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Rivalries begin to boilPage 4
Spring CleaningPage 6
Tackling the Superbowl
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Little Bobby’s been caught chewing gum in class, and as of now he stands in the front of classroom—about to be humiliated by his friends and peers—facing the monstrous, batty old hag that is his teacher. Her name is Mrs. Ima Hitchu, and she is gripping in her hands a wooden paddle named “Doom.”
Jenna Larsoneditor-in-chief
Navar Watsonproduction editor
Ainee Jeongdesign editor
Sidney Huberbusiness manager
Jace Hodsonfeatures editor
Madi McNewopinions editor
Kendra Foleysports editor
Abraham Echarryphotography editor
Drew Musselmancirculation manager
Anna Kreutzweb master
Alejandra Coarweb editor
Brooke Dennyphotographer
Adam Reedartist/cartoonist
Sophia BorzabadiKennethia ChappleMacy CobbKeegan FischerPete FreemanCarlie JordanSkye ParksKelsey PenceAlex Shelleywriters
Krista Shieldsadviser
2011-2012Mill Stream Staff
Spare the rod, spoil the child?Navar [email protected]
Photo by B. Denny
Illustrations by A. Reed and N. Watson
Mill Stream is published by Block 7 journalism students and distributed free of charge. The staff will publish 12 issues during the 2011-2012 school year.
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[the way we see it] Mill Stream staff editorial
Individuality exists in all places, big or small. However, in a school with over 2,600 students, opinions are bound to get lost in the game of tele-phone that we call the hallways.
With an upcoming primary election in the future, the multiple opin-ions of people begin to show. There are multiple candidates still in the race and the two main parties being represented are the democrats and the re-publicans. When our student body listens to the debate and views of the party representatives, they are prone to decide whom they are going to support in the election, but support not only is in politics but in sports too.
A long-time rivalry between two colleges, Indiana University and Purdue University, boils once again with students’ and staffs’ opinions varying drastically, sometimes even sparking debate. A difference in opin-ion leads people to discussion.
In the city that we live in, either variety is hard to come by, or the matter of differing opinions creates a gap in society. This gap is formed around the opinions that are on the far ends of the spectrum, more com-monly known as the liberal and conservative views.
Though differing opinions can cause arguments, people are entitled to have their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are based on their own experiences and the ways that they live their life.
Even though differences show peoples’ lifestyles, those differences make everyone unique. Just because someone doesn’t have the same opin-ion doesn’t mean that they can’t be right too. There are many different cor-rect views.
On the Mill Stream staff, we believe that differing opinions is positive because it sparks discussion. The newspaper’s goal is to bring the reader into the story and touch or pull at their opinions. We encourage discussion and want to showcase the differing beliefs of the students and teachers ex-pressed in the paper.
Our students need to speak up and let their voices be heard.
Did your parents spank you when you were lit-tle? Mine did (only a few times, but it got the point across). However, it seems that physical punishment is not popular among parents today.
The worst instances of lack of discipline seem to occur with toddlers, especially those in grocery stores and restaurants.
Why is it that mothers never seem to notice that their children are screaming extremely loudly in the mid-dle of a public place? Honestly, many people wouldn’t think twice if those whiny kids got a good smack right there in the grocery store.
And don’t forget restaurants. Speaking from expe-rience, busboys and servers at any type of restaurant don’t want to spend ten minutes trying to get a pile of food out from underneath a table.
The point isn’t to beat children, but to instill disci-pline in them. Throwing a fit (or simply throwing food) in public is not acceptable, and children need to learn one way or another. If children grow up without being punished once in their life, they will be lazy and soft. A lack of discipline tends to lead to a lack of respect toward superiors later in life,
whether it is toward a teacher or a boss. While discipline starts in the home, some states, Indiana included, still al-low corporal punishment in schools.
Indiana law states, “Teachers can take disciplin-
ary action necessary to promote orderly student conduct.” While the majority of the states do not allow corporal pun-ishment in school, those that do allow it may not partici-pate in paddling or physical punishment.
