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The ELL (English Language Learners) program is shrinking this school year.

There are just 43 ELL students at MTHS this year, compared to nearly 100 from last year. The program has begun to slowly dis-solve because most of the last year’s ninth graders are now at Edmonds-Woodway High School.

The district wanted all ELL students to attend their home school, which resulted in the opening of a new ELL program at

Meadowdale High School. The reasoning is that students attending their respective home school will experience a better transi-tion from middle school to high school.

Michelle Tessier, who has been an ELL teacher in MTHS for 12 years, will be teach-ing beginning, intermediate and advanced ELL at Meadowdale H.S. At MTHS, she will be teaching advanced ELL for 5th period and English 9 for 6th period. Her advisory students at MTHS are going to be assigned to a different teacher.

Because Meadowdale H.S. has block class-es, Tessier will be teaching 1st and 3rd

period on Mondays and Wednesdays. Her 2nd period class will be used to assist the mainstream teachers on how to work with ELL students.

Meadowdale students will not have ELL support on Tuesdays and Thursdays and will not have the opportunity to see some-one about non-ELL specific issues on those days. They will also have to mix beginner and intermediate students, because there are not enough students to form a single class.

“It’s almost not a program anymore, it’s almost getting to be classes because we can’t offer all the things that we used to offer,” Tessier said.

Betsy Zeifman, who has been teaching ELL since early 1980s, will be a part-time

teacher for ELL History, Beginning ELL and Senior COE ELL at MTHS.

Zeifman is a 0.8 FTE (full time equiva-lent) at Terrace, making her one class shy of being a full-time teacher. She is taking sick leave for 0.2 FTE so that Tessier could still be at MTHS for 0.2 FTE.

“I think when you have more people, it’s more dynamic. I’m very sad that Mrs. Tessier is not here with me because I think we make a great team and we can offer the students a lot more,” Zeifman said. “I just think team teaching is just a lot stronger than being by yourself and I think the stu-dents network better when there are more of them.”

At one point, the program had students

New roof, changes to PASS and Senior Project among the significant changes since last spring By AnhViet NguyenNews Co-Editor

Each school year brings new changes and a chance to start anew. Over the summer, con-struction crews worked on the $1.3 million roof renovation proj-ect. Students and staff had limited access to the building, but many back to school events took place.

While students and staff may have already noticed the build-ing’s physical changes, some nota-ble academic and extracurricular programs will also see changes.PASS

This year, a third day of PASS will be added to the fourth week of each month. The extra day will be utilized for school-wide and non-academic activities.

Last year, PASS was introduced as a 37-minute study period, two days a week on Wednesdays and Thursdays, for students to catch up on schoolwork. Although staff members liked PASS, many were frustrated that other things were being scheduled during PASS, which took away from its purpose of “Promoting Academic Student Success”.

“I think that if they can fit the activities they need to once a month, then it’s fine,” junior Jack Pearce said.

There were discussions about adding an extra day of PASS each week, but the plan was nixed since some classes would be adversely affected by losing classroom time.

“I would like to see more PASS if both the teachers and students are willing to work,” Pearce said.Activities Bus

In addition to PASS, there will be an activities bus beginning on Sept. 25 to aid academic success. The bus will leave at 3:25 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. It will make all of the

stops on the regular bus routes. Principal Greg Schwab said the plan encourages students to stay after school and receive help from teachers if needed.

“I will take advantage of (the activities bus) because it will help me become a better student and help my transcript,” sophomore Ali Shah said. “There shouldn’t be

an excuse because now there will be an activities bus.”

Senior Project choicesA college application project

option has been added with defi-nite deadlines mirroring the col-lege application process. Students can also choose to do a career exploration project or create a project to enter the Intel interna-tional science fair.

“I am thinking about doing a

career exploration project, mak-ing a CD, or directing a jazz combo,” senior Kandin Neri said. “Or I might do a project in the engineering field.”

He’s also considering doing the college application project, which Schwab has deemed to be “rigor-ous”.

ELL sees its numbers decrease, program shifts to local schools

Several upgrades as school year begins

Serafina Urrutia | Hawkeye

The new opaque glass in the HUB skylights is just one of the major upgrades to the building during the summer. New skylights were also installed above each wing’s stairwells and above the exterior main entrance.

“I am thinking about doing a career

exploration project. Or I might do a project in the engineering field.”

Kandin NerisENior

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By Will KhadiviNews Co-Editor

Over the summer, MTHS drew state and national attention while competing for Target gift cards.

On Facebook, the nationwide department store pledged to donate up to $2.5 million to K-12 schools across the country. For every 25 votes per school on Facebook, Target would donate a $25 gift card to be used for school supplies.

While no school came close to the $10,000 maximum limit, MTHS ranked among the top 10 schools nationwide for weeks. In the end, MTHS had the most votes out of any school in the state and was able to rake in a $775 in Target gift cards.

With public school budgets being cut dramatically in the last few years, any additional funds are welcome news.

“We could use these cards to buy supplies for our

school for use by our students,” Principal Greg Schwab said. “We could also use these cards to help low-income students with specific needs for school.”

Throughout the entire competition, there was a tre-mendous outpouring of support from the entire MTHS

community. Many students, parents, and staff members posted on their Facebook or Twitter page about the competition.

During Tour de Terrace, posters advertised the competition and mem-bers of the MTHS Key Club gave out papers to parade watchers asking them to vote.

“This was an incredible showing of support and spirit from our school community,” Schwab said. “It once again reminds me that we have a great school with wonderful students, parents and staff.”

The gift cards will be shipped to MTHS in the com-ing weeks.

from 30 different countries. “That’s the great thing about being an ELL teacher, you learn as much as the students do because you learn about their cultures and their perspective. It adds a lot of vitality in the classroom,” Zeifman said.

Tessier thinks that the program will continue to shrink in the coming years. She believes that both Edmonds-Woodway and Meadowdale will be close to a full time teacher, but neither of them will require more than two teachers.

The number of ELL students who are in MTHS only amounts to one teacher. Many of the students have graduated and a third of them have transitioned out of ELL over the past years.

“I’m going to miss Terrace. I love the community that was built here and how well teachers work with our community. We’ve had fabulous kids that I think really add to the dimension of what Mountlake Terrace is, and so I think it’s a loss for both the kids as well as for the staff,” Tessier said.

