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Postville, Iowa was the target of the largest immi-gration raid in U.S history on May 12th, 2008 when U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed Agriprocessors Inc., a kosher slaughter-house. The agents arrested nearly 400 workers. The workers, who were mostly immigrants, were charged with identity theft and document fraud because of their possession of false identity papers. Hundreds served months in prison and were then deported.

Despite a heated national debate about im-migration and near-daily coverage of the topic, Iowa’s collective consciousness was shocked by events so close to home, such as the Postville raid. Considering that personal stories are missing from the constant stream of rhetoric spewed by some Congressmen and women, it’s easy to forget the hu-man consequences of bureaucratic strife. As a result of this, some community members in Iowa City are advocating that the community should become a Sanctuary City for illegal immigrants.

There are more than 50 sanctuary cities in the United States, however there are none in Iowa. Within the Midwest there are four sanctuary cities: Madison, Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul.

The term sanctuary city is given to communities that don’t require people to disclose their immigra-tion status when reporting a crime.

On January 31st the Iowa City City Council will decide whether or not to become a sanctuary city. The Sanctuary City Committee drafted the text of the ordinance and components were borrowed from other sanctuary cities.

Sam Massey, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Iowa City, believes that passing the ordinance is an issue of human rights.

“Neither the police nor anybody else should be

able to demand papers from somebody because of simply the color of their skin or the sound of their voice,” Massey said. “We don’t need concentration camps and fear mongering [to have a safe commu-nity]. The City Council has the authority to approve this one step for justice.”

Sarah Swisher, an activist for sanctuary cities, believes that illegal immigrants have a natural right to feel safe. Sanctuary cities fufill this right by “allowing immigrants to fell feel safe working with the police and other city workers because the city staff will not inquire about their immigration status.”

However, not everyone agrees with the ordi-nance.

“I have no problem with illegals feeling uncom-fortable…they ought to,” J.J. DeRyke, an opponent of sanctuary cities said.

DeRyke said that he doesn’t oppose immigrants, just illegal ones. He also argues about the fairness of the proposed ordinance.

“I don’t think it’s fair to the people who go through all of the work of getting here legally, meet all of the requirements, and suddenly others just sneak in the back way.”

DeRyke also believes that passing the ordinance would attract more immigrants.

“Remember the old movie ‘The Field of Dreams’? The line: ‘If you build it, they will come’. If you set up a sanctuary city, they will come.”

Whether or not more immigrants will be attract-ed to Iowa City, supporters of passage maintain that ethical obligations to fellow humans should not be ignored. The eyes of supporters, opponents and the rest of the world will be on the city council next week when the important vote will be cast.

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Stand up for City High is a three-phase plan to improve City High’s athletic facilities, begin-ning with the construction of a new 1,650-square-foot, two-level Alumni Building with new re-strooms on the first floor and a new Alumni Viewing Area on the second floor. Phase two of the plan consists of removing the existing restrooms in the Press Box, allowing for a more spa-cious concessions area with mul-tiple service windows, upgrades for the second and third floors of the Press Box and resurfacing of the building’s exterior. The third phase will take place simultane-ously with the first two, consist-ing of new lighting for the entire sports complex and of new space between and around the Press Box and the alumni building to allow students, families and friends to gather.

If fundraising goes as planned, phase one is set to be-gin at the end of the track and field season in 2011, with the goal of completion set for the start of the 2011 football season.

John Balmer, a member of the campaign’s committee, de-scribed his main motive behind his involvement in launching the campaign.

“Need was there to enhance facilities at Bates Field,” said Balmer. “The restaurant facilities are ancient.”

M&M Offers Community to Students

For many students at City High, religion, along with politics and sex is a topic that is generally avoided in conversation. From the Scopes Monkey Trial to re-cent controversy about prayer in schools, American education has been defined by a secular aura. However, some students have found ways to share their faith inside a school setting, as part of the M&M (Morning Missions) Program.

“Lots of kids want a place to share about their lives and faiths, and a lot of the time you really can’t get that in public schools,” said club sponsor Greg Grove. “M&M offers a chance for stu-dents to come together, pray, and have fellowship together in an environment where that normally would not be possible.”

Morning Missions meets on Tuesdays at 7:30 in the choir rooms. Meetings tend to last for about 20 minutes and breakfast is usually made available.

“Kids really appreciate the op-portunity to have these types of discussions,” Grove said. “It’s a great ministry to have here at City High.”

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Balmer graduated from City High in 1967 and has since sent four children through City High,. He says that the restaurant facili-ties have not changed through all of that time.

“They don’t present a good im-age for City High,” said Balmer.

After launching the campaign, Balmer’s main involvement has been through soliciting funds, specifically targeted at individu-als and small businesses in the community. Balmer’s main meth-od of fundraising is to describe the campaign’s impact on the long term future of City High. “I think that to be viable going for-ward, we need to do this,” said Balmer.

John Bacon, principal of City

High, is another member of the campaign’s committee, which en-tails meeting regularly with other campaign members to discuss the campaign’s progress.

As principal, Bacon has many goals for City High. He described the way that these general goals coincide with the goals of the Stand Up for City High Sports Complex Campaign. “We are the school that leads,” said Bacon. “And we want to have the top facilities.” Bacon mentioned the school’s marching band, track team, and football team, describ-ing his desire that these groups all be given the best facilities.

Bacon went further to describe Bates Field’s iconic position in our town. “Bates Field is an important

part of Iowa City,” said Bacon, “and it brings a lot of people to-gether.” According to Bacon, this campaign will help to remove traffic around the concession stand and restrooms.

The last thing that Bacon ad-dressed was the issue of contro-versy over the allocation of City High’s funding. “Nobody has to contribute if they don’t want to,” said Bacon. “It’s all built on pri-vate donations.” Bacon also dis-cussed the work that he is doing with the school board in an effort to build an addition to the per-forming arts facilities.

Balmer, too, presented a take on this issue. Making no pretense to diminish the significance of such large funding, Balmer de-scribed City High as a package. “Just like performances at Ops-tad, it’s all part of the package,” said Balmer. “It’s like replacing windows for your home.” While the windows do not immediately affect the floors, they all work to-gether to furnish the home.

While this campaign will directly impact City High stu-dents, it has yet to reach publicity among this demographic. When asked about their knowledge of the campaign, many students knew nothing about it. The cam-paign’s website can provide more information, which can be ac-cessed from the City High Athlet-ics page.

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now,brieflyPhotography Photo restore

Mrs. Harper’s photog-raphy class is working on a new project called Photo Restoration. The students in the class are restoring old, torn, and faded pic-tures to their original state. They are creating digital copies of the photos that can be printed off. The students are working with Adobe Photoshop and are learning skills that will give them great career op-portunities. Anyone can give their old photos to students in the class and they will restore them free of charge. Mrs. Harper is hoping to have a before- and-after display once they have enough restored photos.

The Breakfast Associates Start Strong

Students gather in the SAC for a meeting of The Breakfast Club. Over pop tarts and cereal, they discuss their goals for the week.

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their support: Banditos • Graphic Printing & Design • Iowa Book & Supply • Perkins Orthodontist • Mark Mitchell Radon Mitigation • The Iowa Na-tional Guard • The University of Iowa Commu-nity Credit Union • Uniquely INK. The Printing HouseIf you would like to advertise with our yearbook and have your name here please contact Adviser Jeff Morris at: morris.jeff@iccsd.k12.ia.us

News JaNuary 28, 2011

Jazz Band Show

City High’s Jazz Band Showcase will be Febru-ary 12, 2011. There will be five jazz bands perform-ing, including two from Southeast Jr. High. There will also be a special guest performer, Robert Washut. Washut founded the band Orquesta Alto Maiz and released Gemini, a jazz CD along with Chris Merz in 2006. Southeast’s Jazz Band will perform at 5:30 and City High’s Jazz Band at 8:00 in the cafeteria.

“This is the greatest experience for jazz kids,” Ryan Arp, director of City High’s Jazz Band said, “They’ve been working so hard for this show.”

This year the show will have a nightclub at-mosphere, with a variety of songs. This showcase is the main fundraiser for the Jazz band, they use the profits to buy new equip-ment and music.

“It’s going to be the best,” Arp said, “I’m stoked!”

Spring Musical Fea-tures New Music and

DanceLooking forward to another

City High theater production? The award winning Broadway musical, How To Succeed in Busi-ness Without Really Trying, will be produced by the City High Dra-ma Department.

Troy Peters, director, Janet Schlapkohl, costume and assis-tant director and Doug Lestina, tech director, will be in charge of the show.

“We are looking for bold ac-tors with a lot of confidence,” Pe-ters said, “that aren’t afraid and timid.”

The musical is based on the satirical book by Shepherd Mead.

Peters’ plans to follow the plot as closely as possible.

“It’s about a window washer who finds the book How To Suc-ceed in Business Without Really Trying, He uses the ideas in the book to get ahead in his job,” Pe-ters said, “that’s a major theme in the musical, getting ahead mor-ally or by other means.”

The musical will have big dance numbers and upbeat songs. Along with important life lessons. Auditions will be held the first week in February, and the perfor-mance in early April.

“I hope people that are not familiar with the music give it a chance,” said Peters, “it’s bound to be entertaining.” The City High debate team

dominated the Kanellis over-nighter at West High on January 8th and 9th.

Varsity policy A-team Carl Sessions and Jeff Haidri won the tournament, beating out Dowling Catholic in the finals on a 2-1 de-cision to take first place. Sessions was the top speaker of the tourna-ment and Haidri was third.

“I wasn’t surprised,” Haidri said, “considering the amount of work we put in beforehand, as well as the tradition set down before us from [Luke] Allen and [Noah] Rocklin.”

Novice policy team Ava Var-gason, ’13 and Andrew Chudzik, ’11, lost in finals from a team from Chicago. This was only their third tournament debating together. Vargason was the tournament’s

second novice speaker, and Chudzik was the third.

The other novice policy team, consisting of Raychel Skay, ’14 and Henry Wright, ‘14 lost in semi-finals, after a prelim record of 4-1.

In Lincoln-Douglas debate, sophomore Drew Wilson ended prelim competition with a 4-1 re-cord. He made it to quarter-finals before losing to a tough Burling-ton team.

The debate team’s season is al-most over, but there are a couple of major tournaments left with the nationally-attended Home-wood Flossmoor occurring in late February and Districts happening in Cedar Rapids on the 10th and 11th (where Sessions and Haidri will hope to qualify for the Na-tional Debate Tournament that will occur over the summer).

Debate team sweeps tournament

From left: Shecharya Flatte, Jeff Haidri, Drew WIlson, Carl Sessions, Henry Wright, Kieran Green, Raychel Skay, Ava Vargason and Thomas Panther

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As winter break ends and 2011 starts so does the new academic support group, Breakfast Asso-ciates at City High. After FAME failed to draw members, City’s administration looked to find new ways to help kids at City High be-come better students.

