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GUNSIn 2011 Iowa became a ‘shall issue’ state, and county sheriffs were stripped of their power to grant gun permits. Iowa City has responded by passing a new ordiance that prohibits guns from city property.

by Carl Sessions

The legislative battle over gun ownership has come to Iowa. After a state ownership law loosened last year, some county and city govern-ments have responded to the large increase in ownership by passing more restrictive carrying laws.

In mid-February, Iowa City took a stand on the issue after the city council voted 7-0 to ban the possession of firearms on city-owned prop-erty and buses.

The resolution passed prohibits guns and other dangerous weapons from city buildings, grounds, parks and the farmers market. Excep-tions will be made for peace officers, people with written permission from the police chief and those who have a professional permit to carry a firearm. Additionally, unloaded guns in fastened cases are allowed in vehicles in city parking lots.

Council member Connie Champion said the decision “sends a message that guns do not be-long in public buildings.”

Others aggreed, Regina Bailey explained that the issue came down to the fact that the city wants to promote civil discourse in “a way that people don’t feel threatened.”

The ban also has support from the city’s chief of police, Samuel Hargadine.

“I think there are places where it’s some-what inappropriate to take a firearm...a church, libraries, [and] public buildings.”

The new ban won’t have an effect on City High. Under federal code it is illegal to possess

firearms on school grounds. “The ruling doesn’t affect City

High,” principal John Ba-con said. “Guns have never been allowed on campus.”

A swift legal re-sponse to Iowa City’s legislation is being planned by the NRA. The ban, they con-

tend, isn’t under the city’s right to pass, because weapons permits are valid everywhere in a state unless prohibited by state or federal laws.

However, assistant City attorney Eric Goers says that because the reso-lution is specific to city owned proper-ty, rather than everything within city limits, the expected lawsuit shouldn’t repeal the ban.

Iowa City’s action follows a recent change in state law that makes obtain-ing a firearm easier. County sheriffs are now no longer able to turn down gun permit applicants. Since this revi-sion there has been a large increase in permits requested, and 99% of these new requests have been granted.

Two days after the Iowa City vote, Johnson County supervisors approved a resolution prohibiting firearms and dangerous weapons in county-owned land.

There are opponents to tougher gun regulations. At the city council meeting citizens spoke out against the proposed ban on the grounds that it would violate their rights.

Cedar Rapids resident David Hughes explained, “I have the un-alienable right under the constitution of Iowa, and Iowa’s constitution is the supreme law of the state. Any law you pass that’s inconsistent is void. This is a 24 hour a day right, not just for when I’m home.”

Others questioned the safety haz-ard that may arise from such a ban by pointing out that guns were necessary to protect from danger everywhere, not simply in their own homes.

These arguments are similar to the

ones being made in the national arena in the aftermath of the Arizona shoot-ing of a U.S. Congresswoman. The shooter in that incident had a high-capacity magazine that allowed him to fire more than 30 bullets in a few seconds without reloading. Some leg-islatures want to reinstate a federal ban on these high capacity weapons (the 1994 federal Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004). And although it is unclear why private citizens need firearms capable of killing dozens of people for self-defense, staunch advo-cates of the Second Amendment wish to yield no ground.

City High students are divided on the issue’s newest development. The results of the polls that the Little Hawk conducted showed that 73% of students feel that guns shouldn’t be allowed on city property.

“People shouldn’t be able to take guns with them wherever they want” Evan Risk ‘11 said.”That doesn’t make any sense. You’re three times more likely to shoot a family member with a gun [if it’s in your house] than defend yourself from an intruder.”

Twenty-seven percent thought that the ban was too intrusive.

“The new ban is unnecessary,” Shecharya Flatte ‘12 said. “There’s no conclusive evidence on either side [that having guns either increases ac-cidents or deters crime] to warrant the increase in government interfer-ence in people’s affairs. Additionally, this ban will just make gun nuts carry concealed weapons on city property, which is worse than having them out in the open.”

the effects of new legislation

1 5 0

...people with criminal records now have the right to carry guns in Johnson County.

7 3 3

... is the number of li-censes issued in John-son County this year so far.

5 0 0

... is the number of gun licenses issued in Johnson County last year.

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Clubs

FrenchAmong the many

groups and clubs at City High, there is only one that is centered around and fo-cuses on a foreign culture: French Club.

Everything from cook-ing contests to movie nights are celebrated at least two times a month at the club, hosted by Madam Grund-stad. “[French Club] is in-tended to provide students access to socialize and par-ticipate in fun acts related to French culture,” Grunds-tad said. “It’s a good oppor-tunity to take a leadership role.”

Depending on the event, French club can bring in anywhere from 10-20 stu-dent participants.

“[French Club] is open to all students,” Grunds-tad said. “Even if you don’t study French, you can still join the club.”

- Gabriel Brasile

Hip HopIn front of a breathless

student body, as red lights lit up the gymnasium, with glow sticks attached to their bodies, hip hop dance group Deadly Explosion performed at the March pep-rally.

“The crowd was amaz-ing,” Jenni Smallwood ‘12 said. “We made people scream and that was the best.”

PyschAbnormal Psychology is

the new hot topic. “We will study more disorders like M.P.D. (multiple personal-ity disorder) and schizo-phrenia,” Psych Club in-structor Mrs. Green said.

At the beginning of the year, Psych Club focused mainly on dream analysis and human behavior. “We mainly watch shows like ‘What Would you do’ and ‘C.S.I.’” Green said.

- Mikiel Curtis

Deadly Explosion has been working hard perfect-ing dance moves and learn-ing complicated tricks. On March 5th they had a per-formance in Chicago. They have been training for an-other performance in April. Deadly Explosion’s goal is to have more performances out of state.

“I like hip hop because I get to express myself,” Smallwood said. “I can let it all out in the moves.”

- Emma Baxter

BestBuddiesSome people think that

the most exciting aspects of March are warm weather and spring break.

Little do they know that the month of March is Best Buddies Month. As such, there is even more than usual going on at the City High chapter of Best Bud-dies.

March 2nd was “Spread the Word to End the Word” Day. On March 4th, the 4th annual movie/video game party was held. “It was re-ally fun,” Emma Baxter, ‘13 said. “They had chedder and sour cream Ruffles.”

The club is currently working to diminish the use of the word retarded or, “the r-word.” “We want the r-word to change to re-markable or respect,” club president, Caitlin Clough-erty, said. “Because ev-eryone is remarkable and needs respect.”

The Polar Plunge is com-ing up on March 26, which will be headed up by Dan Minchk and Tim Tvedte.

“The Polar Plunge is awesome,” Clougherty said. “And I recommend everyone take part in it!”

- Cassie Wassink

OrchestraCandace Wiebner has

been awarded the presti-gious 2011 Elizabeth Green School Educator Award by the American String Teach-ers Association

“[The Orchestra pro-gram] has provided a won-derful avenue for students to experience terrific mu-sic,” head orchestra direc-tor Candace Wiebener said.

The Orchestra pro-gram’s most recent perfor-mance was its fourth an-nual “Smile Train” benefit concert, which raises mon-ey to help children in third world countries

Chess Silence, broken only by

a few mutterings of advice or frusturation, drifted into the hallway outside of room 2303 last week. Chess club has returned to City High.

“I try to break my oppo-nent down mentally,” Razzi Abuissa ’12 said.

The newest club at City started on February 22nd, and is run by Mr. Brown. The club will take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays depending on student con-venience.

When asked why a new chess club is being formed Brown replied, “Chess is cool. A much better ques-tion would be why didn’t we have chess club for years and years.”

In order for chess club to be a success, students must express an interest and share which days of the week they have conflicting activities. Any interested students should contact Mr. Brown.

“If you like chess or if you just want to find out more about chess, this is a really convenient place to do it,” Brown said.

- Sonora Taffa

afflicted with cleft palates, a disfiguring facial disorder which affects thousands of people around the globe.

City High’s Orchestra program has raised over $10,000 so far to benefit the foundation, and plans to continue to do so in the future. The concert was held last Tuesday, March 8th, in Opstad auditorium, with tickets available at the door.

- Kieran Green

BPABPA (Business Partners

of America) is still enjoying the success of having two of their members place at the BPA state competition. President Bobby Razavi placed 5th in entrapa-nourship and Matt Polton placed 9th for accounting.

“We were really happy that two people placed at state,” Mr. Lehman said. “but we’re aiming for even more BPA members to place next year.”

Not only is the club cel-ebrating their members placing at the BPA state competition, but they have been volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House on a regular basis.

This club is always look-ing for new members and all you need is an interest in business to join. BPA meets every week on Thursdays

- Oli Peters

GLOWGLOW held its fundraiser dance on February 17th. Many students flooded the City High commons to hear DJ Morgan Leigh ‘11. Glow Club used the profits from the dance for suicide prevention t-shirts. GLOW meets Fridays after school in room 1305 and is spon-sored by Mrs. Hill -Michael Hunter

Speech Team Qualifies for

All-State

newer practice rooms with much more storage space and room for practice. In addition, there will be two ensemble rooms, and separate spaces for jazz band and show choir rooms.

The theatre organization will also get a new scene shop to make props and back drops for City High Drama Group productions.

Mr. Bacon has stressed that City High is “The School that Leads,” and he is determined to prove it with this new facility.

“City High has long set the standard of excellence in the state,” Mr. Bacon said. “And now our programs will have rehearsal facilities that far exceed their needs.”

Construction for the Fine Arts Wing is set for Spring 2012 and it is scheduled to open for use dur-ing the 2013-2014 school year.

The new Fine Arts Wing is in the first draft of plans and will provide new rehearsal rooms for the chorus, band, and orchestra classes across three floors

NewsMarch 11, 2011

New Fine Arts Wing to be Addedby Emma Gier

by Gabriel Brasile

Ever since John Bacon took up the role of City High Principal, the school has been undergoing a lot of changes. The largest of these changes, however, is an addition to City High’s building itself.

On February 8th, Bacon and the Board of Directors met to talk about an annex to the school, an additional building called the Fine Arts Wing.

“During the meeting we got approval for the project,” Ba-con said. “This put us at the 25% phase.”

There are 4 phases for this ad-dition, the 25% Phase, Compre-hensive Design Phase, 75% Phase and Building Phase. After the 25% Phase comes the Comprehensive Design Phase where planning and designing for the actual building

takes place. Next comes the 75% Phase, in which the board gets a chance to look at the final plans for the building. Finally, there is the building phase in which the facility is actually placed and built.

The addition was first set to have a 4.5 million-dollar budget, called the Strategic Facility Improvement Plan and was set as a placeholder. However, Ba-con and his associates pushed for more.

“We didn’t feel that we would be able to accomplish what we needed with the money we were given,” Bacon said. “So we worked hard to increase the bud-get and we eventually agreed on

a 6.2 million-dollar plan that we feel really meets our needs. This money will be provided by the

state.”The Fine Arts

Wing is set to be placed north of City High where the tem-porary buildings cur-rently are. Because of this, the classes from the temp buildings will be moved inside, and in addition, some

tech classes will be moved to a different building to study.

“This gives students a chance to experience classes in a real world setting,” Bacon said.

The main uses of the Fine Arts Wing are new facilities for the the-atre, art and music departments. The band, orchestra, and choir classes will be moved into bigger,

Several 8-year old boys sit

around a table; they are in a board meeting. The subject of the meet-ing? Deciding to like girls. This Ensemble skit is just one of many comical scenes from the City High Speech Team.

The weekend of February 19 and 20, about 20 students from City High School traveled to Ames, Iowa to compete in the All-State Speech competition, held at Iowa State University. Francesca Lubecki-Wilde ’13 participated in an ensemble called Wedding Duet with Mike Sobaski ’11.

“I thought it was a good per-formance. We really took it to the next level,” Lubecki-Wilde ‘13 said.

Seniors Zach Greimann, Andy Fennneman, and Phil Buatti par-ticipated in Group Improvisation, and 14 other students participat-ed in Choral Reading. Out of ap-proximately 400 improv groups, the City High improv group per-formed well enough to be in the top 40. Two ensembles also made “Non-Performing,” an honorable mention for the other groups. There were approximately 20 schools in each category, making it a difficult task to place among the top performers.