“This was an incredible showing

of support and spirit from our

school community.”Greg Schwab

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News BriefsBy AnhViet NguyenNews Co-Editor

A Twitter account by the name of @TerraceNice (www.twitter.com/terracenice) sprang up on Aug. 18. The account, created by an anonymous MTHS student, regularly posts nice things about students and teachers. With an increas-ing number of students using Twitter to voice their opin-ions and thoughts, the potential for cyberbullying leading to real-life bullying has increased, @TerraceNice encour-ages anyone to send direct messages (DMs) or e-mails to [email protected] with nice and positive things to say about their classmates or teachers.

Need a snack or a drink? There are new vending machines in the school with a wider variety of choices. MTHS chose Advantage Vending and Distribution (Ferndale, Wash.) to run the machines after the district provided a list of poten-tial vending companies. The machines come loaded with the usual snacks, water, juice, soda and Gatorade. However, milk, Naked fruit smoothies, Starbucks drinks and other new products are now available. So far, the new machines have generated a positive response from students.

Senior Peyton Morrison said, “I like that there will be more of a variety, even if it’s a little pricier, it’s nice to see more choices to pick from.”

While the new options are appealing, prices will also see a slight increase. Many of the snacks will cost $1.25, an increase from $1 in previous years. Bottled water will now cost $1.75. Although these goodies will be costlier, the machines are aesthetically nicer and the days of students screaming “The vending machine stole my money!” are in the past.

Spreading niceness and kindness

Vending machines get makeover

MTHS earns $775 in Target gift cards over the summer

ELL program brings diversity, but faces declining numbers

Senior project options show more flexibility, unlike firmer tardy policy

Q&A with Evan HatchMTHS’s newest counselor, Evan Hatch, was hired in early August. Since

then, he’s already gotten used to his office and met some of the students he’ll be working with. Hatch graduated from Western Washington University and was a counselor and women’s soccer coach at Cedarcrest High School before becoming a Hawk.

Q. How did you find out about the open counselor position at Mountlake Terrace High School and why were you interested?

A. District websites are updated almost every day throughout the sum-mer, and I was excited to see a counseling position posted at Terrace. I grew up just a few miles away, and Terrace feels like home.

Q. What do you like to do in your free time? A. I like to hike, camp, do yoga, and spend time with family and

friends. My wife is my best friend, and she’s the coolest person ever.

Q. Why did you want to become a school counselor? A. When I was in college, I realized that I should have met with and

trusted my high school counselor more. It would have helped me gain perspective and developed personal goals as I graduated high school and moved on to another chapter of life. My hope is that I am the type of school counselor that people feel comfortable talking to.

Q. Even though we’ve just met you, what is something really interest-ing that people should know about you?

A. I drive a 1999 yellow Beetle. It even has a little yellow flower stuck in the dashboard. I get funny looks from people all the time. The truth is that it’s my wife’s car from before we were married, but it’s fun to let people think that I purposefully chose to buy and drive that car. Now my secret is out!

Q. What are some things you are looking forward to at MTHS? A. The staff and the students that I have met so far have been wonder-

fully welcoming. More than anything, I’m looking forward to meeting everyone, and helping to make MTHS an even better place.

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In previous years, there have been five types of senior projects to choose from including designing a product, service or system; event/activity planning; investiga-tion; learning a new skill/improving an existing skill; or research. Seniors can still choose from the original five options or choose one of the new options to fulfill the graduation requirement.

Tabetha Sheppard, senior, already had her senior proj-ect proposal approved in June, well before she found out about the new options. “I am shadowing the psy-chologist at Fort Lewis for the FOCUS project, doing an informational seminar about post traumatic stress disorder and the wounded warrior project, then selling yellow ribbons for PTSD awareness as a fundraiser for

the wounded warrior project,” Sheppard said.Schwab and Career Center Coordinator Erika Spellman

were instrumental in developing the new senior project options. “We want to do more as a school to promote post-high school opportunities,” Schwab said.

The senior project will continue to be embedded within senior English classes.Tardy Policy

A more stringent tardy policy will be put in place this year. A tardy is defined as not being in the classroom when the bell rings.

The first three tardies, discipline will be handled at the classroom level. After the fourth tardy, discipline will be referred to administration.

Schwab said he believes staff will enforce the policy after numerous tardiness issues last year.

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The time to regain firearm control is now, not later

the P.a.S.S predicament

The new system called “Promoting Academic Student Success,” or

P.A.S.S, will affect the incoming freshmen in a good way if used cor-rectly. The benefit they receive from this gift of time will depend on how they use the time they are given. Though some may use it as social hour, the successful will use it the way it was meant to be used. Pass is a wonderful time to catch up on your assignments and get help from teachers and many do choose to use it this way. Temptations like music, socializing, and pretty much anything besides doing work run pretty high at that time. But once they use P.A.S.S, it will help immensely with the burdens of high school. Some say that this time has been wasted and most use it for things other than school work. And that is partially true. There are always those in a group that don’t work hard. But this incoming fresh-man class has this incredible gift of time. And as long as they use it the way they should, P.A.S.S will become a valuable time in each week.

Over this past summer, our nation was ravaged by two mass shootings. One was at a movie theater in

Aurora, Colorado on July 20 during a midnight show-ing of the film “The Dark Night.” 12 killed, 58 injured. Another shooting took place at an Oak Creek, Wisconsin Sikh temple. Seven people killed (including the perpe-trator), four were injured.

In a normal political cli-mate, we would see politi-cians coming together from both sides of the aisle to respond with common sense

legislation to patch the major holes in our nation’s gun laws. However, we have seen nothing but silence from liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans alike.

The politics of guns have been risky business for decades in the United States thanks to the power-ful gun-lobby, most prominently the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its unhealthy choke hold on the gun conversation. Rather than doing what is right, politicians fear the power of the NRA and fear their chances of re-election will diminish.

The NRA has been successful in curbing almost all stricter gun legislation in recent history. In fact, the

ten-year assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, would have prevented the Sikh temple shooter, Wade Michael Page, from obtaining his 9-millimeter semi-automatic pistol. Had the ban been in effect, it would have also prevented Aurora shooter, James Eagan Holmes, from

obtaining at least one of the guns he used, a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic rifle with a 100-round drum magazine.

According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, almost 100,000 people are shot or killed with a gun every year on average in the United States. This country has lost over one million lives due to gun violence since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy were assassinated in 1968.