“We want to form a cohe-sive group that can rely on each other,” Emily Dvorak, Freshman Dean said, “and that can also be a leader in other things that they are involved in.”

Breakfast Associates have four main goals for their members. One is a focus on academics. Set-ting goals like turning in assign-ments and studying for tests is a key part of this. Another compo-nent is future planning or starting to think about what students need to do to prepare for life after City High. They also focus on leader-ship and teamwork.

“We believe that all of our stu-dents have these skills,” Dvorak said, “But don’t always realize they have them or use them at the right time.” Students who have come to the first meetings have begun noticing an improvement in their grades and work ethic.“ [In Breakfast Associates], goal setting has helped me the most.” Mackenzie Fluaitt said, “When I know I’ve set a goal for myself I can achieve it.”

Breakfast Associates meet at 7:30 a.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays. They also provide breakfast for members.

“Breakfast Associates (club) is a nice way to get kids doing something productive in the morning.” Assistant Principal Ann Browning said.

Breakfast Club got off to a late start, and is still taking shape. The idea behind the club is to provide an at school option for kids to get help improving grades and pre-paring for the future.

The district had extra money to create a program like this at City High.

“There were other clubs that tried to take shape,” Dvorak said, “but for whatever reason they didn’t happen.”

More specifically, FAME. The club was started after Fas Trac left City High. Students refused to join, accusing FAME of at-tempting to replace Fas Trac.

“FAME was never meant to replace Fas Trac,” Browning said, “However a lot of kids thought of it that way. Fas Trac is still part of the Iowa City community, but it no longer has a direct link to City High. Not many students are part of both Fas Trac and Breakfast Club, but some are.”

“The more things that kids are involved in,” Dvorak said, “the better.”

On Wednesdays the club is

planning to bring in guest speak-ers to talk to kids about how to plan to graduate and prepare for college.

“I’m glad I joined breakfast club.” Mahogany White said. “I have something to look forward to that helps guide me, keeps me on track, and helps me with the SAT and ACT prep.”

So far the club has about 20 members, but is hoping to grow as soon as they get a strong idea of what the club really is.

“The more kids that we can influence the better.” Browning said.

NewsJaNuary 28, 2011

Farm to School:Organic and Local foods in the Cafeteria

Every day, the school cafete-ria is filled three successive times with a huge variety of food. Sim-ply by walking past the many tables, one will see an incredible assortment, ranging from differ-ent homemade ethnic foods to a more generic cheese and salami sandwich. Yet certainly there are some patterns within the lunch room each day, as the featured school lunches can be found orna-menting countless trays through-out the room. Farm to School is an organization that hopes to affect what those uniform lunches are and to at least increase students’ awareness of what they are put-ting into their bodies.

The Iowa City Community School District Farm to School

chapter was formed in September 2010 by a community group of better school food and local food advocates. This chapter is part of the Iowa Farm to School program which is administered by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the Iowa Department of Education. The chapter is affiliated with the Johnson County Local Food Alli-ance.

How is this going to impact City High? Teachers and staff who are already involved in school gardens or who are interested in starting one are invited to attend a meeting at the Iowa City Library in early February, where they will discuss how to most helpfully in-volve the Farm to School program with the ICCSD schools.

Erin Randal, kitchen manager

at City High, supports the idea of working with Farm to School to affect school lunches. In fact, for two years City High has been getting ap-ples from lo-cal orchards, in an effort to buy lo-cal. It is not always sim-ple, how-ever. The fact that the apples were not all the same size made them difficult to distribute evenly.

“It just depends on wheth-er we can or can’t do it,” said

How do you feel about Bacon’s policies so far?

“I think that being able to use cellphones and iPods is super cool!”

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“He encourages students. I think that his teaching style is a really good way to approach education.”

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Would you enjoy more organic and local food options for school lunch?

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“Organic food would be better for the school.” -Devin McEleney ‘11

“I like food that’s bad for you. It tastes better.”

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Randal. “We serve such a high amount of people.” Randal de-

scribed the main obstacles as issues of consistency and quantity.

“We are still in the planning stages of our proj-ect,” said Heather Widmayer, ICCSD Farm to School Coordinator. “We don’t know what type of project will be most useful for the schools, or which school we will work with.”

Thus there are many possible out-comes of this meeting. These in-clude conducting a workshop to train people how to build a school garden, expanding an existing garden program, or launching a new garden program. As Farm to School learns who is interested in such a project and what their needs are, they will decide what project will be the most effective.

This meeting is for all schools in the ICCSD, so it may not di-rectly affect City High, but City High staff is certainly invited to attend the meeting and represent one possible school for the Farm to School organization to work with, so there will be a City High presence at the meeting.

Furthermore, even if this pro-gram does not directly impact

City High, Farm to School is work-ing to become more prominent in the ICCSD as a whole, planning to make its presence known in many of the following ways:

getting kids thinking about where their food comes from and how it is grown

providing hands-on food ac-tivities for school students such as school gardens, in-class cooking demonstrations, and composting systems

helping kids make healthy food choices

adding more local foods to school meals and snacks

supporting the local food economy.

More information will be disclosed following the Febru-ary meeting, but don’t get too comfortable with your featured “school lunches,” because change is becoming quickly apparent.

On an icy December morning late last month, a school bus carrying the City High JV wrestling team flipped over on the way to a meet, injuring sev-eral students. Though no one was killed, it has prompted a re-examination of the district’s policy towards allowing travel for extra curricular activities during winter, prompting controversy among the student body.

The changes that have been made to the system, for the most part, are minor.

“[The bus accident] presented us with an opportunity to evaluate our practices and make improvements,” said Principle John Bacon.

The school has made improvements to the automated call-ing system, as well as providing bus driv-ers with an inventory of information about students should an ac-cident occur. However, some students are concerned that the changes could lead to restrictions on student travel, with administrators being less likely to let students travel if there were a risk of inclement weather.

“While I agree with the procedural changes, any restrictions on travel are unnecessary, and will cause great hin-drance to all school programs. Having an issue once in 70 years of the school’s

existence doesn’t make the system flawed,” said Shecharya Flatté ‘12. “It makes it impossible for City High to go to a variety of competitions in a a va-riety of sports and activities, severely limiting our ability to compete, espe-cially on the national level.”

Other students have been more sup-portive of the administrative changes.

“I think that its good that administra-tors are thinking more about the kinds

of weather that they’re sending us into,” said Alex Lemus ‘13, a mem-ber of the wrestling team that had crashed. “When we were on the bus and it flipped over we were traveling in icy weather with no seatbelts, it just made it that much easier to get hurt.”

Many students have also seemed to transition well to the new condi-tions.

“It’s not that big of a deal. Our coach just came to us and said that from now on we’d need contact

information and that was pretty much it” said swimmer Thomas Chudzik ‘13.

Administrators have attempted to address concerns, but at the same time remain adamant as to the purpose of the new policies.

“We’re always going to put safety first when thinking about these things, we’re endeavoring to make the best possible decision,” Bacon said.

“We are still in the planning stages of our project,”

- Heather Widmayer, ICCSD Farm to School Coordinator

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It’s 6:30 am on a Tuesday morning and the last thing I want to do is to get up and go to school. I can already hear the obnoxious sounds of the hall-way along with the normal, high school drama. I can already feel the melancholy catching on and I grimace as pull on some jeans and a t-shirt. But as I get into my car, I put the key into the igni-tion and out comes sound from the speakers. It’s Have Heart’s “The Unbreakable” and it hits me like brick to the face. The song expresses an act of unselfish gratitude from a man towards a world that may not even know he exists. This man stands up and keeps a grip on his mind that allows to be, “The warmest heart in the coldest world.” As the song plays, I yell along as I feel the fast aggressive beat in my heart and a tingling sensation move through my body. Before I know it, the song is over and I am at school ready to take on whatever comes. Have Heart was a hardcore punk band from Boston that evolved from a local hardcore scene. Eventually this scene has grown to a nationwide movement and a forward way of thinking. Bands that contribute to this movement would be BANE, VERSE, HAVE HEART, YOUTH OF TODAY, CHAMPION, CEREMONY, and even local Iowa bands such as BLACK TEETH, TAKE CONTROL, and MODERN LIFE IS WAR. These people felt deprived of certain quality that would make them “normal,” so with a punk influenced way of thinking of a “do it yourself” mentality, they made a scene where anyone was welcomed no matter what their social status. A scene that could understand their side of the story. A scene that would treat them as a human being. A com-munity has often been the term to describe theses local scenes around the world. Local scenes have influence on their communities from the area around them and each scene may have different opinions, but all share a trait that is very rare in a social world today, acceptance. As I walk into the bleak doors of school, I feel the emotions of these bands and have a sense that every word they shout is truth. Their lyrics have taught me to be a person with acceptance etched in my heart. A man who believes in what is right and defends those who may not belong. A person who loves the world, that may not even love him back.

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The story is of King George VI and his rise to the throne of England, who at first could barely speak in public due to his stammer. The conversations between the king and his new speech therapist Profes-sor Logue (Geoffrey Rush) are authentic and unforgettable. Takes place just prior to WWII in a time where inspiration was vital for the moral of the citizens.

The King’s Speech

Firth warms hearts with his role as King George VI. He pulls off the job by having incredibly witty dialogue throughout the movie, while keeping the stuttering intensely realistic, but not ignorantly disrespectful.

Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)

She plays a teenager trying to keep her family together in the Ozarks, while her meth-dealing father gives the house up as collateral for bail. This portrayal of the backwoods life is genuine as well.

Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)

Bale plays a ex-boxer crack addict who believes he’s starring on an HBO special on his comeback, where it’s really on his drug addiction. Usually he’s a tough guy or hero, so it shows his flexibility as an actor.

Christian Bale (The Fighter)

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Bridge’s charatcter is Rooster Cogburn, a tough US marshall who teams up with Mattie Ross to track down her father’s killer. Bridges’ acting ability really shines as his relationship with Mattie develops over the course of the movie.

Jeff Bridges (True Grit)

The remake of the John Wayne Western has the young actress holding her own with a cast of big names such as Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. She delivers with a demanding presence and has a snappy charisma about her.

Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)

The acting of Leonardo Dicaprio is fantastic as he portrays Cobb, a man who can travel into others dreams to plant ideas. The visual effects are stunning, from crumbling buildings to zero-gravity fight scenes in hotel rooms. The directing of Christopher Nolan is excellent and the story and conclusion of the movie are per-plexing and wonderful at the same time.

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Portman’s character is a young ballet dancer who is the lead for Black Swan. Portman’s acting superior acting ability is shown as her character is transformed from sweet and innocent to seductive and frightening.

Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

A former boxer who is now training his boxing brother, Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg). Bale shows his substantial talent as he evolves throughout the movie. His devotion to the role is powerful, which in turn effects the beauty of the movie.

Christian Bale (The Fighter)

Kunis’ skill lies within her ability to make the viewer unsure Lily is good or evil: if she’s on Nina’ side or trying to steal the role from Nina’s grasp. Her versatility as an actress really shows.

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H A R D C O R E P U N Kby David Steinkruger

Red Velvet Cupcakes

2 ½ cups of flour, sifted

2 tablespoons of cocoa

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup butter, at room tempera-ture

1 ½ cups white sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup buttermilk

2 tablespoons red food coloring

1 teaspoon white vinegar

1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat your oven to 350 de-grees. Line cupcake tins with paper liners. Sift the flour, cocoa and salt (Note: keep your cakes in check and don’t let them get too salty). Set aside. In a differ-ent bowl, beat the butter with your electric mixer until fluffy, like snow but yummier. Add the sugar and mix for 2 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, unless you’re a ninja. Add the vanilla and mix.

Stir the buttermilk and red food coloring. Mix ⅓ of your not-too-salty-super-floury mixture into the the butter, sugar, and eggs mixture. When it is fully combined, add half the but-termilk. Repeat with ⅓ of the flour mixture and the rest of the buttermilk. Finish with the last third of the flour mixture, then check your math.Lastly, mix together the vin-egar and baking soda. These two love each other, watch the fireworks until they’re done. Fold into your cupcake mixture. Finally, pour the batter into the cupcake tins and don’t forget to lick the bowl. Cook 25-30 minutes and frost.

The Cream Cheese Frosting

1 pound cream cheese, softened

2 sticks butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

Beat the cream cheese, then beat in the butter. Then sift in the powdered sugar one cup at a time. Mix in the vanilla. There will be lots of extra frosting which rocks because it is the best frosting ever!

When the cupcakes completely cool, frost them and then share with your sweetie or eat them all by yourself!

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CupCakes for your Cutie

As February begins, love is in the air. Along with the infamous ques-tion “what will Valen-tine’s Day bring?” What should you get for that special someone? His-torically, the answer has come in the form of something sweet.

The bakers at De-luxe bakery know about how pastries have been used to say ‘I love you.’ The bakery bakes cus-tom cakes of all different kinds, but baker Leslie Jamison remembers one that was extra special.

“A guy came in to the store who looked like he was about sixteen,” Leslie said. “He had this vision for a cake that he planned to give to his girlfriend.”

With a present and balloon in hand, he brought his girl to Deluxe to present her with the cake. The bakers brought out the ridiculously lav-ish cake and gave it to her. She loved it.

“We were all sitting in the kitchen and watch-ing,” Leslie said. “Wish-ing someone had done it for us.”

Deluxe was opened in 2003, by Jamie Powers. The pink walls are lined with different shaped mirrors hanging by rib-bons. The mismatched tables and chairs give the feeling of a french cafe.

“Our neighborhood location makes the bak-ery unique.” A Deluxe baker, Mary Simmons said. “It’s like an open

house.”Their Summit St. loca-

tion is close to downtown and Longfellow Elemen-tary School. The bakery is often home to people in the writers workshop looking for a quiet place to work.

“On Saturday morn-ing we have our regular crew that comes in.” Sim-mons said. “Bakeries are great places to come and socialize.”

Deluxe offers a vari-ety of treats. From cakes to truffles, poppy seed bread, decorated cookies, and on Saturdays, home-made donuts.

“I grew to love donuts in the summer when I made them in the early mornings.” Jamison said. “I feel like the donuts

and I have been in the trenches together.”

The bakery’s recipes come from ideas from cookbooks and Jamie Powers brought in many ideas from previous jobs. The bakers also experi-ment with new recipes of their own.

The new baking phenomenon that has dominated TLC, creating shows such as Cake Boss and Food Network’s Ace of Cakes has directly ef-fected Deluxe.

“Everybody is watch-ing cooking shows so they come in with amaz-ing concepts,” Leslie said.“and Jamie is always game to do it.”

Even during hard eco-nomic times, Deluxe is a popular destination for

people in Iowa City to come and get an inexpen-sive treat. It also feeds the interest of people who want to eat locally and fresh.

Deluxe’s cookies change with the seasons, for Valentine’s Day they will have the classic pink, red, and white heart shaped cookies. More uniquely, the prince charming frog. Red vel-vet will also be in high demand.

So as February 14th comes closer, a cookie or maybe even a red velvet cupcake could be the per-fect way to say ‘I Love You’.

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At City High

“Isn’t it cute? It looks like poop,” says a beaming Eleanor Cotton about the brown beaded bracelet tied to her left wrist. Don-ning the blue and white striped knit cap Eleanor made for him, Evan Risk threaten-ingly lifts his hand and Eleanor flinches away. Both smile and giggle. The dynamic duo has been dating for around six months.

“Since July 20,” says Eleanor, as Evan looks around guiltily. “I only remember

cause it’s an even number and a multiple of ten.” Evan just stands there and mouths “She loves me.”

Aware of each other in “little kid orches-tra,” but only really getting to know each other on the trip to Europe symphony or-chestra took this summer, Evan and Eleanor are a somewhat infamous couple around City High, renown for verbally abusing each other as well as giving one another many punches and slaps. “We’re not very couple-y, like other couples are… being coupley is gross.”When asked what some special memories

they’ve had are, Risk pipes up. “When we went to College Green

Park it started pouring rain and we frol-icked in the rain together, that was cute.”

“Yeah,” agrees Cotton. “That was pretty precious.” Another special memory they shared was when Evan accidentally spit food on Eleanor’s hand. “That was a special memory,” said Cotton, nodding her head ernestly.

“[Our relationship is] abusive and un-healthy,” Eleanor contemplates. “Unique.”

Evan chimes in, “Love-hate.”

Eleanor&Evan

Elijah&EmmaAt one in the afternoon in the middle

of winter with the temperature a balmy zero degrees, Elijah Jones ‘14 and Emma Wortman ’14 sat on a bench across the street from The Gazette downtown. And sat. And sat. Until the clock stuck eight, and Emma had to go home.

“Ok we moved, we didn’t sit there that long,” admitted Jones.

“We had to go warm up in the Java House for a bit,” Wortman said, smiling sheepishly. “There was one reason and only

one reason we thought it was a good idea,” said Jones, “We wanted to kiss. It was as simple as it was. Eventually I said ‘oh for shits sake’ and I just did it. I think it’s funny to us because, Jesus it took a long time. “

Still only freshman, the couple has been dating for over a year.

“We are two very deep people, and that makes all these things that are hardships even harder. But that makes every moment that we have, that we enjoy each other, that much better.” “Yea,” agreed Wortman, “Be-cause we’ve been together longer than the average couple, we’ve come across some,

speed bumps.” Elijah looks and her point-edly. “…Mountains.” Wortman corrects herself. “But we know each other, and we overcome them.”

Emma looks at him with perceptible affection. “He’s nice, he’s intelligent, he’s funny, very funny,” she smiles. Elijah sighs, “She’s astounding, she’s beautiful, she’s amazing. She surpasses me in everything. She speaks for herself; she doesn’t try to be anyone else. She’s a very special human be-ing. I feel lucky to know her, to be with her, to catch her attention is something I feel proud of because, she’s extraordinary.”

Mr.&Mrs. WilsonThe year was 1986 and a younger ver-

sion of Bruce and Cathy Wilson were in grad school.

“I always remember, although it sounds kind of not very cool but it was comforting at the time, was when I came out of a very lengthy surgery, like an all-day surgery, and pretty much opened my eyes for the first time and saw him. And one of my other friends trying to get around him, which ticked me off because it was like ‘oh no, I want to see this guy, not you’,” recollects Mrs. Wilson.

“Yea I remember that,” Mr. Wilson chuckles. “And then you looked at the

clock and knew that it had not gone as you had planned. As we had planned.” There is a silence.

“But that was a long time ago.” “That was a long time ago. 1986.” “And we didn’t have health insurance.

And that was a rough year. It was hard. But we made it through.”

Both teachers of chemistry at City, the couple has known each other for 31 and a half years, and of those years, 27 have been dedicated to married life and along with that, a child. Colin Wilson.

“You’d have to be dead to have a child not affect your relationship,” said Mrs. Wilson. “You can have a pet, and say you’re using the pet to practice. We had a dog for seven years. He didn’t prepare us

for Colin.” “No,” agreed Mr. Wilson, shaking

his head vigorously, “That doesn’t prepare you.”

Although not terrifically romantic and full of dry humor, one can tell that there is a strong bond between the two.

“I guess I could say I don’t know what it would be like without her.”

“He’d be hungry and naked.” “Well there’s probably some truth to

that, at least hungry. I think I could figure out the naked part.”

“But it would be hard, because it’s a team, it’s a partnership. We come as a package.” “A quantum.”

by Ellen Carmen & Oli Peters

by Jindalae Suh

Iowa State

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My four-week winter break has given me plenty of time to ponder my place in life, eat bowls of Cookie Crisp in the late afternoon, and wander around my parents’ house in boxers. I hardly feel qualified to offer analysis of the collegiate jour-ney on which I have so recently embarked, but at its heart, it was... weird. Some of the kids wore skin-ny jeans and smoked cigarettes a lot. Some of their parents went to Columbia, some were million-aires, some had Wikipedia articles, and some entered the country il-legally. Every building was taller than Hotel Vetro. There was a loud metal thing underground in which people read the Wall Street Journal in suits and bobbed their heads to hip-hop on big headphones. (Dif-ferent people, usually.) My chem-istry class had over a hundred students and nobody was taking attendance at the (by college stan-dards, disagreeable) 9 AM lec-tures. It was a time of self-dis-covery, too: How do I spend my days without the neat structure of high school classes, music groups and theater? Which kinds of peo-ple do I gravitate towards? Should I join the breakdancing club? Looking back, a lot of my energy in high school was fo-cused on tailoring myself towards the college application process. It seemed inevitable, to an extent; wasn’t college the reason that I was sliding around the icy corner of Glendale and 7th before sunrise for Early Bird PE? The reason that I hesitated on the last math question of the PSAT? The reason I tried to

count Combined Efforts Drama to-wards the Silver Cord? It can seem that way. But the transcripts and semifinalist statuses mean nothing in compari-son to the experiences that I now remember so fondly: Hilariously exaggerated speedball dives in the new gym with Fidi. Looking up at Ms. Wiebener each morning with equal parts admiration and terror. Working the Dance of 2008 into my Wizard of Oz routine. My concept of the self for the last four years was thoroughly inter-twined with my surroundings: My parents, being an older brother, eating Panchero’s, whatever was happening in Opstad Auditorium. The new and chaotic en-vironment, however, provided a blank slate which quickly exposed what was really inside of me. I was good at meeting musicians. While juggling smaller assignments, I was bad at starting a 10-page paper much earlier than it was due. The things that carried over from high school were not the test scores but the qualities, good and bad, that had emerged from deep within over the years. Don’t try to be cool by becoming disenchanted with City High. You’re meant to be there and leave, to have trivial experi-ences and hugely valuable ones. Be cool by giving all you can in re-lationships, cultivating your con-sciousness and, in the words of the great Dan Sabers, doing your body some good. Who knows; I might even put on some pants and go for a run.