“All of the groups performed really well,” Renata Stewart ‘13 said. “We didn’t take home any banners, but that’s super difficult to do. It’s such an honor just to go.” The All-State Championship provided an excellent close to the 2010-2011 Large Group Speech season.

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by Kieran Green

For many students, cell phones are a daily part of life. Indeed, cell phones and the companies that provide them will play an increas-ingly large role within the City High community, especially after the school district concluded a deal that would allow cell phone companies to install several trans-mission towers on the City High campus.

The district was initially ap-proached by Verizon Wireless with the idea of using City High’s existing infrastructure to provide cell phone service for the Iowa City community. After negotia-tions with Verizon as to the rate on the contract, the district was subsequently given appraisals by four other companies, and was able to work out a contract that would allow the companies to set up cell phone towers on City High’s campus.

District administrators have insisted that the cell phone tow-ers will not affect the day to day activities of the students.

“We’ve tried to construct the cell towers so that they interfere as little as possible with student learning,” said Paul Bobek, the executive director of administra-tive services at ICCSD, “the dis-trict and provider have worked together to indicate unacceptable locations for the towers them-

selves, and to serve to notify com-panies as to a possible breach of the lease on the building.”

Most of the cell phone infra-structure is largely out of sight of the students, with any towers deemed to be interfering with learning being relocated to less intrusive parts of campus. The towers have been placed within City High’s tower, as well as sev-eral locations outside.

As of now, City High has worked out a five year contract in which the cell phone compa-nies would pay the school $2000 a month, increasing annually at a rate of 3%. The contract is ex-pected to net City High approxi-mately $96,000 after its first term, and can be renewed for an addi-tional three times. Proceeds from the lease will not go to City High itself, but will instead be trans-ferred into the Iowa City Com-munity School District’s general fund, from which comes the ma-jority of school funding.

New Cell Phone Towers at City

Hot House Yoga becomes a New Trend Among Students

by Ellen Kealey

Yoga: the union of body, mind and spirit.

Hothouse yoga offers classes to stretch, strengthen and rejuve-nate the entire body. The classes are held in a heated room in order to promote cellular metabolism, detoxification and suppleness of the muscular system

“I started in December,” Me-gan Ringen ‘12 said. “It reduces stress, improves muscle tone and sets a happier state of mind. I thought it sounded fun.”

The yoga studios are located in downtown Iowa City and on the Coralville strip. Jim and Mau-reen Mondanaro established Hot House in 2009, and they’re both trained yoga instructors. The stu-dio has many classes to offer, in-cluding hot house yoga, pilates, advanced pilates, hot house flow, relaxation yoga, vinyasa, vinyasa flow and power vinyasa. In ad-dition to classes, the studio of-fers top of the line yoga wear and mats.

Pilates is a series of exercises focusing on core stability. The results are strength, flexibility and endurance. Vinyasa means breath-synchronized movement and is a challenging class that in-corporates movement of the body in conjunction with breathing.

“It was a lot harder than I ex-pected,” Ringen said. “When I

“City High has long set the standard of ex-

cellence in the state.”

- Principal John Bacon

was bending over I could see that the temperature was kept at 100 degrees, and I wasn’t sure what I had gotten myself into!”

The schedule is posted online, weekly showing the class type, description, time, location and teacher.

“The instructor called me out at the beginning of class and made me do 20 push-ups in front of everyone,” Nate Nelson ‘12 said. ” I went with Megan because it was something new. I’m sure I’ll do it again.”

For students, a single walk-in is $12, a 10-class card is $110, a 20-class card is $200, a 30-class card is $250 and a yearly unlim-ited costs $750. They also offer a $20 introductory week of un-

limited yoga for new customers. Private classes are available by ar-rangement.

“Trying new ways to exercise can be challenging,” Ringen said. “Sweating is a good thing.”

The purpose of yoga is to strengthen the body’s natural range of motion and to restore flow throughout all body sys-tems. Yoga is said to reduce stress, increase blood circulation, and improve strength and flexibility.

New yogis should show up 15 to 20 minutes early, dressed lightly, with an empty stomach. Water is not provided and should be brought to class.

“I go whenever I get the chance to,” Ringen said. “It’s an excellent way to warm up in the winter!”

“This would be the first time since 1973

that local schools would receive an an-nual increase in state

funding.”

-Joe BolkomState Senator

now,briefly

Changes to the Network

City High school is changing the way students acess the internet by add-ing a guest network.

“This is the way it should have been set up all along,” Dave Dude, Tech Director, said. “There are so many devices in school that grab the IPS addresses and people with legitimate uses for the network can’t connect.”

The current ICCSD net-work will be secured using an application that will al-low (or not allow) the user to access the desired net-work in order to prevent too many IPS addresses from being taken and used by student devices.

The ICCSD guest net-work will also be avail-able. This is designed as a test during the beginning stages of the new wi-fi.

News March 11, 2011

New Student Senate ID

Policy

City High Student Senate is a way for high schoolers to get active in representing and making decisions their school.

“We [Student Senate] work to change policies in City High,” Vice President Eleanor Cotton, ‘11 said. “We also organize events in City High like Home-coming and Prom.”

Currently, Student Sen-ate is working on a new policy concerning Student IDs

“We are trying to cre-ate a policy that doesn’t require students to bring their IDs to sporting events,” Cotton said. “We [Student Senate] think it’s unfair that students from other schools don’t have to bring their IDs, but City High students do.”

Jazz Band Showcase a Success

by Ethan Zierke

by Gabriel Brasile

A dim room, illumined by the warm glow of Christmas lights. Blue curtains framed with metal-lic pink tinsel draped on the stage. Red and white balloons lining the walls in true City High spirit, and mirrors fringed with silver tinsel. A Night at the Jazz Showcase.

City High’s cafeteria was truly unrecognizable, as Bill Heming-way, one speaker, described with his statement that, “it’s hard to believe this is a cafeteria.” The mood, too, was considerably dif-ferent than its usual lunchtime fervor, on Saturday, February 12 when both City High and South East’s jazz bands added some atmosphere to the already well-decorated room.

The show included perfor-mances by the Southeast 7th Grade Jazz Band and the South-east 8th Grade Jazz Band, both directed by Bill Pringle; City High’s Jazz Band II, Jazz Band I, and Jazz Ensemble, all directed by Ryan Arp; and finally the City High Jazz Combo, a group of self-motivated students studying at the University of Iowa who have learned their music independent-ly.

The Showcase was performed twice Saturday evening, once at 5:30 and again at 8:00. While much

of the same music was performed each time, each performance was distinctive. The 5:30 showing, for instance, was the only one to hear the Southeast Jazz Bands, while the 8:00 showing was the only one to experience the piano ac-companiment of guest performer Bob Washut, Professor of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

The showcase included many solos, one of which was Mack-enzie Mead’s popular rendition of ‘Orange Colored Sky,’ which was performed to resounding ap-plause from the audience. “I don’t get nervous when I’m playing trombone,” Mead ‘11 said. “but I do get nervous when I have to sing.” Mead has performed this song in multiple settings now, and each time it has been received with enthusiasm. “I just really en-joy it and have fun with it,” Mead said. “Because it’s a really awe-some song.”

Ryan Arp, who directed all of City High’s non-student directed jazz bands, was not the director when this event began. This was, in fact, his first time directing the annual event. When asked about his thoughts following the show, Arp responded, beaming from ear to ear. “I’m going to say it was somewhere between amazing and spectacular.”

by Cassie Wassink

Students dowload more e-books

by Sonora Taffa & Oli Peters

While the other students stand in line waiting to get their school issued book, Brian Pringle downloads Lord of the Flies with the push of a button.

The change to e-books is happen-ing with more sales than paper and teens becoming a force in the market.

“When the car first came out ev-eryone said you can never replace a good old horse and buggy,” Mr. Mor-ris, librarian said. “How many of you guys still have CDs? Nobody, after the iPod. It’s the same with e-books.”

Kindles have become an instant success do to increased portabil-ity and convenience. Sales equaled roughly $1 billion dollars in 2010 alone.

“I got my Nook for Christmas and I already have 23 books on it,” Brian Pringle’14 said. “I like it better than having regular books because I have several thousand page books and I don’t have to carry them around anymore. It weighs so much less!”

Nooks and Kindles were at the top of many teens’ Christmas lists; Barnes and Noble sold 1 million e-books on Christmas day alone. As

the number of teen consumers rises, the effects begin to show in classroom settings.

“One time we had a vocab chal-lenge in English where we had to de-fine certain words,” Katie* ’14 said. “Everybody else was using a diction-ary except for Johnny* who used his Nook to look up the words faster than everyone else, so he won. He cheated me out of five points in the vocab challenge!”

The Iowa City Public Library now rents e-books for Kindles and Nooks.

“When you have your own kindle or nook you can go to the library and rent books for up to two weeks,” Mor-ris said. “It’s time stamped and after a while they just disappear. You don’t have to worry about returning it.”

All this convenience may seem like too much for consumers to pass by. In July 2010 Amazon.com an-nounced that more e-books for Kin-dles were sold than actual hardcover books. Today e-book sales outnum-ber hard cover sales two to one.

“I think books will always ex-sist to a certain extent,” Morris said. “Maybe just not in the form that we’re familiar with. Because when you look at (Ebooks) they are still essentially books. They’re just electronic books.”

Gov. Branstad Imposes New Spending Plan

for Education

City High School’s Jazz Band Instructor Ryan Arp leads Jazz Band 2.

photos by CASSIEWASSINK

Senior Aaron Ottmar plays piano in the 4th Jazz Combo’s performance.

“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.”

-Maura Channon ‘11

SPOTon the

“I think we should use them

for textbooks. -Natalite Jones‘12

“It’s a good idea because they save paper.”

-Kye Grenko ‘11

“They’re for old ladies.”

-Lilly Howard ‘13

“...I hope they never replace real books.”

-Emma Greimann ‘14

What do you think of E-Readers?

by Cassie Wassink

Along with the New Year, 2011 brought with it a new Iowa State government. When Terry Brans-tad, returning Iowa governor, stepped into office on January 14, 2011, he brought along a new plan for the way that Iowa would spend its money, including the re-curring topic of educational fund-ing.

This new budget funds $216 million more to education from the state’s general fund than the previous administration. Tim Al-brecht, communications director for governor Branstad, described how this will maintain current levels of education spending, rather than increase funding.

“Unfortunately, previous law-makers have used “one time” money that is not avail-able on a yearly basis,” Albrecht said, “Leaving the state with budget gaps, and shortchanging our schools.”

Thus, the new budget will re-place the “one time” money with $216 million from the state’s general fund, in order to maintain the previous funding.

This issue is not simple, how-ever. Joe Bolkcom, Iowa Senator of District 39, which includes City High, presented an alternative view of the situation.

“The state is not broke,” Bolk-com said. “We have more than $900 million in the bank right

now. We must continue to invest in our education system at all lev-els.”

Bolkcom described the Senate Democrats’ efforts to pass a two percent increase supporting lo-cal schools. It was opposed by the Governor and Republicans, who proposed no increase for two years to local schools.

“This would be the first time since 1973 that local schools would not receive an annual in-crease in state funding,” Bolkcom said. “This is a mistake.”

Albrecht described how Brans-tad was taking a safe and reliable course with his budget, without increasing education spending.

“Governor Branstad will en-sure promises made to school dis-tricts are promises kept through

a sound, sus-tainable budget that puts us on a strong foundation for Iowa’s future,” Albrecht said.

Thus, a positive detail of this bud-get is its reliability and foundational nature, paving the way for future in-creases. Bolkcom described some of the impending negative conse-quences. “If our

local schools do not receive an increase class sizes will

grow and teachers will be laid off.” Bolkcom said.

Whether positively or nega-tively, City High will be touched by this new budget before its time is out.

Bowl for Kids Sake Benefits Local Charity

by Nick BeckmanOn Sunday February

27th, the City High Am-bassadors took part in the annual Bowl for Kids Sake fundraiser at Colo-nial Lanes. All proceeds raised for this event went towards the Iowa City Big Brothers, Big Sisters. The Ambassadors team con-sisting of Nick Beckman, Zach Greimann, Harper Beasley, Sage Behr, Emily Sotelo, and Maddi Finley raised over $600. “The event went Super-Well, we raised a ton of money and it was good time”, Zach Greimann ‘11 said.