The United States also has the highest rate of murder with a gun among developed countries and the highest rate of gun ownership among developed nations.

A 2003 study by the Department of Health and Human Services and the UCLA School of Public Health in Los Angeles concluded that: “The United States has far higher rates of firearm deaths, firearm homicides, firearm suicides, and unintentional firearm deaths compared with other high-income countries.”

Despite what the NRA would have you think, gun law reform is popular. According to the Brady Campaign, 65 percent of Americans support the restriction of purchasing one handgun per month. 82 percent of Americans also support putting limits on the sales of assault weapons such as AK-47s.

We are in dire need of new, stricter laws to protect the safety of the American public. Some of the laws that are needed are common sense too, but the NRA has been so unwilling to compromise on even the simplest of gun restrictions that politicians at every level of government are too afraid to stand up and support the laws.

It’s about time that our politicians grow a pair and do what’s right for the American

people.

By The Numbers:

Statistics gathered from the Brady Campaign website(www.bradycampaign.org/facts)

the price of memories

ASB Card prices go up this year, from $45 to $50. And yearbooks

used to be $70 (with ASB), $75 (with-out ASB), but are now $75 (with ASB), $85 (without ASB), respectively. This makes participation in extracurricu-lar activities and keeping high school memories increasing unaffordable for many MTHS students. However with the approval of a counselor and Principal Greg Schwab, low income students can get a price reduction on their ASB card. This is a good thing for those who want to be involved in our school community, but may not be able to afford it. Even so, there are still many students who do not qualify for the price reduction but can’t afford ASB cards and yearbooks this year. This may make us wonder if these parts of high school are really worth the investment. The answer is yes. We attend high school once, if you aren’t able to create memories that last a lifetime, then you probably did not have much fun. High school should be a time to make memories you will never forget.

Firearm deaths per year Suicides: 18,223 Murders: 12,179 Accidents: 592 Police related: 326 Unknown deaths: 273

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Welcome to a new school year! I am so very excited to see all of you

back in the halls and in classes. For our new 9th graders, it will be great to get to know you and for our returning stu-dents, it is great to see so many familiar faces.

I hope your summer break

was what you had wanted it to be. But now we’re back to school and back to the business of being students.

I have been thinking a lot this summer about our school and what it means to be a member of our school community.

We are really an amazing place with so many outstanding pro-grams, both academic and extra-curricular. There is much for us to be proud of as mem-bers of our school.

But being a part of a community also means we have a responsibility to the community to do our parts to help make it great. Our school motto is “To be; not to seem.”

Have you ever wondered what that really means?

What does it mean to BE a member of our school? It means that you contribute to it in a positive way, both in your classes and outside of your classes at lunches, passing times, before and after school. It means that you represent our school at school events, games, and in the com-munity.

As we go through this school year, I want to encourage everyone here at MTHS to BE a part of MTHS and help contribute to making us the great school

that we are. What is something you can do to help

make our school great? One of the sim-plest things you or anyone can do is sim-ply to make it a point to be kind to others.

High school is tough—classes are hard, many of us have challenges we face out-side of school, many of us are involved in sports, jobs or other activities that take up our time.

If we took a second to recognize that each of us is working really hard and that sometimes what we need is just for others to be kind to us, this simple act would go a long way to continuing the tradition of greatness that is our school. Smile and say hi to someone.

Call out others when you see them treat-ing someone in a way that is disrespectful or hurtful.

If everyone took the time to one simple kind thing each day, we would be an even more amazing place than we are already.

There are so many other things we can do to help make our school great, but let’s start with one simple act of kindness each day.

I’ll talk more later on about the other things we can do across this school year to keep our school moving forward as a positive place for everyone who calls it home for 6+ hours each day.

We are Terrace. Do your part.Welcome back and I wish everyone a

successful school year!

NOTE: The Hawkeye provides the school administrators space each issue in the

Opinion section as part of our mission as an open public forum.

Greg SchwabMTHS Principal

“We are really an amazing place with so many

outstanding programs, both academic and extra-curricular. There is much for us to be proud of as members of our school.”

Ready or not, the new school year is already here. I hope you all had a won-

derful summer and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine.

Like many of you, I’m very excited for the upcoming school year because of all the things we can accomplish together to make it fun.

First, I’d like to welcome the class of 2016 (the fresh-men) to MTHS. Make sure to stay on top of your schoolwork and get involved in extracurricular activities. One way you can get involved is to run for freshman class ASB. Those petitions are now available. I’m sure it’ll be worth your time.

Next, I’d like to invite everyone to attend a fall sporting event. There is something going on nearly every day on the football field, soccer pitch, ten-nis court, etc. Check out page 12 of the Hawkeye for those dates, times and loca-tions, and go support your fellow student-athletes.

And plus, the weather is going to be splendid for the rest of this week. Why spend your time inside during 80 degree weather?

As I said before, this school year is going

to be a great one. There will be two assem-blies in September and Big 6 is also work-ing on planning a special event. Hopefully, things will work out.

Needless to say, September will be a busy month (honestly, every month will be full of events). Picture day is coming up on Sept. 7. The parking auction for students is on Sept. 15. For parents, curriculum night is on Sept. 29.

Our ASB is ready for the upcoming school year. We’re motivated to make Terrace the best place that it can be so that everyone can get along with each other, have an enjoyable learning experience, and have some fun along the way. My personal mantra is “work hard, play hard” and I hope that is something that we can all try

to do this year.You might be wonder-

ing: how are we going to do that? Well, it starts with the little things. Something like meeting someone new and mak-ing them feel welcome can go a long way. After

all, we’re going to be sharing a building for the rest of the year with each other.

Strive to make every day a great day and as a result, it’ll be a great year for all of us. It’s a new chance to accomplish your goals and put the past in the past.

See you later!

NOTE: The Hawkeye provides the ASB space each issue in the Opinion section as

part of our mission as an open public forum.

“We’re motivated to make Terrace the best place that it can be so that everyone can get along with each other, have an enjoyable learning experience, and have some

fun along the way.”

Lilianne NguyenASB Public Relations Officer

A wOrd frOm yOur ASB OfficErS ThE PriNciPAl’S cOrNEr

Work hard, play hard We are Mountlake Terrace

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staff believes to be: factually inaccurate; designed to mislead, deceive or defraud; containing malicious, vin-dictive, or unsubstantiated attacks; offering goods and/or services illegal for teens to possess, buy, or use; libelous; obscene; or certain to create imminent danger or disrup-tion to the educational mission of MTHS.