In the olden days, when our parents were in el-ementary school, paddling was a common practice. What if students were paddled today? I can’t imagine how embar-rassing getting a good smack in the rear would be, espe-cially in front of a class full of friends. While it might seem cruel or unusual, it’s safe to say that it worked.
Older adults seem to have better work ethics and respectful attitudes toward their superiors than young adults today. While some may say that just comes from ex-perience, I beg to differ. Parents who let their children do whatever they want are not trying out some “new wave” parenting style.
If parents don’t shape up and shape their kids’ morals and discipline, children may start out as “toddlers in tiaras” and end up as Snooki. And if that happens, well, let’s just hope the world does end in 2012.
Madi [email protected]
Crank up the spank
Mrs. Funionby Navar Watson
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Eavesdroppingat its funniest
“Hear me curl!”-Theatre Productions
“I live in your room...”-Science Hall
“I would comfort you, but there’s feet in the way.”-Math Hallway
“Apologize to Jesus!”-Jr/Sr Cafeteria
“If a penguin comes through the door, I’ll accept its knocking.”-ICP
“You haven’t given me my nose back!”-Geometry
“And in conclusion, it was the shotgun in the case.”“...Don’t you mean the smoking gun?”-Mock Trial
“Well it’s a church retreat... so you’re going to learn about Jesus and such.”-Spanish V
“Your mom’s the equivalent of a mod-ern day MLK.”-Precalculus
Need relationship advice? There’s an app for that! Need to know what foods one should avoid if pregnant? There’s an app for that! Want to know what that one girl’s face in Spanish class would look like if she were fat? Yup, there’s an app for that too! There’s an app for flinging birds and an app for shaving a hairy man. There’s one for helping a monkey aim his urine flow, and even an app for playing specific parts of Rebecca Black’s song “Friday”. Where is the line going to be drawn?
While our parents were satisfied with congregating around a Donkey Kong ma-chine for however many games a dollar could buy, we sit for hours on end and fling birds at towers of wood and ice to kill pigs, who apparently took our babies (where the pigs got helmets and how the birds manage to explode, I don’t know).
While this game sounds…interesting, it’s actually quite addictive. How many times has someone actually played only one level and said, “Well that’s enough for me; I’m done!” It doesn’t happen.
What does happen is obsessively play-ing it until you get to that imaginary goal where one tells themself to stop. “I’ll just play to level 15.” Then 15 turns to 16 and 16 to 17. Soon, it turns to, “Well I can’t stop
at level 51, that’s an odd number…I’ll just play to 52.” It’s no wonder why this game has been in the top 25 in the app store for over a year!
The newest addicting game is Temple Run, where one must run from demon monkeys (that are more like vultures that grunt and have fur), and collect coins on the way, watching out for tree roots, holes in the path, and the occasional fire arch, which singes the runner to death.
I am currently on multiplier 31, and I can say from personal experience how addicting it is. While I wouldn’t go as far as calling myself addicted, I will confess (and I know I am NOT the only one), I have at times screamed at siblings, par-ents, and even close friends when they have interrupted me while playing. Like I said, I know I’m not the only one that gets upset because someone has distracted me, causing a blunder in my game play, making me fall tragically to my death or face-plant on a tree.
Let’s just face it. Our generation is ad-dicted to apps. We have and “need” apps for absolutely everything! One is rarely caught in public without his or her phone or iPod, because hey, who knows when a dull moment will arise, and cutting the rope so a chubby, green, little lizard can eat his candy will help fill that instant of blah?
Yes, they are helpful for those mo-ments of blah, and when the moment arises, the need to Google “Are sombre-ros just hats, or are they fancier than nor-mal hats?” Apps do also help solve that moment of loneliness at two in the morn-ing, when we feel that dire need to know what everyone is doing. So we whip out our handy dandy phone and open up Fa-cebook or Twitter to see whom else is ly-ing in bed trying to sleep, but just can’t escape their news feed of lovely informa-tion such as, “Ryan Schmerfinheimer is eating a Triscuit! What up late night Fa-cebookers!”
Apps can be quite marvelous, but they can be a bit much at times, causing late nights, and hours on end of trying to beat the highest score listed in Game Central. A line needs to be drawn. Set a limit!