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Perfect Score=Acceptance? The last few months have been filled with a frenzy of essay writing, application completing, and tense anticipation for many City High college bound seniors. Michael Barron, Director of Admis-sions at the University of Iowa, gave us in-sight into what it takes to be the “perfect” student. “We have a established admissions policy,” Barron said. “it includes many fac-tors: test scores, success in the classes taken, GPA, extra curricular activities, and the qual-ity of the courses the student has taken.” With people focusing more and more on having impressive extra-curriculars, there is a common misconception that stan-dardized tests such as the ACT and SAT are becoming less relevant. “Honestly,” Barron said. “”it’s not becoming less important when looking at

applications, although there are colleges who don’t require SAT and ACT scores.” That being said, extra curriculars are a crucial part of the ideal college applicant. The key is to stand out. Its better to be com-mitted to a few distinctive endeavors than to be a “joiner”, one who participates in many activites, but holds no leadership position. Quality not quantity. “It’s more helpful to a student to have leadership all throughout high school in a single activity,” Barron said. “than to be a member of many different groups.” Whether it be academics, standard-ized testing, or extra-curriculars, dedication is vital.“A high school student,” concludes Barron, “should have commitment to everything they do.”

“I think that being able to use cellphones and iPods is super cool!”

-Kara Hartley ‘13

“He encourages students. I think that his teaching style is a really good way to approach education.”

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What do you think is the most important in college applications?.

“Any other activities that you are involved in”

-Mr. Rew

“What’s college?” -Alexandra Perez ‘13

“Honors and AP classes.”-Parker Reineke ‘13

You could call it chance. You might call it a coinci-dence. The romantics would call it destiny. However, when Bruce Cohen downloaded Nick Burd’s book to his iPad one ordinary day, something great was at work.

It all started on a regular flight from New York to California when Cohen wanted something to read. A New York Times e-book recommendation interested him, and he offhandedly made the download. Page af-ter page, the life of Dade and his struggle to be differ-ent gripped him, and he never once put it down. When his flight touched down, he made a call, starting the pro-cess to buy the rights to make Burd’s book into a film.

“I started reading, and from the first page it was so beautiful,” Cohen said. “I fell in love on the plane. I couldn’t put it down. Something told me this was the movie I wanted to direct.”

His hands moving in excited gestures, Cohen explains his certainty that the film will reach audiences. “If you’re going to speak to kids today, what better way than to have a gay lead character?” Cohen said. “You’ll relate to it if you’re gay, lesbian...or just an outsider. You’re different. Unique. Special. Everyone has those thoughts inside of them.”

Cohen has been a Hollywood producer for 20 years, best known for American Beauty (1999) and Milk (2008). American Beauty, the story of a family fallen apart and the beauty of the simple things in life, won 5 Oscars, includ-ing Best Picture. Leading man Kevin Spacey took home the award for Best Actor. The movie also won the Best Motion Picture (Drama) in the Golden Globes. Milk is the true life story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politi-cian in the country. Sean Penn received an Academy and Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Harvey Milk. Cohen will also be producing the 2011 Academy Awards.

“Producing is an amazing job because you are in charge from the very beginning,” Cohen said. “You really stay with the movie your whole life...there’s always de-tails that people are still coming to you with for years.” Yet Cohen is giving up the producer position for The Vast Fields of Ordinary, and this film will be his first as a director.

“ [Producing] has been good,” Cohen said, “but and I’ve always felt when the right project came along I would want to direct.” As it turns out, Burd’s book hit home that day on the airplane, and Cohen knew it was the one.

The first whispers of the idea came to Nick Burd during his senior year of college. He is quick to say the

book is not an autobiograpy. “None of the things in the book actually happened to me,” Burd explained. “How-ever, I would say that it is very personal. I am gay and grew up in Iowa and saw firsthand how difficult that could be at times. But no, I am not Dade and my teenage years were not quite as dramatic as his.” The first thing he was sure of was the title: The Vast Fields of Ordinary.

“It encapsulated a few words what I wanted the book to be about,” Burd said. “Loneliness, op-timism, the feeling of looking into the future.”

He was totally surprised by the call from the producer.

“I felt honored and humbled that the message of the book had spread so far,” Burd said. “That was the big thing about it that surprised me: the fact that it reached and spoke to someone as accom-plished and intelligent as Bruce. If it got that far, there’s no telling who else has read my book and found meaning in it.”

One of the sub-plots of the book is bullying, especially re-lavent with the suicides in the news.

“These gay suicides are horrify-ing, and we have to do something, but no, its not unusual,” Cohen said. “They’ve been happening for years and in the same numbers, and it’s just this year that they are finally getting national attention.” He says this is important because this issue is not go-ing to go away, and things needs to change. His biggest question is whether it will change in time to save the kids going through the bullying now.

Cohen was married in the state of California during the 5 months that same-sex marriage was legal in 2008. Though the decision was struck down by a proposi-tion from the voters in 2010, a federal judge ruled that the state had to uphold the rights of the 18,000 couples married during that time. Even though Cohen was able to keep his marriage, he knows that isn’t enough. “If the minority waited for the majority to give them their rights, those minorities would never get their rights.”

Cohen and several other people have come together and hired a lawyer who will argue the case of California

before the United States Supreme Court. They will argue that underneath the 14th amendment, all people are en-titled to due process and equal rights. His legal represen-tation is headed up by Ted Olson and David Boies, two big names in the news after the 2000 Presidential Election, where they opposed each other in the Bush v. Gore case.

“The case that won gay marriage in Iowa was bril-liant. And we actually used a lot of what the Iowa Su-preme Court decided. It fits beautifully with our case.”

Cohen, Burd, and John Krokidas came to City High this January, meeting with high school students during a scouting visit for the film. They are hoping to do the shooting in Cedar Rap-ids. During his visit, Cohen talked to stu-dents from G.L.O.W. (City High’s Gay Les-bian Or Whatever Club) about experiences with harassment in highschool, how the ad-ministration handles such bullying. Kroki-das asked questions to get a feel for life in high school today. “Above all,” Krokidas said, “We want to get high school right.” Their trip to Iowa had one main purpose. “When John writes the script we want him to capture something real,” Cohen said.

The Vast Fields of Ordinary is still in the pre-production stages, and the writing of the script is just getting underway. The movie will most likely be released in 1-2 years as a PG-13 film, because they want it to be accessible to kids going through the same struggles as the main character.

Finding the balance for a rating is difficult for every movie. “The number one goal for a movie is you’ve got to entertain people.” said Co-hen. “You can preach as much as you want, your mes-sage can be as important as possible, but if the movie is not entertaining, if it’s not fun, if it’s not sexy, if people don’t want to see it, then you won’t reach anyone.”

And just what is their message? Look no further than the first page of the book, where E.E. Cummings is quoted:

“To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like every-body else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”

TOP LEFT: Portrait of author Nick Burd. TOP MIDDLE: Bruce Cohen celebrates after accepting the American Beauty’s Academy Award for Best Picture in 1999.

TOP RIGHT: The cover of Nick Burd’s book.

BOTTOM: Screenwriter John Krokidas takes notes as the group talks with students.

Photos by Annelise Jacobson

by Annelise Jacobson

Super FeatureJanuary 28, 2011

In these Vast Fields of Ordinary

Hollywood producer Bruce Cohen’s visit to City High

“Producing has been good, but I’ve always felt when the right project came along I would want to direct.”

-Bruce Cohen

Three City High students, from completely different parts of the globe, all have one thing in common: they know what it’s like to be different.

Sandy Gaber’12, Tony Mai’11, and Juliette Enloe’13 came together to dis-cuss their dual cultures. Sandy, from Egypt, shares experiences with Tony, hailing from Vietnam, who has had similar ordeals of stereotyping to those of Juliette, from France. Though they all come from separate, utterly unique cultures, their experience has been parallel in multiple ways.

“We’re always different, it’s like all the Arabs stick together because there aren’t a lot of us in America. We all feel like everyone is looking at us, and we act like everything is okay,” Gaber said, explaining what it feels like to be so noticeably different, so far from home.

Gaber’s parents immigrated from Egypt. An aunt and three cousins are her only other relatives in the U.S.; the rest of her extensive family remains in Egypt.

“(My parents) decided to come be-cause there were better choices in the U.S. and better living,” Gaber said. “I’m really thankful that I’m here but other times I wish that I were back where my whole family grew up. My entire family tree is in Egypt.” Mai’s parents left their home coun-try of Vietnam for similar reasons, searching for a better life and educa-tion.

“Children have to work for their fam-ilies a lot in Vietnam, so they have to quit school. School is also really strict in Vietnam because it’s so underde-veloped, so you want your kid to do really well,” Mai said. “It’s almost like a competition to be at school everyday. Kids get their hands slapped by teachers just because they make a tiny mistake.”

After he visited his extended Vietnamese family in 2007, Mai had some re-alizations about his own family.

“I’m a little pressured by my parents, but my mom was raised here and she went to City so that tendency kind of left her,” Mai said. “She knows how it feels so she takes it a little easier on me. They tone it down here in America because they’re sure I can get everything I need to be successful.”

Enloe’s mother and father met in France where they were both studying archeology and half of her family still lives their. When asked what her fam-ily misses most about their home country she responded with one word: “bread”.

“I’ve always been proud of the fact that I’m French. We’re the kind of people who drink our hot chocolate out of bowls. Every time people come over to our house and see us doing that they just get really weirded out. They’re like ‘What are you doing?’” said Enloe. ”Yeah, you drink coffee and stuff out of bowls in France. I could do it either way, but I just think it’s fun.”

Gaber is no stranger to this sort of reaction. She began to wear a headscarf her freshman year because of changes in her religious views. This decision has garnered attention, both positive and negative, from fellow students.

“When I was younger nobody really knew I was from Egypt or anything ‘cause I used to let my hair down. Some people thought I was forced to wear [the head scarf] at one point and my parents would get mad if I took it off,”

Gaber said. “But it wasn’t like that. It was more of a choice. Once I put it on some people wouldn’t adapt to the change so we drifted apart and other people were like ‘That’s so cool!’ and wanted to know more about it.”