NewsMarch 11, 2011

City High students are taking on the corporate world in this year’s spring musi-cal “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

Phil Buatti’11 will play the male lead Jay Pierrepont Finch, a conniv-ing and charismatic young businessman.

“[Finch] is bent on succeeding in the business world. He’s very sly and does some pretty sneaky things,” Buatti said. “He finds this book (titled How to Succeed in Busi-ness Without Really Trying) that

basically tells him how to climb the corporate ladder.”

The play is a comedy, but it takes place during the turbulent

‘60s, so the hu-mor deals with gender stereo-types typical of the time.

“The men are very sexist and pompous and the wom-en are pretty ditsy, but that’s kind of the

point,” Buatti said. “I hope people don’t get offended... It’s funny be-cause it kind of satirises the entire corporate world.”

Alexandra Perez ’13 will play

Hedy Larue, a vivacious secretary with a mind, plan, and personal-ity of her own.

“[Hedy] isn’t smart, but she thinks she is. She wants to be known for more than just her sex appeal around the office,” Per-ez ’13 said. “At first she does everything in her power to win Finch, but that obviously doesn’t work out too well. Don’t worry, she’s got a back up plan.”

Francesca Lubeki-Wilde plays the female lead and prominent

contender for Finch’s heart, Rose-mary Pilkington. She also hap-pens to be his secretary.

“I would describe [Rosemary)]as sweet, but a little delusional,”

L u b e c k i - Wi l d e said. “She just re-ally wants to get married.”

“How To Suc-ceed in Business Without Really Try-ing” will be play-ing in the Opstad Auditorium April 6th-8th.

“The dancing is sweet! And there’s a lot of bootie-grabbing...” Perez ’13 said. “Just come, we promise you’ll be enter-tained.”

by Sonora Taffa

by Kieran Green

In a strong close to a successful season, the City High debate team had multiple successes at several national and local tournaments throughout February and early March.

At the National Forensic League District Qualifier, Shecharya Flattè (‘12) led the field, becoming the only undefeated Lincoln Douglas debater at the tournament. He de-bated six rounds in total, and went on to win, qualifying for the presti-gious National Debate Tournament again in the process.

“It was a pretty uplifting experi-ence. We did much better than we were expecting to, which has just added to momentum on the team” Flattè said.

City High speech was met with victory as well, with Della Nuno (‘12) placing at both Districts and the Iowa Forensic League state tournament.

Competing at the nationally attended Homewood-Flossmore high school tournament, Seniors Carl Sessions and Jeff Haidri went 5-1 and competed in octofinals, be-ing one of only two Iowa teams to do so. The duo was also met with success at the state tournament, having a winning record and com-peting in elimination rounds.

From here the team plans to fo-cus preparing its novice debaters for next year, and for the National Tourmanent.

“We’re certainly looking for-ward to Nationals and the rest of the season” Flattè said “its been a great way to end the season.”

After much hard work and determination, eight City High students have become National Merit fi-nalists.

Jeff Haidri ‘11 was one of the 12 semi-finalists who was honored after submit-ting an essay, PSAT score and GPA.

“It was a pleasant sur-prise,” Haidri said. “I can get some extra money for college, depending on where I go.”

Becoming a National Merit finalist is often ac-

companied by scholarships from colleges.

Though the monetary rewards are nice, Haidri says that the real value of hard work comes through the process of learning.

“I feel that learning is an end and not a means, but the scholarship doesn’t hurt,” Haidri said. “It shouldn’t be all about cash or a scholarship.”

Becoming a National Merit finalist is a strong ac-complishment, but Haidri says that the hard work isn’t quite over.

“I still need to tell them

which college i’m going to attend,” Haidri said. “I’ve been accepted to The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but I’m still looking for other schools.”

In addition to Jeff Haid-ri, Razzi Abuissa, Stephen Chan, Chuck Foster, Zach Greimann, Cameron Hert-ing, Bryan Martin and JD McCullough are National Merit finalists. These stu-dents, along with others across the nation, will re-cieve various amounts of scholarship money for col-lege education.

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Motherhood T w o S t o r i e s b y J i n S u h

Sitting with one leg in the air and a wide smile that makes a small, charming wrinkle on her brow, Beth Fettweis makes an attempt everyday to teach her students.

“She’s goofy and a really cute pregnant lady,” Sara Mildenstein ‘12 said.

Students remark that Fettweis is not only a wonderful teacher, but a friend to all her students.

“We love her, we’re happy for her, and we’ll keep reaching out to the green light across the harbor until June,” Sage Behr ’12 said.

Fettweis left City on Febru-ary 28th to have her child two weeks earlier than planned, and will not be coming back until the start of next school year. Her classes will be taken over by a Miss Elise Cook, an undergrad at the University of Iowa.

“It would only be a couple of weeks at the end of the year. Basically, my guilt as a mom trumped my guilt as a teacher. It’s the only time I have until August that I can just be a mom,” Fettweis said.

On her third child, Fettweis is a veteran mother with a tough schedule.

On an average day she wakes up at 5 a.m. and either exercises or grades, “which ever one’s more pressing.”

The kids are up by 6:00 a.m. and are helped to get ready by her husband, while she gets ready. By 7:20 it’s off to day-care,

“on a good day with no crying.” Then it’s off to work from periods one to four, and home with the kids by 12:30 pm. A play session is then followed by a nap and more work, followed by dinner and another play session. After that a few books and it’s off to bed by nine.

“[Being a mom] adds stress because I’m constantly worried about being both a mom and having a job. You just wish you had more time to do both.”

But Fettweis is not the only one dealing with a pregnancy this year. “I feel like teens

wouldn’t have kids in high school if they ever got a good look at maternity pants,” Fettweis said, giving a little shudder. “No, I feel for them because I had my kids in my thirties and I have a husband to help me out. I admire how they juggle all the responsi-bilities because it is so hard. Kids break you. In the mid-

dle of the night. I look at students and just think ‘how do they do it?’”

As for all the shows on television that glorify teen pregnancy such as “16 and Pregnant,” Fettweis doesn’t watch them. “It’s really dangerous to expose kids to that. [Having a baby] is the biggest com-mitment in your life, you’ve got to be ready for it. I can’t imagine being filmed as a par-ent. Having kids changes everything, it’s the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done.”

A S t u d e n t ’ s S t o r yKeely Biggs

Parker Biggs is always up by 5:30 a.m. as seventeen year-old Keely Biggs drags herself out of bed to change her son’s dia-per and fed him his formula.

At 7:30 she drops Parker off at his grandma’s house. After school she picks Parker up to take him to her sisters’ who watch him when Keely goes to work at Applebee’s from 5:00 to 8:30.

It is tough life and it was a tough deci-sion for Keely to be a mother.

“I thought about adoption, but then I decided I didn’t want to do that. I just took everything one step at a time. There wasn’t really a plan,” she said. “I was just like, ‘Well, I’m hav-ing a baby.’ I never cried or thought the worst of it.”

It all began the spring of her sophomore year, Keely purchased a pregnancy test. When it was positive, she didn’t believe it. She took another that turned up negative, so she put it out of her mind. She even participated in City soccer and fainted on the field.

“I guess I found out a month along, but I was in denial until about five months. That was when my mom started noticing. She said I was getting fat. They gave me the ‘I’m disappointed speech,’ but they were accepting,” she said.

When school started again this August, Keely was eight months pregnant. Finally,

at the end nine months and 31 long hours of labor, Keely was wheeled into the oper-ating room for a cesarean.

“During the pregnancy it was super easy, except I fainted a lot. It was cool when [Parker] moved inside of me; it’s like an alien in your belly. When I got back to school I was just more tired. People talked and still do, but I honestly don’t care what they have to say.”

And then there’s the question of the father. When he was informed, he didn’t believe it either, but with a little more con-

vincing he finally said he would help.

“His mom watches Parker, and his family helps out with formula and diapers, but I’m the main provider. I pay for some of his bills and get

his toys, and I take him to the mall with me,” Keely said.

Among the other thousands who watch shows like Teen Mom, Keely is one of the few who actually knows what the girls on the shows are going through.

“Some of those girls [on the shows] are just irresponsible, and some of them need to get their priorities straight. I don’t have that problem. I wouldn’t encourage having a kid as a teen, but what the person does when they are pregnant just depends on the situation. You have to think about all the outcomes.”

“I feel like teens wouldn’t have kids...

if they ever got a good look at maternity

pants.”

- Beth Fettweis

“Some of those girls are just ir-responsible, and some ... need to

get their priorities straight.”

- Keely Biggs

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Now, Now

Hailing from Blaine, Minnesota, the band Now, Now (Brad Hale, Cacie Dalager and Jess White) played at the Blue Moose February 18th with Hello Goodbye. The trio’s new EP ‘Neighbors’ is out on No Sleep records. They are excited for spring.

by Carl Sessions

Yeah, they’re short. Yeah, they’re pretty cute. And yeah, they used to be called Now, Now Every Children. But Now, Now has some skills.

The group, con-sisting of Cacie Dal-ager (vocals, keys, guitar), Jess Ab-bott (guitar, vocals) and Bradley Hale (drums, vocals), hales from Minne-sota.

Their first album, Cars, is as much about a new take on shoe-gaze and the heart of emo (before scenesters and screamo) as it is Cacie’s curiously strong voice and Brad’s driving drums. Their sound’s unique which is why it’s refreshing. Getting into the first album is like walking naked in

a yellow streetlight-filled night with fresh snow falling and a pretty thought in your head.

The band’s new EP has been released on No Sleep Records and is called Neighbors. It’s real

good. The addition of guitar-player Jess has made them more balanced, and while their original sound is there, they’ve defi-nitely changed. All in all, Now, Now is a tal-ented, authentic band with room to grow, but with a genuine

character that’s uncommon. At Iowa City’s Blue Moose in

mid-February they opened for hellogoodbye. Their set was sol-id, save for a few technical diffi-culties. The band will return for an all ages show on the 23rd of March.

Film Fest Previewby Max Friedman

The time to sit back in ridiculous cos-tumes, and watch a vast range student-made films is here: The Film Festival is on the horizon. Senior Mike Sobaski is one of the students submitting films for the festi-val.

“One is a comedy and the other is more artsy,” Sobaski said. “While I haven’t made the actual films yet, they’re all planned out.”

Sobaski is no stranger to the gilded stage. Last year he won best editing for his film “The Great Gatsby: A Silent Film” and Cole Hotek ‘11 won Best Actor in Mike’s film “Freak”.

Sobaski says he has a specific process when it comes to making movies.

“I usually think of ideas, write them down and if I like them I’ll keep on thinking about them.”

When the time comes to film, the hard work really begins.

“I usually film them all in one or two

days and edit them a week or two before the festival,” Sobaski said.

Seniors Phil Buatti and Zach Greimann also plan to participate in the 2011 Film Fest.

“Hopefully we’ll make multiple films,” Greimann said. “We have a few ideas in de-velopment.”

Buatti and Greimann made a film last year called “Piñata party” about 2 friends living in a dystopian universe controlled by piñatas.

“We usually go on the fly,” Buatti said. “We both have rubber minds, so we just bounce around ideas,” Greimann said. The duo is trying to expand and use actors be-sides themselves in future films.

“We usually use Noah Danielson, but we could potentially get Andy Fenneman,” Greimann said. “If we could get our hands on Chuck Foster, that would be great, be-cause he’s really attractive.”

Film Fest is a film screening, awards cer-emony and a costume contest all at once. It

usually draws a full crowd, nearly filling up Opstad auditorium.

“People will get some laughs,” Greimann said. “See some sweet movies.”

“Even the worst are enjoyable,” Buatti said. “People will have a good time.”

Mike Sobaski, Phil Buatti and Zach Grei-mann plan to submit films, but others can still join.

“I hope to see underclassmen make films,” Buatti said. “I wish I would have started earlier.”

“I hope to see underclassmen and I really hope to see some girls make films,” Grei-mann said.

“Girls don’t usually make films for the Film Fest,” Buatti said. “We have a lot of funny girls that should make movies.” The Film Fest is shaping up to be something great for all highschool students. “I’m double-plus excited,” Greimann said. While the Film Festival is drawing nearer, it’s not too late to join in the fun.