So to all of the students who have bags under their eyes from nights of no sleep, but have managed to beat their equally tired friend in Words with Friends, con-gratulations…but now put down the phone, iPod, or other app filled device and get some sleep! The pigs with our babies will be brought to justice, we can help that man desperately trying to es-cape that temple, and our siblings’ faces can be fattened, but hey, that’s what the weekends and the bus rides home are for. Now Godspeed to the next level!
There’s an app for that!
With the New Year comes new movies. 2012 is going to be a big year in the film industry, with everything from Twilight to The Dark Knight. Here are a mere 12 of the many soon-to-behits.
1. The Dark Knight Rises (July 20)2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Novem-
ber 16)3. Men in Black III (May 25)4. Ice Age: Continental Drift (July 13)5. Dark Shadows (May 11)Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena
Bonham CarterDark Shadows is a supernatural thriller that is based
upon the 60s-70s soap opera of the same title. The film is about Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp), master of Col-linwood Manor, who breaks the heart of a witch that in turn makes him a vampire. He wakes up nearly 200 years later, returning to his manor only to find it being occupied by dysfunctional residents filled with secrets.
6. Les Miserables (December 7)7. World War Z (December 21)Starring: Brad Pitt, James Badge DaleWorld War Z is a post-apocalyptic horror film. The
movie follows a U.N. employee as he scours the world, interviewing survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse, also known as World War Z.
8. The Hunger Games (March 23)Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam
HemsworthThe Hunger Games is an action-drama based on the
novel by Suzanne Collins. The movie is set in the nation of Panem, where 24 boys and girls are randomly chosen from their 12 districts to compete in the Hunger Games.
The point of the games is to try to kill all of the other contestants until only one remains. The winner receives gifts, honor, and a life supply all of the materials and food that he or she would ever need.
9. This Means War (February 17)Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Har-
dyThis Means War is an action-packed comedy about
two CIA agents (and best friends) who engage in an epic battle after they discover that they are dating the same woman.
10. The Avengers (May 4)11. Ted (July 13)Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Jessica StroupTed is an upcoming comedy about John (Mark Wahl-
berg), whose childhood dream was for his teddy bear to come to life. The phrase “be careful what you wish for” really comes into play here when his wish comes true, and Ted causes some problems for John in his adult life.
12. Titanic (April 6)Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate WinsletThe 1997 epic and beloved romance is back in the-
aters, but this time in 3D. The film is set to release just four days short of the 100th anniversary of the day the maiden voy-age set sail and a month before the 100th birth-day of Para-mount Pic-tures.
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Assembly Hall versus Macky Hall, Bob Knight versus Gene Keady, cream and crimson versus old gold and black, Hoosiers versus Bolier Makers. The rivalry between Indiana University and Purdue University has been going on since the dawn of time.
School pride is not limited to the college campuses. Many Noblesville students have chosen their sides and placed their bets.
Sophomore Jake Lorton, junior Ben Poynter, and seniors Caleb Schafer and Taran Murphy have the school pride in their blood because of their parents. “All my family has gone there. I’m going and it’s just passing down the torch,” Schaf-fer said.
As a strong Hoosier fan, Schafer will be attending IU next fall. Packaged with IU fanaticism comes a passionate dislike for the opposing rival, Purdue. “I would never go to Purdue unless they offered me $3 mil-lion on top of free tuition,” Schafer said.
However, the door swings both ways. “I wouldn’t go to IU unless they offered me a full ride to play soccer,” Poynter said.
Not only do the fans obsess over the basketball games currently going on, they do what they can to help the team. “Every game I wear my candy stripe IU sweatpants,” Lorton said.
Purdue fans see it differently. “I have no superstitions when Purdue plays because they don’t need luck. IU fans are superstitious because they need the luck,” Poyn-ter said.
This season’s basketball games are in full swing. Indiana has been sweeping the court with a 16-1 season. The Hoosiers have moved up on the ranks and are currently ranked eighth in the nation by the coach’s poll. Purdue on the other hand has a 13-5 record and is not ranked this year.
In direct comparrison, Purdue has won 22 Big 10 Championships while IU has won 20. However, IU’s biggest accomplishment have been their five nation championship wins. Purdue has had just one.