The head scarf is just one example of Islamic culture barriers. Egyptian women have drastically different duties and privileges than women in American society. Girls aren’t supposed to be out in public very often, and when they are a male relative must accompany them.

“Even hanging out at night is a bad thing... My mom still follows the Egyp-tian rules. She loosens up though. One time I went to prom and I was out really late, till like four o’clock in the morning,” Gaber said. “Sometimes I wish I could do what other American kids get to do and stay out with my friends whenever I want, but most times I’m glad that I’m following these rules.”

Girls are treated similarly in Vietnamese culture.

“The girls think it’s really unfair and I think it is too. Even if there are five girls in a room and one guy walks in it’s a chaotic mess with the parents,” Mai said. “I think it’s kind of ridic-ulous and overshot because you’re not going to do anything bad. If they think you would do something wrong they should just tell you straight forward.”

The Islamic marriage and dating process never ceases to astound Gaber’s classmates. The en-gagement takes the place of dating, and parents have a large say in who their children marry.

“The parents pick first and then they give [the girl] the narrowed down choice. If a guy is re-ally into a girl he can go ask her father for her

hand. The dad will see if the guy is reasonable in his religion and stuff,” Gaber said. “My friends say it’s like Parental Control. Wow, nice connection to MTV there!”

All three teens have been subjected to stereotypes on a regular basis. How-ever, Americans aren’t the only people who have misconceptions about other cultures.

“French people make stereotypes about me because I’m half American. They ask me if where I live is covered in cactuses. They assume I live in Texas or something. Either Texas, California, New York, Hawaii, Alaska, or Florida. All the cool places,” Enloe said. “Then I feel lame. Um, no we have corn and pigs and not a lot of anything else. Then they ask ‘Wait, so you’ve never met Britney Spears?”

They’ve all learned to laugh about it. Cultural isolation is largely reinforced by stereotypes and general lack of knowledge.

“Sometimes I just feel like they’re really ignorant and other times I think maybe if they had a chance to learn more about the culture they’d know better,” said Gaber. “I’ve had people ask if I helped build the pyramids. I’m not even going to answer that. Think whatever you want, but use logic.”

Despite having to balance their two worlds, Enloe, Gaber, and Mai agree that the opportunities gained from their multi-cultural families are well worth it.

“I feel like I’ve gotten a lot more opportunities to do things than kids who are only from America,” Enloe said. “I get to experience a whole entire dif-ferent culture. You get the best of both worlds.”

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Browning poses with Sundown Ski patrol pose for a photo in front of the lodge in Dubuque, Iowa.

Ski patrol caught in the act during one of Browning’s work weekends in the winter.

The Sundown Ski Patrol poses up above the 500 vertical foot drop at the ski and snowboard mountain.

Back hunched over, eyes glazed over, fingers whipping left and right, this student is immersed in his iPod Touch.

“It keeps me occupied and enter-tained,” Christian Kennedy ‘14 said. “Two words: Angry. Birds.”

In today’s bustling world of many electronics and revolution-ary gadgets, companies are market-ing new technologies to the public. Some of these are revolutionary new inventions, some have yet to be released to the public at all, and some fall flat without anyone notic-ing.

First released on April 3, 2010, the iPad was Apple’s new selling point. A nice, slim mini-computer complete with web surfing, Micro-soft Word, and many new and ex-clusive apps. Now Apple is plan-ning for a second edition rumored to be thinner, twice as fast, and comes complete with a front cam-era and subtle design changes like a thin frame and flat back. The iPad2 is rumored to release in the early months of 2011.

Just like the iPad2, the iPod Touch 4 is a big selling point for Ap-ple. Just like the old iPodTouch, this edition still features Safari, iTunes, and the App store.

“My favorite part is the access to

the Internet,” Kennedy said. “And the music, of course.” Apple put a lot of effort in this iPod. Additions include two cameras (one on front, one on back) for Facetime capabili-ties and HD video recording, iMov-ie, the new Game Center app, and a super high resolution for sharper imaging.

With the new generation of gam-ing consoles, there also are new ways of playing video games. Mi-crosoft and Sony’s new consoles have followed in the Nintendo Wii’s footsteps and gone towards motion controlled gaming. The Xbox’s Ki-nect works using a Kinect sensor camera with full 3D body recogni-tion and voice recognition to make for some pretty futuristic gaming, but can be unresponsive at times.

On the other hand, the PlaySta-tion Move works with two ergo-nomic hand-held controllers with a

PlayStationEye camera to sense the controllers and is complete with a three axis accelerometer. The Move works pretty consistently and re-sembles the Wii with its two con-trollers and motion camera.

But Microsoft and Sony aren’t the only ones coming out with new gaming systems. Continuing off of their popular DS system, Nintendo is in the process of creating a new 3DS system with everything from the original DS plus a 3D screen and other additions. These include a me-dia player, a Mii creator, a slide pad replacing the traditional D-pad, and Wi-Fi. What Nintendo is marketing is, of course, the 3D aspect of the system, which is viewable without the need of 3D glasses. The Nin-tendo 3DS is predicted to release in March 2011.

The Mintpass Tablet is the new contender on the market, from the Korean firm Mintpass. This gad-get can play movies and music, surf the web, and download apps. This iPad-esque mini-computer is unique for many reasons including its ability to fold in half just like a laptop and its special Space Touch technology. This allows the user to open up and view multiple screens at the same time so he or she could watch a movie, read an article, and surf the web all at the same time. The Mintpass Tablet is scheduled to release in the first half of 2011.

by Gabriel Brasile

Super FeatureJanuary 28, 2011

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Going on eleven years at Sun Down Mountain, Assistant P r i n -cipal, Mrs. Browning shares her experi-ences as a volunteer ski patrol in Dubuque Iowa.

“I enjoy skiing and helping people,” Browning said. “One of the major benefits for me is that my whole family skis for free.”

To become a volunteer ski patrol at Sun Down, you must be at least 18 years of age, and capable of passing several ski and medical courses.

“I had to take four months of first-aid and EMT classes twice a week,” Brown-ing said. “I also had to ski two nights per month in order to perfect my skills.”

The Sundown Ski patrol Currently has 66 members, with people of different ages and professions.

“Every time I went, I worked with different people,” Browning said. “Vol-unteer ski patrols always vary greatly in their professions and inter-ests. Throughout the years I have met several firefighters, lawyers, teachers, and nurses. They all love to ski.”

Last winter, Mrs. Browning and Felix Mulligan 11’ made an attempt to get a Sundown ski-ing club off the ground

“We went to Sundown the first Saturday of every month, as well as watching ski videos and having regular meetings,” Browning said. “Only a hand-ful of people showed up and we needed more people to get involved. It’s possible that we could have one in the future.”

During the regular season, the resort is open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. un-

til 9 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.. A lift ticket costs $40 for an adult on the weekends and holi-

days, $33 for a weekday and $28 after 4 p.m..

“I ski mostly nights be-cause it’s cheaper than ski-ing during the day,” said Felix Mulligan, who learned to ski a few years ago on the Southeast Junior High trip. “I also like it because it’s less crowded and you can see easier without the sun in your eyes.

All though the Southeast trip no longer exists, it still has impacted the many of the students who attended in previous years.

“When I first started skiing on the South East trip, I was scared, but by the end I learned it could be a lot of fun,” Mul-

ligan said. “This was when I realized that I really liked to ski.”

An intro to skiing and snowboarding class is offered at Sundown for $10. The Mountain has a 120 instructor team which is the largest in the region.

“I took the group lesson at first, but the more I skied, the more I learned,” Mulli-gan said. “I think it’s really bad that South East doesn’t do their annual ski trip any-more, because it’s a great opportunity for junior high kids

Since Sundown is conveniently located by the Little Maquoketa River, they’re able to provide their own snow for the slopes. With more than 150 guns and poles, the snow is evenly distributed throughout the resort.

“I really enjoy sundown because you’re outside having a lot of fun and being with friends at the same time,” Mulligan said. “There’s always something entertaining happening.”

“Every time I went, I worked with different people.”

-Ann Browning

January 28, 2011

As I walk into the cafeteria the Hip Hop Club’s leader Shawn Wright ‘11 is counting off the beats. Pretty soon the sound of hip-hop music takes the place of the counts. The pulse, rhythm, and rhyme are perfect for hip-hop dance. A group of stu-dents is working intently on perfect-ing every dance move, while having an endless amount of fun. Even though a lot of work is being accom-plished, they are laughing constantly.

Hip Hop Club a.k.a. Deadly Explosion practices on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday each week. While Shawn choreographs all the dances, all fifteen people play a huge role in the group. The club is cer-tainly important to freshman Mariah

Mariner. “I love the Hip Hop Club, the people in it. They are so caring and they are like my family.” It’s not just the people that are important to her though. Dance is a very impor-tant thing in her life as well. “I have been dancing since I was in the third grade. I dance because I love it, and it’s my hobby. I like the way it makes me look.”

Hip Hop Club performs at UAY, and for school assemblies. Perform-ing is one of the best parts of dancing for Jenni Smallwood ’12. “At first there is anticipation. Next I feel a rush from all the cheers, then comes concentration and lastly fun! I feel so alive when I’m out there dancing for people.”

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OpiniOnJanuary 28, 2011

Seniorits: The dreaded curse (or perceived blessing) of every student preparing to leave these fair halls forever come May. We know that there is no force on earth that can stop this feeling. But honestly, you’ve got to reign it in a little bit.

From the all-out “un-caring, failing-classes, missing-multiple-days” to just “occasionally missing an assignment on purpose” everyone gets senioritis to some degree. And we’re not tyring to eliminate it, or stop it. You’ve gone to school for almost 13 years now. You can take

a bit of a break. But we all have to reign it in a bit. You’ve applied to

colleges, asked for fancy government money, written more essays than you have in your entire high school career and are now waiting to figure out the next four years of your life. This is not the time to drop the ball. Don’t screw everything you just worked for up!

If you have to, take a break every once in a while. Take a personal day, watch movies, sleep all day. Unwind. Get back in the right gear, the correct mindset, and finish the year strong.

But don’t just give up. Not now.

As you’ve no doubt heard, both from us, and from the local newspapers, there’s this new thing: the “21-only” ordinance. Yeah, of course you’ve heard of it. But for all the noisemaking happened this fall, the subject has gone pretty dark in recent months.

So here’s an update. As of winter break, at least 3 bars have closed their doors, citing the 21 Ordinance as the cause. More bars either have had, or currently have their liquor licence suspended or pending suspension. And without one, what bar can survive long?