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The Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv expresses of the risks and downfalls of the electronic, tech-nological, and overall, synthetic life-styles of children in this generation. The book focuses on the search for ful-fillment through interaction with our natural environment, and it affirms the recent scientific discoveries of the connections between humans and nature. The reader will find the book compelling and will be surprised to find the close relation between the lack of natural exposure and many of the problems the world is facing to-day, from ADD, to childhood obesity and diabetes.

The book opens up with a personal introduction to the author which al-lows for the reader to get to know the writer and his views on the topic of the book. It then continues into part one, describing the “new rela-tionship” between children and their “natural” environment. He tells sto-ries of children he interviewed for the book and how their views on nature differed from those of their elders. In parts two and three, Louv describes the effects that the so-called “Nature-Deficit Disorder” has on children and how nature stimulates all of the senses rather than just eyes and ears (which is what videogames do).

“Our children,” says Louv, “are the first to be raised without meaningful contact with the natural world.”

In the end, Richard gives solutions to avoid the new disconnect between children and nature. This is a very in-teresting book and I reccomend that you read it.

- -Book Rev iew--“ L a s t C h i l d i n Wo o d s ”

by Ethan Zierke

“your destiny...revealed”

The Little Hawk Horoscope

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18)

Good News! The weather is looking up! Bad news! Your grades are not.

Pisces (Feb 19-March 20)

Get a job!

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Your one true love will ask you on a date...Then not show up! Better luck next time.

Taurus (April 20-May 18)

You are the weakest link ! Goodbye.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

One minute your up, the next your down, the next your shooting your favorite newscaster in the kneecaps “ just cuz”.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

You are very self-concious. Everyone is looking at you.

Leo (July 23-Aug 22)

If you do marry, You’ll keep your spouse locked under the bathroom sink!

Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22)

Remember that marrying your pet is illeagal in most countries.

Libra (Sept 23-Oct 22)

A window of opportunity just opened up... Dont jump out of it! We frown upon suicide.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21)

Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21)

If at first you dont succeed then sky diving is not for you!

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Beware of the toes you step on today, They might be attatched to the buttocks you have to kiss tomorrow!

here, here

Certainly is. Here’s my advice: “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

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Little Hawk: What bands did you listen to growing up?

Dalager: Death Cab for Cutie.Abbott: Jimmy Eat World.Hale: Stuff like that.

LH: How has your sound pro-gressed since your first CD?

Dalager: Well, we got a new member [Jess]. She’s an amazing guitar player. The songs on this album are also more reflective of all of us. We each have our own writing styles but we come together with our ideas and mix them to make the songs rounded.

LH: What do you enjoy most about performing?

Dalager: Interacting with the audience. Meeting peo-ple at shows is nice. We’re all really awkward but it’s cool because we’ll play for kids who’re awkward with us. It’s nice when people re-spond and open up.

LH: How did the band start? Hale: Cacie and I met in marching band during highschool. I played Trom-bone and she was on drum-line.

LH: How do you feel about spring’a comin?

Dalager: We can’t wait.Abbott: Yeah, we’ve been sick for pretty much the en-tire tour. We’re up late, not getting much rest, Taco Bell, etc.

MUSIC REVIEW

“Cacie and I met in marching

band...”

- Brad HaleNow, Now

Q & A

Features March 11, 2011

ors and matte faces with messy undone hair. Fun neon colors have been seen on the runways at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2011. Designers such as Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Oscar de la Renta have sent models down the runway with these trends. The designers share a com-mon color pallet of turquoise blues, corals, lavenders, and oranges. Models have been sporting pop art eyes and fresh natural faces. Golds, Bronze, and Taupe color eyes, balance out a fun flirty lip.

“Fashion week is something that I look forward to,” Linder said. “I get inspiration from makeup artists and there color pal-lets.”

Makeup artists have been blogging: lips stains have replaced lip gloss and peach is the new pink. Big bold look at me lashes are the trend, go for the “doll” look with volume mascara and an eye lash curler.

“I love big lashes,” Linder said. “I comb my lashes with a fine toothed brush before and after to get long lashes.”

Fall taupe nail polish colors are still trendy, as well as soft pinks and nudes. To spice up a plain outfit, try a funky mani-cure. Half moon manicures and reverse french manicures have been seen at Behnaz Sarafpour and Jason Wu during fashion week. Make hands a statement with the

new nail trend.“The best part of spring is getting a

mani/pedi,” Linder said. “I’ll usually get colors that go with the outfits I wear, the Sally Hansen Nail Art is really sweet.”

The hairstyle trends for spring are long waves, big volume, and top knot buns. A designers trick for clean hair is dry sham-poo. Washing hair everyday strips hair of its natural oils, this can lead to an oily scalp. To get maximum volume try a teaser comb and hairspray to set a look. Natural, but not dull, hair colors contribute to the bohemian trend. Try a braided headband or turban for a unique hair accessory.

“I think big teased hair is sexy,” Linder said. “Hair clips with cute designs clip your hair back in a cute but simple way.”

This spring is a mix of fresh young faces and pops of color. The makeup artists are experimenting with the new seasons col-ors, and so should all of the shoppers.

“Probably my favorite part of spring be-sides getting new clothes is getting beauty products,” Linder said. “I can’t wait till I get to break out the bronzer and bright pinks.”

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FASHIONSpring is just around the corner and for

the fashion conscious, it’s the time to exper-iment with new patterns and buy trendy clothes. New trends are popping up all over the runways, but this spring’s fashion is a blast from the past.

“Old school looks are definitely in style,” Francesca Lubecki-Wilde ‘13, employee at downtown clothing store Inbox said. “We have a lot of new clothes that previously were in style.”

What the designers are sending down the runway is a fun mix of bold colors and toned down nudes. There are also recogniz-able looks such as 70’s glam and 60’s prim and proper.

“70’s chic is really in style,” Wilde said. “Look for old silhouettes turned up a notch with bright colors and funky patterns.”

Other styles that appeared on the run-ways of New York Fashion Week include crochet, wide leg pants, white on white, elegant sheer dresses, lace up shoes, jump-suits, capes, and androgynous suits.

“I think knowing what is in style is im-portant,” Wilde said. “But you should put an unique spin on it, I tend not to buy things that are really hyped up.”

Familiar looks that a trendy springster should recognize are stripes, polka dots, nautically influ-enced clothing and crop tops (but not to just show of skin). Designers such as Chloe and YSL use the crop top to show just a little skin; with a flowing skirt it’s a modest but fash-ionable outfit. An-other type of crop top is one that ends just below the bust; this has a sporty vibe and shows more skin, but can be paired with high waisted shorts or skirts. Short shorts made out of tweed and linen update the original jean short. maxi dresses, lace clothing, color blocking, and the ever fa-mous florals have inspired designers.

“I definitely want to incorporate these trends into my wardrobe,” Wilde said. “I think this spring is a time to have fun and try out new ideas.”

With all these new looks, there has to be hot new accessories to go with them. The belt purse, a close cousin to the fanny pack, is improved with soft leather material and a boho touch. Tassels, interchangeable belts, hard- wire zippers and clasps make this old waist bag much more stylish.

“I like vintage wristlets, I think it gives a simple outfit a elegant touch,” Wilde said. “ I also like over sized bags and clutches.”

The designers think spring’s fashion is all about fun patterns and bright colors incorporated with old silhouettes. Remem-ber that vintage looks are always in style and can be tweaked to fit any persons style. People don’t have to be a big spender to be in style.

BEAUTYHair and beauty trends change as the

spring season approaches. The weather is warmer and the sun is shinning, get rid of dark browns and deep reds, its spring time and the beauty world is booming with new ideas.

“Winter is a fun time for the smokey eye,” Annika Linder ‘13 said. “I like wear-ing dark colors that bring out my eye color, but I also love bright colors.”

There has been a mix of bright juicy col-

“Old school looks are

definitely in style”

- Francesca Lubecki-Wilde ‘13

ALL photos by alexPEREZ

Blasts from the Past Dominate Spring Fashion

Emma McIntire ‘14 challenges the 70’s vibe with a maxi skirt and neon tank.

Emma McIntire ‘14 models the chunky necklace accessorie with a simple top.

Emma McIntire ‘14 looks stylish in a mix of bold patterns paired with a bright clutch.

EMMA’S SPRING BEAUT Y TIPS

From left: Freshmen Sonora Taffa, Oli Peters and Emma McIntire look fabulous in the spring’s latest trends.

For an easy application of lip stains, try a homemade sugar scrub. Mix sugar and lemon juice together to get smooth lips. It also tastes sweet!

Use tinted moisturizer instead of the heavy foundation. It has a higher level of SPF and won’t melt off your face.

Peach is the new pink, it brings out your natural pigmentation giving you a natural glow.

Waterproof mascara is your best friend when the weather gets warmer, it won’t leave you looking like a raccoon when the day’s over.

by Cassie Wassink & Ellen Carman

Fourteen seniors and seven birthdays. This year’s se-nior class is bursting at the seams with twins. However none of these pairs are exact-ly alike. The only thing that ties these seniors together is their genes.

“People ask me if it’s weird having a twin.” Johnny Millard said. “I’m like, ‘is it weird not having a twin?’”

One legacy of this year’s senior class lies with the ab-normal amount of twins. Set against the small number of twins in other classes, the seven sets of twins is truly an anomaly.

“You always have someone to eat lunch with. You always have a best friend.” Bethany and Hannah Hewlett said. “Of course there are differences between us. We are individual people.”

As, it seems, with everything, having a twin is a two-way package. It has its ups... and has its downs.

“Sometimes our parents will just say a name and it’s like you should know us.” Brittney and Stephanie Seaton said, “I just don’t feel like an individual half the time and it’s like ‘you should know my name, I know yours.’”

For some twins, this mix-up is not a big deal. “I don’t really get upset if you confuse me with her,”

Virginia Johnson said. “Because it happens all the time.”The Hewlett twins have their own philosophy. “You either get mad when people confuse you,

ABOVE: BOTTOM RIGHT:Emily and Michael Sotelo Jamie and Katie TitusTOP LEFT: Brittney and Stephanie SeatonTOP RIGHT: Josh and Levi Powell-Littler

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or you think it’s funny.” Bethany Hewlett said. “I think it’s funny.”

Other twins, however, go to considerable lengths to try to distinguish themselves.

“I got my hair cut the other day,” Phylliss Johnson said, describing the tribulations of her look-alike features. “But everyone still calls me Virginia so it’s like, uh, why do I try?”

Looking alike can have its advan-tages, however. Virginia Johnson remembers sharing a class with her sister Phylliss.

“It was probably too much for the teacher,” she said, describing the class that she shared with her sister freshman year. “We had a lot of fun. We switched spots and the teacher wouldn’t notice but the students would.”

Josh and Levi Powell-Littler also have taken advantage of their nearly indistin-guishable features, switching places on April Fools day, some years ago. They fooled their class for several hours, and switched back at recess.

Identical twins look alike so they must have the same personality, right? Wrong. According to these twins, nothing could be farther from the truth.

“I think people think we’re probably more alike than we are just ‘cause we’re twins, but we’re really not.” Michael Sotelo said. “People always ask if we’re identical

twins and I’m always like ‘uh no, she’s a girl and I’m a guy.’”

Many of these City twins actually have very different interests.

“We’re completely different.” Phylliss Johnson said. “She likes sports. I’m not too interested in sports. I’m more bubbly. She’s more of a serious person.”

But the idea of similar person-alities is just one of the misconceptions that these twins commonly hear. Bobby Millard clarified that he and Johnny do not, in fact, have telepathy. Interestingly enough, his twin Johnny, at a separate interview, clarified the exact same thing. Hmm.

There are varying levels of closeness among these seven twins, but all describe the benefit of having someone their own age to spend time with.

“It’s cool to have someone nice to talk to who’s really close that’s your same age.” Jamie Titus said.

Katie Titus echoed this senti-ment. “We’re really close,” she said, de-

scribing her relationship with Jamie. “I’d have to say she’s my best friend,” Virginia

Johnson said. “Just because you can talk to her about any-thing.”

Seven Sets of SeniorsT W I N F A C T S-The senior class has a higher percentage (4.1%) of twins then the national average (3.2%)

-Elvis Presley had a twin named Jesse Garon who died at birth.

-Nearly 25 percent of the twins born today are not expected until days or moments before their births.