There are two choices. Be a Hoosier or a Boiler Maker. The battle lines are being drawn and the rations have been distributed. Pick a side.
It’s far from a secret that the main purpose of a high school institution is to make sure its students
are ready for the next stage of life: for some, the work-ing world; for others, college. It makes sense that high
school should prepare students for what’s next, but in actuality colleges are very different places from high schools. So how do high schools tackle this task?
According to AP English teacher Mrs. Nicole Steele, high schools are making an attempt to teach more like colleges.
“Noblesville High School is making more of an ef-fort to teach the students a balance of “stuff” and “skills” that they can carry on into college,” Steele said.
In particular, the ACP, AP and Honors classes offered here at NHS employ these strategies.
“All of the ACP and AP classes I’ve taken I feel like have gotten me a rough idea of the load of work I’ll have in college,” senior Ericka Cosby said.
Senior Beata Strubel finds that one class more specifically gave her an idea of what college would
be like. “Mr. Emmert really set up AP Physics in a way, especially with his teaching methods,
to prepare students for college. Like a profes-sor, he gives lectures in class. I know college
students majoring in engineering who say the classes they take are similar to AP
Physics and that class helped prepare them,” Strubel said.
Mr. Charles Emmett, science and AP physics teacher, says
that he does set up AP to specifically pre-
pare students for higher education. “There is a lot of demonstration and discus-
sion in the classroom. We present college level material using a college level textbook with chal-lenging problem. I’m trying to prepare [my stu-dents]for the college level, especially in the physics area,” Emmert said.
Starting this semester, NHS is offering a program aimed to increase the independence and responsibili-ties of high school seniors. Independent Academic Lab is an alternative for seniors with a GPA of 2.5 or above to further their education outside the school setting.
IAL stresses the importance of online learning in particular, requiring a module to be completed on moo-dle about once each month for continued participation in the program.
“Eight former [NHS] students, all in different col-leges, said that at one point or another, they all had to turn in something digitally. It is important to learn responsibility in the virtual world,” Steele said.
The main differences students will need to be prepared for actually may not be taught in school. “In college there will be more of a need for time management. The course load will be more dif-ficult, and you’ll need to balance your classes while acting based on self motivation,” Strubel said.
Steele agrees with the importance of time management, and also adds that “[college will require] time manage-ment, goal setting, and a balance of learning “stuff” and “skills,” Steele said.
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(continued from cover) This is corporal punishment, a procedure that 31 of the 50
states have banned from public schools. The other nineteen, In-diana included, have no laws forbidding physical punishment inflicted on a student as a result of misbehavior.
Though the above scenario may seem slightly outdated, corporal punishment very much exists in the present-day. Ac-cording to CNN.com, over 200,000 students were spanked in the 2008 school year due to misbehavior in the classroom. Whether or not “spanking” remains an effective way of discipline is, un-like 50 years ago, commonly disputed in the current society.
Senior Olivia Ginn, who agrees with corporal punishment up to a certain point, states that it should always be a last re-sort.
“If detentions, phone calls to parents, and other forms of punishment do not work, then I think [corporal punishment] should be used,” Ginn said. “[It] is one of the harshest forms of discipline. It’s a bit exaggerated, but it definitely gets the point across.”
“I’m all for it,” senior Justin Vickery said. “I think it would take those kids who act out and shape them up. Would you want to use a cell phone in class knowing that you would get hit with a paddle? I don’t; that is for sure.”
Some students, like senior Maris Feely, disagree with corpo-ral punishment in its entirety. “Our teachers are paid to educate us about intellectual subjects, not morality,” Feely said. “That’s the parents’ job.”
Sophomore Katie Sovacool believes that no matter what the
situation, schools should never utilize the rights of corporal punishment “because it’s invading [students’] personal space.”
“I feel like only a kid’s parents should have the right to physi-cally punish their kids,” Sovacool said.
Feely said that “unless they’re going to pay our teachers extra to double as parents, and you know, put beds in the hallways and make this school a home, [then] it is not school’s job to phys-ically discipline kids the way parents have the right to.”