We feel that although the ordinance seems to be having the desired effect - underage citations

under down, in addition to in-dorm alcohol violations - the result is coming at too high a cost. Many of the proponents of the Ordinance stated that the goal was never to close bars or hurt downtown com-merce. Yet that is a large part of what has happened.

The action was too drastic. With both sides refusing to com-promise, the result was too harsh. A middle ground should have been and still should be found. One that would effectively keep underage drinkers out, but also one that wouldn’t utterly shaft businesses downtown.

What this middle ground is, we don’t know. But surely anything would be better than what we have now.

In case you live under a rock, here’s an update on the Iowan gun control law. We, as a state, recent-ly passed a law that says that it is legal for anyone to carry an unconcealed handgun in public.

To this, we say “WTF Iowa?”

This is a bad, terrible, horrendously stupid law. No one needs to carry a gun around all the time. Proponents of laws like this justify their actions with ignorant, blanket statements like “It makes me feel safer” and “It’s my constitutional right.”

Are you f****** kid-ding me?

What does a handgun make you safer from? Terrorists in Iowa? (Yeah, right.) A bank robber that

you’re going to run across while out

getting a hair cut? Getting hit by a drunk driver at 11 at night?

Handguns are quite frankly, useless in the hands of most citizens. In compensating for their own apparent lack of moral fiber and/or cojones, they endanger others with their obvi-ously itchy trigger fingers and their sheer presence.

Many Iowa City busi-nesses like the Public Li-brary and Rec Center are already moving forward to gain permission to ban state-legalized weapons on their premises. More power to them, we say. Way to have the guts to fix what the state never should have done in the first place.

While we’re on the subject of gun control, here’s a perfect ex-ample of a lack thereof. On January 8th, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner, a 22 year Arizona native, shot U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in the head at an informal political rally in Tucson with 9mm Glock handgun. Moments later, he turned his gun on the small crowd assembled, injuring 13 and killing six, including nine year-old Chris-tina Taylor-Green.

Beyond the obvious travesty and tradgedy, this is just disheart-ening. Since when do we, as Amer-icans and as the supposed leaders of “the democratic free world” turn to mass assassination to solve our governmental differences? It’s just... pathetic.

All that was proved this Janu-ary is that we, as a people, have problems with how we conduct

ourselves on a personal and na-tional level. No politician failed to espouse their “deep, deep condo-lences” soon after the 8th. They were quickly followed by those who sought to use the shootings to push or attack their own political doctrine.

Many blamed Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for fostering the climate that could result in such drastic actions. And only a quick emergency action by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer prevented the Westboro Baptist Church from rearing their ugly heads at the memorial services.

Everyone just needs to back off. Beyond the obvious problem that we allow things like this to happen in our country, the usage of such an event to further one’s own views, much less political platform is disgusting. Since when is tragedy an occasion to gain popularity?

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Downtown Bars(your city)

Tucson, Arizona

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Patriotism

Winter beards

Kitten mittens

The Social Network

Dugongs

Not following directions

Nerf gun fights

Carrot chips

Black Swan

Stud Muffins

Rec league

Sucking at snowboarding

Herpes

Chuck Norris

Flannel Jackets

Sex ed

Morons

Wind chill

New gun laws

Winter blues

Chodes

The word “douche”

Sarah Palin

The Absurd

Dirty Hipsters

A lack of snow days

Girl-drama

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It was quite possibly the first time I have ever gone to the library this year while I wasn’t in a class or printing something on purple paper. But I’d grown tired of unsuccessfully trying to do my homework in all the other too-noisy en-vironments City is full of.

So there I was, sitting at a table covered entirely my Chemistry home-work, plugged into my iPod and listening to some creatively-titled playlist when I fi-nally realized that there is a librarian standing in front of me trying to get my attention. (Noise cancelling ear-buds.)

So I pull out my ‘buds only to

have her tell me that “iPods aren’t al-lowed in the library.”

Are you kidding me?Now, I’m not mad at the librar-

ians by any means. But this is a RE-ALLY dumb rule. Here’s why: for

one, my iPod usage wasn’t bothering anyone else. I wasn’t using the speaker, the ‘buds don’t let any sound out the back, and if anyone could hear, they’d be uncomfortably close to me anyways.

For two, it instantly became hard-er to study once I stopped listening. Without the noise cancelling I was able to hear the other four tables of kids around me talking about their math projects, the teachers they dis-

like, their homework, and snow days, to name but a few of their ever-so-interesting topics of conversation.

Third: is there any real reason behind disallowing iP-ods? Because to me, it seems totally arbitrary. I wasn’t even facing the front of the library, and I was behind a big column. Were they just walking around look-ing for supposedly misbehaving children? Additionally, students are allowed to use iP-ods in the commons, lunch room, and hallways. But not the library? Why the discrepancy?

Lastly, I was being much, much less disruptive than the other stu-dents around me, who were, in the

time that I observed, taking surveys, gossiping loudly, playing on a iPad, having “girl talk” and generally be-ing loud and irritating. So I - the

one quietly studying and tyring to ignore my classmates - was the one punished. Thanks.

So in the end, I was chastised and punished by an out-dated rule that re-fuses to take into ac-count the changing policies of the school, and seemingly pur-

posefully ignores other students mis-behavior and disruptiveness.

My studying, my schoolwork, and my simple enjoyment suffered, all because of this one foolish rule.

This is a letter written in rebut-tal to last issues essays concerning the fashion phenomena known as sweater vests. It is both written and endorsed by the CHS Large Group Speech Group Improvisation team.

We, the CHS Improv Team feel targeted by last issue’s opinion article concerning sweater-vests. The col-umn claimed they were pretentious and ugly, and I hope that this clarifies some information about this fashion staple of City High.

Firstly, “Sweater-vest Thursday” has been around for quite a long time, dating back to the legendary improv teams of old. It surfaces dur-ing LGS season, and then dies down as the weather warms.

It is the manifestation of the rich tradition that runs in the Improv team’s blood. If the Improv team is being placed under scrutiny for tra-ditional fashion statements, then the accusers should also condemn the swim team for bleaching their hair, the cross country team for their vel-vet shirt and orange plaid vest, and the cheerleaders for wearing their outfits to school.

These are traditions that are kept for the sake of team spirit, and not for making a fashion statement. Students wear their team paraphenalia out of pride. It is neither ill-conceived nor pretentious.

It is vital to understand that wear-ing sweater-vests on Thursdays are not desperate attempts to look better than everyone else. Rather, they pro-vide the opportunity to look ridicu-lous.

Zach Greimann ’11 often wears sweater-vests with hawaiian shirts or vivid plaid, combinations that is widely recognized as comical. The hot-spot for sweater-vest shopping is Goodwill, where the hideous sweat-

er-vests line the store in masses. One could write an article criti-

cizing the cross country teams tra-ditions of passing a grimy velvet zippered-shirt around as ugly, or scrutinize the violently blond swim-mers for shaving their heads. These statements are clearly meant to be ugly, to attract publicity or bond a team.

The Improv Team does not have warm-ups or jerseys to wear on the school day before competitions to attract publicity. There is nothing wrong with a little attention.

If we are actually just trying to look good, what is wrong with that? Dressing more formally has been proven to increase studiousness.

The article itself also had quite a few malapropisms. Firstly, when I looked up the term “alt-bro” on Google images, I did not see a single sweater-vest. Rather, I saw an awful lot of flannel and plaid.

The alleged term “hipster” does not imply sweater-vests. Wikihow.com has a wonderful article on “How to be a hipster,” and sweater-vests are not mentioned at all. And a suburban country club is an oxymoron.

Our favorite steps in “How to be a hipster” include the following.

3.) Only listening to independent music

5.) Insulting a lot of bands6.) and 7.) Coining the terms, “I

liked them before they were cool,” and, “I liked their first EP, but pret-ty much after that I never got into them.”

8.) Fashion, where they empha-size skinny jeans.

12.) Denial13.) Location, “any moderately

large college town that is the only lib-eral part of the state.”

Sound familiar?

Irony flowed from that column like honey from the pot. The column insinuated that sweater-vests were worn by pretentious people, and thus are pretentious in nature. By criticiz-ing another’s fashion, you place your own fashion above theirs, and thus are the pretentious one.

Who holds the authority to judge all fashion? No one (possibly Tyra Banks, but that is irrelevant). The style spectrum is huge. If style were a type of light, and one were to refract it through a prism, could one call one color better than the other? No.

“Judging a book by its cover” is

both unfair and idiotic. It is what has bred social rifts in American soci-ety, a problem which public forums such as The Little Hawk should strive to expose and bring attention to the world.

Even if a select few believes the Improv Team to be pretentious, they must be sadly uninformed. Anyone who actually knows a member of the Improv team knows that they are a group of the most respectful and courteous students and are devilishly handsome.

OpiniOn January 28, 2011

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Dear Editor:

~ Phil Buatti

“iPods aren’t allowed in the library.’

“I was essentially punished for trying to study, and for being quiet.”

High school life is simple. We drag ourselves out of bed, go to school, play our sports, and do our homework.

Routines are good. And life is okay. But when it’s cold, and icy, and January, I need a break. I need a SNOWDAY.

Now, I know many of you anti-snowday-ists are probably thinking, “Stop whining, snowdays are just random days in January that add on to the end of the year.”

This is a legitimate point, I will admit. But the true beauty of snow-days is not the freezing weather or heaps of frozen ice and slush. It’s the surprise, and the break from our bor-

ing schedules. Snowdays are days of unexpected freedom from textbooks and shrill bells and cafeteria food.

I like to think of them as mental health days. Very practical, right?

Writing this column is proving very therapeutic, really. Because late-ly I’ve been feeling utterly, inexplica-bly cheated and betrayed.

I just moved here from St. Louis, Missouri. Now, a nice way to de-scribe St. Louis weather would be “wet”. Really, it’s just sucky. The sum-mers are so humid it feels like you get a bucket of sticky water dumped on you the second you walk outside. And winter? The weatherman prom-ises you fluffy snow and what do you

get? Rain. Cold, freezing rain. We average about two snowdays a year.

So obviously when I moved to Iowa, the state of corn and cold, I expected some snowdays. Have I mentioned how much I love snow-days? And everyone promised me I wouldn’t be dissapointed. City got eight snowdays last year!

But I am dissapointed. My old school district is winning 4-0 to City. In snowdays, I mean. My friends tell me that it didn’t even snow for the first two, just rained and the roads were a teeny bit icy.

Many people would say those two snowdays were uncalled for. The chances of anyone sliding or crash-

ing because of a little ice are small. But how careful is too careful?We all remember how just a few

months ago the wrestling team’s bus flipped on a patch of ice. Recently road conditions have been much worse than they were that day. I hope that the school district keeps ev-eryone in mind when they make us come to school on an icy day. I mean we’re highschoolers, our cars aren’t exactly new.