-Twins frequently appear in Greek mythology as being cunning and competitive, according to Greekmythology.com

We’ve all done it. Mistaken someone for their twin. This year’s senior class has it hard. With seven sets of twins they are seeing double all the time. These fourteen seniors have formed one of the graduating class’ legacy, a class full of twins.

“People always ask me if we’re identical twins and I’m always

like ‘uh no, she’s a girl and I’m a

guy.’”

Micheal Sotelo ‘11

DoubletruckMarch 11, 2011 LittleHawkthe

Within the last few years, Iowa’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) movement has garnered national attention, both for its monumental achievements and its striking setbacks.

On April 3, 2009, same-sex marriage be-came legal in Iowa. It was passed at a time where the Iowa legis-lation was controlled by Demo-crats. It was passed following a long, hard battle fought by both sides of the divide. Zach Wahls, West High graduate and son of two married women, spoke out in favor of marriage equality.

“It is an issue that engenders passion on both sides. Liberals have a long history orf support-ing civil rights, but I”m not quick to label people who opposed gay marriage,” said Wahls, “They are just people who believe differ-ents things, and those beliefs will certainly go through the process of our democracy.”

In the 2010 midterm election, Iowans had a chance to vote for a constitutional convention, in which the state’s legislation on marriage equality would have been put into question. This was voted down, and instead the people

chose to not retain three of Iowa’s Supreme Court Justices, who lost their seats in a historic upset.

“We do have a democracy, and judicial re-tention is certainly a part of that system,” said Wahls, “But I think the judges were retained

for an incorrect rea-son, a reason that the authors of our consti-tution certainly would not have approved of.”

Democracy consti-tutes not only judicial retention, but public voting as well. There has been contention about whether mar-riage protection should be held to a vote.

“I believe mar-riage is between one man and one woman

and am dissapointed in the ruling of the Su-preme Court,” said House Republican Leader Kraig Paulsen in a statement about the Su-preme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage, “In 1998, the Legislature overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legisalation protecting mar-riage as between a man and a woman. There is

now a divide between the legislative and the judicial branches and Iowans should be per-mitted to weigh in and have the final say on this question.”

This legislation was passed unanimously by Iowa’s Supreme court, and cannot be repealed unless House Joint Resolution 6, a constitution-al ban on same sex marriage, is passed. It was put through the Republican-majority house and passed, but is unlikely to pass through the Democratic Senate. Even if it were to pass, it would need to pass once more by both the House and the Senate in 2013 before it could be put on the ballot for a public vote, a highly contested issue.

“We don’t vote on rights. The rights of het-erosexual couples are not put up to a vote,” said Wahls, “There are certian inaliable rights, and marriage is one of those.”

The impassioned debate and strong oppo-sition are pushed by religion to a point, but a religious point of view has very little legal backing.

“Religion isnt the biggest driver in oppo-sition, fear is the biggest driver,” said Wahls, “We fear what we don’t understand. So many people think that gays are radically different once, but once people understand that they are really no different, the oppositon will fall.”

LGBTIowa’s

movementIowa is one of only five states in

the Union to legalize marriage for all. The Little Hawk talked to Zach

Wahls, who has gotten national media attention for his poignant

speech on the rights of all citizens to equal marriage laws and fair

protection under the law.

Left and Right: Iowa City residents pro-test the Prop 8 on Nov. 15, 2008, which would ban same-sex marriages ruled legal in Iowa.

Far right: Locals celebrate the legal-ization of gay mar-riage in April 2009. (Photos courtesty of Donald Baxter)

by Renata Stewart PUBLIC DECISIONDo you think that there should be a

vote on gay marriage?

69%31%

LEGALIZATIONDo you think that gay marriage

should be legalized?

8%

92%

IMPORTANCEOn a scale of 1-10, how important

is the issue of gay marriage?

1 432 765 1098

“Iowa has a long tradition of living and letting live. We

are very sensible people, and we are not jumping to take

away the rights of our fellow citizens.”

- Zach Wahls

* City High students were polled on the important issues concerning marriage equality.

APRIL 3, 2009: Banning gay marriage is ruled unconstitutional by the Iowa Su-preme Court.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010: Justices David Baker, Michael Streit, and Marsha Ternus, who participated in the unanimous 2009 ruling, were re-moved from office after judicial retention elections.

Between April 2009 and March 2010, 2,020 same-sex couples were married in Iowa, accounting for 10.1% of total marriages conducted in the state during that

Super Feature March 11, 2011

SPRING BREAK

2011New York City Singin’

Palm Springs, CA

Manhattan, NY

Kansas City, MO

San Francisco, CA Breckenridge, COVail, CO

Orlando, FL

Miami, FL

Wisconsin Dells, WI

Lafayette, IN

Salt Lake City, UT

Gallup, NM

City High Student Destinations

Ontario, CA

Daytona, FL

St. Louis, MO

Provo, UT

Chigago, IL

Los Angelas, CA

Columbus, OH

Minneapolis, MN

Austin, TX

. . . Just a few places in our nat ion City High students wi l l be going this spr ing break.

New York City’s Saint John the Devine is the 4th largest church in the world. This spring break, the City High Concert and Camber Choirs will have the honor of singing in this nineteenth century wonder.

“The reverb is gonna be awe-some,” said Sebastian Surom ‘13

On March 10-15, the 11th-12th

(and a few 10th) grade choir stu-dents will embark on the 18-hour bus ride to The Big Apple where they will also perform at The Trin-ity Church at Wall Street (oldest Episcopal Church in the US) and the Google NY Headquarters. Many students are exited about performing at Google because,

“It’ll be a great chance to see the nerve center of a great force in our modern world,” said Surom.

Students will also have the op-portunity to see Rockefeller Center, The Statue of Liberty, The Lincoln Center, and Ellis Island. They will have time to go shopping in the nine-story Macys and explore Times Square, Battery Park, and the Rockefeller Center area.

The students will be staying in Seacaucus, New Jersey, only 5 minutes from Manhattan.

Map by Nora Holman

Español y España

By Nora Holman

An experience of a lifetime is some-thing students will never forget, so when one comes this March 11th for stu-dents traveling abroad they are making sure to take advantage of it.

The annual spring break trip to Spain has become one of those experiences and an exiting tradition for City High.

This year, Spanish 4 and 5 students (mainly juniors and seniors) are packing for the two week adventure that will take them over 4000 miles across the Atlantic to the country of Spain.

While in Spain, students will tour the country to learn all about its history and

culture. The first week of the trip will be spent touring around the country and the capital city of Madrid. The travelers will visit sights and monuments that are filled to the brim with history--some dating back thousands of years.

“I’ve been to Mexico in the past to help build houses,” said Caitlin Clougherty ’11, “Ever since then, I knew I wanted to go to Spain my senior year.”

The second week of the trip will be the family stay week. This is where all the students will stay with a Spanish family whom they have previously been in contact with.

“I’m most exited about the family stay,” said Clougherty.

They will participate in daily activities with their host family like cooking, running errands, and going to school with the host sibling that is of similar age. While staying with the family, they will speak Spanish to all family members, which will greatly improve their Spanish speaking skills.

Spanish students will leave for Spain on March 10th and return home on March 24th from what is sure to be an unforgettable experience.

Going to Ontario, California to have some fun on my

birthday.

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-James Ridgely, ‘12

By Nora Holman & Ellen Kealey

I plan to go jet skiing and para sailing.

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-Abbey Vitosh, ‘13

Super FeatureMarch 11, 2011

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City Park Pool

Sarah Dvorsky ‘11 works as a Life-guard at Mercer Aquatic Center, City Park Pool and the Pool in the Robert A. Lee Recreation Center. She works at the different places depending on the day of the week, and the season.

Right now Sarah works 10 hours a week on weekends. She works up to 20 hours a week during the school year and anywhere up to 40 hours a week during the summer getting paid around nine dollars an hour.

Sarah has a multitude of different jobs with the title lifeguard. She does patron surveillance, cleans the pool deck, per-forms first aid when necessary, operates at the cash register, and takes routine pool chemical tests.

She has to know how to perform cer-tain skills if an emergency were to hap-pen.

“Basically my main job is to make the pool as safe as possible by enforc-ing rules and removing all dangers from around the pool.”

Lifeguards have even more responsi-

bilities. Sarah teaches group swimming lessons to younger kids, ages three to five. She also teaches private lessons to kids of any age, and helps with large group classes. Sarah believes her job is very worthwhile.

“My favorite part of my job is know-ing that my job brings patrons a safe feel-ing because they know I am trained to respond and in a quick manner to any accident that may occur at any of the fac-ulties. In addition, I believe my job has given me leadership abilities I can use for the rest of my life.”

$Young Money$

Hoover After School Program

Lindsey Conley ‘12 not only works at Dairy Queen, but also at the Hoover Af-ter School program. She spends time at Hoover Elementary Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 2:45 pm until 5:45 pm, getting paid eight dollars an hour.

Over Valentines Day, the kids we work with were all worrying about whether or

not they had a Valentine. “Their main priorities were to have

someone to be their valentine. So there were girls going behind other girls backs trying to steal their valentine. People ended up crying and it was a huge ordeal. There is more drama in elementary school then we have in high school!” Lindsey ex-plained.

While Lindsey has days like this, she

still thinks her job is super fun.She makes snacks for the kids and

plays games with them. She also gets to color, shoot hoops, or kick around a soc-cer ball.

“My favorite part about it is that ev-eryday is different, nothing is ever pre-dictable.”

Active Endeavors

Rebecca Rethwisch ‘11 works at Active Endeavors, located downtown. She works on the weekends, occasional weekdays and over breaks getting paid minimum wage.

She also goes in every once in a while for clinics. Clinics are opportunities for the

employees to learn more about what they are selling.

When Rebecca is working, she helps other people buy coats, camping gear, coats and more. She also explains what the “techy labels” mean, and works to find whatever others need.

Because of her job, Rebecca receives

deals on companies like North Face and Pantagonia and everything else in the store.

She enjoys working with really “awe-some and interesting” people.

“My favorite thing to help people with is finding them the right running gear! Since that’s my personal favorite active en-deavor.”

Student Jobs Around Iowa CityBy Emma Gier

March 11, 2011Feature

I love making drawings with ink. I drew “Escaping Samsara” late in the night/early morning while trying to teach my friend about shading. I sort of had an idea about what to draw, but mainly decided what to draw after the nib hit the paper. It wasn’t till after I finished when I realized the characters in my picture represent real people. This happens to me a lot. I make a drawing and don’t realize the signifi-cance of what I’ve done till after I’m finished with it. This piece, “Escaping Samsara” won a Silver Key Award from the National Scholastic Art&Writing A w a r d s 2 0 1 1 .

“Suffering In Paradise” This painting illustrates a Hell, Earth, and Paradise. To me, this piece of work portrays the potential experience in each realm. Although the two charac-ters in the tree, represent those living in the highest state, they are not happy. It seems like how good of a situation you may be in, there is always something people find to be unhappy about. Look at the people in the darkness, they’re so silly and are happy for what they have. Don’t take things for granted.

Kara Hartley: Artist Supreme

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mission statementThe Little Hawk, thev student newspaper of City High School, aims to inform, educate and entertain readers; to provide an edu-cational opportunity for the students who produce it; and to provide a medium for commercial advertising.Equity Statements

English Version:It is the policy of the Iowa City Community School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic status in its educational pro-grams, activities, or employment practices.

If you believe you have (or your child has) been discriminated against or treated unjustly at school, please contact the Equity Director, Ross Wilburn, at 509 S. Dubuque Street, 319-688-1000.

Spanish Version:Declaración de Equidad:Es la política de Iowa City Community School District no descriminar en base a raza, credo, color, género, origen, religión, edad, estado civil, orientación sexual, estado de veterano, incapacidad, =estado socio-económico en sus programas educacionales, actividades, o políticas de empleo.

Si usted piensa que usted o su hijo (a) han sido descriminados o que han sido trata-dos injustamente en la escuela, por favor comuníquese con el Director de Equidad, Ross Wilburn, 509 S. Dubuque Street, teléfono: 319-688-1000.

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OpiniOnMarch 11, 2011

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Have an opinion? Want to share it? Send a Letter to the Editor at opinion.thelittlehawk@gmail.com with your name and grade. Letters must be under 300 words in length. The Little Hawk reserves the right to edit for content and length.