I. STATEMENT OF POLICYA. Philosophical FoundationFreedom of expression and press freedom are funda-

mental values in a democratic society. The mission of any institution committed to preparing productive citizens must include teaching students these values, both by les-son and by example.

As determined by the courts, student exercise of free-dom of expression and press freedom is protected by both state and federal law, especially by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Additionally, Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution reads: Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.

Accordingly, public school officials are responsible for encouraging and ensuring freedom of expression and press freedom for all students. Therefore, it is the policy of the HAWKEYE, the MTHS Administration and the Edmonds School District Board of Education that the HAWKEYE and its subsidiary publications have been established as forums for student expression and as voices in the uninhibited, robust, free and open discus-sion of issues.

B. Edmonds School Dist. Board Policy 7375“Student Publications (Adopted Revised 1/19/93).

Student publications produced as part of the school’s curriculum or with the support of the associated student body fund are intended to serve both as vehicles for instruction and student communication. Student pub-lications are a valuable means of expression under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To the extent the material appearing in such publications does not disrupt the learning environment, students should have broad discretion over what does appear. Such material may not be libelous, obscene, or profane nor may it cause a substantial disruption of the school, invade the privacy of others, demean any race, religion, sex, or ethnic group, advocate the violation of the law, or advertise tobacco products, liquor, illicit drugs, or drug paraphernalia.”

Therefore, it is the policy of the HAWKEYE, the MTHS Administration and the Edmonds School District Board of Education that student journalists shall have the right to determine the content of student media. Accordingly, the following guidelines relate only to estab-lishing grounds for disciplinary actions subsequent to publication.

II. OFFICIAL STUDENT MEDIAA. Responsibilities of Student JournalistsStudents who work on official, school-sponsored stu-

dent publications or electronic media determine the con-tent of their respective publications and are responsible for that content. These students should:

l. Determine the content of the student media; 2. Strive to produce media based upon professional standards of accuracy, objectivity and fairness; 3. Review material to improve sentence structure, grammar, spelling and punctuation; 4. Check and verify all facts and verify the accuracy of all quotations; and 5. In the case of editorials or letters to the editor concerning controversial issues, determine the need for rebuttal comments and opinions and therefore provide space, if appropriate.

B. Unprotected ExpressionThe following types of student expression will not be

protected:

1. Material that is “obscene as to minors.” Obscene as to minors is defined as material that meets all three of the following requirements: (a) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the publication, taken as a whole, appeals to a minor’s prurient interest in sex; and (b) the publication depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct such as ultimate sexual acts (normal or perverted), masturbation and lewd exhibition of the genitals; and (c) the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. Indecent or vulgar language is not obscene.

2. Libelous material. Libelous statements are provably false and unprivileged statements of fact that do dem-onstrated injury to an individual’s or business’s reputa-tion in the community. If the allegedly libeled party is a “public figure” or “public official” as defined below, then school officials must show that the false statement was published “with actual malice,” i.e., that the student journalists knew that the statement was false or that they published it with reckless disregard for the truth without trying to verify the truthfulness of the statement.

(a) A public official is a person who holds an elected or appointed public office and exercises a significant amount of governmental authority.

(b) A public figure is a person who either has sought the public’s attention or is well known because of personal achievements or actions.

(c) School employees will be considered public officials or public figures in relationship to articles concerning their school-related activities.

(d) When an allegedly libelous statement concerns an individual who is not a public official or a public figure, school officials must show that the false statement was published willfully or negligently, i.e., the student jour-nalist who wrote or published the statement has failed to exercise reasonably prudent care.

(e) Students are free to express opinions. Specifically, a student may criticize school policy or the performance of teachers, administrators, school officials and other school employees.

3. Material that will cause “a material and substantial disruption of school activities.”

(a) Disruption is defined as student rioting, unlawful seizures of property, destruction of property, or sub-stantial student participation in a school boycott, sit-in, walkout or other related form of activity. Material such as racial, religious or ethnic slurs, however distasteful, is not in and of itself disruptive under these guidelines. Threats of violence are not materially disruptive without some act in furtherance of that threat or a reasonable belief and expectation that the author of the threat has the capability and intent of carrying through on that threat in a manner that does not allow acts other than suppression of speech to mitigate the threat in a timely manner.

(b) For student media to be considered disruptive, specific facts must exist upon which one could reasonably forecast that a likelihood of immediate, substantial mate-

rial disruption to normal school activity would occur if the material were further distributed or has occurred as a result of the material’s distribution or dissemination. Mere undifferentiated fear or apprehension of distur-bance is not enough; school administrators must be able affirmatively to show substantial facts that reasonably support a forecast of likely disruption.

(c) In determining whether student media is disrup-tive, consideration must be given to the context of the distribution as well as the content of the material. In this regard, consideration should be given to past experience in the school with similar material, past experience in the school in dealing with and supervising the students in the school, current events influencing student attitudes and behavior and whether there have been any instances of actual or threatened disruption prior to or contempora-neously with the dissemination of the student publication in question.

(d) School officials must protect advocates of unpopu-lar viewpoints.

D. Protected Speech1. School officials cannot: a. Ban student expression

solely because it is controversial, takes extreme, fringe or minority opinions, or is distasteful, unpopular or unpleasant; b. Ban the publication or distribution of material relating to sexual issues including, but not limited to, virginity, birth control and sexually-trans-mitted diseases; c. Censor or punish the occasional use of indecent, vulgar or so-called “four-letter” words in student publications; d. Prohibit criticism of the policies, practices or performance of teachers, school officials, the school itself or of any public officials; e. Cut off funds to official student media because of disagreement over edi-torial policy; f. Ban student expression that merely advo-cates illegal conduct without proving that such speech is directed toward and will actually cause imminent unlawful action. g. Ban the publication or distribution by students of material written by non-students; h. Prohibit the endorsement of candidates for student office or for public office at any level, nor prohibit the endorsement of initiatives, referenda, or other measures brought before citizens including school levies and bonds.

2. Commercial Speech.Advertising is constitutionally protected expression.

Acceptance or rejection of advertising is within the pur-view of the publication staff. Ads for political candidates and ballot issues may be accepted; however publication staffs are encouraged to solicit ads from all sides on such issues.