I’m still hoping that I’ll wake up, find the world covered in heaps of snow, and cackle as I go back to bed instead of trudging into Early Bird.

Or maybe snow just doesn’t like me as much as I like snow.

OpiniOnJanuary 28, 2011“And then they go to the joint committee. No, the senators aren’t smoking weed.”

-Mrs. Redlinger, talk-ing about the legislative

process

“I never liked soccer. Soc-cer is a communist sport.”

-Mr.Hartwig reveals his inner conflict with Kickers

soccer.

“In the next chapter, we’ll be using the sexy integral sign.”

-Mrs. Smirl, getting the class excited about the

next unit.

“Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money!”

-Mr. Yates quotes his favorite ‘90’s movie.

“People in the south of France are more overt with their infections.” -Mrs. Grundstad explains

why the French kiss so often.

“Oh, I got a text mes-sage. Never fear though, Gotham is safe.”

- Mr. Hartwig gives a brief insight to his secret

identity.

“Did they have a social life? No, of course not. They don’t mind though. They have the rest of their lives for that. Why do you think your parents have Facebook?”

-Mr. Koepnick, attempts to describe AP Chemistry

students.

“I’m bad. You know isn’t that the thing you guy’s say?” “You mean my bad?”“Oh, yeah. I guess I’m just too old.”-Mr. Carhoff tries to get in

touch with his class.

“I’m a teddy bear.”-Mr. Hartwig attempts to

make students feel safer in the classroom.

“Tonight, you’ll get to spend an even with me. People have paid for that before.”

-Dr. McReynolds reveals entirely too much about

his past.

sonora taffaThe Snowday Blues

kieran green

Funding Fallacies

jin suhValentine’s Victims

I used to hate Valentine’s Day. Remember making those Valen-tine’s Day boxes back in elementary school? You decorate an ordinary cardboard box with brightly colored construction paper, or a brown pa-per bag with big crayon hearts. At the end of the day, the teacher lets everybody see how many valentines they got, but when you open yours excitedly you look down and see only two or three instead of the seemingly hundreds that the other kids got.

Then you get to junior high, where everybody is divided up into strict cliques. Each clique functions as a single entity and members are

never allowed to mingle with anoth-er group. But there are always some who never quite fit in; they say the wrong thing all the time, wear the wrong clothes, or cut their hair really short and dye it green.

These people go through that portentous day laughing off the lone-liness, but secretly wishing their true love would gallop up in shining ar-mor and take them in their arms and kiss them hotly.

Ok, yes, some of these situations may have been based on my own past experiences, and sad thoughts pass over me whenever I think about them—like how

I’ve never gotten grinded on at a dance... Some may even dare to call me a “loser,” but to that I say, do not losers have feelings too?

I suppose it gets bet-ter in high school, but still there are those who dread Valentine’s Day; for some the loneliest day out of all 365.

I can’t not admit that this year I have some-one in my life who will be there for me this Valentine’s, but I still remember how it felt when I didn’t.

So as February 14th rolls around this year, a thought occurs to me. If

some generous per-son had deigned to stop me in the hall of South East Jr. High and hand me a Spongebob Squarepants or Scooby-Doo pa-per valentine from Wal-Mart, maybe even a cool oriental themed one, I might

not have grown to be so cynical about Valentine’s Day.

So how about we all try to make a

lonely kid feel better this year? Set up a speed dating day for all the losers in your school.

Actually... don’t do that. But you get the idea.

Say something nice to that shy boy or girl in your class. Sit with someone who eats by themselves at lunch. Hand out oriental-themed pa-per valentines in the halls. Let people know that the world doesn’t suck as much as they think it does.

Make one person a little less cyni-cal this Valentine’s Day.

The City-West divide; more than anything it has come to define aca-demic politics in the last few years. The perceived dichotomy between the “haves” and “have-nots” of the Iowa City Community school dis-trict has created a poisonous atmo-sphere and a decidedly negative en-vironment for all students living in said area to learn, grow, and come of age in.

Indeed, the perception of City as the inferior of the two schools in the Iowa city area is a gross injustice that is in desperate need of correction, and to be fair to Mr. Bacon and the rest of the City High staff, steps have indeed been taken to address the di-vide.

And yet, when I look around me, I see a massive gap in many of the ar-eas of achievement for City Students, not just academically, but in many extracurricular areas as well. Ponder-ing the matter deeper, I came to the conclusion that the reason City lags behind is not because of any lack of talent on the part of the students, but because of a lack of material support from the school’s administration

Now many of the student popu-lace will probably find the assertion that City lags behind west to be lu-dicrous. After all, haven’t we just trounced them in football for the umpteenth time? And our Girls Bas-ketball teams are doing exception-ally well, are they not? The answer is yes. But it is this kind of mind-set, that sport-ing events take p r e c e d e n c e over other ac-tivities, that is part of the mo-rass that bogs down City’s attempts to im-prove itself.

Sure, sporting events are impor-tant, but what about the fact that City students score on average a whole point worse on their ACT exams, not to mention the numerous aca-demic electives that are exclusive to West High. Is it really fair to only of-fer such opportunities to only half of a City’s populace? In addition to this, City is consistantly outperformed by

West in numerous non-sport extra-curricular activities.

Now, it would be easier to live with this imbalance between the two halves of the school district if it weren’t for the galling tendency for City to unwittingly reinforce its image as the “dumber” of the two

schools. This is where

funding alloca-tions come in. Though it is true that sporting programs cater to a large body of students, the e x t r av a g a n c e that is show-

ered upon the more “visible” of the schools activities is often appalling. I’m all for having a successful foot-ball team, but is it truly necessary to spend thousands of dollars on fire-works for said football team’s home-coming game? Of course not.

But here we are, spending gratu-itous portions of our budget not on providing the necessary equipment and support for our sports teams, but

on tinsel and wrappers to make our sports teams look nice and feel good about themselves, while programs that are not looked favorably upon by some members of this school’s administration are left to wither, locked in a perpetual state of inferi-ority compared to the better funded and supported programs on the west side.

So how can we as students act to improve our school’s standing within the town? A good first step may to be just be an advocate for City when in the public sphere. And don’t just be an advocate for some portions of your school, be an advocate for all of it.

That might mean going to a large group speech performance or join-ing interact. Whatever you do, you can never get too involved. And at the administrative level, giving ex-tracurriculars the material support to back up the rhetoric would do wonders to ensure that City High once again truly becomes “The School that Leads.”

“I’m all for having a suc-cessful football team, but...is it truly necessary to spend thousands of dol-lars on fireworks for home games?”

“Set up a speed dating day for all the losers at your school.”

SportS January 28, 2011

No. 8 Prepare For State

photos by DESTINEEGWEE

FAST BREAK: Jeremy Johnson ‘12 goes in for the lay up against Iowa City West on January 14th. City High lost 46- 57. Cortez Barield 12 (Top) Jeremy Johnson ‘12 (Middle) and Lonnie Chester ‘13 (Bottom) all contributed in that game for the Little Hawks.

Looking for RhythmPrincipal John Bacon challenges boys basketball by promising

a shaved head when the victory occurs

photos by ANNELISEJACOBSON

STARTING LINE-UP: Virginia Jonhson (above) Mickey Hansche ‘13 (Top left) Sierra Chambers 12’ (Top Right), Erin Danielson ‘13 (Bottom left) and Harper Beasley ‘12 (Bottom Right) have been key players for the City High girls varsity team this season.

by Mikey Hunter

Boys and girls bowling season of work will be put up to the test at Regionals on February 19th. Regionals will decide if the squad will qualify to the state tourna-ment in Des Moines at Plaza Lanes.

City High’s most recent dual was a double defeat from Dubuque Senior. Boys highest roller was Austin Kibler with a 236-176 while Brittany Tack rolled a 178-169 for the girls.

Bowling teams next home meet will be February 4th at Co-lonial Lanes.

by Michael Hunter

The eighth ranked girls bas-ketball season has seen plenty of success this season with a few bumps along the way. Latest 52-23 victory over Cedar Falls shows the team is starting to dominate. Twenty-three of the 52 points came from foward Virginia John-son.

Johnson has scored 374 points for the Little Hawks this season and

Underclass Mickey Hansche has also been a leader for the Little Hawks. Hansche has put up 202 points this year which passed last years total of 186 points.

“Our success is due to the hard work we put in practice.” said Hansche. “We are a more experi-enced team this year.”

The Little Hawks get another shot to return the defeat they re-cieved from 4th ranked Iowa City West earlier the season on January 12th at City High.

photo by WILLBENSON

STRIKE: Jon Hartley ‘11 aims for the pins against Dubuque Senior on January 15th. City High lost to Senior 3293- 2771.

by Will Benson

As the Little Hawk boys bas-ketball team progresses through the regular season, the high level of competition has gotten the best of them. But following a close defeat against West High, some positives have emerged.

“We have found a weapon in Lonnie Chester, who has opened up a mean can of yams,” Jeff Campbell ‘12 said.

City gets a chance to redeem themselves on their home floor against their rivals on February 11th. They will have to continue to play scrappier and tougher than the other team, getting turn-overs and fast break points, while shoring up their half court offense and perimeter defense.

With so many Division I play-ers in the conference this year, such as Jarrod Uthoff of Jefferson and Josh Oglesby of Washington, City has yet to pick up its first win. The inconsistency that’s plagued the Little Hawks has been a rec-curing trend. The inability to stay competitive throughout the entire game is a recent problem.

“We need to put a complete game together, and get over the hump of playing with good teams is necessary,” Andrew McNulty 11’ said.

McNulty could be the catalyst the Little Hawks have been look-ing for, after missing early action with an injured hand. Averaging 11.2 points per game, the senior has been one of the few consistent pieces of the squad.

Looking ahead to sub-state games, the obvious areas of con-cern will need to be addressed and corrected.

“Well, we’ve been working hard and don’t have much to show for it, so to get a ‘W’, I’d

say that would be a goal of our’s before sub-state starts,” McNulty said.

“Closing out games has been a problem, so for us to do anything in the playoffs, that will need to be fixed.”

With the increasing pressure

to get that elusive first win, Mr. Bacon has offered a more play-ful approach to get them a win by agreeing to shave his head upon completion.

That opportunity will come to-night when City travels to Cedar Rapids Kennedy.

Girls Basketball

Boys Basketball Bowling

by Michael Hunter

Brent Hamm ‘11 entered this season unknown and unranked, but now he is one of the contend-ers for the 160 lb state title. Hamm is currently ranked 8th with a 31-5 record that includes three techni-cal falls and eight pins. One of the Hamm’s most impressive match wasn’t a victory but a close 9-6 decision against top ranked Jus-tin Koethe of Iowa City West ear-lier this season. But despite bright personal possibilities, Brent’s main goal is for his team.