“[Teachers] cannot physically hit a kid unless the kid is physi-cally staying here, if this is their physical domain,” Feely said. “This is not. This is their educational domain.”
Sophomore Luis Sorto points out that if parents had properly disciplined their children in the first place, “then there would be no use for [corporal punishment].”
Ginn and Sovacool, though having differing opinions, both object to a statistic on the United Press International official website stating that, as of August 2010, 24 countries have banned any and all corporal punishment, at school and at home. They both agreed that such measures were too severe.
“I don’t think [America] should ban corporal punishment in homes,” Sovacool said. “Parents should have rights.”
Ginn believes that though banning corporal punishment may stop some parents who “don’t know when to stop” hitting, the measure is bad in the sense that “the responsible parents must resort to some other form of punishment.”
Despite all of their opposing viewpoints, Sorto, Feely, Ginn, and Sovacool came to the agreement that the result of misbe-haved children traces back to home life and the environment in which a child is raised, and each believed that the parent, no matter what, was responsible for the actions of his or her child.
“If kids don’t grow out [of mischief], then that’s the way they were raised,” Sorto said. “That’s just the way it is.”
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The rivalry continues...Kendra [email protected]
High school bridges the gap to the future
Photos by K. Foley
Junior Jordan Thurman (left) dons a Purdue T-shirt, where-as senior Kyle Donelson (right) sports his IU pride.
pare students for higher education. “There is a lot of demonstration and discus-
sion in the classroom. We present college level material using a college level textbook with chal-lenging problem. I’m trying to prepare [my stu-dents]for the college level, especially in the physics area,” Emmert said.
Starting this semester, NHS is offering a program aimed to increase the independence and responsibili-ties of high school seniors. Independent Academic Lab is an alternative for seniors with a GPA of 2.5 or above to further their education outside the school setting.
IAL stresses the importance of online learning in particular, requiring a module to be completed on moo-dle about once each month for continued participation in the program.
“Eight former [NHS] students, all in different col-leges, said that at one point or another, they all had to turn in something digitally. It is important to learn responsibility in the virtual world,” Steele said.
The main differences students will need to be prepared for actually may not be taught in school. “In college there will be more of a need for time management. The course load will be more dif-ficult, and you’ll need to balance your classes while acting based on self motivation,” Strubel said.
Steele agrees with the importance of time management, and also adds that “[college will require] time manage-ment, goal setting, and a balance of learning “stuff” and “skills,” Steele said.
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For anyone who has ever tried to erase something written in col-ored pencil – and not the special, erasable kind – it was probably dif-ficult to completely remove the writing. With a good amount of fric-tion between the eraser and the page the words may slightly fade, but nonetheless, they remain.
Let’s just say that discrimination is written in old-fashioned col-ored pencil.
Discrimination is commonly misunderstood to pertain mainly with race; however, people can also be discriminated for gender, reli-gion, sexual orientation, and disabilities.
Here in Noblesville, there had been an era of racial discrimination involving the Ku Klux Klan activities in the 1920s. The 1995 finding of a list of Klan members during this time period created a roar among residents and reporters, bringing national media attention (such as that of the New York Times) to this city.
Since then, this part of Noblesville’s history has dimmed into its background. But does this discrimination that was prevalent decades ago affect present, teenage generations?
“Discrimination is hurtful, and frankly very ignorant,” senior Kyle Trandel said. “Fortunately, discrimination is not widespread in our school and community.”
On the other hand, senior Abby Kim expressed that discrimina-tion against race and sexual orientation seemed most common.
“I have seen it personally and heard about it. I hear people using derogatory names in the hall,” she said. “[Noblesville] was a farming community, and mostly all white, so there’s bound to be prejudices and discrimination when different walks of life come into town.”
Senior Elizabeth Calderon took a more neutral stance and pro-fessed her belief that “it’s [discrimination’s] always present, but it’s not super bad.”
Despite the differing opinions, there was a similar thread through-out students’ thoughts about discrimination at NHS. However, it came in a different package: cliques.