Her response intrigued, un-settled and unnerved me. I dis-covered that she was a Christian missionary. She went to northern India to convert Hindus to Chris-tianity.

Traveling to a different village twice a week, she estimated that the group she was with prob-ably converted over a thousand people. She also mentioned casu-ally that she had done this sort of thing for the last four summers. To say my first reaction was one of shock and disgust isn’t quite accurate, but I was stunned.

I decided that interrogat-ing her psychology and faith wouldn’t be appropriate, so I left soon after this discovery. But since then my mind has fre-quently returned to the topic of conversion.

I’ve decided that I have two problems with what the girl did. This may seem to be arrogant and self-righteous, but I’d rather be considered full-headed than dis-rupt previously assured communities for no rea-son.

Logic?

This girl ‘knew’ definitively there was an omnipotent, omni-scient God who spoke through Jesus and the Bible. Furthermore, she ‘knew’ definitively that there were not many gods who took different forms. If she wasn’t rock-solid in her beliefs then she would have had no business con-verting people.

What conversionists of all faiths miss is that they’re dedicat-ing their time to something that can’t be forced upon people.

Because it’s logically im-possible to con-clude that many gods don’t exist (or that a single God does exist, for that mat-ter) then a cer-tain degree of faith is needed to be religious. This faith is not something you can preach. It’s not a strict either-or, Christianity-Hinduism, choose now because we’re leav-ing tomorrow.

Faith’s probably deeper and more authentic. It doesn’t come about from hear-ing a few ser-monds or read-ing a few books. I don’t know what it is, but I think I know what it’s not.

Also, what kind of Christians was this girl mak-ing? If the Hindus that she con-verted were so able to drop their way of viewing life for a strang-er’s, they probably won’t be the most devout new converts.

Cultural Imperialism

Conversion brings a sour taste to my mouth. The very nature of it is prone to folly. (As seen by the Inquisition, the conversion of Eastern ‘heathens’ and the cultural devastation to Native

Americans.) Though this girl wasn’t doing

anything explicitly violent, the forceful undertones of conver-

sion are chill-ing. India is a country of great contrasts and t r e m e n d o u s need. Although it’s developing economically at a pace compa-rable to China, half of all chil-dren under five are mal-

nourished. Thus, coming into small, poverty-stricken villages and preaching the path to a bet-ter life is hardly fair. Christianity promises people a pie in the sky. People will start worshipping this pie not because they nec-essarily believe it, but because they’re hungry.

For clarity’s sake, I am not against Christianity or religion in general. I accept that conver-sion can be non-pressuring and generally ‘good.’ However, the circumstances of traveling to In-dia and getting the most converts for your buck is what I’ve got beef with. I believe that good, religious folk can fufill their ob-ligation to humanity by travel-ing to places like India and rais-ing AIDS awareness or teaching health-techniques and agricul-tural skills while acknowledging there are many paths to the holy.

She’s Only 18

The second reason why I was disturbed by this girl’s rock-solid faith was that she was only 18. How is she so confident in what she believes in? 18 year olds are supposed to wonder and be un-sure. Psychologists have identi-fied this questioning as integral to emotional growth. Youth is a time to throw all of society’s val-ues up in the air in uncertainty. Figuring shit out is a process.

Kids shouldn’t be pinned down by static faith structures that are hundreds of years old.

They should discover what the world is like before they claim to objec-tively under-stand it. I doubt that this girl un-derstood Hin-

duism. Most Westerners don’t. I don’t. But that’s the beauty of be-ing young. You shouldn’t have to convert people.

Why Socrates Matters

This experience obviously brought up strong feelings in me; I guess that’s the most telling in-dicator that there may be some-thing wrong.

Her total confidence is nice in a way, respectable, even, but it’s frightening. Bad things hap-pen when there aren’t checks on knowledge. Adapting your be-liefs isn’t bad. I mean, Socrates was wise because he recognized how little he knew. That’s the best way to go about things. I think.

Dear Little Hawk,

My name is Megan Spurrell, I am writing to you to provide some information about the pizza served in the lunchroom. I have heard a lot of complaints about the change of pizza and since I wasn’t satisfied with the change either, I decided to get some more information about it.

Before starting this project my goal was to change the pizza back to the way it was last year, which was Falbo’s pizza, but

after a few interviews with the lunchroom staff I realized my goal was unreachable. The piz-za has changed due to the new Healthy Kids Act, not because of the lunch ladies. Most stu-dents that are dissatisfied with the change are blaming the lunch staff and administration, but it’s not their fault.

I am speaking out to let the student body know that the staff in the lunchroom did everything they could to keep pizza as an option at lunch time.

City High stood to loose vended pizza for good but thanks to Domino’s Pizza, we have a healthy alternative to the pizza served last year (even though it doesn’t taste as good). I would like to see a spread or even a small article in the Little Hawk about lunch ladies.

They deserve more respect

and credit than they are given. I want the students at City High to stand up and say “Thank you.”

Thanks you for your time!

Sincerely, Megan

“To say my first reac-tion was one of shock and disgust isn’t quite accurate, but I was stunned.”

“The circumstances of traveling to India and getting most convets for your buck is what I’ve got beef with.”

“Kids shouldn’t be pinned down by static faith structures that are hundreds of years old.”

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This winter I had a strange encounter with an attractive 18 year old woman. We were talking about our summers, and she told me that she traveled in India for two months. Ever the aspiring world citizen, my ears perked up and I asked why, for what?

Everyone loves The Coral Ridge Mall. How could you not? All those people with screaming kids and teenagers who loiter around Spencer’s and Hot Topic.

The food court’s high stan-dard of hygiene and the ice rink’s ancient skates. Per-sonally, my favorite is the “perfect” pair of 180 dollar jeans from Buckle or the highly intoxicating smell of Abercrom-bie.

However, some-times I would rather buy clothes without feeling like such a consumer. Believe it or not, on rare occasions I like go-ing to unscented stores that don’t show me the magnificent effects of Photoshop when I walk in the

door. It might be nice to shop in a

store where I can’t get lost be-tween housewares and cosmetics in a sea of marble floors. Maybe I want to go to a store that is 10 minutes away on my bike.

Now, I know that the Coral Ridge Mall doesn’t fit my crite-ria. And maybe I’m too picky, maybe I should just learn to be happy with all the quality products sold in the mall. But I know deep down inside that there is something better

out there. So what is this place that might one up the mall? Sec-ond hand clothing stores. Yep, used clothes.

At second hand stores, it’s

hard to find a pair of jeans more than 35 dollars and there are al-ways many varieties of brands to choose from. I would love to say that I choose to shop second hand because it is a great way to reuse and recycle, but that’s a lie.

I shop second hand because it’s cheap and way more fun then going to a mall. Iowa City has a lot of great stores to choose from. Spend-ing a Saturday driv-ing around town and shopping is definite-ly one of my favorite past times.

Second hand shopping is like searching for a treasure without a map and a big red X. You just have to let go of the need to get

that one shirt you’ve been want-ing. Let the treasure find you. When shopping second hand, it’s impossible to look like any-one else.

You get to choose clothes that fit your style, not culture’s. Take your time and try on all the ugly stuff just for fun because if there are treasures to be found in these stores, and there are, you will just have to search and dig through bins of 1 dollar items.

Maybe screw up your hair a little

while your at it, possibly chip a nail, but it’s worth it to find that one-of-a-kind diamond in the rough.

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OpiniOn March 11, 2011

Lamb-less sam buatti

“It could be anything from rebellion to pure laziness.”

“Maybe I want to go to a store that is ten min-utes away on my bike.”

A Diamond in the Roughellen carman

I’m sure many students have heard that the drum-line cadence “Lamb Thrash,” based off of the children’s song “Mary had a little Lamb” has been banned at school sporting events. As a member of City High’s Drum-line, I am insulted.

When walking onto the basketball court during half-times, the fans chant “Lamb Thrash” over and over again, seemingly as loud as they possibly can. And generally the pep-band plays our list of songs and follows it with “jumping

bean” and then the crowd favor-ite “Lamb Thrash.”

This cadence is one of the big-gest reasons for drum-lines popu-larity, without it drum-line loses one of its biggest reasons to be re-membered.

The cadence is part of why people enjoy drum-line so much. It gives the crowd and the

drum-line a time to go crazy, and let everything out.

The reason that the cadence was banned was because it was “too dangerous and violent.”

Yes, on occasion people are brutally injured and have their toe nails ripped off… But isn’t that part of the fun of in being in the student section?

I mean, if you’re in the student section you’re putting yourself and your life at great risk just being there!

During half-time, if you look toward student section you’ll see drum-line on the court in front of the student section. And if we’re playing Lamb-Thrash then you’ll see the giants who scream, yell, and sweat everywhere with

their shirts off and paint running down their bodies. If you look at it and compare the student sec-tion during the game and when the drum-line is playing Lamb

Thrash there is really no differ-ence.

So yes, I am very insulted that Lamb Thrash has been banned

from sporting events. And I don’t think the student body will be very happy when they’re sit-ting in the student section during halftime sitting down listening to pep-band play “Bad Romance” by Lady Ga-Ga.

“The cadence is part of why people enjoy drum-line so much.”

oli petersGummy GarbageWe’ve all felt it. We’ve all slid

our hands under a school desk and tried to figure out what that bumpy lump is, only to find that it’s a wad of chewing gum.

Yet another piece carelessly discarded by a student too lazy to walk the whole three steps to the trash can. Knowing that at one point the gum was covered in saliva, touching it is gross. Es-pecially when it’s not yours.

I tend to avoid the masses of chewing gum that mask the un-derbellies of my school desks at all costs. So this disgusting con-cept of sticking a substance that has been in your mouth for hours under a desk has never really bugged me that much.

Then I dropped my pencil un-der my desk, and while retriev-

ing it, I looked at the bottom of the desk. I looked at the already-been-chewed arrogance of my fellow students. The horrifying sight was quickly disregarded, I tried to forget about it. Then I dropped my pencil again.

After facing the gum yet again, I started to think in depth about this re-pulsive habit. The chewing gum of an average student lasts about three to four class periods or until the flavor has been pulver-ized out of it. Within that period of time, the gum is immersed in the drool of the chewer. Not only is it covered in slobber but it also

picks up the little pieces of food left over from lunch that were lodged in your teeth. Gross. This gob of spit and food chunks is then smashed on to desks where other students sit for seven

hours. Grosser.So why do

people stick their chewing gum un-derneath the desks? It could be any-thing from rebel-lion to just pure laziness. Is it really that hard to walk four or fewer steps

to a near by trash can? Is stick-ing gum under a desk really the coolest way to say ‘screw you world’? It’s almost embarrassing that people can’t think of a bet-

ter way to show their hatred to-wards school.

I mean, sticking gum under-neath a desk. What a statement. At least be a bit more creative. Draw a Christmas tree on one of those endless-dot tests or some-thing.

The deplorable chewing gum habits of my fellow students is a valid reason to dislike school even more.

So if worst comes to worst, at least have the decency to swal-low the gum. Rather than resum-ing that nasty habit at the cost of innocent students, who prefer not to have other people’s spit and little chunks of food all over the bottom of their desks, take the two whole steps to the trash can and just throw it away.

“Second hand shopping is like searching for treasure without a map and a big red X.”

“...you’ll see the gi-ants who scream, yell, and sweat.”

OpiniOnMarch 11, 2011

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Fluffy Fairytalessonora taffa

I like to read. You should try it sometime, I’m not kidding. It’s pretty fun. Anyways, I was thinking about the most popular books published in the last few years, and you know what I real-ized?

Most of them shouldn’t even count as reading.

We all know that our genera-tion has an odd fixation with vampires and other Halloween goonies. I know, we should boy-cott paranormal romance novels! But that would never work. Tell people not to read something and they will. From the notori-ous Twilight saga to the addic-tive Hunger Games series, we are lost.

And no, I’m not some heart-less weirdo! I love reading fluff books! So before you rush to

the defense of your favorite se-ries, take a moment to think. Those books read like movies: no thought required. The pages fly by without any effort. It’s not exactly like watching TV, but it’s pretty close. The only difference is that you have to make the pic-tures up in your head. Shocking,

I know! I’m not saying

you should never escape into a weird fantasy world of vampires, or futur-istic killing games, or whatever else you may enjoy reading about in

your free time. It’s your business, not mine! All I’m saying is that there are other kinds of books out there.