E. On-Line Student Media and Use of Electronic Information Resources

1. On-Line Student Media.Online media, including websites, e-mail, social media,

listserves and discussion groups, may be used by students like any other communications media to reach both those within the school and those beyond it. All official, school-sponsored online student publications are entitled to the same protections and are subject to no greater limitations

than other student media, as described in this policy.2. Electronic Information Resources.Student journalists may use electronic information

resources, including websites, e-mail, social media, list-serves and discussion groups, to gather news and infor-mation, to communicate with other students and indi-viduals and to ask questions of and consult with sources.

Although faculty advisers to student media are encour-aged to help students develop the intellectual skills needed to evaluate and appropriately use electronically available information to meet their news gathering pur-poses, advisers are not responsible for approving the online resources used or created by their students.

3. Acceptable Use Policies.The Board recognizes that the technical and network-

ing environment necessary for online communication may require that school officials define guidelines for student exploration and use of electronic information resources. The purpose of such guidelines will be to provide for the orderly, efficient and fair operation of the school’s online resources. The guidelines may not be used to unreasonably restrict student use of or communication on the online media.

Such guidelines may address the following issues: file size limits, password management, system security, data downloading protocol, use of domain names, use of copy-righted software, access to computer facilities, computer hacking, computer etiquette and data privacy.

III. ADVISER JOB SECURITYThe student media adviser is not a censor. No person

who advises a student publication will be fired, trans-ferred or removed from the advisership by reason of his or her refusal to exercise editorial control over student media or to otherwise suppress the protected free expres-sion of student journalists.

V. PRIOR RESTRAINTNo student media, whether non-school-sponsored or

official, will be reviewed by school administrators prior to distribution or withheld from distribution. The school assumes no liability for the content of any student pub-lication, and urges all student journalists to recognize that with editorial control comes responsibility, includ-ing the responsibility to follow professional journalism standards each school year.

NOTE: This is an abbreviated version of the Hawkeye’s official

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By Daniil OliferovskiyCopy Editor

As the new school year begins, the best thing students can do is to become pre-pared and get an early start.

First and foremost, students should build a good work ethic. Learning how to develop a strong work ethic would be starting assignments early, executing on deadlines, and establishing a healthy sleeping schedule (most teens need about eight and a half to more than nine hours of sleep each night).

It’s quite straightforward: start early on assignments so that your grade won’t be dragged down by late work, incomplete assignments or lost hours of sleep.

“It’s really important that especially when you start high school that you man-age deadlines and that you stay on top of homework,” Principal Greg Schwab said.

Another good approach to a good year is to establish a favorable relationship with teachers by being friendly (even if that means being a suck-up), and completing your work while being active in class. Making a good impression on teachers the first week is important because being on a teacher’s good side can make or break your grade.

Also, be sure to have each of your teach-er’s emails and make an effort to message them on a weekly basis concerning class work and questions.

Seniors and juniors should be aware that college is close, so put time and effort into spending time out of school to research and apply to college. Then, when the time comes in June, you can get your diploma knowing that you have a plan.

Be sure to study and practice for the SATs and ACTs as well. Many colleges, such as the UW, look at the scores you received, which either helps or destroys your potential for acceptance.

“I think it’s really important that you

do some sort of prep course, whether it’s an online training course or even taking a practice test multiple times. Those are really helpful things to do,” Schwab said.

Underclassmen need to understand that you still have a lot of work ahead of you and lying on the couch playing Xbox won’t get the job done, so practice good habits and be stanch towards your school work.

“The number one reason why we see 9th graders struggle in school is because they don’t do their homework, and if you simply did your homework everyday and turned it on time, that would be a huge help,” Schwab said.

If you are involved in athletics or clubs, don’t let extra curricular activities hold you back. As long as you set aside time, dedicate yourself, and keep the right mind set, you should be able to keep your grades up and still be actively involved in your high school.

Put school first; incorporate a schedule where you are able to balance school and your after school activities. Don’t over load yourself with too many activities. Start to gradually join clubs or athletics only when you are academically stable.

“We think it’s important that you be involved, but you also have to manage your time really well and making sure you set aside time each night to get your homework done, and make sure you know when your deadlines are,” said Schwab.

Using a planner, is an easy and use-ful way to keep tabs on upcoming dates such as exam dates. Planners keep you updated, organized, and help you coor-dinate your schoolwork and after school clubs and activities. MTHS wants you to be involved.

Don’t launch off the new year being a couch potato. Invest your time and efforts into school now, so you may see it turn into something bigger in the future.

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Local businesses donate 150 backpacks to elementary studentsBy Nick Fiorillothe425 Editor

When Mountlake Terrace Elementary school students return to school this fall, local businesses want them to have every-thing they need for a successful year.

The fourth year of the Mountlake Terrace Business Association (MLTBA) “Backpacks for Little Hawks Program” turned out to be their most successful year yet, donating 150 backpacks to Mountlake Terrace Elementary. The back-packs, filled with all the school supplies that stu-dents need, are given to families in need

“It’s a huge support to the families in our commu-nity,” Mountlake Terrace Elementary Principal Doug Johnson said. According to Johnson, 60 percent of MTE students are on free and reduced lunch, which shows why the backpack donations are so important to stu-dents. “School supplies is the one major financial hurdle we can’t take care of in our school system,” Johnson said.

In her first year of Backpacks for Little Hawks, new MLTBA President and General Manager of Studio 6 Ayesha Sheikh said that she was proud to be able to donate 20 backpacks more

than last year. Sheik said it’s very important for the busi-

nesses to give back. “The community gives so much to our businesses...it’s the least we can do,” Sheik said. “Giving to children especially, it’s an amazing feeling,” she said.

The total cost for one backpack was $15.50, which included all the supplies on the school’s back to school supply list. Mountlake Terrace businesses were the major sponsors of the program, but anyone could donate to the MLTBA for them to purchase backpacks and supplies. “I can’t thank everybody enough who donated,” Sheikh said.

The Mountlake Terrace Farmer’s Market, was one of the many largest sponsors of the program, donating 100 backpacks, according to Sheikh.

Johnson says that students and parents also are benefit-ed simply by the community showing their support. “It’s not just about glue sticks and pencils and a backpack, but it’s about people caring about the kids and the families in our community,” Johnson said.

“It’s just wonderful how the community gets together to do things like this for other people in the community,” Sheikh said.

Sheikh says she plans to con-tinue the program for many years.