“I feel like everyone’s accepted others for their race and color,” ju-nior Andjelika DiCarlo said. “…it’s more of ‘if you don’t look like or dress like [someone], they don’t think you’re cool.”
According to many students, in school, social discrimination stands out more than racial discrimination.
“I didn’t even know about the KKK in Noblesville,” freshman Reil-
ly Holmes said. “I think it [discrimination] is more like different social groups, not different races.”
Students agreed that school’s social jungle proved to be a sort of discrimination that could affect everyone.
“I would classify it as a social class thing,” senior Erica Parker said. “I would say that it’s not talked about as ‘discrimination,’ but I think it does affect people.”
Students could think of instances when they felt discriminated, or judged, for their age, their dress, and even medical conditions.
“I’ve felt out of place before for medical reasons,” sophomore Cassie Foreman said. “Discrimination is putting somebody down that’s not like you. It’s obvious, because at school, there are cliques and people make fun of people.”
Junior Corey Sloss felt that the social discrimination at school re-volved more around age.
“People get treated differently based on age, especially teens,” Sloss said. “[At school] it’s mostly the age thing between grade levels. Like when people say you can’t do something because you’re a fresh-man.”
Still, other students felt that dress was a huge factor in school social discrimination.
“It’s so easy to judge someone based on how they look,” Kim said. “Clothing is a form of expression…and when other students make…students feel uncomfortable for expressing themselves, that’s dis-crimination.”
Junior Chandler Welton simply called this kind of discrimination “labeling.”
“I feel like there are people left out and outcast for what they wear,” he said. “That’s basically what makes cliques and different groups of people.”
Nevertheless, what yields school social discrimination might not be just clothes, age, or clique. The force that brings about this dis-crimination is most likely prejudice among students.
“I think that a lot of people forget to get to know someone before they make a decision on their character,” Kim said. “We’re victims of getting pre-judged, but also we are all doing the pre-judging as well.”
In a high school setting, the meaning of discrimination may not be what it is thought to be on a wider level. Among students’ various definitions of discrimination, common ground may be hard to find. But one student expressed that there is something shared by all, but is often overlooked.
“The one label we have is human,” DiCarlo said.
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On one hand, 80 percent of American income earners collectively own less than one percent of the United States’ wealth. On the other, one percent of American income earners possess 42 percent of the United States’ wealth. Where has the middle class disappeared?
Over a span of 40 years, America has increased its amount of debt by 1,500 percent, according to mybudget360.com. Now, many families look to cut spending habits to accommodate for the dramatic mood swing of the American economy.
“My family has had to cut down on costs. When the economy first started to struggle, my father, a software engineer and the main pro-vider for our family, began to conserve. No more excessive spending,” senior Aysha Ahmed said.
Budgets for fast food, shopping, and entertainment were the first to be slashed.
“Every Saturday was a shopping day. Our family used to throw two parties a month. We’ve cut it down to once a couple months. I’ve been so blessed the economy didn’t affect us in any major way,” Ahmed said.
Conversely, 672,000 people, roughly, sleep without shelter over their heads on any given night, according to cflhomeless.wordpress.com. Junior Taylor Mutter is aware of the rise in poverty, and is taking action.
“I don’t like seeing homeless people. Anyone can see them in downtown Indianapolis, sitting on the side of the street. They beg for money; they’re starving,” Mutter said.
Mutter, actively involved in Key Club, works to achieve, among other goals, a lowered rate of poverty. Having spent numerous hours
volunteering for a women’s shelter, Mutter feels she has helped level the playing field for the underprivileged.
“Half of our country is poor. Though our country is in debt, we can help!” Mutter said. “The public can help homeless people by donat-ing food and giving money, which will help to feed the homeless at homeless shelters.”
Economics teacher, Mr. Brian Powers, offers insight on the behav-iors that keep the poor in shelters, like Interfaith Hospitality, and out of a job.
“When it comes to money, the rich and the poor have different hab-its. Rich people will use their incomes to purchase things that will earn them even more money, like stocks, bonds and businesses. Poor people use their incomes to purchase things that will only cost them more money like cars, houses, televisions, etc.” Powers said.