“Our team has improved a lot this season but we still have to tune up some spots before dis-tricts,” Hamm said.

City High started the season rough but has climbed back to 11-11 and 6-4 in the Mississippi Con-ference and currently has four ranked wrestlers. Cody Donnely, who played basketball his sopho-more year, is currently ranked 9th at 285 with a 31-5 record. Donnely plans to continue his football ca-reer next year at Iowa Western.

City High traveled to Center-ville, Iowa for the Big Red Invita-

tional where the Little Hawks fin-ished second out of the 16 teams.

“I think we did great as a team. There were a few matches here and there that we could have won that we let get away, but overall a solid day,” Hamm said.

The last round where City High won its seven out of ten place matches put them ahead of Knoxville for runner-up of the tournament.

Hamm and Donnely both fin-

ished runners up. Michael Hunt-er, Andrew Mahone, Kody Dailey, Steve Ferentz and Brad Gingerich also won medals.

“We wrestled well in the con-solations,” said assistant coach Morgan Depregner. “That helped us put us ahead of Knoxville.”

The following Saturday, City High hosted the Clyde Bean

Duals. West Des Moines Valley claimed the title while City went 3-2 with Brent Hamm and Cody Donnelly making the all-tourna-ment team with five wins on the day.

Kody Dailey, Brad Gingerich and Michael Hunter all earned their 50th career wins at the dual tournament.

Sports Results

Boys SwimmingMVC Meet 3rd

CR Jefferson W 115-48

Linn Mar W 109- 61

Burlington Invitational 2nd/14

WrestlingBean City Duals 3-2

Centerville 2nd

Lancer Duals 2-3

Dubuque Hempstead W 38-31

Waterloo East W 67-9

Boys BasketballCR Washington L 47-58

Bettendorf L 52-60

IC West L 47-56

Cedar Falls L 45-69

Girls BasketballCR Washington L 54-57

Des Moines Lincoln W 74- 42

Iowa City West L 65-56

Cedar Falls W 52- 23

Dubuque Hempstead W 51-50

Boys BowlingLinn Mar L

Dubuque Senior L

CR Xavier W

Girls BowlingLinn Mar L

Dubuque Senior L

CR Xavier L

State Title In Reach

SportSJanuary 28, 2011

photo by JINDALAESUH

TAKEOFF: Cam Herting ‘11 dives in into the 50 Freestyle against Linn Mar on January 4th. Herting finished third with a time of 23.66 and City went on to defeat Linn Mar 109-61.

by Michael Hunter

The fifth ranked boys swim-ming team’s undefeated streak of 11 will be tested when they travel to Marshalltown for the state tournament.

“Our goal is to get top three at state,” said Harris Thompson ‘11 who competes in the 200 I.M. “My goal individually is to make it there.”

City High finished ninth last year with small numbers but looks to be one of the contend-ers for the state title this year. Its varsity squad will return to dis-tricts this year with even more expierence then last year. The 400 Freestyle Relay of McAllister, McMillin,Weideman and Herting

is currently ranked second in the state.

“This year we have stronger, older and mentally stron-ger swimmers.” said head coach John Burkle.

One of these swim-mers is two-time and defending 500 free state champion Cam Herting. Herting won the 500 free last Feb-ruary with a time of 4:35.42, two seconds faster than the runner up.

“We have many goals for state,” said John Burkle. “For Cam Herting to become a three time

state champion in the 500 free is one of them.”

Also returning from last year’s squad is Colin Mc-Callister 11’. Mc-Callister finished fifth last year in the 500 Free and broke the 29 year old 500 Free re-cord with a time of 4:42.39 at the MVC Super Meet hosted at Mercer. McAl-lister is currently ranked third in the 200 Free.

“For Colin to take the 200 Free title is another goal,” said Burkle. “We just want as many guys on

the podium as we can so we can get a top three finish.”

City High finished third at the Mississippi Valley Conference Su-per Meet held at Mercer. Cedar Falls won the meet.

For now the team will contin-ue practicing morning and after school until their tough district meet with Cedar Rapids Wash-ington, who has won the district for the last 47 years.

“This year we have stronger,

older and have better mentally prepared swim-

mers.”- John Burkle

photo by ANNELISEJACOBSON

NEAR-FALL: Brad Gingerich ‘11 works to pin his Dubuque Hempstead oppo-nent on January 6th. City High defeated Dubuque Hempstead 38-31.

Hamm Leads WayRoster103 Michael Hunter112 Alex Lemus119 De’Arius Salibi125 Evgeney Kolyvanov130 Bryton Jones135 Mitch Hasler140 Tyler Hill145 Trey Odle152 Andrew Mahone160 Brent Hamm171 Kody Dailey189 Steve Ferentz215 Brad Gingerich285 Cody Donnelly

Swimming

Wrestling

LITTLEHAWK.COMLog on to view video of boys swimming district meet at Cedar Rapids Washington.

Boys swimming will attempt to end Cedar Rapid Washingtons district title streak of 47 consecutive years

RecSportS January 28, 2011

Countless hours spent at the line. Perfecting that tough teardrop runner in the lane. Hoisting up three after three until the gym lights go out. It’s that time of year people: the grueling steps of obtaining a coveted Rec League Championship are upon us. If your looking for high tempo, high octane competition in your weekday, look no further. The games at fabled Robert E Lee Rec do not disappoint. From teams loaded on experience- chalk full of seasoned veterans, to new up tempo expansion teams, bloodthirsty for a piece of history- the goal is unvarying, and hearts will be broken. We’ll give you an exclusive look at all 10 teams, chomping at the bit in anticipation for chilly Wednesday afternoon games.

League

The Field 2011

interview by will benson PLAYMAKERPROFILE camhertingLittle Hawk: What are your team goals?Herting: Win districts and place top 3 at stateLH: How long have you been swimming?Herting: Nine yearsLH: What are your post high school plans?Herting: Go to college for pre-med and swimLH: How does Coach Burkle motivate you guys?Herting: Pure love unless your on junior varsityLH: Best part about the swim season?Herting: Seeing Burkle daily

LH: Who’s your top role model?Herting: John Burkle.LH: What’s your favorite school subject?Herting: EspañolLH: Pre-meet song?Herting: Hard In Da Paint - Flocka!LH: Are you a fan of the speedo?Herting: I am a fan of the speedo. LH: Favorite stroke?Herting: Freestyle

LH: What’s your best event?Herting: 500 freestyleLH: What’s your pre-meet meal?Herting: Pasta with a lot of GatoradeLH: What’s one question you want me to ask?Herting: Who is my favorite rapper?LH: And the answer is?Herting: Colin McAlllister. Or Waka Flocka. Depends on the day.

YEAR: S e n i o r

SPORT:S w i m m i n g

F.S.U.Last years miserable Rabble Rousers have split up and are looking to the future for improvement. Big men Jake Binggeli 12’ and Nile Banks 12’ give FSU a presence in the paint. Newcomers Jason Tiemeyer 12’ and high flying Dan Roemerman 12’ will need to play stiff D to contain the many danger-ous backcourts in the league.

Above Average JoesAfter holding off rivals Lightning Strike in last year’s champion-ship as Jackin’ It Early and Often, the boys of winter can’t be a surprising bet to be in the hunt yet again. Scrappy guard Jack Kregel 11’ uses his aggressiveness on and off the court, and with a veteran led front court of Karl Fleener 11’ and Cody Donnelly 11’, they look prime to repeat. Defensive POY can-didate Joe Fefee 11’ and feared deepball threat James “Hank the Bank” Henkhaus 11’ are key arrivals, while Will Benson 11’ and Robbie Nauman 11’ look to stretch the D for the Joe’s.

“Me and Zach”-John Hartley 11’

on the What team is going to win the Rec League Championship?SPOT

“Flint Tropics”-Andrew Mc-

Nulty ‘11 Bobby Millard 11’

“Felix’s team”-Jack Kregel 11’

“Above Average Joes”

-Mason Greer 12’

“Tate!”-Nick Dohohoe

11’

“That Riverside team”

-Nick Dildine ‘11

PokeballerzThis junior unit wants to share the ball evenly and work towards fundamental basketball. Black hole Spencer Roach 12’ in the middle will receive the most atten-tion defensively, so jumpers should emerge for Erik McCoy 12’. They also have their own Big Baby Davis in emotional leader Felix Mulligan 11’ as an inside outside threat.

D.U.I.With a young team, expectations are low- along with their verticals. Look for them to be hanging well below the rim this season yet again. Sources report X-Factor Logan Benge 12’ won’t see the floor in the first few games due to a recent grounding, so shooters Trent Bedford 12’ and Aaron Mc-Donough 12’ will have to pick up the slack.

Riverside HurricanesThe relatively unknown Riverside boys represent their church by playing on the hardwood. With captain Keivon Williams 12’ bringing the team together and guard Kevin Washington 13‘, look for them to rely on the dribble drive to compete.

Tate HighAfter having one of the most explosive teams in the league last season, they myste-riously don’t seem to be getting any younger. Ex-City starter Jerel Moore anchors the unit. The athleticism will be there undoubtedly, so they should be a dark horse in the late postseason push.

Master Bait & TackleAs City struggles throughout the regular season, some answers may lie in Grif Hasler’s new squad. Former Varsity guards Zach Mennen 11’ and John Hartley 11’ give the upstart team a Turkoglu-Reddick shooters combo right here in the IC Rec Division. Opposing D’s will force the ball down to bruiser Jor-dan Roetman 11’, providing a physical punch in the low block. Chemistry, however, is an increasing issue, as Grif kindly states it- “I Hate Mennen.”

Swishin’ SweetsThe focal point in the Sweet’s attack is guard Cedric Readus 11’. The senior jour-neyman was picked up off Tate’s team the season before, and defenses will adjust ac-cordingly to a slower tempo offense with a great t-shirt design. Look for Ben Schroder 11’ to throw it down this year too.

FlintTropicsThe Tropics are a team with a common goal: Merge with the NBA at all costs. Known for catchy slogans such as “Lets Get Tropical!” and a description of the league- “It’s like the Titanic... but full of bears,” that couldn’t be phrased more appropriately. One glaring weakness is Nate Winegarden 11’.... seriously (confirmed via Twitter). They were look-ing forward to playing Floonsquad, so check lo-cal gyms for a exhibition like no other.

Hoops! I Did It AgainThis junior ensemble is rearing to go, want-ing to make a name for themselves for the next two years using a run and gun offense. They’re led by Bobby Razavi, younger bro of notorious rec-ball schemer Austin, out to make a name for himself. With reign-ing Rookie of the Year 10th man Desmond McCalla 12’ and guard Josh Cabbage 12’, with his fiesty younger sis-ter Micah cheering him on, they’ll be a tough out.