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Kyra Dahlman | Hawkeye

“It’s not just about glue sticks and pencils and a backpack, but it’s about people

caring about the kids and the families in our community.”Doug Johnson

MOuNTLakE TErracE ELEMENTary PrINcIPaL

By Nick FIorillothe425 Editor

125 more votes. Proposition 1 only needed 125 more Yes votes to pass the required 60 percent of the vote. Proposition 1 to fund the construction of a new civic center in Mountlake Terrace received 56.83 percent yes votes and needed 3.17 per-cent more to pass with a super majority.

The vote, although not pass-ing, left the Yes Campaign and city leaders optimistic and hopeful that residents are becoming more convinced that a civic center would be the bet-ter option. “While it didn’t meet the 60 percent super majority requirement, it certainly shows that an overwhelming major-ity of the community supports [the civic center],” Mountlake Terrace City Manager John Caulfield said.

The problem that was present still exists. The City of Mountlake Terrace does not own their city hall. The Mountlake Terrace Interim City Hall is currently located on second floor of a business complex at 6100 219th St. SW. Community members

are concerned that the “Where [the city] is renting right now is owned by somebody out of state, so the [rent] isn’t even staying here [in Washington state],” President of the Yes Campaign for the Mountlake Terrace Civic Center Bonnie Mercer said.

There are several problems with the current situation. The most pressing problem is that the funding to rent the office space will run out soon, according to Caulfield. “We don’t have funding to continue renting the interim [city hall] after 2013,” Caulfield said. If the city wanted to continue renting the building, they would need to pass a property tax levy to provide rent funding. Or, they would have to cut city services to provide rent funding

The other option is for the bond measure to provide fund-ing for the civic center to be put back on the ballot, an option which city officials and the Yes Campaign would prefer. “We have land, we have property that the city owns, that we can build on,” Mercer said in sup-port of building the on the land

that the city has planned for construction of the civic cen-ter. “The civic center provides a wide range of benefits, includ-ing, quite frankly, being more cost-effective over the life of the building,” Caulfield said.

The proposed civic center bond measure is not just for the construction of city hall. There are other city buildings that would be improved if the pro-posal passes. The library and police station would be reno-vated, and are definitely in need of it. The Mountlake Terrace Police Station has outgrown its building. If you take a tour of the building, the problems become obvious. Several clos-ets have been transformed into offices, due to lack of space. Previously, the station had two holding cells. Now, one of the holding cells, without any ven-tilation or windows, has become and office. Lack of space again caused this. Officers said that because they are short on space, they face many privacy, effi-ciency, and safety issues.

City council will meet Sept. 8 to discuss the next steps for the civic center.

3. Cut city services to provide funding to continue renting

the interim city hall

2. Pass a property tax levy to provide funding to continue renting the interim city hall, which will

raise taxes

1. Pass the civic center bond

measure, which will raise taxes

but improve services

The options

The future of the MLT Civic Center

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“Melt Waffle and Frozen Yogurt is closed. We

appreciate your patronage and wish you well”melt’s website

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Meltdown Teens say higher prices, high competition, and poor product quality contributed to Melt Waffle and Frozen yogurt closing its doors within one year of its opening

By Nick Fiorillothe425 Editor

Q. How long have you lived in Mountlake Terrace?

A. 15 years. I moved here in ’97, but I grew up in Shoreline, so I’m very familiar with the area.

Q. What did you learn while on the city planning commission that prepares you for a job on city council?

A. What I’m finding now is almost 70 per-cent of what I’m doing and what I’m seeing and working on the city council now, I’ve already seen through the planning com-mission.

So, a lot of what I am now dealing with on the city council, we’ve been working on for years on the planning commission.

Q. What skills did working on the plan-ning commission give you?

A. Part of it is just knowing city policy and understanding what laws and regula-tions our city has been dealing with for years. Knowing what our vision is, what our city’s goals are, what we are hoping to achieve, working with the public, the com-munity, and our constituents in coming up with a plan. I’m not sure I necessary learned it on the planning commission, but certainly being part of planning com-mission was important in being part of the collaborative body, learning how to work together to achieve a common goal.

Q. What’s the most important thing you have accomplished on the planning

commission?A. The comprehensive plan and vision for

the community.Q. What do you hope to accomplish on

city council? What are some of your main goals?

A. Implementing the comprehensive plan. Really, the key is the comprehensive plan establishes the vision for how the community is going to grow. And then what’s important is that is not just another document that sits on the shelf, it is a living

breathing document that we as a council, and as a city, should be implementing. So everything that we’re doing, whether it’s through the budget, through the devel-opment regulations that we’re adopting, everything that we’re dong should be to facilitate the achieving our goals as we set out in the comprehensive plan.

Q. Why do you like the community of Mountlake Terrace so much?

A. I grew up in Shoreline. This area is home, it always has been and always will

be. I’ve traveled the world, I’ve traveled the country. There’s a lot of amazing places out there, a lot of great places to see and things to do all around.

There’s no better place in the world to be than right here in the Northwest. Mountlake Terrace and Shoreline, the area is beautiful, it’s accessible. It’s a great loca-tion, it’s easy to get to the urban ammonites of the city of say of Seattle, Everett and Bellevue and Redmond and Kirkland.

Yet, we’re still a suburban community and so we have still a quiet neighborhood atmosphere, which is nice to get away from the city atmosphere but still have easy access to it. Everything about living here, to me, is home, says home.

Q. One of the biggest issues in Mountlake Terrace is the civic center. What’s your view on the matter?

A. Being involved in the planning com-mission, that was an important of our plan. The civic campus is one of the key significant anchors for creating a vibrant community. By putting that in place, that will draw more business to the area in our city center and in our town center. That’s why to me, it’s so important just because it’s the anchor to a vibrant city.

Q. What do you like to do when you’re not working?

A. I enjoy travel. I enjoy getting outdoors. I’ve been snow skiing since I was two, and waterskiing. And working out and exercis-ing.


Q&A with new city councilman Bryan Wahl

Nick Fiorillo | Hawkeye

Mountlake Terrace’s newest city councilman Bryan Wahl was sworn in on Sept. 4. Wahl has served on the Mountlake Terrace Planning Commission for 14 years.