Read a book that will make you cry, or crack up, or freak out and not sleep for two days be-cause you’re so scared. Read a book that makes you THINK!

I’m going to break my rant off short now, and just suggest some of my favorite books in a few genres. And no, they’re not bor-ing! AT ALL! I’m always a step ahead of your thought process, amazing isn’t it?

Okay, if you want to be scared out of your mind you have to read And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. She’s the best mystery author I’ve ever read, but I must warn you: you might have a small mental breakdown at the end of the book. It passes, don’t worry.

Historical fiction. Why don’t I just kill you now to save you the pain of extreme boredom, right? Wrong! It’s true that historical fiction can be dry and...well...painful.

There are exceptions to every rule however, and one of those exceptions happens to be The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak . The book centers around an or-phaned German girl who steals

banned books and learns to read during Word War II. It’s really sad, so expect to get choked up, but it makes you laugh a lot and the ultimate message is uplifting. And oh, I almost forgot. It’s nar-rarated by death. And he’s got a sassy attitude.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, finishes my list of amaz-ing books that you should read. The narrator, Junior, is a young Native American boy and bud-ding comic book artist growing up on the Spokane Indian Res-ervation. Life is hard for Junior, so he escapes into his world of drawings and dark humor. This book will make you laugh and cry... or laugh until you cry. I don’t know which.

So next time you’re in the li-brary go ahead and get the new-est teen-angst werewolf book, but also try one of mine. Who knows, you may be surprised.

And now let’s discuss the top-ic of Procrastination... Tomorrow. Hah. But with all funny and clev-er jokes aside, procrastination is a problem that plagues many City High students. If you can believe it, I’ve even fallen into its clutches. Having failed early bird P.E. last year, you’d think I’d have learned to show up on time. But this year I still have 26 tardies and a D+ in the same class. It’s a never-ending cycle of ugliness.

I feel your pain, believe me. You’d like to blame it on some-thing or somebody else. In real-ity it’s YOUR fault. The irrespon-sible part of your brain goes into superman mode, but rather than donning a pair of blue tighty-whiteys, you just can’t make yourself do anything that seri-ously needs to get done in the next 24 hours. Instead of doing that homework assignment that’s due tomorrow, you play some

CODBO (Call of Duty Black Ops, for those who have lives.)

IT MUST STOP. Much like the use of all caps. But it is difficult; you’ll want to procrastinate like an adolescent wants Pancheros. Therefore, I have compiled some handy tips to help you be-come the best busy body you can be.

First: get as much done at shool as you can. Getting h o m e w o r k done and out of the way during class will help you feel super smart and productive, and you’ll have a ton of extra time on your hands after school.

You must also pay attention in class as you do your homework and at the same time hide it from

the teacher - thus promoting de-velopment in multitasking and ninja skills.

Second: get enough sleep. When you’re sleep-deprived, the percent chance of getting your brain to focus on that math

problem is ap-proximately... 0.00%. In-stead, you find yourself wanting to do something mindless like play on the internet, lie on the floor sing-ing along with

trashy radio songs, or eat and watch T.V., which causes you to stay up late again and start the cycle over. And become a big booty Judy.

To avoid this fate, set your bed time so you get at least nine

hours of sleep. Props to you if you can get in 12 or 13.

Lastly, don’t think of it as work you’re doing right now instead of doing something fun, for in that way lies madness. Al-ternatively, think of it as building character and learning responsi-bility and valuable life lessons. Or, if you’re not into the whole “maturity” thing, think of it as doing something god awful right now so you can get on the good side of your parents and have lots of fun later.

With these new and power-ful skills, you can overcome any urge to procrastinate. No need to thank me, I’m just here to help out my fellow students. And I had to get something in the pa-per before deadline. You know how it is.

Dino-Therapyannelise jacobson

I’m into dinosaurs. I’m actual-ly quite famous for it. I draw a T-Rex, triceratops, bracheasaurus. I can scratch out a Pterodactyl or a velociraptor on a good day. Ju-rassic Park is one of my favorite movies ever.

Only recently have I realized how weird this is. I’m 18, and fe-male, so this is a fairly unusual and even childish.

My childhood was filled with the long summer nights, playing

in the yard as the colors filled the sky and faded, until we couldn’t see each other anymore. Drink-ing out of the hose, mud pies, long unsupervised hours in forts constructed from firewood. Back in the day when things didn’t matter so much and my teachers weren’t waving my GPA under my nose and working sounded like a mysterious and exciting future.

Even though I now have a

job, a driver’s license, can vote and I’m moving out this August, there is a big part of me that won’t let go of that childhood.

So I draw dinosaurs. Big ones, small ones, on the backs of my homework and in the margins of my notes. On the blackboards when my teachers aren’t watch-ing, on my friend’s birthday cards.

Call it immature, call it bi-zarre. But the truth is we had

something going back then. No stresses, nothing to distract from the act of pure living. Nothing, that is except wanting to grow up. I got what I wished for, and now I (classically) want it all back.

So I compromise, sitting some-where in the middle of childhood and adulthood. But it’s not such a bad place to be. After all, I’ve got my dinosaurs.

“From the notorious Twilight saga to the addicting Hunger Games series, we are lost.”

“Getting homework done during class will help you feel super smart and pro-ductive, and you’ll have a ton of extra time on your hands after school.”

“What happens during 2nd hour could drive a person to drink. And that’s bad for my fetus.”

- Mrs. Fettweis laments her unruly 2nd hour.

“The universe is com-pletely random, and the universe has determined that YOU are the man”

- Mr. Brown explaining to a student his place in the

universe.

“A buck can’t have a fawn inside of it... unless it ate it, of course”

- Mr. Hartwig on the birthing practices of deer.

“I have become invulnera-ble to your futile attempts to destroy me”

- Mr. Sheldon reflecting upon his new found

invincibility.

“There is no sex going on in this flask!”

- Mrs. Koepnick explains how asexual reproduction

works.

“Your audience are a bunch of trout. And you put them on the hook.”- Mr. Hartwig gives advice

to the students on intro-ductions

“Bless you. Now don’t ever sneeze in my presence again.”

- Mr. Yates excuses a stu-dent for their disruption.

“And I was like, ‘Trust me! I’m a chemist!’”

- Mr. Wilson explains his reasoning for... well, pretty

much everything.

“That’s a great idea. ‘Mr. Rogers told me to bring my Uzi to school’.”

- Mr Rogers on the gun feature

“But he screws it up and in the end ultimately screws up the whole vil-lage by doing some other kinds of screwing...”

- Mrs. Fettweis spoils the ending of The Crucible.

“Isn’t that a tv show about vampires?”

- Dr. McReynold’s reveals his ignorance concerning

the Broadway musical Wicked

“It’s a sick world we live in when people wear sweat-pants to nightclubs.”

- Mr. Burke laments the poor state of our nation’s

party people.

“We’ll talk about circumci-sion later. It’s one of my favorite topics!”

- Mr. Yates hints at what is to come during his first

period of Bible Lit.

SportS March 11, 2011

by Mikey Hunter

Head Coach John Burkle met two of his goals set earlier the season, which were for seniors Cameron Herting and Colin McAl-lister to win individual state titles.

“We finished strong this season,” said head coach John Burkle. “Two individual state champions is a good accomplish-ment.”

Colin earned his first state title in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:42:57, three seconds faster then his seeded time. Colin McAllister finished second in the 500 free behind Herting with a time of 4:38.02.

“I really couldn’t have predicted Co-lin winning a state title back when he was a freshman,” said Burkle. “He was a very

good swimmer [as a freshman] but he need-ed work on his work ethic and training habits. Colin has improved greatly the past couple seasons.”

Cameron Herting earned his 3rd individ-ual state title in the 500 free style with a time of 4:36.03, two seconds then teamate McAllister. Hert-ing recently was accepted to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he plans to continue swimming.

City High finished sixth with 100 points. Winning the state title was Muscatine with 187.5 points. Also placing individually for

the Little Hawks were Sid McMillin, who earned a fifth place finish in the 100 Yard Freestyle. James Davis placed sixth in the 200 Yard IM.

Last season City placed ninth, and tenth the previous year. Swim-mers returning for next year plan on putting miles in the water to bet-ter this year’s fifth place finish.

“ I like swimming in the sum-mer.” said Ian Nessler ‘12. “I am go-ing to train in my backyard pond.”

Many swimmers will also join swim clubs to strengthen their per-

formance for next year.“I am swimming in the Eels club until

next season,” said Harrison Thompson ‘13. “I have a few meets this spring.”

Sixth in M’Town

“We finished strong this

season.”- Head Coach John Burkle

photo by ANNELISEJACOBSON

TAKEDOWN: Brad Gingerich ‘11 cheers on his team during an earlier meet. Brad placed sixth place at 215 lb weight class. Team mate Cody Donnelly ‘11 finished 4th at heavyweight.

by Mikey Hunter

Brad Gingerich knew as a freshmen that he would be on the podium in Wells Fargo Arena one day.

“My long term goal was to place at state,” Gingerich said.

He met that goal, while nev-er missing a practice in his four years of wrestling. Gingerich would see if his yard work payed off at Western Dubuque.

City traveled to Western Dubuque for the district tour-nament on February 12th. Brad Gingerich placed second at 215 and Cody Donnelly won the title at heavyweight, qualifying them to represent City High at the state tournament in Des Moines.

Brad Gingerich was paired with Evan Reithmeier (29-3) of Newton for the first round.

“I wasn’t really thinking about the match or anything before I went out there,” Gingerich said.

He knocked off Reithmeier with a 3-2 decision. Gingerich was defeated the next round, but scored three more victories in the consolations for a sixth place finish. Gingerich finished the season with a 34-15 record.

“I think I finished up really well,” Gin-gerich said.

Also earning All-American honors was heavyweight Cody Donnelly.

Donnelly started his first round match with a victory over Alex Goss of Keokuk. He would win his next round match by

a close 3-2 decision over Pedro Gomez of Marshall-town. His next opponent was Broddie Berry of Bet-tendorf.

Berry, the eventual run-ner up handed Donnelly his first defeat of the tourna-ment with a fall in the first period. Donnelly wrestled back in the consolations to place fourth and end the year with a 32-7 record.

Even though the wres-tling season is over, wres-

tlers will continue to train for next year. “I am going to lift weights this off sea-

son.” said De’Arius Salibi. “And probaly do some freestyle.”

In the spring many of the wrestlers will continue to work on their technique by competing in free style wrestling camps and tournaments.

Kody Dailey, Ryan Maas and Brad Gin-gerich competed at the prestigous Fargo Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota last year.

Freestyle practice will be coached by former City High wrestler Kyle Anson. An-son was a three time state champion and went on to wrestle for Northern Iowa.

Wrestling Places Two

ROAD TO SUCCESS

State Placewinners

Cameron Herting500 Free (1st)200 Yard (4th)

Colin McAllister200 Yard Free (1st)500 Yard Free (2nd)

Sid McMillin100 Yard Free (5th)

James Davis200 Yard IM (6th)

400 Yard Freestyle Relay (5th)

“I think I finished up really well.”

- Brad Gingerich‘11215 Lbs

by Mikey Hunter

Roaring cheers and jeers from the packed bleachers echoed in the New Gym as Bro Fest stood staring down the compe-tition after their first round victory of the speedball tournament.

The second annual Hunger Drive Speed-ball Tournament was organized by Student Senate to raise can foods for local shelters. 17 teams all wanted to have bragging rights for being the best speed ball team in the school and also win the can trophy.

“The tournament was terrific, the old

gym was packed and we raised two hun-dred something cans for the food drive.” Chip Hardesty said. “Also special thanks to Mariah Ritter for being refer-ree.”

One of the most exciting first round matches was Team Amurica vs Bro Fest.

Team Amurica, a sopho-more based team came into the game as the under dogs. Early goals from Tyler Stika and Drew Cornwell put Bro Fest under pressure. Amurica almost pulled the upset

over the favored Bro Fest in the first round, but ended up losing in the final minute, 4-3 from a Andrew McNulty half court score.