These conservative spending habits may have enabled middle class families to compete in the economic climate. Having recently moved to Noblesville, sophomore Brady Brown found the Noblesville job pool considerably better suited for his parents.
“There were no jobs in South Carolina, where we moved from. It was difficult. Ever since we moved, we’ve saved and gotten along great,” Brown said.
Senior Tori Mumaw and family have taken advantage of travel to help cut back.
“We’ve decreased the times we’ve gone on vacation,” Mumaw said.
Whether vacationing in Bora Bora, or staying at home for the holi-days, the middle class is drifting towards either the poor majority or the rich minority.
Not until the people take action, however, will the United States economy be restored back to its former, prosperous nature. After all, it is 99 to one.
Pete [email protected]
Written in colored pencil
The numbers don’t add up
High school bridges the gap to the future
Illustration by N. Watson
6 features Mill Stream01.19.2012
Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Deal$.
Although these places are considered “dollar stores” they very rarely have any-thing one can get for a dollar that doesn’t fall apart when picked.
Freshman Conner Barnett and juniors Lindsey Gemmill and Eddie Fisher have found things they can get for just a single dollar that they see as actually worthwhile.
These three students have became hunt-ers of the bargains, discoverers of the deals, and penny polishers with their purchases of cool goodies they got for a buck.
Gemmill bought a deck of Disney cards that she can enjoy for hours on end.
Barnett can jam out on his Mexican flute he bought on a street corner.
And Fisher has found a place to get used comics for a dollar.
If other students find neat-o things for a buck, then tweet these items to:
@NHS _MillStream and get some well deserved dollar-sav-
ing recognition!
Clothes dangling from the ceiling, chips scattered across the floor from last night, lava lamps tipped over on the rug. No matter what, messy rooms seem to be a common factor among teens. It’s undeniable; all rooms tend to get disorganized every once in awhile.
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Students struggle to clear the clutter
“The craziest thing I have found in my room while cleaning it is a rainbow hair wig!” freshman Patrick Hor-ton said. After a few hours at basketball, and a stomach full of Chinese food, Horton hopped into bed for the night. He noted that most of his messiness comes from his clothes that he likes to throw on the floor.
“The craziest thing I have found in my room, when I cleaned it, would
have to be a baby rattle!” senior Amanda Horton said. Horton forms a plan to tidy up her
rubble before she heads off to college
“The craziest thing I have found in my room while cleaning it is a bar of soap!” junior Jon Mowrey said. Folding his Pacers’ comforter, Mowrey struggled to keep his cat, Storm, out of his way. Photos by K. Pence
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Football fanatics everywhere anticipate it all year long, it hosts the premiere of the fresh-est commercials of the year, and it’s the championship game and celebration for the sport of football. Of course, it’s the Super Bowl and it’s coming to Indianapolis for the first time in football history.
This year’s Super Bowl promises to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest. Although Indianapolis is where most of the attention is set, Noblesville is also doing its part in host-ing public Super Bowl celebrations.
According to the Noblesville Chamber of Commerce, the Connor Prairie Interactive His-tory Park will be hosting a “Super Celebration” for Hamilton County. The celebration will be held on Jan. 26 from 5-7:30 pm.
Some students at NHS are getting involved in the Super Bowl more than the average American football fan.
Senior Luciana Lira’s family is involved in the background of the Super Bowl. Lira’s uncle volunteered to set up the half time show for Madonna. “He [Lira’s uncle] heard about it on TV and thought it would be cool to do, so he applied and got in,” Lira said.
Other NHS students are more directly involved with the Super Bowl in doing things that they have a passion for. During the 2009-2010 school year, the Green Corps, a part of Super Bowl host committee, told former principal Mrs. Annetta Petty that NHS would need to provide a representa-tive from the Recycling Club to participate in the Green Corps, according to senior Sierra Browning.
“I asked Mr. Gundersen and Mr. Ringle to provide the name of a Recycling Club mem-ber who fit the criteria of being one: a sophomore at that time (in order to be a senior this year), and two: very interested in environmental issues which, at NHS, involved contribu-tions to the Recycling Club,” Petty said.