By Nick Fiorillothe425 Editor

Fans said goodbye to Mountlake Terrace’s only fro-

zen yogurt store, Melt Waffle and Frozen Yogurt, when it closed

for good in late August.Just blocks from MTHS on 212th St SW, the

location seemed like the ideal place for people, especially teens at MTHS, to spend money and enjoy

a new take to “FroYo” by adding a waffle.However, Melt did not impress all. Some teens, like

junior Jack Pearce, didn’t like Melt’s prices. Pearce thought

one of the reasons Melt went out of business was because “the prices [at Melt] are high.” Other teens, like freshman Kristian Suzara, just d i d n ’ t

like what Melt had to offer. “I tried their product before and it wasn’t that good,” Suzara said.

Several other local FroYo destinations, including Menchies, Revelations, Red Mango, and TCBY, cre-ated huge competition for Melt. Many teens had already picked their favorite FroYo before newcomer Melt opened their doors. ’"I know that a lot of people prefer Menchies [over Melt]," senior Jade Roque said. Still, Melt was the only store offer-ing frozen yogurt in Mountlake Terrace and was by far the closest to MTHS.

Melt announced in early July that it was under new ownership. The new owners announced several changes on their Facebook page, including the elimination of some options, which received mixed reviews from Facebook fans. Originally, Melt offered several flavors of frozen yogurt atop a pearl-sugar waffle with many toppings and sauces available.

When the new owners took over in July, the waf-

fle became a bowl, and the option

of having a waffle on the side was no lon-ger available.

Since its closing, Melt has deleted their Facebook page and their website has been taken down. Their website simply reads, “Melt Waffle and Frozen Yogurt is closed. We appreciate your patronage and wish you well.”

Activities/Athletics Director Kim Stewart said the news of Melt clos-ing came as a shock. Stewart’s wife was a big fan of Melt and was saddened to learn the news. “I wish

they would have warned us because my wife was sort of upset,” Stewart said.

Sept. 3 would have been Melt’s one year anniversary.


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Quick and easy white teethBy Maria Balcita Distribution Manager

With picture day coming up, students want pearly white teeth in the yearbook.

Traditional ways people whiten teeth are by going to the dentist for treatments or white strips that can be purchased and used at home. Bleaching teeth, professionally or even at home, can cause damage and sen-sitivity.

These methods also take time and money. Some easy, cheap, and quick ways to do this are with baking soda and strawberries. To do this, mix together two crushed strawber-ries and a tablespoon of baking soda.

Then put the mixture onto a soft bristled toothbrush and leave on teeth for five min-utes. Once the times up, brush away the mixture with regular toothpaste.

The strawberries in this mixture have an enzyme in them called malic acid, which removes surface stains on the teeth. Malic acid is used as a common ingredient in whit-ening toothpastes.

The baking soda in this mixture is also great for teeth because it’s an acid neutralizer, which gently removes surface stains.

Another option that includes baking soda would be simply to sprinkle a lit-tle bit on regular toothpaste and brush normally.

Apples can also be used as a natural solution for whitening. Eating an apple along with daily

brushes whitens teeth while also giving the body minerals and vitamins your body needs each day.

Raw celery and carrots are other foods that help maintain healthy, white teeth.

A good way to prevent teeth stains is to not drink a lot of coffee or dark sodas. Instead, drink eight glasses of water recommended each day because it also naturally cleans the teeth.

However, if a person is going to drink a lot of dark or sugary beverages, drinking with a straw can protect the teeth since the liquid won’t touch your teeth as much.

Citrus fruits, such as pineapples and oranges cause the mouth to produce more saliva, which helps whiten teeth and clean the mouth from bacteria.

Also, lemon juice and salt combined is a great alternative to whitening teeth. Mix them together and apply on to teeth with fingers and leave on for two minutes and rinse well afterwards.

A common at home remedy is rinsing the mouth every other day with half hydrogen

peroxide and a half water mix-ture. Be sure not to swallow this mixture and to rinse mouth well with regular water after.

Hydrogen per-oxide is a great way to whiten teeth and kill germs at the same time.

These quick methods can be used at home a few times a week for noticeable results.

Spray tanning on the riseBy Olivia DriscollHealth Editor

Now that summer’s coming to an end and the school year is starting back up, that means the opportunity to get naturally tan is ending in just a few short weeks. However, many people want to maintain their sun kissed glow throughout the year.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 21 percent of all high school women have gone indoor tanning.

The most common method of sunless tan-ning is lying in a tanning bed, but that has many known health risks. Other products that can be used are tanning creams or lotions.

An alternative to sun bathing or tanning in a bed is spray tanning. Spray tans can be applied at most tanning salons.

The average spray tan can last up to ten days, compared to having to tan multiple times a week in a tanning bed.

Spray tanning was considered a safe alter-native to sun bathing, but this may not be true.

Some possible risks to spray tanning may include an allergic reaction, emphysema, worsened asthma and the chemicals of the

spray getting into the eyes or mouth. The solution used for spray tans contains

the chemical dihydroxy-acetone, or DHA. DHA is approved by the FDA as an ingredi-ent in self tanning lotions and creams, but not for whole body spray tans.

DHA is a colorless 3-carbon sugar that causes a chemical reac-tion with amino acids. When generously applied to the skin, the result is a darkened skin. DHA sunless tanning has been recommended by the American Academy of Dermatology, American Medical Association and Skin Cancer Foundation

as a safer fix to sun tanning. Dr. Reey Panettieri, a toxicologist and lung

specialist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelma School of Medicine, said, “The rea-son I’m concerned is the deposition of the tanning agents into the lungs cold really facilitate or aid systemic absorption –that is, getting into the bloodstream.”

Dr. Leyda Bowes, a dermatologist from Miami, also said, “When you do the spray tanning using dihydroxy-acetone, there could be a risk that if it is absorbed or inhaled, it could be affecting the lungs but also circulation in other organs.”

Another rais-ing concern is the affect of DHA in DNA and other cells, DHA can change the cells to promote the develop-ment of cancers.

“What we’re con-cerned about is not so much that cre-ates the reaction that creates the tanning, but reac-tions that may occur deeper down with living cells that might change DNA,” said Dr. Lynn Goldman, the Dean of public health at George Washington University.

In any spray tan solution, there can be up to forty chemicals and ingredients. DHA may not be the only harmful chemcial.

It’s important, when and if you decide to still get a spray tan, to protect the eyes and mouth from the dangerous chemicals. Also remember that a spray tan has no sunscreen in it’s ingredients, so it’s still important to wear sunscreen or makeup that contains SPF when going out in the sun to protect your skin from UV rays.