Bro Fest which consisted of Kye Grenko, Adam Prybil, Zach Swehla, Connor Alber-hasky, JD McCullough and Andrew McNulty, took the title.

Bro Fest defeated Our Lifes Are Bro, which was primar-ily a junior based team in the

finals. Swehla believes the reason for the championship was due to his team’s style.

“We go hard in da paint.” Swehla said. Team Mat Pac defeated Hoagan’s Team

for a third place finish. Mat Pac had varsity wrestlers Brent Hamm, Evgeney Kolyva-nov, and Mitch Hasler on the roster.

“We played well until the semi- finals.” Brent Hamm said. “We went into double overtime with Bro Fest, but ended up los-ing.”

The two can admission fee for the tour-nament ended up meeting Student Senates goal. The overall total was 200 cans. Cans from the tournament will benefit those in need at local shelters.

Speedball Brings Charity

Brad Gingerich and Cody Donnelly both placed at the state tourna-ment on February 16th.

The 2nd Annual Hungerdrive Speedball Tournament brought out lots of students and raised over 200 of cans for the food drive

“We go hard in da paint.”

- Zach Swehla ‘11Bro Fest

Boys swimming finished the season placing fifth in Marshalltown. Cam Herting and Colin McAllister each won state titles in their events

photo by MICHAELHUNTER

Shooting for Success: John Law ‘12, Bobby Millard ‘11, Daren Jones ‘13, Lonnie Chester ‘13, Bobby Razavi ‘12, De’ Arius Salibi ‘13 and Matt Lee ‘13 participated in the 2nd Annual Speed Ball Tournament.

Sports Results

Boys SwimmingState Fifth PlaceDistrict 2ndCam Herting 1st 500 FreeColin McAllister 1st 200 Free

Boys BasketballRecord 2-20Substate L 36-48 Pleasant Valley

Girls BasketballRecord 17-6Regionals L 67 53 Southeast Polk

WrestlingState 26thRecordCody Donnelly 4th HeavyweightBrad Gingerich 6th 215

Basketball Comes Up Short

SportSMarch 11, 2011

photos by ANNELISEJACOBSON

LEADERSHIP: Jeremy Johnson ‘12 and Virginia Johnson ‘11 have been key players for their varsity teams this season. Jeremy has put up 123 points for the Little Hawks this season. Virginia, an Iowa recruit has averaged 23 points per game this season.

Boys by Will Benson

As the final buzzer sounded to the City High boys season, the familiar taste of defeat set in for the last time. Teammates slowly walked back into the locker room with heads hung low in exhaus-tion and frustration.

“Our guys were disapointed, which is good to see showing that they care,” Head Coach Adam Loria said.

The young Little Hawk roster clawed and fought to the ending whistle in their sub state opening loss versus Pleasant Valley. They raced out to a 9-0 run in the 3rd quarter, but fell apart late due to poor shooting and struggles from the free throw line.

“The refs made some ques-tionable calls during the PV game, which obviously hurt us,” Jeff Campbell 12’ said.

But with guard Andrew McNulty 11’ as the lone senior starter, the future is looking promis-ing. Despite a poor record, it would be hard to write off the Little Hawks as a team who failed to compete.

As shown all year, the players on the team trained hard day in and day out, while former City basketball players chose to not go out for various reasons.

The lack of depth forced City

to use younger underclassmen in games where seniors would normally be expected to carry the load.

“We gained experience with our 9 players back with minutes, and improvements were shown in all stats throughout the year,” Loria said.

The younger players gained confidence for later years, and are certainly keeping their heads high.

“Mercer is my home away from home, so that’s why I don’t miss,” Lonnie Chester 13’ said.

With big men Cortez Barfield 12’ and Ronald Thompson 12’ coming back, and guards Jeremy Johnson 12’ and Chester return-ing in the back court, the team is optimistic about its chances next year.

“If you take a look at our re-cord this season, we can go no-where but up,” Campbell said.

A number of 10th graders also returned, after suit-ing up and practic-ing for varsity while participating in the sophomore games.

The bottom line record of the 2-20 City High boys team leaves fans wonder-ing if this season was a rebuilding year or a disapoint-ment.

“During my time spent in the stands, I managed to count every single ceiling tile,” avid fan Jake Bingelli 12’ said.

by Annelise Jacobson

GREATNESS. Their shirts said it all. Everyone was expecting it. The fans, the parents, the school, and the players themselves. They were living that dream, but hand in hand with this ex-pectation came dis-appointment when their trip to state was cut short in a second round play-off game. Tied up for the first half, Southeast Polk’s third quarter drive left them behind.

“Its seemed like they couldn’t miss,” Virginia Johnson ‘11 said. “And then we watched it all fall apart. It was really heartbreak-ing.”

The girls finished their season 17-6.

Despite its ending, it was a season was full of success for the girls. One of their 17 wins included the Wom-en of Troy, who end-ed their season 2nd in the state.

The team also raised over $2,200 for Juvenile Dia-betes during the City/West games, through cookies sales and raffles. They traveled to Grant Wood El-ementay to read to kids. They had more team sleepovers than they can remember.

Through the highs and the lows, the team grew close.

“We really connected towards the end of the season,” Harper Beasley ‘12 said.

“We consider each other sisters,” John-son said.

Another highlight of the season came and went without of fuss. Johnson broke the all-time City High rebounding record, something she was

not expecting. “I was really surprised,” John-

son said. “I didn’t know I was close to any record. I think Coach kept it a secret from me.”

But Johnson’s basketball ca-reer is far from over. She will be playing for the University of Iowa next fall. Though she will be making it big, there are still many things she will be missing about

City High basketball as she takes the next step.

“Really, the little things,” Johnson said. “Team dinners, walk-ing in and seeing the locker signs. Never being able to wear the same jersey again.”

This year has been full of memories,

victories, disappointment, good-byes, and the bonds that last a lifetime. “They’ll be my team-mates ‘til the day I die,” Johnson said.

Girls

“Mercer is my home away from

home, so that’s why I don’t miss,”

- Lonnie Chester ‘13

“We consider each other sisters... they’ll be my team-mates ‘til the day I

die.”

- Virginia Johson ‘11

by Will Benson

The title of the article about the City vs. West boys basket-ball game earlier this month in the Press Citizen read “It’s Trojan Town”.

Sure, the 1-18 Little Hawks lost to the Trojans 56-33, but a single victory against a strug-gling team doesn’t validate that heading in an “impartial” paper. If I recall, City High has beaten down on West High in football the past six years, is dominating in swimming, and just recently took down West in a girls basketball thriller. Both schools pride themselves in having excellent athletics, so headlines like that are un-warranted. And to be honest, a victory against the a rebuild-ing Little Hawk boys team isn’t something that deserves such a radical statement.

The local paper should strive to keep the coverage of the two schools equal and pro-fessional. And using common sense, a win versus a team with a down year doesn’t mean too much. I’d say next time one of our sports teams pulls out a win, it would be a nice sight to see a similar title for the School That Leads.

Little Hawk TownOpinion Column

Both boys and girls seasons ended last weekend after being defeated in regional and district rounds.

“We really con-nected towards the end of the season”

- Harper Beasley ‘12

photo by JASONTIEMEYERAverage Joe’s Karl Fleener ‘11 fights for post position in their 48-39 win against Tate. (far left). Joe Fefee ‘11 goes in for the lay-in against Tate (2nd from right). Rob Nauman ‘11 squares up for two free throws (far right).

SportS March 11, 2011

interview by michael hunterPLAYMAKERPROFILE virginiajohnsonLH: How long have you been playing basketball?Johnson: Since I was fiveLH: What is your pre-game meal?Johnson: Snickers and a gatoradeLH: What was your teams biggest strength?Johnson: Our unityLH: Who is your role model?Johnson: My oldest brother RussellLH: Any pre-game rituals?Johnson: Eating a honey bun/listening to Eminem

LH: What do you plan on studying next year at Iowa?Johnson: Accounting/minor in RussianLH: Best memory from basketball?Johnson: State in 08’/ Team sleep overs at Kayla’sLH: Favorite pro sports team?Johnson: Whatever team plays the PackersLH: What position are you going to play at Iowa?Johnson: 2 or 3LH: What were some other college choices?Johnson: Rutgers, North Carolina, and North Dakota

LH: Favorite music group/artist?Johnson: Miles DavisLH: Favorite song?Johnson “Unwritten” by Miles DavisLH: Favorite class?Johnson: Pre- Calculus (Mrs. Mclaughlin)LH: What’s one question you wish I’d asked?Johnson: What I’ll miss most about CHS basketballLH: And the answer is?Johnson My teammates

YEAR: S e n i o r

SPORT:B a s k e t b a l l

GAME RECAPSby Will Benson

-Average Joe’s-48 Tate-39The Joe’s surprised everyone

with a statement win versus Tate High. Using a mean two-man halfcourt trap and great help D, the guards forced many turn-overs that led to fast break points against the towering Tate lineup.

Frustrations were evident when bench player Dante Yance created quite the ruckus by run-ning onto the court with 5 min-utes left in a pair of blue jeans, and a technical was assessed.

-F.S.U.-44 D.U.I.-42This clash of the junior squads

lived up to the hype with a close game narrowly decided by a late shot. Jason Tiemeyer 12’ hit a medium baseline jay with less than 30 seconds left to give FSU a two point lead. After a missed

free throw on a 1-on-1, the lead was pre-served. A bru-tally physical contest had a friendly begin-ning however, as DUI’s Coale Cooper 12’ head-lined a dance-off with his signa-ture Dougie.

- Tropics 55 Pokeballerz 53The Tropics once again found a

way to win after being down early in the 1st half versus the new look Pokeballerz. Two players found to be not on the actual roster

were forced to exit after some clever inves-tigation work by a couple Tropics. After the removal of the other stars,

Dwayne Carter 11’ and power presence Felix Mulligan 11’ could not maintain the lead.

Other games include: Hoops! I Did It Again pulling out a W against the Swishin’ Sweets by 10, and Riverside trouncing the win-less Master Bait and Tackle 72-59.

-Average Joe’s-48 Tate-39The Joe’s surprised all of the Rec League fan base in attendance with a statement win versus Tate High. Using a mean two-man halfcourt trap and great help D, the guards forced many turn-overs that led to fast break points against the towering

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T 8 Riverside 39

9 Pokeballerz 34

4 Flint Tropics 52

5 S’ Sweets 53

3 Tate High 70

6 D.U.I. 35

7 F.S.U. 22

10 Bait & Tackle 14

2 Hoops! 45

8 Riverside 45

7 F.S.U. 37

3 Tate High 54

5 Swishin’ Sweet 34

2 Hoops! 48

1 Average Joes 45

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3 Tate High 53

1 Average Joes1 Average Joes 65

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Girls Track Season Starts

Girls track started the sea-son off in Waverly at Wartbug College and The Rock Island Invitational.

Aliyah Gustafson won the shot put with a distance of 11.49 meters. Also placing for the Little Hawks was Nicole Kuddes, Clair Crew, Soumba Traore, Valerie Kooker, Corbin Scholz, Harper Beasley, Alex-andra Tamerius, and Emily So-telo. Girl’s next track meet will be the Iowa State University Classic in Ames on March 14th.

Brad Smith inducted into Hall of Fame

Head wrestling Coach Brad Smith was inducted into the Iowa High School Wrestling Halll of Fame the weekend of the State Tournament.

Smith was also inducted into the Illinois High School Wrestling Hall of Fame back in 2004 for wrestling. Smith was a two-time state champion for Naperville Central, Illinois and the 1976 NCAA National Champ at 156 lbs. when he competed for University of Iowa. Smith is also second on all-time team dual wins in the state of Iowa.

Burkle MVCMVC Coach of the Year

Head Coach John Burkle was named district and MVC coach of the year by fellow con-ference teams.

Burkle led the team to a sixth place finish at the state meet in Marshalltown.

Herting Swimmer of the Year

Senior Cameron Herting repeated as MVC Swimmer of the Year . Herting is a Three time state champion in the 500 Free and will continue his swimming career at Emory in Atlanta, Georgia.

All-Conference Basketball Selections

GIRLS - 1st TEAM: Virginia Johnson2nd Team:Mickey HanscheHonorable Mention:Sierra Chambers Kayla Hyche

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