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LocalsuicideatragicreminderIn October, a Canadian teenager

made international news after taking her own life.

In December, a Spotsylvania teenag-er took his own life.

In March, a Stafford County teenager took his own life.

You hear about a teen’s suicide on the news, think about it for a moment and then move on with your day.

You hear about a teen committing suicide in the next county over, and you read about it in the local paper, and then you move on without thinking about it the next day.

Then you hear about a teen at your rival high school committing suicide not by turning on the TV news or picking up a newspaper, but by your mom texting you to ask if you knew the person. When you turn on your computer, you see the Facebook posts and RIP hashtags from your friends at the other school, and you sympathize. You couldn’t imagine how it must feel to lose a classmate at such a young age. You couldn’t imagine how his friends must feel coming back to school the next day trying to pay attention to their latest lessons on American government or geometry.

And that’s the problem with suicide, no one can imagine his friend, class-

mate or family member doing it until it happens.

More than 38,000 people commit su-icide every year in the United States—that’s one every 14 minutes. The Centers for Disease Control reported that the attempted suicide rate for high school students rose to 7.8% in 2011, and suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year olds.

While the reasons for teen suicides vary, they are all morbid reminders that we are not invincible or immune to tragedy. Our high school community can be rocked with just one act.

Colonial Forge’s loss reminds us that we are all here together, regardless of how different our experiences are, we all attend Mountain View. We are all Wildcats—the band kids, the all-star athletes and the journalism nerds.

Each member of our school acts as a single cog in the machine that is unique to our school. Losing one of those cogs will forever change our machine and the other cogs.

Although this suicide is a tragedy for all, we must learn from it.

As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in “The Great Gatsby,” “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

Memories and sympathies cannot

take back what has happened, but they can help us prevent the same tragedy from happening again.

Suicide is 100% preventable. If you need help, ask. If you think your friend needs help, talk to him. Log on to SAVE.org to learn the signs of suicide and ways to help.

Every day, we need to make every-one feel like a Wildcat. We need to show our friends how much we value them, how much they mean to us.

Show them how much you care. Ask them how they are feeling and actually listen.

Sometimes, their problems might seem too big to handle, but there are professionals who can help.

Our counselors at school are here to help, and if for some reason they can’t, they can find people that can.

If you feel like you or someone you know may commit suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.

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The band finds a majority of their plays over seas, but it is only a matters of time before their hit song Chocolate finds its place here in the United States. They were recently featured on Sirius Radio as a “hit bound” artist. The lyrics are

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Some people have seen Mac Miller as the new Eminem but his style couldn’t be more different than Marshall Mathers. After steadily releasing songs through-out 2012 such as “Missed Calls”, he is set to release “Watching Movies With the Sound Off.”

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cling competition began in Septem-ber, Mountain View has alternated between first and third place and is currently in the lead, just a hair ahead of competitor, Brooke Point.

“Healthy competition,” said teacher Eric Hokanson, “particularly with high school kids, always tends to inspire. Nothing helps inspire kids more than saying ’Oh, this other school is gonna beat us if you don’t!’”

Hokanson is in charge of the school’s recycling, promoting the program at faculty meetings and among the students.

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announcement,” said Anderson, “and we just had the idea to do it about re-cycling grocery bags and that turned into our project.”

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“[The administration] didn’t want any big carts being pushed around,” said Castillo, “which is why we did the boxes in the classrooms.”

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“I like to count the bags,” said Martz.

The project has helped Moun-tain View stay in the lead in the county-wide high school recycling competition.

In the meantime, students are encouraged to keep bringing in their plastic bags, as well as recycling at lunch in the blue bins, so that Mountain View may extend their lead and win the recycling competition for the year.

Hokanson said, “I think what most people forget is that it’s single-stream recycling. It all goes in the blue bins. Even if there’s a doubt, put it in the blue bins, because it’s all sorted by hand. I get so many questions about ‘Well, what about wrapping paper?’ or ‘What about this? What about that?’ Yes. Collectively. Basically everything but food and styrofoam can go in the recycle bin, and yet it’s not something that they think about. “

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Who? Assistant Superinten-dent of Secondary Eductaion Lisa Martin recommended the additions, and girls lacrosse players from across the county have lobbied the School Board to approve them.