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Although its planned Vienna trip isn’t until next summer, the MTHS band pro-gram’s fundraising efforts led by the music boosters have already started.

Aug. 19, the MTHS Jazz Ensemble per-formed at Matthew’s Winery in Woodinville in an event that included a silent auction, raffles, food, wine tasting, and of course, music. The band, consisting of participants from the week of Aug. 12 jazz workshop at Edmonds Woodway H.S., performed for an hour in front of an audience of over 200. The fundraiser, dubbed “A Night in Vienna,” attracted numerous friends, family and community members.

The Jazz eEsemble had been busy over the few days leading up to the performance with

a concert at Edmonds Woodway H.S. to conclude its week-long workshop and a gig at Tula’s Jazz Club in Seattle.

From Aug. 6-10, the concert band work-shop took place under the direction of University of Washington Professor Tim Salzman and a few of his graduate students. Local professional musicians also helped students improve their skills throughout the week.

Both the concert band and the jazz band traveled to the Portland area the week of Aug. 20 for performances and team building opportunities. Highlights of the trip includ-ed a performance at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum and the Vancouver Jazz Festival.

The workshops were first offered in 2004 and have played an integral part in the MTHS band program’s development.

A Night In Vienna

AnhViet Nguyen | Hawkeye

The Jazz ensemble perform a magnificent piece at Matthew’s Winery in Woodinville.

Jazz Ensemble performs in Portland and all around Washington state during the summer

First play of the season will go straight to the ‘Heart’By Shannon Beaumont Graphic by Daniil OliferovskiyHawkeye staff

To kick off the new school year, the Drama Department is immediately beginning rehearsals for the first pro-duction of the year, “A Piece of My Heart,” by Shirley Lauro and directed by drama instructor Jeannie Brzovic.

“A Piece of my Heart” earned Lauro three awards includ-

ing The Kittredge Foundation Award, The Susan Blackburn

Prize, and The Barbara Deming Prize for Women Playwrights.

The produc-tion of “A Piece of my Heart”

shows the true hard lives of six women who go to Vietnam, having to pull strong through a war that was forced upon them. Three of these women are nurses, one is an intelligence worker, another is a Red Cross worker, and the last is a USO entertainer.

“A Piece of my Heart” presents why each woman decides to go to Vietnam

and are thoroughly surprised when they are thrown into war.

This fantastic play reveals how each woman reacts to the war, how they cope with what is happening around them, and

how they make decisions.The production follows the six women before they

go into war, during their time at war, and the

aftermath of the war, observing how the traumatizing experience affected the women.

All around the world, “A Piece of my Heart” has earned magnificent reviews, describing how touching the play is as it shows what women suffer through during the hard times of war.

Over the summer, the roles for the play had been assigned to eleven stu-dents; Jocelyn Leggett as Martha; Serena Hohenstein as MaryJo; Emily Davidson as Sissy; Alana Erkan as Whitney; Danielle Hirano as LeeAnn; and Elbethel Abebe as Steele.

Calvin Martin, Jacob Pratt, Evan Roberts, Myles Stillwaugh, and Matt Sythandone will be taking the roles of officers, soldiers, and other side char-acters that come along.


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By Austin McDermottSports Co-Editor

In spite of the Hawks’ rough start last Friday, this years’ football team may have some of the highest expectations in recent school history.

The team hopes their all new grey helmets will signify the start of a new era.

Coming off a season with possibly the youngest roster in head coach Tony Umayum’s nine year stay with the Hawks’, things seem to be looking up.

Junior running back Devante Downs fig-ures to be an important piece of this year’s offense attack. He picked up right where he left off last season (before he was injured for the last couple of games) scoring all eight of the Hawks’ points in the fourth quarter on a nine yard touchdown run fol-lowed by a successful two point conversion.

Downs finished the game with 18 carries and a whopping 106 yards. Downs combi-nation of size and speed gives him a large advantage over opposing defenses, and is easily a big playmaker on any team.

Another big piece for the Hawks’ hopes this season is returning senior quarterback

Beau Kennedy. After a really rough first year as a quarterback where Kennedy took a lot of hits behind a young offensive line, Kennedy is retooled and ready for a big year

Wideouts Tye Esparza, Quintin Barnard, and Shawn Evensen give Kennedy plenty of talented targets to throw to. He finished the season opener with nine completions in 19 attempts for 91 yards, and rushed 10 times for 78 yards.

Also returning is an offensive and defen-sive line that is a year older, but still very young. Now with more experience under their belt (and a little more size up front) Kennedy should be given some better pro-tection, allowing him to stay in the pocket longer for more passes, instead of being forced to rush when pushed out of the

pocket. Opposing backfields should feel more

pressure too, as the Hawks’ won’t be out-matched every week anymore. The defense should look pretty familiar with Downs doubling in the secondary (as well as a running back) and second team all-league safety Mason Stone returning.

After finishing two straight seasons at

6-4, last year’s 2-8 finish came as a bit of a surprise. But with a more experienced and better tooled roster than many in recent team history, there’s no reason to believe that this team won’t show a lot of signs of improvement.

Expect some big things this year, and hopefully for years to come.

New expectations, new look, new hope

Michelle Schomer | Hawkeye

The Hawks (right) fell 19-8 to Stanwood in last Friday’s opening game at Bob Larson Stadium in Stanwood. Their next game is 5 p.m. Friday against the Edmonds-Woodway Warriors at Edmonds Stadium.


Playoff run likely for Hawks volleyballBy Austin McDermottSports Co-Editor

This could be a big year for volleyball. Big as in the first year the girls can break .500 since 2008.

The volleyball team has in general been pretty successful for the past several years, usually finishing just one game under .500 in league play, but the one game to push them over the top has somehow eluded them. That however, may end this year. After losing just three seniors, many key players are returning for the 2012 season. Sarah Pung, Casey Hynes, Anne-Marie

Gonzalez, Justine Kelly, Meg Roberts, and Madison Eich all are returning from last year’s varsity squad. With a solid return-ing core, the Hawks’ hopes of finally mak-ing it to state may be higher than ever, but the team is still very young.

Three sophomores – Alisha Clingan, Ali Hitchcok, and Emily Eich – all made the varsity squad. Add in the fact that there are once again just three returning seniors, and it makes for an interest-ing combination. With high hopes and another young team, only time will tell if this squad breaks that elusive .500 barrier.

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