Browning says that she works independently and with groups of students from oth-er high schools in central Indiana for recycling and other “green” things. The goal of the Green Corps is to make Indiana a “greener” environment. This group is not only important to environmentalists, but it has become important to football fans as well.
“The only reason why the Super Bowl is in Indiana is because of the Green Corps, and ideas of student involvement for the benefit of the world,” Browning said.
Whether in big ways or small, NHS students and the rest of the Noblesville community are welcoming the biggest sporting event of the year to our their backyard.
Indianapolis catches the pig skin
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With one of Noblesville’s very own, David Boudia, go-ing to the Olympics, there is no better time to explore the future of a few other athleti-cally gifted NHS individuals. Junior Sam Philpott, senior Paul Garcia and junior Lakin Spence are ready to share their latest athletic passions, as well as a quick glance at their future plans. Make sure to support Miller basketball tomorrow as they take on Westfield.
Athletes plan for college
Photos by A. Echarry
Senior Paul Garcia
Sport: Lacrosse
Position: Attack
Points per game: 6-7 goals, 6-7 assists
Favorite player: Paul Rabil
After high school: “I am most likely going to Bellarmine to play la-crosse,” Garcia said.
Sport: Gymnastics
Event: Floor
Rank: 1st (JV) and 5th (Varsity)
Favorite gymnast: Sean Johnson
After high school: “I either want to go to Lee University or to IU and do club gymnastics,” Spence said.
Sam Philpott, 11
Sport: Basketball
Position: Small forward
Free throws: 82% (59/72)
Three-pointers: 35%
Rebounds: 4+
Assists: 2+
Points per game: 17.6
After high school: “Any-thing is possible,” Phil-pott said. “I can see my-self playing in college if I continue to work hard.” Philpott is interested in studying law or business while at college.
Play by play, the seating game
Like a coach with his playbook, reading the field and picking out the most prac-tical plays, teachers plan and plot their rooms for educational combat. Teachers Mr. Marc Slain, Mrs. Heather Storey and Mr. Craig Ryan share their strategies with the Mill Stream.
Below are just a few examples of the creative, effective and interesting set-ups for each one of the educators’ classrooms, which, according to the three, work well for their students, along with a unique title.
Graphic by A. Echarry
Lakin Spence, 11Paul Garcia, 12
Junior Lakin Spence
Senior Paul Garcia and junior Lakin Spence, although they participate in different sports, both want to continue their passions in college.
Smart Start Seating Chart
Smart Start Seating Chart
The Stink Foot
The Stink Foot
Freedom Busted Knee
Freedom Busted Knee
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For most, family relationships are an important part of life. Parents, brothers, sisters, and other relatives can all leave impressions on the heart, and for some, those people play important roles in their lives. Instead of celebrating family through photo albums or scrap-books, a few teens have chosen to commemorate this--along with other special events—permanently with tattoos.
For senior Madison Poynter, her most sentimental tattoo is mainly to celebrate the rela-tionship she has with her family.
“I have on tattoo on my arm. It is not finished yet, but each part of it is meant to represent members of my family,” Poynter said.
“I have six tattoos, and each of them mean something different,” she said. Others, such as seniors Sierra Browning and Joseph Oliver, have family-based tattoos in
the works, but their very first ones have a special meaning all their own. “I have one tattoo. The summer before my junior year I had a tumor, which was re-
moved along with my left ovary. My tattoo is a reminder of what I have been through,” Browning said.
“I plan on getting a second tattoo, which is a butterfly for my mother,” she said. For Oliver, his upcoming tattoos are the ones that will be the most meaningful. “I only have one [tattoo] right now, but I plan on getting a lot more,” Oliver said. “I want to get a tattoo for each of my family member, when they pass away—those will
be the most important to me,” he said. Family is oftentimes connected to home, and for senior Courtney Childers, her most
significant tattoo is more related to her home than the people in it. “I have a tattoo on my arm that is meant to symbolize finding my way back home,”
Childers said. “It is in the German colors, because one day I would like to go back to Germany for a
year,” she said.Whether teens choose to engrave people, places, or events that will be remembered for
a lifetime, each tattoo seems to have a special meaning to each of them, and that meaning alone will be something that will never fade.
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