nation on Sept. 11, 2001, airports took drastic measures to heighten their security to prevent further terrorist attacks, so why have we taken so little measures after these shootings? It is impossible to completely rid the nation of gun violence, but there are a few steps we can take to prevent the majority of it.

After terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001 pi-lots became armed. Has

the time come for teachers to be armed as well?

Before the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Rep. Mitch Greenlick, a democrat of Portland, was unable to get any support for a bill to help schools pay for secu-rity improvements. Since then he has gained 16 co-sponsors.

The Oregonian reports that Rep. Dennis Richardson, a repub-lican of Central Point thinks that schools should train two or three

adults at each school to be armed “campus responder” in case of trouble.

At this point, there are no clear-answers pertaining to gun control but rather more questions. Ban-ning military style assault weap-ons however, is not the answer.

Should military style weapons for example, be banned, will peo-ple be paid to render the banned weapons or will the weapons fall under a grandfather clause, ex-empting them from the ban?

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote that he would,

“Like to see us take a public health approach that reduces the harm that guns cause. We could limit gun purchases to one a month to impede traffi ckers, make serial numbers harder to fi le off, ban high-capacity magazines, fi nance gun buybacks, require solid background checks even for private gun sales, require micro-stamping so that bullet casings can be traced back to a particu-lar gun and mandate that guns be stored in gun safes or with trigger locks.”

Kristof highlights the direction if any, gun control needs to take.

“Instead of controlling guns, make it a requirement that if you possess a fi rearm that you have to own a gun safe and keep fi rearms

in it, as to make it more dif-fi cult for other people and children to obtain the weap-ons,” said Clifford Grim-mell ‘14.

This makes sense. While Adam Lanza, the gunman in the Sandy Hook Elemen-tary shooting, was pro-hibited from buying a gun because of his age, he had access to his mother’s.

Despite the laws that may or may not be passed in the future, the fact of the matter is that the desire to kill people will not be stopped by laws or legisla-tion.

It becomes the duty of every community to be knowledgeable about how

to respond in a situation like a shooting, especially teachers.

Gov. John Kitzhaber recently stated that he and staff will look at gun regulations as well as school safety and mental health issues. This is a move in the right direc-tion.

“As children were being rushed out of Sandy Hook El-ementary, they were told to cov-er their eyes,” wrote Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, “I hope we don’t do the same and blind ourselves to the lessons of this tragedy.”

Gun Control: How Far Should It Go?Rachal Meza Rojas

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Senior Jordan Knoll ‘13 will sign to Montana

State University for baseball in the second week of April. Locat-ed in Bozeman, MT, the university houses around 10,000 students. Knoll intends to live on campus for his freshman year and major in health administration.

“South’s baseball program has prepared me to play in college because we have have the best coaching staff. They put us to work and know

how to get us to bond so that we perform well to-gether,” Knoll ‘13 said.

Knoll chose to accept the athletic scholarship to play baseball in the ‘sky country,’ because he felt it was the best fi t for him.

“The baseball program has a great coaching staff,” said Knoll, “and a team that is about to prosper to do great things.”

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WrestlingWrestler faces Sprague opponent. Photo by Nichele Herndon.

Recent meet: Saxons played against Tigard High School on Jan. 24.

Dual meet at Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center center on Jan. 17. Photo by Nichele Herndon.

Recent meet: Jan. 24 South vs McNary Next home meet: Saxons play against West on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m.

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This years districtt swim meet is on Feb. 8-9. There are eight individual events, three relays with diff erent dis-tances and strokes. Swim captain for the boys are Bailey

Garfi eld ‘13 who will be doing the 200 and 500 Yard Freestyle, Carson Adams ‘13 will be doing 500 and 200 Yard Freestyle. Captain for the girls: Caitlin Harder ‘13 will be doing 100 Yard Freestyle and 100 Yard Backstroke. On the fi rst day, each high school swims one relay and four individuals in each event. The top 12 swimmers move on to the next day and then the meet is scored.

If you want to go and cheer on our swimmers be sure to get there early for good seats. Admissions is $3 and remember it is okay to wear body paint.

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Boys Swimming

Boys Basketball

Recent meet: Jan. 24 South vs McNary Next home meet: Saxons play against West on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m.

Dual meet at Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center center on Jan. 17. Photo by Nichele Herndon.

Overall: 5-13League Record: 1-4Recent game: Jan. 22 vs North Salem with score of 57-60.Next home meet: Saxons play against West Salem on Feb. 1 at 7 p.m.

Varsity guard, Connor Fohn faces guard Juan Ochoa during game against McKay on Jan. 11. The team lost 43-52. Photo by Lex Sosa.

Overall: 12-6League Record: 5-0Recent game: Jan. 22 vs North Salem with score of 77-32.Next home meet: Saxons play against McKay on Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. Girls varsity during game against West Salem on Jan. 15. The team

won 56-33. Photo by Sierra Zavala.

Varsity boys captain, Jacob Whitfi eld. Photo by Nichele Herndon.

Photo courtesy of Jake DuFault.

Jaret Costa ‘16 avid fan and football player

Garrett Huff ‘13 former football player

Morgan Costa ‘13 Feature Editor

Scott Dufault Teacher and football coach

Brian Eriksen Teacher and golf coach

“South’s baseball program has prepared me to play in college. . . They put us to work and know

how to get us to bond so that we perform well together,” said Jordan

Knoll ‘13.