At the February 12 School Board meeting, the board voted unani-mously to approve the addition of three new girls sports.

Junior Lauren Donahue spoke at the meeting and said she thought it was important for players to speak directly to the School Board.

“The School Board likes to hear from the people who will be affected by this,” she said. “It’s more effective [to convince them] when players speak to them.”

School Board member Patricia Healy of the Rockhill District said, “I was pleased that students who are currently playing on travel came to address the School Board.”

“They were excellent spokeswom-en for their cause,” she said. “Their passion and desire to play for their high schools were factors I consid-ered in my decision to support the addition of the girls lacrosse to the

athletic program.” What? A new Stafford

County School Board ruling that will add girls lacrosse, freshmen and middle school volleyball and girls golf.

The high school volleyball program will expand to include a freshman team at each high school as well as adding the sport at the middle school level.

Although technically girls can already compete on the golf team in high school, this ruling adds a sepa-rate team just for girls.

Girls lacrosse is the third sport which will be added at the high school level with both a varsity and jv team.

Adding these teams is estimated to cost the county $265,000.

“The School Board recently approved its fiscal year 2014 budget which included the cost of the imple-mentation of the approved expanded girls athletic programs”, Healy said.

The county’s Board of Supervisors must first decide how much money is being allocated to the School Board for the 2014 fiscal year before the School Board can adopt this budget. This will likely occur in May.

“The School Board has requested a substantial increase in local funding from the Board of Supervisors,” said Healy. “If the Board of Supervisors doesn’t approve the budget request-ed by the School Board, cuts will have to be made from the program.”

The School Board hasn’t decided what these cuts would be.

“In the event budget cuts become necessary, the School Board will hold one or more work sessions to discuss the funding and the areas in which cuts to the approved budget will be made,” said Healy.

When? Girls will have to wait until next school year to begin participating.

“Girls lacrosse is to be rolled out in Spring of 2014,” said Martin.

The golf and volleyball programs will begin in August of this year.

“I’m a little disappointed [that it’s not this year], but at least I get to experience it,” said Donahue. “I know the seniors are upset they won’t get to play, but they’re excited for the younger girls.”

Although players may be disap-pointed that lacrossse did not start this spring, the School Board is still concerned that the fall sports may

not even be fully prepared by August.“We currently do not have girls vol-

leyball coaches in place,” said Martin. “Time is essential to have all elements in place for August.”

Why? This decision will provide female students more opportuni-ties in accordance with Title IX.

Forty years ago, Title IX was enact-ed by Congress in order to promote gender equality in schools. A major component of this law was creating and promoting more opportunities for female athletes to participate in school sports.

Although female students make up 50% of the high school population in Stafford County, they only make up 40% of the number of athletes—that’s a 10% gap.

A recent court case against Quin-nipiac University found the school’s gap of 3.62% to be out of compliance with Title IX.

“Formal complaints of non-com-pliance are investigated by the Office for Civil Rights,” explained Healy. “In the case of Stafford County Public Schools, to my knowledge, no com-plaint was filed with the Office for Civil Rights, therefore there has been no formal investigation of ‘finding’.”

Who? What? When? Why?The Stafford County School Board recently added three new girl sports in an attempt to close the 10 percent sports participation gap between girls and boys. by Emmy Reinwald

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Losing isn’t rare for the softball team.

Last year, they only won one game, but this year they have a

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If you follow a softball player on Twitter, you might have seen the hashtag #worsttofirst a time or two.

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The players want to bring the team closer to its former glory as district champions.

After a devastating loss to Co-lonial Forge on March 13, though, the team learned a valuable lesson. “[Losing to Forge] showed us that wins weren’t going to be handed to us. We still have to work for it,” said Shelby Tennant, sophomore catcher.

As the team works toward their goal, their first lost will be in the back of their minds. Levesque said, “It was very emotional, most of us cried, but now we’ll remember how it felt, and we don’t want to do that again.”

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